The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-02-25
NORTHWEST NOTES

will be established in Portland anc
work on the plant will begin withir
few weeks.
1t is quite probable that a cabara1
entertainment will replace a number
of the speeches customary at the an
nual banquet of the Las Vegas cham
Der of commerce.
The question of issuing bonds to
the amount Of $4,000 for the purpose
of extending and making necessary
repairs on the sewer system carried
two to one at Elko, Nevada.
Spokane physicians are joining
hands in a campaign to safeguard the
public health and have organized a
special committee to work in conjunc
ton with the chamber of commerce
zee Bow, secretary of the Hop
Sing tong, was locked in the city
Jail at Seattle, pending further inves-
tigation of the murder in Chinatown
of Y. U. Park, a Korean cannery
worker.
Charles Place, alias Smith, and
Kenneth McEwing have withdrawn
their former plea of mot guilty" to
the charge of burglary in the district
court at Ely, Nevada, and entered a
plea of guilty"
James Tinney, miner of Tonopah,
drank the contents of two ounce bot
tie Of carbolic acid while in a down
town saloon and still lives. Despond-
ency is thought to have been the rea-
son for attempt at suicide.
Eight women and four men COM
prised the jury in a peace disturbing
case in the municipal court at Las
Vegas. The defendant evidently
gained the sympathy of the majority
of the jury as he was acquitted.
AS mark of appreciation to the
lady telephone operators of Fallon,
Nevada, for their promptness in re-
porting fires, members of the Fallon
volunteer department made the local
operators honorary members at their
last meeting.
1t is announced that the Fallon, Ne
vada, sugar factory is to run the COM
ing season. The importation of sugar
beet seed will overcome the difficulty
which for while was thought to be
the one which would keep the factory
closed this season.
Between two million and three mil
lion dollars will be spent by the
Great Northern railroad for concrete
snowsheds in the Cascades, in ac-
cordance with an understanding
reached with the Washington state
public service commission.
AS the result of throwing twenty
two caliber revolver cartridges into |
bonfire, the 12-year-old son of O. " |
of Golconda, Nevada, will |
lose the sight of his right eye. The !
exploding cartridges struck him in
the eye. destroying the sight.
The sentencing of Victor Allard, a
coal miner of Cambria, Wyo., to from
two to five years in the penitentiary
for theft has left his three sons, II,
LIZ and Is years of age, homeless and
he state board of child and animal
has been asked to take
charge of the youngsters.
Elko county (Nevada) will spend
$4,000 on new grade out of Jar
oidge, completely eliminating the
Jrippen grade, if the commissioners
IT Owyhee county, Idaho, can be in
luced to improve that part of the
highway from Twin Falls to Jarbidge
hat passes through Owyhee county.
The grand jury at Ely, Nevada, rec
that all schools be equipped
With fire escapes, where needed, and
hat in such of the schools where
he practice is not now in force,
re drill be ineugurated and prac-
iced at least once in each week for
he better protection of the pupils in
ase of fire.
Glen R. Bush, the Union Pacific
7atchman who shot and killed En- :
que Cordova, will remain in Jail at
awlins, Wyo., until his trial because
his inability to provide $4,000 bail
[e is charged with murder in the
econd degree. Bush claims he shot
lie Mexican in self-defense. No gun
as found on Cordova's body.
Wyoming is state of large re-
,urces, whose development has only
egun. Within it's 1884 square miles
, the most extensive coal fields and
lie most productive oil fields of the
ocky Mountain regions, thousands of
res Of irrigated and dry farming
nds, and extensive areas of splen-
d stock range.
When j. R. Edgheill of Salt Lake
the wool clip of the Sell
ny Sheep company of Dillon, Mont, =
st week for a trifie more than 81
nts pound he not only opened =
e season by making the first pur-
ase, but paid the highest price
er recorded in southern Montana, Il
not in the ire state 3
Eng Chong, an aged Chinese gar 4
ner, was shot and after he had +
len wounded, was beaten about the +
ad with revolver butt at La &
ande, Ore, by another Chinaman &
10, he said had lain in wait for him &
tn companion. Lem Quong, a +
ok, was arrested later and identi- 4
d by Eng as his assailant. 4
The explosion of several hundred 3
unds Of dynamite in small powder 3
use at a limestone quarry near II