The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

vada, and partially destroyed her
home
William J. Bryan's visit to the
worlds fair at Seattle last week was
made the occasion of popular demon
stration and rivaled in earnestness the
greeting to President Taft.
United States Fish Commissioner
George L. Bowers has arrived in Sc
attic and win select sites for the two
salmon hatcheries, for which congress
1as appropriated $4,000
State Fish and Game Commissioner
Rizland estimates the value of the
Washington salmon pack of 1909 at
I'll, 100000. The silver salmon run,
now in progress, is heavy
At the annual meeting of the North
western league of baseball cluns, held
In Seattle, w. H. Lucas Of Portland
was reelected president No action
was taken on the question of reor.
Banizing the circuit.
c. D. Cameron, old and we'll known
southern Pacific engineer, died on the
way to San Francisco hospital from
Sp 4rks, Nevada, for treatment Tor pa
'alysis, which suddenly reached his
brain from the eyes
William Lilly, foreman of con-
crete mixer at Las Vegas, Nevada,
while attempting to adjust the
sparker on the engine was caught in
he machinery and SO badly mangled
hat death shortly ensued.
After search of thirty years the
sword presented to Black Hawk, war
n eff of the Sacs and Foxes, by Presi-
| lent Andrew Jackson, has been recov-
cred by D. G. Beaman of Denver, who
will present the relic to the Iowa His,
:orical society.
Fred Skinner who was sentenced
70 life Imprisonment at the state peni
Tertiary for the murder Of Elizabeth
| ieskitt, alias Mona Bell. at Rhyolite
Nevada, has been granted new triaI
by the state supreme court. Skinner
| former trail cost the state Sl4,G40.
Howard Pepper. saloonlleeper, was
shot and instantly killed at Atlanta
Nevada, by his wife. Pepner was
member of the Roosevelt rough riders
n the Spanish-American war. JIG
came to Atlantic from Black Horse
New. and was kno!En in Idaho aht
Montana camps. !
More than 100000 fruit trees viii
he planted in the Yakima valley in cen
tral Washington, west of Spokane, thi
fall and next spring, according to esti
mates made by expert horticulturists
Including the trees planted during th'
season just closed this will give tn
valley 5,399, 400 trees.
A special cable to the Seattle Post
Tntelligencer from Skagway says tina
four men and one woman were drown
ed in a four-horse stage in which the,
were attempting to cross the Klehin
river, near Walls, forty miles mort
of Haires. The stage upset and wa
swept down stream.
Bert Shores, alias Bert Warner, tn
middleweight wrestler, and Wtnn
Harris of Srnkane, indicted in III
southern district OF Iowa for hAvin
used the United States mails to d.
fraud in connection with tbs Maybrl
gang of wrestling swindlerS, were las
week taken from Spokane 10 Iowa fc
trial.
Erling Waldyke, an air Inspecto
In the employ of the Union Paciti
Railway company, met his deaf
under the wheels of a freight ca
at Rawlins, Wyo. Waldyke wa
crossing the tracks in the earl
dawn, when he was run over by tn
freight car which was being pushe
ahead of an engine. t
Thirst for revenge nursed fc
l twenty years is given as the motiv
for the murder of John Gavie, an age
merchant of Brownspark, Colo, b
Walter L. Sanders, now in Denver
/ institute a search for Jarvis slaye
He contends that Jarvis was mu
dered by member of the Brown
Park gang, which operated a numb'
of years ago in Colorado and Utah.
Advocates of equal suffrage in a
parts of the country are watching IL
contest about to be waged in Was
ington state by women for the ballo
A constitutional amendment grantir
suffrage to women will be submitte
to the voters of the Evergreen sta
at the general election in 1910.
Engineers who have been surse
ing for the, Denver & Rio GRAND
railroad in the vicinity of Montros
Colo, for some time. announce thi
the road will be broad-gauge fro
Salina to Montrose, and when IL
two tunnels are bored on the Ma
shall Pass route this will be mao
the main line between Salida al
Grand Junction, shortening the lii
between Pueblo and Salt Lake CT
by fifty miles.
That ]. ]. Hill is considering Il
! extension of the Burlington railros
from Denver to the Pacific coast
stated by T. B. Walker. MINI
apolis millionaire, interested in Ca
fornia timber lands, who has clio
relations with the railway magnas
Ore assaying better than $350,00O
the ton has been opened M in Il
bottom of fourteen-foot shaft IN Phi
adelphfa canyon, near Battle Mou
tain, Nevada. The streak carryiI
these values is almost an inch thit
and runs across the bottom of Il
! shaft.
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