The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-12-12
NORTHWEST NOTES


.mrned to death and property valued
w sTs 600 was destroyed by fire
= mich broke out in the Pioneer paint
s,ore at Portland.
George Lyons, 19-year-old boy who
.rohe into two stores at Provo, Utah,
I'd sentenced to serve 20 years or
,oss in the state prison on 9 second
degree burglary charge.
After several years Of all but total
a,suse the fair grounds of the Inter
-.ountaIn Fair association at Ogden,
rtab have been offered for sale and
ma on the property have been asked.
Nv a unanimous vote Of referendum
~ striking coal miners in the south
am Colorado coal fields have formally
roiocted the strike settlement PROPOSE
Atom made to them by Governor Am
mons
d cut in coal prices put into effect
IN Denver places the cost to the con-
eumer on a par with that asked last
summer before the strike started, and
amounts to reduction of $1.75 a ton
delivered.
The construction of eight and one
half miles of mountain road and six
teen miles of telephone line consti-
tute the most important improvement
work of the past field season in the
Santa Rosa national forest.
With forty-four teachers of schools
Of Esmeralda, Nye, Mineral and Clark
counties in attendance, the bi-yearly
institute of the fifth district of the
school system of the state of Nevada
was held at Goldfield last week.
Roy Montgomery, mayor of Gillette,
Wyo, and Democratic state commit
teeman from Campbell county, was
convicted of white slavery" in the
United States district court at Chey-
enc. He was released on a $4,000
bond.
Salem, the capital of Oregon, adopt
ed an amendment to the city charter
last week prohibiting the council from
issuing saloon licenses and the fifteen
or more saloons of the city are closed,
all licenses having expired at the end
Of November.
There are probably more big land
projects before the proper authorities
in Nevada today than in any other
state in the west. They cover all
parts of the state, east, west, north
and south, and a number of them Is
now in such condition that they are
almost ready for the settler.
Robert Ulich, president of the Trini-
dad, Colo, union of United Mine
Workers of America, confessed before
the military commission to having
supplied strikers at the Ludlow tent
colony with arms and ammunition on
October II, 1913, the day preceding
the battle of Ludlow, in which one
man was killed.
Phoebe has almost forgotten the re-
cent disastrous fire, which destroyed
a large portion of the business sec
ton, and is again moving along serene
n ly as though nothing had happened
and conditions are better than they
have been for some time, which is
well indicated by the fact that there
are nearly 100 children in school.
81 John Reddy, so years old, was slair
mysteriously in front of a store IL
Portland where he was carrying IL
wood. Some Chinese nearby who wit
messed the deed declare roughl,
dressed man rushed up to Reddy
Srested away his axe and with it fellet
his victim, whose head he then pro
ceeded to chop with frightful ferocity
n Auto travel in Yellowstone park Il
lsl4 begins to look like a possibilit
lfom movement that has been star,
ed in Utah. For many months tn
people of Ogden have been workin
70 secure the opening of the yellow
stone park to automobiles in 1914 an
1913 and encourage campaign OF &C
sertlslng the roads in Utah and ldaht
shakeup in the immigration SCI
wee at Seattle, involving the inspe'
TORS who have been assigned to detec
+ violations of the Mann anti-white slav
act was revealed last week, and s
UNANIMOUSLY statement was mad
" United States District Attorne
Gay Allen that he believed whit
save prosecutions were at an end, e.
cept In International cases.
At session in Denver attended B
neads Of the Colorado State FEEDER
uon of Labor, it was determined
issue call for the meeting of the
aeo trade unions delegates in Deny'
on date about December 16 to decit
Tue Issuance of call for state-wic
sympathetic strike to aid the Unite
VINE Workers of America in the
struggle In the southern and northel
colorado coal fields.
10 the man who thinks only of Il
past and present mining industry +
'lich Nevada is noted it will be su
ptise to learn, according to Supervis
oonlns of the forest service, that t
lumber of timber sales from the To
sOie forest exceeded during the la
.scal year those Of any other forest
ne Fourth district. The volume OF
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