Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-10-30
NORTHWEST NOTES

Oh mutual benefit, safeguarding their
interests and promoting the welfare
of the entire town.
Arthur Raymond Wilson suicided at
hotel in Reno. taking carbolic acid.
He left note stating that he was an
incurable dope fiend and preferred
death to a continuance of the life he
was leading.
Minneapolis and Chicago grain buy.
ers are thick as ants all through the
west, picking UP the intermountain
and coast crops where they can In
anticipation of a sitter war market
this fall than year ago.
The body of Frank Grow has been
found near Carson City, New, he hav-
ing either accidently shot himself or
suicided. Several years ago Grow
shot and killed his father, who had
attacked his family while crazed from
drink.
Tonopah has a real volcano not far
from the business section Of the camp.
This "Vesuyius of Nevada" has long
been dead, although scientists declare
that Mount Brougher, on whose side
Tonopah Is built, is the crater OF an
ancient volcano.
Because he prevented jail upris-
ing probably saving the warden's life,
August Kusick, sentenced at Seattle
to six months Imprisonment for
bringing an alien woman into the
United States, has been pardoned by
President Wilson.
The largest number OF criminals
ever sentenced In Wyoming court at
one time faced Judge W. c. Mentzer
of the Laramie county district court
at Cheyenne on FRIDAY and were
given prison terms. Thirteen were
sentenced to prison.
Nickaloff Nevitska, aged 80, Bull
garian laIborer, was instantly killed
east of Cheyenne, when he was struck
by eastbound Union Pacific passenger
train No. Is and hurled in front OF
west bound extra freight No. 253,
which cut him to pieces.
The coming corn carnival Is the
principal subject of discussion at On
tario Ore. A committee consisting
of Ave business men has been ap-
pointed to assist the grange In work
ing out all the details and put the
finishing touches on the show.
The question of replacing horse
drawn vehicles with automobiles has
been placed before the Yellowstone
park stage lines by the rule which
went into effect the past season per-
hitting the use OF motor cars In the
park under certain restrictions.
The steel wagon bridge across
Snake river at Woodvilie, Idaho,
went down last week with q four
horse load of beets. The center span
Of the bridge went down with one end
in the water. The driver of the team
held on to an iron rod until rescued.
Eugene w. Harold, aged "a, a
Union Pacific brakeman residing at
Laramie, is supposed to have been
instantly killed when he fell from q
freight train near Ramsey. Wyo. None
of the train crew saw him fall and
his body was found by following
/ train.
A company is being formed In the
Ely, Nevada, district for the purpose
of taking up and retaining 1920
acres of the valley land under the
desert land act 1t Is the intention
of the organizers to enlist the sup
port of 60 men who. will each take up
800 acres of land.
As a result of the electric merger
which was contaminated recently
when the power companies OF idaho
were combined under the name OF the
Electric investment company, several
of the new cifcials OF that company
are making trip over the southern
part of the state, examining the de-
tails of the plants in the new system.
The body of DR.. Clayton L. Ran
some of Mill City, Ore, who disap-
peared September II last while on a
hunting expedition in the mountains
of the Jackson Hole country In Wy
oming, was found last week by search
ing parties near the place where he
had been camping with Dell B. Judd,
guide Ransom had been shot and
killed
An apple sorter, that 1t is claimed
will do the work successfully, has
been invented by Grin Boyer, OF On
tario, Ore, and Is being used by him
this fall in packing the apples for the
famous Boyer orchard. The grader
is designed on a new principle from
graders which have heretofore been
put on the market. This sorter sorts
the apples by weight, rather than by
size and Is proving successful
Fifty dairy farmers at Lovelocks,
New, organized themselves into a CO
operative body three months ago and
established a plant which Is produc-
ing ton of butter from q ton and a
half of cream day, and the butter
is not only bringing top prices at Reno
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