The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-04-11
NORTHWEST NOTES

The people of Twin Falls, Idaho, |
have shipped two carloads OF potatoes |
to the food sufferers in Ohio and In
diana
The bill legalizing ten-round prize
fights in the state of Colorado passed
the senate and will undoubtedly be-
come a law.
Republic, the new discovery north
OF Tonopah, Is TO have a townsite,
party of engineers having departed
for the camp to make the survey.
In honor of the late Senator George
s. Nixon. the Southern Pacific COM
pany has changed the name of its
railroad station at Oreana from Ore
ana to Nixon.
A carload of families, with their
household goods, arrived in Vale,
Ore, one day last week, and party
representing six families from Stew
ensville, Mont, arrived the following
day.
The house has passed the senate
eight-hour bill affecting 10000 persons
in Colorado employed in open pits,
mines, smelters and other hazardous
occupations. The bill now goes to the
governor.
William E. Morris, formerly assist
ant general manager of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad, is appointed
general manager of the Denver, North
western & Pacific (Moffat road) eff
fective April 1.
A man giving his name as Fred
Tomlinson and has residence as Salt
Lake, entered the Jail at Butte and
asked the jailer to lock him up, as he
feared he would attempt his life. 1t
is believed he is suffering from men
tai trouble.
Secretary Houston of the depart
ment of agriculture has approved the
advertising for sale of two billion feet
of timber in national forests in AL
aska, California, Idaho and Montana.
The largest of these is for 750,000,000
feet in Idaho.
Senator Cashmere Barela has in
troduced joint resolution in the
Colorado senate submitting to the
voters at the general election in No
vember, 1914, proposal for holding
constitutional convention to revise the
state constitution.
Francis Xavier Mattmeu, sole sur
vivor of the Champoeg convention
which in early days by one vote de-
cided that Oregon should be a part of
the United States and not Great Brit
ain celebrated his ninety-fifth birth
day April 8, at his home in Portland.
Captain Lewis G. SchiT1ing, aged 81,
sole survivor of the Alamo massacre
and adopted son of Kit Carson, was
found dead at Reno, New having
starved in a shack, his savings of
eight years, 1920, reserved from his
pension money, having been flched
from his pockets.
Arrangements have been completed
for taking 1900 feet of moving pic
ture film depicting the stirring scenes
Of Rochester, New, as they actually
are today, less than three months
after the start of the phenomenal
boom which has created three towns
and intense excitement.
Montana senators will recommend
Montanan within the next few days
for the position of collector of internal
revenue for the district comprising
Montana, Utah and Idaho, as pre-
urinary to their campaign for having
headquarters for this district removed
from Salt Lake to Helena.
AS result of the county clerk OF
Washoe county, New, failing to re
ce,ve a letter from Mrs. May Isabella
Smith which contained S. to pay for
filing her answer to divorce suit
brought by W. w. Smith, a druggist
OF Sparks, the husband secured
decree of divorce in Reno and imme
diately married again. Now his
former wife is endeavoring to have
the decree set aside.
That the amendment to the Nevada
divorce law, requiring one years resi-
dence in the state, instead Of si1
months residence, adopted by the
Legislature which adjourned last week
is defective in that one years resi-
dence is required only in which fail
ure to provide is alleged, is the con
tention of many attorneys of tbs
state.
Construction of twenty-five miles o
canal in the Milk river irrigation pro
] ject in Montana will begin soon, the
reclamation service announcing tina
! bids for the work will be opened
} April %. The canal is to be bull
under treaty with Canada, the Mill
river flowing for $50 miles through
that country before getting back int
Montana.
Death from starvation" was tn
verdict of coroner's Jury at Seattle
after an inquest over the body of Mrs
Mary Bailey, an aged patient at tn
J Olalla sanitarium of Mrs. Linda Bun
: field Hazard. the fast cure SPECIALIST.
| This was the second verdict of tn
i. kind within a week, another jury hav
/, Inc obaroad that Mrc Ida Anderson