The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-06-02
NORTHWEST NOTES

ulFect line from Denver, Colo. to Salt
Lake City, Utah, is now assured.
Frederick A. Wright, a millionaire
cattle and sheep raiser with large in.
! terests in Texas and New Mexico and
southern Colorado, was found dead in
Ded at his home in Denver on the
G"fd. Death was due to apoplexy.
City Detective ]. v. ("swede") Nun
phy OF Butte was last week found
guilty by the police commission of
having accepted protection money
election day, April 2, and his dis
mlssal from the force was ordered.
The officials of the Oregon Short
Line railway arrived In Butte, May %,
On the fifth tour of their get better
acquainted" trip. They were met al
the depot by committees from the
mercha and business men, and en-.
tertat during their stay.
" i Lamonthe, pioneer resident
" 4dge, Mont, was run down by
! enger train on the Northern Pa
Yellowstone park branch and in.
sta~tly killed. He failed to hear the
whistle of the engine and the train
passed completely over his body.
A heavy snowstorm which melted
as 1t fell, but left the mountains and
foothills at Helena covered with
"h.te' lasted practically all Tuesday
afternoon, the storm being remark.
able for the extreme size of the flakes,
some OF which were two inches
across.
AS an outgrowth Of the late mum.
ctpal campaign and the so-caIled anti
vice crusade in Seattle that resulted
IN the recall of Mayor Hiram G. Gill
and the removal and Indictment of
Chief of Police Charles w. Wappen-
stein, the county grand jury last week
returned thirteen indictments.
All obstacles to the building of the
Moffat railroad from it's present ter
minus, Steamboat Springs, to Salt
Lake have been removed, according
to the Denver Post, by action of
twelve Denver capitalists, who have
subscribed $750,0OO TO take care of
the present Indebtedness and thus
clear the way to the beginning of a
new financing plan.
Senator Dixon of Montana has in.
troduced a bill requiring the reclama.
ton service to install screens at in,
takes of all government irrigation ca
nails to prevent fish getting into the
canals and laterals, where they per.
ish. The bill also requires the gov.
eminent to install tlsn ladders at all
, irrigation dams, so that fish may as.
cend the streams thus blockaded.
An explosion of gasoline resulted in
the complete destruction of the
/ Tucker home at Anaconda. Mont. and
the death of Mrs Edgar Tucker, who
was burned from head to foot Mrs.
Tucker had been washing lace cur
tains in the fluid. when it was upset
onto hot stove
Hounded by memories of a mis-
fortune that had wrecked his life. and
rendered him incapable of performing
physical labor and his grief made all
the more poignant by excessive drink
ing. Fred w Stoyell. deputy postmas
ter at Melvin, New, attempted to com
nit suicide by the poison route last
week, but will recover.
Fred E. Server, a pioneer Indian
fighter who came to Montana in 1859,
died at Craw Agency last week OF
heart trouble Server was a member
of the force of General Howard dur.
ing the campaign of that officer
against Nez Perez Indians, and had
served under Custer, Terry, Reno,
and many others of the old regime.
Joe Jackson. accused of dynamiting
fish in the Little Blackfoot, near El,
iston. Mont, was given grand jury
trial in the district court. found gull.
ty. and a fine of 5000 imposed.
District Council No. 5, of the Ma
citation, was organized in Butte re-
Gently. representatives from eleven
different Montana cities being pres.
emit
There is not word of truth in it,"
declared John F. Stevens, former pres
lQSUl Oh the NH lilies III OISSOu, when
asked to confirm a report that he had
been offered a position as fiscal agent
with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and J. P. Nor
gan & Co.
The saloons and cigar stores in
Butte having slot machines in opera
ton were visited by Chief of Police !
Murphy one day last week. and the |
machines confscated. All the ma
chimes confscated contained consid-
cradle money.
The body of John Thoma, a German
ranchman living in a lonely cabin
near Brenner's station, Mont. was
found by a road supervisor with the
entire left side of his head blown
away. Thoma had suicided while in
4 fit of dependency.
Bee Morris. 3 four-y Tar-old tot. is
patient at an Anaconda hospital with
her NECK burned to a crisp and her
head ano face badly scorched, as the