Taken from the Burley Bulletin published on Sept. 3, 1915
Bar Owner Shot Thru Open Door of Saloon by Unknown Person While Serving Customer
TIPPARARY – Oliver Bates met a tragic death in his saloon just over the Idaho-Nevada line in Elko County, south of Oakley Saturday night at 12 a.m.
He was called from bed to serve a customer, which was not an uncommon thing and no particular attention was paid to the incident until a shot was heard and Bates was found with his head nearly torn off.
He was standing in the saloon talking with his customer when the shot was fired from the outside. His little boy had arisen with his father and was standing by him at the time of his death.
(The boy was not injured).
Examinations at the coroner’s inquest showed that Bates had been shot with a shotgun at a distance of not more than 10-12 feet, as the wads from the gun also struck the victim in the face.
While no one saw the murder, there is strong evidence pointing to the guilty person, and a man with whom Bates had recently quarreled is suspected.
The remains were brought to Oakley and buried on Tuesday.
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Dead Animals on Canals Endangering Lives of People on Minidoka Project
RUPERT – It seems impossible that intelligent people who know that their neighbors below them must use the water of the canals on the Minidoka Project for drinking purposes, would be so thoughtless or so mean as to throw dead animals into the canals, yet such is the case in many instances.
It is not an uncommon thing for the ditchriders to take dead chickens, ducks, turkeys and even hogs out of the canals.
One farmer who has no well and is forced to use the canal water for domestic purposes took four dead chickens and numerous rotten eggs from his headgate this week.
Persons throwing dead animals into the canals are subject to severe penalties should they be caught, but even that should not be necessary to prevent a practice which threatens the very lives of neighbors.
