The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-18
NORTHWEST NOTES

City in the fifth round OF what was
scheduled to be 12-round go at Mis-
sou!a, Mont
The new sewer improvements have
been completed in Dillon. Mont. al
cost of $4,000 The total exten.
sion Of sewer lines measures two
miles and 214 feet.
Mrs. Frank Bailey, the vaudeville
sctress who was shot to death by her
Jealous husband in Kansas City, was
the daughter of Thomas Kennedy Of
Denver. She had been on the stage
for nine years
An early morning fire destroyed the
Multnomah trunk factory in the ex.
IRENE north end of Portland and part
OF the Monarch Lumber company's
s850,000 plant. The loss to the trunk
factory is about $125,000,
Fourteen members Of the Industrial
Workers Of the World were arrested
at Cheyenne, charged with having at
tempted to intimidate the crew of
Unon Pacific train into carrying free
| twenty OF their companions.
1
Some intimation of the prices
which potatoes will demand this fall
may be gathered from a dispatch from
the Hood River country, wnere con.
4 tracts are now being made for the
seasons yield at 81 per sack.
Eleven million dollars worth OF roll.
ing stock is to be purchased by the
newly formed New York corporation
for leasing to the Southern Pacific
company, according to papers filed in
the office of the secretary, of state OF
Nevada.
Major Fred f. Reed, who until re.
Gently was associated with the Kuhn
interests in Idaho, declares that the
failure of the Kuhns will not affect
the Kuhn enterprises there, because
they had all been completed or were
4 practically completed.
Vergil Perrine, the youth who held
up and robbed the First State bank OF
Milwaukee, Ore, has been identified
as Thomas Reid, member of thu
H. o. Whitney" gang of yeggmen
who were arrested last winter on sus
picion of blowing safe in restaur
ant in Portland.
After having enjoyed a government
pension of SIP month for sixteen
years, John Truax Of Big Sandy, Mont.
confessed that he never was entitled
to the money. After a preliminary
examination before United States Com.
missioner Bagan he was bound over
to the federal district court
Mrs. Vencentali Palacio and her
husband, Samuel Palacio, fought
duel with knives kehind locked doors
In Denver. The combat lasted until
the police, summoned by the neigh.
Dors, forced an entrance and separ-
ated the combatants. Both received
many but not serious wounds.
The finding of pair of blood spot
ted overalls in the sagebrush short
distance from the Max p. Splinter
ranch near Nampa, Idaho; is regard
ed as another piece of important evi
dence against the man who attempt.
ed to murder Splinter by cutting his
throat on the night of June 81.
A delegation of Japanese has mott.
/ fed the city authorities that they
i would appeal to the ambassador OF
I their government at Washington
| against an order issued by Otto
Thum, commissioner of property.
1 barring Japanese from bathing
Z beaches in the city parks at Denver.
Mrs. Frank Hartman, wife of far.
s mer near Sherlock, Wash, drowned
8 her nine months old baby in a creek
i running through the farm and made
an unsuccessful attempt to drown her
self. Insanity is given as the cause
OF the act, which occurred while Mr.
Hartman was doing the morning
} chores.
Four thousand baskets OF cherries
shipped to New York from Wenat
chee. Wash, were seized by the com.
missioner of weights and measures
VINO charged that they were short OF
quart by more than nine cubic cen.
timeters each. The cherries were
placed in standard sized baskets and
disposed Of
j conrad Bird, child of years,
caught on a trestle by Great North.
ern freight train near Butte, lay down
between the rails, and eight cars
passed over him and the youngster
was pulled out from under the train
unconscious. The boys scalp was
slightly bruised otherwise the child
was not injured
! Educational Sunday was observed
IN Salt Lake churches Sunday. July
! 8, in connection with the National
Education association in convention.
a children's song and flower festiva!
was held in the tabernacle in the
morning. P. P. Claxton, United States
commissioner of education, addressed
an afternoon meeting and Brigham H.
ing. ',-,''- -'S
What is believed by officials OF the