The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-04-28
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! A winustorm blew down power lines
near Oasis, Nevada. The STORM was
one of the heaviest downpours expert
enced in the vicinity and it was accom-
panied by heavy winds.
George n. Pugh, brakeman on the
Southern Pacific railroad, was killed
near Roseburg, Ore, when he was
caught between two cars of freight
train and was crushed to death.
Compulsory interchange of service
between the Pacific Telegraph & Tele,
phone company in Portland is
the chief object sought in the case
brought by several business organiza-
tions.
A gavel made of timber taken from
the 2500-foot level of one of the Com
stock mines was presented to J. Put
nam Stevens, imperial potentate of the
Mystic Shrine, during his recent visit
in Reno and vicinity.
A woman believed to be Mrs. Sarah
Foss1er of Spokane, Wash, died at a
hospital in Portland, Ore, after having
been taken unconscious from a room
in hotel two days previous, appar-
emily suffering from pois oning.
For the first time In many years
there were no cases before the ElkO
grand jury at it's recent meeting.
There have been number or felony
cases since the last meeting of the
board but in each case the district at
torney has secured plea of guilty.
From the piling camp of Henry Hall
at Onaiaska Wash, last week was
shipped a flag pole, 16J feet long and
which measures 80 inches in diameter
at the base and eight inches at the
top. 1t is consigned to a concern in
New York, where it will be located.
Bullet wounds inflicted early in De
cember, at which time Giovanni Mar
carroll, Italian, is alleged to have en-
tered the cabin of Mrs. Erina Pucetti
in Floriston, shooting her in the back
and her husband through the heart,
resulted in her death last week in
Reno hospital.
The Nevada railroad commissioners
have gone to Washington to be pres
ent at the hearing of the intermoun-
tain rate case. In five years the COM
mission has secured a reduction of 70
per cent in the back haul charges and
the case has been reopened to attempt
to secure further reductions.
Albert Hiram Pratt, familiar fig.
ure in the days of old, the days of
gold, the days of 49," when he drove
stage lines in northeastern California
and western Nevada, checked in for
the last drive last week when the grim
reaper took him as a passenger on the
stage to eternity, says the Reno Jour
nal.
Governor Boyle recently announced
that it was the intention of the Ne
Yada prison board to enter the dairy
business on an extensive scale. The
prison board is now in me market for
model herd of Holstein cows and it
is thought that in about a month there
will be a herd Of fancy stock at the
farm.
Steps were taken at Cheyenne last
week by counsel for the Great Dome
Oil company to appeal from the deci-
sion of the United States district court
for Wyoming ousting the company
from 600 acres of oil land in the Grass
Creek district of Wyoming. represent
ed to be worth 100000 and held by
w. l.. Valentine of California prior to
lease secured by the company.
A caterpillar tractor is working in
two shifts breaking land in Mason
valley, in Nevada. 1t recently estab-
lished a record for that section by
blowing eight acres in three hours, in
GLIDING the time to move it from
place to place. This tractor averages
ten acres a day.
The offenses of the ninetv-three
prisoners at the Nevada state peni.
tent airy who are now seeking
pardon are as follows: Twenty-Five,
grand larceny; twelve, murder; TWEEN
ty-one, embezzlement and false pre-
tense, four. rape; five, robbery. and
other oftenses, fifteen.
Sam Bachman, wanted in Elko on a
charge of horse stealing, has been
brought back from iowa. Bachman has
oeen indicted on two counts by the
grand jury and the court has fixed
the bail at $4,000 in each case. Ac-
Sording to the sheriff he secured eigh.
teen head of stolen horses.
An omnibus telegram in six install.
ments and signed by men representing
more than one billion dollars in fnan.
,lal strength has been sent from Port
ana to the Oregon delegation in con-
Sress, urging their vigorous support
ot the Hawley and Lane bills for the |
establishment of naval base of the |
lrst class at or near the mouth of the
Columbia river.
Efforts by Portland druggists n
'neck the drinking of alcohol nearly
resulted fatally in two cases last week
"hen men who made affidavits that
.hey wanted alcohol for external psa
MY were served with the dena.ured
product In both cases the victims
we're round insensible OIL the street
.Sar the place where Il e drug had