Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-12-04
NORTHWEST NOTES

demand Tor the Wnite metal.
firm in Kansas has opened negt
tiations to secure 5000 acres OF Soutf
ern Pacific land in the Reese river va
ley, south and east OF Battle Noun
tain, Nevada.
Charles H. Gibson, publisher of tn
Battle Mountain (Nevada) Scout, pub
lished at Battle Mountain, died o
acute pneumonia, after an illness o
less than one week.
Roy Boughman, driller, is suffer
ing from the effects of knife wound
inflicted upon him at Ely, New, whe
he was attacked by an unidentife
man. The assaiiant escaped.
| G. w. McDeid, who recently suffered
a stroke of paralysis at his home il
Winnemucca, Nevada, Is reported t
be in a very serious condition ant
little hope is held out for his reco,
cry.
A carload of old boilers and drums
formerly used by the Con. Virginia a
The Comstock has been shipped t,
Junk dealers. The boilers have beei
condemned and have been sold TO.
| Junk.
Getting up late at night to light :.
| gasoline stove and carelesSly throwing
lighted match into pan Of case
line, Teddy Cox of Tonopah. was pain
| fully burned in lodging house a.
Tonopah.
The jury In the Woods murder cas-
at Elko returned a verdict of murde
n the first degree and fixed his sell
Lence at life Imprisonment. Wood.
vas convicted of shooting Ollie Bate
at Goose Creek last August.
Joe Lopez was hailed before a jus
ice of the peace at Hawthorne, New
last week and convicted of carrying
concealed weapons. The weapon IA
question was butcher knife measul
ing eighteen inches IN length.
A halfbreed Indian woman, known
as Mamie was painfully burned a
Ely, New, by an explosion OF kerosen
at her cabin, The fire department eA
tinguished the blaze, and the woman
was removed to the county hospital.
There were ten thousand turkeys re
ported to be on reserve in the vicin.
ty of Fallon, New. OF this humble
from five to six thousand were put OIL
the market for Thanksgiving while the
remainder will be held until Christ
mas and New Years.
Mrs. E. Hughes. formerly a residen.
of Elko, New, committed suicide i'll
Stockton, Cal. by turning on the gas
She left Eliza about two weeks pre-
vious, following her husband who wa
a Western Pacific carpenter, who is
alleged to have squandered his money
gambling.
The comedian OF travelling show
company was shot in the hand during
performance at Gardnerville, New.
The accident was due to one Of the
bold bad men in the play getting a
little careless In loading his revolver
and used wax for wadding in the blank
cartridge.
Governor John B. Kendrick has gone
to Washington, where he will inter
view Secretary of the Interior Frank |
lin K. Lane relative to the appeal of |
Montana and Wyoming people for the |
opening OF the Crow reservation to set
Element. The reservation is in Mon |
tana, just north of the Wyoming line,
and is tributary to Sheridan, Wyo.
Thomas Kendall, one Of the well |
known old-timers of White Pine coun-
ty, was found burned to death In his |
lonely cabin at Melvin, Nevada 1t is
believed that lighted match with /
which he lighted his last pipe to enjoy
the only comfort of his lonely cabin,
dropped unbeknown to him In the COW
ers and he dozed off into his fna,
sleep.
Claude and Roy Bird of Utah, VINO
are charged with head hunting" in
Wyoming, are to be placed on trial in
! few days. The Bird brothers were
arrested in the Teton country in 1914,
charged with killing elk for their
.eeth. A number of the teeth, which
ire priced for use as fraternal EN-
olems, were found concealed in buck
cts of lard at their camp.
William George, an assistant game
warden who has completed a trip
through the Teton country, reports
hat elk calves are scarcer this fall
han ever before has been known to
re the case. The situation Is partly
attributed to the unfavorable weather
asst spring during the calving season
md partly to the depredations of
wolves and coyotes, which have killed
,reat numbers Of calves.
W. s. Turpen, an architect, lost his
life in the bay at Marshfeld, Ore.
With his nephew, Horace Byler, aged
8, he was in rowboat, duck hunting
When the boat overturned Both held
IN for an hour and half. Byler held
p Turpen, who was apparently dead,
ntil he, too, became exhausted, and
hen let 60.
That the Washington state indus
rial insurance fund has been looted
4 many thousands of dollars 10 Az |