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

suffered injuries which caused her
death brief period later.
Utah's wheat crop will be $4,000
bushels bigger this year than in 1914,
according to the monthly crop report
OF the United States department. of
agriculture
Dave Lindsay, a pioneer rancher of
Blko district, Nevada, died a few
days ago In San Francisco whittier he
had been taken for treatment, He
was aged 10 ytars.
Colonel Nicholas Treweek, one of
the oldest mining operators In Utah,
died November in New York from a
complication of diseases following an
operation for throat trouble.
Unable to arrive at verdict upon
the guilt or innocence of G. j, Smaile,
accused of statutory offense against
a 14-year-old orphan girl Of Sparks,
New, the jury was discharged.
The Humboldt river in Nevada Is
reported to be raising steadily and
the volume of water is believed to be
due to the many springs which were
opened by the recent earthquakes.
Even though not a single visitor
passes through the gates of the San
Diego exposition during the next
twelve months, ample funds have been
guaranteed to keep the fair open
throughout 1916.
Fifty foreign-born residents of Salt
Lake are now receiving instruction in
the common branches of learning and
| In civic government and patriotism al
| the night school department of the
| Salt Lake city schools.
The jury in the Willis Nicholson
case, in which Nicholson was &C
cused of the murder of John Hogan
in Elko county, Nevada, last summer,
brought in verdict of not guilty
after a two hours deliberation.
Henry Lloyd of the reclamation
service. who is in charge of surveys
along the North Platte river to To-
cate land which may be reclaimed by
pumping, states that between Casper,
Wyo., and Alcova there is $4,000 acres
of such land.
1t is understood that there are
about 600 turkeys in Churchill coun-
i ty, Nevada, awaiting shipment to the
near markets for Thanksgiving. In
view of the market conditions, it is
estimated that the .savory birds will
i net the raisers about $4,000.
j Sheepherders near Carlo lake, Ne
yada, came upon the body of man III
!, bed that had been made in the
open. The proper authorities were
notified and the body is believed to
be that of Camille Sanchez, ranch
hand who had lived in Lander county
for the past twelve or fifteen years.
/ That the late Thomas A. Cosgrif
president of the Hamilton Nationa
| bank of Denver, died interstate, ana
that he was a citizen and resident oil
Wyoming, despite the fact that he
| made his home in Denver, are state
i ments contained in petition filed in
j the Laramie county district court al
/ Cheyenne.
4 Hangman's tree, cottonwood oil
unusual size standing beside the old
emigrant trail near the Tolson rancl
in Churchill county, Nevada, caughi
fire last week, in an unknown man
ner and was partially destroyed. 1t Il
said that three horsethieves were
hanged on one of the limbs of tht
tree in the early days,
Walter Wiley died at Fort Collins
Colo, from wounds received when be
was struck by a charge OF bueksho
as he stepped from the porch at the
home of Miss Laura Street, his sweet
heart The police held Thomas Wat
ton, aged So, in connection with th(
shooting, because Of footprints founl
near the Street home
w. w. Mickelwait, well know
Twin Falls man, died at Tonopah
New, last week Mr. Mickelwait, hi
wife and two youngest children LEI
by automobile October for the expo
sitions in California and to spend th'
winter, in the hope of benefting Mrs
:. Mickelwait's health Three other fam
lilies accompanied them in autos.
Some drop" laconically remarked
B. Grosskopf as he scrambled out o
the North Platte river after haVint
fallen seventy seet from the new
Burlington bridge which is being con
structed at Guernsey, Wyo. Tel
minutes later, having changed hi
clothes, he was back at work at TN
point from which he had fallen.
Articles of incorporation have beel
fled in the secretary of states offic'
by the Lower California Jockey cluI
! with its principal place Of business il
, Carson City, Nevada. The compan
2 declares that it will carry on a gen
? eral racing, boxing wrestling and attn
/ letic business. 1t is incorporated 10
, one million dollars and the hacker
are all San Diego men.
! Twenty-four hours after he bough
: out" of the United States army, Ere
, Weaver, former corporal OF tn
! Twelfth cavalry, was in the count
Jail at Cheyenne, charged wit
4 having forced the name of tn