The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-12-01
INLAND NORTHWEST

a woman attorney appeared in the
Reno courts last week, and to add in
terest to the innovation she won her
case.
By a margin of IS votes the peo-
pie of Churchill county in the recent
election voted TO bond the county to
the amount of $50 900 for the construc-
ton of a new high school at Fallon,
Nevada.
A jury at Waterville, Wash. brought
in verdict Of first degree murder in
the case Of Walter Holdt, 10 years old,
charged with the murder of Mrs. En-
ma J. Smith an aged homesteader on
Badger mountain.
Official notification has reached
LoVelock, Nevada, that the postoffice
at Rye Patch has been discontinued
and that all mail for that camp in the
future should be addressed to Rye
Patch via Oceana.
The convention of governors which
was to have been held in Salt Lake
and which was postponed on account
of President Wilson calling troops to
the Mexican border will be held at
Washington, December IA to 16
The Union Pacific system will spend
almost 100000 in improvements dur
ing the coming year. The larger part
of this money will be devoted to ccn-
pleting the double track on the main
line Of the Union Pacific in Wyoming
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was seeking for what he believes was
false address in the outskirts of
Spokane, where he had been summon
ed to care for the body of child. he
was held up by two masked men and
robbed
Less than $4,000 was expended by
the two leading state organizations
which conducted the campaign for pro-
hibition in Montana to put the state
in the dry ranks, according to cam
paign expense reports filed with the
secretary of state.
Held at the point of a revolver by a
woman who prevented him from en-
crOaching on her premises, G. E. Toy
rea was arrested at Salt Lake after
he had failed in what is said to have
been an attempt on his part to burg
larize the woman's home.
More apples have been received in
Salt Lake this year than ever before
in the history of the city, according
to the county horticultural inspector,
who compiled report last week show
IL for local consumption.
A defeated candidates" celebration
was held at Tonopah last week. The
also rams marched and counter
marched up and down Main street,
headed by band which fnaugurated
the solemn function by playing fun
eral dirge. Later the marchers were
banqueted at local cafe.
Reports from Los Angeles are to
the effect that Mrs. Gwendolyn Bon
giorno of that city, a daughter of
Sam Boston, mining man of Silver
City, Nevada, committed suicide by
taking poison upon the receipt of the
news of the death of her husband in
an automobile accident at Santa Mon
lea.
Support by the supreme court of the
United States of Colorados irrigation
law of 1881, limiting time for appeals
from court DEGREES fixing water rights.
Is regarded with much interest by at
torneys and irrigation companies. The
time limit was sustained in an opinion
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last week
A booze fighter" was taken out of
Goldtield and shot last week. The
boozer was burro. He was addicted
to the liquor habit and frequently
walked through the swinging doors
into Goldfeld saloons, begged a drink
OF the bartender and helped himself
to meal from the free lunch counter
before departing.
One of the two men who located
the famous Belmont mining claim
from which several fortunes have been
lifted. is dead. Walter E. Hollis life.
less body was found in a pool of blood
outside his cabin near Tonopah last
week. There were no marks of yio-
lence on the body, and it is inferred
that death was due to hemorrhage,
Since it became definitely known
that Miss jeanette Rankin has been
elected TO congress from Montana
speculation has been started in Ger.
tain quarters as TO her eligibility to
seat, under the federal constitution
1t is the best judgment of constitution.
al lawyers that Miss Rankin will he
seated when she brings to Washing.
ton, at the proper time. her creden.
uaiS. showing election by a majority
OF the voters OF her state.
The aluminium Madison river mower
Inc, which was installed sixteen wears
ago as an experiment, has been Off
1~.iy a5judged failure and the ain
Mmum is being replaced with conner
wire. This power line of tine Montana
power company is about sixty miles
long. stretching from tho Madison
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