The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-17
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uentaiiy AT hepupic, Nevada. Death
was due to carelessness in the uso
of an old grasshopper Winchester.
Thirty-three striking coal miners
are lodged In the county jail at BouL
der, Colo, charged with having viz.
lated the state law against picketing
The Miller & Balm slaughter house
about mile east Of Winnemucca
New, was destroyed by fire last week
1t is presumed the fire was of incen.
diary origin.
Ed. Gay, an Indian arrested for
stealing a saddle from another In.
dian, pleaded guilty at Winnemucca,
and was sentenced to three months
in county jail.
Charged with embezzling funds Of
the Western Pacific railroad company
| William H. Gass cashier at the Elko
depot, has been arrested and lodged
in the county Jail.
The Masons of Elko at present
have two propositions afoot, that Of
organizing a commandery of Knights
| Templar and also the erection Of a
new Masonic temple.
/ Louis Ovich was arrested at Nyssa,
Ore, while getting his hair cut at a
barber shop, on the charge of having
murdered fellow Austrian at Jun
tura, Ore, on October /.
1t has been suggested that bronze
monument be built at Tonopah, to
Jim" Butler, Father of the Camp"
who obtained the first money for the
development of the Tonopah Mining
company's estate.
The question of issuing bonds for
the construction of the Lincoln high
way throughout Churchill county,
Nevada, at an estimated cost of $780,
600, will be submitted to the voters
of the county at special election
at an early date.
Definite word has been received
that the Medford, Ore, merchants
intend to appeal the so-called
'Medford rate case" which was re-
Gently decided against them in the
; federal court at Portland, to the Unit
ed States supreme court.
That the movies" the automobile
and telephone are curses as used to-
day and contribute to the delinquency
of young women was the statement
of Mrs. Lulu Shepard, president of
the Utah w. c. T. u, at \ woman's
suffrage meeting at Butte.
The Pendleton Roller mills have
been sold to Holland syndicate.
: The papers making the transfer,
which have been filed in the record
ers office, throw no light upon the
4 purchase price, but those interested
say the sum approached 100000.
The mystery surrounding the death
!. OF Sadie Mason, an Indian woman,
q who was found murdered in the out
y skirts of Wadsworth has been fur
2 tner complicated by the release at
u Wassworth of two Mexicans arrested
on the suspicion that they were the
n last persons seen in the woman's
s company.
Q A delegation of Quinault Indians
y dramatically confronted the United
s States congressional investigation
8 committee at Tacoma last week. The
Indians filed sensational charges
o against Superintendent H. H. John
s son of the Cushman Indian school,
It making the assertion that illegal use
s is eeing made of reservation lands
s for oil drilling.
s The health authorities at Belling-
ham, Wash, insist hat there was no
b den deaths, mostly of children, in that
L city during the last three weeks and
l. the finding of a rat infected with
s bubonic plague in Seattle. They say
i that in each instance death was due
to colitis, resulting from the eating
9 OF fruit which was picked green and
L forced to a ripened state.
s A high school employment bureau
y pays, and pays big, for the student,
according to the reports of Principal
s H. H. Herdman of the Washington
high school at Portland, who has
: made survey of the results of the
! vacation work of 622 boys and girls.
The totals show $44,091.9S. The av-
erage amount earned by each of the
Ais boys is about $SS, while the girls
earned an average of $36.42.
]. L. Muldoon, Seattle saloon
keeper. is in hospital with his arm
: broken by bullet; Carl Strobach,
: who tried to hold up Muldoon's sa-
I loon, is in the morgue, and the police
: are hunting for a second robber sup
posed to be wounded. Strobach was
shot by Muldoon.
me Rocky Mountain intercollegiate
conference in session at Denver, re-
: instated Halfback McCullah of the
Colorado State College of Agriculture
.. football team. McCullah had been
suspended because of charges of pro
fessionalism made against him for
J having participated in what was said
to have been professional race ten
years ago.
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