The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-29
INLAND NORTHWEST


Winnemucca, New, on which they can
build their homes and engage in truck
farming.
Andrew McVicars lies in a critical
condition at the hospital and Charles
Rossi is suffering from serious injuries
as a result of an accident in the mine
at Diamondville. Wyo.
Alice, the 2-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. B. Lightfoot of Ely, New,
died in Salt Lake last week. She was
stricken when nut Of small proper.
ton lodged in her throat.
Some of the married people of Man.
haitian, New, have organized dancing
club, each couple paying a fee of s.
for the winter. Fox trots, tangoes and
other new dances are the rule of the
club.
Nevada potatoes beat the western
world, if competition and it's results
at the Panama-California exposition
at San Diego are any criterion. An
exhibit sent from Reno carried off the
prize.
A law fixing the maximum freight
charge on coal between points within
the state has been asked for by the
independent coal operators of Utah in
connection with the proposed public
utilities bill
Trackwalker Michael Donnelly, pa
trolling the track of the Western Pa
cific between Beowawee New sec
ton and the west, was struck by train
and instantly killed, the body being
badly mangled.
Lamoille valley, twenty miles south
of Elko, New, is being swept by an
epidemic of mumps. This disease is
no respecter of persons, attacking both
young and old, and in many of the
cases the patients are seriously i'll.
If cold weather holds out for about
week longer the seasons ice crop
from the Truckee river in Nevada will
be cut and stored before the first Of
the year. AT Truckee the ice is 1S
inches thick, and as clear as crystal.
Milo Sprague, brakeman in the en-
ploy of the Arden Plaster company Of
Clark county, Nevada, while attempt
ing to stop loaded ore car on down
grade, was caught between the car
and an engine and crushed to death.
Ranchers in Elko county, Nevada,
say that the present winter will be
an open" one. They base this pre-
diction on the fact that the beavers
this year are doing no extra work on
the small streams and are laying in no
supplies of wood.
A. G.. Crane, president of the Inter.
state Life Insurance company of Ne
trict court at Wtnnemucca of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, has
been sentenced to serve from one to
ten years in the state prison.
David E. Palmer, an old-time resi-
dent of Humboldt county. recently
committed suicide at Winnemucca
Nevada, by shooting himself in the
head The body was found in bed in
a cabin adjoining his home. In his
right hand was an automatic pistol.
There were 612 deposits of bullion
at the Carson New, mint during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1916, The
value of gold shipped during the year
amounted to $305.S37, and silver, So
395, a total of $909,S22. The income
of the office during the year was s.,
S5S.S9, and the expenses of running it
| $7,343.4S.
A. ]. Wideman of Diamondville
! Wyo., expects to purchase plot of
/ 81, Dol, do dol
Verde, which is situated off the west
| coast of Mexico. He will go into the
ranching business there. He has left
for Los Angeles, where he will join
a company of twenty other colonists
who have the same purpose in view.
Following a train on a gasoline mo-
tor car, Superintendent H. E. Van
Housen and Mr.. Sellet, foreman of the
bridge building department, crashed
into the rear end of the train when il
stopped at Moapa, New, and the brakes
Of the motor failed to work. Van Hou
sen was seriously injured and Sellet
sustained some painful cuts and LAGER
atoms.
The total number of names on the
petitions for prohibition, an antigam
bling law and extending the time OF
residence required for obtaining di
vorces from six to twelve months, &C
cording to tabulations made by the
secretary of state at Carson City. New.
last week, were as follows: Prohibi
ton, 1881; divorce law, 1000, and
anti-gambling, 2,14S.
An old tie placed in the stove at the
home of an Indian family at Wells, Ne
vada. was responsible for terrific
explosion, which shattered the stove
to fragments, pieces of it going III
through the ceiling and others break
ing the windows. Two Of the chill
dren received minor injuries, but no
body was seriously hurt. A hostile
squaw is suspected of placing dyna
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