The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-09
NORTHWEST NOTES


prisoners who escaped from the jail
at Craig, Colo, was wounded by a
chance shot from the gun of a deputy
sheriff and was captured on Wednes-
lay.
In a state convention of the Ma
tional Progressive party, at Reno,
New, three delegates and three al
tenates were chosen to attend the
national convention in Chicago on
August 5th.
A. L. Westgard, pathfinder, travel
ing inspector for the government, Of
deer of good roads, will recommend
that Anaconda have a place on the
!ranscontinental highway which he is
mapping.
A hundred Roosevelters in Wash
Lngton state decided that the regular
Republican party there shall be
stolen" for Teddy this fall. They
voted almost unanimously against
third-party action.
The Ely New Water company is
20 make extensive repairs to it's water
mains throughout the district such
number of leaks having developed
as to affect the pressure and make
bad work with the streets.
The senate has passed over Presi-
dent Tafts veto a bill to reimburse
hose who furnished labor and supplies
% contractors on the Corbett tunnel
n the Shoshone, Wyo., irrigation pro-
Iect to the extent of $4,000.
Frank Eggleston of Ogden, while
attempting to protect a woman at
Winnemucca, New, was stabbed in
The abdomen by man named Will
son, who was arrested. The wounded
man is in a serious condition.
Mrs. Jean Hooper Page, aurnoress,
poetess and magazine contributor,
died at the summer cottage or her
father, Major S. K. Hooper, at Pine
Crest, Colo, of meningitis, from which
she had suffered less than a week.
The. referendum vote by the mill
and smeltermen OF Anaconda and
Great Falls showed that the offer of
an increase of 25 cents per day, while
copper is at Is cents and more per
pound, had been accepted by an over
whelming majority.
By next December, according to C..
P. Allen, chairman of the highway
commission, the road between Meeker,
Colo, and Vernal, Utah, now declared
to be impossible, will be improved so
the big highway will be open through
out the entire year.
Henry Loukas of Ely, New, and Will
letter of Salt Lake are under arrest
at Ely, New, on charge of violat-
ing the federal white slave law by
bringing Florence Greenhalgh and
Marion Elwood from Salt Lake to Ely
and putting them into a Greek dive"
J. c. Helm, attorney for the Denver
Railway Securities company, and Sam
uel Perry, one of the receivers of
the Denver, Northwestern G. Pacific
railway, have left Denver for New
York to meet Newman Erb, who has
made a proposition to refinance the
road.
With an empty chloroform bottle
Iying at her side, Miss Ethel Butler,
for two years a teacher in the school
at Pierce, Colo, was found dead in
her bed at a local hotel. 1t is be-
lieved Miss Butler ended her life fol-
lowing constant brooding over her fail
ure to be reelected to her former po-
sition.
Mrs. Rossmore, victim of the Ma
yuma flood, may live as the result of
an operation performed at the i'm
provised hospital, consisting of the
of her entire right leg at
the hip. Gangrene had set in as the
result Of cyanide poisoning taking ef-
feet in the numerous cuts made in the
limb by debris.
Martin Nathanson, steward of the
Pacific Coast Jockey club and Sec
rotary of the Lagoon Fair and Race
association, the Butte Fair and Rae
ng association and the Anaconda
Fair association, has rendered his res
gnation with the boards of all the as
'ociations. 1t was stated in Butte
hat his resignation was impelled by
II health.
Sailor" Gordon was convicted at
Helena of violating the white slave"
aw and was sentenced to fifteen
months in the United States prison
It Leavenworth, Kan He was also
lined $500. Gertrude Gardner, the
woman in the case, was the chief wit
less against him.
Mrs. H. ]. Mock of Kansas City,
No., leaped from a window of a
leeping car near Paritsa, Mont, and
vas killed. Her body was recovered
" railroad men sent out from Sheri-
an, Wyo. Mrs. Mock was being taken
o Helena by her husband and daugh-
er for her health.
Fl. ]. Grimes, who has a place near
live Mile, Mont, where he raises
hickens, had a number Matched out
bout March 10, some by incubator |
nd some. by hens. On June 80 the |