The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-10-03
NORTHWEST NOTES


drew ticket No. 1 in the Fort Peck
(Mont.) land opening.
]. f. O'Byrne, a mining engineer of
Jarbidge, New, has received patent
on a device which is alleged to MAKE
typewriting machines noiseless.
Fire destroyed the furniture factory
and warehouse OF Eckman Bros. &
Co., situated on the north shore Of
Lake Union, Seattle with loss of
$4,000, fully insured.
bud" Ryan, whom 'Diamondfield
Jack" Davis stabbed at Butte, when
Ryan and two other l. w. w. mem
bers attempted to deport him, prob
ably will die.
J. A. Carmichael, mining operator
who had headquarters in Salt Lake,
was killed in an explosion in the
mine of the aurora Consolidated Min
ing company at Aurora.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict
declaring that the killing of Marshal
Robert Lee at Segundo was felonious,
and that Thomas Larius, a Greek coal
mine striker, fired the fatal shot.
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posed to have been fired during target
practice at Fort Worden Saturday
night was found imbedded in the ma
sonry of an inside wall in the base
ment of the Port Townsend Lumber
company's building on Main street,
Port Townsend.
DIR. George B. Dye, Reno physi-
| N-bn Ua of
the Nevada Sanitarium, has been ar
rested in Sacramento and will be
brought back to Reno to answer to a
charge Of forgery, being charged with
passing several phony checks on
Reno business men.
Head Consul l. T. Boak and other
officers of the Pacific jurisdiction of
the Woodmen of the World have gone
from Denver to Omaha to settle the
question of severing all relations with
the sovereign organization. If the
secession occurs a lively contest for
members will follow.
Thieves broke into seven cars con-
tanning local merchandise which were
standing in the Western Pacific yards
at Winnemucca. A number of cases
of goods were broken open, but the
thieves evidently did not find the kind
of goods they were looking for as
only few articles were taken.
Harold F. Henwood, convicted of
the murder of George E. Copeland in
the barroom of Denver hotel May
"a, 1911, will not be executed dur
ing the week of October q, the date
fixed by the district court. A bill of
exceptions in an appeal to the Colo
: RADIO supreme court has been fled
1t is understood that the fight
which is to be made by certain tax
payers of Elko county, Nevada against
the ruling of the tax commission will
be taken up on the grounds that the
bill which created the commission
was not regularly passed by the leg
islature and that it is corresponding
: ly illegal.
For refusing to answer the strike
call John Hale, track layer at the
: Walsen and Robinson mine, at Wal
: senburg, Colo, was badly beaten by
women while on his way home. A
large women astride his back was
beating him on the head with a
bucket when guards came to his res
n cue and his assailants fed.
There were only 144 cases of graz
ing trespass on the national forests
during the past fiscal year, according
to a report issued from the forest SER
vice. The service considers this re-
markable, in view of the fact that the
national forests contain 13S,000,000
s. acres and have boundaries many
it thousands of miles in length.
II John d. Ryan. president of the
D. Amalgamated Copper company, who
a has returned from a five weeks trip
e throughout the northwest, says there
is more railroad building in Montana
than in any other state of the Union
c. this year. He also stated that the
J. grain crop of that state this year
t. would total more than 100000
j. bushels.
g Judge A. Riner in the United
lc States district court at Cheyenne
lie handed down an opinion sustaining
the sale of 1871 shares of stock in
or the Rio Grande Junction railway to
S the Denver & Rio Grande. The effect
re Of the decision is to give the Denver
O. & Rio Grande exclusive control OF
Is the Rio Grande Junction, line hith
n. erto used by the Rio Grande and the
m Midland jointly from Newcastle to
Grand Junction, Colo.
IS John Killough was instantly killed
n and H. e. Harrington probably mortal
o. ly wounded in the Puget Sound navy
,r yard at Bremerton, Wash, as the re-
o. suit of an explosion of gasoline tank
e. they were testing with compressed
of air.
The first car of Utah fruit to be
AZ shipped into Montana since the quar-
le antine was issued August 1 of this
in year was received at Butte last week