The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-15
NORTHWEST NOTES

short circuited.
Reno people are complaintno -
cause they are not allowed IN no.
the Overland Limited. The tromh,.
started when an attempt was may
to keep off the train a doctor uhs
had boarded it to care for sick my
senger. pas
3. R. Aycock, navy mail clerk On
the cruiser Colorado at the priga,
Sound naval station, pleaded guile
to embezzlement of 1925 at Brernar
ton and was sentenced by Judge Rud
kin in the federal court at Tacomo :.
three months in the county Jail
Governor Shafroth has issued c.,,
for the second annual Good Roado
conference to be held at Pueblo lam,
airy 11-12. Governors of western
states and wardens of penitentiariea
are invited. The use of convict Iabo,
in bodybuilding will be discussed
A burglar kept p. ]. Clifford. nro
prietor of grocery store in Butte
and his wife locked in a closet for an
hour while he ransacked their anart
ments and appropriated 5000 in money
and other property. When the Chf
fords broke out of their prison thew
were almost suffocated.
On the eve of his trial on chargas
of forgery, grand larceny and embez
element, Bruno Grosser, SO years old
for years assistant to the late Alfred
Muller, secretary of the National Jew.
ish Hospital for Consumptives died
suddenly at his home in Denver. The
cause of his death is given as heart
failure.
Hoping to clear up some of the
mysterious dynamitings in Colorado
in recent years, and believing tbev
may find evidence to connect these
disasters with more recent ones
charged to the Mcnamara brothers
agents of William ]. Burns have been
sent to Colorado to conduct the inves.
tigation.
Because Kittie Hull, the first wife
of Charles L. O'Donnell, wanted in
Salt Lake to answer to a charge of
polygamy declines to appear against
her divorced husband, it is likely that
the Salt Lake county officials will
drop the case against O'Donnell.
O'Donnell was released from custody
at Great Falls, Mont.
More mines are shipping ores and
greater development is in progress in
the Inland Empire today than ever
before in the history of the country
The Occur d'Alene district, in north.
ern Idaho, has larger output, and
this also is true of eastern Washing
ton and oregon, western Montana and
southeastern British Columbia
Although he was exorerated, men,
bers of the board say, from charges
of inhumanity and brutality, Super.
tntendent E. H. Renisch of the Mon
tana state orphans home, rendered
his resignation to the state board of
education, the body controlling the
home, and the resignation was &C.
cepted in an executive session at Hell
ena.
Some excitement has been caused
by report from Washington, D. C.,
that the department OF the interior
has assumed charge of the Fort AS
siniboine military reservation and
that it will be surveyed and apprais-
ed and opened for entry. Parties from
Havre have already rushed upon the
reservation in an endeavor to exer-
else squatters' rights.
The Colorado and Wyoming Lum'
Der Dealers association on Tuesday
filed in the federal court at Denver
an answer to the government suit
charging violation of the Sherman
antitrust law Admitting the truth
of many of the contentious set up IN
the complaint the answer denies that
the defendant association is engaged
in restraint of trade in any way.
At meeting of the Denver Bar
association, resolutions were unanl'
mously adopted which may lead 10
judicial investigation of the evl'
dence given by Francis ]. Easton'
who was an alleged eye witness 1or
the defense in the recent murder
trial of Gertrude Gibson Patterson.
A mistrial resulted at Kalama'
Wash, in the case of H. c. Phillips
former president of the defunct Com
mercial bank of Vancouver. WASH"
who is accused of having received DE-
posits after he was aware OF the un
sound condition of the institution. Inc
jury failed to agree.
George B. Moffatt of New YORK
founder of the Oregon Electric ran
way and interested in the PacihC
northwest, died Monday at hospl'ai
in Portland of a complication u
stomach troubles. Mrs. Moftatt was
summoned to his bedside from Ne"
York about two weeks ago.
Following hearing at Helena AcE
ing Governor w. A. Allen granted the
requisition of Governor Wiiian
Spry for Charles L. O'Donneu, wanteu
in Salt Lake on charge OF Disallis,
ODonnell was arrested at Great ans
some time ago. --...f