The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-04-12
INLAND NORTHWEST


Grass Valley, Cal, is under arrest at
Yerington on charge of failing to
provide for his minor children.
Northern and eastern Idaho are
afame with the war spirit and it is
spreading to every town and village.
Many towns have held demonstrations.
Beatrice Withers, colored, was
found guilty OF. Involuntary manslaugh-
ter by the jury which tried her for
the killing. of her husband in Nye
county, Nevada.
Nye county, Nevada, has engaged
Augustus Tilden as special counsel
to collect the back taxes alleged to
be due from the mining companies on
bullion production.
Frances Phillips, stenographer en-
ployed by the city, has qualified as a
juror for the April term Of the district
court at Salt Lake. She is the first
woman juror ever qualified in Utah.
A dozen or more cases of measles
have been reported in Carson and it
appears as if the capital city is to join
in with a half dozen other localities
where similar epidemics are raging.
Gabriel Lafaye, a pioneer resident
of Reno, died in Reno last week after
brief illness. Deceased was a ma
tive of France and aged II years. He
leaves no relatives in this country.
The GoIdfeld Business Mems club,
that staged the Ritchie-McCarthy CON
test is endeaYoring to arrange a match
between Willie Meehan ana Jack
Dempsey, to be fought at Goldfeld in
the near future.
While chopping kindling wood at
his home near Gardnerville, Nevada,
John Dangburg was painfully injured,
stick striking him in the eye. The
splinter penetrated the skin between
the eye ball and the nose, the optic
fortunately escaping injury.
L. F. Adamson, secretary of the Ne
vada tax commission, will resign from
that body and join the state industrial
Insurance. commission as actuary, fill
ing the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation OF Dan ]. Sullivan who was re-
Gently appointed state auditor.
Stock to the amount of $4,000 has
been subscribed for the building Of
new hotel at Deeth, New, to replace
the one that was burned when fire
wiped out the business section of the
town little more than year ago.
President Wilson has declined to ex-
tend further cIemency TO Edward
Mayberry, an Indian CONVICTED Of muir
der at Seattle, and Secretary Baker
has given permission for use Of a mil
itary reservation for the execution
April 19.
Joseph H. Mackedon of Lovelock,
New, has begun suit in the district
court at Winnemucca to recover from
L. E. Beeson, the H. NJ. Byllesby com
pany and the First National Bank Of
Lovelock his interest in valuable
tungsten claims on Ragged Top noun
tain.
Marriages did not keep pace with
divorces in Washoe county, Nevada,
during the first three months of 1917.
There were eighty-four marriage IL
censes taken out during the three
months and in the same length Of
time there were ninety-six divorce de
crees granted.
The Industrial Workers Of the
World do not stand for destruction Of
property and do not advocate violence,
according to James P Thompson, a
national organizer, who testified at the
trial of Thomas H Tracy, the Indus
trial Workers member on trial in SUI
perior court at Seattle.
A resident of FaIIon, New, had some
cottonwood trees planted along West
Main street for fence posts in 1879.
The trees now measure over five feet
in diameter at the butt. There are
number of other giant cottonwoods in
Fallon planted at about the same time
which will measure more than five feet
in diameter.
Miss Jessie Harris. of EIko, Nevada,
has been appointed to the position Of
insurance clerk in the office of State
Controller George Cole. The office
was among the several created by the
recent legislature. Miss Harris was
one of the attaches in the assembly
during the recent session.
Benny James, an Industrious Piute
Of Carson valley, Nevada, has pur-
chased an automobile as an evidence
of his prosperity and is now one of
the real fair-haired Indians Of that dis
trict. His popularity among the
suuaws has increased wonderfully
since he acquired the buzz-wagon.
Mayor Hiram C. Gill of Seattle,
Chief of Police Charles L. Decking
ham and City Detectives Meyer a.
Peyser, John Poolman, James Doom
and Daniel McLennan, on trial charged
with conspiracy to violate federal laws
by importation OF liquor into the state
of Washington, were acquitted by a
jury.
No more firearms will be sold in
Salt Lake or Salt Lake county unless
the purchaser has a written permit
from the chief of police or the sheriff,
if proposed ordinance is adopted.
George z. McLaren, aged 10, paus-
ed with two companions to rattle a
tin box hanging outside a Chinese
laundry at Seattle. Instantly through
the door came a volIey of pistol bullets
and McLaren fell, shot through the
lungs, probably fatally wounded.
E. Marsh, government trapper, re-