The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-16
NORTH W EST NOTES

improving and will recover.
The Filipinos of Seattle have.
through committee. protested
against the exhibition of unclad Igor
rotes at the Alaska Yuluon-Pacific ex.
position.
The Mccormick Lumber company's
plant, located about thirty miles from
Chehalis, Wash, was destroyed BY
fire last week the loss being EST
mated at 100000.
Ed Dowell, brakeman on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail
road, fell off his train at Kinsie,
Mont, rolled under the cars and his
body was cut in two
Before adjournment, movement
was set on foot by the delegates 10 the
National Good Roads convention, in
session at Seattle, for the formation
of National Good Roads association.
Two Denver & Rio Grande freight
trains met in a head-on collision at
Una, Colo, thirty miles east Of Grand
Junction. The crews escaped injury.
Both engines and ten cars were de-
stroyed.
The coolest July night Nevada has
experienced was recorded at Reno on
the 9Th Small bodies of water had
layer of ice, and the wheat in the
northern part of the state is reported
to have frozen.
Three children lost their lives when
the home of Bert Oliver, of Summer.
vile, Ore, was destroyed by fire and
the father and mother were severely
burned The fire was started by the
overturning of lamp
A lone bandit held IN Assistant
Cashier Olson, of the Bank of Com
merce at Everett, Wash, shortly be-
fore the bank closed on July 6. wound.
ed Cashier Lyon and escaped with 81
a few hundred dollars.
| William McClammah pleaded guilty
at Helena, Mont, last week of intro.
ducing whisky in the Fort Peck Indian
reservation, November 20, 1908, and
was sentenced to serve sixty days in
Jail and pay a fine of $780,
A murder shrouded in mystery was
committed at Reno Nevada, July s,
when Miss Maria Fava, cook, was
shot in the back and killed by man
whom the police believe to be For
tunato Tarentino, who is missing.
Gov. Burke, of North Dakota, has
been elected president of the Missouri
River Navigation Congress. Jerry
Sullivan, of Fort Benton, Mont. was
elected one of the vice-presidents
Omaha was voted the next congress.
Henry Saulstraw, a farmer living
near Colbert. Wash, is dead with a
bullet wound through his head, and
Edward Scholl, a neighboring rancher
is in jail, charged with murder, as the
result of quarrel between the two
men.
The national convention of the
American Woman Suffrage associa-
ton, in session in Seattle, elected
Rev. Anna Shaw as president. The
question of the next convention city
was left to the general officers for
decision.
The attendance at the Alaska Yu-
kon-Pacific exposition on July broke
the record for Sunday crowds, 81 $50
people passing through the turnstiles.
This brought the total attendance
since the fair opened June l up to
791, lao. ..
I A Virginia City, Mont, special an
nounces that over an area two miles
| in width and indefinite in length, a
hailstorm on July played havoc WITH
the crops, the ground in places being
covered several inches with hailstones
of unusual size
Mrs. James McMasters, aged So, a
well-known woman throughout Mon
tana, who has been living at Superior
recently, committed suicide in the ho
tel at Superior by drinking poison.
Dependency is supposed to have ar
fected her mind.
A corpse was discovered floating in
the Kootenai river about five miles
above Libby, Mont. 1t is that of a
man about feet inches tall, dark,
smooth shaver, index finger and
thumb of right hand gone. 1t had
evidently been in the water for some
days.
w. P. Hammond, the "dredger
king" and party Of California capt.
talists, have. exercised an option held
on the complete interests of the Reno
Power, Light & Water company, opeT-
ating a Trans Nevada system. Ham
mond took the reins of control on
July l.
Mrs. Louis Bronco, wife of tim
herman at Wilkeson, Wash, was muir
dered by a robber, who secured $500.
The man enticed her from the house
by telling her that her brother was
dead, crushed her skull with stone,
secured the money from the house and
escaped.
| Colonel William F. Tucker, U. S.
| A., retired, who was recently divorced
In Chicago, was married in Denver on
July 6, to Mrs. Myrtle Platt, who be-
came Colonel fuckers nurse in the
Philippines when the coloueFs health
! broke down and he was sent home to
the United States.
The Spokane Lumbermen's club has
started campaign against the use of
pulp paper or fiber boxes and pack
ages. 1t is estimated that fully 80
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