The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

An elevator of $4,000 bushels cana.
city will be erected at Dillon, Mont
within the next two months.
The body Of George w. BYcke,
aged SO, was found in a ditch at Reno,
Nevada. Death by accidental drown.
ing was the verdict of the coroners.
jury.
Socialists of Reno, New, appeared
by petition before the city council last
week and asked the city fathers to
close the saloons Of the restricted
district
John F. Hittle, veteran locomotive
engineer of the seventh district or
the Union Pacific, was shot and
killed at his ranch north of Rock
Springs by George Hittle.
There were nearly $4,000 visitors
to the Yellowstone National park this
season. This surpasses in number all
previous years except the years Of
the Seattle and Portland expositions.
The Churchill county fair, held at
Fallon, New, last week, was one OF
the most successful showings of pro.
ducts of the county in the five years
since the fair has been notable fea-
ture in the state.
| Montana as a hunters paradise as
well as fishing heaven will be boost
ed this year for the first time in the
hunting and fishing sporting book.
let's issued by the Union Pacific and
Oregon Short Line roads.
Big livestock shipments are begin
ming from Nevada to the coast mar
kets. The season is opening some
what later than last year, but prom
lses to increase in volume rapidly and
to exceed the shipments of 1912.
Heavy and killing frosts were gen.
eral over the state of Nevada, during
the past week, according to the re-
ports received at the Reno weather
bureau with Reno weather slightly
lower than normal, especially during
the forepart of the week.
Governor Stewart of Montana has
issued proclamation urging minis
ters, fraternal organizations and all
who are banded together for the i'm
/ pIOfCAhCnL vi AIdnh1hu " uhllC anu
make Purity Sunday November 9,
a day of thought and study.
A train emerging from a tunnel
near Caliente, New, ran into hand
car carrying section workers of the
line. All the men jumped except P.
Pidro, who was caught by the train
and killed. His head was severed
from the body, which also was badly
mangled.
Fifteen Reno contractors in the
building trades of Reno met last week
with two of the members of the Ne
. vada Industrial commission and their
secretary and after discussing the APP
, plication of the workmen's compensa-
: ton act arrived at a better under
. standing Of its provisions
| Anxiety is on the increase among
| the hog growers of Idaho because
of the ravages of cholera. The scourge
is worse in other western states, not
ably Montana, than in Idaho, but the
conditions in some sections of this
state are so bad that the best in
formed in the matter are worried.
J Charged with bigamy, Donald Wells,
! a bridegroom of twentyfour hours
and a former Salt Lake, San Francis
co and Denver newspaper man, was
arrested at Est Las Vegas, N. NJ, on
complaint of H. J. Wright of Ration,
N. NJ, stepfather of bride No. 2. Wells
Is said to have a wife and baby in
Denver. !.
Mrs. Edward Hardisty was gored by
cow near Melrose, Mont. Mrs.
FFardisty hearing the cries of her lit
lie son, Johnny, found him attacked
by the COW with newly born calf.
She rushed to his assistance, seiz1ng
he animal by the horns and was
brown down and trampled and gored
~ the Infatuated animal
Postal authorities are searching for
Fohn d. Cowan, until his disappearance
few days ago postmaster at Cowan.
Tont., and now charged by the post
ffice department with having wrong
ully issued $1,000 in money orders
yhich he sold to merchants at Malta
nd other points and with having
AIKEN $156 belonging to the govern
rent when he disappeared.
The people of Bitter Root Valley.
Iontana, are up in arms about the
zilling of fish in the Bitter Root river.
they say that the Bitter Root river
cd near Stevensville is almost solid
mass of dead fish and that hundreds
are floating on the water. Not all OF
the fish have been poisoned, declare
he fishermen, but many have been
lied by shooting with cans filed with
ime.
Fearful that the /. w. w. would
lgain attack "Diamondfield Jack
Davis, whom they failed to deport, the
police of Butte smuggled him out OF
town and he returned to Salt Lake.
One of the men who attacked DAVIS
| and wac Slashnd with a knife may