The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-01-31
NORTHWEST NOTES


now goes to the governor.
Pointing out that Nevada is sur
rounded By states which have given |
women suffrage. Governor eddie |
urges the ratification of an amend
ment giving them the right to vote in
Nevada.
A severe arraignment Of promotion
companies which he declares are ais
honest and some of which he desig-
mates by name, was contained in Gov
ernor Carey's message to the Wyom-
ing legislature.
At meeting of the Union league
magnates in Butte, E. c. Melroney OF
Missoula was elected president Of the
association and it was decided to
have eight baseball clubs in the
league this season.
IL H, Manson, the Progressive Re
publican member of the Wyoming
house of representatives who voted
with the Democrats and refused to go
into the caucus of his party, has re-
ceived a congratulatory message FROM
Theodore Roosevelt.
General Nelson A. Miles has COM
menced an action in the district court
at Livingston. Mont, to recover s1,475
and interest alleged to be due on a
note given by c. A. Henning of Liv-
| ingston, and the American Bonding
company of Baltimore.
David S. Littlefeld, 81 years old,
the last ruyiving member of the party
| that discovered gold in eastern Ore
! gon in 1861, died here last week. Lit
| tlefield came to eastern Oregon from
| California, making the trip around
/ Cape Horn in the gold rush days.
The state Of Colorado will intervene
in the suit in the United States SUI
| preme court at Denver wherein the
| Telluride Power company seeks to en-
force the law of eminent domain and
| thereby prevent the removal of its
supply ditch from government land
A bill introduced b. Representa-
live Taylor of Colorado to permit
homesteaders acquiring sixty acres of
public land to take an additional sixty
acres without living on the property
for five years, as the law now re-
luires, has been passed by the house
Word has been received at Deer
Lodge, Mont, of the death of James
T. Manning, a Powell county pioneer,
and well known western stockman, in
Ireland. For nearly thirty years he
the last surviving member OF the party
his brother acquired valuable farming
land near Ovado.
w. H. Walden, member of F. H
Princes company, bankers of .oston
has been named vice-president of the
Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company
(the Moffat road and F. H, Blanchard
Of New York, secretary and treasurer
Newman Erb is president and other
officers are yet to be selected
Governor Carey Of Wyoming, in his
message to the legislature, recon
mended that authority be given the
state treasurer to go into the oper
market and buy up the state bonds
amounting to some S114,000. which
are not yet available for redemption
and which bear per cent interest.
| GONeIuOE OuUlt Ol -NONduIis III Hi
message to the legislature, advises ;
law requiring i years residence il
the state TO secure divorce, instead
of six months, and a law limiting thu
: number of rounds in a prize-fght. Tn
change in the divorce law, he says
should go into effect January 1, 1914
, A survey may be necessary to dc
} termine whether a recent shooting al
fray in Colorado between Big Rabbit
a Ute Indian, and a Mexican sheer
: herder named Vijhil. took place o.
: or off the reservation in order to de
termine whether the federal govern
: ment or the state has jurisdiction i
the case.
Among other recommendations c
Governor Carey to the Wyoming les
islature were a workmen's compensE
ton act, tax commission of tire
members. the recall OF elective off
! GERS, prohibition OF minors workin
/ n mines. the regulation OF the en-
ployment of women, and the shoI
ballot in local elections.
! Twelve hours after the death G
. lis brother, Charles H. Gauss of s.
9 Charles, Mo-, from heart disease. Rol
). ert w. Gauss, grandson Of the r.
: lowned German mathematician, Pau
F. Gauss of Munich, and for twenty
!. eight years editorial writer for tn
! Denver Republican. died Sunda
n morning.
k Trains are stalled, wires are dow
e and cattle are dying in the worS
a. storm the Wood River district
% Idaho has experienced in thirty year
Ie For two weeks snow and wind storm
e have ragged. entirely isolating sever;
s. points from communication, light an
E. water.
is John St. Clair. arrested at Por
land on suspicion of being a posto
e fee robber, wanted in southern On
N gon. has confessed to total of Gig
20 teen robberies in Oregon and Gallo