The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-14
NORTHWEST NOTES

] sunoOlB and hhe white P1ne county
high school resumed regular sessions
this week.
Annibole Bressi, an italian banker
Of Seattle and Vancouver, b. c., Is
wanted by the police on a warrant
charging enlightenment. He has been
missing over week.
Bert Lyon was found dead In bed at
Winnemucca, having shot himself In
the mouth. He lay on his beck and
held the gun with both hands. He had
not moved after pulling the trigger.
Twenty women to one man in Den
yer drink intoxicating liquor and they
drink more than men," This state
ment was made on the floor of the
Colorado senate by Senator John Heck
or Of Denver.
! The pen with which Governor Stew
art OF Montana signed the equal suf-
frage bill has been presented to Rep
resentatiye Conner, the Socialist
member from Lincoln county, who
asked for 1t.
A mysterious explosion wrecked the
Donaldson building at Marshfield, Ore.
Mrs. f. W. Bertram was probably
fatally burned and her little son Sc
riously injured. The property loss was
100000, 1t is estimated.
That Rochester is not the only camp
In the west which is booming at this
time is shown by the excitement
which Is being raised about Masonic,
New. A big strike has been made in
the Serita mine in the district.
The shoulders of mans nude body
protruding through the ice ON slough
below Winnemucca, New, resulted in
the discovery of the remains of Fred
Oman, who has been missing since
December IL. Indications point to
suicide.
]. H. Hamilton of Billings, Mont,
has Travelled all the way to Chicago
to be given sample of the wild and
woody west, two hold-up men having
relieved him of his overcoat and $3.50
In cash in the windy city. He is com
ing back to the peaceful state of Mon
tana.
A gigantic replica of the Grand
Canyon of Arizona, the most elaborate
concession of its kind ever devised for
worlds fair, is being arranged by
the Santa Fe railroad as its feature
Of participation in the 1915 exposition
The concession will reach a cost of
s250,000.
Fifteen men, representing ten. pro-
duce and commission firms of Port
land, were indicted last week by a
federal grand jury, which charged the
existence of combination in restraint
Of trade and conspiracy against firms
not members of the Produce Merchants
association of Portland.
A statement that DR.. J. e. Ward,
veterinarian, Of Missoula, said 1000
horses had died lately in western
Montana from disease similar to
one that killed many Kansas and Ne
braska horses recently, is denied. The
state veterinarian knows of no cpl
demic among Montana horses.
The senate has passed the bill in
troduced by Senator Jones of Wash
lngton, providing that persons who
had established residence on unsur.
veyed public lands prior to the pass-~
age of the three-year homestead law,
may, when their lands are surveyed,
make proof under either three or FIVE
year law, as they may elect.
Indications point to the fact that
the new passenger station to be built
In Butte by the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad at cost of $780,
900 will be occupied jointly by that |
road and the Oregon Short Line, and
there is reason to believe, also, that
1t will be the terminus for the Butte,
Anaconda, & Pacific railroad.
w. T. Lahiff was instantly killed by
blast in the Pittsmont mine at
Butte, and Frank Meade and Robert
Douglas were seriously injured The
men We're sinking in the shaft and
had loaded nineteen holes. When they
lighted the fuse and gave the signal
10 the engineer to raise the cage, he |
failed to hear or heed the signal.
The suffrage leaders of Mon
lana will start an active campaign,
which will last until the next general
election. The campaign will take the !
lorm of rallies In public halls and par
AIDES and street corner meetings in |
some of the larger cities. Efforts will |
be made to see personally every man
and every woman in the state.
Mounted on beer case in the bar
room of the st. Francis hotel, in the |
new mining camp of Rochester, New,
where hundreds of fortune-seekers
are fiocking daily because of recent |
discoveries of valuable ore bodies, the I
Rev. Brewster Adams delivered the
first sermon and held the first relig-
ious service in the new camp which
has sprung into being in the past few
weeks.
Violation of the civil service rules
and political favoritism are among
l. \