The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

tary OF embassy for Great Britain.
J. Butler Wright ,of Cody, yo., has
been promoted from the position Of
secretary of legation for Honduras te
secretary of legation for Roumania
Servia and Roumania-
The judiciary committee Of the Seat.
tie city council has approved for sub
mission proposed charter amend.
ment authorizing the establishment OF
La newspaper in which city notices
shall be printed.
Charged with violation of the state
health laws in giving a whoopins
cough party at Durango, Colo, to five
children afflicted with this infantilt
sickness, Mrs Carl Coulson was or
rested on complaint of the health of
fcials.
After a considerable amount of ne
gotiating with property owners alone
the line of the proposed double tract
route of the Union Pacific line be
tween Ogden and Evanston, continu
GUS right-of-way has at last been Sc
cured.
| A rush of air from cave-in OF sur.
face workings in a mine at Virginia
City, Nevada, caused Morris Quinn
and James Ferrero, working 100 feet
distant, to be thrown against the shaft
timbers with such violence that they
were killed.
The condition of Mysterious Billy"
Smith, the former prize fighter, who
was shot four times at Portland Ore,
| by the husband of Smiths divorced
wife, is reported as satisfactory. I'm.
I Jess complications set in, his recovery
will be rapid.
That the long clamor of central Ore
gon for railroad facilities will be part.
ly satisfied is assured by the action OF
the Oregon Short Line in letting a
contract for the building of road
from Vale, Ore, to Dog Mountain, a
distance of 1876 miles.
Worried over the responsibility in
cident to a verdict in personal in
Jury case. Charles F. Newman. who
lives at Chester, Wash, shot and kill
ed himself. He was found by his wife
sitting in chair by the bed with g
bullet wound just back of his temple
An Italian named Eugene Paine is
in Jail at Libby, Mont, charged with
seriously stabbing fellow country
man at Warland The men are bott
railroad laborers. The man who was
stabbed, whose name is Gust Layar
alto, was taken to the Whitefish hos
pital.
Mrs. ]. E. Oppenheimer, wife of a
wealthy merchant of Butte and New
York, died in New York, December
81. Mrs. Oppenheimer was one of the
most prominent women in Butte uI
to the time she and her husband took
up their residence in the east five
years ago. ...
Nathan B. Harvey, man of prom
inence and wealth, has been arrested
for the murder of the four members
of the Hill family in Portland June |
last. Harvey lives near the cabin in |
Ardenwald, a suburb of Portland, Ore.
in which the four persons were bat |
tered to death with an ak on the night |
of June 9. /
When the trial of Mrs. Angelian |
Garramone for the alleged murder oil
Mrs. Maria Laguardia was resumed |
Mt Golden, Colo, on Wednesday, Mrs |
Concetti Forgione, who has confessed |
to completely in the alleged crime, de |
Clared that the defendant had threat |
ened her and her daughter Stella to
I,eep them silent on the subject.
An attempt to put live stock and
packing house products freight rates
On a parity among large cities in the
Pacific northwest has been held by
the interstate commission to be un.
reasonable. The decision was made I
IN the contested Carstens Packing
company case against the Oregon &
Washington Railroad & Navigation
company and other railroads.
Angered because his wife refused to
help him dig well, Charles Burnt. a
rancher, living thirty miles east of
Colorado Springs, shook her so vio-
lently that he broke her neck. Burnt
gave himself up when physicians
whom he had summoned told him his
wife was dead
If the negotiations of the Gou-d
lines result successfully, it is probsssle
that the distance from Salt Lake to
Denver will be cut down by III miles.
1t is proposed to build a road twenty
TWO miles long from Crested on the
Denver, Northwestern G Pacific (Mof.
tat road) to Dotsero on the Denver &
Rio Grande.
A gambling raid which attracted at
!ention as far east as New York was
terminated legally at Reno when
Jury in the case of the seven persons
arrested returned a verdict of not
guilty Four of the party were mem
oers of an ocean-to-ocean automobile
party, three were gamblers and two
we're Chinese.
The constitutionality of the Mon.
ana state law taxing Chinese laundry
mon L