The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

home Of f. T. Walker, the woman's
son, and committed suicide. Jealousy
was the cause, II is said.
The proposed Pacific coast trip OF
the Ann Arbor high scnool football
team has been cancelled because Oh
the adverse decision of the superin'
tendent OF the Seattle schools.
Frank Kennedy. barber Of Ymir,
b. q, was burned to death in fire'
which destroyed the Great Northern
hotel at Salmo. Fifteen other guests
escaped by jumping from the win
dows.
Cheyenne Is now on the aerial map,
for the Western Airship company
mas Just completed details whereby
the Wyoming city will be the final
turning point on the proposed birds
eye course over the Rockies.
Senator Warren has introduced a
bill authorizing the secretary of the
interior to contract for the delivery
Of surplus water from government IT.
rigation projects to corporations or
individuals operating under the Carey
act.
Edward II. Stubley is on trial In the
federal court in Seattle, charged with
using the United States malls to de-
fraud tender-hearted girls, who sent
money to him when he wrote to them
that relatives in Seattle were sick and
in want.
Dan lie Barron was sentenced to
life Imprisonment by Judge Orr at
Winnemucca, New, for the murder Of
Thomas New, whom he shot in the
back and fired two more shots into
him as he lay mortally wounded OH
the floor.
Willing his body to Corner Desmond
that he may study the effects OF
alcohol on the nerves and brains of
an ordinary normal man." Thomas
Potter Ormstead, member of
wealthy family in the east, ending his
life at Cheyenne by drinking car
bolic acid.
s. Samuel Curtis, Civil war veteran,
pleaded not guilty to a charge of hay.
ing murdered Albert Wilson, at Port
land, November "a, and asserted that
he shot in self-defense. Curtis stated
that Wilson stole his wallet and that
when he tried to get it back was met
with blows.
Representatives of the Billings,
Mont, chamber OF commerce have
filed with Governor Norris a petition
requesting that he summon the legis-
lature in extra session to provide
funds so that Montana stone may be
used in the construction of the new
capitol wings, at an estimated cost of
SOS, 900. 1885,
w. G Smith, former speaker of the
Colorado house of representatives,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
each against Judge Ben v. Lindsey of
Denver and Harvey H. O'Higgins, a
magazine writer. Smith alleges de-
famation of character in a series of
articles now running in Everybody's
Magazine.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men of Butte, who, without an order
from their national union, but unoffi-
cially and in sympathy with local
members of the National Switchmen's
union, went on strike December l,
closing some of the mines in Butte
and throwing 5000 men out of work,
have returned to work.
Mrs. Helen Brown Jones, who is
fighting in the courts for seat on
the Denver school board, with wo-
man lawyer, Miss Gall Laughlin, as
her attorney, gained victory against
the election trustees when Judge
Shattuck of the district court sus.a
tanned the demurrer and ordered thes1
judges of the election to certify the
returns to the school board at once
Whether the jobbers of Portland,
Ore, and Seattle, Wash, shall be Civ
en- such rates on package freight as
will enable them successfully to com.
pete with jobbers at Missouri river
transfers, st. Paul and Minneapolis,
and big distribution points like Den.
yer, is being considered by the inter.
state commerce commission.
Snatching blanket and wrapping
hersef in it, Mrs. Orrin Smith, wife
Of Sheriff Smith Of Phoebe. New,
saved herself from fire which had at
tached to her clothing from the ex-
plosion of a gasoline stove. Later the
puCEy woman put out fire which had |
started in the house.
Aluska's delegate to congress,
James Wtckersham, declares that up- |
IN his arrival in Washington early in
January he will introduce bill pro |
Giding 'or the establishment of a ter |
'itor'al government for Alaska, in
Guiding a legislature elected by the |
,iuzens of the territory.
I" + Lomone of Everett, Wash.
was killed, l.. blonde was fatally in
ured, aud half a dozen Italian labor
'rs were seriously hurt in a wreck of
: Great Northern work train three
miles west of Sedro-Woolley, on the
aockport branch.
Scores of women living on Capi.
.ol hill, Deuver's fashionable resi-.
tence dt'trict, have been dupted dur.
ns the last few DAYS into the uur.
'hase of bogus turs by the plausible
ale Of pretty woman impostor. and
ire now trying to get their money
back
For the first time in the history of
Nevada there was held at Reno ON
Thursday a funeral according to the
ties of the Greek church over the re-