The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-06-06
NORTHWEST NOTES


Following the hottest day OF the
year severe electric storm struck
| Walla Walla, Wash, and, for the first
| time on record, three persons were
struck by bolts of lightning, two OF
which are in serious condition.
Jesse Clark, the young man found
guilty In the district court at Phoebe.
New, charged with trying to accom-.
plish the ruin Of young Caliente girl
was given an indeterminate sentence
of from Ave to ten years by Judge
Taber.
Elko county, Nevada, has 95 sa.
looms, and of this number rs licenses
will expire before July l. According
to the last census this county had q
population of less than 5000, and ac.
! cording to this there is saloon for
every 100 people.
Within the near future the Nevada
hotel of Goldfeld, hostelry that was
designed during the palmy days OF
that camp and the construction halt
ed during the time of labor troubles,
will be hauled from the scene and
uesd for other purposes.
Peter Kambelis, employed on the
trestle at the smelter at McGill, NeV,
is under arrest and held in confine-
ment, charged with assault with in.
tent to do great bodily injury on the
person of Henry e. Blake, trestle
foreman at the smelter.
More than 10000 farmers on the
reclamation projects of the west will
be affected by the supreme courts
decision that they must pay to the
government the cost of maintaining
and operating the various reclamation
projects, pending their completion.
The main shaft on the Albion mine
on Ruby Hill, Nevada, one of the prop
critics of the Richmond-Eureka Min.
ing company, caught fire a few days
ago, and before it was put out con.
siderable portion of the cribbing in
the 600-foot shaft was burned out.
Steps are being taken by the tax
commission of Nevada to. enforce the
law relative to the payment of cigar
cite and tobacco licenses by saloon
men and liquor dealers where cigar.
cites and tobacco are kept as their
stock-in-trade in conjunction with the
liquor business.
A comely Washoe squaw was taken
into custody at Fallon, by the mar
snal. Though hopelessly incapacitated
by the kicks of John Barleycorn and
Henry Rye, the squaw made no OBJ
lectlons to entering the bastile, was
not refractory in the least and told
the marshal that she had come to Fal
ION from the Washoe metropolis just
to have one "luvatime."
The merger between the Giroux and
the Copper mine interests which has
been announced periodically for the
past SIX years, has again become a
topic OF general discussion at Ely, Ne.
yada, and developments of the past
week appear to confirm the belief that
at last negotiations are actually un-
der way that will eventually bring
ABOUT the long-talked of combination
Anent the value to city's business
nstitutlons of the headquarters for
the internal revenue collection for the
ulstrict OF Montana, it is learned that
the total collections of the sat I.aLe
office for the fiscal year ended inns
81, 1912, We're $746,179.15. OF this
amount Montana contributed az
greater portions 1887 I1toh.s
share was $25S,03A73, willis Id an
contributed sS2,295.45. s
The Butte-Boise- Winnemucca NJ
Ject was launched in Idaho last week
showing a determination on the mart
81 the Hill system to build connect
ing link with it's northern lines AZ 4
point in Montana with some southern
Inc on friendly relations or the West
ern Pacific, thereby giving southern
racine outlet, for articles of incorp-
oratlon showing the road to be can
tailed for $40.000,000 have been filed
with the secretary of state,
Major Junius G. Sanders. aged ~
formerly deputy United States mar.
shal, and one of the best known pio-
neers OF Montana. dropped dead in a
oatn room at his daughters house
IL Butte, Major Sanders SERVED
the Civil war and Spanish
American war.
The Montana board of railroad com.
nissioners has issued an order direct.
hs the arilorads operating in that
state TO show cause June 10 whv tho
'ates on fruit and vegetables from the
orchards and fields of this state -
ne market points within the STATE
should not be reduced. 's
Victor G. Anderson, for the past ten
Fears president of the Colorado schoo,
y Mines, was retired by the board 81
.rustees last week. Anderson came "a
Chicago.
ruily 100000 visitors are expected
= penver during the knights Templar
,oe In August, and sleeping ac.
have already been ar