The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-10-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

interests and promoting the welfare
OF the entire town.
Arthur Raymond Wilson suicided al
hotel in Reno, taking carbolic acid
He left a 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 Crow
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 ''vesuvius 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 a 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, a Bull
garian laborer, was instantly killed
east of Cheyenne when he was struck
by ea0tbound 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 five 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 Woodville, Idaho,
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,
Union Pacific brakeman residing at
Laramie, is supposed to have been
Instantly killed when he fell from
freight train near Ramsey, Wyo. None
OF the train crew saw him fall and
his body was found by a 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 consummated recently
when the power companies of Idaho
we're combined under the name of the
Electric Investment company, several
Of the new cffcials 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-
hunting expedition in the mountains 7
Of the Jackson Hole country in Wy f
,ming. was found last week by search t
ing parties near the place where he r
had been camping with Dell B. Judd, d
1 guide. Ransom had been shot and
Oiled.
An apple sorter, that it is claimed
will do. the work successfully, has p
,een invented by Grin Boyer, of On Il
ario, Ore, and is being used by him
his fall in packing the apples for the !. :
amous Boyer orchard. The grader y
s designed on a new principle from
raiders which have heretofore been
nut on the market This sorter sorts :.
he apples by weight, rather than by -
ize and is proving successful. !,
Fifty dairy farmers at Lovelocks, /,
yev., organized themselves into a CO. q,
perative body three months ago and
Established a plant which is prcduc-
1g ton of butter from a ton and a
alt of cream a day, and the butter OF
not only bringing top prices at Reno d.
nd other points, but is demanded un- of
er contract by San Francisco COM Ell
ission men at cents more than l.
lie market price because of its c.
1ality.
President Wilson's prospective
ide, Mrs sGalt, is said to be direct We
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