The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-02
NORTHWEST NOTES


BY brakeman, who was endeavoring
to eject the hoy from train.
Seven great divisions will comprise
the electrical parade with which the
National Irrigation congress will be
opened September 80 in Salt Lake.
The Western Pacific hasssecured the
contract TO transporting fuel oil from
California to the McGill smelter. There
will be three train loads each week.
George w Grant, second cousin of
General Ulysses S. Grant, died at his
home in Spokane, July 20, aged 76. His
grandfather and General Grants
grandfather were brothers.
Luigi Menicucci, hostler employed
at the Southern Pacific roundhouse
at Inlay, New, was shot by Putro Mar
TIM, a machinists helper, receiving
serious wounds
Montana progressives will confer
with view of saving the country
but are reticent just now as to any
plans. They will issue call Tor
third party state convention
Five hundred lawyers from all parts
of the United States and Canada met
Tuesday at Colorado Springs at the
eighteenth annual convention OF the
Commercil Law league of American.
The Western Federation OF Miners
convention voted to increase the com
pensation OF organizers from 20 10 30
day and expenses, after turning
down the committee report which Ia
yored an increase of 81 a day.
The government is to establish
| mine experiment station at Lander,
yyo. Twenty-Five thousand collars VIII
| be appropriated for buildings ana
equipment and for the first year sal
aries of the officers in charge.
Congressional probers will inVes-
tigate government officials in relation
to testimony of H. L. Klock against
Judge Hanford, who intend prosecut'
ing him for butter and egg combine
reaching from Washington and Ore
gon into Montana.
The state convention of the National
Progressive party at Portland elected
| five delegates instructed for RooSe'
welt, praised his manly integrity, con-
demned President Taft and disavowed
any and all acts of the Chicago con
yention of the Republican party.
To carry out a custom of their be-
| lie in prayer, Frank Ymatsu, j. Tom
ara and S. Ogana, local Japanese, left
Bellingham, Wash, on Tuesday to 60
to the top of Mount Baker, 1000 feet
high, there to offer prayers Ior the
recovery of the emperor of Japan.
Aside from the addresses of vel
come and responses by delegates, the
opening session at Spokane of the an.
nual meeting of the National Insur
ance Commissioners association was
featured by the annual address of the
associations president, F. w. Potter
| of Illinois.
A. B. Melsener, as administrator OF
the estate of Edward Whinyates, act
ing for Mrs. Whinyates of Pocatello,
has brought suit at Butte against the
| Oregon Short Line Railroad company
to recover $4,000 damages for in.
juries resulting in the death of Whin-
yates at Pocatello by being struck by
a train.
c. P. Allen, president of the state
highway commission of Colorado, last
week inspected the automobile road
over the Gore range of mountains in
conjunction with commissioners from
Grand and Routt counties, Colorado,
The object is to connect with the Utah
| ~ oil
omobile highway from Denver to Salt
Lake City, which will shorten the
present distance 200 miles.
The next session of the Utah legis.
lature will be urged to pass a law
making the sole penalty for carrying
concealed weapons Imprisonment, in
stead of the alternative fine which
courts may now impose. This was de-
cided at the session of the Intermoun-
tain Sheriffs' association last week.
There were no deaths at Seven
Throughs, from the recent cloudburst,
as there the waters, which had been
twenty feet high, spread out in the
broad canyon. Lower down. near MAJ
una, the canyon narrows, with preci,
| plIuus odnKS ana greater decline. This
congested the flood to much smaller
area and caused the loss of life.
Many of the fruit trees in Carson
and Washoe valleys, in Nevada, are
being killed from an unknown cause
While whole orchard may look per-
fectly healthy, yet the next block or
line of trees or one or two will be
found dead or the leaves shriveling,
like fire had gone through the trees.
The cantaloupe crop in the Moapa
country in Nevada will amount to 500
carloads this season, while cotton and
tobacco will furnish large yields. In
the vicinity of Las Vegas the crops of
peaches, grapes, figs and pears will
be much larger than ordinarily.
Eastern Montana and northern
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