Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-11-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Six persons sustained painful but
not serious injuries at Portland when
trolley car became uncomfortable
and after a dash of dozen blocks,
collided with two other cars at q
curve.
Joseph Anderson, miner aged AZ
years, was killed in a cavein at Buck
horn, Nevada, last week. Anderson
had worked in the mine but fifteen
days when he met with the tragic
accident.
Ira Packard, aged 81, was found
dead with his head submerged In q
puddle Of water, at Reno. He had
fallen over a seyen-foot embankment
and had evidently struck his head on
q rock,
Laramie county, of, which Cheyenne
is the county seat, is still the wealth.
lest in the state of Wyoming, its as
sessed valuation being 1913, 3,427.S1.
In the past two years its taxable
wealth has increased s94S,951.S3.
C. w. Brady, who recently was ar
rested for passing a fictitious check
on a Reno hotel, was sentenced to
from one to ten years in the peniten-
tiary Sentence, however, was sus-
pended and the man was allowed to
go free.
A man giving the name OF G.
Lopez and his place OF residence as
Providence, Rhode Island who was
trespassng on the railroad tracks in
Sparks, lost both feet when he fell
off the blind baggage under the
wheels of the train.
Two masked men robbed the First
State bank of Clear Lake, Wash.
after locking Cashier H. V. Guernsey
in the vault. The robbers took $500
in silver but overlooked twelve hun
dred dollars in gold and currency ly-
ing on the cashiers table.
Virginia City, New, experienced the
first freezing weather of the season
last week. the mercury dropping
there to Is above zero. Many water
pipes in the city were frozen and 1t
is reported that a number of reduc-
ton plants were put out of commits
sion until the pipes could be thawed
out
1t is reported that the sheepmen
have bought up all the hay that Is
available in the Carson valley, in
Nevada. The hay crop in that section
was enormous last season and for a
time it was feared there would be no
market, but the sheepmen, In antici-
patton of hard winter, were eager
buyers.
For the fourth time since last July,
the sheriff of Elko county, Nevada,
has been called upon to investigate a
murder The crime occurred at the
Mcintyre ranch, about four miles
from Halleck, where Wah Gin, one
Of the best known Chinese In the
county, was slashed to death by un-
known parties.
Wyoming's taxable wealth has in
creased more than $16000,000. The
past year shows an increase of 49,
573,245. The present assessed valua-
tion of property in the state Is $21O,-
GIT 963.19, which is approximately
$1,000 per capita. The increase dur
ing the past two years has exceeded
$149 per capita,
AS an aftermath of the recent me-
lee which took place in the Dunbar
club, a society OF colored men OF
Tonopah, New, Dewitt Morris was
bound over to the grand jury on q
charge of assault with a deadly wea-
pom, it being alleged that he shot his
brother, Schuyler Morris, in the leg
during the heat of excitement,
AS a passenger train was speeding
through Montello, Nevada, Mrs. Jo-
seph ID. Redding, wife of a California
attorney, dropped a bag containing
$4,000 worth of diamonds and rubies.
She notified an officer who later found
the gems in the possession of some
Indian women, who had found them,
and were ignorant of their value.
According to the report of the state
tax commission there are 586,673 head
of cattle in the state of Wyoming,
their value being $18,170,9S2; H,311
swine, valued at $221, 692; 2,763,SS6
sheep, valued at SO $50, 45050; 1887
horses, valued at $6,946,715, and 1855
mules and asses valued at $191 800.
There also are reported $50 burros,
valued at $1,750, and S31 goats, val
ued at 1924.
Land assessed in the state of Wyom-
ing follows: Five hundred and eight
thousand, one hundred and forty
seven acres of cultivated irrigated
land, valued at 13,50S, 44755; 584,6SO
acres of uncultivated irrigated land,
valued at $6,962O60.0S; 75S,892 acres
of dry farming land, valued at $5,O23,-
800; S,540,195 acres of grazing land,
valued at $24, 529.672.07; 57157 acres
of coal land, valued at $99O,751; 49,
389 acres of timber land, valued at
$324,053; 34,278 acres of mineral
land, valued at $462, 112.47; $3.50 acres
of oil land, valued at $57,590.
Herbert M. Hawkins, a mining man
of Genoa, New, who went into the