The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-06-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

SEEDS SnlppeQ Tor NldQlVOStOk lot the
use of American farmers have begun
to arrive at Seattle.
c. H. Rathbun, pioneer groceryman
of Reno, native of Dundee, Mich.
died at a Reno hospital at the age OF
IS years. Death quickly followed an
acute attack of Indigestion.
Work on street Improvements, curb
ing, guttering and putting in of large
water mains in the business district
of Reno, which recently was author
lied by the city council, started last
week
Testimony to the effect that the
fire which recently destroyed four
sections of the state penitentiary
shops was deliberately set by con-
victs, has been submitted to the dis
trict attorneys office at Salem, Ore.
One month and 10 days after the
drowning of Angela Chinsini the True
kee river gave up its victim. Angela
Chinsini was drowned near Lawton
Springs, New, April 10 and the body
was found June /, lodged in drift
wood
A demonstration for national pre-
paredness and revival of patriotic
spirit marked Spokane's commemor-
alton of Memorial day Thousands of
men and women joined the veterans
of the civil war in marching through
the streets.
Charles A. Bengston, postmaster at
Dry Lake, Ore, has been placed in
the county Jail on a charge of embezz
ling United States funds. Postal in
spectors allege that Bengston con
fessed to taking approximately $1,000
during the year.
When Harry G. Hontz finishes an
1S-months' sentence in the Wyoming
penitentiary, he will be taken back to
Idaho to answer a charge of murder
and robbery. Houtz has confessed to
the murder of man named Ecklen-
beck, near Roberts, Idaho.
After nine years of continuous serv-
ice in the United States forestry de-
partment as supervisor of the Whit
man national forest, one of the most
important divisions in the northwest,
Henry Ireland died at his home in
Sumpter, Ore, of heart failure.
Charles Sweeney. millionaire min
ing man of Portland and Spokane,
died at Portland of heart trouble. He
had been ill long time. He amassed |
fortune in the Occur d'Alenes in |
Idaho and was heavily interested In |
Portland and Spokane real estate.
Theodore Leoni, an S-year-old lad |
living near the Minidoka dam, was in |
stantly killed by the passage of 5000 |
volts of electricity through his body
when he climbed a high tension wire
pole. The only witness to the tragedy
was the victims brother, boy of IL.
A letter from Iditarod, Alaska, says
that Jack Laheit and Tom Wilson, of
Wilkeson, Wash, prospectors, died of
starvation on the 40-mile cutoff while
bound from Hughes to Nulato. They
gave up when only Is miles from
cabin, where abundance of food might
have been obtained
With the completion of the Oregon
& Eastern railroad to Bender, Ore,
the terminus, and the construction of
the new highway from that point and
Burns. a new era in transportation
will be launched that will
bring a vast empire in touch with On
.ario and the outside world
r. c. McElroy, an insurance broker,
formerly of Portland, was arrested at
Missoula Mont, on a charge of lar
ceny by bailee. 1t is alleged that Nc
Elroy drove away from his home last
August in an automobile owned by his
wife. taking with him Miss Daisy Hay.
II years old, who had lived with her
parents up to that time.
Twelve hundred men engaged in lin
ng the st. Johns tunnel of the Ore
ION Washington Railroad & Naviga
ion company were locked out at Seat
le by the contractors. A. Guthrie &
To-, when a cessation of operations
vas announced in midafternoon. The
nen had recently demanded a general
Increase in pay of so cents a day.
Plans are now being carried out to
i've Idaho the best grade of potatoes
n the northwest within the next five
ears. Professor e. P. Taylor of the
extension department has
ust returned from a trip through the
otato producing sections of the state
nd reports that go or more seed plots
ave been selected for the beginning
the campaign.
The short line railroads of the west
IN states will make a fight in con-
ress to have the railway mail car
iage rates increased that they may
lake at least profit from the parcel
ost matter consigned to inland towns
hitch do not enjoy rail Transports !
on. {
Fire of unknown origin at North
end, Ore, swept through the upper
.ories of four buildings in the bust .
ess district, causing damage estimat-
at $4,000. c
OF the $50 hunters employed to kill
)yotes in northern California and
evada, the best average has been
ade by Alta De Long, who killed 20
16 days in the vicinity of Amos in