The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-12-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

)rletor OF hotel at Reno will bl
)aced on trial December 20
The Nevada state senate when the
.egis ature meets again will be Re
publican - to 5. but the lower house
viii be controlled by the Democrats.
II is said the Montana Utah Beet
Sugar company has secured an option
IN 1916 acres Of land on the lake shore
EAST Of Poison, Mont, and that work
till soon be started on a. large plant.
Joe Campbell, a shoe salesman OF
St. Louis, whose wife and child are in
Salt Lake, died as the result OF in
iuries received in a fight at a road
house near Reno. New, Sunday night.
The Old home on the Brown ranch,
vest Of Fallon, Nevada, was complete
y destroyed by fire last week, to-
gether with all the outbuildings. The
place was one of the relics of pioneer
lays.
Charged with putting the block sig
aal system of the Union Pacific main
( line out of commission, Elmer Albin,
+ Is, George McCloud, A. and Francis
/ McNair. 10, were arrested at Chey
snne
/ A woman giving her age as 40, but
who appeared much older, recently
beat her way on the blind baggage
from Sodaville to Tonopah. She was
thinly clad, and exhausted upon her
arrival.
While riding after cattle in the fields
west of Fillmore. Utah, Wells Brunson
had a narrow escape from death, due
10 the attack of a mad coyote He
finally succeeded in killing the coyote.
after a hard fight ~
The Nevada. historical societys
collection has been enriched by the
addition of two large photographs Of
the twelfth session of the Nevada leg
stature. One photograph is of the
senate and the other of the house.
In an attempt to drive seventy head
Of beef cattle across Muddy creek on
The ice near Cumberland, Wyo.. the
Ice gave way under the weight of the
animals and the entire herd was
drowned The financial loss exceeds
$4,000.
Elevators in the intermountain coun-
try are filled with wheat and the farm
ers in Idaho also have a goodly guam |
lily of grain in their granaries, ac-
cording to j. E. MacAlpine of Pocatel- |
10, buyer for a number of eastern ele |
yator companies.
Gilbert Ross, formerly lieutenant |
,o,,orror of Navajo and now cuppriu-
tendent of banks of the state, reports |
that Nevada is now enjoying the |
greatest era of prosperity it has ever
known in its history and that banking
conditions are excellent
Michael Mcdonald, SIS years old,
for the last six years compressor en-
gineer for. the Consolidated Mines
company and for ten years resident
Of Goldfeld, was found dead in bed
in. his room in the Union Drayage
building, Goldheld.
Joseph L. Rawlins, former United
States senator, is being doomed by
Democratic leaders OF Utah for judge
Of the United States circuit court OF
appeals, Eighth judicial district, to
succeed Judge Elmer B, Adams Of st.
Louis, who died several weeks ago.
The Lincoln Highway association
las announced to its consuls through
,ut the state of Nevada that the road
through the Sierras has been closed
o travel by the, recent SHOWS for the
present season. Tourists are now be, i
ng. routed via Tonopah and Goldieid.
The owners of the Hunter and Banks
anch house in Elko county, Nevada,
eport tlrat some parties, unknown, ap
feared on Sunday and proceeded TO
hoot up the place, Kidding the struc
ure with bullets Cae man was al
nost scared to death. and another is
eported wounded.
There are still some members Of the
National Guard of Utah who served on
he Mexican border who have failed
0 obtain positions, according to Lieu
enant Lloyd Garrison, who has found
ositions for many of the men. In the
st. Lieutenant Garrison said, there
re several automobile mechanics and
rivers.
Governor bOJlG VI 4NCfoN~ h"o ~k
ointed Mrs. j. r. Miscellaneous OF
emo Mrs. Roy Davenport OF Tono-
ah. Mrs. Helen Stewart OF Las Vegas
nd Professor Jewel Of Winnemucca
elegates to the 18th annual conyen-
on of the American Civics congress
, be held in Washington, D. c., De-
embers 10, IA and 10.
- T.,
Fifty self-styled members of the In
ustrial Workers of the World left
shland,- Ore, on southDouno
eight train after a stay OF TWEEN
y-four hours in Ashland during
hich time they. were fed and lodged
= the city, after having taken pos
sssion OF a fire house and from there
sued demands upon officials
q defeated candidates celebration
as he'd at Tonopah last week. The
,lso rams marched and counter
arclred up and down Main street,
saded~hy band which inaueurated
e solemn function by playing a fun-
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