The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-07-26
NORTHWEST NOTES


with the purchasers of more than 500.
boo acres of railroad land In Oregon.
William Alexander Massey, the new
senator from Nevada, came to Ne.
yada to seek his fortune as a gold
| miner, but went broke and achieved
success by way of the law and poll.
/ tics.
A syndicate of Portland capitalists,
with ]. Supple, the Portland ship.
owner, at the head, has bonded the
Golden Rule group of quartz claims
which are situated on Jesse creek
eight miles west Of Salmon, Idaho
The matter of issuing state bonds
to the amount of two million dollars
will be an issue in the next session Of
the Idaho legislature which meets
next January. The purpose of the pro
posed bond issue is to build cross
state road
The management of the Idaho Falls
idaho Dry Farm association states
that an average of twenty bushels to
the acre will be the crop harvested
this year on their big holdings west of
town and that total of $4,000 acres
will be threshed
nh semi-annual apportionment of
money in the school fund of the state
of Idaho has been completed at the
office of the superintendent of schools
at Boise. A sum total of $196, Jos 20
has been distributed throughout the
state to the counties.
A cIoudburst at Denver wrought
damage estimated at over two million
dollars and cost two lives, in addition
to seriously injuring number more.
A wall of water twenty-five feet high
swept down Cherry Creek, carrying
with 1t death and destruction.
The home of Otto E. Borden at Diet
rich, Idaho, was destroyed by fire, to-
gether with all outbuildings. Mrs.
Borden was at home with children of
the family, one of them taking a bath
at the time, and the child barely es-
capped. Not an article of the furniture
was saved.
The second days session of the
Western Federation of Miners, in an
nual convention at Victor, Cal, was
featured by the annual address of
President Charles H. Meyer and by a
lively debate over the use of red
flag to decorate the hall in which the
delegates are meeting.
At a conference of hundred Roose-
welt Republicans of the state of Wash.
ington, held in Seattle, resolutions
were adopted denouncing the nomina.
ton Of President Taft, absolving all
Republicans from loyalty to the Chi.
eago nominees, and declaring in favor
Of nominating and working for Roose.
welt presidential electors, but not
third party state ticket.
Bishop H. W. Warren, recently re-
tired by the Methodist Episcopal
church, is reported critically i'll at his
residence in Dsnver He has been con.
fined to his bed with infiammatory
rheumatism for four weeks.
Thirty people were injured, several
seriously, at Cheyenne, when the main
tent of the Yankee Robinson circus
was blown down by windstorm ST.
multaneously the animal tent col
iapsed and added to the confusion.
Frank Dempsey, an escaped convict
from Wyoming penitentiary at Raw
Inns, and fugitive life termer, who
have been terrorizing the settlers near
the Wyoming Colorado line for the last
two days, have been surrounded on
Slater creek, forty miles northeast of
10 tDxy
counties. A battle Is expected at any
time.
A reduction of from 10 to 40 per
cent in class and commodity rates af-
tecting more than 800 articles is
asked ON shipments from east of the
Mississippi river to New Orleans, Gal
weston, Memphis. st. Paul, Minneapolis
and Chicago to Denver and Salt Lake
City in the case filed recently with the
Interstate commerce commission by
the Denver chamber of commerce.
The Utah-Wyoming Consolidated
Dill company have purchased another
oil drilling rig for prospecting their
possessions in the Big Horn basin Of
Wyoming. The new machine will be
TASFANSN Win d case WHEEL attach
nent, which will enable the drillers to
handle the casing and the drilling
tools at the same time, thereby avoid
ing much of the delay occasioned by
he pulling of the casing.
The grand lodge of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. in ses-
sion at Portland last week, decided by
large majority to maintain its rule
regarding utilization fees in subordi-
nate lodges. This rule permits a
lodge to exact from a member of an
'ther lodge applying for transfer any
existing difference in the initiation
fee of the lodge in question. A senti-
ment had been shown to do away with
The differential payment
The mummified corpse of John G.
Watts, a prospector for 40 years. who
has been missing in the SEVENTH