The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

ou,,o wei known Nevada lanf
o' against Lola Young aIIegin,
cruelty and misconduct. -
AFTER the heaviest vote in &c b;.
10y" "Iy Grand Junction, Colo, Wen
. uTy by majority of 367 The ma
Joiily Is great deal less than twr
Sears ago. although the total vote
poileu IS nearly 500 larger
John Leo Welsh, who hos ho,r
sent to the county Jail at Butte FL,
zen uays by the police judge, has
oeen identified as an ex-convict wbo
Is wanted in Pennsylvania for hreal
ing MS parole May 1 this year
Mrs Mary Broderick has been an
pointed the first woman jury baiIiff
VI hlng county, Washington. The an.
PoihIment was made By Sunarior
Judge Wilson R. Gay because Of the
court. III Ills
twenty members of the constitu.
tioial convention which drafted the
organic law under which Montana
was admitted to the Union in 1890
met at Helena on the 9Th to renew
olu associations. The meeting was
purely a social one.
A rock slide on a curve at Rrawar
Inlrty miles east of Helena. resulted
IN derailment of a Northern Pacific
passenger train. The engine turned
completely over and Engineer Mar
clna Morse of Helena was so badly
scalued that he will probably die.
United States Attorney General
Wlckersham will be asked to deter
ihlhe the question of legality of the
proposed combination of tidewater
lumber mills in Washington, Oregon
and California, according to a state.
ment made at Portland by Henry ].
Pierce of Spokane.
Let me show you how Buffalo Bill
Killed Indians" said six-year-oId Ed
mund Walsh of Butte as he Crashed
a target revolver held by William
Harris, playmate of the same age
walsh accidentally pulled the trigger
In srasping the gun and the bullet en-.
tered his left side and passed through
the lntestines. His injury is fatal.
A stand-pat Republican, Charles M.
kutcher, was elected mayor of Sheri-
dan, Wyo., at the first election under
the commission form of government
A large number of women took adj
vantage of the opportunity to vote.
Although political lines were elimi.
mated, the result was an apparent de-
feat for the progressive Republicans.
Patents to 295,O0O acres of Yakima
land in Washington, valued at an
proximately 100000 and not in
eluded in the present boundary of the
reserve, which were enormously
granted to the Northern Pacific many
years ago, have been cancelled by
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals. All this land will go to the
Indians.
The officials of the Absarokee for
est reserve are investigating charges
Of hunting guides at Livingston,
Mont, and near Yellowstone park to
the effect that sheep have eaten off
the range around the northern bound. |
airy of Yellowstone park, keeping the
big game of Wonderland away from |
the range and leaving it in such con-
dition that when the animals are
driven from the park by heavy
SHOWS they will starve.
Montana is the third state in size
in the Union, California and Texas
only being larger. It's area is 146,OS0
square miles, of which TO square
miles are water From east to west
its average length is 47O miles; its
average breadth from north to south
Is 275 miles.
The 1911 salmon pack is the larg.
est on record, exceeding by three
quarters of a million cases the out
put of any previous year. The total
pack of canned salmon this year fol-
Alaska, British Columbia, Puget
Sound. Grays Harbor and the Column
,ia river is estimated at 5,S50,000
,ases.
JuuS6 Cudplllun VI lhS SuPClAOi |
,ourt upheld the constitutionality OF
he state law against the abuse OF
he right of free speech and free
,ress in a decision rendered at Ia
oma in the case of Jay Fox, editor
# the Home Colony Agitator Fox
vas accused of publishing an article
tending to encourage disrespect OF
aw."
Less than an hour after the case
ad been given to the jury, a verdict
( acuuittal was returned in the case
{ Mrs. Eleanor c. Valentine, charged =
nth the murder of her husband, =
larry c. Valentine, at Denver, on :,
Iarch Is last. n
In 1870 the state of Montana mad II
ouulation of but 20595; in 1880 i,
9 159, an increase of 80 per cent; in Il
800, lS2,159, gain of 237 per cent; h
300, 24S,595, an increase of 81 per b
emit; and in 1910, S76,O53, a gain of :,
| per cent. y
The state forester has announced n
lat he would recommend to the
-. k.or5 of Iand commissioners of