Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-11-06


ed by a cave.in last week.
The Fallen Flour Nils company has
fed articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state at Carson, New,
with capital stock of $4,000.
Engineer William J. Macarthur and
Fireman Roberts were scalded to
death by escaping steam on Union
Pacific engine which they were oper-
ating in the Green River, Wyo., yards
The news comes from Marbleton
Wyo., that C. e. Daley, cashier of the
local bank, is dying from a bullet
wound in the stomach inflicted by Dan
B. Grafton, bridegroom of 90. who
objected to being charivaried.
The Oregon Federation of Women's
clubs in it's annual convention at Sa-
lem, refused to adopt a resolution urg.
Ing the state board of control to intro
duce the self-government plan for
prisoners In the Oregon penitentiary.
Former Governor eddie is confined
to his bed at Carson City, Nevada,
suffering from nervous breakdown
The attending physician declares that
his condition is not of serious ma
ture and that a few days rest will
effect cure.
Bounty laws in the state Of Nevada
provide liberal payment by the state
and counties for the killing of many
animals. A trapper is entitled to col
lect SIPS for coyote or prairie wolf,
s275 for lynx or wild cate and $40
for mountain wolf.
Wong Fong, who has spent the last
twenty-one years In the Nevada state
penitentiary, died last week. Fong
was SO years of age at the time of his
death and was sentenced to Carson
for the killing OF highlander tong
man In White Pine county In 1895.
]. w. Ernstdorf, aged 40, Union
Pacific brakeman, residing at Lara
mie, died Saturday from an injury sus-
tanned the preceding day at Hanna,
Wyo. He fell beneath his train and
his right leg was so badly crushed
that amputation at the hip was neces-
sary.
The theft of two bear hides and q
goat hide is the unusual charge
against Harry Manley, who is in Jail
at Green River, Wyo., awaiting trial
In the district court. 1t is alleged
that Manley broke into Frank Nickel
berger's storehouse and stole the
hides.
Twenty thousand American women
of culture and education are sacrificed
each year on the altar of vanity, dy-
ing of cancer of the breast due to cor
sets, and tight lacing, according to a
lecture on Cancer, a Comfortable dis
ease" delivered by Frederick l.. Hoff.
man at Denver.
Harlie Martin of the firm Of Mar
tin Bros, we'll known sheepmen of the
north west, was shot and probably ia
tally wounded by Jack Norville, a
stockman, whose range is contiguous
to that of the Martin brothers In the
Big Dry country, sixty miles south
of Glasgow, Mont.
A spark struck by hammer from
q nail while box was being opened
in the basement of Charles G. Ken
dall's story at Lyons, Wyo., caused a
fire which completely destroyed the
store, entailing loss of $1,000. The
spark flew into can of gasoline and
an explosion resulted.
Playing near vat Of stacking lime,
at Thermopolis, Wyoming Alvin
Richards, years of age, stumbled and
plunged into the boiling mixture, be.
ing completely submerged. But for
the heroism of his twelve-year-old SIS
ter, Stella, he would have persisted,
Both children were frightfully burned.
DR.. Walter M. Lacey has returned
to Cheyenne, Wyo., from France,
where he served three months in a
British concentration hospital near
Boulogne, holding the rank of captain.
He was member of a party Of Har-
ward surgeons and nurses who vol
unteered for duty behind the British
lines.
Jack White, an official Of the United
Mine Workers of America, who sus-
tanned a fracture of the back three
weeks ago when he was caught by a
fall of coal at Rock Springs, Wyo.,
is making a gallant struggle for life,
and attending physicians say that he
may survive indefinitely, but never
will leave his bed.
The killing of monkey is the
charge on which George Thompson
is under arrest at Bridgeport, Neb.,
and on which an attempt to extradite
him to Wyoming will be made.
Thompson is accused of having killed
with deliberation, generalization an
malice aforethought, one money own
ed by Frank Peterson, railroad
pumpman, employed near Guernsey,
Wyoming.
Shot by an unidentified hunter, who
mistook him fer an elk, Frank Jones,
a ditch rider Ola the Wind River res
ervation in Wyoming, with the bone
of his right upper arm shattered and
a chunk of flesh three inches in dame