The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-03-02
INLAND NORTHWEST

Two milo cases OF smallpox are re-
ported In Wells, Nevada.
The sheep owners Of northern Elko
county met with sheepmen OF other
parts OF Nevada and Idaho at Elko
last week to organize a woolgrowers'
association.
The disappearance OF Dick Purcell,
homesteader of Rowlands, New,
who has been missing since Christmas
day has just been officially reported
oy his neighbors.
Resolutions were adopted in both
houses of the Nevada legislature
prescribing that after Monday, March
5, no bills may be introduced unless
unanimous consent is obtained.
Thomas F. Green, official shooter
and trapper for a section of Reese
river north of Austin, Nevada, has
bagged 50 bobcats this winter and coy
otes believed to exceed 100 in num-
| Der.
James T. Little, said to be the old
est pioneer of Ormsby county, New,
| has passed away at the age of 81
years. He was born in Missouri and
came west in the early SOS, settling
first in Placerville.
All railroad conductors and engi
ueers while on duty on their runs now
have the authority of deputy sheriffs
as the result of measure passed by
the Wyoming legislature and signed by
the governor last week.
Ed Walters, an employe OF the Elk
ploration Gold Mining and Develop
ment company near Yerington. New,
was found dead in his cabin. The
coroner's jury found death to have
been due to natural causes.
Charles Mcdonald, youth who ar
rived from Big Piney severaI days
previous with badly frozen feet, sub
mitted to an operation in the KEN
merer hospital which resulted in his
left heel being amputated.
Emil Kosenan, a resident of Cum.
berland, Wyo., was arrested last week
charged with stabbing John Lark
Lark it is said, was escorting Rose
man to his home while the later was
under the influence of liquor.
Considerable damage in Douglas
county, Nevada. was caused by the
high wind last week. The court
house at Minden was unroofed, the
tar paper covering being torn from
it's place and scattered over the sur
rounding country.
The supreme court has issued G
writ of prohibition restraining the
Humboldt county commissioners from
enforcing an ordinance passed or
February imposing a license OF
Lovelock, Nevada, restaurants which
are connected with saloons.
w. W. Richardson, steamfitter o
Wfnnemucca, New, has secured from
the Canadian government a patent OIL
steam valve he has invented anC
which is said to regulate heating ap
paratus in a way that effects a grea
saving in the fuel consumption.
: A bold robbery was perpetrated il
: a saloon at Kemmerer when FTanl
: Lark, the night bartender, was sud
: denly faced by two youthful bandit
and forced to throw up his hands a
:. the point of a gun. The two men
: Dave Miller and Roy Hooper were car
tured later.
a A mountain lion about five feet Il
!. length was recently encountered b,
z an automobile party on the Lincoll
!. highway near Austin. New. The beas
a came straight down the ROAD an
: was evidently bound for nearb
!. watering trough, when frightene
= away by the auto,
h The male adolescent element Q
|. Goldfield is reported to be developin
e into veritable nuisance to the ger
y eral citizenship of the camp. Youn
boys, 1t is said, are wantonly destro!
ing property, throwing rocks at pedei
Il TRANS and in other ways disturbin
/, the peace of Goldfield.
+ Between this date and October
y 1917, every public or semi-public built
r ing in Wyoming three stories or grea
It er in height must be equipped wit
& metallic exterior fire escapes, if tn
g owners thereof expect to escape pros
r. cution under an act passed by tn
< wyoming legislature.
r Bishop John II, stevenson, a pionet
d official OF the Mormon church in this
e section, died very SUDDENLY at his hon
II in Diamondville, Wyo. He had bee
Is suffering from rheumatism for a nun
y Der of years and the disease lad eau
b. ed enlargement OF the heart, wn:C
Is was the cause Of his sudden death.
Is Officers of the Becker Brewing an
" Mating company at Ogden. Utal
< have virtually conceded that the Do
n ton Of the plant devoted to the mani
'r tecture Of beer will be removed I
he another state as soon as the Utah DIT
hihition act takes effect. and it
limited that Elko is being favorabl
considered as the new location of III
brewery.
g During the recent cold weaths
Bert Cushman, a Fallon. New. ranc
er, missed a six-months-old calf. Til
mother COW WAS noticed RI no alv-sx