The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

All plans nave Deen perfected TOT
the meeting of the State Teachers in
stitute, which will be held in Whine
mucca, New, December 16 to 20, in
elusive.
Failing in an attempt to board a
moving train near Ely, New, Charles
B. Kendrick. in the employ of the Ne
yada Consolidated company, was
thrown under the wheels and fatally
crushed.
approximately 100,0O0,000 feet OF
lumber have been purchased in the last
ten days from Oregon and Washington
mills by three car building companies.
according to information given out by
lumber agencies In Seattle.
State penitentiary records do not
contain the name of John Small, who
Is said to be held in Minneapolis on
his confession of having escaped from
the Rawlins, Wyo, penitentiary dur.
Ing the recent outbreak there.
Twenty-one men we're arrested at
Ely, New, last week, ON warrants
sworn by Anthony Zurich, who charged
them with being implicated in the
shooting at the gates of the McGill
smelter last month. when two Greek
strikers were killed.
The survey of the new town OF
woodrow, named in honor of Presi.
dent-elect Wilson, located on the Co.
lumbia river about a mile below the
mouth of the Spokane river, has been
completed and the plat has been filed
and the first buildings raised.
The spectacle of a continuous stream
OF hot apple pies coming by means OF
an endless chain arrangement out of
huge oven at the rate of $500 an hour
and then given away to spectators, was
a feature of the fifth national apple
show, held at Spokane last week.
The Western Pacific will obtain its
long-coveted entry into Reno within
short time if present plans of the Ne:
observation-disclosures railroad for
adding third rail to its present mar.
row-gauge line from Reno to Doyle
materialize IS rapidly as the com
panys officials expect.
The government has brought suit
| against James B. Haggin of New York
Cit yto recover $2,512,954, represents
ing the value of cordwood and other
timber alleged to have been cut wrong.
FULLY by the Anaconda company from
national land in Montana, between
August, 1884, and January, 1896.
Eight actions Tor damages asking
for total of $4,000 from the Ne
vada Consolidated Copper company
have been filed by attorneys of the
Austro-Hungarian consul general, Jos.
eph Goricar of San Francisco, admin.
istrator for eight Austrians killed by
an explosion at Copper Flat, New.
near Ely, July last.
The most important question which
will be considered at the annual con.
vention of the American Mining Con
gress, which meets at Spokane, Wash
ington, during the week of November
25-29. concerns the future manage
ment and control of the United States
west of north and south line passing
! through the eastern border of Colo.
RADIO.
Governor Carey of Nevada when
advised of the report that he will re.
sign in favor of Secretary of State
| Houx, form coalition with Bull
Moose, Democrats and Republicans
and become candidate for Francis
E. Warren's place in the United
| States senate, Said This is the first
| have heard of it, and, of course, l
am interested greatly
Farmers of many states, represent.
ed through delegates to the national
grange, in session at Seattle, repu.
dated responsibility for the high cost
| Of living. Reports from nearly every
state declare that the farmer gets but
small profit from his investment, and
Furthermore gets only from 80 to 40
per cent OF what his products cost the
consumer. Cooperative marketing
was advocated.
The news comes from Chinook,
Mont, of the killing of a 10-year-old
girl named Booth at Zortman, Mont,
by her cousin, also named Booth, who
claims that he thought he had emp
tied the cartridges from the gun. He
thrust the gun. in her face to scare
her and pulled thetrigger.
After having driven his wife to seek
death by her own hand, when she re-
ceived letter in Denver from him
telling her that he loved his country
more than he did her and was going
to fight the Turks, Peter Doricas. a
Greek, has been discovered in Lara.
mic, Wyo. He had not gone to Greece
at all.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
Is planning to take over the Conven-
ton league and make it one of its per-
manent bureaus. The ABSORPTION OF
the league by the chamber is expected
to increase the efficiency of the con
vention getters, making possible the
bringing of more great gatherings to
Denver.
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