The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-10-22
NORTHWEST NOTES.

better than $81 per head.
A G. Drexler, who pleaded guilt.
at Reno to forgery, was sentenced tt
Dor more than ten years In the state
peIitentiary at Carson City.
Greater facilities for handling thu
parcel post business will be added tt
the Salt Lake postoffice as q result
OF the inspection of the federal build
ing by Secretary william g. McAdoo
Indictments have been returned by
the grand jury against w. B. Slaughter
and Coney c. Slaughter, former presi
dent and cashier, respectively, of the
closed Mercantile National bank oil
Pueblo.
To provide a place OF resort after
the prohibition law goes into effect
January next, for laboring men VINO
now gy.ther In saloons, the city OF
Portland has leased a fourstory build
Ing and will fit 1t up at cnce.
In order to stimulate tne efforts OF
the volunteer department, the Exc
commissioners have passed an order
awarding prize OF $40 TO the first
company Of Elko that gets water on
q blaze and $40 to the second COM
pany
Word has reached friends In Reno
OF the death of George hristzer, who
for many years was a resident of
Reno, which occurred in San Rafael,
Cal. Mr. Kritzer was one of the Ne
vada pioneers, who maze and lost
many fortunes.
Fire, said 70 have started from
minor explosion waile a locomotive
was being fired up at Greybull, Wyo.,
destroyed the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad rouAlhouse and the
machine shops adjoining. The less is
estimated at $4,000
The Oregon highway commission
has adopted resolutions that $4,000
be set aside for the completion OF the
highway between Hood River and Mo-
sier, provided that Wasco county vote
bonds and construct highway from
Mosier to Fairbanks
At a meeting OF the Spearhead
company in Goidfe.d Nevada, 1t was
erty on company account. 1t is esti-
mated that it will require about
week or ten days to get the shaft and
top works into shape.
J. c. Roberts. for several years rep
resentative at Denver of the United
States bureau OF mines, has resigned
to become the first professor of the
mr. Ho1 1Ao
engineering at the Colorado State
School of Mines at Golden.
The auditor of Humboldt county, |
Nevada has been advised by the sec
rotary of the state tax commission |
that the increase mace In Humboldt |
county lands by the state board OF |
equalization does not include lands OF |
the Southern Pacific company
The national convention OF the Wo- |
mems Christian Temperance union, In |
session at Seattle, refused to change |
the annual meeting time from the !
closing three months OF the year to |
spring, by defeating constitutional |
amendment making the proposed |
change.
His right elbow shattered when he
was thrown from an overturning auto
mobile, Charles Huffield of Riverton,
Wyo., did not realize that he had been
hurt until after he had used the in
jured arm in rescuing three com
panions who were pinned under the
machine.
Sheriff S,avin OF Tonopah still has
q fro,1 <rf
bartender who shot Mcfarland and
Chase at Manhattan last week, but
on account OF the lapse of time since
the shooting ARRAY, it is considered
that the chances of capturing the gun
man are slight.
William b. amson, aged %, was held
On charge of murder and Mrs Viii
lam Booth, aged &c, as an accessory
following a preliminary hearing at
Ore, OF charges growing
,ut of the Staying OF William Booth,
he womans former husband, aged IL
q, who was found shot to death near
lis home.
Governor Alexander has issued al
quarantine proc-a4-ation, prohibiting
lnyortati~n Of livestock from al. i
tates in h, uni-l into Idaho, ex-
cutting from Utah, Washington. Ore
IN, California Nevada, Wyoming
arizona and New Mexico Its purpose c
$ to pre-, ent foot and mouth disease
eng imported into Idaho.
Mrs. John Peterson, aged SO, /. 1
cad at Superior. yyo, and Mrs. .
ohm Isaacson and baby are In seri- >
us condition as the result of the ex-
-osion of gasoline with which the wo
len were cleaning clothing. One of
be women placed pan of gasoline
n or near heated stove and few b
linutes later the explosion occurred, n
towering thethree occupants OF the 1
pom with blazing fluid
Ray Bradley, a seal clerk at Las
egas, met with an accident In the :,
l cad yards at that place which :.
L ted in his death. Falling between u
vo cars he was caught by the truck ?
IL ragged some distance. One leg p
as aimcst severed from the body, and
lie torso was frightfully bruised. 8,
Thieves entered the Iamofl1e Mar- IL