The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-08-25
INLAND NORTHWEST

border of Oregon troops stfl Ianl, -
aeeLesate OF $50 men to bring them up
20 standard strength.
Inc Overland hotel and Gaietv tboa
ire at Elko, New, were sold nv the
'herln last week to satisfy a mortgago
u $Z"OOO held by an Idaho sheepman
"A pioneer resident OF California and
Nevada passed away in Reno last
week. in the person of Thomas Caes
years. ~ 90
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Girdner of Twin
rails Idaho, have received a mos.
sage from Ottawa. Canada. falling ~
the death of their son, Charles while
IN action somewhere in France
A lynching was avoided at Toporab
only by the prompt removal To Cold.
ne!d OF Charles w Comerford, who
aroused the community's ire by stab
bing to death E w. Riley, a saloon.
keeper.
Although there have been 100 for.
est fires in the Fourth district of the
United States forest service to date
me property loss has not exceeded 81
Joo and the total cost of fire suppress
sion has not exceeded $1,000
II. N. Stanfeld of Stanfeld Ore
announced last week that he had
completed transactions for the nur.
chase of 100000 head of lambs for 81.
100000 from Montana sheep raisers.
The price per pound averaged ~
cents.
The Custer County Fair association
d Challis, Idaho, has selected October
l. 8 and 6, as the dates for this years
Dig fall event, and instead of the reg
llar fair program, the wild west
events are to be combined in the pro-
gram as we'll
A mass meeting of Seattle citi-
zens expressed with a unanimous
standing vote approval of the Wash
ngton prohibition law and of the
work of Mayor Hiram G. Gill and
Chief of Police Charles Rockingham in
enforcing the law.
Governor Boyle of Nevada has ap-
pointed Justices Coleman, Norcross
and McCarran as delegates from Ne
Vada to the annual meeting of the
American Institute of Criminal Law
and Criminology, which is to be held
at Chicago, August 20.
During a sever electrical storm at
Pocatello, Milton D. Spracher, who
was employed at the Mutual dairy just
south of the city, was struck by light.
ming and instantly killed. His cloth,
ing was torn to strings and his left
shoe torn from his foot.
Joseph c. Piercey, a we'll known
druggist of Tonopah, has been ap
pointed a member of the state board
of pharmacy by Governor Boyle. The
appointment was made to fill the I'M
expired term of Robert L. Prouty OF
Tonopah, who resigned.
Members of the Nevada woman's
party in Reno have received the in
formation that Miss Annie Martin
has resigned the state Craftsmanship
Of the Nevada woman's party and that
Mrs. NJ S. Bonnifield Of Winnemucc5
has been appointed to the position.
The National Association of Master
Bakers, in annual convention at Salt
Lake City last week, went on record
as favoring and welcoming an inves
tigation of the activities OF the organ
ization and of the baking industry In
general by the federal trade commits
sion.
So far as known all the clips OF
Humboldt county, Nevada, have been
sold, with the exception Of two car
loads of A. Pasquale of Paradise val
ley. The average price received by
Humboldt county woolmen was be
tween 20 and 81 cents. This is con
siderably higher than price of last
year.
The farmers cooperative creamery
at Payette, Idaho, the past year has
averaged $4,000 pounds of butter
month, amounting to 100000 a year
1t has paid an average price of Este
cents a pound for butter fat. Routes
have been established covering a ra
dius of Is miles to bring in the
cream.
The board of county commissioners
in session at Ely, New, last week
completed its labors as a board Of
equalization for the year, and at the
conclusion of the session voted unan
imously to reduce the county tax rate
from s1.lO, as fixed in March, to the
sum of so cents on each 500 assessed
valuation.
Abner G. Kerns, a pioneer member
of the Shoshone county bar, former
state senator and well known Demo
cratic politician, was drowned in
deep pool of the North Fork river
near Anderson's Siding, in Idaho, the
drowning being the result OF an acct
dent.
For the past month coyotes nave
been coming down from the hills IN
the vicinity of Winnemucca 10 III
hav fields, TO catch mice, bringing
their pups with them, and as result
the hunting and trapping OF inose