Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1915-12-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

James Cotton, one of the best known
cattle buyers in Nevada, if not in the
entire west, died in San Francisco last
week.
A shipment of forty-two carloads OF
cattle and one of horses was made the
first of last week from the Winnemuc
ca, Nevada, stock yards.
In order to promote drill work, a
First Aid club has been founded among
employees of the Nevada Consolidated
company at McGill, Nevada.
The monthly report of the secretary
of the Reno Clearing House associa
ton for November of this year show
substantial gain over that of 1914
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lyons and
Claude Scales, boarder at their
home, are dying in a hospital at Ia
coma as result of eating toadstools.
H. E. Morton has been convicted of
having struck Constable Otis Storm of
Rochester, Nevada, over the head with
a piece of drill steel, inf1icting a dan
gerous wound.
The directors of the Minden (Ne-
yada) Butter Manufacturing company
at recent meeting decided to enlarg
the plant of the creamery and install
new machinery.
Charles McDeid, one of the pioneers
of Nevada, died recently at his home
OF n ctr af
paralysis which occurred while work
ing in his yard
Health conditions in Utah at presen
are better than ever before in the his
tory of the state and there are fewer
deaths from typhoid fever in this state
than in any other.
Tom Lee, Chinese laundryman, was
arrested at Pocatello, charged with sell
ing opium. His place was searched
and quantity of the drug taken pos
session of by the police.
Half million dollars taxes due for
1915 remained unpaid in Salt Lake
county Utah, when the time limit eX
pired December f. The delinquents
will pay per cent penalty.
W L. McGregor, of Eureka county,
Nevada, arrested last summer on the
charge of selling whiskey to Indians,
was acquitted last week by jury in
the federal court at Carson City.
A two-ton boulder fell from an over
hanging cliff upon a Great Northern
train near Wenatchee, Wash, crashed
through the roof of the express car
and killed w c. Dunbar, the express
messenger.
While dining in a Reno restaurant
A. w. Reid closed his teeth on some
thing hard while in the midst of an oy
ster stew Investigation revealed that
it was a pearl fully as large as good
sized pea, worth at least $85.
The oandition of Daniel Muldoon of
Carson Nevada who was seriously in
jured by being kicked by horse, is re
ported to be satisfactory and it is
said that he has a good chance for
recovery. His skull was fractured.
e. S. Hendricks, who was paroled
from a life sentence at the state prison
last June, died at Carson City, Ne
vada, last week after lingering for
several days with pneumonia. The
| deceased was 70 years of age and was
an old soldier.
While being conveyed to a doctor
office for treatment as the result Of
stepping off a moving automobile and
landing on his head, neck and Shout
ders, Arnold Millard, a Carson City
! plumber, met with the second auto ac
cident on the same day but will re
cover
Last week a valuable stallion be
longing to s Johnson of Redhcuse,
Nevada, showed symptoms of rabies
and was shot by its owner. The ami
NAL is reported to have received a
wound on the leg some time before
and since that time the horse be
came loco"
On nearly all of the points involved
the supreme court of New York has
sustained the findings and decisions Of
the Nevada courts in the divorce case
Of Mrs. Gertrude Tiedmann, which |
gives the latter large interest in the
former husbands estate which is es,
timated to be worth about two millions
of dollars.
Using a shotgun as the signal for |
stopping his victims and a revolver as
the argument in making them keep |
their hands up while he took their
valuables from them, highwayman |
put in a busy half hour on the county |
road few miles from Sunriver, Mont |
and got more than $40 in cash and |
two watches for his pains.
Professor G. c. Emery, founder of
the Harvard military school at Los
Angeles, is one of the recently en-
rolled students at the Tonopah school |
of mines. The professor is 70 years
of age and is said to have decided that
mining and metallurgy shall be his
life work, hence his preparation for
what he believes will be a long and
prosperous career
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