The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-03-12
INLAND NORTHWEST

Mining men or Nevada are lookirS
or one of the best years in history
Turing 1914.
Secretary of State Brodigan states
hat less than half of the auto own.
srs of Nevada have renewed their
auto licenses.
At the state convention of the Ne
5ada Equal Suffrage Society, held in
Reno last week, Miss Annie H. Mar.
in was elected president.
Otto II. Boyesen. formerly a district
Judge in North Dakota, and at one
time an American consul in Norway
committed suicide at Glasgow, Mont
by shooting himself through the heart
Sheepmen in western Wyoming last
week were jubilant over the change
or the better of the ranges. The
past few days a great deal of ground
has been uncovered. thus affording a
place for the herds to feed.
Under circumstances indicating
hat he had been slain, the dead and
partially buried body of Otto Raen,
mountain ranch near Cape Horn in
Skamania county, Washington
Conductors and brdkemen of the
Oregon-Washington Railroad G. Navi.
sation company have petitioned for
an increase in wages and improved
working conditions. Officials Of the
company have asked for time in
which to consider
For the year 1913 a fraction more
than per cent of the sheep in the
state of Nevada were found to be in.
iected with scab The infected sheep
were confined to a small number of
owners. The inspections during the
year totaled 1,267 ,432.
Charles Spencer, aged %, was shot
and seriously wounded by Policeman
Fabert at Missoula, while Spencer
was attempting to escape Spencer
had been arrested for attempting to
sell suit case filed with alleged
stolen butter to a Chinaman.
John A. Pender, son of the late
James F. Fender of Ogden, who was
sentenced to be executed at the Ore.
gon state prison last Saturday. VII
be given one more chance for his
life. The stay of execution was grant
ed by the governor on request of the
young man.
Four distinct earthquake shocks
were felt in Reno and vicinity on
March l. The first occurred at AIS
a. m. and was of several seconds
duration. Two others occurred du--
ing the morning and the fourth was
shortly after 8 o'clock in the after
1oon. No damage resulted.
The Mcdonald case is to come up
for hearing at the March term of the
district court in Sweetwater county,
Wyoming. 1t is claimed that Melon.
aid, justice of Diamondville, during
The election of 1919 allowed non res
ident voters to vote in the mining dis
ricts south of Diamondville.
John A. MacMaster, a pioneer oil
Montana, is dead. He was well
known in the west and had prospect
ed throughout Utah, Colorado and
California with Marcus DAILY, the late
copper king, a lifelong friendship ex.
listing between the two. He had made
and lost several fortunes in mining
Carl Bowers has been arrested in
Jordan valley, Idaho, charged with
the theft of $50 ana a horse in Win
nemucca, Nevada. The man was
collector for the Winnemucca Laun.
dry company and absconded with the
money which he had collected and
took the horse as means of escape.
If the present good weather keeps
up for few days sheepmen of west
srn Wyoming now feeding can cease.
as a great amount of feed, which for
the past three months has been GOV.
cred, will be available. Unless some.
thing unforeseen happens the loss to
The sheepmen this winter will not be
large.
Senator Brady of Idaho made
speech in the senate last week, ap-
pealing for fair treatment for the
rural and star route mail carriers. He
maintained that inasmuch as the par,
Gel post imposes heavy additional
burdens upon the carriers, they should
receive additional compensation from
the government and should not be
driven into bankruptcy
Harry Hillen, sentenced to die on
conviction of the murder of Thomas
Chase, an aged Denver citizen, has
completed 74.000-word autobicg
raphy His story, although in I'M
couth language, is a remarkable con.
fcssion of crime-robbery, theft ald
burglary-but he persistently denies
that he killed the man for whose
death he is to hang.
A movement is on foot in Nevada,
which seems to be steadily gaining
ground, to bring before the next leg
islature the question of length OF resi-
dence required to gain citizenship in
the state: repeating that portion Of
the present gambling law relating to
poker and other short card" games;
legalizing horse racing and the sell
ing of Paris mutuals on results.
That the excavation work on the
new depot for the Oregon Short Line
II Pocatello. Idaho viii be started at
A very early date is confirmed by OF.
iicials of the railroad