The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

Of Carson City, Nevada, Is dead at
the age of rs.
The Colorado Woman's Republican
club has Endorsed Mrs. Dewey G. Bal
ley for congress.
Within month upwards Of a dozen
men have been shot, wounded or
killed at Virginia City, Nevada.
Owing to delay in securing mater
lals the Western Pacific will not com
mence running their trains until No
ember, says the Ely, Nevada, News.
A contract has been let for the
building of new theater at Reno,
Nevada, to cost $32,500. Senator Geo.
S. Nixon is interested in the enter
prise.
G X. Wilson and e. W. Murphy, two
old prospectors, have discovered a
ledge near Goldfield which has the ap-
| pearance of carrying commercial as
bestos.
A teamster named Charles Miller,
employed by the Missouri River Power
company. met instant death in runa-
way while engaged in hauling steel
for the new dam across the Missouri
| river near Helena.
| William J. Griswold, ranchman and
sheepowner Of Cherry Creek, Nevada,
suicided last week. taking poison. Ey-
cry effort was made by his friends to
save his life after 1t became known
that he had, taken the poison, but in
vain. s...
Senator Charles A. Culberson of
Texas will be the opponent of Will
liam J. Bryan for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency in
1912" announced Senator Robert Tay-
lor OF Tennessee In an interview at
Spokane. ...-
Mrs. Annie Furlong and Mrs. Jane
Quinn, who are sisters and both much
over seventy years of age, became
violently insane at Verdi, Nevada,
and before they could be restrained
did much damage In the neighbor-
hood OF their hoe.
Probate Judge Coffey has fixed the
amount of the inheritance tax to be
paid to the state of California by the
widow of the late Claus Spreckles at
$97,651. In a partial distribution of
the estate three weeks ago Mrs.
Spreckles was allotted $3,370,8S4.
F. r. Nicholas. state engineer of
Nevada, has completed the plans for
the new prison and has submitted
them to the prison board. The plans
provide for accommodation of more
than three hundred prisoners. The esti.
mated cost of the structure is s275 900.
The receipts at the United States as
say office in Helena for the month of
September, according to the statement
of the official in charge, amounted to
$4,000, of which Montana contribut,
ed $4,000. This is gain OF $50, OOC
compared with the receipts for the
corresponding month last year.
Montana is to have new railroad
articles of incorporation of the Mon
tana, Wyoming & Southern company
of New Jersey having been filed with
the secretary of the state. A standard
gauge line is to be constructed from
Bridge and Belfry to Bear Creek, Car
bon county, a distance of thirty-three
miles.
The automobile carrying the Phila
delphia Press courier bearing mes
sage from President Taft to the pres
tdent of the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific ex
position, rolled down a 30-foot en-
bankment into the Snoqua1mie river
three miles west of North Bend
Wash. The occupants of the cal
swan ashore.
Declaring the methods now used in
dealing with city prisoners are dis
graceful, Police Commissioner George
Armstrong of Spokane marked his
first day in office by ordering hot wa
ter, soap, towels and safety razors fol-
all the men in jailAand declaring that
in the future any prisoner being re-
leased shall be entitled to a full stom
ach, bath, clean clothing and a
shave, to make him feel like man
The Florence Goldeld company
has declared a dividend of ten
cents per share, payable October
= 25, making the total disbursements
$6So,000 Consolidated Florence and
Combination Fraction dividends, pay
able within thirty days, total $1,263,
600.
Weather permitting, trains will be
operating between San Francisco
: and Salt Lake City by the Western
Pacific, beginning November 1st
: says the San Francisco Chronicle,
But seyenty-tive miles of the new
transcontinental line remain to he
constructed.
William Reese, a farmer of Sumas,
Wash, near the international boun,
l dairy line, was fined $500 and costs in
the federal court at Tacoma for hay.
Ing smuggled dressed pig across
the boundary from British Columbia to
the United States. He pleaded gull.
ty and paid the fine.
September gold receipts at the Sc
attic assay Office were less than
100000, or nearly million less
than for last September. Lack oil
water for the placer mining is the
cause. Receipts for the year will
9 be about $1S,000,000.
Wells-Fargo express business over
the Denver & Rio Grande, between
Grand Junction, Colo, and Ogden,
| Utah. will be turned over to the
Globe Express company, according to
| persistent reports. 1t is understood
that negotiations to this effect have
| Just been concluded in New York.