The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-25
NORTHWEST NOTES;


southern Nevada, was Instantly Ia,
ed by trcsn near Wabuska, Nevss4
A honeymoon trip at the exneu..
Of the First National bank Of Denss
was terminated with the arres,
william A. Matthews on FORGE
charge at Norfolk, Va.
]. Delegrimi, an employe Of 4.
Davis sawmill, near Truckee. NJ
had one arm torn off in the shaitIrs
Of the mill. The arm was torn MN
the body at the shoulder.
A. b. Gibson, newspaperman 4,
merly identified with the papers L
Goldfeld and Rhyolite, has started
weekly newspaper at Battle Nom,
tain, in Lander county, Nevada.
After over two weeks illness
Charles B. Hand OF Portland, veteran
lumberman, died from blood poison.
ing caused from small splinter N.
tering the palm Of his ris&t hand.
The two Indians who killed Chin.
aman some time ago near .serington
New, entered plea OF guilty Of man.
slaughter and each received sen.
tence Of from five to eight years.
Before the convention of the Wash
ington Association for the Prevention
Of tuberculosis, DR.. Livingston Fer
rand of New York declared that great
harm had been done by the so.called
Friedman cure.
The body of C. B. Smith OF Port
land, who, with his wife, was lost ii
q blizzard on Mount st. Helens Oh
July 6, has been found at the base
Of precipice. Mrs. Smiths body has
not been recovered.
George M. Stevenson, for many
years one Of the best known politi.
clans in the state of Washington IS
being sought by the Tacoma police on
| report that he Is missing, and bis
friends fear that he has ended his life.
| Twelve hundred dollars for the
Greek war relief fund was raised at
a mass meeting of local Greeks held
In the Labor temple at Seattle. A
committee was appointed to raise ad.
ditional funds among the business
men.
Two indictments were returned BY
the grand jury at Portland against
James G. LaFrance and Emile La
France, his wife, who are accused o.
having perpetrated an insurance swim
| die a year ago whereby they profted
to the extent of $4,000.
William Mumpower, deputy sher
1 if, was held to the grand jury at Ore
gon City, Ore, for having shot Bar
McNaughton, an 18-year-old youth
The boy, after being arrested for
trivial offense, attempted to run ava,
from the officer and was shot down
With big deal on at Rochester.
IS said to be likely that control of TIL
main company. the Rochester Mine
company, of which Joseph Nenze
father of the camp is president
will pass into new hands within tw
weeks or more, says the Reno CT
zette.
One of the boldest holdups that ha
occurred in Helena for many year
took place when two young men e
tered the office of the Grandon hote
which, last winter. was the home
many legislators. imprisoned Il
night clerk and porter in the .eley
tor and rifled the cash register.
4 Mrs. Mary Diero, &c years old. WI
shot and killed by Bartholome
| Chapeli, aged 80, a lodger in Ii
rooming house at Seattle, whom Sd
had rejected as sutton. After xii
Ing Mrs. Diero, who had been d
vorced, Chapelli attempted suicide b
shooting himself. He will recover.
After having been arrested on tn
charge Of having attempted to Xii
! Miss Nellie Cross because she refuse
to marry him, Charles Crecilius. 2
years of age, manager of the Ewing
Mcmillan ranch, Castlerock Colo
committed suicide in lis cell by hang
| ing himself with strap from his arti
fetal leg.
Posses are still searching for Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton Smith of Portland
who We're lost during snow and sleet
storm on Mount st. Helena, in Wash
ington. Little hope of finding them
alive is entertained, as the storm con.
tinued several days and they were
without food and had only a few
matches.
William H. Taft was elected hon.
orary president at meeting at Salt
Lake of the American School Peace
league. Among the active Officers
elected We're Randall ]. Condor, Gin
cinnati, president; David starr Jor
dan, yice-president, and F. e. Spauld'
ing, Newton, Mass, treasurer.
Negotiations were closed by tele
grams last week whereby the United
states department of agriculture viii
establish a 160-acre experiment farm,
twelve miles north of Bellingham-
Wash, and that distance from the
Canadian line. The farm will be de.
voted to general farm experiments.
The Montana Federation of Labors
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