American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-05-21
inland NORTHWEST

shipping $4,000 head OF Mexican cat
lie under the protection of Carranza
William Jones shot and killed sam
sawaya In a scuffle at Kemmerer
Wvo. Jones and Sawaya are Dotn
o. S. L. car repairers, and have mao
several minor %quarrels.
Vast quantities Of Nevada land
have been sold within the last year
and there has just been thrown on the
market many thousands Of acres more
which is being grabbed up.
In the municipal election at KEN
merer. Wyo., Mayor C. Watt Brandon
editor of the Kemmerer Camera, was
reelected and C.. II. Hibbs and w. e.
Cunnington were elected to the coun
Gil. The election was warmly con
tested.
Federal aid in bringing about a set
| Element Of the Colorado coal miners
strike is desired by Governor Ammons
even If President Wilson carries out
his intimation that federal troops may
soon be withdrawn from the strike
districts.
Following a brief illness Theodore
]. Etaikos. aged 80 years, for three
years Greek consul for Idaho, Utah,
Montana and Wyoming, died at Butte
Consul Staikos was one of the best
known men of his race in the inter
mountain country.
OF the 275,OO0 acres of land put on
the market in the last ear in Elko
coupnty, Nevada, 10000 acres have
already been sold and the land is
going very fast. 1t has sold from $3.50
to SIS an acre, and the average price
has been $3.50 an acre.
Dave Haddenham has struck a rich
vein of copper ore a foot wide on his
claim, about five miles north Of Mug.
get, Wyo. The ore tests 10 per cent
copper, 90 per cent silver and also
shows a trace of godl. Mr.. Hadden-
ham states that the ledge is a very
large one.
BY a vote of 5 to 4 the state con
ference called at Olympia, Wash, to
recommend a minimum wage for wo-
men workers In lalIndries and dye
works, adopted a motion to recon.
mend a minimum of $3.50 a week for
As hours for women employed in such
establishments.
In response to an appeal from the
reclamation service fN' a reduction
in the price of lands in order to pro
mote an influx Of settlers, the price oil
lands in the Tieton and Mabton rec
lamation projects in Washington
have been cut in half and 10 years al
lowed for payment.
Frank c. Bright, alias Frank Berger
who has been in the city hospital a
Seattle since the night of April 8
when he was shot while trying to es
cape arrest for attempting to pass
counterfeit Canadian five dollar bill
was indicted by the federal CRANE
jury last week on a charge of counter
feiting.
Robert 7. Hodge, Progressive candi
date for governor in 1912 and former
ly a coal miner, was admitted to tn
bar by the state supreme court a
olympia, Wash, after being r~ejectel
three times. Hodge, who has beel
working as a department store labor
er and studying at night, plans to re
enter politics.
County authorities are seeking tn
two men last seen with Patrick .
ToOmey, whose body was found unde
a railroad trestle in East Butte. Tn
, skull was fractured and there wa
nothing Of value in the pockets. For
play is suspected, as the fall woul
t not have fractured Toomey's skull
say the police.
One of the greatest feats in the hi,
2 tory of the forestry service is to b
! attempted by rangers in the Missoul
national forest, where an effort wi
be made to repair the immense dan
S age done by the forest fires of 1871
! when several scores of lives wer
3 snuffed out and pillows of fam,
sweeping over a sea of timber. di
more damage in a single season tina
in any other three seasons combine,
Frank Richet, president of the Or,
gon Inland Development company, wa
, released from the county jail at Por
land where he had been serving
default of a $4,000 fine levied again,
! him upon conviction, with ]. T. CO.
Q way, of having fraudulently misrepr
sented lands which the company sol
Richet obtained his freedom by takiu
the pauper's oath.
y Fire destroyed the four-story bull
ing and stock Of the Gottstein Furr
ture company at Seattle and did muc
damage to neighboring stores, eau
ing a total loss of $500 900.
, Marked progress in church exter
sion work of the denomination was r.
reported at the opening sessions {
the Pacific coast conference of tn
Unitarian church at Portland.
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