The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-12-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

"A general epidemic OF measles mas
broken out among children and youths
of Butte and has in a number of cases
made its appearance in adults.
Because he slipped and fell on
smoothly worn iron door and re
ceived a broken leg, Chris Bliskey
has started suit against the city OF
Butte. asking Se,475 as damages.
ID. Fl. Moffat, president of the First
National bank of Denver, and j. A
Thatcher, president of the Denver Ma
tional bank, have issued joint state
ment denying reports that the two
banks are to be consolidated January l.
An ordinance prohibiting smoking at
polling places on election day was
passed by the city council of Seattle
last week. The ordinance is the direct
result of the adoption of the oman
suffrage amendment to the state con.
stitution.
Charles Lansing whom the officers
believe to be one of the cleverest for.
gers in Montana, has been arrested
and brought back to Lewiston from
Roundup, Mont. and placed in the
county Jail for passing worthless
checks.
Many of the applicants for forest
reserve homesteads in the Kootenai
valley and its tributaries have already
moved on their land, but the majority
of the applicants will wait until spring
before beginning residence on their
homesteads.
/ Cultural maps are now required to
be filed with the state engineer by all
/ users of water under permission
! granted under the terms of the state
laws of Nevada, relating to the appro-
] priadon and use of water for irrigation
and other purposes.
/ A. l.. Peterson of Fort Dodge, Ia,
was instantly killed, and c. X. Wei
lington fatally injured at Walcott,
/ Wyo., when the hand-car on which
/ they were riding was struck by a work
train. Both men We're connected with
the engineering department of the
Union Pacific.
Mike Manajlovic. an Austrian,
/ against whom an indictment was re.
turned by the last grand jury for caus.
/ ing q religious riot at McGin, Nevada,
/ last September. has been permitted to
/ plead guilty TO charge of simple as.
sault, and will serve five months in
the county Jail
Robert II. Armstrong, Seattle man
ager Of the United Wireless company
has been arrested and furnished a
$500 bail for his appearance in New
York January 3d. to testify in the soy
| ernment's case against Colonel C,
Wilson. president of the United Wire
/ less company, who is accused OF using
the United States mails to defraud.
Denver police have about reached
the conclusion that the murder of Mrs.
Dorinto Cellanto, whose mutilated
body was found on a farm six miles
from Denver Sunday, was part Of
/ the work of a murderous gang They
associate it with the deaths and dis
appearances of several other persons
in the north side foreign colony OF
Denver
According to complete official re-
turns, the plurality of Governor John
A. Shafroth, Democrat, at the recent
election was 1873. OF this Denver
county gave him plurality of 1867.
The heaviest snowfall of the season
was general throughout Montana, on
November Is, the precipitation in
Butte reaching more than fifteen in
ches after a storm lasting practically
! oil IIalapa 70 Of 10Th
teen inches.
Mrs. C. d. Smith of Hulet, Wyo,
who was charged with killing her hus-
band by shooting him through the
heart with a rife while he lay asleep,
has been acquitted by jury at Sheri-
dan, Wyo. The judge instructed the
jury to bring in a verdict of first de-
gree murder or acquittal
1t is reported that black wolves,
nearly extinct, are reducing the herds
Of cattle near Kremmling, Colo. The
Grand Valley Cattlemens association,
TO which the cattle raisers around
Kremmling belong, is offering a boun-
ty of S55 per head for wolves, with
the promise of all assistance possible
! % hunters.
The avalanche at Millington. Wash,
IN March l last, which carried two
Great Northern passenger trains into
a deep gu!ch and killed ninety-three
persons, was an act of Providence,
against which the railroad company
could not guard, according to de-
cision handed down by Superior Judge
w. W. Black, at Everett, Wash.
One of the last OF the line of the
famous old Nevada pioneers and en-
pire builders who made western his
tory, in the days of the Comstock
mother lode, H. NJ Yerington, super
ntendent of the Virginia & Truckee
railroad. died at his home in Carson
City on November rs. He was 81
years old and had. been in active SER
vice until few weeks ago.
A dispatch from Sheridan, Wyo.,