The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

been better satisfied with draw.
A train Of sixteen cars was required
to move the wool clip at Currie, New,
during the past six weeks. Slxty-fiye
thousand head Of sheep were sheared
at that point, where the largest sheep
corrals and shearing plant in the state
In located.
The future of the honor system by
which conyicts were widely scattered
over the state of Nevada with only
nominal supervision, is in doubt. What
policy the new warden will take when
he assumes office May 10 has not been
announced.
The price of beef Is the highest ever
known In Seattle. Prime steers sold
on May Q at IL cents pound whole.
sale, l cent higher than year ago.
The wholesale price of beef had adj
vanced so much that retailers are
boosting prices.
The senate committee on agricul
ture has adopted an amendment tc
the agricultural appropriation bill pro,
viding that 25 per cent of the receipts
the reserves where moneys originated
for the construction of roads.
d. G. Dodge, who. with S. M. Perry
was appointed receiver for the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railway (Mof-
fat road) said at Denver, Thursday,
that plans are being formulated by
which it is expected the railroad will
be on a paying basis within year.
About 5000 votes were cast in the
Republican and Democratic county
primaries at Seatt;e. Only about 1000
were Democratic votes and nearly all
these were for Woodrow Wilson OF
the Republican votes, Roosevelt re-
ceived about 5000, La Toilette 1900
Taft 400.
Frank Duffee, printer As years old
who came to Denver seven months
ago from Los Angeles, shot and
killed himself. He had been i'll for
many months. Noise of his two little
girls playing in the yard was toe
much, he said, and he went into his
room and ended his life.
State conventions to name six dele
| gates to the Republican and Demo.
cratic national conventions will be
held in Cheyenne May 13 under the
be no primary this spring, delegates
to the state convention being named
| by the county committee of 1910.
All prisoners in the state road
camps and on the state prison farm
were returned to the Nevada peniten.
| tiary Thursday by order Of Warden
Baker, but not early enough to pre-
vent three escapes within twenty-four
hours. Blood-hounds have been placed
on the trails of the escaped prisoners.
The case against eJrry Mccarthy, a
boxing promoter of Butte, arrested
for holding bout before members OF
a regularly organized club, has been
dismissed, the police court holding
that the law permits limited bouts
with soft gloves before such club
This is the first decision on the law
A sheriff's posse is searching the
surrounding country for members OF
a so-called Black Hand society, who
are said to have robbed and murdered
John Giachino, a wealthy liquor deal
er of Newcastle, Wyo., and Peter
Nora, his coachman. The two bodies.
riddled with bullets, were found be
| tween Newcastle and Cambria.
| George and Charles Humphreys,
middle-aged brothers, were found
| guilty of murder in the first degree
at Corvallis, Ore, at the end of their
| trial on charge of killing Mrs
Eliza Griffith, one of their neighbors
Evidence against the brothers was
that after cruelty attacking Mrs. Grit
fiths, they bound her to the floor and
robbed her house while she lay dying
A man who said he was Charles
Cunningham of Salt Lake City, Utah,
was arrested in Seattle cafe charged
with smuggling opium from Vancou-
| yer, B. G. Thirty-four 5-tael tins of
the drug, valued at $500, were found
in a suitcase belonging to Cunning
ham.
Arrangements for the coming corn
contest of boys and girls of Montana
are being perfected and in the vicin-
ity of Billings more than $3.50 in cash
prizes will be distributed. Among the
requirements is one which makes it
compulsory for the young people to
cultivate at least one-tenth of an acre.
An immense irrigation project is
about to be undertaken in Montana
by which it isexpected that no less
than 100000 acres will be reclaimed
and made productive. This is the so
called Milk river project, which will
cost 100000, the largest enterprise
of the sort ever undertaken in Mon
tana.
Wong 81 Sam, tried for the murder
of Seid Bing, was found guilty of
manslaughter at Portland Seid Bling
was member of one of the richest
Chinese families in America. His mu-
tilated body, crammed into trunk.
was found last January in passenger
/ atatf0Y, in Soafflo