Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-02-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

ases of Ia grippe.
Reports come from Eiko, Nevada, Of
number of cattle perishing from the
xtreme cold and deep snow in Glover
valley in Elko county.
! Seven men were convicted at Car
sen, New, Of selling whisky to Indians.
they were sentenced to serve sixty
! lays in the county jail and pay a fine
)f $100.
| Among the recent appointments to
postmaster2hip in Nevada Is the
name of Mrs. Laura Hoegh, appointed
by congress as custodian Of the mails
A. Eureka.
Kenneth Cameron, snowshoeing
near Milton, Ore. went too near the
edge of a rrecipice and slipping fell
over and wa buried beneath the snow,
which was twenty feet deep,
The snow is so deep on Mt. David
sen and oyerhangs the cliffs SO threat
eningly that several families have
moved out of their homes i'll Virginia
| City, New, to a more southerly loca-
| ton.
DR.. Frank j. Mckinley, supervising
agent of the Walker River Indian res
eryation in Nevada, has been removed
as agent and Instructed to report as
an assistant at an Indian reservation
In southern Arizona.
The Tonopah school of mines has
resumed work of the second semes.
ter The enrolment Is larger than
ever and it is expected that there will
be number of applicants come in
during the next few days
1t is reported that the sheep men
about Eureka are having a hard time
providing their fioeks With feed, The
sheep are in snow from one to two
feet deep with nothing but the tallest
black sage showing above the surface
for the sheep to browse on.
Since the Reno Commercial club
has moved into it's new quar- ers APP
p,ications for membership to the or
ganization have been pouring in and
The indications are that before the
first of March the enrolment will
have reached the 20 0mark.
The people OF Pleasant Valley and
Lamoile, Nevada are considerably
worked up over the rabies situation
that eXis in those two valleys and II
IS reported that the Pleasant Valley
school has baen closed on account OF
the prevalence OF the wild animals.
The annual report OF Secretary g..
d. Woifensparger, of the Nevada state
sheep ccami sion, for the year ending
November / 1918, places the to-. al
number of sheep bucks and goats in
tie state at 029.l4S There are L.,
O20, 539 shep, 8,246 bucks and 625 goats.
According to reports coming from
Hawthorne Nevada the continued
stormy weather has compelled S,ahl
brothers to shut down their mill at
Masonic for the present Thirty men
have been laid off at the mill, but the
mine Is Sill being operated, where
there are TWEEN y men at work.
Twenty head of deer were buried by
an avalanche In the mountains near
Viola. Wyo.. recently. Hunters, track
ing a herd Of Twenty-Five deer saw
the slide, which was about 1000 fee
in width, as it swept down upon the
animals. Nine Of the animals man
aged to escape, The hunters removed
three carcasses.
John +. Gillies, former claim agent
of the Washington state industrial
commission, was found guilty Of for.
gerry in the frs, degree. 1t was
charged that by means of forged
claims, upon which warrants were Is.
sued and cashed he collected over
$4,000 for fictitious injuries to per.
sons engaged in the industries of the
state.
The sale Of alcohol and other medi-
dal btoXicants to ships for their medi-
cine chests which federal regulations
require must be stocked with this
class of we goods, will be prohibit
ed as a result of the Interpretation
placed on the prohibition Law by the
conference of prosecuting attorneys
vt Olympia Wash.
A rabid coyote ran Roy Hanson
around the corral at Rebel Creek,
New, the other day, while he was at
ending to the mill. cows The boy
called for help and G. D. Hanson and
the boys father started to the rescue
with a gun and chased the brute
about two miles before they came up
to it. When cornered, it showed fight,
hut was quickly dispatched
West of the Mississippi river there
was an increase of 913,0S1 600 bushels
of grain in 1915 over 1914 and it re-
CURED $685. more railroad cars to
move the grain crop of the past year
than it did the crop of 1914 Bulle-
tins which have been issued by the
railroads of the west declare that II
there Is The same increase in the num-
Der OF cars needed in 1916 it will be
to move the crops prompt
ly.
Constable McMurtey of Elko, Ne
vada, has reported to the city officials
of that place that during the past