The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-02
NORTHWEST NOTES


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Chris Choening, blacksmith, for
merly of Greenwood Ia and Missoula.
Mont. saot and killed himself in
hotel at Seattle, kneeling before
mirror.
Miss May Cruise, daughter of a mil
lionaire Helena banker and Henry NJ.
Rae, state senator from Fergus coun-
ty were married in Denver last week
creating great surprise in social cir
Giles of Helena.
Holding that under the ruling in the
Spokane case they are being forced to
the wall, Montana jobbers have fled
protest with the state railroad COM
mission, and a public hearing is ex-
pected thereon soon.
Ed Sylvester, convicted in a Butte
court of aiding and abetting in the
violation of the anti-pool room law. he
having been engaged as a marker
upon the blackboard of racing results
as given by the ticker, has been fined
$500.
The principal feature of the second
days session of the State Federation
eli Women's clubs, at Great Falls,
Mont, was particularly lucid and in
teresting address on the fight against
tuberculosis by DR.. Witherspoon, of
Butte.
John William, beet worker, en-
ployed west of Billings. Mont, was in
stantly killed, and his wife fatally in
1ured, when a Northern Pacific train
crashed into wagon in which they,
with their son, Jacob. and Fred HUT.
were riding.
George Miller, a railroad contractor,
narrowly escaped death at Helena,
Mont, while walking in his sleep. He
fell two stories from his apartments
in the Majestic hotel to a storeroom
below. sustaining injuries that will
cripple him for life.
R. R. Bonall, 26 years of age, was
drowned in the Grand river at Pail.
SADIE, Colo. Bonall, with several COM
panions, was attempting to stem the
high water of the river by stopping a
leak in the dyke with a sand bag.
when he tumbled in
The youngsters of Ely, Nevada, are
kept busy these days scraping the dirt
under the sidewalks which are being
torn UP for concrete, looking for
money dropped through the cracks.
Quite few of them have been we'll
repaid for their labors. ,
A Great Northern passenger train
went into the ditch near Ural, Mont,
one day last week, wrecking a num-
Der of coaches and injuring thirty
passengers, but no one was killed. A
landslide caused by the heavy rains
was the cause of the accident.
The state board of railroad COM
miss oners nave issued an order call
ing a public hearing to be had at
Billings July 8, for the purpose of con-
sidering freight rates on packing
house products and fresh meats from
that city to all Montana points.
While attempting to crawl under a
freight train at Rawlins, Wyo,, in
stead of walking around the train,
George Sjolin, machinist's helper,
had one of his legs crushed and is in
a precarious condition, the train start
ing up while he was between the cars.
The Penwell Ranch company's
Meagher county, Montana, sheep prop
erty has been purchased by an Illi-
nois syndicate for 100000. The COM
pany was organized about year ago
to take over the property, but settlers
came in so fast that the sheep range
was curtailed, virtually fore ng 1t Ga,
Of business.
While considering a wine case in
Butte, Judge MCGOWAN declared that
brides often are offered him by peo-
pie who wish to keep the wine rooms
going. and want lenient sentences for
women arrested in these dives. He
scored the county officials, who, he
said. are making bluff about enforc-
ing the laws.
Byron Nelson and Nick Stillwen
were murdered in their saloon at Lee
land, Nevada, Nelson being stabbed
in the neck with a stilleto, and Still
well in the back. The authorities sus-
pect three Mexicans, who had been
loafing about the saloon the previous
night.
A logging train of the Metropolitan
Logging company, near Eureka, Cal,
ran away on a steep grade and off of
bridge eighty feet high. The entire
train crew of four men were buried
under a mass of huge redwood logs
and wrecked cars, and were instantly
killed
Howard Goodman shot and killed
Charles Pretz, at Billings, Mont, as
the result of a practical joke. Good
man claimed Pretz had knocked him
down on the street, and followed
Pretz into his home and shot him, af-
ter which he surrendered to the au-
thoritieS.
Mrs. Kate Rowland, of noted family
and a granddaughter of Lord Devon
shire, one of the peers of England,
filed suit for divorce from Charles
Rowland, at Reno, Nevada, last week.
She alleges failure to provide since
two weeks after their marriage in Los
Angeles in 1898.
Louis Stephenson. who was six feet
three inches tall, weighed 200 pounds,
and was recognized as the handsom-
oct DoIippD1au af tho wOrId'c fair 1tp