The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

divorce law. It becomes effective Jan
uary /, 1914
Dr. Sudduth, in an address at Lewis
town, Mont, advised the cultivation
of alfalfa on the bench lands OF Mon
tana as part OF a diversified farm
ing scheme.
Last year the average yield an acre
OF wheat In nine Of the principal
states was Ohio, 16 bushels; Mis-
souri,, 1877; Iowa, 1874; Kansas, 1917;
Nebraska, 1879; North Dakota, 5, and
Montana, 20.
George Smith was sentenced to
three years in the penitentiary on
charge OF forgery, committed at Dill
Ion, Mont. He Endorsed and cashed
check that had been stolen by an
other party.
Governor Stewart has signed the
new Montana seed law. 1t is designed
to regulate the selling Of, offering or
exposing for sale Of agricultural seeds
In Montana, and covers every kind OF
seed adapted to the state.
According to the Goldfield Tribune.
persons who have visited the camp in
Rochester, in Humboldt county,
worthy OF reliance, are strongly advis-
Ing their friends and acquaintances
against going to the camp at this time.
Hedging $4,000 for the completion
OF the project, mine and lease owners
of Rochester have decided upon the
construction OF modern rock sur
faced automobile highway as sub
stitute for all tramway plans hereto
fore considered
A man who has just returned to
Goldfield from Rochester declares that
there are only forty men employed
there in the mining district and
large number of idle men, who have
little hope Of securing any immediate
employment, and including number
who are i'll.
| A jury at Seattle has awarded
| $22,2 200 to Mrs. Anna l.. Valentine, wife
OF l.. l.. Valentine, Chicago furniture
manufacturer, because the door OF a
Northern Pacific car was slammed
upon her little finger, necessitating
amputation at the middle knuckle. The
accident occurred on train bound
| from Seattle for Portland.
The arrest of an ex-convict has led
to the discovery of an organized plot
| Tor an outbreak at the penitentiary
at Carson, New. The former convict
| told his story to the secretary of state
and the sheriff Extra guards have
been placed in the prison. Among
ether things, guns were to be secreted
in the prison kitchen and the inmates
were to rush there at a given signal.
Representative of every fruitgrow-
ers' association in Colorado will meet
| in Grand Junction, Colo, March 20, to
perfect a central selling agency. All
fruit associations are to send repre-
sentatives to attend this conference,
and by unity of effort a systematic
plan Of selling fruit without expensive
competition is expected to be worked
out The plan will be put in effect
this year, If possible.
A temporary order was issued in
the federal court at Carson, New, on
! the 10th, against the railroad commits
sion, attorney general and district
attorney preventing them from putting
into effect the Scent passenger rates
established by the recent decision OF
the state railroad commission. The
Southern Pacific, against whom the
order was directed, alleged the rate
established by the commission was
confiscatory and unconstitutional.
The Great Northern's cutoff east.
ward from Lewistown, Mont the
4 first strech of nineteen miles-which
will be about the most difficult task
| encountered on the entire extension
between Lewistown and North Rock.
| ford, North Dakota, involves two very
long tunnels, which will require year
or more to fully complete.
Montanas public schools and state
| educational institutions have mag.
nlficent land and securities endow-
ment. The state has title to $685..
574 acres of land. exclusive of land
sold for which contracts are in force,
To this will be added approximately
100000 acres more as surveys are
made identifying section 16 and SO in
townships now unsurveyed
The death OF Jake Goldberg at Lib
by, Mont, marked the passing of one
OF the few surviving members of a
heroic band of soldiers and citizen vol
unteers who. in 1877, followed Colonel
Gibbon in his desperate encounter
with the Neg Perez Indians at Big
Hole. where for three days 800 whites
battled with nearly 1900 well-armed
red men, the combined forces OF
| Joseph. White Bird and Looking
| Glass,
Phil Poindexter's kitchen rang blew
up at Dillon. Mont. and there was
hardly piece left big enough to
sweep up. The room was also con-
siderably damaged. Had any one been
in it at the time death might have