The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Two million feet of lumber. the
property Of the California White Pine
Lumber company, was burned al
Verdi, Nevada. The loss Is $5O,OOo.
The grand encampment of the Odd
Fellows of Montana came to close
at Butte on Thursday, Helena being
chosen for the next annual meeung
pace.
Mrs. Ida Strobridge Of Humboldt
county. Nevada, was awarded the gold
medal at Seattle exposition by the art
department for the highest skill IN
book binding,
The Rhyolite townsite contest,
which has been waged before the land
Office at Carson, Nevada, for some
tfrnc, has been decided In favor OF the
townsite company.
rat fire trat destroyed the Denver
iotel in 5llla1d, Wash, caused tie
d 9Th OF Edwin Burch, who had a.
rived from Alaska the previous day.
Three other men we're seriously, per-
haps fatally, burned.
Accidentally routed from his hiding
place in haystack by the prodding
OF a pitchfork, Charley Williams, the
Reno burglar, who shot two men and
stabbed one in a hotel at Vtnton,
Cal, was subsequently shot to death
by a posse.
G. L. Cudahy and James Smith, EN-.
ployes of a steel company at lrondale,
Wash, were drowned by the cap
sizing Of a sailboat in which they
we're crossing the bay. A launch sent
to pick up the men failed to reach
them In time.
An unknown BURGLAR after shoot
ing two men and stabbing third in
a battle, when he was surprised In
the Vinton hotel, at Vtnton, 35 miles
northwest of Reno, Nevada on the
Western Pacific railroad, escaped and
a posse is in pursuit.
Clarence E. Hunt, a we'll known
automobile man, and DIR. Edward
Grove of San Diego, CAL, met death
when the automobile in which they
were riding turned turtle on grade
WulIG IuGy wore 5pSSuuh5 II oE-l
Ramona to San Diego.
Prominent attorneys of the state OF
Nevada are preparing to wage cam,
paign for the passage by congress OF
bill authorizing another federal
Judge for the 9th circuit, embracing
Nevada, California, Idaho, Washing,
ton, Oregon and Montana.
George Sabin, Thomas Diaz, Ed
Eaton, B. Brink, M. A. Alexander,
Charles Ferris and William Keyes,
prominent stockmen of Big Horn coun-
", are on trial at Basin, Wyo., charged
with the murder of Joe Alemanda and
Joe Emge, sheep owners, and Joe
Lazier, herder.
Rocky Boy and his band of Chippe-
wa Indians, numbering about $50
braves, encamped near Birds Eye,
Mont, probably will owe their rescue
from death by starvation to the
proriptness of Indian office officials,
who have taken means to relieve their
desperate plight.
A bond sufficient to bail L.
Gutierrez De Lara out of prison
where he is held on charge of be.
ing an alien anarchist, has been
pledged at Los Angeles, and the De
Lara Defense Irague," was organized
to aid him in his effort to escape de-
portation to Mexico.
After beating her 1S-months-old
baby's head to a pulp, Mrs. Lena
Heiny. wife Of a sawmill employee,
committed suicide by throwing herself
in front Of an inter.urban electric car
at Portland. She had Shown signs OF
insanity of late and had been treated
for time in sanitarium.
1t develops that the man claiming
to be Francis Schlatter, the divine
healer" who died at Hastings, Neb..
was an impostor. Persons who saw
Francis Schlatter in Denver in 1895
and who have recently seen the man
who died at Hastings, declare posi-.
lively they were not the same
Mrs. ]. Fenton, aged about 80 years,
and claiming Reno as her home, was
found wandering on the desret near
Manhattan, Nevada, and is in criti
cal condition. The aged woman when
found was nearly starved and said
she had not eaten for three DAYS,
She exhibited signs of dementia.
Governor Norris of Montana, presi.
dent of the Dry Farming congress,
will open the international Dry Farm.
ing exposition at Billings, Mont, DC.
toher %, with impressive ceremonies.
James ]. Hill will deliver the princi,
IaI address. Two ~lndred scnool
children will sing national airs.
The total attendance at the Alaska.
Tukon-Pacitic exposition from the
time the gates opened on June un-
til the close, October l6, was S,740.-
SOL. OF this number, 2,T65,6S3 were
paid admissions and 974.SGS were free
1t is estimated that the fair earned a
profit of 100000. which will be re-.
turned to the stockholders,
five convicts Of the Oregon peni.
tertiary, working as TRUSTEES at the
state teeble-minded school. a few
miles from Salem. overpowered three
guards and escaped. They have M
since been captured, one being killed
and two wounded by a posse.
Steps are being taken in Seattle to
organize party of amateur mountain.
GERS to climb Mount Mckinley, Alaska
Inc tallest peak in North America
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