Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-11-27
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AN oiu tIuHh, plCheu up III tHo
lamette river at the foot of Elan
street, at Portland, when opened
yealed the dead body of man
had been stripped Of his clothes.
body has not been identified.
Twenty thousand square miles
Wyoming, the biologists assert, Il
character indicating the presenc
OIL Less than one-tenth of this
Is embraced in the districts In wi
scientific prospecting has been dos
The Seattle police are looking
William Busky, who affixed his cr'
to an affidavit to the effect that
was with Joseph Hillstrom from 2
10 o'clock on the afternoon of Jas
airy 10, 1914, when the Morrison M
der took place in Salt Lake.
The board of health of Sparks, N
vada, held meeting last week Il
the purpose of discussing the sanitai
conditions of the city. Fourteen res
dences were reported to be in an
sanitary condition and the owne
were ordered to clean them up.
Carl SteinmetZ, who was supposl
to be insane, was placed in Jail
Winnemucca, New. The man jump
from the second story window of
Lovelock hotel. He was only Sigh
injured and gave the officers I'D
battle before he was recaptured.
Frank Rupp, a mill man,
crushed to death last week in the
Sagle mill at Manhattan, New.
one witnessed the tragedy, but
presumed his coat caught In the
ing where he was drawn into
shafting and his body was fright
mangled.
The tearing down of the build
at the Butte race track and the
ting up of the property into bull
lots mark the passing Of one of
most historic race tracks Of the
The track was built by Marcus
nineteen years ago at cost
$4,000.
Dennis Murphy of Tonopah,
had been making an extended visit t.
his birthplace In Ireland, was recent
ly killed there by being run dow
while riding a bicycle. The point o
a buggy shaft penetrated his stom
ach, causing death a short time ate
the accident.
At the conclusion of continued In
vestigation into the sudden, death a
Palms, near Los Angeles, of w. j
Guthrie, wealthy mining operator
formerly of Butte, Mont, the authori
ties said they were satisfied that
theory of foul play, tentatively ad
vanced, could not be supported.
The Chinaman who was murdered
at the Mcintyre ranch near Halleck
Nevada, ON the evening of Novembe
9Th, left an estate valued at seyera
hundred dollars, consisting OF none.
in the First National Bank of Elko
besides a stock of goods carried b,
himself for sale to the cowboys.
The Winterwood ranch property Ii
Clark county, Nevada, owned by Johl
G. Winters and John M. Prophet 0
New York, has been purchased by L
Lindsey and his associates of Los An
geles. The deal is said to include 4,
$50 acres, one section of the origina
purchase having been sold to Japan
ese.
The pupils of the Dressli school, ,
short distance from Elko, recent!
killed a coyote with clubs in front O
the school house. A pet dog and thu
coyote were engaged in fight in thu
school yard which attracted the at
tention of the pupils, who charged thu
coyote with clubs and finally succeed
ed in beating 1t to death.
Although Ogden and Salt Lake off
GERS are reasonably certain that ]. II
Ripley, a prosperous cattleman of sgd
ney, Mont, has been saved the los
of $4,000, they are still on the look
out for members of a gang OF swim
dlers who are believed to have inter
ested the Montana man in fax
horse race game few days ago.
Major James Ormsby is completin,
the installation of wireless telegraph
plants at his home at Casper, Wyo.
and at his ranch, fifty miles to thu
northeast and when the system Is il
operation he will direct his larg'
sheep business by wireless. The TIVE
plants are of sufficient power to re
ceive messages from points up to TO-
miles distant.
Probably the most earnestly pa
triotic man In Wyoming is George L
Durbin, II years of age, a bailin IL
the United States district court a
Cheyenne, who gets about with the as
sistance of two cork legs. He is th'
first Cheyenne man, SO far as has beer
made public, who has taken out mem
bership In the National Defense
league, the headquarters of which arr
at Washington, D. G.
The body of a man was found re
Gently In the Carlin, New, railroad
yards and from all appearances he me
his death while stealing q ride on ONT