The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-11-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

The strike at Ely has been settled,
the union voting almost unanimously
to return to work at a higher scale of
wages, agreed to by the Consolidated
Copper company.
George Green, Fwitchman of the
Butte, Anaconda and Pacific railroad
was killed when a steel dump car cut
off both of his legs at the knees. Green
died before reaching the hospital
w. c. East. cashier of the Salem
Bank & Trust company, whose arm
was torn off by the explosion of
boiler in the basement of the bank at
Salem, Ore. died from his injuries.
Edward Fleming, well-known
young rancher of Orchard Homes,
Mont, was hurt in threshing acct
dent He died short time after the
accident, leaving a wife and two chill
dren.
Mathew Fassfo, 80 years old, an
Italian who dislocated his right hip in
an accident at Diamondville, Wyo,
died a: hospital of pneumonia, said
to have developed when he was in
jured.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Oster-
miller, year and a half old, living
about eight miles southwest o. Bill
ings, Mont, was drowned Saturday in
small creek which flows through the
farm.
There are 11c.7S2 registered male
voters in Montana This is 1880
more votes than were cast at the pres
idential election in this state four
years ago, when the figures was 3d.
1922
Joseph Seaman went to the ranch of
his father-in-law, Frank e. Smith, near
Lewiston, Mont, and shot and killed
both Mr.. Smith and wife, and then
took his own life. Seaman had been
drinking heavily.
Nelse Burke, late Of Spokane, was
shot and killed and Waiter Busse, his
chum, was seriously wounded at
Moore, Mont, in a fight with railroad
section crews from Moore and Glen
gary. Eleven men are in Jail.
Sales of sheep by Fergus sheepmen
| W DlllluSSy Null, puJOlS, ASSSAIAJt
have aggregated $4,000 head at about
So a head, on an average, SO that
these transactions have brought about
S225,000 into the county
A report from Denver says that the
Moffat road management has ordered
100000 worth of equipment and roll
ing stock. The two new snow sheds,
that will cost in the neighDorhuod of
b250,000, are almost completed.
Nine hundred head of cattle will
be fattened on the Boynton ranch
near Reno, New, this winter Nearly
all the farmers already have con-
trated for a quota that will be suffi-
eient to utilize the seasons supply
Of alfalfa
G. G.. Fox, aged AZ years, rancher
living three miles northwest OF
Paonia, Colo, shot and killed his G.
year-old daughter, 4-year-old-son and
4-month-old baby, and then killed him
self 1t is supposed he committed the
deed in fit of insanity.
In the recent issue of the Pocatello
son, assistant general manager of the
Oregon Short Line for his earnest en-
deavors to keep the cars moving or
the line and to do all in his power tc
keep shippers in Idaho suppi,ed witt
cars.
A deposit of silt under the big dan
Of the Olympic Power company on The
Elwha river, ten miles from Port An
geles, Wash. gave way, liberating the
water impounded by the concrete
structure and flooding the valley. Whet
the break occurred, the people in thu
valley we're notified by telephone ant
fed to the hills.
For fifteen agonized hours Georg
Ryder lay az the bottom OF the cnut
in an old working of the Mohawl
mine, says the Carson City (Nev.
News. Then as the rescuing part
came and started to let down the lac
der, it wassa cloud of muck let loose b
the movements above that slid dow
upon him and suffocated him befor
his comrades could dig him out.
C. H. Lewis, formerly manager {
the Quality Cheese company at Sa
Lake, and later manager of the Nj
Kay-Dtein Stock company, which wa
organized in Richmond, Utah, la:
April is held in the county Jail i
Great Falls, Montana, charged wit
larceny.
+ Frank Hyde, until recently supe
intendent OF mining company at A
lanta Ida. committed suicide ;
Seattle by inhaling gas. Incidentall
> the two-story frame house in which /
resided was wrecked and two neig
9 bors were seriously injured by an e
plosion which occurred when they e
tered Hydes room
The bumper wheat crop in Montar
this year caught many homesteadei
unprepared to take cere of the gene
Gus yields old Mother Earth gave theI
II Along the line of the Great Northe.
i railway there are more than one thou