The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-09-17
INLAND NORTHWEST

| H. y. MOrrell mas resigned the pc
sition Of assistant postmastership a
Winnemucca and has gone to Love
lock to engage in business.
Farmers in the northwest are in
clined to hold their grain for higl
prices this year, but James ]. Hill
thinks they will be disappointed.
AS result Of being thrown from
her horse while attending the Elko 70
! deo last week, Mrs. Charlton, visi
tor IN Elko, sustained painful injur,
to her spine.
DR.. Ware, county physician OF Mono
county, Nevada, died at Bridgeport
last week after a brief Illness. The
deceased had been a resident O.
Bridgeport about six years.
Bryan Trevillian, formerly resi-
dent of Virginia City, Nevada, was rur
down by an automobile in San Fran
cisco and received compound frac
ture OF the bones of his right leg.
Fred Starr, under arrest at Seat
tie on charges of holding up interur-
ban street cars near there, has been
identified by his finger prints and pho
tograph as Robert Garrett an ex-con-
Wet.
The report of the pension commits
sion for the past fiscal year shows
that 937 pensioners In Utah received
$207,372. Two thousand and forty
nine in Idaho received s453,561, and
766 in Wyoming received $169,610.
Preparations are under way at Bat
tie Mountain for the celebration OF the
next Fourth Of July A mass meeting
was held there last week for the pur
pose of devising ways and means for
raising funds for the coming event.
The mysterious disappearance OF
Steve Crappo since the 10th OF August
from Phoebe has caused grave anxiety
for his welfare and many Of his &C
quaintances in that section are con
WINGED that-he has met with foul play.
Four serious fires in Polk county
(Ore.) hopyards occurred within the
"a hours ending early Friday night
In all cases there was evidence Of In
cendiarism. Trouble between hop
pickers and their employers had re-
Gently occurred in the district affected.
When the state board Of pardons
and paroles meets at Carson City,
New, It is understood that the mem.
bers will be confronted with eighty
four applications from inmates Of the
either for parole, pardon
or clemency.
On account Of the prevalence OF
hydrophobia In the northern portion OF
Nevada, the county commissioners OF
Eureka county have passed an ordi
nance authorizing the peace ofcers to
kill any dogs found running at large
without muzzles.
Discovery of the body Of J. T.
Owens, a horse trader of Twin Falls,
IDAHO, in an abandoned we'll 20 miles
rom Pendleton, Ore, was followed by
/ confession that he had murdered
owens made by John Richardson, y
armer who had been arrested on sus-
,icion.
The Washington Railroad &
Navigation company, owner Of build
ng on Western avenue Seattle to
ave been used for disorderly pur-
oses, was made defendant in suit
led by Prosecuting Attorney Lundin
nder the so-cailed red Light abate-
tent law.
Cecil Lear. the S-year-old son OF
fr. and Mrs w. M. Lear Of Carson
,ity, New, had a miraculous escape
rom death by walking through an
pen window upon the steep roof Of o
orch, while asleep. The boy had fire..
uently walked in his sleep in the past
Lying in an almost inaccessible spot
n Heusser mountain, near Ely, the
ody of John Myers, formerly fore
ian of the Huesser ranch. was found
18th a bullet hole In his right temple
revolver with one chamber empty
ore silent testimony that the deceased
ad come to his death by means OF
licide.
AS the result Of special election :
n local option, Mono county, Ne /.
ada, went dry by a majority of rs
otes. Antelope and Bridgeport pre-
nets went dry two years ago and
DIV the entire county is under the
importance rule. ,
Joe Armstrong. who is accused OF :
Ie murder OF Paul Coski at Good
brings. Nevada, couple of weeks
20 and left for parts unknown, may
, hunted down by the officers and
ought back to Las Vegas for trial v
rmstrong shot and killed Coski on 8
9 9th of June as the result of L
Iarrel over game of cards. p
]. c. Matthews, convicted at Reno =
welding a razor upon the face and y
ok of Mrs. Fay Brickel last June, =
8 been sentenced to from one to
lrteen years Imprisonment. :,
With the arrival OF H. H. Ryker =,
Reno, badly lacerated about the "
e and neck by rabid coyote, the ~
al number OF patients receiving ~
steur treatment at the state uni %
-sity was brought up to six. - -
The enormous increase in freight
fife through the ogden terminal %,
ing the past few weeks put the Wy =,
ing division Of the I1nion Pacific -