The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-10-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

Hayre, Mont, the "werg7 we're Vie.
| tortous by an overwhelming majority,
William H. Towmbley. aged 7s
years, is dead as the result OF falling
in getting of Reno. Nevada, street
car.
The first suowstorn Of the season
visited Lewiston, Mont, On Septem-
Der Il. 1t showed steadily all day,
eeasing only In the evening.
Reno, Nevada, has commenced a
vigorous enforcement Of the compul-
sorry school attendance law, affecting
children between and 16 years of
age.
While playing with matches at Rye
Patch, Nevada, Margaret Mosby, four
years old set her clothing afre, sus-
tanning burns from which she may
not recover.
Henry Raymond, one Of the Oldest
pioneers Of the state, died at Town
send, Mont, September q, at the age
Of rs. Mr.. Raymond was q native Of
Pennsylvania.
Yellowstone, thirty miles south of
Winnemucca. Nevada, is having a
rush on the strength of discovery of
very rich gold ore at a depth of
twenty-five feet.
The alleged gang of counterfefters
arrested at Trout creek. in western
dontana. by secret service opera,
tfves. will be taken to Helena TO
await the action of the grand jury.
Through interests of his sister, ap-
peal will be made to the supreme
court of the case OF Frank Petty,
found guilty of murder Of his wife
at Sparks, Nevada, and sentenced to
death.
Wesley Wiebusch has begun suit
for $4,000 against the Red Metals
Mining company at Butte. Vic
busch's arm was shattered in eleven
places as the result. it is alleged, OF
the company failing to have gates on
the cage
c. J. Belmont and Phil. Scott were
caught high-grading at the bottom OF
a S3o-foot shaft on the klamenaz
lease at Manhattan, Nevada, having
gained entrance through an aban.
doned incline. They surrendered TO
the night watchmen, and are in Jail.
The spectacular feature of the
weeks session of the sovereign grand
lodge Of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows at Seattle, was the par.
ade Wednesday afternoon, when TO-
600 Odd Fellows and Daughters Of
Rebekah marched through the down
town streets.
An attempt on the part of miners
and engineers, loyal to the Western
Federation of Miners, to storm a
meeting OF the engineers who have
seeded from the federation and set
up dual organization of their own,
precipitated a riot in Butte, in which
one man was shot and seriously
wounded and several others hurt.
The Butte Miners union, No. l.
Western Federation of Miners. have
voted to leave the Montana State
unions, of which they were the prin-
cipal founders. Several other organi-
cations have taken the same steps.
The ground is that the organization
is superfuous to the Western Fedora.
ton.
George H. Williams. attorney gen.
eral of the United States during
Grants second administration and
who has held many positions OF trust
both in the national and state govern
ment has been taken TO the hospital
in Portland. His condition is serious.
General Williams is 81 years old, and
has hPpn in Taah7a nEafrE
year.
But for the heroic act of o. B.
Briggs, a postal telegraph operator
working along the line of the South.
ern Pacific near Iceland. Nevada, a
disastrous wreck would have &C.
CURED and several hundred peo0le
would undoubtedly have been killed
Briggs discovered a broken rail and
succeeded in Tagging the train just in
time.
A special dispatch from Great
Falls, Mont, says that the sherifs
officers of Bonner county, Idaho, and
Sanders county, Montana, raided
cabin near Trout creek, Montana,
and discovered a quantity of coun. |
terfeit money and a complete coun- |
terfeiting plant, as a result OF which |
]. S. Lee president of the Burnt For |
est Mining company. his wife and |
son John were arrested.
Governor Edwin L. Norris. Score
tary Of State n. R. Norder. Attorney |
General a. ]. Galen. constituting the |
state board of examiners. have re- !
turned from their inspection of the /
state reform school at Miles City, |
Montana and the agricultural college
and experiment station at Bozeman.
and express themselves as well /
pleased with both institutions.
Lyon county, Nevada, commission.
ers have asked a rehearing in the SD
preme court of the state in the mat
ter Of a vote on removing the county
seat from Dayton to Yerington. This
action reopeus the entire matter.
Free gold has been found just IN
der the retaining wall on the west
side of the court house at Tonopah.
Nevada.
Michael Reinig. one OF Montana's
most prominent pioneers, died at
September 20. aged "A. He
came into the territory in the '50s,
and engaged in mining, and later be-
came leading merchant in Helena,