Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-10-23
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nor more than ten years III the state
penitentiary at Carson City.
Greater facilities for handling the
parcel post business will be added to
the Salt Lake postofiee as q result
OF the inspection of the federal build
Ing by Secretary William &. McAdoo.
Indictments have been returned by
the grand jury against w. B. Slaughter
and Coney c.. Slaughter, former presi-
dent and cashier, respectively, OF the
closed Mercantile National bank OF
Pueblo.
TO provide a place of resort after
the prohibition law goes into effect
January l next, for laboring men who
now gather in saloons, the city of
Portland has leased a four.story build.
Ing and will fit 1t up at one
In order to stimulate the efforts of
the volunteer department, the Elko
commissioners have passed an order
awarding a prize OF SIS to the first
company OF Elko that gets water ON
q blaze and $40 to the second com
pany.
Word has reached friends In Reno
of the death of George kristzer, who
for many years vas a resident of
Reno, which occurred In San Rafael,
Cal. Mr.. Kritzer vas one of the Ne
yada pioneers, who maze and lost
many fortunes.
Fire, said TO have started from a
minor explosion while a locomotive
was being fired up at Greybull, Wyo.,
destroyed the Chicago, Burlington d
Quincy railroad roundhouse and the
machine shops adjoining, The loss is
estimated al $4,000.
The Oregon highway commission
has adopted resolutions that $50, 900
be set aside for the completion OF the
highway between Hood River and Mo.
sier, provided that Wasco county vote
bonds and construct a highway from
Mosier to Fairbanks.
At a meeting of the Spearhead
company IN Goldfeld, Nevada, 1t was
decided to resume work on the prop
erty on company account. 1t Is esti.
mated that 1t will require about a
week or ten days to get the shaft and
top works into shape.
j. G. Roberts, for several years rep
resentative at Denver of the United
States bureau of mines, has resigned
to become the first professor of the
DR.. Joseph A, Holmes chair of safety
engineering at the Colorado State
School of Mines at Golden.
The auditor of Humboldt county,
Nevada, has been advised by the sec
rotary of the state tax commission
that the increase made In Humboldt
county lands by the state board OF
equalization does not include lands OF
the Southern Pacific company.
The national convention OF the Wo.
mems Christian Temperance union, In
session at Seattle, refused to change
the annual meeting time from the
closing three months of the year to
spring, by defeating a constitutional
amendment making the proposed
change. F..
His right elbow shattered when he
was thrown from an overturning auto
mobile, Charles Hufield of Riverton,
Wyo., did not realize that he had been
hurt until after he had used the in.
Jured arm in rescuing three com,
panions who were pinned under the
machine.
Sheriff Slavin Of Tonopah still has
a posse on the trail OF Santucci, the
bartender who shot Mcfarland and
Chase at Manhattan last week, but
on account of the lapse OF time since
the shooting ARRAY, 1t is considered
that the chances Of capturing the gun.
mar are slight.
William Bramson, aged 20, was held
on a charge Of murder and Mrs. VIII
liam Booth, aged 30, al an accessory
following a preliminary hearing at
Williamina, Ore. OF charges growing
out OF the Staying of William Booth,
the Woman's former husband, aged
81, who was found shot to death near
his home.
Governor Alexander has issued a
quarantine proclamation, prohibiting
importation of livestock from all
states in the union into Idaho, ex.
cepting from Utah, Washington, Ore
gon, California, Nevada, Wyoming,
Arizona and New Mexico. Its purpose
is to prevent foot and mouth disease
being imported into Idaho.
Mrs. John Peterson, aged 36, Ia
dead at Superior, hyo., and Mrs.
John Isaacson and baby are In seri.
GUS condition as the result of the ex.
plosion of gasoline with which the wo.
were cleaning clothing. One OF
the women placed a pan of gasoline
on Or near a heated stove and a few
minutes later the explosion occurred,
the three occupants of the
with blazing fluid.
Ray Bradley, a seal clerk at Las
me- with an accident In the
yards at that place which
resulted In his death. Falling between
two cars he was caught by the truck
and dragged some distance. One leg
was almost severed from the body, and