The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-16
NORTHWEST NOTES

Stevens hasa body Of ! 200 acres in |
wheat that will average 30 bushels an
acre.
Ed McCulIom and Lester AIdrich
dug their way through the walls Of
the county jail at Delta, Colo, and
escaped.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting Of
he Society of Montana Pioneers will
be held at Deer Lodge on August 20,
81, and %.
Poultry is one Of the most import
ant OF Montanas industries. Great
preparations are being made for ex-
hIbitions thereof at the state fair.
Montana has never had SO great a
harvest as will be gathered from the
fields Of the Treasure state this fall,
according to General Manager G. A.
Gocdeli OF the Northern Pacific rail-
road.
Rapid progress is being made on
the preliminary survey for the Win
nemucca Northern railroad. From
Winnemucca to Paradise hill the grade
amounts to very little, being one one
tenth of one per cent.
Sensational testimony to the effect
that boys were stripped of their cloth
ing and dashed with heavy straps was
given at the opening OF the reform
school investigation at st. Anthony,
Idaho.
| c. X Hashima, former treasurer Of
| the Colorado japanese society and
keeper of Japanese boarding house,
in Denver, has been arrested on a
charge Of embezzitng $4,000 while
treasurer of the socity.
! Phillip T. Dodge. president of the
Mergenthaler Linotype company of
New York, has filed suit for di-
yorce at Reno, New, from Margaret
B. Dodge, who is now in New York
I The complaint charges desertion.
A. l. Porter OF Spokane, secretary
of the Western Retail Lumbermen's
association, who with thirteen other
secretaries of retail lumber dealers
associations, was indicted in June,
1911, on a criminal charge of violat-
ing the Sherman law, has been re-
leased On bail
Declaring that not a dollar Of hers
ever should go to union labor, Miss
Elizabeth O'Boyle. proprieuess Of a
grocery in Butte, donned overalls and
completed the carpentry work on ner
store made necessary by damage by
fire. A crowd of union men looked on
and jeered from a safe distance.
After binding Jailer Joseph File
hand and foot and wrapping him in
some blankets, Joe Turner, serving
time Tor forgery, opened the cells
and liberated all OF the prisoners in
the county Jail at Evanston, Wyo
Seven men were in the Jail and all
but one took advantage of the jail
break.
A Salt Lake paper announces that
the chief of police OF tna& city mas
been striving lstrenuously and secretly
for the past ten days to recover
$3.50 diamond stud stolen from him
at Toronto, Canada, while he was at
tending the convention of the InteTna
tional Chief OF Police association.
The Midvale council has offered
reward of $500 for information lead
. ing to the arrest and conviction o
the pal of Charles A Gammett, ThC
escaped from the Vienna saloon ate
the killing of Night Marshal Frank A
, Colclough Wednesday night
, There were 661 mines producin:
gold. silver, copper. lead or zincc il
, | Nevada in 1911, compared with COS il
, 1910. OF these, ,seyenty-Cwo were place
mines. The total quantity of ore sol,
or treated in Nevada in 1911 was 1
1872, 721 short tons an increase of 4T6
SAC tons.
In the Northern saloon. az Gold
= deId, New, where, in the boom days
= it is said, $4,000, zoe frequently passe,
, over the tables in a single night, fou
men were arrested Monday night 70
gambling. Gambling is now a -peni
tertiary offense in Nevada, and tn
men were led of to Jail.
: On September 2 there will be opene
At Great Fails, Mont, Mount Angel
Ursuline academy. a superb moder
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! pleted at a cost. including its furnish
4 ings, OF more than 100000. and on
: that will offer facilities for IT'S boart
I ing pupils and S25 day pupils.
Congressman Pray has introduced
4 bill providing for mining experimer
: station at Helena and aDpropriatin
S SIS. 900 for its establishment. Quite
of those in charge shall include tn
investigations of metal min ng with
view to increasing the safety, effic
= ency and economic development c
mines.
The executive committee Of the RI
publican convention issued call las
week for state convention, to b
held in Great Fails. September 5, fo
the purpose of nominating a stat
ticket. The Democratic state CONVEX
lion will meet at Great Falls, Augu:
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