The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-12-27
NORTH WEST NOTES

| D. q. Eccles OF Ogden has been
chosen president OF the Sumpter Val
| ley railroad, to succeed his father.
the late David Ecclas.
Ii is said In Denver that the Bu-ling,
ton is preparing to take over he Colo
RADIO Midland and, with a little new
construction work, put its line into
Ealt Lake. MI
1t is rumored that the Idaho Power
& Transportation. company intends the
construction OF the proposed interur.
ban railroad from Idaho Falls through
the valley.
Guy Mcclure, an electrician in
speeding the city fire alarm system,
was electrocuted on a pole at one of
the principal business corners of Ta-
coma. A pulmotor was used to revive
him but In vain.
The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad
company with s10,000,000 capital
stock, has been Incorporated at
Denver with power to acquire the
property Of the Denver, Northwestern
& Pacific road, commonly known as
the 'Moffat road
ortis Hamilton, former adjutant
general of the national guard OF
Washington servino p. sen+c-ce IL
b, $500 ------~~ "
l f.som one to ten years for the EN-
bezzlement of state funds, has been
released on parole. Hamilton was
sentenced February rs, 1910.
Fruitgrowers Of Colorado will here
after sell their products to the con-
sumer direcs, without the interven-,
| tion of a commission merchant or any
other middleman. The first growers
store is to be opened in Denver in
charge of experienced apple men.
The wife of M. J. Connors, a Butte
miner, has fallen heir to 100000 as
her share of the $10,000,000 of i-award
Rutledge, multi-millionaire timber OPP
orator of Chippewa Falls, WIS. Mrs.
Connors says she will never permit
her husband to enter mine again.
Reports come from the Swan valley
country, about forty miles east OF
Idaho Falls, that large party of sur
yeyors is working in that section and
has bought the RICH. Of way through
a number of ranches. The checks are
signed by the Northwestern Railroad
| company.
Investigation of a report that well
laid plot to dynamite the Denver mint
and rob it of its contest of almost
$500, 900, 900, had been discovered,
brought out the fact that all reference
to blowing up the building was made
by person whose mind is evidently
unbalanced.
4 The frozen body of Ben Volker, one
of the most prominent ranchmen Of
that section, was found in the barn
yard of his ranch near Lander, wyo ),
with bullet through his head. Volker
was shot from behind, say the auth
critics, and an attempt had been made
to hide his body in haystack-
The directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad have decided to cleo
trify the entire main line of the sys-
tenn from Pueblo to Salt Lake. The
financing of the work, which will cost
approximately s15,0O0,OO0, has been
arranged. 1t is the intention of the
company to have the work finished by
1915.
An official canvass of the vote in
Nevada, concluded last week, gives :
Wilson, 1886; Roosevelt, $500; Debss
1913; Taft, 1896. Key Pittman
(Dem.) was elected United States
senator by SO votes over Massey
(Rep), and E, E. Roberts (Rep.) was
elected to congress- by 50 votes over
Tallman (Dem.)
Emma L. Campbell of New York,
daughter of Sam Lloyd, who made
picture puzzles for colored funny
sides OF Sunday newspapers, was de-
MED decree Of divorce at Reno last
week, Judge Peter Breen OF Eureka
New, sitting for Judge Moran, find
ing the evidence insufficient to sus-
tain charges of cruelty.
Scenes enacted in the palmy days
of Tonopah and Goldfield are being
repeated at Rochester canyon. twenty.
four miles northeast of Lovelocks.
! New, where rush of mining men
, and prospectors has occurred during
the last ten days, following the dis.
covery of a vein of rich silver and
gold ore three to seven feet wide
and 1000 feet long in the outcropping.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded a contract for furnishing
gates and valves for the Lehontaa
dam, Tuckee,Carson irrigation pro-
1ect, to the Rosedale Foundry & Ma
chine company, Pittsburg, at $4,000.
Pawning her jewels to raise the
necessary money, Mrs. Vivian Merlin
Lyons of Denver. who is charged
with having attempted to murder
Robert ]. Widney, Los Angeles real
ty broker, in her rooms in San Fran
cisco hotel, has been released on
$500 bail
George W. Vallery. president, was
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