The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-04
INLAND NORTHWEST

- ~ ehDoe pioHllHeHL IN the Iunu- |
raising campaign.
The United States forest service
has arranged for meeting of rang
ers Of several of the larger forest re-
serves Of Nevada, to be held at Elko
from February to II.
The house of Charles Smart at
Lake Stevens, Wash, was destroyed
by fire and three small children we're
burned to death. The explosion OF an
oil lamp caused the fire.
A coyote afflicted with what has
been pronounced the worst kind of ra-
bies, was killed by Barney Wiley on
the Anker ranch in the lower end of
Lovelock valley, in Nevada
Jews in Reno are taking steps to
aid the starving Jews in Poland,
whose homes have been destroyed
and whose means of livelihood put be-
yond their reach by the rayages of
war
Despite the fact that the recent
storms throughout the stare of Ne
vada have been the heaviest for TWEEN
ty-iye years there is no report of the
cattlemen of the state suffering any
serious losses.
Thirty patients at st. Joseph's hos
pital, Denver, driven from their quar-.
tiers late at night by a fire which, for
| a time, threatened to destroy a wing
Of the building, are reported recover
! ing from the effects of their expert
ence.
Ye Sling, an aged Chinaman, was
brutally murdered at Carlin, Nevada.
The officers are of the opinion that
the murder was committed by white
men who were employed in the ice
fields at Carlin and that robbery was
the motive.
The state supreme court has grant
ed the prayer of w. w. Booth of the
Tonopah Bonanza for writ of habeas
corpus and released the convicted ed
itor on $1,000 bail pending the final
outcome of Mr. Booths plea when the
writ is returnable
E. C. Herlow, a real estate broker
of Portland, and formerly of Los An.
geles, was committed to the Oregon
state prison last week, marking the
end of fight for delay of more than
a year following his conviction on 9
charge of fraud.
A movement has gained consider
able Roadway in the southern part Of
Nevada for the establishment of {
state highway running from Reno L
Las Vegas through Tonopah, Gold
field and other southern towns along
the route marked out.
Sam Murphy, the Washoe Indial
who several weeks ago killed youni
Piute squaw named Daisy, at Reno, b.
stabbing her in the breast, neck ant
face, has entered a plea of guilty t
charge of manslaughter and vii
serve a term in the state prison.
Samuel Plat, who two years agC
was defeated for the United State
senate by Senator Francis G. New
lands by only forty votes, last weel
made the formal announcement of hi
candidacy for the Republican nomina
ton for the same office this year.
The body of Hayden Dean. a mine
who left Galice, Ore, for his cabin il
the mountains during snowstorn
January Z, was found Monday nigh
by a searching party. Dean had lef
his pack on the trail when exhausted
and collapsed several hundred yard
away.
Ewart Sue, the Indian who attempt
ed suicide at Winnemucca, New, is re
ported as resting easily at the count
: hospital. Sue placed the end of
shotgun barrel in his mouth and sho
away the fieshy part of one side of hi
face. but unless infection sets in it
said he will recover.
Walter Belk, detective during tn
recent coal miners strike, was foun
not guilty by jury at Trinidad, Colo
Of the murder of Gerald Lippiatt, a
organizer for the United Mine Work
ers of America. Lippiatt was she
and killed August 16. 1913. The jur
was out but fourteen minutes.
Under the proposed new rates b
the railroads, the Wyoming mine
will be able TO lay down coal in Pa
cifc coast ports at 81 ton to tn
dealers and this will retail at fror
SO to $40 ton for domestic use. Tn
Australian lump coal for domesti
purposes brings from $40 to s12
ton.
The charred remains of w. Maynar
we're found in hunters cabin fou
miles from Carlin. Nevada. Officer
who were summoned to the scene bt
lieye that the report that the man ha
been murdered and the cabin burne
to cover up the crime is unfounde
and that he came to his death Will
IN a drunken stupor.
1t is reported that thousands Q
quail. rabbits and other small an
mails have been found frozen I
death in the Carson, Nevada, distric
and that the severity of the white
will bring about general scarcity G