The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

Ben Gilbert messenger for the
Grand Junction, Colo, Office of the
Globe Express company, is under ar.
rest charged with the theft of $4,000
in currency from the office on the
night Of April 10.
Union memorial services in honor
of the Titanic's dead were held in
Dreamland pavilion, Seattle, under
the auspices of the ministerial fedora
ton and civic organizations. Mayor
George F. Cotterill presided
An attempt of the Industrial Work
ers of the World to tie up shipping in
Seattle failed utterly. Only a few
men responded to the call to long
shoremen to strike, and their places
were speedily taken by others.
Indirectly victim of the Titanic
disaster, Edward H. Rothrock, city
editor of the Spokane Chronicle, was
shot and killed by Richard Aleck,
Russian laborer, who is believed to
be insane. The assassin claims he
was passenger ON the Titanic.
Mrs. Bessie Garvey of Tonopah,
aged 35, an acknowledged cocaine
fend, wandered from home while de
mented and was found with swollen
tongue, shoeless, with lacerated feel
and nearly famished, digging in the
sand of the desert by two prospect
ors.
Charles Seaman, part owner of the
Index hotel at Index, Wash, shot and
instantly killed Mrs. Johnson, wife
of the cook at the hotel, and shot and
probably fatally wounded Mrs. Sea,
man. He is thought to be demented
from financial worry. He finally sur.
rendered to the mayor.
Delayed returns from the direct pri-
mary election in Oregon do not alter
the standing of candidates. Roose.
welt was chosen as the presidential
nominee of Oregon Republicans by a
majority of approximately 1000 over
President Taft. Woodrow Wilson re.
ceived the Democratic Endorsement.
Five men escaped from the Oregon
asylum at Salem, after overpowering
the guard, but were later captured.
The patients had been excused from
attending moving picture show in
the chapel. Suddenly they sprang
on their guard, William Bayles, and
after overpowering him, took his KEYS,
e. J. Jameson died in a hospital a,
Goldfield, following an attempt at
suicide by hanging himself with a
strip of blanket from the bars of his
cell in the county Jail. 1t is reported
he was member of a rich eastern
family. He was awaiting trial charg.
ed with stealing ore from the Jumbo
mine.
By catching hold of a halter rome
on his wrist when he fell from his
mule unconscious near Blair. New.
Ihomas kerWln, well known pros
pector and miner, was saved from
certain death on the desert, as min.
ers saw the mule and brought Ker.
win to Goldfe1d by automobile for
treatment
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
system has reconveyed to the federal
government title to coal lands in Col
orado valued at $1,755,75O held by its
subsidiaries, the Utah Fuel and the
Calumet Fuel companies. The return
OF the lands, 8,465 acres, ends a suit
by the government based on allega
tons of fraudulent entrymen.
Montanas agriculture is safe in the
hands of its women if the necessity
arises, according to a resident OF
Butte, has returned from a trim tn
Plains and who saw there a girl OF
16 blowing with six horses and her
14-year old sister following her with
a two-horse seeder
Through Senator Warren, the Wyo.
ming national guard has rendered to
the president an offer to contribute
to the proposed statue to Major Ar.
chibald Butt, who lost his life in the
Iitan1c disaster. Systematic plans
will be put into effect at once to re-
celve contributions for the statue.
A shipment 35 carloads of Mon
tana cattle sold on the Chicago mar
ket last week for prices ranging from
1888 to $3.50 per hundred. The ami.
mails came from the Big Hole basin
country and were fattened on wild
nay alone, having never eaten a. mar
clcle of alfalfa or grain. They ayerag-
ed 1850 to LAO in weight.
Believing that such propaganda
would result in a wonderful develop
ment of the west, and would be of
greatest benefit to the nation at
large, the Billings Chamber of Com
merce has launched a campaign
which 1t is hoped will result in the
construction by the government of
.hree transcontinental highways.
Work will be begun May 1 by the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound
railway on the construction of a
.hree-mile tunnel through the Cascade
according to a Seattle d.
patch. The work will cost nearly
sS,0O0,OO0. The tunnel will shorten
he line seven miles and will elimi-
nate the heavy grade at the summit.
The only snHtinn of tho Doo;es.