The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-09-20
INLAND NORTHWEST


farm at Reno died suddenly and vet
erinarians, rushed TO the scene by DR.
Mack, found after examination Of the
carcass that the animal had died from
anthrax.
Richard Brown, mechanical en-,
cheering professor, for twenty-five
years in charge OF the dormitory at the
University of Nevada and the intimate
friend of hundreds Of former students
died last week at Reno.
William H. Schuitzer, an attorney
of Reno, has been granted the right
by District Judge Stoddard to change
| his name TO William II. Sheldon. Shell
don was selected by the petitioner be-
cause it is good American name.
Anthony Wells, Nevada Northern
brakeman, is critically wounded in the
Steptoe hospital of McGill, Nevada, as
the result of an attack made by an
Austrian, believed to be Sam Juich.
The attack is said 10 have been made
without warning
Ben Detmar Of Goodsprings, Ne
vada, was burned to death in his cab
in when fire. believed to have
started with gasoline explosion,
swept his clothes and cabin. Although
many people were near by none was
able to save him.
In response to a call issued by Gov
ernor W. D. Stephens, representatives
of the fifty-eighth California county
councils of defense assembled at Sac
ramentO to consider plans for the
continuance Of CALIFORNIA; way pre-
paredness activities.
Asking $4,000 as damages for in
juries sustained while operating
gosaline motor car, William O'Brien
has brought suit in Carson City against
the Las Vegas & TonOpah railroad.
The case was decided in favor of the
railroad a year ago.
While searching for the body of
Charles Howe, l4-year-Old son Of
Everett c. Howe, a Seattle attorney,
police in harbOr patrol boat Sunday
found another body, that of an uni
Identified man clad in a bathing suit
with a sash tied around the waist.
Grain produced this year in the Pa
cific Northwest will be milled at
home The bulk Of the flour will be
shipped to Europe, but the millstuffs
will be largely consumed at home.
This announcement is made by Theo-
dore B. Wilcox, federal milling com
missioner, and Max II. Houser, federal
grain commissioner.
Last week the land committee of
Elko, New, rendered report to the
state board of equalization for its con-
sideration which, if accepted by the
board. will bring an increase in the
valuation of Nevada lands for taxable
purposes, Of $3.50. 234, an increase on
cultivated lands of S1.56O,2SS and on
other lands of S4OO5,9 $40,
Industrial Workers of the World in
the northwest who have been on strike
since June, voted overwhelmingly in
favor of continuing the strike, in the
referendum taken last week At SpO-
kane, according to Arthur w. Smith,
/. W. W. secretary at MissOula, who
has returned from Spokane, where he
said he checked the vote.
After making an extensive study o.
growth and distribution of white pine
in the Kaibab national forest and the
of the growth and distribution
TO rainfall c. F. Korstian, special ex-
aminer for the forest service, says
matured timber in the Kaibab forest,
which has been for sale several years, |
is in very excellent condition.
An increase of IA per cent in the !
wheat production of Nevada viii |
bring this state into a position to say |
that it has done its part in making |
the country's wheat production in |
1918 one billion bushels, according TO |
C. A. Norcross, director of the agri- !
extension division, who re-
Gently returned from Spokane, where
ne represented Nevada At the regional
grain meeting called by Secretary
Houston to increase the wheat prOduc-
ion of the country.
kilograms were sent this week by
he steel shipbuilding firms of Port
and. Oregon, whose employees have
served notice of a strike for higher
ray, TO the federal shiphuilding board
Urging its intervention to avert the
threatened waIkout. These kilograms
a similar plea telegraphed
o the shipping board. Union officials
AVE agreed that the strike may be
deferred if the shipping board will
onfer with the representatives at
nee.
The legitimacy of marriage Of hun
reds of people, who have obtained di-
orces in Reno and married again, is
laced at stake in the proceedings in
dtuted by Mrs. NJ. BlakesIee against
er husband, in Carson City. She
SKIS that the decision of the court
ranung a decree to her husband in
.enO be reversed for the reason that
1 Illinois, the state from which both
arties have come, cruelty is not an ac-
eptable grounds for divorce. Blakes-
,e married soon after obtaining his
eCree.
Mill and smeltermen at the Ana
onda Copper company's works at Ana
onda. have called off their strike.
hey accepted the company's terms.
his means immediate resumption of |
Ork by the Butte mines and the re.
i'm to work of more than 1900 men.
An unknown man, believed TO be Joe
aims, a German of Alverd, Ore, was
,und dead at Bain's slaughter house,