Show INLAND NORTHWEST three short courses for carmera and housekeepers and a farmers week have been arranged by the university of nevada at reno the salt lake route in pursuance of its safety first policy Is to add the protection of automatic block alg nals over a portion of its line at least the production of silver from idaho mines increased from 12 ounces in 1914 to about ounces in 1915 or more than 4 per cent john II 11 sullivan was fatally in lured in the sparks railroad yards on christmas eve falling between two two cars his left leg being crushed near the thigh the commission named by president allson more than a year ago to in industrial conditions in colo rado will resume their labors in colorado this week richard rising the southern pacific brakeman who was injured in an ac cadent at imlay nevada several weeks ago ay having his hand cut off while coupling cars Is recovering plans for paying a deficit of 6 in the fund for the site of the sugar factory at layton utah which was in stalled this year were perfected at a meeting of beet growers of layton word of the death of uncle nick auson at allson wyo a town named for him has been received mr wll son was regarded as among the unique characters of western frontier days john williams an inmate of the ne vada state prison attempted suicide by inhaling the deadly fumes from a gas jet in the corridor but was found when unconscious and will recover borrowing a match from a cell mate claiming that he wanted to smoke T an insane japanese confined in the reno jail set fire to his clothing the jap s legs were burned but his injuries will not prove serious shipments of zinc ore and concen irate from idaho mines increased from tons in 1914 to about tons in 1915 the shipments con talked about 80 pounds of recoverable spelter valued at over mrs frances ellen hare oldest white woman in the northwest died at actoria ore while asleep at the age of years she was born february 3 1811 in winchester va and married joseph hare in ohio in 1827 it Is reported that the rabbits in the lamoille lle valley elko county nevada are so numerous this year that they are destroying great quantities of hay some of the stacks are under mined tor several feet and are in dan ger of tumbling over tax collector miller of elko county nevada announces that there are names on the tax roll who have failed to pay their taxes the amount fig ures up 3 the delinquent property Is from no particular section but covers the entire county martin C broom and james williams convicted of having conducted the manufacture of whisky illicitly in lane county oregon were sentenced to serve respectively six and nine months in the county jail and pay fines of five hundred dollars each the nevada california power corn pany has commenced suit in the fed eral court against the counties of esmeralda and nye nevada to restrain them from collecting taxes in excess of 52 in the former county and 52 in the latter county A number of loads of lumber has been distributed along the road between kennedy and winnemucca ne vada this lumber will be used tor the construction of cu lverts made nee essary along the road to carry off the water of new streams created by the earthquake grover cleveland a shoshone indian 40 years old last week shot and killed his wife then turned the weapon on himself inflicting a fatal wound ac cording to word received at lander wyo the shooting took place at cleveland s home on the wind river reservation near fort washakie Wash akle the united states geological survey reports that the output of gold silver copper lead and line from ores sold or treated from idaho mines in 1915 had a total value of about this Is an increase of more than 53 per cent over the production of 1914 which was valued at mrs linda burfield II azzard a fast practitioner who was sentenced in 1912 to from two to twenty years in the state penitentiary for causing the death by starvation of miss claere wll alamson ll amson a wealthy patient returned to seattle last week having been released on parole mrs II azzard said that she would resume the fasting method at cooper canyon nevada J hooker Is alleged to have stabbed A L borcherding the trouble Is said to have started over a remark that borch erding made to the effect that the men who aided peter cowert to escape from the battle mountain jail should be sent to the penitentiary mayor emerick touched the button which launched the first municipal christmas celebration at medford Med tord ore and few minutes later two thousand children of the city were dancing about an outdoor christmas tree ablaze with light and receiving presents public gatherings in celebration of christmas were more general throughout oregon this season than ever before at a number of towns out of door christmas trees were given tor children and at many others exert lies ere held in halls |