The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

In Pueblo, Colo, has been set for the
week of September 26.
Five football players were injured,
two of them seriously, in the game at
Walla WalIa on Thanksgiving day be
tween Washington State college and
the Whitman college eleven.
A local union cannot be coerced into
affiltating with a central building
trades council, according to a decision
handed down by Judge H. R. Riddle
in the district court at Denver.
r. B. Foy, a Union Pacific conduc-
tor, was killed in a rear-end freight
collision at Walcott, Wyo, Engineer
Arthur Noah and Brakeman J. Spray
were seriously injured. All live in
Laramie
The Panama-California exposition
to be held in San Diego in 1915, was
given the unqualified Endorsement of
the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce, after prolonged discussion
of the subject.
A syndicate of smelter and mill men
has purchased over 1000 acres of coal
land in Routt county, Colorado, on the
surveyed line of the Moffat railroad,
to supply their smelters and mills in
Utah and Colorado.
c. A. Strauss, former cashier of the
Portland postoftice. convicted of en-
bezzlement, has been sentenced by
Federal Judge Wolverton to serve
eighteen months in the county Jail
and to pay fine of $4,015.
Announcement is made that Sena-
tor Guggenheim has donated $4,000
for new building for the Colorado
State Normal school. 1t is probable
the new building will be either for a
gymnasium or for domestic purposes.
The state supreme court of Wash
ington has ordered that former Ad-
jutant General Ortis Hamilton, who is
accused of forgery and having obtain
ed money under false pretenses, be
admitted to bail in the sum of $780,
900.
Practically every river, stream and
creek in Oregon is out of its banks
and from all parts of the state come
reports of damage. In eastern Oregon
the rain was accompanied by wind
of almost hurricane violence, which
has resulted in considerable destruc-
ton.
Charles H. Meyer president of the
Western Federation of Miners. is not
inclined to believe the impending
trouble at the HOmestake mine at
Lead, S. D., will involve other dis
tricts in which the Western Federation
is orgarizod, according to a statement
made at Denver.
Sixteen persons were injured when
street car left the rail, crashed
over the curb and overturned on the
sidewalk in Denver. Mrs. M. Saver.
internally injured probably will die.
DR.. J. G. Hammill, passenger, eXtri'
Gated the tifty-three people impris-
Oned in the wreckage.
A jury at Lewiston, Mont, found
Peter Robinson, contractor, guilty
of murder in the second degree, fix
ing the penalty at life Imprisonment,
for the killing of Roy Short, a horse
man, in a saloon last September. The
shooting followed a quarrel over
dollar that Short claimed Robinson
owed him
The interior department has with
drawn from disposition, as containing
water power possibilities about 1904
acres of land along the Smith river,
Montana. This tract will be held in
reserve pending action by congress,
which is expected to enact legislation
governing the disposal of power sites
on the public domain.
Arising from the table in the midst
of a Thanksgiving dinner she was
giving in Portland for her friends,
Mrs. Eta Grissan, formerly of Boise,
Idaho, went to her bedroom and
drank carboHc acid. She died before
medical aid could be summone. De,
spondency over separation from her
husband is assigned as the cause.
James Mott of Council Bluffs, Ia,
has been located in Cheyenne, Wyo.,
and now Pueblo police are wondering
who the well-dressed man was that
killed himself at the Pueblo Gun club
a month ago. He hau been identified
as Mott, bus the latter's wife and
son found him in Cheyenne, working
in a lumber yard
Anti-saloon forces of Arapahoe
county, Colorado. defeated in the eff
fort to have saloonkeepers indicted
for violation of the midnight and
Sunday closing laws, have filed infor-
nation in court under an old terri
torial law which forbids the sale of
intoxicants to United States soldiers.
The "drys" assert the patronage OF
the places comes from soldiers at
Fort Logan.
The interior of the court room at
Tonopah was given the appearance of
a saloon when the bar contained in
the Nelson place at Iceland was
erected before the district judge and
jury in the trial of the Mexican held
for the sa 'oon murders.
Mrs. Allen F. Read on trial in Den
yer, was found guilty of assault to
commit burglary. A year ago this
month Mrs. Read attempted to force
Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phtpps to
give her 100000, threatening to blow
her up with dynamite unless she COM
piled.
Engineer Fred Rogers was crushed
and scalded to death and Fireman J.
Nesbitt and Brakeman w. T. Furlong
were injured near Warrenda1e. Ore.
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