The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-06-27
NORTHWEST NOTES

mel III bbdLt tObNCluLtOh dl Butte
Monday of last week, and elected Of.
ficers.
AS a result of being run over by
Union Pacific train near Evanston,
Wyo., Guy Demarco, an Austrian, died
at an ogden hospital. Demarco is
thought to have been miner formerly
employed at Grass Creek.
Senator Shoots amendment TO the
Indian appropriation bill providing
for the expenditure of 100000 in the
discretion of the secretary of the in.
terror for the benefit of the Ute In.
dians has been agreed to Ny the
senate.
The jury in the second trial at Den.
yer Of Harold F. Henwood for the
killing of George E. Copeland, re.
turned verdict of first degree muir.
der and prescribed the death penal,
ty. At the first trial Henwood was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
j. Nelson Clark, an oil man of Evan,
ston, Wyo., is dead, making the third
victim in that state within two weeks
of spotted fever induced by bites OF
wood ticks. Kenneth McRae, WOO.
grower of Casper, and Solomon Brown
of Thermopolis, were the other two
victims.
David r. Demuth, aged %, civil en-.
gineer employed by the Montana Res.
ervoir & Irrigation company at the
Hebgen dam in Montana, on the Mad
ison river, was drowned while at
tempting to recover a pair of oars
which had been lost when a boat
capsized
The secretary of the interior has au.
thorized the director of the reclama
ton service to execute contract with
the Reynolds Ely Construction com
pany of Springville, Utah, for excava.
ton of the canyon division main canal
of the Grand Valley irrigation project
in Colorado.
The members of the state highway
commission took their second step
toward formulating a program for
road construction in Montana, when
they met at Helena last week in con-
ference with "a county surveyors
There we're also a number of county
commissioners present.
Three men were seriously injured
when an automobile driven by
Charles E. Carter, prominent bust
ness man, plunged over a ffty-foot
embankment on La Veta pass, fifty
miles northwest Of Trinidad, Colo.
Frank Lewis and G. H. Chapman
were the other members of the party.
A proclamation has been issued by
Governor Stewart of Montana declar-
ing a quarantine against the whole
state of Utah, prohibiting the impor-
tation of alfalfa and forage crops of
all kinds, whether loose or baled, al
falfa seed, and all nursery stock I'M
less accompanied by certificate of
fumigation
Mrs. Maggie AuFrance, reputed to
be the wealthiest woman in Wyoming.
and known as the sheep queen" be.
cause of extensive ranch holdings, was
among the prisoners recently ordered
to be released on parole from Fort
Leavenworth by the federal parole
board Mrs. AuFrance was convicted
of white slavery.
} Mike Millick, farmer of Enum-
} claw, wash, was accidentally shot
and instantly killed by Joseph Jul
} gawa, 13 years DID, who was hunt
: ing. AS the boy climbed a fence, his
a rifle was discharged when the ham
mer caught rail and the bullet en-
tered the breast of Millick, who waz
standing nearby.
!. Formal complaint against the Noun
!, tain States Telephone & TELEGRAPH
: company was lodged with the publ
:. service commission Monday by Gov
!. ernor Stewart, Attorney General Ke
~ ly and Secretary of State Anderson O
Montana. AS members of the boar
OF examiners, they charge the stat,
is being Disseminated against by tn,
/ company in the rates charged for tele
= phone service in the capitol building
i The government suit against TIL
Midwest Oil company-a test case in
3 VolVing the title to millions of dol
L lars worth of oil lands in Californi;
and Wyoming-was dismissed June Il
by Judge Riner of the United State,
district court at Cheyenne, Wyo.
After spending two nights in tn,
open and being without food practical
ly two days, 1900 workmen at the
railroad construction camp nea,
fucker, Utah, who went on strike, de
cided to withdraw their demands fol
increased pay and return to work.
1t is understood that the Western
Pacific is making arrangements to be
gin work shortly on a new branch, t.
De built from Wendover to DeeI
Creek, distanct of about a hundred
miles The line will tap one of the
richest mining sections in the west.
For a couple of weeks nast Tor