The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-02
This Space
Tells Much
Complete History Of the Past
Week Told in Paragraphs
Prepared for the Busy Reader
lNTERMouNTAIN.

speaker Boon Beat created sensa.
eion in the lower house of the Colorado
legislature by ordering the sergeant.
alarms to exclude from the floor all
persons interested for or against any
measure before the legislature.
The atock-Iudging team from the
pniyersity OF Nebraska won the an.
hual college students stock Judging
contest at the Denver livestock show.
Alfred G. Watts OF Salt Lake City
was reelected president of the Rocky
Mountain Coal Mining institute at the
semiannual convention at Denver.
The lower house OF the Utah legis-
aature has passed drastic dry" bill,
only orc member voting against it,
The senate IL not expected TO concur
IN the measure, and II II does the
governor win veto II. II is expected
the senate win present a more accept
able measure.
Two small children OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Cocia were burned TO death In
y fiTe which destroyed their home at
hammock. q mining camp in Montana.
Judge Butler at Denver has denied
bond to Mrs Stella NJ. Smith. charged
with the murder OF her husband, John
lawrence Smith. Mrs. Smith will
have TO remain In the county jail un-
en- her trial. which will begin March
DOMESTIC.
Directors OF the Chicago. Milwaukee
q 81. Paul railway have authorized
the electrlfieation of some 200 miles OF
the road from Othailo. in the state of
Washington. to the Pacific coast
Food exports generally from the
United States fell off $4,000 900 last
year.
In n statement given out at Boston
Cardinal Gibbons expresses the hope
that President Wilson will veto the
immigration bill.
An anti-liQuor bin presented TO the
Kansas legislature by the temperance
committee OF the lower house would
permit the use OF liquors only for
church communions and medicinal pur.
poses In Kansas.
Eleven men. among them two Re.
publican city councilman. an assistant
clerk OF the city council. and a Ham.
nton county deputy sheriff. who were
named in indictments returned by the
federal grand Jury In connection with
alleged frauds at the last presiden.
eial election, have been arrested ut
Cincinnati.
Coincident with the withdrawal OF
General Perahlng's force from Mexico
an urgent appeal probably viii be seat
BY the United States to Carranza TO
make every possible effort 10 protect
foreigners in the district that has been
occupied by American troops for the
past ten months.
The amount OF whisky consumed by
the American peope In 1915 appar
emily was greater than In any previous
year since 1909, according 10 tax 70
TURNS 70 the treasury department.
Confronted with . threat by the |
house rules committee in charge OF |
the leak" inquiry to force the pro- |
duetion of brokers records. II not |
produced voluntarily. the board of
governors OF the New York stock en-.
change has requested every member |
Of the exchange to make available |
tor the committee tho desired data.
Botulism, a rare disease contracted |
by eating Infected food. was named |
by the Coroner as the cause OF two
deaths Al San Diego,
One OF the largest melons" ever
divided by an industrial corporation |
was announced Tuesday. when the d. |
reetors OF the Bethlehem Steel cor. |
poration Increased the common stock |
dividend from ia per cent to 10 per |
cent quarterly,
The Presidents message Is a won. |
aeFfuily eloquent appeal TO the ma,
tions ~ war" declared William Jen,
nings Bryan in an interview at Mad, |
tson. Wis
Nearly half a million acres OF oil /
land in the San Joaquin valley. Cal. |
valued at So 900 900. are al stake In /
the governments suit against the
Southern Pacific railroad on trial at /
New York.
For the frst time In the history OF
ne United States. \ foreign consul
general, FTanx Bopp. one OF three con.
suis general OF Germany In this eoun.
try. Was sentenced to prison and pay
ment OF a fine. on Monday at san
Francisco. for violation Of American
aeutrAltty.
Alanaon A. Vance. veteran New Jer-
ssy newspaper editor and one OF the
fourteen men Who organized the Re
publican state party in New Jersey
Ia 1855, died at bis home In Norris
town. ". J., on Monday.
More than $4,000 national guards
men nOW on the Mexican border have |
teen designated BY Major General |
Funston for return home and muster |
out OF the federal service.
Ssventy-ive horses we're burned to |
death aud afteen automobiles de-
stroyed By a IRE which burned liv.
cry barn and garage al Omaha.
An anonymous gift Of sl35 900 to the
Polish relLef fund Mas Announced Al