The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-09-24
NORTHWEST NOTES


its criminal prosecution fund
Geo. g. Carol, young assayer en-
nloyed at Blair, Nevada. comnilted
suicide, shooting himself through the
head.
Nv the oyerturning Of lamp, the
nome If Attorney Francis McNulty
was burned at Goldfeld and the law
yer severely injured
"Dick, Butler, well known sport
ing character Of RENO, Nevada, was
found dead in his bed from fatty de-
generation of the heart
The will Of the late General Tur-
ritin, OF Reno, Nevada, OF which ms
wife is sole beneficiary, shows Vaiue
of the estate to be $4,000.
Mark @. Bradshaw, Nevada engi-
neer, has given an aeropiane OF MS
own construction successful test, fly
ing twelve miles along the shore Of
Walker lake
Mrs Minnie A. Bertsch, a second
cousin Of President Arthur, has been
committed to the state asylum IRON
Reno, her mind having become I'M
balanced over religion.
VIM. Mansu, a fireman severely
burned in a recent wreck on the Barn
well & Searchlight road in Nevada,
at which time Engineer Wool was
killed, has lost his mind.
J, J. Hagerman, builder Of the Colo
RADIO Midland railroad and one or the
foremost among Colorado pioneers,
died at Milan, Italy, September ID.
Mr.. Hagerman was 70 years of age.
The wyoming State fair is to be
held at Douglas, September % to oc'
tober l, inclusive, at which time 1t Is
figured the stock show will be the
largest and best ever held in the state.
Considerable timber in the noun
tains west of Sheridan, Wyo., has been
destroyed by fires during the past two
weeks. Careless campers are believed
10 have been responsible for the out
break.
Thomas E. Brady, one of the best
known lawyers of northern Montana,
and widely known throughout the
state, died at Great Falls of Bright's
disease complicated by Internal
erysipelas. ...
Joseph Ivey, 95 years old, OF Vir-
ginia City, Nevada, was drowned in
Shaws Springs, near Carson, while on
a pleasure trip with his wife, who was
DOMINIC a bathing suit at the time
Ivey lost his life.
Col. Isaac L. Ellwood, a DeKalb, ILL.,,
millionaire, was confined to a room
in his hotel at Eureka, New, for sew
eral days last week from injuries re-
sulting from the careless switching OF
a car while going into that town.
Mrs. J. G. Cash, chief telephone op
orator at Reno, is recovering from
poison contained in a bottle of wine
sent her by an unknown man, who
signed himself Your Admirer"
Enough strychnine was in the bottle
to have killed half dozen.
John Jacobs has disappeared from
Manhattan, Nevada, with about $500
belonging to a meat market. Jacobs
took the money from the safe in the
absence of the proprietor and then
switched the combination. He left
for Tonopah, but lodged the officers
there.
The contract for the construction of
the okanogan branch of the Great
Northern railroad from Brewster to
Oroville, Wash, has been let to A.
Guthrie & Co. of Minneapolis, who
have instructions to begin work at
once. The road will be nearly seventy
miles long and will cost 100000.
The body of former Sergeant Monroe
of Company G, Sixth infantry, was
found back of the residence of Ser
geant Whalen of Company A, in the
non commissioned officers quarters at
Fort Harrison, near Helena, Mont.
Whalen is being detained at the guard
house pending an investigation. Death
was due to rifle shot.
After voting to drop the word
United" from the official name.
Spanish war veterans decided on
Denver as the encampment city for
1910. and elected Col. Edward ]. CT.
houn of Wakefield, Mass, commander
in-chief at the closing session of their
sixth annual convention in Tacoma.
Charles Guignon. a Whitehall, Mont,
rarcher, has identified George Gordon
Fitzgerald and John Grow. held in
Butte on swindle case, as the two
men who flim-flammed him out OF
$6,20 in New York six years ago,
while Guignon was on his way to
France on visit.
The Great Northern Railway com.
pany announces that contracts for the
cutoff on the line between Great Falls
and Belt, Mont, have been awarded.
About twenty-five miles of new rail.
way will be constructed, including a
tunnel $4,000 feet long, and the cost
viii be in the neighborhood of mil
lion dollars.
The Presbyterian mission at Point
Rarrow, Alaska, in the Arctic ocean.
the most northerly church in the
world, and which was built in 1890 by
Mrs. Eliot F. Shepard of New York
was burned on April IL, according to
advices Just received at Seattle.
NJ. P. Mccoy, United States exam.
mer of surveys, has been arrested in
Seattle, charged with embezzlement of
public money to the amount, it is said,
OF more than $1,000. Mccoy and his
wife lived in a fashionable neighbor-
hood and the arrest has caused great