Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-02-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

A report compiled by the harbor
master shows that Seattle's export
trade to Vladiyostok In 1915 was So
S12S53 compared with $152,23l In
1914.
The police at Spokane seized 500
bottles OF beer, ten gallons of whiskey,
large amount of Chinese drinks and
ten cans of opium In a raid ON a Chi
nese lodging house.
Theodore Engelskien, IA years old,
was killed and six other children were
Injured when a bobsled upon which
they were coasting crashed into an
automobile at Seattle,
Two hundred and twenty-five chill
dren, believing they were practicing
Are drill, calmly marched to safety
from the schoolhouse at Ronald,
Washington, while the building
burned.
The electors Of Battle Mountain, Ne
vada, recently assembled and voted
unanimously on a proposal to bond
the school district for $4,000 in order
that new school building may be
erected there.
Seizure of liquor held In amounts In
excess Of two quarts of spirituons and
twelve quarts of malt liquors permit
ted by the state prohibition law has
been extended to raids on private res
licences In Seattle.
The business of farming will be dis
cussed at the Utah Agricultural col
lege in Logan, Utah, by 1000 or more
of the most prominent agriculturists
of the state foT two weeks, january
"a to February 7.
An unusually heavy snowfall took
place at Ely, New, Last week. About
ltwenty-four inches OF snow fell, and
| this exceeds all records since the es-
tabishment Of an official weather bu-
reau In this section.
George j. Dritchas has been held
| by Justice w. II. Edwards to answer
in the district court to the charge OF
killing Louis Ltaskos In the boarding
house conducted by Dritchas and 9TH
ers at Ely, Nevada.
Two miners were killed and the sur
face plant of the Gordon-Tiger mine
at Twin Lakes, Colo, was destroyed
| by snow-slide which tumbled six
thousand feet down Mount Ebert. All
the mine building were swept away.
A convention will be held March %
at Pocatello, Idaho, to consider ways
Of improving the highways from Salt
Lake to Yellowstone park II sugges-
ton made by the Salt Lake CONNER
cial club is adopted by the Idaho city.
Katherine Kelly, aged 10, and Gladys
Edgerly aged 8, were probably fatal
ly injured at Seattle when they were
thrown from their sled after coasting
down a steep hill and crashed into a
concrete wall. Both suffered frac.
lures of the skull
Fortynine informations fled In the
district court resulted in the arrest
charges following raids by Sheriff
OF thirteen Butte men on gambling
Charles Henderson and a force OK
twenty-five deputies ON alleged book
making establishments.
Bert and George Simpson, brothers,
are in jail at Red Lodge, Mont. In
connection with the murder OF Charles
Steiner, the bachelor rancher whose
frozen body was found week pre-
vious near his cabin twenty miles
southeast of Red Lodge.
1T is reported that thousands OF
quail rabbits and other small ami
mails have been found frozen to
death in the Carson, Nevada, district.
and that the severity of the winter
will bring about general scarcity OF
small game next season.
ellis, Nevada, which mas the reputa-
ton of being one of the dryest COM
munities in the state, received one
| foot OF snow In the recent storm This
| Is an unusual event as, for thirty
years, not more than four inches has
been seen on the ground at one time.
The citizens OF Carson, Nevada,
| uhV6 TeCeHliy given ihuSH tAOuSht w
the establishment of creamery at the
capital city. The businessmen's asso-
citation has recently taken the mat
ter under consideration and action on
the project is expected in the near
| future.
The board of county commissioners
has passed resolution requiring that
all dogs permitted at large within the
county and outside the corporate linn
its of the city Of lily, Nevada, be
muzzled, and directing the peace Off
GERS to destroy all such dogs found
without muzzles on or after Febru-
airy 7.
The charred remains of W. Maynard
were found In a hunters cabin four
miles from Carlin, Nevada. Officers
who were summoned to the scene be-
Iieve that the report that the man had
been murdered and the cabin burned
to cover up the crime is unfounded
and that he came to his death while
In drunken stupor.
The first Democratic candidates for
United States senator and representa-
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