The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-11-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

The contract has been awarded for
the erection of Elko's. new court
house at cost OF $4,000
George w. hyde, miner, en- route
from Nevada City, Nevada, to work
at Lucky Boy mines, fell from
train and was killed.
In a runaway at Winnemucca, Ne
yada, Mrs. ]. H. Hoyt was seriously
injured and Mrs. w. F. Pierce and
two children severely hurt.
University of Nevada professors
are making dairy survey OF the
Carson valley for the purpose of com
piling statistics on It's milk and but
ter production.
. Under severe cross examination in
an arson case, Mrs. ]. E. Whitaker
tainted ana has since been in serious
condition at Reno, Nevada, hearing
OF the case being meantime sus-
pended.
The jury IN the case of Herbert l.
Brink, one OF the seven cattlemen on
trial at Basin, Wyo., charged with the
murder of three sheepmen in the Ten
sleep country, returned verdict of
murder in the first degree.
Walter Grant, arrested at Reno,
New, for passing counterfeit money,
escaped from the officers by slipping
from a group of prisoners being re-
turned to Jail from their suppers. No
trace has been secured Of the man.
A drunken man incarcerated in the
Jail at McGill Nevada came near be-
ing incinerated when he set fire to
the jail. AS it was he was rescued
| just in time, being in an unconscious
condition from the smoke and heat.
Charles Bolton stabbed Harry Rey-
nolds in the course of quarrel on a
ranch near Elko, New. Reynolds
| threw aside pitchfork, when Bolton
| plunged at him and broke an inch
and a half of knifeblade off in his
breast.
| Father r. E. Meehan, we'll known
Catholic priest, is rallying from am
putation of his right leg, badly
crushed under a train at Inlay, Ne
vada, as he fell in stepping from the
platform. Winnemucca friends have
subscribed $3.50 for him.
Frank Czolgosz, aged 40 years, Ell
der brother of Leon Czolgosz, the as
sassin of the late President McK1n-
ley, died of heart disease on Tuesday
at his home in Polish colony near
| Aberdeen, Wash. Czolgosz hau be
lieved his brother Leon to be insane
previous to the assassination.
Because he had been cheated in a
land purchase, Clarence Putnam shot
and killed himself at Seattle. Put
uam, who was 26 years old, came
from Kansas six months ago, having
bought a farm in the Yakima valley
When he went to look at the land
neighbors told him that it was worth
less.
Patrick Leary, aged 80 years, and &
miner, was fatally shot in a Butte sa
loon by an unknown man, who stood
in the doorway of the place and fret
five shots. 1t is the belief of the pc
lice that Leary was shot in chagriI
by a man who had attempted to holt
up man named Tirney, but who es
capped and made his way to the sd
loon.
Margaret Ellington Frohman, wifi
of Daniel F'rohman the New Yorl
theatrical man, was granted an abso
lutte decree OF divorce from her hus
band at Reno, Nevada, on Wednes
day. The hearing occupied the dis
trict court for only twenty-five mir
utes, but one other witness beside
the plaintiff testifying. The ground
were nOn-support.
A joint convention of the Wester
Slope Development congress and tn
Western Slope Stockgrowers' asst
citation was held in Grand Junction
Colo, on Wednesday and Thursda!
Shortage of refrigerator cars for frut
shipments was the cause of Vigo
: GUS discussion, and relief will be d.
handed Conservation of natural n
sources was another topic discussed
Struck in the head by an air dri
in a mine, Tom Smith rode twent
miles in a wagon to Amargosa, New
caught a train into Las Vegas an
walked to doctors office, where
was found that his skull had bee
penetrated. a spoonful Of brain bein
taken away when the wound wa
closed.
John F. Logan" held in jail {
ColvilIe, Wash, charged with tn
murder of his housekeeper and tn
cremation of her body, has been ide1
tilted as Frank Romandorf, wante
at Bellingham for the murder o. job
F. Logan at Maple Falls in ii
autumn of 1906.
Birdie De Racy, the girl held fl
the murder of Joe Carroll at Elk
New, is said to be heiress to $1,000
held in trust from her fathers estat
She is but 16. 1t is now said the XII
y ing resulted from dispute about pro
! ertv Carroll had sold her.
West-bound passenger train No.
y on the Denver & Rio Grande railroa
went into the ditch at Waco, COX
s. on Wednesday, the result, it is b
l. neved. of a broken rail-. Several pa
!. sengers were cut by flying glass, b
l. no one was seriously injured.
!. The Reno Nevada, Salvation arm
10 is on the verge of disruption becau: