The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-05-23
.NURTH WEST NOTES

improbable that such affillation will
be sought.
Jerry e. Sullivan, superintendent of
the Original and Gagnon mines, long
prominent in the mining industry in
Butte, is dead. He was victim OF
appendicitis, for which he was oper-
ated upon.
James Kafer OF Idaho Falls, while
attempting TO get into a wagon as 1t
was moving, caught his foot in the
Wheel the leg being torn entirely off.
Young Kafer is in the hospital In a
critical condition.
According to a Nevada paper, a
corps OF "a to 80 S. P. railroad sur
yeyors is In the field finding out the
most feasible route for line from
Battle Mountain to Nina, or Luning.
The old camp of Austin would be on
the line.
Surgeons believe that Mrs. Lucy
Osgood, who was shot twice at her
home in Seattle by her divorced hus-
band, Herbert C. ingalls,, before he
shot and killed her husband, Isaac L.
Osgood and himself, has a chancs for
recovery.
On the anniversary of the crime,
Andrew Mircovitch, who killed John
Gregovitch at Tonopah, was executed
by shooting at the state prison at
Carson City, May IA, the first execu-
ton by shooting since the law was
passed two years ago.
-Four are dead and several injured
as the result of the derailment OF
an Oregon-Wa Washington train bound
from Portland to Seattle, near Lake
view, Wash. The train was travelling
at 65 miles an hour over level
stretch of track when the accident oc-
Cured.
Complaint that freight rates on cot
ton liners from the cotton producing
territory to Utah common points are
discriminatory and unlawful has been
filed with the interstate commerce
commission against 140 western rail-
roads by Salt Lake and Ogden manu-
facturers.
Without ceremony of any kind,
without so much as an invitation be-
ing issued to witness what is destin-
ed to make Love,ock valley one of
the most prosperous communities in
Nevada, the water from the Pitt
Taylor reservoir has been turned into
the Humboldt river.
At the inquest at Butte in the case
of Edmund Thomas who with Harry
Drumm was shot May 5, no evidence
was brought out tending to support
the yelled insinuation of the authori-
ties that Thomas and Drumm had
been the victims of men who had
other motives than robbery.
Northern Pacific surveyors north of
Roundup, Mont, are running lines for
the proposed extension from Glendive.
in the eastern part of Montana, to
Helena, distance of approximately
400 miles, which will shorten the
overland route of the Northern Pa
cific from st. Paul to the coast ma
terially
The Denver & Rio Grande has made
the best record in the volume of bust.
ness and net operating income in it's
history during the fiscal year ending
March 81. After charging off all ex-
penses except interest, the income
was 1881, 426, an increase over last
year of $1,126,65s, and $32S,O better
than 1910.
Rochester Humboldt Becker, the
first child born in the new mining
camp of Rochester in the Humboldt
range, in Nevada, will go through
life carrying the name of the town
and county in which he was born. The
new Rochester came into being last
Weea, lusty lunged boy weighing
over ten pounds.
Mrs. Mary West, for the last year
the only dweller in the deserted town
OF Carbon, Wyo., once a prosperous
coal camp boasting 1900 population,
was bought to the county hospital at
Rawlins, few days ago. She was
found in critical condition from
starvation, having been helpless from
illness since May 8.
Two hundred and fifty tons of baled
alalIa was shipped to Portland mar
kets last week by R. A. Orr, a farmer
residing east of town. Mr.. Orr raised
approximately 500 tons of alfalfa the
past year. One-half was fed to cattle
and horses and the Balance baled
during the winter months.
Every county treasurer in Idaho is
the tax collector for his county. ann
has been such since the election last
fall, because of the adoption by the
voters, of the amendment providing
that the treasurer shall be tax collec-
tor by virtue of his office, according to
decision of the supreme court.
The three-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs, ]. G. Moore, living four miles
east of Payette, was thrown from a
buggy after the horse mad run away
ana was out of sight of Mrs. Moore.
VINO mad alighted to uncheck the ami