The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-08-22
NORTHWEST NOTES

prison farm at Carson City, New, last
week.
Eleven grain inspectors have been
appointed by Chief Grain Inspector
J. Il. Tenapleton - assist in handling
Moatana's immense grain crop this
! season.
There was received last month at
the United States assay Office at
Helena gold to the value OF $780,
| 097.33. Broadwater county led In the
production.
The Cure" purported delineation
of the day of divorce in Reno, has
been taken by camera men with mo-
ton picture machines in the main
streets of that city.
After thirteen years litigation, farm
ing interests in the Walker river dis
trict of Nevada and Antelope valley
of California, have reached settle
ment of their water controversy out
Of court.
The Flathead Indians on the ressr
walton in Montana will be put at work
by Secretary of the Interior Lane,
who consulted with the water users
on the Yakima reservation at Top
penish last week.
It is believed that an extinct vol
cano has come to Life about 100 miles
from Las Vegas, Nevada. A column
of smoke arising from the top of
high mountain about eight miles from
ElOin hoo Given rice ~ tha ,,,naar
Domingo Bilboa, young Basque, was
| killed at ranch on Quinn river, about
five miles from Sod House, Nevada.
Bilboa was at work stacking hay,
when a guy rope broke and the der
rick pole fell, striking him On the
head and crushing his skull.
The closing of the 1913 wool sea
son in Oregon brings to light the fact
that the clip was the smallest the state
has produced in several years. This
and lower prices resulted in the sheep
men of Oregon realizing less money
from the industry than usual
If Montana will appoint inspectors
to examine the shipments of Utah
fruit and vegetables which enter that
state, Utah will see to it that the prod
ucts are free of alfalfa weevil before
they leave Utah, according to the hor-
ticultural inspector of the Norman
state.
A building made of giant Oregon
fir logs with the bark on, modelled
after the famous forestry building of
T Mi NIL Ia
favored by the Oregon commission of
the Panama-Pacifc exposition in its
first report. The plan has not been
finally adopted.
Twenty thousand acres of land in
Coos county, Oregon, was ordered for
feited tofthe United States from the
c. A Smith Lumber company in de
cree signed by Federal Judge Reane
at Portland. The forfeiture was made
rs settlement under the innocent
purchaser" statute.
Simultaneous with the going into
effect of the new gram freight rates
established early in July by the state
railroad commission for the railroads
operating within the state of Montana,
comes the announcement that fur
Their slash in tariffs on Montana
cereals is now under consideration by
the state commission.
Seven hundred miners employed by
the Pacific Coast Coal company in
three Golfers at Black Diamond, %
miles southeast of Seattle, walked out
because the company refused to rein
state George Ayres, who was discharg-
ed after he had qrarreled with fore
man. Ayres is an organizer OF the
Industrial Workers of the World.
James Harringtons first shift In
the Belmont mine at Tonopoh result,
ed disastrously for him. While he
was pounding in the roof Of the tunnel
a huge slab of rock was dislodged and
fell upon him. His right leg was
caught between the slab and the wall
Of the tunnel, crushing the limb SO
badly that amputation was necessary.
1t is estimated that the 1918 crops
to be harvested in Lovelock valley in
Nevada, will put in circulation more
than a million dollars. Fourteen
and it is figured that the first and sec
ond crops will supply six tons to the
acre, valued at $672,000. Some esti-
mates have placed the value of the
two alfalfa crops at 100000.
DR.. w. S. Cogswell, secretary of
the state board of health, has started
crusade against dairymen and res.
taurant men of Montana who use
fornaldehyde as a preservative for
milk. As result. nine Butte restaur-
ant keepers have been arrested, sus-
pected of having used embalming
fluid to prevent milk from souring.
Informations have been filed against
ten others of Butte.
Nevada's sagebrush and grease
wood will be put to some purpose
other than that of hampering the
farmer or furnishing habitat for the
jackrabbit and the sage hen, if Con-
eraccp,or, Bolrar oap ~ a01A11-so