The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-06
NORTHWEST NOTES

/ President Taft has restored to en-.
try 1854 aces of land in Colorado
heretofore incIuded in coal withdraw.
ais. More than 100000 acres are in
North park, Jackson county.
Terry T. Maroney, the Montana
aviator, will make two aeroplane
fights daily at the state fair in Hell.
ena, September % to 2S He also may
ny at the Beayerhead county fair
Ross ODell, clerk of a Chicago
hotel, who shot and wounded an IN
identified man when the man fired at
him with a revolver, is believed to be
the son of George W. oDelI, a
wealthy Spokane business man.
H. NJ. EasterIy. a Portland attor.
ney. has been appointed district at.
! torney for Multnomah county by Gov.
ernor West, who had previously de.
clared District Attorney George J.
| Cameron ousted from Office. as pre-
liminary to his anti-vice campaign ia
! Portland.
Frank Mahoney. Sc years old, jump
| ed from the fourth story window of
| hospital at Denver. He was dead
| when picked up, his neck having been
broken. Mahoney, who was a resi-.
dent Of Bloomfield, Ia, was brought
west four months ago, suffering from
brain disease.
Superintendent William TweeddaIe
! and Pit Boss Alfred Reuben were In.
stantly killed by gas explosion in the
Frisco mine of the Rocky Mountain
Fuel company. four miles southeast
Of Trinidad. They were on a tour OF
inspection and the superintendent
carried an open lamp.
Walter H. Evans OF Portland. has
announced his decision not to accept
Governor Vests appointment as spe-
cial deputy district attorney for Mutt
nomah county, giving as his reason
the pressure of business in the office
of the United tSates district attorney.
This action further complicates Gov
ernor Vests anti-vice campaign in
Portland.
Evidence purporting to show how
lumber manufacturers and whole.
salers were kept informed as to what
retailers in the middle west were con-
sidered ''unethical' and what firms
were supplying them with lumber was
introduced at Wednesdays hearing at
Seattle of the governments antitrust
suit against the Northwestern Lum.
bermen's association.
Flax harvesting is in progress in
Montana. Reports say the acreage
and yield to the acre are record break
ers. Estimates for the state run from
four to ten million bushels. Average
yield estimated ten to seventeen bush.
els an acre; many claim twenty-fouE
bushels.
Arraigned at Silyerton. Colo, for
preliminary hearing with Mrs. Rosa
DallavaHe for the murder of Max Dali
lavalle year ago. Victor Pangrazi
confessed that he had killed the hus.
band of the woman in September,
1911 Dalavalle disappeared in Sep
TENDER. 1911
Corn is a grain which, its friends
maintain, has never been given a fair
ment Of the Montana state fair, while
not certain regarding the matter, is
rather inclined to believe that this is
the case, and so has offered a special
prize valued at S110 for the best dis
play of corn.
Montana has long had a reputation
as potato country. No section Of
the world can produce finer varieties
OF the tuber. AS proof of this atten-
ton has often been called to the fact
that the Burlington railroad main |
tains a farm in this state where are
grown al Of the potatoes used on the |
dining cars of that system.
Earl P. Smith, Northern Pacific |
agent at Roberts station. in Montana, |
left a note telling why he committed |
suicide few days ago, saying he was
profound infidel. confirmed Social |
list, tired of this money-mad world and /
the unequal struggle occasioned by /
the failure of the principles of So |
cialism to become dominant as labor's !
only hope" !
Alarmed by the sudden death OF DR.. /
Thomas B. McClintic of the United |
States Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service, who was sent to Mon /
tana this spring to study the Rocky /
Mountain spotted fever" officials of
the Marine Hospital Service have re-
doubled their efforts to eliminate the
disease from the mountains of the
west.
Montana is the worlds greatest
wheat belt. Its production per acre
is greater and the quality of the grain
is better than in any other section.
Other parts of the country which
were developed sooner than Montana
produce larger total of wheat per
haps than does the Teasure State, but
none has the glowing prospects which
are in store for the agriculturalist of
Montana.
Flax has grown IN ba ana oF +ha !