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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
4
Voters face primary ballot rules requiring top two choice voting when multiple candidates run. The piece notes a mineral boom near Jarbidge and warns of dry faction influences in Idaho politics while criticizing federal injunctions in labor disputes and judges overstepping state powers.
Washington dispatches report a split in Idaho between Senator Heyburn who opposes direct popular election of U S Senators and Senator Borah who supports it. The exchange includes pointed humor about voters and the cost of legislative favors and reflects ongoing tensions in Idaho politics.
A speaker voices regret over a young colleague’s belief that the rebellion’s conflict is ongoing and brutal. The comparison to overblown chivalric endeavors underscores political frustration with failed persuasion and drift toward outdated battles.
Last Wednesday evening at four o clock the wedding of Adam J. Schubert and Louise M. Gooding took place in a brilliant social affair with many notable guests from Boln and Shoshone. The bride, daughter of Ex Governor Gooding, and groom, head of Lincolnton’s finest hostelry, plan an extended honeymoon visiting Honolulu, Japan, and China.
C B Bogue Jr of Lee Live Stock Commission reports record prices for range sheep and lambs sold from the grass. A train of fourteen California shipped ewes and spring lambs brought 7.00 per hundredweight for ewes and 9.15 to 9.75 for lambs, averaging 8.08 on 3800 head, netting $5.07 per head. Entire shipment and another from California sold straight with no calls, another range shipment record.
A stockholders meeting of the Idaho Irrigation company is called for June 7. Prominent bankers connected with the project have been in Lincoln county this week, visiting and inspecting the works and noting current settling and improvements by the various claimants. Names listed include A. G. Hoyt, N. ., W. C. Compton, J. F. Shaw, C. Jenks, Theodore Luce, F. H. Reed.
Decoration Day text celebrates tributes to fallen soldiers with a chorus about comrades sleeping in tombs. It notes Rev. W. J. Barcer of Christ Church officiating with weekly services at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M and Holy Communion on the first Sunday at 11 A. M. and the third Sunday at 8 P. M. Sunday school at noon each Sunday led by minister Willard H. Roots.
Officers clerks and janitors at the Brownsville customs house suffered a strange sleep attack. A sack of coconuts from Tampico via Monterey, with one shell containing opium, was found among the sleepers. The sack was seized and moved to the yard for disposal.
A quip frames a riddle about halves and ages as a woman confesses half her age. The exchange implies people only admit the first half of a fraction or age, prompting a wry observation on honesty and perception.
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