The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-06-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

Nevada City. Cal. by a mine e1plo
sion.
Everett was chosen as the meeting
place for the 1915 convention OF the
Washington State Federation of Wo
mems Clubs at meeting at Spokane
OF the executive committee.
Nevada's quarantine against live
stock from states not exempted by the
latest proclamation CT the governor
will be removed on July LIST, accord.
ing TO the state veterinarian.
At the closing session of the annual
grand council of the United CONNER,
cial Travellers for Utah, Idaho and
Montana, held at Billings, Mont, Salt
Lake was chosen as the 1916 conven.
ton city.
In order to accommodate the large
number Of fishermen and vacationists
travelling between Reno and Lake
Tahoe, the Southern Pacific has de
cided to resume the motor service
from Sparks to Truckee
Seyenty-five applications for sdmis.
sion to the University of Nevada, at
Reno, have been received during the
past month. The applicants are resi-.
dents of northern California, New
York state, Utah and Nevada.
While attempting to force an en-.
trance into the cabin at Winnemucca
New. occupied by his wife and two
small children, Herman Nelson, a
cook. was shot by his wife 1t is not
believed his injuries will prove fatal.
So great is the traffic to be to the
Yellowstone this season that the Short
Line is already trying to figure out
ways and means to take care of the
$4,000 passengers which have beer
booked already with more coming
every day.
Evelyn Mitchell, a gypsy, II years
old, who gave her profession as a for
tune teller, was arrested on a train
at Reno, New, while on her way to
Helena, Mont, it being charged that
she had stolen $500 from another
gypsy at Oakland.
The recent heavy rains have made
the stretch of road on the Lincoln
national highway west of Salt Lake
bad for travel, so that now it is al
most impossible to cross the desert
through Tooele and Juab counties
into Nevada, autoists report
The state of Nevada was awarded
the grand prize for exhibits of econ
omic minerals at the Panama Pacific
exposition. Nevada exhibitors in min
ing received one medal of honor, four
gold, twenty silver and three bronze
medals and eight honorable men
tons.
Kicking his artificial legs from I'M
der him, Hans Sorensen, aged So. a
patient at the Oregon state hospital,
hanged himself from the gas pipe IN
his room with his leather shoestrings.
Sorenson was respondent because he
could not return to Denmark, his ma
tive land
State Printer Farnsworth has just
completed the printing of a large edi.
tion of a synopsis of the water law OF
Nevada and turned it over to State
Engineer Kearney. This pamphlet is
for free distribution and anyone in
terested may secure a copy by writing
to the state engineer.
The smaIlox situation in Ely, New.
has ceased to be a source of worri-
ment. There is not a single house
quarantined in the Ely district Not
a single case of the disease has mani.
tested itself recently and the few pa.
tients who were in the isolation hos
| pital have been released.
The government will offer for sale
at public auction. commencing July
26, at Poison, Mont, lots within TWEEN
ty-one villa sites, each fronting on
| Flathead lake, Montana. The lake Is
more than twenty-five miles in length
| from north to south and with NOR
than seventy miles of picturesque
| shores.
Denver. Craig. and Steamboat
! Springs. Colo, are at present making
| concerted effort TO capture the
/ trade of the Uintah basin from Salt
! Lake and Utah. For the purpose of
! stimulating Denver business in the
! Uintah basin the Denver & Salt Lake
railroad has inaugurated a through
service from the end Of its line at
! Craig TO Vernal
| Both the mining and agriculture
exhibits at the Panama-Pacific expo
/ sition from Nevada were afforded
/ recognition from the committee of
! awards and secured forty-eight med
ais and prizes. including the grand
prize and medal OF honor for the min
| ming exhibit and the grand medal Of
honor for the most comprehensive
collection for farmers in the agTicul-
l tural exhibit.
Montana has been awarded the
grand prize in cereals at the Panama
Pacific exposition. and its commits
sionOrs make the claim that the state
has been given a greater number OF
wards than were ever given to any
state at any former exposition. They
say that Montana has been awarded,
in addition to the grand prize in Ce-