The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

damage was done.
Montana is just beginning to raise
rye and had nearly 5000 acres in
this grain, which averaged twenty
three bushels per acre.
Alex. Remneas, who pitched for
the Helena team of the Union associa-
ton last season, has signed a con-
tract with the Detroit Americans.
In 1911 all the wheat acreage Of
Montana was $4,000 acres, produc-
ing total of 12,299,O0O bushels. This
Is an average of twenty-eight and
seven-tenths bushels per acre.
Judge George NJ. Bourquin, appoint
ed last week Judge OF the United
States district court of Montana,
studied law while employed as a
hosting engineer in the Butte mines.
Adherents of President Taft were
In overwhelming control of the meet
ing of the Republican state central
committee at Denver, and Endorsed
the president for denomination by 103
to 10.
The herd of elk which is to be
transferred from the Jackson Hole
country in Wyoming 10 the mountain
ranges In the vicinity of Salina, Utah,
will be ready for shipment the latter
part of the week.
Frye & Co, who have fed about
$500 cattle near Nyssa, Ore, this win.
ter, last week shipped fifteen cars to
fS cd mid
ly, and the remainder of the cattle
will probably be shipped in a short
time.
III health, the result of an accident
last June, when he was hit on the
head by ball, caused Vernus George,
aged 10 years, to commit suicide, &C
cording to the findings of the coroner's
jury at Sheridan, Wyo. George died
from strychnine poisoning.
The Lincoln day celebration at
Boise, Idaho, attended by Republican
leaders from all over the state, dis
closed a strong sentiment for Taft
and is taken by Taft leaders in the
state as indicative of a delegation
from Idaho instructed for the presi-
dent.
In 1909 the corn acreage in Mon
tana amounted to only 1914 acres; in
1910 it amounted to $4,000 acres and
in 1911, 10000 acres. The yield in
1909 was twenty-eight bushels, deci-
mails omitted; twenty-three bushels
per acre in 1910 and twenty-six bushels
plus in 1911.
Representatives of the state organ
ization of the Women's Christian
Temperance union have filed with the
secretary of state at Denver a petit
ton containing more than $4,000 sig
natures to initiate a constitutional
amendment looking to statewide pro-
hibition. This is the first petition to
initiate state law filed in Colorado.
The ninth annual convention of
the Western Retail Lumber Dealers
association assembled at Seattle on
the 18th, with delegates present
from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Cali
fornia, Utah. Oregon. Nevada, Wyo-
ming and Washington, which states
consume sixty-eight per cent of the
forest products of Oregon and Wash
ington.
The annual statement of the financial
condition of the Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph company for
the year ending December 81, 1911,
submitted by President E. B. Field
of Denver, shows a total revenue bal
ance for the year of $1,066, 1880. The
grand total of revenues amounted to
s5,S7O15174. The company operates
in Colorado New Mexico, Arizona,
Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
Park county dairymen in session at
Livingston, Mont, pledged their sup
port in fighting the new pure food
laws. They will cooperate with
pther organizations in a test case to
determine whether the new regula-
tons regarding diaries are lawful.
The annual field meet and declara-
ton contest of Academic league will
be held at the University of Nevada at
Reno, on May 10th and 18th, 1912.
Two entries are allowed to each
school for each event. No student is
allowed to enter more than four differ
ent athletic events.
The charter of Butte Mill and Smell
termen's union, No. "a, the second
largest union in the district, has been
revoked by the executive board of the
Western Federation of Miners. The
membership will be distributed be.
tween the local miners and engineers
unions. This action has been taken to
consolidate the union ranks and in
wolves no contest.
The record for the number of plain
tiffs involved in a suit in the Mon
tana courts has been broken in the
filing at Butte of an action by the
Butte Mill and Smeltermen's union
against the Western Federation of
Miners to enjoin the federation from
revoking the charter of the union.
Seven hundred members of the union
are named as plaintiffs in the suit.
Italians of Utah and in Idaho and Ne
vada think they have an explanation
y