The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-30
NoNInWEST NOTES

4
| have been prospecting, some very
heavy ore, rich enough in silver and
lead to pay well, has been found.
After an analysis of the stomachs
Of the Rev. Gustav A. Latzke, his wife
and two children, all of whom died
at Rocky Ford, Colo, State Chemist
Ekeley announced that death was due
to ptomaine poisoning.
Jack Ray, an old-time horseman and
trainer at the Bitterroot farm, near
Butte, owned by the late Marcus
DAILY, is dead. Mr.. Bray was SO years
of age. He had been in bad health
for year or more.
The, Western Pacific railroad has
5blossomed forth with new folder, ad
vertising itself as the Feather River
Route" A map showing topography
of land along the line is one of the
features of the folder.
Olinthus LIE Grand Peart, 81 years
old, who had trapped and hunted over
Utah, Idaho and Wyoming more than
| quarter of a century and was well
known among naturalists of the west,
| died at his residence In Salt Lake, Au
| gust %, of complication of diseases.
Charles B. Merrick, postmaster of
Portland, and prominent in the Re-
publican party, died of heart failure
at Lakeview, Ore. He had gone to a
natatorium at the mineral springs
at Lakeview. Friends found his body
in one of the bath tubs at the natator-
| ium.
| Mrs. Katherine Weber was burned
to death at Greedy, Colo, as the re-
suit of starting fire in the cook
stove with kerosene. Her three-year.
old son saved his eight-months old
brother by pushing. the baby carriage
in which the child had been placed
into the yard.
Charged with embezzling $4,000 be-
longing to the National Sheep Shear
ers' union, of which he was elected
president and treasurer for the fifth
time last week, M. G. Forrest is lock
ed up in the county Jail at Butte. For
rest says false entries have been
| made in his books.
A cut of 100 miles in the distance
by rail between Denver and St. JOS
| eph, Mo-, is announced as having been
decided upon by the Union Pacific
company. The new route will be over
the main line from Denver by way OF
Julesburg to Gibbon, Neb., thence over
new road to Hastings.
Caught by a light breeze as it turn,
ed just along the grand stand crowd
ed with spectators, the aeroplane
Mathewson Flyer, driven by George
Thompson of Denver, turned turtle at
the race track at Lamar, Colo, and
fell to the ground, crushing the life
out of Thompson beneath it.
The Retail Credit Mems National
association was organized at Spokane
last week by credit men who have
been attending the meeting of the
National Association of Mercantile
Agencies. 1t is expected that a total
membership of 10000 will be enroll
ed before the next convention, which
will be held in Rochester, N. Y, in
July, 1913. =
The harvest of wheat in Broadview
district in Montana will be by far
the best on record. 1t is believed that
the railroads will have considerable
difficulty in handling all that is
threshed in that and Judith basin
county.
Mrs. Harriet E. Balch, a wealthy
WIDOW of Boston, was robbed of a
handbag containing jewelry valued at
$4,000 to $4,000, at the Canadian Paci-
nc wharf at Seattle. Two hours after
the ROBBERY the police recovered the
bag and contents.
Duncan Mcdonald of aSweetgrass
county, charged with being implicat
ed with Mel lowell in the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Joseph r3ranmn at
Melville, Mont, in November, of last
year has been released from, Jail, and
threatens to sue the county for false
imprisonment.
more rigid enforcement of the pure
1000 and drugs act and national legis-
iation requiring greater legibSIity in
the writing of prescriptions are two
or the more important matters TO be
considered by the American PhsHma-
ceutical association, which opened its
slxueth annual convention in Denver
on Monday.
Tralled by bloodhounds from the
state prison, Wilbur Toner and Frank
Grove, Walla Walla attorneys lost
IN the Blue mountains, were found ON
| Salmon river fiftv ,,,;1ac from WaI1a
Walia. The young men, almost Elk
nauSted, We're slowly making their
way down the river through the Wild
est country in the range.
Notice has been received at the
Salt Lake land office of the 100000
acres of government Indian lands that
VIII be sold at auction in the near
suture. Of these lands, 775,000 acres
are in the Shoshone or Wind River