The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-10-06
NORTHWEST NOTES


the top of coal dock at Zero Mo-
ana sustained injuries which caused
his death. U'e0
A coroner's jury at Denver found
that Charles A, Patterson came IN bio
death from gunshot wounds inflicted
Win felonious intent by his wife. Ger.
trude E. Patterson.
John c. Hit, a young marriad
man, who eloped from Longmont
Colo, with Norma Harrison. the n.
year'old daughter of the Rev. w, H
Harrison, has returned to Longmont
and was arrested.
Ftscount Uchida, the retiring en-.
oassador to the United States accom-.
panied by Viscountess Uchida and
their suite, sailed from Seattle for
yokohama on Tuesday on the steam.
ship American Maru.
The government has filed suit AZ
Denver against the secretaries of the
Colorado and Wyoming lumber deal.
ers' associations, the alleged lumber
trust, in an endeavor to put the lum.
Der trust out of business.
The ak with which the sextuple
murder was committed at Colorado
Springs week ago has been found
In house adjoining that of the
Burnhams and Waynes, who were
the victims. 1t was bloodstained and
covered with human hair.
An insult, the climax of alleged
brutalities extending throughout
their married life, is given by Mrs.
Gertrude Gibson Patterson as the rea-
son for killing her husband, Charles
A. Patterson, formerly a Chicago
broker, in a Denver sanitarium.
Charles R. Vanaken, we'll known
rancher, formerly of Kansas City,
who owns ranch half way between
Fort Shaw and Simms, Mont, was ia.
tally injured by being struck by a
rock falling from bucket of dirt as
he worked at the bottom of a fifty
foot we'll on his ranch.
OF $4,000 rats killed by the Seattle
health department in the past fifteen
months, only one was infected with
bubonic plague. This rat was cap,
tured recently in the downtown dis.
trict. All of the 5000 rats captured
monthly by the health department
are examined for plague germs.
George Reeves, proprietor of a
dance hall in the tenderloin district
of Goldfeld, and his alleged wife, Jes.
sic Reeves, have been placed under
arrest. The prisoners are charged
with having imported a girl, Amy
Radtke, from Salt Lake City to be.
come an inmate of Reeves resort.
Frank and Mabel Robinson, alias
Henderson, convicted of having taken
a young girl from Portland to Seat
tie for immoral purposes, were sen
fenced Tuesday. The man will serve
five years on McNeills island, Wash,
ington, and the woman three years
in the federal prison at Lansing
Kan.
F. Springton, chief engineer of a
contracting company of Tacoma
which is building a fiume line for IA
comas new water system, was shot
and killed by Anderssone, a sub-con
tractor, whose work had not been
passed by Springston. After killing
the engineer, Andressone committed
suicide.
The three-year-old daughter of ]. w
Barnes, who lives near Miles City,
Mont, was shot a week ago through
the head by q 32-calibre automatic
The child is recovering rapidly and
apparently has not suffered any men
tai impairment. The little child's
pine-year-old brother held the gun al
, the time.
1t is now regarded as very certain
that 400. boilermskers and machlnist'
employed in the Salt Lake railroad
[ sbops at Las Vegas and at Caliente
| will 60 out if strike is called. The
men voted some time ago to STRIKE
and when the international organlza
! ton refused to sanction their action
it was said. they began talking q
: striking without approval.
> Mistaking his companion for
hear. Robert Waddle of Centralia
Wash. shot and killed c. ]. Gates o
Bucoda. Wash. The two men were
lifelong friends. While hunting il
the deep woods they had taken oil
vergent paths, with an understand
ing that they were to meet seVera
, hours later.
As the result of a mixup, presum
ably with hoboes, at Missoula' Mont
7 c. Patton of Twin Falls, Idaho
was found with dangerous gun
/ shot wound in his body.
Harry Fitzpatrick was in the &C
If uniting a belt on pulley on
dredge. near Virginia City, Mont
when in some manner his clothinj
: caught in the shafting and ne wa
l dragged to a horrible death.
Fleet as a deer, dressed in IN
skins of animals and roaming IN IN
: woods barefooted, a wild man ma
bsen discovered in the Middle Cree
CANYON. about twenty-five miles Iron
Mont The man has bee