The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-09-26
NORTHWEST NOTES

g1liltY and was sentenced 10 the STATE |
nenitentiary for a term OF one year
to fourteen months
steve Dancan died in the city jail
at Vale, Ore, after being arrested
fo- drunkenness.s The physicians |
pronounced it case Of heart failure
caused by alcoholic poisoning.
Death claimed one OF the Oldest
nioneers OF Utah on Sept. II, when
William Henry Hall. aged IL years.
nassed away at his home, In Ogden,
following lingering Illness Of can
GER.
The official call for the strike in
district Is of the United Mine Work
ers Of America has been issued from
the office Of Frank j. Hayes, interna-
tional vice president. The mines In
southern Colorado are affected.
The halcyon days of the Comstock
when Transfers on the famous Vir.
ginia Sacramento. road we're the
princes of the hour are recalled in
the passing of William G. Smith, who
died at Reno last week at the age
Of IS.
Business men of Searchlight, Ne
yada. were victimized recently to the
amount OF several hundred dollars
through the cleverness of a man who
gave his name as Harold Duncan
who succeeded in passing number
OF worthless checks.
Mystery surrounds the death of
Mrs. Mary NJ. McLane, a well known
business woman of Boulder, Colo,
who was found dead in her rooms.
Marks on the woman,s face, the
coroner declares, were caused by
heavy blows before death.
The Hagerman valley can boast of
the first threshing machine run by
electricity in Idaho, as far as known.
Ed Dilatush had all his grain thresh-
ed by an electric motor and last week
the Vader ranch installed a motor for
running their threshing outfit.
William Chalmers, a ranchman, was
killed and three other men were bad
ly injured, when their car toppled
over an embankment near Sheridan,
Wyo. The car met another car at a
narrow pass, and in attempting to
avoid a collision turned too far out.
The South Idaho Potato Producers
association in session at Pocatello,
Idaho, is making a bid for potatoes
at enc dollar per hundred f. o. b. Twin
Falls and other points in south Idaho,
as against a seventy-five and eighty
cent market bid by other dealers.
At a mass meeting of union men
Of Butte, resolutions denouncing the
Michigan mine operators, pleading
further aid to the striking copper
miners, and calling upon congress
for an investigation of industrial con-
ditions in the Calumet copper coun-
try were adopted.
Having crossed the deserts of Ne
vada and Utah in an automobile with
only one dollar left in their funds
two boys, giving the names of E. +
and L. F. Stephens. 16 and Is years
of age, were arrested at Ogden OIL
suspicion of having stolen the ma
ctine from Sacramento man.
DR.. Long, veterinarian for the M
Y. Transportation company at Vel
lowstone, has been taken INTO Gus
tody at Pocatello, Idaho. 1t is charges
that he shot Dan Coffee, another EN-
ploye, four times and killed him. Th'
shooting is the alleged result of
quarrel over the rattle of bearskin
1t is reported that the farmers o
Oregon are lamenting the campaign
they have conducted in the pas
against the humble coyote, and ar
longing for an increase in number
Of this animal. The absence of COY
otes has been responsible for a grea
increase in rabbits, and one of tn
surest modes of making away wit
rabbits is to give the coyote ire
range.
Since the Utah legislature made
possible with handsome approprii
ton that farm demonstrators or stat
farm agents can be put in the variou
counties of the state, the extensio
division of the Agricultural Colles
at Logan, in cooperation with tn
United States bureau of plant i
dustry in the agricultural department
has begun an agricultural survey
the state.
Mrs. Joseph Gurr of vernal, Uta
was married last week to Frederic
Wade. who three weeks ago shot al
killed her husband. Mrs. Gurr $
cured divorce from her husbar
while he was in prison. On servir
his sentence Gurr traced his wife
Vernal, and as she and Wade we
leaving a theater he shot Wade, Il
bullet wounding the latter's arr
Wade fred five shots in return. Gu
died the following day.
Montana has as many head of sto
as it ever had, although the fall shi
ment to the eastern markets are n
as large as heretofore. in the opini'
of Jim Kemp of the Northern Paci