The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-02-05
LAND NORTHWEST

4. C. Mcconnell, aged so, has been
"a fested at Salt Lake, charged with
tting fire to his general merchan.
Pc store in Georgetown, Mont, u
~ Der to collect $4,000 insurance.
e. Mccormick, pioneer business
Rn Of Butte. Mont, and for many
&hrs prominent in industrial work in
DIT city. died in Salt Lake last week,
living moved to Salt Lake about q
1&ar ago.
The city council OF Tacoma has
{tssed an ordinance authorizing the
81 uance of $4,000 worth of utility
Eends for construction and equip
emit of municipality-owned street
- line to the tide flats.
Coal production in Colorado for
{413, compared with 1912. dropped
1s94,924 tons, according to the an,
Ia report of the state coal in,
hector. The decrease of Is per cent
81 attributed principally to the strike
lied last October in the southern
6<|al fields.
John H. Day, who died In neglected
December 20 and was
dried two weeks later at the ex,
nse of dodgers who lived in a hotel
- conducted at Anacontes, Wash,
Is been identified as a brother of
chancellor James r. Day of Syracuse
University.
Michael Zelinski, Ravensdaie
liner, who was arrested at Seattle
When he was alleged to have con.
fessed to deputy sheriff that he
las wanted at Scranton, Pa, for a
murder he committed sixteen years
90 under the name of Frank Der,
Ieski, has repudiated his confession,
Injuries sustained by H. j. McNee,
~, who claims the welterweight
Wrestling championship of Kansas
md Missouri, in a bout at Sheridan,
Wyo., are expected to prove fatal, ac-
BIRDING to his physician. He was
taught in such a way as to break sew.
6ral ribs and to cause internal in.
jlries.
y Ralph Modjeska, engineer and
Builder of some of the largest rail-
foad bridges in the northwest and
ION of the late Madame Modjeska.
Die actress, has filed a suit for d.
force at Portland against Felecie
Nodjeska, whom he married in New
York, December %. 1885, charging
desertion.
The beginning of an attack on the
constitutionality of the new Nevada
hivorce law probably will be seen
With the filing of An action for di.
FORCE in the district court at Reno
based on six months residence of the
plaintiff in a case where the defend
Int never was a resident of the
state.
Maps shown for the first time last
week in one of the Tacoma railroad
offices revealed that surveys for
three railroads, starting at Grays
Harbor and extending north into the
hitherto almost untapped Olympic
peninsula, have been completed, the
roads varying from about 40 to 125
miles in length.
The bodies of Mrs Ada Mead, rs
years old, and her son, E. w. Geiger,
is, were found in the kitchen of their
home at Everett, Wash, each having
been shot through the head, appar-
entity by Geiger. Failure in business
Ind his inability to obtain work are
believed to have prompted Geiger to
End his own and his mothers life to
lave them from want.
After trying the Brown merit sys-
lem of discipline for six years the
Union Pacific railroad and the Ore
son Short Line announce that they
will adopt permanently the Brown
system until a better one makes lite
appearance. Instead of laying off en-.
sineers, firemen, conductors, train
men and employees generally, for
allure to observe the rules, the Ore
yon Short Line has been using al
system of merits and de.
merits.
Boise and Payette bankers who de-
sire to present their views to the or
sanization committee of the new fed
sral reserve system will have an op-
of appearing before this com
nittee, headed by Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, when it holds its
hearing at Seattle on January 20.
W. l.. Cummings, % years old, plead.
I'd guilty In federal court at Salt Lake
City and was sentenced to three years
for attempting to black
nail Miss Dorothy Bamberger, a
wealthy society girl. Cummings threat
,ned to kill Miss Bamberger with an
machine of his own invention
which could be exploded at a distance
~ wireless.
A new fraternal organization, west |
I'm in its origin. ideas and activi- |
les, and known as the Independent |
order of Cowboys, will soon be
A permanent organization |
will be effected at a meeting of the |
delegates from several of the west |
IN states in Cheyenne on February |
!. 1t has been practically decided |
hat James Dahlman. the cowboy |
mayor of Omaha, viii be chosen to |
lead the new order and that head |
quarters viii be established in Oma,
Ia or Cheyenne.
With the death of John Seri at Dia, |
wyo., the end came TO a
ragic incident which has cost three
ives. Seri was the slayer a Mr.. and |
drs. John Steffano and himself sue