The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-25
INLAND NORTHWEST

ara mar q new bank is to be started
Mt that place.
In a recent blizzard near Clover
Valley. near Wells, Nevada, 200 neau
of cattle suffocated and froze 70 deatn
In the snow.
At a meeting of the board OF county
commissioners held at Ely, NeVaua'
was decided to procure, If possible, q
carload of elk for White Pine county
According to statistics compiled IN
! the office of the county clerk, l'1!V
/ coyotes have been killed in Lincoln
county, wyoming, by hunters anu
ranchmen since last July.
| Mrs. Dan Leedy Of Lew1stown'
| Mont, is in Salt Lake hospital, VIC
| lently Ill from ptomaine poisoning con
tracted when she ate a small guam
tity of canned asparagus.
One man was killed instantly anu
another probably fatally injured wnen
a Northern Pacific passenger train
struck an automobile on the Main
street crossing at Sumner, Ore.
So thoroughly has the muzzling Or
dinanoe been observed in Tonopah
that but one stray dog was captured
by the poundmaster when he pegan
a search of the city for homeless
dogs.
Special Indian Agent Asbury and his
assistant, j. POLAND, and James b.
Royce of Carson, are perfecting plans
for the introduction OF pre-vocational
and vocational work in the Indian
schools in Nevada.
Nine hundred and eighty-three
scalps were turned into the officials
of Nye county, Nevada, during the
past year. Fifty cents per scalp was
paid. But one mountain lion was
killed during the year.
Dean Scrugham, of the engineering
college of the University of Nevada,
is endeavoring to establish series
of wireless telegraphy stations be-
tween the university and various high
schools throughout the state.
On Janaury 1, 1916, there were 5,453
contracts for the purchase of state
lands in force in Nevada, embracing
1,062,548.2 acres, representing prin-
cipal of $1,O63, 1898, on which the
annual interest amounts to S63,791.07.
Advices from the Ely district are
that feud of long standing between
paroled state prisoners R. "Slats"
Rutherford and William Sawtell ended
in the death of the latter as the result
of a revolver duel in one of the Ely
saloons.
Young Sioux, the Indian who at
tempted to commit suicide in Hum
boldt count, Nevada, by shooting him
self in the face with shotgun, is re-
ported to be about well. His face is
badly SCARED, and part of his jaw
Is gone.
According to the reports published
in the Tonopah papers the mercury
tell at Millet in the Smoky valley,
during the recent cold spell, to 80 be-
low zero and that several Indians in
the valley had suffered frozen hands
and feet.
In regular meeting at Fallon, Ne
vada, the county commissioners or
dered the old court house and grounds
in Saltwater advertised for sale, the
county reserving the ground upon
which the old vault stands for a
branch county Jail.
DIR. Rufus H. Smith retired physic-
ian and capitalist, was taken suddenly
OF OF a
hospital two hours later. He was IS
years old, had lived in Seattle since
1889, and his fortune is estimated at
several million dollars.
George Crowell, driver of a stage
between Austin and Potts, Nevada
says that drove of jack rabbits, re-
sembling a drove of sheep, held up
his stage. Crowell says that there
were so many of them that it was i'm.
possible to drive through.
More than eighteen hundred dele
gates were present at the opening at
Portland of the laymens missionary
convention, one of seventy-five SINH
lar meetings now being held through,
out the United States for the purpose
of stimulating interest IN home and
foreign missions.
The body of an unidentified man
was discovered floating in the Port
neuf river near Pocatello, Idaho
The discovery was made by a little
girl who was picking pussy-willows
along the bank of the stream. The
child called to her mother, who made
a wire hook and anchored the BODY
to the bank pending the arrival of the
authorities
Carlin, Nevada, is coming to the
front in the line of unenviable noto,
riety. as the following three weeks
record would indicate: A murder
'rson and grand larceny case. Two
lays later murder and robbery case
was added to the list, as was a case
of assault upon a woman, a rape
case, crime against nature robbery
hold-up and forgery cases.
During the year 1915. 16s applica.
tions for the purchase of 1871 81
acres of land were filed in the state