Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-03-04
NORTHWEST NOTES


Orson Bennion reports that during
the recent storm in the Red desert,
In Wyoming, he and his brother ROW.
land lost $50 head of sheep as the re-
suit of a stampede.
Katherine Marie Starkey, two-year-
old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. W.
Starkey at Fish lake, near Tonopah,
was smothered to death when hay
stack toppled over on her.
Judge Averill of Tonopah will pre-
side at a trial in civil suit next
month at which 1t Is thought that the
greater part, If not the entire jury,
will be composed of women.
Crazed by strong drink, respondent
because he was out of work and with
out friends, Mike Moran, coal miner,
tried to commit suicide at Kemmerer
by slashing his throat with the blade
of a safety razor.
Charles Place and Kenneth McEw-
ing. drug thieves, were sentenced in
the district court at AEly New, to
serve a term of not less than one nor
more than three years in Athe state
prison at Carson City.
]. R. Brown of Payette, Idaho, won
first prize as the best butter maker at
the Northwest Dairy Products show
at Spokane. The Oregon Agricul-
tural college was declared the winner
of the students butter Judging con-
test.
Nick Coleff was instantly killed by
a rock falling from the roof OF the
stope of the Ruth mine, near Ely,
New The coroner's jury found that
the accident was one which by the
greatest caution could not have been
foreseen.
The highest price ever paid for
breeding ewes In central Wyoming,
$905 per head, was paid at Casper,
Wyo., last week to Mike Mahoney for
5000 head, the deal involving $27,150.
Mahoney, few minutes earlier, had
bought the band for SO per head.
S. r. Mcneil who was indicted re-
Gently by the grand jury at Ely, New,
on charge of issuing a worthless
check, withdrew his plea and entered |
a plea of guilty. Mcneil, who is |
young man, claims to have issued the |
check while under the influence of |
liquor
The beginning of construction work |
IN the new sugar factory of the Ore
gon-Utah Sugar company at Grants |
Pass, Ore, last week was attended by
| big and enthusiastic demonstration
On the part of the residents of the vi
entity, headed by the Grants Pass
Commercial club.
AS a measure toward greater eff
lfciency among employees of the Union
Pacific Railroad company Superin-
tendent S. R. Touchey of the Wyo-
ming division has issued an order to
all employees to consult the company's |
physicians when they are sick or sus-
tain injuries, however slight.
viii Reid, register, and Luke Voos-
hees, receiver of the Cheyenne land |
office, have writen to Senator Henry |
L. Myers, chairman of the senate pub
ic lands committee, letter indoors |
ng the 640-aere homestead bill now
xxrhi ah 10
meeting with strong opposition.
Louis d. Bercu of Douglas, Wyo.,
Las taken contract for an eastern
lrm, understood to represent Euro
,ean belligerent, for 100000 sheep
,elts and 100000 beef hides. The con-
Mct is said to be the largest of its
character ever placed in the United
States.
Because the European war has re-
suited in scarcity of aniline, which
Is used in the manufacture Of indel-
lble pencils, the Union Pacific Rail
road company has issued an order to
its employees to use such pencils only
III Wolh III WhiSh lhCi uoO pRpNlhSui
ly is provided for by the rules.
Cattle scabbies has spread to wild
elk in northwestern Wyoming and
fully 10000 elk now are suffering from
the disease, reports State Veterinar
ian French, who has returned from a
trip into the Jackson Hole region
made in response to report that elk
there were dying from a mysterious
malady.
The first wool deal made in Ma
trona county, Wyoming, this year In
dicates that Wyoming fiockmasters
will receive record prices for their
1916 clip. Eugene McCarty has pur-
chased the clip Of Jere Sullivan and
John Beaton for 20 cents per pound |
This clip will total about 100000
pounds.
Taken to the police station at Salt
Lake on suspicion that he was the
youth who held up and robbed thirty |
on the eastbound Oregon
Washington Limited Union Pacific
rain about two miles west OF Rock |
Springs, Wyo.. February 8, Arthur
Palmer, aged 10, was released after
le had been questioned for more than
hree hours.