The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-12-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

senator fTduClS VI. lN0Wlduub VI 2No-
vada Is to be offered berth in Pres
! ldent Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, ac-
cording to man who is intimately
acquainted with the senator and Ne
vada politics.
B. Burt, convicted at Butte Of the
murder OF Thomas Slonski, was SEN
fenced to 100 years in the peni-
Tertiary. A quarrel between the mems
wives led to the killing, which oc-
CURED August 8.
Plans for recognizing the Denver,
| Northwestern e. Pacific railroad are
about ready for contamination and
application will be made at Denver In
few days for foreclosure on tho
company's bonds.
At public auction s4,000,000 of the
Colorado & Utah Construction com
pany's per cent collateral trust gold
notes. dated May /, 1909. and due
May /, 1011, were sold for $2,200,000
at Denver last week.
After a short illness James Dunn,
a resident Of Nevada since 1875, a
stockman known throughout the inter
mountain states, and one Of Renos
most prominent buIsiness men, died at
his home. Heart disease is given as
the cause of his demise.
Two guinea pigs, innoculated with
germs from the University Of Wash
ington gymnasium at Seattle, to de-
! termine whether the mat used by the
wrestling squad was the source of bac-
terra from which two student athletes
contracted blood poisoning, have died.
Maggie Au France of Douglas,
famed as the wealthiest woman in
Wyoming and noted for her philan-
/ thropies, was convicted of violating
the Mann white slave" act in the fed
eral court at Cheyenne, and was SEN
| fenced to one year at Leavenworth
penitentiary.
/ Her refusal to marry Peter Jorgen-
sen, mining engineer, cost Maxine
Clayton of Sheridan, Wyo., her life.
Refused for the last time, Jorgensen
ended wooing that began in their
childhood by shooting her through
the heart and sending bullet through
his own head.
Following the death of Mrs. Katie
Scott in hospital at Spokane, as the
result Of drinking poisoned liquor,
William B. Ross, who also tasted the
liquor, died and Mrs Jennie Ross is
! not expected to recover. The police
have not been able to learn where the
liquor was obtained.
The annual fire report for district
4, which covers the national forests of
Idaho south of the Snake river, west
ern Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and
northwestern Arizona, is the best
showing of efficiency in preventing
fires since the establishment Of the
Service. Ninety-two fires occurred In
the district during the summer.
The Oregon-W Railroad &
4 Navigation company will lose a strip
of right of way twenty-seven and
half miles long and 200 feet wide on
Its main line between North Yakima
and the coast if the government is
able to prove its contentions contained
In bill in equity filed in the federal
court at Spokane.
Vale, Oregon, with a population of
1872, according to the federal census
of 1910, has just granted three liquor
licenses at $4,000 apiece for the ensu-
ing year, while Portland, with a pop
ulation OF 207.214, according to the
same census, has just granted 41S
liquor licenses for total of $4,000
for the next six months, or about $780,
600 for the ensuing year.
Schoolboy policemea, wearing stars
/ to show their authority, soon will be
: realities in Spokane. Under a plan
Endorsed by the chief of police and
D the board of education, twenty-three
eighth grade pupils will be given week
ly instruction as to police duties by
:. means of lectures and will be ex.
/ pected to patrol children's Fairgrounds
! and make reports to the authorities,
D but will have no power of making ar.
rests.
Confined by the bars OF the city
jai and unable to attract help by
their cries. Milburn and Clarence All
! red, aged 16 and Is years, were
burned to death at Price, Utah. Wher
8 the bodies were found the fire had
{ burned out
Decision of Governor Oswald Yves
OF Oregon that five condemned muir
: derers all shall be hanged at once hai
precipitated anti-capital punishment
/, sentiment in mass meeting, in which
! It was decided to endeavor to get re
prieves for the five.
Charles Herman, keeper in tn
Portland zoo, fought desperate bal
1 tie with golden eagle in the bird
lie cage when he entered to feed tn
ID captiyes. The largest eagle swoope
g upon him and fastening it's talons il
al his head began to peck at the keel
er's face. Hermann was badl
scratched.
Canadian CAPITALISTS have recently