The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-02-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

Mrs. Kate Fisher of Carson City
New, was painfully injured by a fall
on her steps when she slipped on a
cake of ice, sustaining broken leg
James Ward, a 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 Construction company OF
Cleveland, Ohio.
Benjamin ]. Clark, well known
blacksmith of Virginia City, Nevada
passed away very suddenly from ex-
element attending dog fight in
which his dog had been injured.
That thousands of ell driven from
the higher country by deep snow, are
fioundering helplessly in drifts in the
Upper Horse Creek valley in Wyoms
ing, is report brought in by ranch
erS.
More than 200 head of cattle per
ished in the Ruby and Glover valleys
in Nevada in the past six or seven
weeks. The animals died of starva-
ton, being unable to reach the grass
below the deep snow
Belief that the lone bandit who
robbed several passengers en- a Union
Pacific limited train in Wyoming may
have boarded train at Rock Springs
within an hour was expressed by
some persons engaged in search.
Two men. Dan Hafferon and James
Flynn, sustained minor injuries when
a porch roof of the Hatch Bros store |
at Virginia City, Nevada, gave way
and precipitated them into the base
ment of the building, about forty feet
below.
The jury failed to agree following
the trial at Reno of James Kennedy,
charged with shooting saloon man
at Gerlach. Kennedy claimed that the
was in self defense, as he
had suffered rough usage at the hands
If the bartender in the saloon.
A motion picture concern visited
Carson City, Nevada, last week, and
ook number of views of the capitol
with Governor Boyle play
ng an important part. Several views
we're taken and number of the state
officials were invited to be in evil
Ience
A party of searchers from Montello.
Nevada, found the body of Joe Hank
ess about nine miles from the place
ghere he had persisted in the snow
wo weeks before. Hardness started
ut from Montello for Harrison Pass
n the 25th of January to work some
inning property.
Not only that he wrote "black hand"
'tters, threatening NJ. N Castle, but
lat he wrote them In Castles office,
n his letter paper, from which the
'tterhead had been torn, Is a confess
sion which was made by John Bower,
&c 20, former employee at Castles
very stable at Casper, Wyo.
Mrs. William Johnson, of Wells =
ife of a wealthy Glover Valley
lncher, and her seven-year-old son,
q in Reno to take the Pasteur treat
ent. Both were bitten by two pups
at had contracted rabies from their
other, which had been bitten by
ad coyotes several weeks ago.
With view to DISCRIMINATING both
votes and rabbits, the biological sur
y of the United States is co-operat-
g with the residents and the Ne
,da authorities in the Ruby national
rest in Nevada, and men are being
gagged to destroy by any possible
cans coyotes and the more numer-
s jack rabbits
The finding of the mutilated body of
e Cunningham, a stockman, near
'ando, Mont, confirmed a confes-
IN made by Harry Orbey, a farm II
nd, who is held in the Powell coun- =
Jail, that he had slain the man.
'gs had eaten off the head and a
llet wound was found in the back
described by Orbey