Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-02-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

cake of ice, sustaining broken leg
James Ward, pioneer Nevada min
ing man, and discoverer of Mineral
Hill, Eureka county, died recently at
Los Angeles at about 80 years of age
The contract for the erection of the
factory of the Oregon Utah Sugar COM
pany at Grants Pass Ore, has been let
to the Dyer Const uction company of
Cleveland Ohio.
Benjamin j. Clark, well known
blacksmith of Virginia City, Nevada,
passed away very suddenly from ex-
element attending a dog fight in
which his dog had been injured.
That thousands of er driven from
the higher country by deep snow, are
tloundering helplessly in drifts in the
Upper Horse Creek valley in W yom-
ing, is a report brought in by ranch
erS.
More than 200 head of cattle per-
shed in the Ruby and Cover valleys
in Nevada in the past six or seven
weeks. The animals died of st trva-
ton, being unable to reach the grass
below the deep snow
Belief that the lone bandit who
robbed several passengers n a Unto,
Pacific limited train in Wyoming ma
have boarded a train a. Rock Spr ngs
within an hour was exp 'es3el by
some persons engaged in search
Two men, Dan Hafferon and James
Flynn, sustained minor injuries when
porIh roof of the Hatch Bros. store
at Virginia CITY, N vado, gave way
and precipitated tn m into tn ba e.
ment of the hui ding, about forty feet
below.
The jury failed to agree folio wing
the trial at Reno of James Kennedy
charged with shooting saloon man
at Gerlach. Kennedy claimed that the
shooting was in self defense, as he
had suffered rough usage at the hands
of the bartender in the saloon.
| A motion picture concern visited
! Carson City, Nevada, last week, and
took a number of views of the capitol
| building with Governor Boyle play
ing an important part. Several views
i were taken and number of the state
officials were invited to be in evil
dence.
A party of searchers from Montello,
Nevada, found the body of Joe Hank
ness about nine miles from the place
where he had persisted in the snow
two weeks before. Hardness started
out from Montello for Harrison Pass
on the 25th of January to work some
mining property.
Not only that he wrote BLACK hand"
| letters, threatening NJ n. Castle, but
| that he wrote them in Castles o flee.
! on his letter paper, from which the
| ietteihead had been torn, is a confess
ssion which was made by John Bower,
age 20, a former employee at Gas les
livery stable at Casper, Wyo.
Mrs. William Johnson of Wells,
wife of a wealthy Glover Valley
rancher, and her seven-year-old son,
ere in Reno to take the Pasteur treat
ment. Both were bitten by two pups
that had contracted rabies from their
mother, which had been bitten by
mad coyotes several weeks ago
With a view to exterminating both
coyotes and rabbits, the biological sur
vey of the United States is co-operat-
ing with the residents and the Ne
yada authorities in the Ruby national
foresc in Nevada, and men are being
engG ged to destroy by any possible
means coyotes and the more numer-
GUS jack rabbits.
The finding of the mutilated body Of
Lee Cunningham, stockman, near
Oyando, Mont, confirmed confes-
ION made by Harry Orbey, a farm
hand, who is held in the Powell cCun-
ty jail, that he had slain the man.
HOGS had eaten off the head and a
bullet wound was found in the back
as des.ribed by Orbey.
In a ruling made at the request OF
the prosecuting attorney of Gray's
Harbor county, Washington, Attorney
General w. V. Turner held Wednes
day that clergymen are not entitled
under the prohibition law to have in
their possession for sacramento pur.
loses more than the amount Oh liquor
othe citizens are permitted to keep.
Tn ueands of jack rabbits have
died in the Ruby national forest Of
Nevada through inability to reach sus.
tenance owing tc deep snow, accord
ing to reports reaching forest service
men. Farmers and rsnchers in the
forest are pleased over this m sfor.
tune to the rabbits, but these same
farmers and ranchers have suffered
losses in stock, owing to the same
conditions.
William Doyle was ! col responsible
by coroner's jury at Bonanza Ore,
for the death Tuesday of Mrs Mary
A. Wilcox and her daughter, Mrs. Mar
garet Jones Doyle declared Mrs
Jones started toward him with a rife
which he took from her when her mo.
Their came in Cipht with O shot puD