The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

nillim dollars was brought from
Alaska BY the steamship Curacao;
which arrived at Seattle on the 23rd,
from Skagway.
Good progress is being made in re-
building OF the Eureka u Pallsade
railroad. says the Eureka (Nev.) SEN
tinel. Several miles of track have,
been laid, and grading forces have es-.
sablisheG two camps.
Reports just compiled at the salt
Lake offices of the Hartman lines.
show that 29,818 homeseekers were
carried to the Pacific coast over the
Hartman roads from September 10,
10 october is Of this year.
A proclamation offering q reward.
Of $500 for the arrest and conviction.
Of Nal Jouell, who, at Melville.
Mont, November 16, shot and killed.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Brannin, has.
been issued by Governor H. L. Nor,
ris.
Conditions in the flood swept dis
trict around Seattle are rapidly APP
preaching normal. The Great North.
ern and Northern Pacific railways
have opened their lines across the.
mountains and trains are running
regularly.
Twenty thousand signatures, said.
to be more than three times the num-
Der necessary, are contained in petit
ttons filed at Denver for the purpose
of securing a special election, with
She commission form of government
as the issue.
Virgil holland, student at the
University of Oregon, whose home is
in klamath Falls, Ore, was burned
to death at Eugene, Ore, by fire
caused by an overheated electric
bath cabinet. holland was left guard on
the university football team.
The third span of the steel bridge
across the Snake river at Nyssa,
Ore, is almost completed. If the
present weather continues the bridge
will be completed before January 1.
This bridge will be one of the most
substantial across the Snake river.
The Rev. F. o. Kelly, former
Methodist Episcopal minister of
Provo, Utah, had the narrowest sort
of an escape from freezing to death
In the first blizzard of the season,
near Glendive, Mont, having become
lost during the worst part of the
storm.
The state of Washington produced
more than one-tenth of all the lum-
States in 1910, according to figures
made public by the census bureau.
1t goes without saying that Wash
ington is now the leading lumber
state in the Union, and has been
since 1905.
Fourteen Chinese students at the
Golden, Colo, school of mines have
received notice from the Chinese le-
cation at Washington that the dis
ruption of the Manchu government
makes it necessary to discontinue
payments from the Boxer indemnity
fund, out of which their education is
being paid for.
Lucien M. Lindsey of Spokane
contemporary of Doble and Splan in
their palmiest days and Oldest active
driver in the world, is at work pre-
pairing his campaigner, Padishah, to
cover the western circuit in 1912. He
Is 81 years of age and has handled
trotting and pacing horses for more
than a half century.
| Milo Kaulugjerovich was found
guilty in the district court at Boul-
der, Mont, of murder in the second
degree for completely in the hold-up
and murder at Pipestone Springs the
night of August IT, Kaulugjerovich' 8
accomplice was found guilty of muir.
der in the first degree and sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
Within the next few months there
will be opened for settlement ap.
proximately 100000 acres of land in
the Billings, Mont, land office dis.
trict. The opening embraces Ia
townships, nine of which are locat.
ed between Yellowstone and Mussel.
she'll rivers.
One of several Japanese proxy
brides who arrived at Tacoma last
week on the steamer Canada Maru
is in predicament, having forgot
ten the address of the bridegroom
to-be. The bridegroom is presumed
to be somewhere in this country
awaiting the message that will sum
mon him to Tacoma.
d. w. Standrod of Pocatello, A. B
Moss, president of the First National
bank of Payette, Idaho, and Paul S
A. Bickel of Jerome, Idaho, who were
indicted at Spokane in connection
with the promotion of the Idaho Hard
wood company, declare that they will
be able to show that they were guilt
less of any criminal intent.
Engineers and firemen employed
on the Northern Pacific railroad will
take special instructions in severa,
branches of engineering important t.
railway opration from University o.