Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-11-07
NORTHWEST notes.

returned from Europe, tells OF a mar
row escape he had from death when g
bomb from a German airship tore q
hole In the roof of the Opera house
in Paris while he was attending per
Torrance there.
Governor Haines has appointed e
II. Dewey, mayor of Nampa, state
treasurer of Idaho, to fill the unex'
pired term of o. V. Allen, default
ing treasurer, now serving an indie
terminate sentence of from five to
ten years in the penitentiary for EN-
bezzlement of state funds.
Milo C. Mcmillan, assistant cashie,
of bank, sustained serious injuries
from being run down by a delivery
wagon in Reno. Besides suffering in
ternal injuries, the results OF which
can not yet be forecasted, Mr.. Nc
MILAN sustained three broken ribs
and several severe bruises.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has granted bulk rate on Uta
and Idaho apples shipped to Texas
and Oklahoma, according to informa
ton received in Salt Lake. The rate
while granted to relieve the present
situation, is to be permanent. 1t be
comes effective November 5.
Although it did not win a single
first place, the team representing the
Lewis and Clark high school OF Spo
kane made the best average in the
statewide boys and girls industrial.
and agricultural contests in progress
three days of last week at Tacoma
and was awarded the governors
trophy.
Two libel suits, one for 100000 ii
the King county superior court, and
the other for $l50,000 in the United
States district court, were filed last
week at Seattle by William ]. Burns
the detective, against the Times
Printing company of Seattle and Colo
mel Alden j. Blethen, editor of the
Seattle Daily and Sunday Times.
Word has been received that Deputy
United States Marshal Arbuckle, 6
Boise man, has effected the capture Of
A. Erpenbach, regarded as one of the
most desperate characters of the
Jackson's Hole country He was want
ed on a charge of being one of two
men who had hand in the holdup oil
fifteen stagecoaches in Yellowstone
park last summer.
The colonization department of the
N. c. O. has just completed the loca
tion of fourteen families, consisting Of
forty-tWo persons, on the Ravendale
valley lands, 125 miles from Reno
which have been set aside for Rus
sian colonization. These families are
the first contingent of more than q
thousand Russian immigrants who will
be located on these lands within the
next year.
NeVada's open season on ducks has
been shortened up again by changes
in the federal migratory bird regula.
LlOlos dOoOL dlhS W IOICoL anu Oh OdlA'
The season will not be affected this
year, as the change of the opening
date is from September Is to DC.
tober /.
According to figures recently com.
piled by Commissioner Hoff at Salem
Oregon's wheat yield this year was 16,
$4,000 bushels, which would require
,54S cars of an average capacity OF
ESQ bushels each to move it, Fig
dring this yield at II cents per bushel.
Is value is $11 ,S46,350.
Bennett, the Indian sentenced to
IcNeils Island to serve seven months
tor the attempted shooting OF H. V
Iailman, superintendent of the Walk
r Lake reservation, tried to hang
mself at the Washoe county jail the
ght before he was TO start on his
Up to the federal prison.
The Mesa Power company of Butte
nd st. Anthony is pushing road build.
g and other construction work, pre-
aratory to the installation of great
)ower plant at the upper falls of the
lorth Snake, three miles west OF
4esa falls. 1t is rumored that electric
Jower is to be transmitted to Butte.
Idaho beekeepers have just com
lleted gathering the 1914 honey crop.
according to the bureau of crop est
mates of the United States depart
ment OF agriculture, the yield per col.
ony of bees was fifty pounds. In 1913
5he production per hive was fifty-6ve
lounds.
: Miss Florence Williams of Yering
Ton, Nevada, was unconscious eighteen
hours as the result of injuries re-
aeiYed when she was thrown from
buggy. The horse bolted when Miss
Williams brother closed the gate be-
hind it.
No accurate estimates are available
20 date as to the amount of the po-
tato crop in Idaho and northern Utah,
rs the harvest is not completed The
idaho Falls district, however, reports
he harvesting of 5000 carloads, and
other districts will show CORE
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