The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-03-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

me Dill DIONIull6 Az ~
residence in Nevada for divorces
passed the senate by a vote OF IL u
10. he bill goes to the governor
Death claimed another OF the plo-
peers of western Wyoming "heh
Charles Rathbun succumbed to nearI
failure at Kemmel er last week. Mt.
Rathbun was 81 years OF age ana hau
been Ill only two days
Following charges that ne had an
moved the girls at a school IN fort
land. the coroner reports, Marion NJ
Bridges, aged co. took enough poison
to kill twenty men and was lounu
dead in the school basement.
Six dead, two so badly burned that
their deaths were momentarily expect
ed, and six less seriously injured was
the toll taken by a fire which de-
stroyed the three-story wooden punk
house at the c. A. smith mills aI
Bunker Hill, Ore.
The failure of the bill introduced In
the senate of the Wyoming legislature
by Senator Gardner OF Lincoln county,
for the reimbursement OF the county
from the original assets of old Ulnta
| county, puts an end TO long standing
question. and Lincoln county loses
about 100000.
Following the lead Of the house, the
| Montana senate has adopted a report
of standing committee recommend
ing a bill abolishing race track gamb-
ling. The senate also passed saloon
closing law, the hours during which
they may be open being from a. m.
to II midnight.
Appropriations Of the present Ore
gon legislature, will approximate the
total OF $685., 900, according to esti-
mates reached by the joint ways and
means committee OF the two branches.
The total of appropriations for the
1918 session was $. 973,320, and for
the 1911 session $6,77S,95O.
Samuel Hill, chairman of the Ore
gon Belgian relief committee, and a
close friend OF King Albert of Belgium,
has received a cablegram from the
head of the distressed nation in which
, he expresses appreciation for the ship
load of food and supplies which re-
Gently sailed from Portland.
! Dan Parker negro, shot and killed
, Mink" Porter, also a negro, at KEN
merer, Wyo. Jealousy over woman
Is said to have been the cause of the
: killing Both were arrested and fined
for fighting few days previous, al
which time each is said to have sworn
that he would get" the other.
According to newspaper accounts il
\ Fallon, New, sugar factory there
may be moved to Salt Lake county
!, The factory is controlled by Michigan
=, capitalists and it is understood tina
:, those boosting for factory in Sal
Lake county have been endeavorinl
to have the factory moved there.
The bills recognizing the stat,
, land commission and the state boar
;. of equalization, vetoed by Governo
Ernest Lister of Washington, becam
laws last week when the senate by
. vote of 80 to 10 passed them over tn
;, governors veto. The bills had pre-
= yiously received the necessary two
- thirds majority in the house.
Fishing in the Narrows west of Poin
. Defiance, Oliver D. Clarke hooked a
a octopus or devil fish that put up
- vicious fight, throwing its long arm
or tentacles around the bottom of III
20 boat and nearly capsizing it. The O,
IN topus weighs LA pounds and its eigf
a. arms measure nine feet in length ma
:, ing a spread OF more than 20 feet
"a Although the Oregon house of re
N. resentatives, by holding night Sc
sions, limiting debate, slaughterin
=, what were pronounced unimportaI
., bills in committee. and withdrawn
oa others, had succeeded last week
. disposing of 420 of the AIS bills i
he troduced in that body, more than fif
~ appropriation bills remain to be intr
80 duced,
a. An answer has been fled in the di
4 tirct court at Butte to the suit of Pre-
al ident Charles II. Meyer and other {
o ticers of the Western Federation
Miners against officers of the But
"A local to regain control OF the local,
,or legged that Meyer hired gunner WHIT
y. he came to Butte last June, and tn
- the local organization was forced
an pay them,
Summer and Albert Lakes, in La
~ county, Oregon, viii be the scene il
mediately Of the Inauguration of
- S7000,000 development project, as 4
result OF the ratification by the leg
lature of lease of those bodies
water TO Jason c, Moore and ass
ciates of New York. for the saving
nE valuable mineral deposits which IN,
ne waters contain.
The Oregon Short Line has. durt
'n the past two weeks. been stori
~ gravel and all other material need
ne to check the food water, which usu
.'' ly results in a great loss 10 the co
." pany in the canyon Just west Of Ke
nc merer, Nyo. On the sidings al Z
- stations Of Fossil and Nugget Is g6r
US two train.oads o! this material. to
81 used m case OF need