The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-08-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

/ The Oregon Short Line has con-
ftracted for more than $4,000 600 worth
of rolling stock, for delivery before
January /, 1913.
A third party ticket with candidates
for all congressional, state and county
/ offices, will be put in the field by the
Progressive party in Washington. This
was decided at the conference of Pro
gressiye leaders at Seattle.
Corporal David Austin Of company
l., Twenty-fifth infantry, stationed at
! Fort George Wright, Wash, died
Thursday from a gunshot wound in
| flicted by Private James Stein, who
had long had grudge against Aus
tin.
Several persons were more OF less
seriously injured but none were killed
when train on the Denver, North
western & Pacific, the "Moffat Road"
was derailed five miles east of Sui,
phur Springs, eighty miles from Den
yer.
BY means of twenty knot-an-hour
steamers and faster time over the
river between Portland and Astoria,
at the mouth of the Columbia river,
the Hill railroad interests plan to in
wade the California territory, accord
ing to a report at Portland.
According to letter from the Off
ces of the chairman of the Associa-
there is likely to be severe car
shortage within the near future and
shippers and railways throughout the
country should prepare to meet the
shortage
Fifty settlers from Pend d'Oreille
and Stevens counties, Washington,
were in line in front of the land Of
flee at Seattle at daybreak August IA,
for the purpose of filing upon the 25,-
900 acres of land on which they make
their homes. A dozen women were
among them.
Jealous, apparently, because his
wifes former husband, from whom
she had been separated sixteen years,
had come to board with them, Charles
Gehrig, gatekeeper at a Portland
amusement resort, shot his wife, her
sister and the former husband, and
then killed himself.
Suit has been fled at Denver by
the government against the Southern
Colorado Power company for the re-
storation to the national domain of
400 acres of coal land valued at $780,
900 in Las Animas county, Colorado,
alleged to have been obtained by
fraudulent entry.
In the arrest at Denver of a negro
named II. ]. Jonas, SIS years old. the
police believe they have the murderer
of Miss Signe Carlseen, the music
teacher who was brutally murdered in
Aurora. When the place where he
lives was searched an ak, the blade
and handle covered with blood, was
found.
A full state ticket and pres dental
electors were selected at a meeting
of the Progressive party state central
committee at Reno, New. S. NJ. Sum
merfield of Reno was named for Unit
edStates senator; George Springmeyer
of Carson for congress, and w. H. G.
the supreme court.
Because he attempted to rub a
feather ticker in the face of a young
woman on crowded street filled with
merrymakers at the Frontier celebra-
ton at Cheyenne, Bert Rogers of
South Platte, Neb., was probably IA
tally wounded. The escort of the
young woman resisted the attentions
of Rogers and stabbed him over the
heart.
Mrs. Barclay, a member of the
choir in the church at Huntington,
Ore, whose pastor was a leader in
the recent crusade to rid the town
of disorderly element was the VIC
tim of tiendish assault, a man en-
tering her room while her husband
was away beating her in a frightful
manner. If the miscreant is caught
he will undoubtedly be lynched
Two men were killed and several In.
1ured in wreck on the Western Pa
cific when freight train of thirty-four
cars ran away and was derailed near
Proctor, New, the entire train turning
O'Si' AC uSau are L ISildn bentley
and Brakeman Allen. Engineer Potter
was slightly injured.
Memorial services eulogizing the
thirty-five past supreme chancellors
and supreme representatives of the
knights of Pythias and other mem.
bers of the order who have died since
the last biennial convention in 1910.
were held Sunday at Denver by the
supreme lodge delegates.
That the northwestern states will ne
strongly represented at the twentieth
session of the National Irrigation con-
gress, which meets in Salt Lake CITY
September 30 to October 8. was de-
clared by George A. Snow, chairman
OF the Utah board of control, who last
week returned from Montana and
Idaho.
The city council of Seattle, by a