The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-03-05
INLAND NORTHWEST

been driven into the low hills nsar
settlements in search Of feed.
A rotary snow pillow, to begin work
OF opening up the Yellowstone park
line by clearing away the winter
SHOWS, has been sent out from Salt
Lake by the Oregon Short Line.
II is expected that the Northwest
ern will begin construction work early
IN the summer along right of way re-
Gently purchased from Lander, Wyo-
ming, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, distance
OF $50 miles.
All hope of rescuing alive Andrew
Churneck and Mike Vabeanick, the
two coal miners who were entombed
by slide in the Cannon mine OF the
Pacific Coast Coal company at Frank
lin, Wash, has been abandoned.
Meadow Valley Wash in Nevada
again became a seething torrent on
Friday night and as a result fifteen
mites CT the salt Lake Routes track
Is cut Of commission and will be
closed to traffic for several days.
The search for the two train rob
bers who held up Great Northern
passenger train ten miles south OF
Bellingham. Wash, and killed three
passengers who resisted them has mar
rcwed down to three possible clews.
Two men said by the military au-
thcrities to be striking coal miners
were arrested at Frederick Colo,
charged with assaulting Mike Pinchek,
witness before TIE, house commit
tee investigating the coal miners
strike.
Idaho leads the world as a corn
state. That was demonstrated at the
national corn exposition at Dallas,
Tex. The Gem state wins the $500
trophy for the best ear OF corn and
the Indiana trophy, worth $1,000, for
the best 10 ears Of corn exhibited.
The success Of feld-pea culture in
the Idaho Falls vicinity has attracted
the attention Of managers of similar
industries and the result is that there
is very favorable opportunity for
pea-canning plant to be located in Ida
no Falls, ready to begin operations this
fall.
The Rt. Rev. Lemuel H. Wells, for
mCre than twenty years bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Spokane, has an
nounced his engagement to Mrs.
Andrew II. Smith of New York City.
Bishop Wells is II years old and came
to Washington more than forty years
ago.
The jury at Seattle in the case of
Charles F. Murphy and Archie w.
Shells, charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States of the Stracey
group of Alaska coal land by the use
of dummy entrymen, brought in YER
dict of not guilty after being out six
hours.
Slit skirts. peek-a-boo waists and
false curls will be forbidden high
school girls of Denver. Bowling to a
request made by the local Mothers
congress, Denver's leading department
stores have agreed not to show pres
| budding misses.
President j. NJ. Hannaford of the
| Northern Pacific railroad announced
at Portland last week that his company
would expend this year between $4,-
900, 900 and $5OO0,OOO for betterments,
equipment safety devices and the car
rying out of the construction work al
ready under way.
From lslen to Elgin, a distance of
| thirtyseven miles, the Salt Lake
Route is out of commission Several
bridges have been swept away, the
roadbed is gone in places and in
others landslides block the way. 1t
will be some time before through
traffic is resumed.
After digging continuously four
days, $50 miners working in short re-
lays, recovered the bodies of John
Hart and John J. Sullivan, miners
who were crushed to death when the
ground caved in from the surface to
the l00-foot level In the Southern
| Cross mine at Butte.
A magnificent statute In bronze is to
be erected in Salt Lake City in mem
DRY of the late Ben K. Rich, who was
for years at the head of the Mormon
missions. with headquarters in Ten
nessee and New York. Over eight
| thousand young men and women
worked under his charge and jurisdic.
| ton.
| Nortormen and trainmen at Portland
in the employ of the Oregon Electric
Railway system have prepared de.
mands for increased wages which
have been presented to the operating
officials of the company Informally
but have not resulted In official nego-
tiations up to the present time. The
men. however, declare they will force
the issue.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company's
Idaho Falls. Idaho. factory is publish
ing a notice to the effect that owing
to a rumor in circulation that the 10
cal factory is not to operate this year.
many have thought that the company
would not contract for beets. The
published notice states that the fac.
tory will contract for beets for the
| 1914 season.
The jury at Seattle in the case OF
Charles F. Munday and Archie w.
Shiels, charged with. conspiracy to de.
fraud the United States OF the Stracey
group Of Alaska coal lands by the use
OF dummy entrymen. brought in a yer.
| dict OF not guilty after being ont sly