Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-01-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

| been commenced Dy TIE pO'lu va
gents of the University OF Nevada.
Sam Murphy. the Washoe lndian
who has admitted o the Staying OF
Daisy Ton, the Piute squaW whom n"
killed at Reno du g drinking rest
will be sentenced in the near future
A calcining plant for the reduction
of alunite and alum to sulphate Oh
potash will be constructed al uoiu
field within the next ninety days 81
as to be ready for operation py
March l.
Fourteen Chinese who left Fancou'
yer, B. c., in launch, and VINO sue
cessfully eluded three coast guard pa
troll boats, were captured by lmmlgra-
ton inspectors soon after they landed
at Seattle.
That Tuscarora is about to enter
period of mining activity, equaled only
by her palmy days when She gave 10
the world millions of dollars from her
treasure vaults, now seems a certain
ty, says the Elko Free Press.
Four buxom squaws, all OF Piute
tribal affiliations, received an inter-
esting lecture on temperance when
arraigned at Reno. The Indian maids
had been arrested and all were booked
ON the charge of drunkenness.
Twenty district attorneys from var
S1Inm
last week in conference with Attor'
ney General George W, Brown, to dis
cuss ways and means for enforcing
the Oregon prohibition law after Jan
uary |.
The Fallon sugar plant of tie Ne
vada Sugar company will be operated
next year. George Wingfeld and asso
ciates will be back of it, either through
financing the bondholders, should they
decide to buy the property, or as direc
owners of the plant.
License numbers of automobiles
owned in Nevada, under number 2001
will be void after December 81, d
Secretary of State George Brodigan
has notified all sheriffs in the state
that all who do not obtain new mum
bers will be subject to penalty.
The authorities of White Pine coun
Boyle that they have decided to plac
a quarantine on all sheep being driven
into the county. They calm that this
action has been found necessary on &C
count of the numerous cases of rabie
among the sheep.
The Capital Avenue theatre at
Cheyenne was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing a loss of $4,000. Mayor R. N. |
La Fountain and Walter Bradley were
slightly injured and forty guests thin,
ly clad were driven into the icy J
streets when the blaze threatened the
Plains hotel adjoining.
Two masked bandits took a posi- |
ton on a short cut" in a corner
schoolyard at Boulder, Colo, and be-
fore retreating had lined up against
the schoolhouse II pedestrians, who
were detained as they came by, sing.
ly and in pairs. The collection"
amounted to three gold watches and
SIS.
The pair of sheep dogs that de,
lighted thousands of people by their
almost human intelligence in herding
sheep, at the Panama Pacific lnterna
tional exposition, are now the prop
erty of George L. Kaeding, of Battle
Mountain, Nevada, who secured them
at the close of their exposition en-
gagement.
The Pocatello, Idaho, city council
has closed deal for the purchase Of
nine acres of land from the Oregon
Short Line covering the big springs
northwest Of the city. The springs
will be used to supply water for a
water system or to increase
the supply of the present system if il
is purchased
The county clerk of Ormsby county
Nevada, reports that every taxpayer
in the county, with the exception OF |
Wells Fargo company and one other
estate which is still in litigation, have
paid their taxes and that the amount
of taxes totals the sum of $4,000 {
which is $4,000 more than the amount
paid last year.
Reports from Carson City are to
the effect THAI the jury empaneed to I
Try the damage suit against the Las
Vegas and Tonopah railroad company
brought by William O'Brien for $751; {
300 for injuries alleged to have been
sustained by him while in the employ
If the company. brought in a verdict
n favor of the defendant.
Word has been received at Portland
rom the chiefs of police at Cheyenne
saying that man had been arrested
here who answered the description of
George Bartholomew, wanted on r
/ charge of having slain John Linnd, Il
whose dead body was found in a trunk q
loating in the Willamette river No.
'ember 10. "
The Rathskeller, one of the most q
cafes in Seattle, has quit t
BUSINESS. The proprietor said that he
lad lost $115,000 during the last year T
nd that the decision of the state su. II