Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-06-07
INLAND NORTHWEST

iiSeh elsHt Ieel ABOVE normal.
Idaho has an opportunity to get a
tried and honored soldier from the
battlefields Of France to command her
new national guard regiment, If Gov
ernor Alexander is so disposed, 1t Is
announced
Carefully laid plans enabled the sue
cessful getaway of III. l.. Doble, Mont
| real capitalist, and his pretty little
six-year-old daughter Audrey, whom
he kidnapped from her mother on the
streets of Reno, New, last week.
True S. Clark, for forty-five years
resident of Reno and one of the best
known men in that vicinity, died last
week at the age of rs years. He came
into the state during the Comstock
days and engaged in various lines of
activity.
About thirty-five members of the
Masonic lodge at Kemmerer, Wyo.,
have organized u home guard com
pany. The members of the company
meet every Monday night at the bar
racks, where company II is stationed,
and are drilled.
The final plans for the organization
Of the Las Vegas Rife club to affili-
ate with the National Rifle association
were practically completed last week.
At least fifty members were assured,
with the possibility of securing TWEEN
ty-five more.
Governor Doyle at Carson City, New,
has issued requisition papers ut the
request of Governor Martin f. Brin-
baugh of Pennsylvania for the re-
turn of j. f. Smith, who is wanted in
that state on Il charge of felony and
obtaining money under false pretenses
Oregon. Washington and Idaho will
harvest 57,500,000 bushels of wheat
this year, compared with the actual
son, according to estimates made al
this time based on complete reports
from all the heavy wheat growing sec
tons of the Pacific northwest.
John Clingan. who on the night Of
April 9TH had his neck broken in {
cavein in a Goldfield mine, has gon'
TO San Francisco, where he will b,
operated on. A piece of bone will b.
taken from his leg and transplantet
Mt the fracture in the hopes of strength
ening the spine so he can return t
usefulness.
An aged veteran of the civil wa
from Minneapolis led mob of citi
zens who made John Plitz, proprieto
of a Helena. Mont, saloon, kneel be
fore his bar and kiss the American
flag and later repeat the homage in
puddle of mud in the street 1t is a
legged the saloon keeper had cursed tn
flag.
The citizens of Hawthorne, New
have filed complaint against the Hav
thorne waterworks and the Pacifi
Power company with the public util
ties commission, asking the commissio
: to compel the power company TO IL
stall transformers and give power an
light service TO Hawthorne from wire
already running through the town.
: It is reported that there is a NOV,
= ment in Rock Springs, Wyo., to PR
mote the construction of lare
smelter. The project, ii is reporte
y is backed by prominent financiers {
that city. The smelter is to employ sc
men and will take care of the We
: ore deposits, yet untouched that al
known to exist in western Wyoming
Captain ]. ID. Watson. officer
charge of the recruiting district Ell
bracing Utah. Idaho, Wyoming an
Nevada, has received a bulletin fro
8 the war department at Washington.
c.. indicating very strongly that add
: tional training camps for officers wi
IS be established in the west.
(. The International Single Weaver
N convention, in session ut Everett
? Wash. passed a resolution last wet
Is calling on all members of the unic
Al who also hold Industrial Workers
n the World cards TO sever connectio
;. with that organization or forte
~ membership in the Single Weaver
"a union.
IN Mat Cirej, one-time convicted
murder in the first degree and Sc
fenced to be hanged in October. 191
but who was granted Il new trial
II the supreme court of Wyoming Ia
week. pleaded guilty to murder in Il
second degree and was sentenced
" n term of twenty years in the per
: Tertiary.
~ Ed. Cullinan, chief electrician at
Tonopah. New, mine, declares he h;
n perfected device for trapping subm
rines which he is confident will email
~ the United States navy to pursue Il
undersea boats to their refuge ut Ze
brugge and Heligoland. He has fo
warded copies of his plans to the sc
in rotary of the navy.
l Joseph Wallace, who has been he
s. the past month at Condor. Ore, on
III charge of numbering his wife April
m on n ranch where she worked. h
It. confessed the crime. Mrs. Walla
ly was shot at the Everett Stillw,
Of ranch. thirteen miles from Condo
In Wallace until Tuesday maintained
nocence and several weeks ago W
bound over to the grand jury.
"a The Virginia (Nevada) Minel
- union committee, which has charge