The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-07-02
INLAND NORTHWEST

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Reno Pressmen's Union, died last
week after an illness of but a few
hours Death was caused by an at
.ack of ptomaine poisoning.
An ordinance has been passed at
( Glenns Ferry, Idaho, prohibiting rag
or tango dancing within the village,
and prohibiting dancing in the night
penalty is not more than 800 fine
and three months in the city jail.
About 5000 acres of land originally
sold by the oregon & California Rail
road company were ordered forfeited
to the United States government in
a decree signed by Judge Wolverton
| in the federal court at Portland.
Dr. d. w. Rulison, Of Reno, presi-
| dent of the state board of dentistry
| has been appointed chairman of the
| Nevada delegation to the international
| dentist convention to be held at San
Francisco next year.
Boise Idaho, is becoming the Mecca
of mismated couples. One day last
week nine cases came before the two
district courts. Two men and four
women secured dissolution of the
| bonds of matrimony.
Express rates established by the
public utilities commission do not
satisfy the Boise traffic bureau Leon
ard Way, secretary of the local organ
ization, has filed complaint with the
commission. protesting against the
new intra-state rates
A petition for a proposed constitu-
| tional amendment, permitting women
30 serve upon juries and providing that
| three-fourths of the jury may return
a verdict in a civil case, has been
filed with the secretary of state by
| the Colorado Social Service league.
F. Mclaughlin, captain of the On
| season without artificial light The
wentsia Polo club, Chicago, stated that
| in his opinion Big Jim, the Idaho
pony, was the only one in the Ameri-
can string at the International pcse
games that equaled the best of the
| English ponies.
| ID. Wiles, who, the authorities say,
has been peddling spectacles through
out the state, was arrested at Sparks,
| Nevada, charged with practicing OPP
| tometry without being registered &C.
| cord1ng to law, and sentenced to serve
fifty days in the county Jail with no
option of paying a dne.
Eugene H. Grub, the well known
| potato expert of Idaho and Colorado,
has been appointed special livestock
commissioner by the livestock com.
missioner of the Panama-Pacific expo
sition, to visit Europe and Australia
for the purpose of securing exhibits
in that line for the exposition.
Patrolman W. NJ. Gilley dived from
trestle fifteen feet high into Elliott
bay at Seattle, and in death strug.
gle with man believed to be in
sane he handcuffed the man, Alex
ander McLennan, and swan fifty feet
| with him to shore. McLennan had
attempted to commit suicide.
Governor eddie has received of.
fetal notification of the launching of
the superdreadnaught Nevada, at Fore
River, Mass, on July IL. He will be
in attendance at the ceremony, ac.
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Fred J.
Siebert and his niece, Eleanor Sic,
| bert, who will christen the vessel.
A number of talented people OF
Reno have volunteered their services
to assist Miss Jeanne Weir, secretary
OF the Nevada Historical society. in
her efforts to produce a pageant, on
July :, portraying the history of Ne
vada from the days of Ferdinand and
Isabella down to the present time.
d X. Sheldon. a young mill worker.
arrested at Prineville, Ore. on a
charge of having slain his own day.
old babe while its mother, in ignor.
ance of what was transpiring, Law in
the next room. has confessed, saving
he wanted to get the baby out of the
way SO the mother could help him
earn living.
While Nevada for the last few
years has occupied only third or
fourth place in the statistical state
ments of the production of gold in the
United States. it is a fact generally
recognized that she stands first nv a
margin of several million dollars in
the output of gold and silver recover.
ed from quartz mining.
Anticipating the heavy crop move.
ment throughout the northwest for
the coming crop season, the Union
Pacific and Oregon Short Line Rail,
road company will have for use This
tall hye thousand additional cars dis.
trihnted throughout the system. in or.
der TO help care for the big crop move.
ment looked forward to this fail
Mrs. Virginia A. Stephens suno-
visor of art in the University of rtab
ana daughter of Lorenzo SNOW n
former president Of the Normon
ohureh' is working as an agent IN,
the defense committee of the indus.
trial Workers of the World IN rsis.
FUNDS Tor the defense OF Joseph um.
strom. ON trial at Salt Lake for mpr.
der. "'ui'
Tn the ground that pneumonia tho
cause Of the death of William Rim,
Stfum. Tonopah miner. emplova5 d..
the Fonopah Extension companv W.
.Ndueed by the results of an accidan+
IN the mine, the Nevada indpstria,
commission has awarded Is ooo go
heirs OF the estate.