The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

Two men we're severely Huiheu
uhi,a agbting fire at Cokeville. Wyo,
when three buildings were DESTROYED
causing loss Of $4,000.
Dudley Feeney, a miner, was IN,
| stantly killed when he was purleu
onder a volume Of loose earth ana
rock in the Ward shaft near virginia
! City, Nev.
Rozeman and Gallatin valley, in
Montana, was visited by snoWsoorn
on the first. Threshfng in the valley
lls not finished, but the grain is al
in the shock and even a hard snow
would do no injury.
The Midland Terminal and Short
1 line railroad officials reported an
agreement with the Brotherhood Oh
Railway Trainmen and Order Of Rail
way Conductors at Colorado Springs
on the basis OF 8 per cent increase
In wages.
Fire which destroyed the powder
factory of the Imperial Powder COM
pany at Chehalis. Wash, caused
seven young women to lose their
lives and an eighth will die. Only
two girls escaped, though dozen
men were unhurt.
Fire broke out in the Leroy Fennell
tailor shop at Cokeyille, Wyo., caused
by the use of gasoline for cleaning
purposes. The flames soon spread to
the Dewdrop Inn saloon and to M. s.
Reynolds law office The three build
lngs were burned to the ground.
Tommy Mccarthy secured well,
earned decision over Jack Martin OF
Salt Lake in boxing contest al
Bozeman, Mont, and made an excel
lent showing The men went ten
rounds, and the contest was easily
the fastest ever seen in tn town, and
delighted big crowd.
i The unwritten law covers black al
well as white, according to verde
, of acquittal granted James ]. Manue
! by Denver jury. Manuel, a negro
shot and killed Rev. Alexander Ed
! wards, pastor of his church, a month
!. ago, after the latter had confessed Il
Y a Jason with Mrs Manuel.
The charred body of John @. Kelle,
was found in the ruins of dark room
In the rear of photographers studio
which burned at Gardiner, Mont. Kel
ley had evidently gone into the darl
room to sleep for the night. Firemel
who put out the fire did not discove
the body until several hours later.
A band of wolves chased a bucl
deer into the heart of Anacodna
Mont, G.. W. Baker, janitor, a
tracted by a commotion which he a
| first thought was caused by dogs, di!
| covered it to be a huge buck deer SUI
| rounded by a band of wolves. Wit
| bound the deer started up tn
| street and disappeared.
4 An unsuccessful attempt was mad
i to wreck the Spokane C Inland e.
Il press, from Spokane for Coeu
II d'Alene, between Huetter and Coeu
II d'Alene. A steel rail was placed acros
II the main track with two stumps ia
Il Their down the line at intervals {
II thirty yards. The train was stoppe
H in time to prevent serious damage.
II The total valuation of Montana, a.
i cording to figures compiled by tn
4 clerk of the state board of equaliz
II ton, is 1881, 670,41S, an increase {
II $20,000,O00 as compared with $30s
IL 673,699 in 1910, or an increase (
il more than $S0,O00,000 compared wit
III $248,774,792, the valuation in 1908.
ii Col. ]. H. Gilbert, aged Sd year
ii one of the states most prominent %
III Fellows, formerly department cor
mander of the Montana order, die
at Butte, October 20, of cerebral CO
gestion. He was an old-time residel
III of Butte and Bozeman, having mao
'e' Butte his residence for thirty years
The noted case of James R. Murpl
against Butte Stationary Engineer
- union No. SO, Patrick Deloughre
az president, and others, for 5000
er damages, claiming that the union hi
oo secured his discharge from the Ell
We orlu mine and prevented his securil
- work, has ended by the disappearan
al from Butte of Murphy. ".-
IA. Eighty-eight million one hundr
and Twenty-Five thousand bushels
all wheat were produced in Washingto
Oregon, Idaho and Montana this yes
lat according to government estimate
ms The farm value is placed at Sc
ed $4,000 on a basis of 10 cents bus
les Ell. The yield in 1910 was $3.50 bus
m. els and 77,SS6,OOO bushels in 1903.
The first livestock insurance CO
FAR pany to enter the Montana field is t
ere Montana Livestock & Casualty CO
'od pany, which has filed articles with t
MT secretary of state, says the Hele
he Record. The company is headed
Ab- large number of prominent Mo
eat tana stockmen and business men, a
He lis purpose will be to insure agar
me livestock losses.
The Gilmore & Pittsburg railro