The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

/ In Dill lnIrOuuceu ny senator War
rem.
May Gilmore, habitue OF the re.
stricted district, died last week at
the pest, house in Ely, Nevada, OF
smallpox, after being i'll about ten
days.
Fire started by a spark from an
engine dropping in loose hay in a
feed store, destroyed property valued
TAT 100000 in South Butte. An en-.
tire block was wiped out.
Harry Coogan of Goldfeld, Nevada,
assistant minute clerk Of the last SEES
sion of the legislature. and F. F. Reed
of Goldfield were seriously injured In
an auto accident last week.
The body OF Carl Hard, late assist.
ant chief of detectives in Manila and
formerly a Salt Lake City newspaper
man, arrived at Helena last week and
was buried in the family plot. Hard
committed suicide in Manila.
For the first time in two years the
price of wheat in Seattle reached the
dollar mark on April 8. Seattle mill.
ers were paying 81 bushel for No.
bluestem and as high as 81 cents
was asked for No. | club wheat.
The completion of first-class road
through stretch of territory In
Spring valley, Nevada. which has
been rendered almost impossible for
years during wet weather, is welcom.
ed by the residents of that section.
Superior Judge A. w. Ffater, OF
Seattle, denied the application OF
Lars Emanuel Boman for naturaliza.
ton because Boman said he would
stand by his labor union in prefer.
ence to the government of the United
States.
A Seattle dispatch announces the
death of Erastus G. Hawkins of Sc
attic, chief engineer of the Alaska
(Morgan-Guggenheim) syndicate and
builder of the Copper River & North.
western and the White Pass & Yukon
railways.
Luigi Luilio, an italian laborer, oil
Verdi, was arrested by Justice of the
Peace Morril, of Verdi, Nevada, on
charge of criminal assault on the per.
son of Stella Giallino, 9-year-old
girl. That lynching was averted
was due to the efforts of Morril.
The Industrial Workers of the
World sawmili hands who are on
strike at the Washington plants, are
planning to get their complaints be.
fore congress, and if possible bring
about a congressional investigation
of the whole sawmill industry in that
state.
Harry Heller was found guilty by
a jury at Ely, New, of murder in the
second degree for the killing of Jen.
ME Fitzgerald, woman of the under
world, last December. Heller showed
no signs of emotion whatever when
the conclusions of the jury were pre-.
scented.
Claims have been filed against the
estate of the late D. H. Moffat ag.
gregating $4,506,566 in the distric,
court at Denver. 1t is conceded tag
tate of the Colorado railroad build
er, banker and mining man that out
OF an estate valued at from 100000.
600 to $15,000,0OO the heirs will
realize only about $750,O0O.
A man need not retreat to the
wall" before killing his assailan;
when the circumstances indicate that
death or great bodily injury may re
suit from the assault. Thus the court
charged the jury in the case of Burt
HICKS, machine shop owner, charged
with the killing of w. A. Workman. a
union picket at Portland, last Noyem
Der. The jury, after celebrating sew
erai hours, found Hicks not guilty.
Two burglars, with a chauffeur
drove through the most exclusive res
ldence district of Denver. selectins
drug stores and small shops which
game promise of loot Two drus
stores and two grocers' places were
broken into by the men, while the
chauneur remained at his post in the
automobile.
Arthur Maxwell, five years old, was
rescued from probable death nea,
Evans, Colo, when Conductor Alfred
jenkins leaned from the rear Plat
form while his train was moving al
a rate OF twenty miles an hour as
runaway team dashed past, hitched te
a tarm wagon, and seized the baby
who was asleep on the wagon seat.
Sergeant Clarence Britten, stationed
at Sylvan Pass, the eastern Wyomina
entrance to the Yellowstone mark
shot and killed Private Frank Cunning
nam and wounded Private Frank Car
roll when they refused to obey his
commands regarding some work
around the post where the men, were
stationed. He win be tried by court
martial at Fort Yellowstone.
Hill county, Montana, had it's first
Killing March 31st, when Peter Wag
her' a stoekman of west Butte, shot
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