The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-01
NORTHWEST NOTES

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In the north and middle west Is ex
tending to nearly every line OF busi
aess.
Washington, D. c., will be the con
yention city in 1913 OF the Nationa
Women's Christian Temperance union
which has concluded a weeks conVen
ton at Portland.
Foreclosure OF trust deed for $125,
$$$ ard the appointment Of receiver
for the SilVerton Mining company II
asked in a suit filed in the United
States district court at Denver
mot guilty, by reason of insanity
was the verdict returned at Coifax
WASH. by the jury in the cose Of Mr.
and Mrs. George Wesley Brown
charged with the murder of AL Neeyes
Mrs Browns father.
Letters continue to come from all
parts of the world asking for the
pleasant job of shooting Andreia
Merkovick, who was condemned to be
shot at the Nevada state prison for
the murder of John Grevoyich of To,
nopah.
The referendum vote taken by the
Butte Miners union No. j, Western
Federation of Miners, on the question
Of assessing the membership to raise
$4,000 to aid the striking miners at
Bingham, was defeated by about a
three-to-one vote.
Ulysses S. Grant, aged 4S, was mar
rled in Cheyenne last week to Miss
Hannah johnson. The bridegroom is
employed as a coppersmith in the
Union Pacific railway shops, is named
for and is a second cousin of Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant.
Mrs. Abidel Scott Duniway, Oregon's
pioneer woman suffragist, was rendered
a demonstration at Portland on the
23rd, in remembrance of her seventy
eighth birthday, participated in by
many of the most prominent men and
women of the state.
Officers and directors of the West
ern Pacific railroad were reelected
at the annual meeting of the stock
holders held in San Francisco on the
22nd. 1t has been rumored that King
don Gould, the latest named of the di-
rectors, might drop out.
William Doris, arrested at Seattle
for stealing several hundred dollars
worth of table silver, told the police
he took the silver to melt for a coun-
terfeiting plant which he was operat-
ing in hotel. Doris admits putting
over $500 in circulation.
Resolutions were adopted at Port
land by the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance union reaffirming it's
belief that absolute prohibition af-
forded the "only means of destroying
the liquor traffic and its coordinate
evil white slavery"
With the most notable gathering of
Catholic dignitaries, priests and pre-
lates ever assembled in Denver, the
new half-million-dollar Immaculate
Conception cathedral, rated as among
the finest edifices in the United States,
was dedicated on the 9th.
Charles Buck, an extra fireman of
the Missouri Pacific railroad at Ny
oerg, Colo, was instantly killed; Eph
Nesbit of Pueblo, probably fatally in
Iured, and John Brown, proprietor of
general store at Nyberg, slightly
injured in an automobile accident.
DR.. NJ. A. Robson, a we'll known
physician of Reno, is lying in a hos
pital with his left shoulder dislocated.
three ribs broken, one knee badly
Wrenched and his body and head COW
cred with bruises and lacerations-
all the result of being thrown from a
horse.
Gov. Thomas R. Marshall of Indi-
ana, Democratic vice-presidentiaI can.
didate, signalized his entry into Ore.
gon from California Wednesday night
by making an unscheduled speech
from a baggage truck on the station
platform at Ashland, where a crowd of
several hundred had gathered to see
him.
Commissioner bennett of the gener-
al land office has ordered that 49,0S0
acres of unappropriated land, excluded
rom the Humboldt national forest in
Nevada last June, be subject to home.
stead settlement on December 80. and
that $3.50 acres already surveyed be
opened to entry on January 20 at Car
son City. The lands are in Elko
county. Nevada.
Police throughout the northwest are
searching for Oren Parmeter said to
be the son of wealthy banker at
Stevens Points, Wis. Parmeter is said
to have borrowed an automobile from
Mrs, D. S. Wallace of Spokane and
eloped with Mrs. Wallace's daughter
Marie. %. leaving more than s.,
worth of dishonored checks in the
hands of Spokane merchants.
With only few hours separating
the moment when the statute of Iimi.
tation would have expired and render.
ed his efforts useless, United States
District AttOrDey AIoro,.4 e1, -.