The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-09-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

tSh4dI n Luett ne VICE BILL q lOub way
from being broke.
Salt Lake City is now on the map
as city where a passenger can re.
serve berth in a sleeper and go &c
the car hours before the train leaves
ior a part of transcontinental trip.
| AS the result of rifle and shot
gun duel, two miles from Thornton,
Wyo, NJ. Whiteman is dead and Ed
ward Roster is dying Both men
we're ranchers and became involved
n quarrel over fence lines.
The original plan of having ten cars
with exhibits from ten western states
in the governors special has been
| changed; there will be four cars. The
exhibit train will be assembled at St
Paul, instead of at Salt Lake and
| Omaha.
Samuel Lychtenstadter, principal
stakeholder of the famous Mount An
drew copper mine on Prince of Wales
island, and mining man of world
wide acquaintance, was found dead in
bed of heart disease last week in
Ketchikan, Alaska.
l. L. ",
for many years librarian of the state
historical library, and one of the best
known women in the west, died at
hospital in Helena last week after
lingering illness of heart trouble. She
was 81 years of age.
The Western Pacific gross revenues
The coming year, if traffic is maintain.
| "a En-
some falling off in winter months, win
aggregate between s5,000,0O0 and
$4,000, 900, and available net earnings
Tor fixed charges will be over $1,250-
BOO.
The most expensive passenger train
that ever pulled out OF a western city
left the Hartman station in Salt Lake
one day last week. The fourteen cars
In the train represented a cost to the
company of from $4,000 to $4,000
each, while the big engine that pulled
the train cost close to $4,000.
Fifty-six conyicts from the Colo
RADIO state penitentiary, among their
several life-termers, one afternoon
last week sat in the gallery of Den
which the star portrayed a character
suggesting his own life. They were
!, members of the convict road gang en-
, gagged in constructing road neal
Denver.
I CHANGING up from her work as she
heard the whistle of an approaching
, train. Mrs. Ellen Hicke Of Sable, Colo.
D was Mortified to see her 14-months' -ol6
: baby sitting in the middle of the rail
8 road tracks directly in front of the on
: rushing flyer. In a mad dash, she
: succeeded in catching hold Of tbs
Q chiIds dress, but too late, the child
] being killed.
Benny Chayez, the unbeaten Trini
: dad featherweight, gained more
laurels at Walsenberg, Colo, by scor
) ing a knockout over Tommy Cody OF
Denver in the fifth round of what was
to have been fifteen-round go. Cha
vez won in his usual manner by ter
rife right swing that caught the Den
! yer lad on the jaw and sent him dowI
for the count.
D Nat Marten, a settler under the
|. Huntley (Montana) project, made
$4,000 out of dill pickles in one
: season, according to reports received
: by the reclamation service. The pick.
i les were all raised on less than seven
t acres of Montana land. Marten put
: up $50 barrels of these pickles and
s sold them at s13 barren
T Harry Alley fell and injured his
:. head at a smeIter, where he has been
' working in Wonder, New. In his fall
/ Alley struck his head on timber
then dropped twenty-five feet further
!, landing on his neck. 1t was two
days before a physician could be Sc
;, cured, but the injured man is now
On the road to recovery.
7 The judiciary committee of the city
! council of Seattle has voted to recon-
= mend for passage the Grifith's single
= tax resolution. This resolution pro
q poses an amendment to the city char
/, tar providing for the single tax in Sc,
. attic beginning with the 1912 levy and
a should it be approved by the coun
! Gil next Monday it will be put up &c
: the voters in March.
. The Yellowstone National park sea
e son closed on the 18th, after mosi
successful run from June 10. 1t is
believed that the official report OF
Colonel Brett, superintendent of the
, park, which will be made public next
month, will show that nearly 10000
persons toured Wonderland this year
This is nearly 1000 more than made
the trip last season.
Roy V. Smith. who gives his home
as Brigham, Utah, came to Denver re
Gently with negotiable paper, appar
| entity representing thousands, in his
possession. He posed as a verdant
youth, ignorant of business methods
n and appealed to the sympathy of the
/ Denver grain dealers whom he met
in an endeayor to sell his crop OF oats
d Now nine of these grain dealers have
= asked the police to flnd Smith and
!. recover for them 12,100.