The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-06-18
NORTH WEST NOTES

Samuel u. stewart, one OF the TRAN
blazers Of the west. died al his home
in Butte on June Z. He was born in
Illinois in 1896, and came 10 Mon
lana in 1866.
While engaged in swimming race
at Portland in the Willamette river,
Charles E. Vaughn, is years old, was
seized with cramps and drowned in
full view Of his two companions.
A Union Pacific freight train was
caught by land slide near Walcotts
Wyo., the slide striking the cars be
hind the engine. No one was hurt,
but the trainrnen had a narrow es-
cape from death
A. E. Elliott, well-known resi-
dent Of Miles City, Mont, was drown
ed in slough north Of that city
while on fishing trip. It lis sup
posed he attempted to cross the
slough in an old boat
b. w. L1nnoie, a pioneer Of Iowa
and Montana, heavy property mold
er in Butte, and president Of ma
tional bank at Anthem, Iowa, suffered
stroke Of apoplexy in Butte la5t
week that proved fatal.
Frank A. Lucy, a prominent mining
engineer, who was recently appointed
superintendent of the lorence Gold
field company at CT. ield, Nevada
fell down a shaft Lass week and was
instantly killed. He leaves widow.
Chris Olson. former cashier OF the
defunct First Scandinavian banR oil
Everett, Wash, was acquitted last
| week because the prosecution failed
to show that he had accepted money
from depositors with the intent to
| defraud
A dispatch from Ontario, Ore, an
| nounces that there is every pros
| pect that the Ontario-Emmett rail
road, planned four years ago but
abandoned at the time of the financial
| panic. will be built within the com
ing year. .....as ...-
Two mounted and masked me1
blew open safe in a saloon in Butte
Mont, at o'clock in the morn ~
/ seized 5000 in cash and escaped with
out leaving any clew TO their identity
| although they were seen by a mum
Der OF people.
For the first time in the history o
| the new town, Midyale, Nevada, vii
celebrate the Fourth of July thi
/ year, the committee planning cele
bration which is expected to draw
crowd to Midyale from every tow
in the county.
While trying to board moving trail
at Willis Station, IS miles east o
Missoula, Mont, Edward Saul, a North
ern Pacific workman, fell under tn
trucks and was so badly injured tina
he died while being rushed to tn
hospital at Missoula.
Construction work began June 1 o
an independent telephone line froI
Spokane to Seattle, which is bein
built by the Local and Long-Distanc
Telephone company, a new corpo;
ton, of which F. E. Woods OF Coeu
d'Alene, Ida, is president.
John Williams has been placed
Jail at Armsted, Mont, and fello'
workman is lowering between lif
and death, as the result of a nigh
between the two men at a railwa
construction camp, Williams pract
cally iisembOweling his opponent.
Secretary Ballinger has withdraw
temporarily from entry as pow1
site four hundred acres of land O
Gray Bull river, Wyoming, in aid
proposed legislation. This Withdraw
al is in accordance with the polio
which Secretary Ballinger has adop
ed of withdrawing for power size pu
poses.
Twenty-year-old Richard Hockin
has been sentenced TO serve eightee
! months in the federal prison at Lea
enworth, Kans., and pay a fine
Sl.S72 for embezzling money viii
employed in the money order depaT
ment of the post Office at Butte. HorE
racing was the cause of the youth
downfall.
Pack horses are being used
carry supplies from ,Missoula, Mon
TO the Hartman surveyors who al
= working from Lewiston ldah
through the Bitter Root and Clearw
ter country, locating lines for Il
proposed extension of the OregC
Railway & Navigation company
Missoula.
Members of the Modoc and Kl
math Indian tribes have filed col
plant with the secretary of the int
ior against H. G. Wilson, India
agent on the klamath reservation,
] Oregon, alleging neglect in the ed
y cation of their children and namir
other alleged offenses for which tbs
ask his removal.
, Max Morris, fourth vice-preside
of the American Federation OF LabC
and known throughout the ranks
union labor as one of its most su
1 cessful organizers, died in DenE
< hospital last week from yellow jau
dice. Morris was a member of L
!, lower house of the Colorado leglsl
i ture for three terms.
The body of a man who has be-
| dead for months and who is suppos'
I to have been Dan Organ, mini
{ man who disappeared year and
4 half ago. has been found near
. prospect hole near Anaconda, MOI
!. ! ii is presumed death was due to- L