The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-06-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

| ing place The dates for the 1912
meeting are November 13 to 20.
The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific
railroad (Moffat road, for which re-
ceivers were recently appointed, will
be restored to the owners in thirty
days, if negotiations now pending are
successful
Rev. B. M. Hand, pastor of Mos
COW, Idaho, church, who is accused
of wronging a girl member of his
congregation has heen bound over to
the September term of the district
court for trial
In an aeroplane accident at Seattle,
one man was killed and several in.
jured. In endeavoring to dodge
man who had rushed upon the track,
the aviator steered into the grand.
stand, the machine falling upon the
people.
Louis Carara was killed and George
Flessa seriously wounded at Terrill,
| in Churchill county, Nevada, when V.
B. Terrill found them working on a
mining claim of his which they had
relocated, and opened fire without
warning. Terrill gave himself up.
Lillian B. Eddy wife of Frederick
w. Eddy, writer and newspaperman of
| New York, was granted decree Of
divorce at Reno, on Thursday. The
grounds were non-support. Eddy did
not contest the suit. The Eddys were
married in Boston in September, 1886
The production report for April has
been released by the Goldfield Con
soldated Mines company, showing
that 2S,360 tons of ore were treated,
the net profits for the month being
$780,, 256.17, or $3.50 net per ton. The
new development of the month con-
sisted of 1859 feet.
Becky Beck, an l. w. w, one of the
tailors on strike against a small Seat
tie shop, was acquitted by a jury of
the charge of assault growing out of
a picketing disturbance two weeks
ago. The Beck woman and Jacob Sol
onion, another l. w. w. leader, are
held for deportation to England.
The Democrats of Montana, in con-
vention at Butte, Endorsed the candi-
dacy of Champ Clark and elected
eight delegates instructed to vote tor
him in the national convention as
long as the majority of the delegation
believes that he has a chance to Sc
cure the presidential nomination.
Ten million dollars will be expend-
ed in Washington in completing three
trunk lines of a total length of 1000
miles under the direction of the Wash
ington Good Roads association if the
recommendations of it's executive
committee, headed by Frank w. Gull
bert, are adopted by the Legislature
at it's session next January.
Death Valley Scotty" has sold the
mine which many people insisted did
not exist. He claims he is to receive
$1,00O,000 if the terms of the sale are
carried out. According to "Scotty,"
group of men headed by T. A. Wat
son, F. E. Sharp, and F. c. Goodwin,
has purchased the "Scotty" property
on the rim of Death Valley
In the southeastern part of Rich
county, Utah, and the southwestern
corner of Uinta county, Wyo, an irri
cation project has just been started,
which will mean the expenditure of
$l,50OOO0 in the reclamation of a vast
tract of arid land, comprising from
$4,000 to 10000 acres.
A man believed to be John Handra-
han was instantly killed when he fell
from a Short Line train one mile
north of Maiden Rock, Mont, and was
ground to pieces by the four coaches
which passed over his body.
Preparations are now being made
in more than LOO cities throughout
the United States for the thirty-fifth
annual convention of the National
Electric Light association, which will
be held at Seattle June 10 to IA.
The Fourth field artillery, Ninth
cavalry and Eleventh infantry at Fort
D. A. Russell, Cheyenne, Wyo., have
received instructions from the war
department to be prepared for Cuban
service upon twenty-four hours no.
tice. This order is stated by army Of
ncers as merely precautionary.
All OF the Humboldt county, Ne
Vada, early WOOL clip has been sold
and practically all of it has been ship
ped. The average price paid was be-
tween IA and 15c. the market having
been strong at the lesser figure, while
several clips of the best wool brought
loo, which was the highest price paid.
Mrs. Claud Jones, saleslady for the
Hart-Albin company at Billings.
MONT mas been arrested on a charge
OF grand larceny, the allegation being
that she had stolen dry goods to the
value OF approximately $4,000 from
her employers. and, according to the
officers the woman admits that the
charges are true.
John Vansweeden, aged 81 Of op.
den, Utah, was killed at Ely, New, in
a tire which destroyed the w Fl.
Wade store building of that n1ace tJa