The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-06-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

charged with embezling letters wbiIo
employed in the postoffice there has
neen sentenced to twelve months in
the county Jail.
A rattlesnake chased a son of
GroVer Watson, living near Bozeman
Mont, from the field to the house and
coiled up on the doorstep, where if
was killed by pouring boiling water
on it. water
Prize fighting is still a favorita
amusement at Ely, Nevada. last
week Jack Carpenter of East EIv and
formerly of Denver, knocked out Cur.
ley Rhue of McGill in the seventh
round OF a gruelling battle.
Cornelius Emerich. 50 wears old For
the last six years claim adjuster for
the Denver & Rio Grande Railway
company, at Denver, has been arrest.
ed' charged with forgery and embez-
element from the railroad company,
A carload of twenty-five babfes ar.
rived in Denver one day last week
from the New York founding hos.
pital. Twelve of them were left to he
distributed among Denver homes and
the other ten were sent to Colorado
Springs.
James Marion was scalped In
runaway accident at Anaconda, Mont
and narrowly escaped death. Marion
hung onto the lines and was dragged
several blocks, having the skin torn
from the top of his head, and laying
the skull bare.
Mrs. Edith Culberson, Republican
candidate for superintendent of Den.
yer county schools at the last cleo
ton, shot and killed herself at her
nome in Denver. Mrs. Culberson left
a note in which she evidently wanted
to make it clear that the wound was
self-inflicted.
1t is reported here that labor unions
OF Montana are considering the matter
of invoking the initiative to have en-.
acted the employers liability act that
failed Of passage before the legisla.
ture last winter, and another measure
for the establishment of a state print
cry at the capital.
Mrs. Angela Sachs, of Denver.
wife of William Sachs of the Sachs
Lawlor Manufacturing & Machine
company. drank two ounces of car
bolic acid with suicidal intent and
died fifteen minutes later. For sew
eral months Mrs. Sachs has been sui
fering from melancholia.
The entire holdings of the estate Of
the late David H. Moffat in the Den.
yer Northwestern & Pacific railroad
(the Moffat road, comprising eight.
| elevenths of the securities, covering
an expenditure of $14,0OO,0O0 to date,
gave been transferred to the Denver
Railway Securities company.
One of the largest timber deals ever
closed in Oregon was contaminated
last week when S. Benson transferred
his holdings in Columbia county to
the Benson Timber company for a
consideration of $2,100,000. There are
$4,000 acres of land in the tract, con
tanning 80O,0O0,0O0 feet of high grade
| yellow fir
Entering an interurban car at Mil.
ton, Wash, Myrtle N. Kyle, divorced
woman, shot and killed Joe Harper
the conductor, and then shot herself.
Before Harper died he said he did not
know the woman except as a passen'
ger and could assign no reason for
the shooting. The woman was di-
vorced a month ago.
A camp of instruction for militia of.
ficers of the national guard of Idaho
will be held at Fort George Wright
in Washington state, from July 10 to
Is. There will be thorough course
of study in map reading, drill regula-
lions, orders and messages, minor tao
tics, marching and camping, prellml-
nary to the encampment.
The boxing bout between Jimmy
Mcdonald and Howard Baker, sche
duled for Sheridan, Wyo., has beer
called off. The fight between Maurice
Thompson and Jack Fitzgerald, ar
ranged for July 4, has also been can
celed. This action is taken as the re
suit of an edict of Governor Carey
that all boxing exhibitions must cease
in Wyoming.
Mrs. Mary Smitham, aged 66, anc
Thomas Shepperson, aged 70, were
married at Golden, Colo, last week
The couple are widely known in Den
yer, the groom being a pioneer o.
that city, where he has lived for thirty
years. He brought the first rolling
and rod mill to Colorado and out o.
this enterprise grew the COLORADO
Fuel and Iron company at Pueblo.
With his mind temporarily derangeo
through excessive drinking, Oscar Ell
more, who has been operating CARP
age wagon in Ely for the last sly
months. has been taken into custody
and will probably be sent to the
asylum.
The big silvertip bear that has oeel
killing stock on the Fisher river II
Montana, for several years, is dead al
last The animal was caught IN
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