The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-10-27
INLAND NORTHWEST

a C. Furlong, 81 years old, brake
man, fell OF moving Southern Pa
cific freight train between Sparks
and Wadsworth, Nevada, and was
killed.
J. Percy Rhine, 81 years of age, a
freight brakeman for the Southern
Pacific company, was shot and in
stantly killed by an Italian at Carlin,
Nevada.
The editors Of the Goldfield Tribune
and the Tonopah Bonanza and Times
have decided the Ritchie-M Mccarthy
fight, which took place in Goldfield.
in favor of Johnny Mccarthy.
Johnny Dawson. years old, and
Olive Dawson, aged >, children of Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Dawson Of Stevens
vile, Mont, were burned to death in
fire which destroyed their ranch home.
Evidence that men engaged in the
illegal distribution OF liquor are pos
ing as officers of the law in an effort
to prevent coniscation Of shipments
in transit, was uncovered at Seattle.
One Of the largest consignments of
stock that has been received in Love-
lock, Nevada. for some time came in
last week when II cars were unload
ed to be fed and fattened in the val
ley.
Fire, the origin OF which is I'M
known, completely destroyed one of
the barns at the University of Ne
vada experiment station farm at Reno.
Two work horses were cremated in
the blaze.
The Utah field hospital. under com
mand Of Mai. John Sharp, which has
been in service on the Mexican border
at Nogales. Ariz., since last July, ex-
poets TO receive orders to entrain for
Salt Lake at any moment.
Allen Wilson, miner, attempted to
shoot E. K Given, proprietor of
hotel at Reno last week The bullet
barely missed Given and crashed
through large mirror. burying itself
in the wall. Wilson is in jail
Plans for the construction OF a ser
les Of dams on the Rio Virgin river
in Washington county designed to re-
claim $4,000 acres OF some OF the
choicest land in Utah. are being
rushed. It is figured that $4,000 will
be spent on the project.
Salt Lake county. Utah, holds the
record in proportion to its wealth and
population for having the smallest
bonded Indebtedness of any county in
the United States considering the
number of Improvements which have
been made during the past twenty
years
Edward Ways was shot and killed
at the home of Charles Hcbbe. u
miles from Klamath Falls, Ore. Hobbe
said he had killed Ways after Ways
had attempted to force his attentions
On Mrs. Hobbe and had threatened
her with injury in case she told her
husband
Jacob Vanicek, an 1s-year-old boy
who was sent to the state Industrial
school after destroying railroad block
signals in Elko county. and who re-
Gently escaped from the school. has
been apprehended at the home of his
parents in New Jersey and returned
to Nevada.
A shipment Of $3.50 pounds of sack
ed copper ore from property about
twenty miles north OF Reno. sent to
the Western Ore Purchasing company.
returned a net yield of s1s1.92. The
company paid 26,675 cents a pound
for the copper. The net value per
ton was S5S77.
w. NJ. Williams. who is employed at
the Extension mine. Tonopah, has in
vented a drill bit puller which he be-
lieves VIII prove big labor and time
saver. The drill puller. which weighs
about y pounds, has been tried out in
the Extension and has made good all
the claims made for it.
Salt Lake is richer by at least $780,
600 as the result of tourist travel this
season. But at that. according TO esti-
mates of railroad and hotel men, it
was one of the poorest seasons in
ten years. due largely to the travel
occasioned by the expositions of 1915
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last month.
An imaginary flock of ducks soar
ing over the City and County build
ing at Salt Lake caused Thomas
Plant, iaborer, to go after the birds
with a shot gun. Using the hedge
fence as blind, Plant terrorized the
vicinity by popping away into the air
with both barrels for fifteen min
utes, until he was arrested.
From EIko, Nevada. comes the re-
port of one of the largest business
deals consummated in many years
Rosebury and Daels, controlling some
100 quicksilver claims. FIVE miles
south of Willow creek dam, have sold
a half interest in their holdings to
eastern capitalists for sum said to
be approximately S2.000,O0O.
When William Ahlskcg, a young
raneher near iMarshfield. Ore, reach
ed nm to take his rife off the wall of