The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-09-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

bed by Fred Miller and is not expected
to live.
w. S. Young, a Sparks, Nevada, |
painter, has brought SUIT for $4,000 |
damages for being falsely imprisoned
in the jail Of that town for II hours.
The Grow Indians will receive $685. |
$50 next year for the grazing privi-
leges on their lands in Montana, In
stead of $500, obtained for the same
purpose this year.
Playing with matches, Earl Kirchen,
8 years old, exploded a five-gallon can
of coal oil at his nome in Rhyolite,
Nevada, sustaining burns which
caused death three hours later.
The body of Tim Crow, miner en-
ployed at Keane Wonder mine, was
found near Capricorn, Nevada. He
had been dead a couple of days. Be
side him was an empty canteen.
There are $1,000 former Wisconsin
1eopie residing in the state Of Wash
ington. of whom 1000 live in Seattle,
according to statistics gathered recent
Iy by the Wisconsin club OF Seattle.
The Spokane chamber of commerce
will offer the Aero club of America
100000 for cash prizes and will guar
antee suitable grounds for interna-
tonal aviation contests, which are to
be held next year in America.
The steamer Bandon was wrecked
on the bar of the Coquille river, near
,.arshtield, Ore. The passengers and
crew were saved, but the steamer and
l cargo of 600, 900 feet of lumber prob
ably will be total loss.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Sed-
| ro-Woolley Iron Works company, TWEEN
ty miles south of Bellingham, Wash.
| The fire started in the foundry room.
The pattern shop and office were
| saved. The loss is estimated at $780,
900, with $1,000 insurance.
| According to a statement issued
| by the secretary or the interior,
almost 65,O00,OO0 acres of land have
been designated as subject to entry
under the enlarged homestead act, the
lands being in Colorado, Montana, New
Mexico, Oregon, Washington and wy
oming.
Henri Martin was convicted in the
federal court at Butte of importing
Philia Martin, alias Alise Augar, from
France for immoral purposes, and he
was sentenced by Judge Hunt to serve
fifteen months in the federal prison at
Leavenworth. Kan, and to pay fine
of 81.
Spokane is preparing to give Presi-
dent Taft a dinner that may become
even more famous than the postum
dinner of the south. In the hall of the
Doges at Davenport's, claimed to be
the finest banqueting room in the
world, the president will be impressed
with the fact that Spokane is the home
of the big red apple.
With crash heard for blocks
around, the big hosting engine of the
Colorado mine, in VI the center of the
city of Butte, went to pieces, precipi
Eating the steel cable, weighing many
tons, to the bottom of the shaft an
hurting pieces of the reel hundreds O.
yards in every direction. Only one
man was slightly hurt.
General Thomas H. Kavanaugh
aged 66 years, died at Tacoma, Au
gust 81. He was native of Indiana
, served in the Sixth Illinois cavalry II
the civil war and was secretary o
; state of Kansas for four years. Presi
L. dent Arthur appointed him inspector
of lands in Washington, and Pres1den
| Harrison made him surveyor general
w. W. Smith, who is alleged to have
swindled Oregon, Idaho and eastern
Washington farmers out of more thai
$4,000, by agreeing to make loans OF
their property and then collecting
fee of per cent of the promised loan
; which was never made, has been cap
tured at Vancouver, B. c.
James Doolittle, a homesteader nea
, Nyack, Mont, was probably FATAL
wounded in rescuing his 4-year-ol
daughter from a grizzly bear. Doolit
tie, hearing the childs screams, CAV
chase on horseback. The horse threy
, Doolittle, breaking his leg, when tn
, grizzly turned and clawed him in
, frightful manner.
, A reorganization of the Shoshont
River Canal company with the expen
diture of $2,000,O00 for the develop
ment of the Oregon basin reservoir
project, abandoned some years age
+ S being considered by capitalists from
chicago, vino are consulting witt
Wyoming officials. 1t is proposed t.
reclaim 100000 acres of land.
Harry Francis Dougherty, mail OF
derby on the cruiser Colorado, a youtl
. barely 10 years of age, is sought b
: the police on the charge of stealin
:, over $4,000 in cash and iewelry from
:, | his shipmates. The lad deserted a
!, Seattle when he came ashore with
mail bag.
1t is now believed that the cloud
, burst which destroyed over 100 house
in Squattertown, Nevada, did not re
suit in any loss of life, although tn
piles of wreckage strewn along tn
course of the flood may conceal tn
remains of some victims.
NaI,er LOMBARD, Il prominent ranch
= nan, living near West Cliff, Colo, shC
=, md killed his father in-law, Samue
Simerel Lombard drove to West CHI
md gave himself up. He declares tn
shooting was in defense OF his wifi
md children. whom Sinerl was bea