The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-23
NORTH w EST NOTES

OF horse.
Martin Nelson. 10 years old, died al
Deillngham, Wash, July 13, of tetanus
contracted through a wound from a
10Y pistol on the Fourth Of July.
Inc plans for the addition to the
capitol building at Helena. Mont
nave been practically agreed upon,
IN, Inc work is to cost half million dol
lars. w.
Ross Titus, an attache Of a circus,
was fatally beaten on the circus
grounds in Butte, dying later. The
ponce suspect a man who has disap-
peared.
immense quantities of asphaltlm
nave been found on the Shoshone In.
dian reservation, and a STAMPEDE
from Lander, Wyo., to stake out
claims and secure land from the In.
dams is taking place.
The delegates to the international
conference Epworth League of the
United States and Canada, spent July
lzth at the Alaska Yukon. Pacific ex.
position, where the day had been
named in their honor.
President Taft has notified the ofi
clais OF the ns-mississippi Com
mereial' congress that provided the
tafln bill is disposed of by August
ne VIII attend the meeting OF the con.
sFess in Denver, August 16.
Margaret Sellick, aged 10, wife of a
drliler az Copper Flat, Nevada, was
burned to death at her home. she
was attempting to start fire with
kerosene, her dress ignited and she
tainted at sight of the flames.
An unknown man walked into a
construction camp near Ravenna,
Mont, and begged the camp cook to
suit his throat, and upon his refusal.
the erazed man seized a butcher
knife and cut his throat from ear to
ear.
Because of the prevalence of scar.
let fever and diphtheria in the CITY.
the health board of Great Falls, Mont
has ordered that no public meetings,
including churches, theaters, dances,
ETC., shall be held for the next thirty
days.
TwenW1seven special trains have
already been engaged by commercial
organizations in various parts of the
country to bring their delegations to
the seventeenth session of tee Ma
tional Irrigation congress in Spokane
August 8 to IA.
the Missoula-Kooskia division of the
Northern Pacific railroad, known as
the Lolo Pass cutoff, were opened
by the Northern Pacific at Missoula.
Mont, last week. The new line will
cost nearly 100000.
@"Durum Bread Day. is the latest
idea of the wheat growers of the Dry
Farming regions of the United States
Already the farmers of the Dakotas
and Minnesota have petitioned their
respective governors to proclaim this
new agricultural day. s.
The Commercial club of Reno. New.
has issued a very attractive booklet
On the town and it's resources an. at.
fractions. The book shows the sur.
roundings of the place, with fine. farm
lands adjacent, and emphasizes its 10.
cation on the Truckee river.
There is reason to believe that the
ellmate OF Montana is undergoing a
change, and it is likely that, follow
ing the experience of other states, it
VIII be found the more the land is
broken up and cultivated the more
pronounced this change will be.
The body of Richard Samples.
Mizpah rancher, has been found in a
pasture twenty miles from Miles City.
Mont. He had been drinking heavily.
and evidently committed suicide, as a
bullet hole was found over his left
eye, and his face was powder-marked.
In a desperate fight near the North.
ern Pacific depot at Missoula, Mont
Special officer Chick" White was
stabbed in the throat by zegro
named Archie Welmore. White at.
sln pied to arrest the negro, who was
acting in a suspicious manner. and
the negro turned upon him with
knife.
Concerning the report circulating in
the west that the Cole Ryan interests
ave become identified with the Ely.
aoldtield project, C. B. Zabrtskie.
head of the syndicate preparing to
build the road, said last week that so
taF as he is aware these interests
have no connection with the under.
taking.
Because Donnels & Steinmetz OF
Reno, whose bid was $4,000 higher
than theirs, was awarded the contract
to furnish the governor of Nevada's
the John Bruner company
has filed suit at Carson City. Nevada.
enjoining the state officials from pay.
Ing any money to the successful con-
tractors.
The explosion of 100 pounds of pow
der in barracks of battery A, at Fort
Russell, Wyoming, injured seven sol
liers, three fatally, and destroyed the
building. The injured men were pre-
pairing blank ammunition at the time
Of the explosion, the cause OF which
Is unknown.
Jerry and John Kearful, brothers,
and neighboring ranchmen at Clear
Creek, in the Havre country, in Mon
lana, had trouble on account Of the
formers wife claiming that the latter
had insuited her. Both drew knives
and Jerry was so badly cut in the
Iracas that he may die.