The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-31
NORTHWEST NOTES

yer, killed his wife By cutting ner
throat and ended his own existence
with poison.
Charles Suter has had seven cadets
Of military academy at Portland
arrested, accusing the boys of having
tarred and feathered his son, Clarence
Suter, from head to foot.
Two masked men robbed the Atchi.
son, Topeka G. Santa Fe railroad sta
ton at Littleton, Colo, riding mail
pouches and express packages. They
bound, gagged and beat the station
agent.
The death rate for the month OF
September in Reno exceed the birth
eats by 100 per cent, according to the
report of the board of health. There
were % deaths from various causes
and only II births.
Development on mining property ly-
Ing in close proximity to Reno is now
going on more thoroughly than in
years before. Holders of claims have
tired of waiting fol- purchasers and
are doing development work which
brings good results.
Mrs. Christina Haas is lying at the
point of death at hospital in Port
land as the result of having been shot
by Charles Haas, her husband, from
whom she had separated. Jealousy
was the cause of the shooting
Stanley d. Scofield, young home
steader from California, was shot and
killed, and Constable A. B. Cheney
of Denton, Mont, was probably fatal
ly wounded in a duel fought in the
dark on plowed field near Denton.
Another Ditch was cut in the egg
market al Reno last week, when the
figure for the first grade of eggs
reached 81 cents. This is the high
est price eggs ever commanded in
the local market at this season of the
year.
Stenographers In the intermountain
region and the northwest will have
on November Is an opportunity to
take the government civil service ex.
aminations for positions as stenog-
raphers and typewriters in the federal
service.
Harvey Ketchum, aged 16, has been
arrested at Grand Junction, Colo, on
the charge of robbing box car. A
girl companion, Georgia Shorer, aged
10, was also arrested. The young
couple had started out to see the
world.
An 5000 horsepower plant is now
being built on the Malad river three
miles from Hagerman, Idaho, and it
is stated another dam will be CON
structed five miles down the river
from Hagerman, where big power
plant will also be installed.
Eleven thousand acres of Southern
Pacific railroad land. located in Elko
county, has been placed on the mar
ket. The cost per acre of the land
Will range from $3.50 to $3.50, in CON
formity with a ruling made by the
Unbed States land department.
The Ministers of Montana, in con-
ference at Butte, organized the Law
enforcement and Public Welfare
League of Montana to combat vice
in the state. 1t is the intention to
submit an anti-boxing measure to
vote of the people at the next cleo
ton.
When Christy Mlathewson of the
New York Giants reaches Portland
he will be called upon to play a
series. of games of checkers with
Fielder Jones, president of the North
western baseball league, for the base
ball players chacker championship
Mathewson claims the title and Field
er Jones disputes it.
The police department of Boise has
gone to the aid of Mrs. Sarah Jane
Cotter in locating her son, Thomas
]. Cotter, from whom she has heard
nothing for three years. Mrs. Cot
ter believes her son in British Col
nmbia or in Washington. Letters will
be mailed to the police and newspa-
pers throughout the northwest and
every effort possible will be made to
locate the young man and urge him
to return to his mother as soon as
possible.
while the pea ranehers of Idaho /
mad excellent crops this year. not
wlthstanding the early frost. James
sdddoway of Teton, harvested one oi
the real bumper crops. Mr.. Siddoway |
contracted for $50 acres with the |
Everett B. Clark Seed Co, and har-
vested 7102 bushels of Hersford meas
The order of disbarment is.
sued against Attorneys Glenn =
Hoover and Hulet NJ. Wells, of Sc.
attle' October and 8, when Judge
John e. HUMPHREYS, was hearing the
socialist contempt eases were reyok. I
"a last week, when Judge HUMPHREYS
signed an order restoring to them the
rlght to practice law.
Guy Pearson was Instantly killad
near Dillon Mont, when he placed
The barrel Of a supposedly unloaded
ger. us