The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-26
INLAND NORTHWEST

| More imam dozen luInDeF anu
| shingle mills In southwest Washing
ton which have been Idle through the
winter are arranging TO resume OPP
erations within the next few weeks.
For the first time in the history Of
the University of Washington, polit.
! ical speakers last week address
ed students at Seattle at the invita-.
ton Of the president of the univers.
ity.
Officers OF the Owyhee irrigation
district are seeking to have the gov.
| eminent take up and complete the
work on the project. The district lies
in eastern Oregon and headquarters
are at Nyssa, Malheur county
A. T. Wright of Billings, Mont.
chairman of the general committee
of adjustment of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, was shot and slight
ly injured when he resisted two men
who tried to rob aim in Chicago.
Two Mexicans, one of whom is be
| lieved to have been Rafael Lopez, the
bandit who killed five men in. Utah,
| escaped from jail at Powell, Wyo.,
after being arrested on trivial
| charge Officers are now searching
for the fugitives.
That all future irrigation work in
Oregon must be financed by bond
issues and carried out with the aid
of the federal government was the
do
opening sessions of the Oregon state
irrigation congress at Portland.
By denying an application for pub.
LEGATION OF summons in divorce suit
based on less than years residence,
Judge Moran in the district court at
| Reno, New, went ON record as up
holding the constitutionality of the
new divorce law requiring a years
residence, except when both parties
live in the state.
1t fell to Joe Streng of Ogden,
Utah, to buy the first big wool clip
| in Montana for the 1914 season, when
| he closed the deal last week at Great
Falls for the ]. B. Long company's
product estimated at between 100000
and 100000 pounds, and sheared from
| 45,500 sheep. The deal was closed
at 10 cents, 1t is learned.
Charles Morey, who escaped re-
Gently from the penitentiary at Can
on City, Colo, was captured in Help
er, Utah, last week Morey was serv-
ing sentence of from three and a
half to five years on white slavery
charge and escaped while doing road
work with gang of honor prisoners
With gang of honor prisoners
While returning from a dance at
Reno, Mace McCubbin shot and
killed Mrs. Gertie Gundry, with whom
he had been keeping company since
August, and then killed himself. His
first shot was directed upon Mrs. Bert
Boalen, sister of Mrs. Gundry, and
inflicted a light wound in her wrist.
Unrequited love prompted the deed
The arrest at Chehalis, Wash, of
Japanese workman named Miawaga
revealed the facts of three murders
which the sheriffs of Lewis and Pa
citic counties have been recently in
vestigating, committed in October
and November of last year The vic.
Tins were all Japanese workmen,
Killed In a quarrel over a card game.
Following its custom of elevating
the vice-president to the premier of
fee OF the organization, f. II. Wheel
an OF San Francisco was unanimously
elected president of the Western Re-
tail Lumbermen's association at the
Salt Lake meeting last week. H. A.
Templeton Of Great Falls, Mont, was
elected vice-president and A. l.. Port.
er OF Spokane, reelected secretary.
treasurer.
immigration officials at Los An.
geles put up to their superiors in
Washington the question of whether
Louise McElwaine Goto, American
wife of Japanese, should be deport.
ed as an undesirable alien to Japan,
land she has never seen. The girl,
whose parents live in Butte, Mont,
ana who met Manzo Goto, a Japanese.
In Omaha, was married to Goto on
the high seas of San Diego, some
months ago.
After carrying his marriage license
In his pocket for four years Oscar
Saari astounded the clerk in the
marriage licens. bureau at Butte bv
calling there last week and asking
If the paper was still good. Being in.
formed that the document vas s,iII
rs good as ever, Sarri announced that
he was to marry the girl named there
In, Annie Petrttu. They had agreed
to marry when the certificate was
nrst issued, but quarreled,
Milton II. Lee, arrested in Salt Lake
on January 81. charged with having
eounterfeiting dies in his possession
has made confession in which he
says he served three terms in San
Quentin for stage robberies in the
Yosemite and one term for train rob,
berry in Oregon. Lee is 81 years old.
he says he was known as the Gentle
man Bandit of the Yosemite in the
SOS and los.
In the juvenile court at Price. Utah.
six Keepers of pool halls and other
resorts were fined for selling tobacco
10 minors and allowing boys to FIRE.
quent their places. Sixteen boys. all
of them attending school. we're before
the judge as witnesses. accompanied
by their parents in most instances.
The people of McGuI Nav u-a-s