The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

pther passengers were marooned fol
two days on snowbcund train OF
the Saratoga e. Encampment rail-
road near Midway. Wyo.
Clark T. Shaw. one of the best
known stamp mill men In the west
committed suicide at Manhattan,
New. taking cyanide OF potassium. Iii
health was said to be the cause.
George Riyes Of GoldfeId, New. has
| been sentenced to seven years In
Leayenworth prison on the charge OF
taking q young girl from Salt Lake
70 Goldfieid for immoral purposes.
A winter range is necessary for the
elk around Jackson's Hole, Wyoming.
u they are TO be saved from extinc-
ton is the opinion of Salt Lake
sportsman who recently returned
from trip TO the elk feeding
grounds.
For more than twenty.four hours
los passengers, many OF them women
and children, were snowbound near
Cascade Locks, between Portland
and the Dalles on the Oregon. Wash
lngton Railway and Navigation Co.'s
main line one day last week.
Thomas Kilgallan. one OF the best
known mining men IN the northwest
IL seriously Ill with pneumonia at
Wallaoe, Idaho, hts family having
been called 70 that city from Butte.
Mr. kilgallan ID operating silver
mine for w. A. Clark In the CoeuI
d'Alenes.
The railroad officials announce tina
the stockade at Sparks, New, has
been permanently abolished and that
the non-union shop employees. having
been assured Of protection by the
townspeople, have secured lodgings
about the town. No disturbance has
resulted.
Jealousy led Edward Clark, aged |
10, to kill Hazel Cooper, aged 16, at
Rock Springs, Wye. The girl stop.
ped at the home Of her sister where
Clark roomed on her way to high
school. Clark upbraided her for ac-
,epting attentions from other boys
md then shot her through the heart
The Grand Junction, Colo. cham.
'er OF commerce has sent to Jim
flynn, the Pueblo fireman, an offer
Q provide quarters for training for
lis battle with Jack Johnson next
July and to pay the greater part of
lis expenses. Trout fishing near the
quarters on Cottonwood lake Is one
u the allurements of the offer.
The forty-three persons who have
'een standing In line in the corridorgl
p the land office at North Yakima.
Wash, since December 26 waiting to /
DO first to file on land which they
'ay the government Is about to throw
open In the Teton district were
lriven from their posts by FIRE
which ruined the contents of tina
hree lower floors OF the building.
II u reported that there Ia quite a
ush into the gold fields in the vicin.
" OF Atlantic City, thirty-ffve miles
outh of Lander, Wyo., the present
erminus of the Northwestern road
me mining Is largely quartz promo.
ition. though there are some placer
nines which 1t is said could be
worked to advantage If water could
% secured to use in washing the
and and gravel
Edward G. McGrath, clever nick.
'ocket, swindler and sure-thing man
under arrest in Chicago. II ia
harged that MeGrath is the man who
obbed Frank Egan of 1850 at the
ntranee to the State Savings bank in
iutte, May Z, 1910.
Gus Marshall. splritualist and gam.
ler well known In Salt Lake. Reno
nd Goldheld, New, informed District
Judge Allen at Denver that he would
'ithdraw his appeal from the district
curtis verdict Of guilty and is will.
ng 70 accept the sentence of life i'm.
rlsonment imposed upon him for the
murder Of his wife, Lucy Marshall
list August.
A warrant charging embezzlement
as been issued at Portland for tha
rrest of Temple w. Alexander. for.
Ter purchasing clerk of the Oregon.
Railroad & Navigation
ompany, The complaint was sworn
, by Auditor Biaisdell OF the com.
any. The alleged POPULATIONS extend.
d over a period OF two years. The
heritage is said to amount to $4,000
Butte mill and smeltermen's union.
'hich next to the Butte miners union
the strongest organization in the
lutte district affiliated with the West.
IN Federation OF Miners, has adopt
d resolution requesting the execn-
I've board to take 4 referendum vote
the membership of the Western
liberation as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of
consolidating with the
Intted Mine Workers of America un.
er one charter.
Wireless telegraphy will become
actor in the prevention of forest fires
/ Montana If experiments planned by
!. p, Mclaughlin, supervisor of the
'lackfoot national forest, and p. N
ernard, secretary of the KalispelI
hamber of commerce, are successful