The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-04-25
.,oNTHWEST NOTES

cane six girls, ranging in age from IL
to is years, escaped from the Utah In
dustrial school at Ogden.
Game Warden Barber of Idaho is
making arrangements to distribute
400 900 brook trout fry at once in the
streams along the main line OF the
oregon Short Line between Boise and
Montpelier.
The Montana board Of health has
taken hygienic measures for the sup
preston and elimination OF tubercI
losis. whooping enough, infantile pa
ralysis spinal meningitis and other
avoidable diseases.
b. w. Barney was sentenced by the
United States district court at Chey'
enne to pay fine of $500 for attempt
ing to secure title to more than 4,OOo
acres OF government land through
fraud. He pleaded guilty.
A district court jury at Butte award
ed Thomas Fadden $4,000 to repay MIN
for the alleged beating received at the
hands Of Dennis Murphy, Joseph Pen
hall and John Hartigan, officers of the
miners union. The jury reported upon
the verdict unanimously.
Charles Lathrop and Louis Blair,
trappers, were shot and killed near
shelton, Wash, by Tornow, the bandit
of whom they were in search with a
| deputy sheriff. The deputy opened
fire after his companions had fallen,
but missed Tornow and fled.
Governors of fifteen states or their
personal representatives will meet at
Salt Lake June 10 for conference
that has come to be regarded as an
annual affair since the first meeeing OF
/ its affair called together at Salt Lake
! by Governor M. e. Hay of Washington
Senators Myers and Walsh of Mon
tana have started their campaign to
capture the appointment of collector
of internal revenue for the district OF
| Montana, Idaho and Utah, at present
held by e. H. Callister of Salt Lake
City.
AS there is no provision in the laws
/ of Nevada for the election of United
States senators by popular vote, 1t is
probable that the legislature will be
called in extra session before the next
general election to remedy the omis-
sion,
Three men are dead at Salt Lake as
a result of as many quarrels and tights
in which women played leading parts,
Two men were shot to death Wednes.
day, while the third died from knife
wounds inflicted in a fight Sunday
aight
E. B. Field, Jr., of Denver, has pro.
posed plan for the organization OF
the Rocky mountain states into con-
ference or congress for the purpose
OF making a united demand for those
things which are essential to the de
yelopment and progress of the west.
While the people of Payette, Idaho
were dragging the Snake river for the
remains of James Farrell, who was
supposed to have been drowned, a tel
egram was received from La Grande
! from Farrell by his wife, stating he
was in La Grande, Ore, and asking
I her to join him there.
! With his skull fractured and his
: body bruised and mangled as the re
suit of being dragged long distance
over uneven ground, the body of Gran
Watson, well-known farmer who re
j. sided about 40 miles north of Glendive
4 Mont, was found in his field. He hat
r been dragged to death by his team.
i Approximately fifteen hours afte
d the time fixed for final adjournment
e p. M, April Is, the nineteenth gen
IL eral assembly of Colorado actual,
t. ended it's deliberations about o'clocl
IS April &c. The clocks in both house
o had been set back and the record vii
show that adjournment was taken at
p. M on the legislative day of April Il
Arguing that the United States ha
'e not awakened to the possibilities Q
IS agriculture, live stock raising and hol
d ticulture in all their branches, Eugen
\, H. Grub, the Colorado potato expeI
IT is visiting the intermountain state
70 endeavoring to interest directors {
e the Panama-Pacific in making til
er 1915 show a great agricultural an
e, farm demonstrations that will attra'
the attention of the world.
A. S. Trude, a pioneer of Idaho an
prominent Chicago attorney, own
. to the inaccessibility of his ranc
Z, caused by four feet of snow GOVERN
- about forty-five miles of the road
- the ranch in northern Idaho. will tai
p his wife and trained nurse to Il
uo ranch on dog sleds.
The public drinking cup and roll
towel must go from Montana by edi
or of the state board of health. Regll
en- tons have Just been adopted prohi
RI. iting the use of towels and cups Z
al general use in schools, hotels. re.
w. aurants, trains and other pub
places in Montana
What may develop into one of Z
largest swindles Butte has known