The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-11-12
NORTHWEST NOTES

AS ANGFS1ld AEHlEdE mas commenced
erection Of new depot and Office build
ings at Reno. which will cost s35. COS.
Daily mail service has been cut to
tri-weekly between Fallon and Fai.-
view, Wonder, Sand Springs anu Hill
district, in Nevada.
Mrs. Jennie Walsh. aged 60, an EN-.
ploye Of the Red Cross hospital al
Reno, Nevada. committed suicide,
taking carboiIc acid.
Ollie Gathers has been convicted at
Goldfeld, Nevada. Of robblng woman
at Rawhide, and sentenced to eighteen
months in the peniteLtiary.
Southern Pacific car robberiey at
Hazen, Nevada, are being traced &c
two men named Menzir and Hanlon,
under arrest for minor ofrerses.
For stealing two suits OF clothes
from lodging house, Charles Martin
was arrested at Reno while trying to
sell the garments to a secondhand
dealer.
From oyer-exertion al play with
other little ones, the baby daugh-
ter Of Mr. and Mrs James Barrett
tell dead at their home near Carson
Nevada.
Fifty-six new engines, covering a
half mile of track. stand in Salt Lake
ready for entry to Western Pacific
service when the new road is opened
for through traffic
For drawing gun and attempting
to kill his wife at the home of a
neighbor who disarmed him. Charles
Logan, barber, is under six months
Jail sentence at Tonopah, Nevada
Al. Talbot, wealthy resident OF Reno,
Nevada, was shot by his wife in the
Office Of her attorney while negotiating
his left lung and his condition is Sc
rious.
The news comes from Butte that r.
Augustus HeinZe intends returning &c
that city and will take up his perma-
| neat residence there. devoting himself
hereafter to his mining interests in
Montana and Utah.
Caught between two cars of brok-
en- train while trying to shut on the
air, Brakeman E. B. Manning Of the
Western Pacific was crushed to death
shortly after the train pulled out from
Gerach for Winnemucca, Nevada
Judge n A. Murphy. widely known
| in the state of Nevada, in which he
| held many Offices of high honor. in.
GLIDING membership on the supreme
bench, is dead at his Carson home at
| ter a long illness. He was a past
| grand master Of Nevada Masons.
4 mile of the ditch diyerting waters
OF the Humboldt river to the reser-
voirs of the Humboldt-Lovelock irriga.
ton enterprise in Nevada has been
| completed and a large construction
! force is rushing the remaining Il
miles of work.
| F. H Newell. director Of the recla
| nation service, and Senators Carter
| of Montana and Jones Of Washing
| ton left Denver Sunday to begin the
| second half of the inspection trip oi
the senate committee on irrigation
| Other members Of the party will ioir
them in Utah.
| Though no evidence connecting
| her with the death of Joe D. Car
roll at Elko was brought out at tbs
! coroner's inquest, Birdie De Rae
has been charged with murder. She
| was born at LovelOck and is tbs
| daughter of woman inmate. Of Ne
| vada's insane asylum.
| Twenty-Five per cent more graiI
| was produced in Montana this yeal
| than in 1908, according to an esti
! mate made by G. A Bailey, Montana
| manager of the McCaulEDinsmoTe
company of Minneapolis, which main
! tains II grain elevators in the state
| of Montana.
The Oregon Trunk railway has fled
articles Of Incorporation at Vancouver
| Wash. The purpose of the corporation
| is to build a railroad from point in
| Washington on the Spokane Portland
! & Seattle railroad across the Column
bia river 10 Celtic. then up the Column
| bia to the Deschuees river and up that
river continuing in a southerly direc
| ton TO klamath Falls, Oregon.
Louis Miller, grand secretary Of the
grand lodge of Wyoming Odd Eel
I lows and grand scribe of the grand
encampment of the Patriarchs Mill
tant. died at Laramie. Sunday.
Ed Baker, proprietor of gambling
! games in the Nina hotel. was shot
! and instantly killed by Slim Grimmet
4 Nina, Nevada. gambler whom Ba
| ker is said to have discharged some
| lime ago for cheating.
Mrs. Howard Pepper has been ex
Onerated in the killing OF her nus
band at Atlanta, Nevada, it being
shown that she acted in self defense
| during the course of a terrible beat
| ing her husband was administering.
| George A. Bailey. we'll known
resident of Nevada City, Cal. was
found in the city Jail with his brains
| blown out by a pistol shot. Bailey
had been drinking for several days
and he was locked up to give him a
| chance to sober up. He had con-
cealed a revolver in his clothes
]. w. Stanton, who was convicted
at Vancouver. B. c.. OF having swind.
led Lars Olsen of Bellingham out OF
$500 and a check for $1,000 at the
| AIinoru Park race track with fake
bet on a horse race, was sentenced
to three years in the penitenttary.
The gross earnings OF the Union
| Pacific system for the month of Sep
TENDER were sS,100,372, an increase