Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-10-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

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%Lovelock anthony man, was attacked
and bitten by a rabid coyote.
One hundred and sixty tons of hay
and a thousand acres of meadow be
longing to George Russell, Jr., was
swept by fire at Battle Mountain, Ne,
vada, last week.
Mrs. Annie Finnegan, one of the old
pioneers of Virginia City, Nevada
passed away last week at a private
room In the county hospital, after a
pr0tracted illness.
The eighth annual convention of the
Nevada Federation of Women's clubs,
which will meet at Yerington October
nth, will be an a~ssemblage of the
representative women of the state,
Excavation has been commenced
for the new high school building al
Winnemucca, New, and it is expected
hat the building will be ready for &C
eupancy by the first OF March next
year.
The state game commissioner OF
wyoming Is arranging for the employ
ment OF two or three experienced
trappers to aid in the determination
of wolves in the Jackson's Hole coun
try.
DR.. Alex Wetmore, assistant biolo
gist of the United States department
OF agriculture, has been ordered to 60
to eastern Montana for the purpose OF
investigating reports of cholera among
the wild ducks.
As the result of injuries received in
a collision with an automobile, Ceci
IL. Shields, a private in the United
states army recruiting service,
whose home Is at Salt Lake, died in
ne post hospital at Fort Logan, Colo.
]. e. Sexton, general manager OF
he Eureka-Nevada railway, was grant.
ed a request by the state board o.
equalization of a reduction in the as
sessment valuation of the property OF
The railroad from $3.50, 900 to $4,000,
j. T. Burns, indicted last May by
a federal grand jury in Portland fol
'r%audulently locating claimants ON tn,
Oregon and California land gran.
pleaded guilty last week and was sen
fenced to nine months In the county
all.
G. Liliopoulos of Seattle, Greek con
sui for the Pacific northwest and
Alaska, received instructions from the
Greek minister at Washington Tues
day to issue a call for Greek reserv.
lists and others eligible for military
duty to be prepared to join their col.
ors at any time.
The Nevada livestock commission
has ordered a levy of one mill on each
dollar valuation of all cattle, horses
and hogs. The money will be used
to pay the expenses of the commission
in stamping out infectious diseases
among livestock In the state. The tax
will raise about $4,000.
The elk in the Olympic mountains,
In Washington, which were threatened
with extinction a few years ago, now
number 1000, according to United
States Forest Supervisor Fromme. OF
these 5000 are in the national forest.
Recently the rangers have found car
casses of elks slain for their teeth
by hunters.
The most serious damage done by
The earthquake shocks experienced
throughout half a dozen western states
,hnrtlv hofara mtdp;ohf CaturdoY v,o.
a tunnel cavern on the Southern Pa
riic railway at Carlin, New, a divi-
sion point between Salt Lake and
Reno, which delayed trains into Og-
den for several hours.
Dry territory In Utah is thrown
open to shipments of liquor intended
Tor personal use, under a ruling by
Judge Arnold of the district court of
Evanston, Wyo. The decision was
rendered in the case of the state of
Wyoming upon the relation of w. F.
against the Union Pacific
and Oregon Short Line railroads.
The supreme court of Nevada is
considering arguments in the case of
u 4 aSihS Luhu uhu LlfCSLOth SOUu-
1any VS.. the Mason Valley Mines com
pany. In this suit tht plaintiff seeks
% enjoin the smelling company from
operating its smelter at Thompson,
claiming that the fumes from the
destroys the vegetation in
that section.
Robert Hogan, county treasurer of
Lander county, New, last week ap-
peared for sentence. He had entered
a plea of Incorporating public
The Judge pronounced a
sentence of not less than three nor
than five years in the penitenti-
airy and then made an order suspend
ing sentence indefinitely, released the
bondsmen from liability and ordered
the defendant discharged from Gus
Lody. 1t appeared that Hogan had
made full restitution.
After being out about an hour the
Jury which tried j. B. Auten FOR the
murder of Ray Curtis In Lakeview,
Ore, on the night of July IL, returned
a verdict of not guilty and the de-
was Immediately released
from custody.
The frozen carcasses of $50 reindeer
will arrive at Seattle in a few days