Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-10-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

Daniel Harrington of Crosby, Wye
has been appointed mining enginee
in the bureau of mines at $4,000 pc
annum. He will be stationed at Pitts
burg, Pa.
E. R. Smith of Sweetwater, Idaho
has been appointed assistant meat in
spector in the bureau of animal In
dustry and will have headquarters a
New Orleans.
Friends of Judge o. e. McCutcheor
of Idaho Falls have sent petition tt
! Governor Haines asking the appoint
ment of the judge to the position on
the supreme bench now vacant on &C
count of the death of Judge Stewart
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has
sent a message to William e. John.
son of the anti-saloon league at Port
land, denouncing as untrue reports
that he had declared against prohibit
ton, which is an issue in Oregon this
year.
A. e. oliver, alias A. e. Watson, %,
was arrested at Cheyenne, Wyo., Sat
urday, in connection with an attempt
to rob a Louisville & Nashville ex-
press train carrying s15O,OOO on Sep
TENDER 20, 1913. The arrest was
made ON instructions from the post
office inspectors office at Denver.
Owing to the European war the
larger European military bands which
had been engaged for concerts during
the Panama-Pacific exposition have
withdrawn and their places will be
filled by famous organizations Of the
United States, according to George w.
Stewart, musical director of the expo
sition.
Ching Cow, Portland Chinese who
United States officers say, was the
gunman who killed Lum Kong, a wit
ness In the Chinese smuggling case
against Former immigration Inter.
prefer Frank Tape, was found dead
in a room in hotel in the oriental
quarters at Portland, Sunday. Ching
Cows body was hanging from the
door casing of his room.
Information furnished by the board
Of health Of Butte, Mont, led to the
,onfiscation of car of 5000 pounds
If turkeys at the o. s. L. freight
Yards at Salt Lake Monday, by DR..
7. W. fireman, chief meat and food
Inspector of the Salt Lake board of
health. The turkeys were found to be
n a state Of decomposition. The ship
nent was consigned to a local man,
)ut had not been received by him.
The military courts, which were
by order of Major Dono-
Tue, commanding the militia at Butte, |
'esumed their work Monday when a |
lew order of the commander restored
hem to activity. A change In the |
personnel Of the military commission
" high court was announced in the
of Major ]. J. P. Riddell
II Helena and the substitution OF
captain Walter l.. Verge of Choteau.
Blame for the wreck of the Pacific
Alaska Navigation company's steel
teamship Admiral Sampson, which
vent down off Point-no-Point twenty
niles north of Seattle, August 26,
With the loss of a dozen lives, was
laced on both the Sampson and Can.
dian liner Princess Victoria, with
yhich the former steamer was in col.
sion, by the findings of the United
tates marine inspectors made public
aturday.
A permanent organization, includ.
lg seventeen western states, was eff.
'cted at the Helena meeting of the 6
lterstate Irrigation Commission, with
3 P. Englehart of Washington as
resident, W. D. Beers, state engi
eer Of Utah, as vice-president, and
w. Mahon of Montana as score!
.ry. Resolutions were adopted at the
Getting with a view to accomplishing
cooperation between the federal gov.
'nment and the western states in
clamation work.
James Kane, auditor OF Silver Bow
unity Montana, was removed from
fee Thursday by Judge Advocate
sse B. Roote Of the summary mill
ry court and fined $500 because OF
e disrespect he showed to the mill.
ry arm Of the government wnen he
'ecked the tailor shop of the Mon
ma national guard in the courthouse,
By holding constitutional a provi-
IN of the new election law requiring
ndidates for state office In Nevada
pay fee Of 500 each, the supreme II
urt has barred six Socialist candi- II
tes from place on the general H
'ction ballot. \
The Great Western Sugar company. H
rough F. S. Garnsey, manager of
. local factory, Friday announced
1t beets would be paid for on the
sis of last years contract, from
Itch a cut of roughly SO cents per
| was made this season. This means
out 100000 addition to the grow.
Packing of the apple crop Of this II
'tion this year began Tuesday in IL
J new warehouse of the Twin Falls IL
ut and Potato Growers associa- -