The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-08-20
INLAND NORTHWEST

grants in Nevada will be completed
within few weeks.
Mountain lions are reported to be
killing stock in the mountains about
tifty miles from Tonopah.
Practically all OF the wool supply
Of Idaho, Nevada and Utah has been
shipped to the large woolbuyers In
the east who have offered as high as
thirty cents
The local officers are on a still
hunt for a horsethief who succeeded
In getting away with valuable ami
NAL belonging to a man named Cru
yer at Dayton. Nevada
The French bark Francois and the
Norwegian bark Norma, reported
sunk by German submarines, both
cleared from the Columbia river In
March with cargoes of wheat.
George Lecocq, aged 20, and his
sister, Helen, aged IA, were drowned
near Marshfield, Ore. George Lecocq
was teaching his sister to swim, when
they got into deep water and went
down.
Because they refused to recognize
the city form Of government or Tono-
pah, action has been instituted by the
city authorities against seven of the
business firms to compel them to pay
their city licenses.
In SO minutes and 30 seconds of
actual wrestling at Great Falls, Mont.
Henry Islinger won the light heavy
weight wrestling championship from
Joe Heinrichs, formerly of Spokane,
now of Great Falls.
Water was let in the spillway OF
the gigantic dam at the Big falls of
the Missouri river, fourteen miles
from Great Falls, Mont, on August
ii. The dam cost $5,000,000 to con.
struct, and has been building nearly
three years.
A landslide on the Denver &c Rio
Grande railroad about four miles
south of Grand JUNCTION, Colo, wreck
ed the special train of B. F. Bush,
president of the road. The engineer
was fatally hurt, but none of the
passengers were injured
| As the result Of hay fork slipping
from the stack in which 1t had been
left and prong piercing his eyeball,
James Cole was taken to Reno from
Goose Lake to receive medical at
tention. 1t Is possible the eyeball
maybe preserved, although he will
lose the sight of the eye.
Reports from Starr valley, Nevada,
stockmen are to the effect that nu-
merous head of sheep have been
killed OF late by the invasion of black
bears. The bruins have been seen
by the ranchers but have not been
killed as yet and plans are on foot
for systematic hunt to be made this
| fall.
| A coyote was killed on ranch in
Nevada last week, after having bit
ten four dogs, killed number of
chickens and attacking two employees
on the premises. In the pursuit that
followed the animal took refuge un-
der some of the beds in the work
mems bunk house and was finally
killed.
In response to his urgent telegram
appealing for the purchase of silver
by the director of the mint. Senator
Pittman of Nevada has received a
message from Washington that Direc-
tor Wooley agrees with Senator Pitt
man as to the policy expressed and
VIII Immediately commence the pur-
chase of silver.
AS the result of a poker game on
the Morgan Hill ranch, north of Hal
lack, Nevada, Charles Timmons and
Garnett Shirley were severely cut
during brawl. Timmons was said
TO have been drinking and when Shir-
icy struck him with his fist, the form
or drew a pocket knife and began
slashing furiously.
According to figures compiled as
the result of an investigation of the
records at the Nevada penitentiarv
during the past eighteen months
there have been admitted to the insti-
tuition l57 'conyicts. OF this number
90 We're foreigners, the remaining
number being American born. Six
OF the 80 were natives of Nevada.
Title to $4,000 acres of land valued
at more than $1.O0O,00O, comprising
odd-numbered sections In the Spokane
indian reservation, has been decided
Ia favor of the Indians and white
settlers, who had obtained govern
ment patents to the land in the fed
inent patents to the land. The North
ern Pacific railway was the plaintiff
In the suit
Jose Salgodo has been convicted
and sentenced to be executed for the
wilful murder of Bessie Andy, an In
dian woman of Elko. According to the
evidence brought out in the trial. the
Mexican stepped out from an alley at
Eiko and without any provocation cut
the woman's throat from ear to ear.
Although the officers have made an
exhaustive search for the whereabouts
OF Clayton J. Pohle. who disappeared
from Reno last week, there has been
no trace of his whareahnuts rho r;na~