The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-05-05
NORTHWEST NOTES

be held in Denver, September ~, ~
and 30. A call for the convention VIII
be issued soon.
Francis B. Clarke. former president
of the Spokane, Portland u Seattle
railway. died at Portland, Tuesday,
aged rs years. He had been In the
railroad service nearly fifty years, III
health forcing him to retire year
ago.
Unless their demands for better pay
are granted within the week. engf
neers, firemen, brakemen and conduc
tors on the Western Pacific railroad
may walk out all along the line, tielng
up the road from Salt Lake to the
coast.
A new regime In railroading Of the
Burlington in the Big Horn basin
country of wyoming and southern
Montana became effective on April 20,
when the first train over the Scribner-
Fromberg cutoff pulled out OF Billings
for Cody and other Wyoming points.
The news comes from Miles City.
Mont, that the body OF Jane Wood, SO
years old, who lived alone, was found
Tuesday morning with the head al
most severed from the body. The
home of the woman had been set on
fire. Mrs. Wood came to Montana
from Buffalo, N. Y. "a
Governor John F. Shafroth of Colo
RADIO has issued proclamation des1g'
tpan
calling upon the people of Colorado
to observe the day in fitting manner.
In the proclamation the governor par.
ticularly requests that the churches OF
the state hold special services in
honor of mothers.
The Butte union No. 1, Western
Federation of Miners, the largest local
in the United States, has passed reso-
lutions pledging moral, financial, and,
"if needed, physical support" to the
Los Angeles dynamiting suspects, and
called upon Congressman Berger of
Milwaukee to press an inquiry by the
national house and senate.
Joseph Westerberg, president of the
International Investment and Securi-
ties company of Denver, has been ar
charge of using the mails in scheme
to defraud. He is accused of having
obtained through the mails many
thousands of dollars from persons in
New England and Germany in ex-
change for alleged worthless mining
stock.
A compliant has been issued against
Robert Lester the ticket agent of the
Short Line at Butte, alleging short
age in hiS accounts of $1,000.
The eastern Montana Woolgrowers'
association celebrated its silver an
niversary at Miles City recently, the
association having been in existence
twenty-five years.
H. F. Poland, a prominent mining
man, was killed at Pony, Mont,
when he fell from an ore wagon and
was crushed between the hub of the
wagon and the road embankment.
The badly decomposed body of an
unknown man was found near Cherry
Creek, New, last week, the indication
being that the body was that of an
aged prospector who had suicided.
The postal savings bank operated
at the Anaconda, Mont, postoffice
continues to be the second in impor-
lance in the Unied States, both in
number of deposits and in the amount
of the deposits.
Raffaelle Lotto has been arrested
at Kalispell, Mont, on a charge of
bigamy. 1t appears, according to the
complaint, that Lotto has a wife liv.
Ing in Italy and that he lately married
another girl living in Kalispell.
Sam A. Hall, Butte's former banker
and real estate broker, who was re-
Gently found guilty of grand larceny
for .embezzling money given him to
invest, has been sentenced to four
teen years in the penitentiary.
A corps of surveyors are WORKING
between Reno and Truckee, New, sur
veying for double track on tho
Southern Pacific, and also maxine
plats of a new roadbed that is in
tended to shorten the distance be.
tween the two points.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, has intro.
duced bill in the United States sen.
ate for the establishment of a United
States university at Washington
which provides for an appropriation
of $l,O0O,OO0 year for 10 years for
shat purpose, besides a maintenance
fund.
According to Bozeman, Mont. dis.
patch, more than 10000 acres of yir.
gin sod will be broken up during the
summer and devoted to winter wheat
for next years crop. Most of thi,
land lies in the western part of the
valley and will be handled as dry
land, irrigation being practically i'm.
possible.
With nerveless fingers still clutch.
ing revolver. the body of Ben San.
ford, postmaster at Aurum, New. ano
relative of John Hays Hammond
the noted mining engineer. was