The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-01-26
INLAND NORTHWEST

loose in Ormsby county. Nevada to
replenish the numbers which have
constantly decreased of late years.
@. w. Waltensfeld. Southern Pa
cific freight engineer. was severely
burnt about the face and neck by the
blowing out of a lubricator in the
cab of his engine at Yalmy. Nevada.
The county commissioners of Lin
coin county, Nevada. last week award
ed to Keller Brother of Denver the
$4,000 worth of road and bridge bonds
authorized by the voters of the county
last November.
Peter Paintonti fatally stabbed Pc
ter Lorenzo in the abdomen during
brawl in a saloon at GoOdsprings, Ne,
vada. Lorenzo expired early the fol
lowing morning. Paintonti will be
tried for murder.
Mrs. Agnes Thesla Fair, a writer
and speaker on social topics, was run
down and killed beneath an interurban
train near Portland, when she walked
on the track directly in trout of the
approaching cars.
The trial of c. E. Dawson. a for
mer fireman on the Salt Lake route
charged with shooting and killing
Tim Mahoney on the main street of
Caliente on September last, is being
held at Phoebe. Nevada.
The secretary of the Reno Racing
and Fair association, announced dur
ing a recent visit in Elko that the as
ISOLATION is planning to hold at least
five meetings this year in as many diff
ferent points of the state.
The Las Vegas board of city com
missioners has granted A l.. j. Clark
and c. w. Perry permission to lay
pipes in the streets and alleys of the
original townsite of Las Vegas for the
purpose of supplying Oldtown with
water.
James Watson, the man who stab.
bed Peter Krummes at Gardnerville
New, last month, pleaded guilty to
the charge in the district court at
Manden and was sentenced to serve
from one to fourteen years in the
state prison.
Searcbers for Russell NJ. Christen.
sen, forest ranger who had become
lost in blizzard last Christmas day
while essaying a trip on snowshoes
from one station to another, found his
dead body in the snow near La Pine,
Ore, last week.
At the regular meeting of stock,
holders of the First National bank OF
Elko, New, last week, a set of plans
was selected from several submitted
for a new two-story home for the in.
stitution. the construction of which
will be commenced early this spring
Mrs. Rebie Kerr Beach, aged IS
years, twice president of the Washing.
ton State Parent-Teachers' associa-
tion, founder of the associations of
fetal magazine and chairman of the
associations organization committee
Olympia, Wash.
Armed with a search warrant offic-
ers from the district attorneys Office
went aboard the steamer f. A Kill
burn at Portland, and after combing
the vessel from stem to stern came
ashore with 1,40O quarts of c2ntraband
whisky. Following this disclosure the
case was turned over to feueraI of.
ficials.
During the hunting season which
began September 10 and ended Janu
airy IA, ten hunters met violent deaths
in the state Of Washington. Two were
shot by hunting companions, four ac.
ri oil ChA
frozen TO death and two either com.
mitted suicide t. escape freezing to
death or one shot both.
An influx of undesirables from
Colorado, Washington and Oregon,
following the enactment of the prohi.
bition laws in those states, accounts
for the increase in the number of ar
rests for the year 1916 over 1915. ac-
cording to the annual report of Chief
of Police j. Farley White of Salt Lake
A wrath of the furious blizzard
that deprived Tonopah of light and
power for four days came from the
other side of the range through the
announcement that Steve Andrew and
Ralph Andrew, brothers, had to sub
init TO the amputat.on of limbs as
the result of having been caught in
the storm.
The board of county commissioners
of Elko county, Nevada, has granted
80 liquor licenses. four less than last
year. Is of them being rural and IS
scattered among the various towns in
the county. The town of Elko has %.
1t is estimated that the population of
Elko county il $4,000 and If this be
true, there is a saloon for every $50
inhabitants.
The first of the year witnessed the
passing of another pioneer Comstock
organization. in Phil Kearny Post No
10, Grand Army OF the Republic. de
partment Of California and Nevada
The charter and al the records Of
the post were shipped back To Sn
Francisco. The post vas organized
in Virginia City. Nevada. in 1888 and
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