The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-01-24
NORTHWEST NOTES

After masquerading since child
hood az girl, Irene Moynahan, is,
until Christmas student in the Vic.
tor, Colo, high school, has been found
to be boy.
A bill was introduced in the state
senate Thursday to permit pugilistic
encounters under supervision of
state commission. The act is mod
eled after that OF New York.
! Governor Hay of Washington has
announced that he will not pardon
Charles w. Wappenstein, former chief
Of police OF Seattle, Wash, convicted
of receiving brides from disreputapie
| resorts.
John Cloud was fatally injured at
Lone Mountain, Nevada, by being
struck on the head by heavy plank
that was hurled through the air by
the heavy wind, and died at Tonopah
the same evening.
At one of the largest public gather
1 lngs ever held there, Meeker, Colo,
placed itself on record as determined
at any cost to secure, through that
section, the routing of the transconti-
mental automobile highway.
Nearly 100 head of horses are being
used in the transportation of freight
from Oreana to Rochester, the freight
moving at the rate of ten six-horse
teams and ten four-horse teams daily,
says the Winnemucca (Nev.) Star.
Gov. Ernest Lister was inaugurated
at Olympia, Wash, Wednesday with
4 ,he simplest of ceremonies, but with
q great concourse OF people present
from all parts of the state. He is the
drst Democratic governor of the state.
The supreme court of Utah held
that the neutrality-suspicious. a morn
ing paper published at Salt Lake, was
not guilty of contempt of court when
it published in June, 1911, a confess
sion OF Harry Thorne, then on trial
for murder.
After doing ar aeroplane stunt for
eighty feet and then rolling for dis
lance of 200 feet the two horse team
and wagon carrying the mail between
Searchlight and Miller, Nevada was
righted and it was found that no Sc
rious damage had been done.
Senator F. E Warren was sum
moned to Cheyenne by telegraph
from Washington late last week by
his supporters in both branches of
the legislature, where his reelection
is holly contested by an alignment of
Democrat and Progressive forces.
G. G.. Dobbin, registry mail clerk
Of the Reno postoffice, was held to
the federal grand jury after he had
confessed to having taken package
Of currency containing 500, in transit
from the postmaster of Verdi, New,
to the postmaster of Sacramento,
Cal, last December.
William NJ. Grimes, who took office
as county recorder of Nye, place
In the TonopaA court house that had
been filled by his brother "Puddy"
over since the camp was started and
until Puddy's death, announces that
ais chief deputy is Mrs. Grimes,
widow of his brother.
Mrs. Nellie Kinds, charged with
first degree murder for killing her
husband, Herman Kinds, when he
tried to break into their little home
On the Upper Skookumchuk river
last November, was found not guilty
by jury at Olympia, Wash. Mrs.
Kinds is 40 years old and her hus-
band was only "a.
That the Warren Live Stock COM
pany, of which Senator Francis f
Warren of Wyoming was the head
was maintaining unlawful enclos-
ures" of public lands in Wyoming and
Colorado in 1906, was the substance
of report adopted Wednesday by
the house committee on expenditures
in the interior department.
A two days rabbit hunt near Dow
ney, Idaho, participated in by two
teams of Marsh valley sportsmen, re-
suited in the killing of 1894 jack rab.
bits. The jacks are especially nu-
merous there this year and the hunt
ers had fine sport. An Ogden COM
mission firm is paying cents each
for the rabbits to ship to eastern mar.
kets.
The report comes from Meeker,
Colo, that ranchers in that section
are beginning to complain of the on
slaughts being made by hungry elk
and deer upon their haystacks. The
recent severe weather drove them to
the lowlands by the hundreds in
search of food, and not finding il
owing to the heavy snow, the animals
are making free use of the ranchers'
haystacks.
The annual budget of the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph com
pany, made public at Denver few
days ago, contemplates the expendi-
ture of $3,50O,OO0 in entirely new line
extensions and equipment in 1918. II
is estimated that the cost OF opera
ton, taxes and insurance for the year
1 In Utah and Montana will be $1,450,-
| 300. Improvements and extensions In
I that Tertiary will ha at least e375 00O