The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-04-21
INLAND NORTHWEST

week, aged 81 years
Spotted fever, resulting from the
bite of sage ticks, is spreading so that
| the people of Grant county, Ore, are
| greatly in fear of an epidemic earlier
and greater than ever this spring.
! John D. Rockefeller, Jr has sign
! fed his intention to give financial as
! sistance to the erection of churches
in the mining camps of the Colorado
! Fuel & Iron company, according to
| announcement made at Denver.
The bodies of Mary Hawn, aged l8:
| and her step-grandfather c. NJ. Fra
| Zier. aged 50 were discovered in
room of a hotel at Walla Walla, the
result, supposedly, of a double sui
! eide
! According to the Hawthorne Bulle-
tin, late repor-s from Aurora are to
| the effect that the life of that camp
! has been increased several years by
the recent strike in the Junietta vein
! of ore containing $25 per ton.
! Embezzlement of sums aggregating
! $8,l16.97 is charged against Alfred E.
/
| ter of Salt Lake and chief of the
! finance division of the Salt Lake post
! office. in an indictment returned at
Salt Lake
For the first time in years there
are no felony cases pending before
the Winnemucca (Nevada) district
court or waiting action by the grand
! jury. The only prisoners in the coun-
ty jail are but few serving misde-
meanor charges
The Montana supreme court has de-
cided that it is unconstitutional for
trial Judge to exclude the public in
any criminal case, under any pretext
whatsoever, the court holding that the
constitution guarantees every defend
ant public hearing
James Walton, arrested near Gil
lette, Wyo., in connection with the
holdup of a Union Pacific passenger
train near Cheyenne, April 4, was re-
leased last week. Officers said Wal
ton proved he left Cheyenne for Gil
lette seven hours before the rob-
berry
The state board of control at
versely a proposal that the minimum
age for girls received at the indus
trial training school be raised, and
adopted a plan for segregation of the
younger from the older girls by the
building of cottages.
Mrc Sarah Ey1oupiOop Of
will be the second Washington woman
to go to a political convention. The
late Mrs. May A. Hutton was the first
Washington delegate to a national
convention, having sat in the Balti-
more convention of the Democrats
four years ago
The trial of Marvin Turnbow for
killing Clyde Bailey at Thompson's
Springs, Utah, a few months ago as
Bailey stepped from a Denver 4 Rio
| Grande train, will be commenced in
Moab Monday. Turnbow killed Bailey
because he alleged his wife and Bailey
had been intimate.
An Indian with alcoholic courage
surprised Patrolman James Logan at
| Carson City and beat him over the
head with a club The Indian escaped
with the officers revolver. The gun
vas recovered, but the noble redskin
is still travelling, Logan will be laid
up for several days.
A letter, purpOrting to have been
written by the bandit who recently
'eld up two trains on the Union Pa
iic in Wyoming, the latter being the
Overland Limited five miles out o.
'heyenne. Wyo., March 81, is reported
10 have been received 10y a newspaper
It Denver The bandit says that he
viii rob another train in the vicinity
cf Laramie, Wyo., in the near future.
The reservoir OF the upper Hum
holdt river in Nevada will contain 80,
400 acre feet of water this spring
This will be an increase of about 5000
Get ever last year When the dam
| y the upper river is completed the
ese.vot" viii have capacity OF 60.
100 acre feet and the dam will be
! a!ncteen feet high and % feet wide
i the top and the water will cover
| loco acres of land.
Nevada and Montana have declared
! 4uaTanttnes against dogs. Before a
iog may be admitted ia.o Nevada a
permit must he Obtained from the
state quarantine officer at the Uni
rersity OF Nevada. Montana author,
tiles will not admit dog into the
tate unless statement is obtained
roam the state or government health
officer to the effect the dog has not
been in a district where rabies have
| been noted.
| The first Wyoming boys to receive
offers to train cadets of other cities
under the "Steever plan" of military
| Preparedness are William J. Heating
'ged ls, and David Cook. II. of .Chey,
I me
Published statements that the
/ Mon Pacific Railroad company in
ends to invade the territory of the
"toftat road in northwestern Colorado
/ and eastern Utah are denied by Presi
dent Mohler