The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-07-09
NORTH WEST NOTES

from Japan.
In the police court in Butte, Judge
MCGOWAN charged openly that fund /
OF 1900 had been raised to bride the.
court and officers to allow a wide-open |
town in the restricted district.
Permission has been granted by |
the United States to the Fifth regi-
ment Of Canadian artillery. armed |
and equipped, to enter this country to |
attend the Seattle exposition.
The rapid spread Of an epidemic OF
hog cholera in the Bitter Root valley,
Montana, is causing considerable con
Germ among the ranchmen, fully 1000 |
hogs having died from the disease.
A party OF prominent woman suf
fragists. including Rev Anna Shaw
and Miss Lucy Anthony, attended the
Seattle exposition last week, being
feted and entertained by the local suf-
fragists
Don Carlos Ellis, chief of the Sec
ton Of Education, in the United States
forest service. will deliver series OF
lectures on the forest work of the
5OYSihhieub ~ thS AldShd" uhOn-Gd-
cific exposition
The first Moapa, Nevada. canta-
loupe of the season was auctioned
last week, bringing s11. 1t is esti-
mated that 300 carloads of MELONS
will be shipped from the Moapa
valley this season.
Charles Hender, car Inspector
at Monetello, Nevada, fell beneath
moving car one day last week,
narrowly escaping death, one foot
being so badly crushed that ampu-
tation was necessary.
The twelve-year-old son Of A. B.
Middlekopf, of Miles City, Mont, lost
two fingers and the thumb of his left
hand last week as the result of the
explosion of dynamite cap with
which he was playing
The first passenger train to leave
Butte over the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railroad, westbound, left
that city on June %, bound for Alder
ton, 35 miles west of Missoula, where
an auction sale of town lots was held
The Southern Pacific is to begin at
once the work of changing the main
line of the road between Wells and
Deeth. $50 miles west of Ogden The
new work entails the laying of twenty
miles Of new standard steel on the
| cutoff
! A general movement for the estab-
lishment of an eight-hour day for ma
chinists throughout the United States
will be started at a convention of the
International Machinists' union to be
held in Denver next September, it il,
announced
Judge Donlan, upon the bench in
the criminal court at Butte, dealt an,
other crushing blow at the gamblers
of Butte last week, when he set a pre-.
cedent by refusing bail to convicted
gambler pending appeal to the su
|, preme court.
c. c. Petty, who shot and killed tis
wife at the Methodist church al
Sparks, Nevada, on the night Of Marcel
, 8, has been found guilty of murder il
! the first degree, the jury fixing pun
ishment at death. Petty comes iron
Asbury, N. ]. u s
Frank Duncan, who was employee
at the shearing plant of the Bento1
Sheep company at Fort Benton Mont
was killed by lightning last week. HI
was out on the prairie and it was no
known that he had met with misfor
tune until his body was found
, The sixteen-months' old daughter o
John Dauterman of Alder, Mont, wa:
drowned in an irrigating ditch las
week, having fallen into the ditcl
near the house Seven years ago the
Dautermans lost a child in the same
manner, and at the same place.
Mrs. D. e. Magardard is dead, ant
four others we're injured as the re
suit of an automobile accident nea
Spokane, when the machine going a
the rate of thirty miles an hou
crashed into a train which was alst
running at a high rate of speed.
Wilton Ooley, janitor of the Mining
Exchange building at Colorado
Springs had his left arm terribly lac
Grated by the accidental explosion o
an eight-inch Hotchkiss shell, a relic o
the Spanish-American war. TIE eX
pIosion was caused by hitting thu
shell while he was cleaning the room
where it was kept. +. I'd"
: A cloudburst in the mountains
south of Helena occurred on June 20
the result Of which was food, which
: wrought much damage in the city ant
adjacent country. Small streams ant
! dry glllches in the vicinity became
. raging torrents, swelling as they ran
until number of streets had all thu
appearance of rivers.
Two huge rattlesnakes have ter
rorized frequenters of City Park, il
Cheyenne, and parents have forbidden
their children from entering the play
ground. Keeper Talbot killed one o
: the reptiles recently, but its mate i
! still at large. Several men ar
. watching the park in the hope of see
: ing the remaining RATHER.
A steel gang at work on railwa,
: contract near Armstead, Mont, wen
on strike one day last week becaus
; the contractor would not discharg
his Chinese cook. Late in the even
. ing the shanty of the Chinese wa
. dynamited and the man seriousl
hurt.
Joseph Claich was killed as the re
suit of a peculiar accident near Nd
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