The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-08-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

car when it went over an embankment
near Lovelock, New, but all escaped
with slight bruises.
Roy Beebe has been arrested at Las
Vegas, New, on the charge of steal
ing a Ford automobile, and has con-
fessed, duplicating Floyd Rockwell.
The Uvada Copper company, operat.
ing at Jack Rabbit and Bristol, suf-
fsred two losses by fire last week. re-
sulting in the destruction of property
to the amount of nearly $4,000.
Henry (Tex) Henderson, proprietor
of saloon at Butte, and Frank
Wuorela, bartender in his employ,
were shot and instantly killed by
Jacob o. Hakala, a former policeman.
Grief over the death of her husband,
Charles Frederick SO, which occurred
five days previously, is the cause given
for the demise of Mrs. Augusta Fred
erick, aged 70, who died at Cheyenne.
The body of Jose Carrillos, a Next
can section hand on the Salt Lake
route was found hanging from raj
ter in the section house, near Las
Vegas, with every indication of sui
eide.
The coroner's jury at Sparks, New,
over the body of Treba Garnica, found
dead In a section bunk house, held
that he came to his death from gun
shot wounds at the hands of parties
unknown to the jury.
There is an epidemic among the
Elko, New, people, resembling mumps,
although physicians say that all the
symptoms of that disease are not pres
ent. Several young people are laid up
in bed from the effects Of the malady.
The body of man who was found
dying from the effects of fall down
stairs at the rear of saloon in Bill
lings, Mont, has been identified as
that Of Peter Kurtz, known to thou
sands of western old timers as "Chey-
enne Pete"
]. F. Grammer, who had been re-
fused new trial for murder at Win
nemucca, New, some time ago and !
who was taken from the death cell :
and placed with other prisoners, has
been returned to the death cell and a
death watch placed over him.
John Dorr, rs, an automobile me-
chanic of Colorado Springs, had both
legs blown off, both eyes put out and
his house wrecked, when a bomb ex-
ploded in his room. The explosion &C.
cured while Dorr was experimenting
with time bomb in a suit case.
Maurice Clement, partner of Larry
)'Neil in the Copper Canyon property,
n Eldorado canyon, near Las Vegas,
Nevada, left the camp in the absence
If his partner on July 7, and has not
,een seen since. A search is being
made for him, it being feared he has
Ierished.
Goodsprings was the recipient of a
Mighty cloudburst last week, which
ent a huge wall of water rolling down
he town to the east. Had the food
AIKEN slightly different course, 1t
yould have struck the town, and there
yould have been nothing left of the
inc-lead center.
Kleber Hadsell was the victim of q
havarari party at Rawlins. Hadsell
'as made captive, decorated with an
'regon boot borrowed from the state
enitentiary and chained to a pole in
ne center of the business district,
here he was visited and "kidded" by
lost of the citizens.
A perverted idea of fun" which in
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Vyo., to start twenty-one bridge :
tanks on voyage down the North $
latte river which may not end short /,
the Gulf of Mexico, will result in T
leir trial in the district court on :
large of felonious larceny.
How extensively automobiles have i
,me to be used by tourists is shown I
? statistics compiled during the re- +
INT frontier days celebration at +
heyenne. During the four days of r
. celebration automobiles from n
irty-one states passed through the v
ties of Frontier park. Four thou i,
nd and ffty-six machines, exclusive n
those engaged in the passenger Il
frying business between the city II
ID the park, carried 20,2S0 persons
to the grounds.
Larkspur, poisonous plant which M
rives near waterholes in eastern al
ah, has caused the death of consid- M
able cattle in that district, accord
: to report which has been re- CT
wed at the United States bureau OF b
imal industry. of
rhe attorney general Of California ma
5 rendered a decision declaring that Oh
eriff J. E. Stern Of Ormsby county,
vada, is entitled to the reward Of m
ed by California for the capture of m
} White, an escaped convict from te
q Quentin prison. m
rabid coyotes attacked herd of en-
'ep about 70 miles from Carson, Ne. CT
la, and when the herder interfered. pa