The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-03-29
INLAND NORTHWEST


three units of the system, within {
short time.
There will be little loss Of live stock
In Utah as result of the shortage Of
hay and the long lying winter SHOWS
according to officials Of the state live
stock board.
f. j. Diehl OF Winnemucca, indict.
ed on charge of having passed a
check for $75 bearing the forged sig
nature of Julian Liotard, on w. J.
Bradley, was acquitted by jury.
With thousands of sheep and cattle
dying on the ranges of Idaho and Wyo-
ming, it was announced last week by
Salt Lake hay dealers that because of
scarcity hay would would not DO con-
tracted for at any price
Coal mines in Utah as well as Wyo-
ming and other adjacent states may
be placed under government supervi-
sion to insure realization of the pro
gram to mobilize the nations natural
resources in case of war.
Mrs. o. H. Mack of Reno has been
asked to accept the temporary state
Craftsmanship of the national league
for womens service, which was or
ganized in Washington on January 26.
Mrs. Mack has accepted the honor.
J. IF. Grant, special policeman who
fatally shot Walter Layman, young
man whom he met on the street with
Mrs. Grant January G, was found not
guilty by jury in superior court at
Spokane. Grant made plea of sell
defense.
Ernest r. Douglas, a well known
resident of Goldfield, submitted to an |
operation for tuberculosis of the knee
last week. The leg was amputated
above the knee joint, which was bad
ly infected and necessitated removal
to save his life.
Charles Lorentz, who, armed with
revolver, forced his way into the of
flee of Governor Ernest Lister at
Olympia, Wash, and compelled the
executive to flee for safety to an ad.
Joining room, was adjudged insane by
a commission in the superior court
Miss Irene Medinnes of Portland
was killed at Corvallis, Ore, when an
in which she was riding
with two other women ran off a grade
Mrs. M. l.. Granting, also of Portland,
the driver of the car, was badly in
jured. The third woman escaped I'M
hurt
The Nye county commissioners, sit
ing as town board in Tonopah, have
decided to establish a segregated dis !
riot there where the people of the
Underworld will be compelled to re- !
main, instead of scattering all over .
n respectable residence neighbor- !
hoods.
The district attorneys office at :
Portland has notified all druggists that \
he sale of certain stomach bitters of r
high percentage of alcohol would be f
onstrued as a violation of the pro- Q
ibition law. The large number of h
asses of intoxication from bitters was
be cause. 2
Military training will be adopted for
ne convicts in the Oregon state peni- X
entiary within a few months an
ounced Warden Charles A. Murphy
lst week. Plans are being worked Sc
ut and as soon as the rush of the pt
bring work is over, the system will in
3 installed. n,
Nevada plans to play its proper part m
the service of the country shosId
.e present crisis result in war with m
ermany, or any other nation. Sec an
tary of War Baker has been inform II
that the state is ready to raise a
'dy of men to support the president Al
ID aid the country.
w. K. Freudenberger, chief engf- ne
er of the state railroad commission.
sisted by Robert Evans, a Califor-
electrical engineer, is investigat. tn
the Elko Telephone company. 20
lmerous complaints have been made tn
the inefficient service given by the cit
ephone company there. tax
Carl Marquardt, who ran away toi
m Eureka, California, with another ro'
ms wife, lies at the county morgue Ior
Reno with three bullet holes in his
iy John Katchoulis, the husband, is
fugitive, with the police of two
ties searching for him The shoot we
occurred at Reno on March Is. ma
Edmund P. Kindred, fireman on the NV
ky engine at Copper Flat, near Dol
, New, was scalded to death by rrl
am and his engineer, E. H. Doug zee
received injuries from which he cut
lot expected to recover when their urea
inc was derailed and rolled down mat
embankment from the waste i,
up, =
hat it would require at least six
lths so far as his unit of the ma S ,,
al guard of Utah is concerned, to 'iie
ome efficient at war strength oHaI
inst thoroughly prepared foe. is gag
reply of Major John F. Sharp. seh'
t Utah field hospital, to the cues. mat
of the chief of the federal militia thor
.au. day,
oril % has been designated by the
Lake Ministerial association as w
'ecial Sunday in which ministers tbro,
vi denominations shall pay spe- Zaud
attention in at least one sermon reno,
he necessity of kind treatment of eis,r
ials. Isl Llst,
eeding at twenty-five miles an
through the smoke-filled Sherman
ell on the Union Pacific. thirty Ne
west OF Cheyenne, nine members and
section crew were injured when less
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