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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1908
Page
1
Idaho supreme court denies the Dubois faction petition for a writ of mandate. The anti-Dubois slate is certified for the November ballot with 155 delegates to 128 for Dubois. Bonner county delegates are discarded due to improper primary but do not alter the outcome.
Voters in Bannock county prepare for Republican primaries with six city precincts voting from 2 to 7 pm. Major county races include county attorney, sheriff, assessor, and county commissioners with several candidates named and expected light city opposition. Polling places listed for each precinct.
Fifty Portland store and shop keepers were arrested to test the blue law on the statute books for nearly fifty years. Bail set at 50 dollars each. enforcement to be tested before closing stores. District Attorney Cameron and Chief of Police Gritzmacher say enforcement would apply to all if pursued.
Ben Bean of Bean Hardware caught the biggest Portneuf trout in five years while fishing the Bottoms. The eight and a half pound monster took a Bean Coachman fly and required about thirty minutes to land. Bean has offered a split bamboo rod prize for Bannock county’s biggest trout each year.
In the sixth precinct at W. J. Harvey's lumber office on East Center street, Democratic primaries were held this afternoon under County Chairman R C Graham. News of the Boise contest decision may lead to anti-Dubois delegates at the Democratic county convention set for October 3 in the city.
Burglars entered the tailor shop of George Dissaul at 228 North Main Street by prying a rear window with a file and escaped with about 400 dollars worth of cloth and garments. A rack of six suits and twelve pairs of new trousers were stolen, suggesting a possible team, while nearby John Hull Grocery was also entered but valuables were left untouched. The exit used a ladder and a rear window file, with no crew shadows left behind.
Reports to the weather bureau indicate a break in the prolonged drought with rain general across the United States. Rain likely to continue today and tomorrow in eastern states. Ohio and Pennsylvania have had weeks without rain. Wisconsin and Minnesota rains have quelled forest fires that had caused severe damage.
Pettigrew says four years ago the Republican National Committee through a former senator offered ten thousand dollars to back Thomas Watson for president. He sought a higher amount and learned the party financed much of Watson's campaign as he traveled with William Bryan from Sioux Falls to Mitchell.
A man plans to win the prize by freezing a trout inside a cake of ice at the Franklin and Hayes artificial ice plant in their brewery. The exhibit will be shown this afternoon and tomorrow in the window of his hardware store on West Center Street.
Heinrich Auster, a German inmate in Pocatello Hospital, accuses two Short Line brakemen Frank Lutz and Harold Young of beating him, stealing $26.60 and a letter from a shoe on a McCammon to Inkom freight trip. The brakemen deny the claim, saying Auster threatened them with a knife and fell after a shove.
Chicago officials report seven men feared drowned after a pleasure launch capsized near the Nickel Plate bridge on the Calumet river. The sole survivor, owner Elmer Westergreen, is under arrest and has not given a clear account. No bodies recovered amid high winds and darkness.
Theo dore Roosevelt Jr will start as a clerk at Hartford Carpet Company in Thompsonville on October 1. He will work in the office briefly then move through departments to learn carpet manufacturing and will reside at A D Higgins residence for the time being.
First District Christian Endeavor union of Idaho decides to hold its district convention in early November. Idaho Falls invited Pocatello to host. executive committee approves. Two days of sessions planned with large attendance expected. W P Havener president attended the meeting in Idaho Falls.
Three men were killed and a preacher mortally wounded when drunken men from a nearby blind tiger fired on worshippers as they left services at a small Baptist church near Jellico Tennessee. John Bennett J W McKinney and Edward Thomas died at the church door.
Hon J H Brady and E A Snow spoke to a large audience in Harrison Ida at the opera house on national issues of the Republican party. Coeur d Alene band and delegation traveled by boat for the event with a reception and luncheon at the Hotel Harrison. Brady and Snow planned to speak at Bonners Ferry that evening.
Robert Collier head of the New York publishing house Collier’s and The National Weekly travels by private car with two Rockefeller brothers toward Jackson Hole to hunt big game. The party carries a full outfit of guns and camping gear and will share stories with New York club members upon return.
Short Line conductor Joe McManis travels from Twin Falls to Muldoon to inspect rich mining holdings in which he and his brother John McManis are invested. The visit underscores local mining interests and family involvement in regional prospects.
Governor Haskell announced on arrival in Guthrie Oklahoma that he would sue William R Hearst next Wednesday The action is not labeled criminal libel but to compel Hearst to prove that his statements were untrue The report notes uncertainty about the suit’s exact legal characterization
Report states a shooting occurred in front of a church with one man down but not seriously hurt. No wire communication with Anthrae and officers have not learned the names of the men implicated.
The murder trial of John Ennis begins at 10 a.m. in Bannock County Court. Judge Budge will convene tonight to hear final arguments in the Murray vs Pocatello Water Co. injunction case. Witness subpoenas list jurors and doctors, with Ennis confined in the county jail since the killing of Evan Davies after his daughter’s alleged scandal.
The American Pilsener beer is described as delightful to the taste and brewed in conformance with the national pure food law. It notes serving sizes as pints or quarts.
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