The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1909-12-31
NORTHWEST NOTES

Twenty-three giant new hei5he
pines. costing $4,000 each, are being
delivered to the Southern PACING.
They are mostly for service In Ne
vada.
G. w. Ramsey, who has served
three terms in the penitenuary
Carson, Nevada, for burglary, Is
again under arrest at Reno for IKE
offense.
Trooper Eugene Rowan, Ninth cav
airy colored, has been convicted at
h cheyenne of assaulting Miss Ethel
Stevenson on September 16. His de-
Tense was intoxication.
The body of the old prospector, VINO
was found frozen to death about
week ago, six miles from Red GIN,
colo. has been identified as that OF
Melvin Kilton Of Bedford, N. H.
Jules Galeron, who leaped from
train at Inlay, Nevada, in fit OF IN
sanity. is dead from Injuries re-
ceiyed. He had been a sheepherder
in Humboldt county for several years.
Though struck full on the head by
a piece OF slagging which fell forty
feet from a stope, Joe Viola escaped
injury other than a slight cut, ana
kept right on with his work at Tono-
pah.
Harry Rogers, prominent Teton
county, Montana, ranchman, shot ana
killed Don Corella, Mexican, who
threatened Rogers life when Rogers
refused to dance at the command OF
Gorella.
There were only two voters in
School District No. II, the Basin,
Wyo. district, who we're opposed to
erecting new school building, at the
recent election to bond for $4,000 for.
that purpose.
Wells Fargo company has instruct
ed it's agents to receive no ducks for
shipment in the state of Nevada, fear
ing that 1t might fall liable to fine
for having on hand more at one time
than the law permits.
Indications pronounced by experts
to be positive, have been found in,
well being put down by the Western
Pacific at Sulphur Siding Nevada, in
the Black Rock desert for water of
oil with paraffine base.
The Wheelman theatre and the new
" constructed St. Thomas Aquiris
Catholic church at Reno, Nevada,
were destroyed by fire on December
| 81. The loss to the theatre is about
$4,000, and the cathedral, $4,000.
Reno Elks have decided to come
under saloon regulations in the con-
duct of the bar in their rooms, fol-
lowing action taken by the city to
see why they should not pay the
same as other purveyors of liquor.
AS the result of poaching by tusk
hunters in the big game fields of Wy
omipg, it Is expected that the next
legislature will be asked to remedy
the game laws and make the pen
atty for illegal hunting more severe.
Martin Wallace, secretary of the
California State Miners union, has
been missing from his home at Grass
Valley since Thanksgiving day. He
left home in response to a letter now
believed to have been a decoy, and 1t
is feared he was murdered.
A committee representing the Butte
Miners union on Wednesday drove
switchmen who had returned to work
in the Butte yards of the Great
Northern Pacific railroads from their
work and told them that If they re-
turned 1000 miners would wait on
them.
The Women's clubs of Cheyenne
have been asked to take charge of The
plans for the entertainment of the
wives of sheepmen who will come to
Cheyenne to attend the annual con-
venuon, January and 5, of the Wyo-
ming Wool Growers association. The
Industrial club will entertain the
men,
Mystery wells the fate OF fourteen
men composing the crew of the four
masted schooner Susie M. Plummer,
which Is drifting, abandoned, in the
ocean south of Cape Flattery, a men.
ace to navigation. 1t is supposed the
crew was taken off by a passing YES.
sci. The Plummer was carrying lum-
Der from Everett, Wash, to Califor-
mia.
While freighting across the desert
to Goldfeld, Charles Leach fell from
the wagon and the wheels passed
over his body. He lay there uncon.
scious for four hours, his feet freez.
ing, but he finally managed to drag
himself into Goldfield, where he is in
the hospital, suffering from several
| broken ribs, in addition to his other
injuries.
AS a direct result of the prolonged
sWitchmen's strike the Hammond and
the Centennial flour mills, at Seattle,
TWO OF the largest on Puget sound,
closed on Thursday. Since the strike
was inaugurated the wheat supply has
been irregular and the millers decid.
cd 70 suspend operations until strike
conditions show a more decided inn.
| prOvement.
Special rates from all Wyoming
points to Cheyenne for the annual
convention Of the State Woolgrowers'
association, January and : have
been granted, which is expected tn
make 1t the largest gathering of
sheepmen ever held in the state,
W. H. Inman, a plumber, has been
arrested at Laramie, charged with
mayhem, H. H. Graham asserting that
inhan struck him in the face. break.
ing MS spectacles and driving a niece
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