The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-07
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Mont.
Nevada's valleys are as fertile =.
any in the west, and IL water CO..
be placed on the land it will yro,.
anything that any other state o.,
produce.
Nevada is experiencing a bushes,
boom and will be in few years on.
of the leading states west Of N,
Rocky mountains, according to Albaa
Breke, a business man of Elko
George Wallace, Charles r. Burk.
and A. ] Schwartz, the three mold.
Ups Of Chinatown were senronced y
Tonopah, Friday, by Judge AyeriD t.
fifteen months in the penitentary.
AS was expected the state tax com
mission has ordered a horizontal raise
in the assessed valuation of al, The
property in White Pine county Nc.
vada, which Included the city Of Ely
Sabe Choate was shot and instantly
killed by Lester Howard, at the latter's
place, some four or five miles from
Virgin station, Nevada. It is claimed
that the shooting was In self defense.
BY order of the state board of CON
troll, Labor Commissioner o. P. Hoif
will bring suit against the board to
test the question of whether the Ore
gon eight-hour law applies to the en-
ployes at state institutions.
Worry over his inability to proper
ly support his prospective wife, whom
he was to have married in few
days, was the cause of the suicide
at Nampa, Idaho, of Oscar Whitman,
according to the coroners jury.
In a wrestling match at Salt Lake
for the middle-weight championship be-
tween Chris Jordan of Cleveland and
title holder and Mike Yokel of Salt
Lake, Yokel won the match in two
straight falls, regaining the champion
ship, which he had lost to Jordan.
A. D Dunsmpre and Walter Burgess,
principal and teacher In the Roslyn,
Wash, high school, who became lost
from a hunting party In the mountains
near Lake Gle Elum, and for whom
searching parties were sent out, were
found by g company of Boy Scouts Of
Roslyn.
Nevada, which has been without any
National Guard organizations for some
time, now has several units and sn
effort it being made to increase the
military forces of the state. 1t IL
planned to organize troop of cavalry
in Elko, and an engineer company at
Winnemucca.
Thanksgiving day will be celebrated
this year on the last Thursday in
November. President Wilson has ig-
npred the petitions of some of the
patriotic organizations to have the date
this year set to correspond to the de-
livery of President Abraham Lincoln's
Gettsburg address so years ago, No
vember 10.
From Cheyenne to Salt Lake in
IL hours So minutes was the record
run made by the Union Pacific last
week in handling the special train
carrying Anna Held and her players
1t is said to be the fastest times ever
made between the two cities, over
forty-five minutes being clipped off
the time made by the Sarah Bern
hardt special.
Colonel William Nelson, editor of the
Salt Lake Tribune for 35 years, and
one of the best known journalists in
the west, is dead. He came to Utah
in 1875 as United States marshal and
was largely responsible for the trial
and execution of John D. Lee, one OF
the instigators of THE Mountain Mead
ow massacre in 1857. Colonel Nelson
was "a years old.
Sam Thompson, locally known as
"Scarfaced" Thompson, was shot and
killed by Billy" Williams, well
known horseman of Menan, at q
point near the Livermore ranch in the
Hamer district, in Idaho. The shoot
ing was the outcome of quarrea
over horses.
George G. Lochner, who shot and
killed an italian named Bertello ana
seriously wounded another Italian
named Fernello on Salt Lake Route
train near Meals station in Utah, dur
ing the summer. has asked for a new
trial. He was recently convicted OF
voluntary manslaughter.
There was a general cleaning up
last week on the water front near the
foot of Jackson street, Seattle, in the
neighborhood where seven Bubonie
plague rats were found recently. Ola
buildings were torn down and burned
heaps of rubbish we're destroyed, ana
earth was dumped in hollows.
In the Moapa valley in Nevada this
season a Japanese rented twenty acres
and planted it all to cantaloupes he
shipped them through the Utah-Moaps
Distributing company, and the com
pany paid that Jap $S,042.2S for
his crop, delivered at the railroad sta
ton. Another one rented five acres
and received $1,S91.S4 for his crop
Since the Kubns are about to be