The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-20
NORTHWEST NOTES

| where HIS parents still reside.
In the Denver trap shooters tour
nament on Wednesday, r. H. Bruins,
! an amateur of Brookville, Ind, made
B. worlds record for ten trans by
breaking 200 targets out of as many
shots.
The oergon Short Line has called
for bids for the construction of
freight depot at PocateIIo, Idaho, to
cost in the neighborhood of 500, 900.
The building will be of steel and
concrete.
! A crayon portrait of John w. Mackay
made in 1880 by g. Fink, has Just
been received by Secretary G. T. Stew.
enson of the Reno Commercial club
and will hereafter hang on the club
! house walls.
! William ]. Hill resident of Spo-
kane for 20 years, has been arrested
on warrant from St. Paul charging
forgery. The details of the charge
are not known Hill declares hts ar
rest is the result of mistaken iden-
tity.
| Freer, franker dealing with the pub
lie by the railways of the country was
urged by President William SprouIe of
the Southern Pacific company in an
address at Seattle before the Ameri-
can Association of General Passenger
and Ticket Agents.
With his jaw bone broken in four
places by a blow said to have been
delivered across the bar of a saloon
in Salt Lake, by Mike Seren, bar
tender, Alfred Denney, 80 years of
age, miner from Idaho, is lying in
| hospital in serious condition
| The Oregon and California express
! Of the Southern Pacific railroad ran
over a plant" of 81 sticks of dyna-
mite near GerVais, Ore, but failed to
explode any of the Illuminating caps
attached to the fuses. A track walker.
following the train, discovered the ex-
| plosive
The fact that the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad report for the year
ending June 30 showed but 2.26 per
cent earnings on preferred stock was
due chiefly to series of adverse cir
cumstances and does not offer ground
for judging the new management, ac-
cording to the Wall Street Journal.
Taking the law into his own hands.
F. J. Schofeld, proprietor of chem
zeal works, at Eugene, Ore, admin
istered punishment of fifteen lashes
with rawhide on the back of James
Daughty, one of his employees, who
| was alleged to have been caught steal
ing small sum of money from him.
knowledge of any reciprocity;
agreements" between the Retail Lum-
bermen's association and the whole
salers and manufacturers organiza-
tion denied by E. G. Griggs, president
of the West Coast Lumber Manufac.
| turers association and of the National
Lumber Manufacturers association, in
the federal lumber inquiry at Port
| land.
| To protect stock against predatory
animals Wyoming man has patented
ckockwork driven machine which re-
wolves a searchlight and discharges
blank cartridges at regular intervals.
The 1912 season of the Union AS
ISOLATION of Baseball clubs came to
close September 8. Missoula won
the pennant, Salt Lake was second,
Great Falls third, Ogden fourth, Butte
fifth and Helana sixth.
Five unidentified men were killed
and two injured in the wreck of a
Great Northern freight train near
Macon, Montana. All of the man, who
were beating their way were riding
in a car of lumber
Threatening to shoot her, a high
wayman forced Miss Blanche Weiser
of Denver to go through the pockets
of her escort, Edward O'Neil1, in one
Of the city parks and turn what money
she found over to the robber.
There is no longer any doubt that
the name of Taft electors will go
on the Republican ballot in Nevada
this fall. Colonel Maxon, Republican
national committeeman for Nevada,
filed the list with the secretary of
state on Saturday and received a re-
ceipt.
The passing of worthless checks
loses much of it's crfminality when
the victim is a liquor dealer. in the
opinion of Circuit Judge Morrow, of
Portland, who has admitted to parole
Harry Williams and John Kentland.
They passed check for $50 on a. sa-
loon man.
United States Senator Joseph M.
Dixon was nominated by reclamation
to succeed himself by the Montana
state Progressive convention at Hell
ena. George A. Horkan of Rosebud
county and L. M. Everett of Hill coun-
ty were nominated for congressman at
large.
The 4-year-old son of Lieutenant
Wells of the Fourteenth infantry died
at Sheridan, Wyo., from burns due
to jumping on an ash can. The lid
turned, burying the baby to his waist