The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-08
NORTHWEST NOTES


10 death at Clancy. Mont. bv Edward
soHhsoh, bartender. The men had
oeen drinking, 1t is said, but how the
trouble started is not known.
another strike has been made in the
GoId Basin country, four miles south.
west OF the new town of Carroll, which
is forty miles southwest from Austin,
Lander county, Nevada.
A special from Superior, Colo. in
the northern Colorado coal mi>ing dis.
trlct' states that an armed clash be.
tween strikers and non-union miners
was narrowly averted at Superior.
Inc fourth annual convention OF
the Nevada Bankers association will
De held in Reno on Friday and Satur-
DAY, December 18th and 18th. 1911.
Leading bankers from California and
other states will be in attendance.
While Governor Edwin l.. Norris of
Montana was in Chicago with other
western governors, a suit for $50,0O0
was begun against him by Mrs. Hal
lie E. Howes, Chicago woman. The
cause of the action was not made
known.
Announcement was made at Butte
last week that Con F. Kelley, chief of
counsel for the Amalgamated Copper
company, had been chosen to succeed
the late F. P. Addicks of New York
as vice president of the Anaconda
Copper company.
The case of Abraham Post, a Rus
sian Jew, charged with a violation of
the white slave laws, will come up in
the federal courts at Tacoma this
week. 1t is charged that Post took
Lillian Halpren from Seattle to Salt
Lake City last February.
Ding Sing of Helena, Mont, is be-
lieved to be the only Chinese cattle
dealer in the United States, marketed
two carloads of range steers at the
stockyards in Chicago last week. The
superintendent of the ranch, also a
Chinaman, accompanied the consign-
ment
When c. S. Yonley, night clerk of
the Great Northern hotel at Denver,
declined to throw up his hands and
turn the contents of the safe over to
George Yant, who gives Omaha as his
home. the latter shot the clerk
through the lungs, inflicting a prob
ably fatal wound. Yant was captured
An Independent telephone company
Is being formed in the DEMO neighbor.
hood for the construction of a new
line from Wild Horse, Oregon, to Win
nemucca. Although the stock books
have been open for only week or
ten days, sufficient shares have been
sold to guarantee the building of the
line.
FELTON, R. Lyons. telegrapher in the
office of the Continental telegraph Of
fee at Lewiston, Mont, has been ar
rested upon charge of bigamy. 1t is
alleged that last December he mar.
ried a Sioux City, Iowa, girl. On No
vember IA last, it is alleged, he was
married to Mrs. Ivy Smith of Moore
Mont.
As Sam W. Langborne, ir., former
chief clerk of the state board of stock |
commissioners of Montana, stepped |
from the train on his arrival al |
Helena after having served year in |
prison for forgery in connection with |
alleged extensive defalcations in his
official position, he was rearrested on |
another charge.
Police investigation alone saved |
Maurice Meyer, captain of the indie
pendent football eleven of Sheridan,
Wvo,, and quarterback on last years
high school team, from violence at the |
hands of a mob of high school stu.
dents when he confessed to having
given information regarding trick
plavs of the home high school team
to Laramie high school players in an
effort to throw the championship to
the visitors.
According to report. thousands OF
rattle will be wintered in the Yellow
stone valley, in Montana, this win
ter. and many of these animals will
come from northern Wyoming.
More than $5,900,O00 worth of
farm machinery has been sold IN
eastern Montana in 1911, according
10 figures compiled by members OF
the Montana & wyoming Plowmen
and Threshermen's association.
Government customs officials are
planning a vigorous investigation OF
alleged illegal opium traffic between
he United States and Canada as a
result of the trial at Seattle of Sam
and Ben Goldsmith on
charges of smuggling. Winnigrass
vas acquitted and Goldsmith con-
yicted.
Doctors of Seattle are up in arms
,gainst the order of Mayor George
". billing, ordering water, contain.
ng millions of typhoid fever germs.
IS shown by tests, turned into the
mains to supply the residence and
,otel districts, cut off from all water
supply by the breaking Of the mains
lpon the Cedar river. ...