The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-07
NORTHWEST NOTES

Howard HUXLEY, Manhattan, New,
leaser, was killed In the northern
camp when he was literally buried
alive BY cayein Of rocks and dirt.
The ely, Ney. public schools open.
ed last week, to all children, the
authorities having annulled the or
der making vaccination compulsory
| Fear Of a general epidemic Of scar
let fever resulted In the Tonopah
board OF school trustees issuing an
order closing the local schools for an
definite period.
DR. Jane Skolfield, practicing
physician and surgeon and member
OF the lower house Of the Utah state
Legislature, is seriously i'll, and may
be unable to attend further sessions
OF the Legislature.
The saloon business grows the
fastest Of any at Rochester, New.
Thirteen new saloons were started
during one week, ana many more are
expected to be open for business
within the next fortnight
A wild man" has been captured
near Elko, New The man, who has
been sent to the asylum, gave his
name as John Desmond He had
been hiding in haystacks and barns
and his principal food was wheat.
Greed for gold Is responsible for
the fact that Christianity today is
not as far advanced as 1t was
decade ago. declared Miss Evange-
| linA n 80 IL
walton Army, in an interview in Salt
Lake City
Senator Reed Shoots amendment
to the sundry civil appropriation bill,
carrying $4,000 for a fish culture
station in Utah, was accepted by the
committee on appropriation and re-
ported as committee amendment to
the BILL
/ 1t was stated in debate in the Ne
vada legislature that during the past
year trappers had collected over $780,
O00 in bounties over and above what
they realized from the sale of skins.
The pelts brought an average of SO
to $3.50 each.
Sheep travelling in standard Pull
man car will be one OF the features
Of the big itinerant exhibit to visit
Nevada in April under the auspices
of the National Wool Warehouse q
Storage company for the benefit of
the woolgrowers of the west.
The Ely Boosters, a juvenile base
ball organization composed of boys of
the Ely, New, schools are already in
the field, and the snow storm of the
| past week has done nothing to les
! sen their enthusiasm towards expect
ed conquests of the coming season.
Utah has got into the matrimonial
Legislation band wagon, too; instead
of following the example of Idaho
and causing the people who want to
get married to undergo a medical ex-
animation. the Utah legislature wants
to have an examination Of the young
mans pocketbook.
Followed everywhere by the shade
Of the man he helped murder and ex-
pressing a desire to be punished for
his crime, John Weber has signed
full confession to the killing of a
Denver & Rio Grande railroad de-
tective at Utah Junction, near Den
yer, " year ago.
Equipment trust certificates to the
amount of $44S,000 for the purchase
OF new equipment for the Moffat road
under its reorganization were sold in
New York a few days ago to @. f.
Mitchell & Co. The first purchase
of new equipment will include 800
coal cars, 100 box cars and two Mallet
engines.
During the past year in Elko coun.
ty, Nevada, over $4,000 was paid out
for coyote scalps and in Lyon and
Ormsby counties the commissioners
complained that the bounties were
sore drain on the treasury. In Story
the commissioners stopped paying
bounties when the fund for the pur-
pose was exhausted.
A campaign through the medium Of
newspapers, the influence OF the alum
nj and the work of the faculty and
students of the University OF Ne
vada, at Reno, is to be started soon
for increasing attendance at that in
stltutlOhs QEOl. INOutIl beW6ESs act
ing president of the institution, is
pushing the campaign.
Considerable trouble Is looked for
ON the Comstoek before the last is
heard of the death of the late Bodie
Steptic, who fell from a cage in the
winze in the Mexican few days ago
aud fell distance of three hundred
feet, says the Carson City News. 1t
is claimed that the gates we're not on
the cage as the law directs.
Butte has the distinction of pos
sessing among its citizenry person
whose excessive" cleanliness aroused
the belief in the minds of his assoc
ciates that he was insane. H. Koao.
Japanese. as just been released from
custody by the local insanity COM
mission after examination caused by
charges preferred by fellow country