The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-08-15
NORTHWEST NOTES.

from the raft into thirteen feet OF
WAFER.
Tonopah's new school house Is rap
Idly nearing completion and will be
ready for occupancy September 2,
when school opens. The new build.
ing will contain twenty-five rooms.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
heavy travel Of August is yet to come,
the traffic through Yellowstone park
thus far this season is in excess OF
what 1t was for the entire season OF
1912.
The fine ranch home belonging to
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F.. Branch on their
farm west Of Fallon, Nevada, burned
to the ground last week. The mem
hers Of the family were visiting at
Eeighbor's when the fire started.
The quarantine for .scabbies' OF
sheep. has been lifted from the re-
naming counties of the state, EIko,
humboldt and White Pine. thus max
ing the entire state of Nevada free
from the ban which has been in effect
ever a year.
Joseph J. Coughlin, roadmaster for
the Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad.
and one of the best known railroad
men in Nevada, was run down by a
train near Bonnie Claire 1t is sup
posed he tainted from heat and fell
on the track.
Truckee Meadows ranchers have
lost hundreds of tons of hay by the
storms which have ragged in Nevada
recently. 1t is said the rain has done
more harm than good. The haying
season was at its height when the
rains started
A moth believed to be new to sci
cnce has been discovered in Carson.
according to Miss Xemina McGlashan
Of Truckee, to whom the specimen
was sent for classification. The moth
was captured by Miss Ethel Davis on
the Holstein ranch.
In connection with report from
san Francisco that line will be con-
structed into Reno as feeder to the
main line, it is said that the Western
Pacific would soon be much nearer
Reno than Doyle, the point of origin
mentioned for a branch road.
6ifty-six thousand six hundred la.
borers will be required to harvest the
crops in Montana, the Dakotas, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Minnesota, accord
ing to figures compiled by the rail-
roads trayersing those states, from
reports of agents at points on their
lines.
The Oregon Kid and the Van Blert,
the two fastest speed boats on the Co
lumbia and Willamette rivers, making
Better than 46 miles an hour in races
at Portland, have been shipped to
chicago for the international speed
boat contests to be held there Au-
gust Is.
Probably for the first time in the
recent history of Washoe county a
bullion tax has ben paid into the of.
Gee of the county assessor by Wa
shoe county, Nevada, mining com
pany. The Tohcqua Mining company
is the concern which has this unique
distinction.
The utilities commission of the Sc
attic council decided to accept the of
fer OF the owners of. the Highland
Park and Lake Burien street car line
TO give the eight-mile stretch of cleo
tric railway to the city free of cost
on condition that the municipality
keep it in operation.
The big eoncentrator and smelter Of
the Glasgow & Western company al
Golconda. Nevada, built twenty years
ago at a cost of approximately quar-
ter of million dollars and upon
which probably as much more has
been expended since in additions and
changes. has been sold for junk.
Nevada's sagebrush and grease
wood will be put to some purpose
ether than that of hampering the
farmer or furnishing habitat for the
Eackrabbit and the sage hen, if Con
gresham Baker can get an appropria
tion Of $4,000 through congress to in
vestlgate the feasibility of making
rubber from sagebrush
Five different gangs of surveyors
are now at work between Craig. Colo.
and Salt Lake, each entirely independ
ent of the other. but all endeayorins
co find the shortest route to Utah's
metropolis When their work is fin
shed. their recommendations will b
submitted aud the permanent route
OF the Moffat road will then be deter
mined.
With their heads almost severed
from their bodies. Koye Kowa anG
Mrs. Tami Koda aud her child, al
Japanese. were found murdered Al
Salem. Ore. in an alley near a res
saurant owned by the woman's hus
band, T. Koda. Beside the bodies
were found two bloody knives and :
revolver. Koda ana companion
were arrested.
Grassheppers are devastating q
great area of crops at Starbuck