The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-09-09
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iNTER-MouNTAIN.

NTER-MouNTAIN.
Fire is destroying the heavy timber
along the state road to Laramie river,
fifty miles west OF Fort Collins, Colo,
according to reports brought in by a
rancher. R. c. Mcconnell, forest
ranger at Manhattan, has been ordered
to father force to fight it.
David S. Murray, formerly general
manager of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone company in Utah. Idaho.
Wyoming and Montana leaped from
the roof Of the Deseret National bank
building in Salt Lake City and was
instantly killed. Financial reverses
led to the deed. Murray was As years
of age and is survived by a wife and
daughter.
Gas generated in the Mullan tunnel,
near Elliston, Mont, on the Northern
Pacific by three locomotives, caused
the death OF Fireman Marshall and
the partial suffocation of Conductor
Newton and Engineer Sheppard. All
were of the crew of an extra freight
train.
Mrs. Clara E. Kinsey is under ar
rest on a charge of holding up her di-
vorced husband at the point of a re-
Volver and kidnapping their sixteen
Charles E. Kinsey, merchant of Mills
City, Mont, swore out the warrant for
the arrest.
Four masked men obtained $1,000,
a diamond sunburst and a gold brooch
in a robbery at the camp of John
Adams, the millionaire king of gyp-
sizes" at Colorado City, Colo.
DOMESTIC.
Charles Kahole, a seventeen-year-
old boy of Jamaica, l.. l., may lose
his life as the result of wager with
another young man as to which could
consume the most whisky. Kahole
won the bet ,ey finishing a quart bot
tie and making a start on a second
| bottle
Mrs. Nellie Boyle. one of the four
Holly Rollers who entered upon fast
which lasted thirty-eight days before
being interrupted recently by the po-
lice, died at the county hospital in
Los Angeles of starvation.
John H. Bartlett, farmer. is dead
at his home in Dalton, Conn, as the
result of hog bite. He was attacked
by big boar, receiving slight
wound in the leg, blood poisoning re,
Bulting.
Rain, varying from a half to two
and a half inches, fell over southwest
Texas, from Laredo on the south
Corpus Christi on the southeast and
Luling and Victoria to the east. This
is the first general rain in this sec
ton in three months.
The Socialist party is to make
special effort during the next two
years to make converts among the OF
ficers and men of the United States
army, according to Edward F. Cassidy
general organizer.
Weighted down with heavy stone
the body of well-dressed woman was
found lying in three feet of water II
the Delaware river near Torresdale
Pa.
Mrs. Catherine Fogarty was drowned
at Boston in an attempt to save hel
2-year-old child who had fallen into
pond and a stranger about 60 years
old was drowned while trying to save
the mother.
The police are searching for TIVE
young women who attacked Mlchae
Plunket, broker, as he sat on TN
1,orch of his residence in New 1orl
City. Armed with umbrellas, the pal
beat their victim until he was un
conscious, while one Of their umbreI
las gouged out his right eye.
General Charles R. Brayton, tn
blind leader of Rhode Island Republ
cans and national committeeman fror
that state. fell in his office in Prov
dence and fractured his right hip
An investigation into the allege
prevalence of the opium-smoking hat
II among the soldiers stationed at tn
Presidio has been ordered by Genera
T. H. Bliss. commanding the milltar
department of California.
. Charged with unlawfully takln
+ their vessel from the custody of fec
: eral marshal and attempting to get
0 sea, Captain Hugh ]. Thompson, HI
wife and sister-in-law, together wit
t five members of the crew OF tn
! schooner Vida, are under arrest
e Port Townsend, Wash.
= At a neighborhood we'll in Lincoltol
N c., where his mother and five othe
women had gathered to draw waite
:, Theodore Gilbert, five years old, wa
instantly killed and the women MOI
or less seriously hurt by bolt
a lightning.
o The population of Michigan state
t 2.S1O.173, an increase of 3S91sl,
!, 16.1 per cent, as compared VII
t 2,42O 9S2 in 1900.
= Albert Froelich and his l6-year-o
: daughter were killed when Froelich
automobile was struck by a passeng
l train on grade crossing at Paterso
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