The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

Gold aggregating s112,6374S In
value was received from five Montana
counties at the government assay Of
fee In Helena during the month Of
February.
Mike Yokel OF Salt Lake defeated
Joe Turner OF Washington, d. G., in a
middleweight wrestling match at Salt
Lake. Yokel took two straight falls.
the first in So minutes 35 seconds, the
second In minutes II seconds.
Governor oddie has vetoed the bill /
establishing an eight-hour day for /
working women in Nevada He de- /
clared conditions are not right az this |
time for such action. This is the first |
bill ne has vetoed this season.
Eugene H. Grub, potato expert, |
said in an interview at Salt Lake. that |
the entire country will, within few
years, be practically without potatoes,
providing radical changes are not
made in the present methods OF their
| cultivation
| Former Governor Albert (. Mead
of Washington died at Bellingham,
March 10, OF yalvular heart trouble.
He was elected governor Of Washing
ton in 1905 as Republican, serving
one term He was a native Of Kan
sas, born in 1861.
The official call for the fourth an
nual convention Of the Columbia and
Snake River Waterways association
to be held at Pendleton. Ore, Monday
and Tuesday. April 1415. 1913, has
just been issued by President W. d.
Lyman of Walla Walla and Secretary
Wallace r. Struble Of Lewiston. Idaho.
The supreme court, in denying a
writ certiorari in Wyoming case in
ferentially upholds decisions OF Wyo-
ming courts recognizing the validity
of the placer location of phosphate
Jends as against lode location, not
outstanding the lode location in this
case was made two years prior to the
placer location.
Haunted for three years by the
dread that he was leper and hound
ed from place to place by the rumor
Of his possible affection, E. R. Cradle
As years of age, a railroad man. for
merly OF Pocatello, and recently 3
switchman at Garfield, has surrender
: ed to the police in Salt Lake and asks
!. that ne be examined By the board Of
health.
Among the products that are turned
! out by Idaho factories are the follow
: ing: Combine harvesters. butter
candy, condiments. soda water. cigars
canned fruit and vegetables, fiavorin;
extracts, glass, -four. iron products
$ iellies, mattresses. prepared meats
g vinegar, sugar. tents. awnings an
other canvas goods, harness, saddles
5 brick and title, ink. alfalfa foods, lum
j. Der. malt liquorsr-iee and cheese.
Manufacturers of Idaho, at NEE
ing at Boise, launched what they bt
lieve will be a mighty movement 70
the stimulation of statewide patrio
ism. Through the work to be carrie
: forward as speedily as possible, it
hoped to educate every citizen
= Idaho TO the fact that products {
= frst-class quality are manufactured
: this state and that IL pays the Id
hoan to buy his home manufacture
The Union Baseball league wi
open April 20 with Butte in Ogde
Great Falls in Salt Lake and Heller
In Missoula, according to the schedu
: adopted at a meeting of the directo
of the league at Butte. There wi
be ten weeks at home for each eli
II In the league.
= That J. ]. Owens, who Disappear
while Sheriff Of Nye county thr'
years ago. leaving shortage in b
accounts as well as bride of q fe
a. weeks. is now superintendent of
= mine 500 miles In the interior
Australia, is the report received
!, Tonopah. says the Goldfield News.
~ Dispatches from Denver outline {
- organization of new 100000 pow
concern to be. known as the Weste
-. colorado Power company when
NJ reorganization is effected. 1t
- onerate in western Colorado. where
will come into competition with
recently organized Utah Power
Light company.
The women members of the low
- house of the Utah legislature, OF WIT
there were three. were successful
= setting through some excellent me
- ures designed to benefit women
~ children. Perhaps the most notal
=. Of these was the bill introduced
-. Mrs. King of Salt Lake. providing
"a a mothers pension fund
Rangely. the big OIL camp of We
nv ,nH ern Rio Blanche county. Colorado,
soon boast one of the best and m
~ modern school buildings on the We
"a ern slope. Work Of construction
~ being rushed. and it IS believed z
- il viii be completed within the n
few weeks. 1t viii take the place
the one destroyed by fire last fall.
total OF 612 bills was introdu
- in the thirteenth Montana assent
- Of which a10. including memorials
pSu .l,,t,>Ds coached the goVernl