The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-01-21
NORTHWEST NOTES

United States have combined, and
during which the entire country will
be toured, opened at Seattle last week
Marysvale. Utah, is to have an
other potash factory. The Frank r.
Taylor company of Philadelphia will
build a plant within three miles OF
Marysvale, which will represent an
investment of $250,0OO.
District Attorney Lawrence ]. Lille
quist of Coos county, Oregon, an
nounced last week that hereafter all
newspapers and magazines carrying
liquor advertisements would be barred
from sale on news stands.
Predatory animals were responsible
for the loss of 10000 sheep during
1915 on the ranges of district No 4 of
the United States forest service,
which embraces Utah and parts of
Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada.
H. H. Riddell former secretary of
the Oregon Inland Development com
pany, is on trial at Portland. charged
with having used the mails to defraud
in a plan to sell lands scattered
throughout the state on the contract
plan.
Louise Turner, 20 years old, a stu
dent at the state normal school at
Bellingham, Wash, was seriously and
probably fatally injured in coasting
accident. A sled descending a hill ran
into group of coasters ascending
the hill, injuring five.
There was a large attendance of
representatives from all parts of the
state at the conference held in Win
nemucca, Nevada, last week, to dis
cuss the rabid coyote situation A
committee of seven was appointed to
recommend a plan to the conference
for coping with the situation.
Perry Lowe, aged 20, while hunt
ing with his brother, Alden Lowe,
aged 2S, was accidentally killed by
being shot through the body. The
two men were near their home on the
Mckenzie river, about thirty miles
from Eugene, Ore Perry Lowe was
mistaken by his brother for a deer.
The Elko county, Nevada, officials
are drawing up call for another spe
cial election for the sale of sewer
bonds to the amount of $4,000. 1t
has been found that the election held
last summer for the same issue upon
which the people voted favorably, !
was illegal on account of a technical
flaw.
Marion Gould, an aged resident of |
Las Vegas, Nevada, aged 65 years, per
ished in the snow in or near the
Charleston range on New Years day.
The aged man had set out from Owens
siding to inspect some mining inter
ests in spite of the fact that he was
warned not to set out in the blind
ing snowstorm.
Believing that everyone he met
was talking about him, John Hen
erickson, a laborer Sc years old, liv-
ing at Salt Lake made a second at
tempt to commit suicide by slashing
his throat with a razor. The other
attempt to end his life was made last
spring, when he swallowed carbolic
acid He is expected to recover
Judgment for $42,5OO is asked
against the Cleveland Wyoming Oil.
in six suits filed at Denver
by as many Colorado, New York and
Salt Lake men. The suits upon which
against the company-s
were issued are for the re-
,overy of money which the plaintiffs
Jay they invested in the company's
tock.
The Montana supreme court has
sustained the validity of a Nevada di.
-orce decree. The case cited is that
# p j. Loveland who secured a de-
rec of divorce in 1911 in Reno and
vas recently arrested for bigamy in ,
dontana, it being claimed that di- J.,
orce decree granted in Nevada was
ot recognized in the state of Mon
ana.
Wyoming is state of large re-
ources, whose development has only
egun, says a bulletin of the geologi-
al survey. Within its 1854 square :
lilies lie the most extensive coal !,
elds and the most productive known !
Il fields of the Rocky Mountain re- n
ion, thousands of acres of irrigated
nd dry-farming lands, and extensive >.
reas of splendid stock range. :,
Among the mineral products of the n
ate of Wyoming, coal is pre-emi- fl
ent. It's coal fields cover about A. Il
10 square miles-two-fifths of the II
ate's area-and contained originally ri
estimated 67O,723, 100000 tons OF
is quantity only 17S,00O,O00 tons, or h,
,out one-fortieth of l per cent has r,
ZEN exhausted. The production in nj
10 was 7,393,O66 tons, valued at Al
], 510.O45. Of
More than $4,000 annually is lost al
the farmers and ranchers of the in b1
mountain states and Oregon and st
ashington through the making and
lie of butter to the storekeepers in In
> various small towns, and Idaho is eli
ling more money than any other in fir,
mountain state through the max co
: of ranch butter, declares G.. E. at
evert, butter inspector for the tn
ited States department of agricul- on
e. re