The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-01-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

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tana. as soon as he is relieved OF the
office Of chief executive OF the state.
will return to the practice OF law.
Mrs. r. e. Kline, wife OF Toledo.
o., coal dealer, died Tuesday in
Denver rooming house under circum-
stances indicating murder or suicide.
4 A bill compelling railroads to issus
passes to state officials and members
Of the legislature will be introduced
at the coming session OF the Montana
legislature.
Excavations for g new high school
Billings, Mont. The structure will
cost about $4,000 and will be three
stories.
State Forester Juneberg says Mon,
tana needs stringent laws 60 prevent
4 fire losses on timber. There were 1S5
fires In the state in 1912, each OF
which destroyed some timber.
Frank e. Clarity Of Seattle has been
appointed superintendent of transpor.
tation of the Denver & Rio Grande
| railroad. The position is new one
and the appointment became effective
| January /.
The state board OF immigration Of
| Colorado has asked the legislature for
! an appropriation of 100000 to spend
as the board seeds fit in advertising
the state In San Diego and San Fran
cisco in 1915
The Denver C Salt Lake Railroad
company, the 100000 concern re-
gently organized to take over the
Denver Northwestern & Pacific, has
given out equipment orders amounting
TO about $650,00O.
Imprisoned at the bottom of well
eighty-five feet deep for nearly six
days without food or water, Robert l..
Koontz, aged 80, and William M. Car
roll, aged rs, homesteaders in Catlow
valley, Oregon, were finally rescued
by neighbor.
Mrs. Alice Mcmillan, SIS years old,
wealthy Orc county, California,
widow, was lost in terrific blizzard
at Chambers Lake, near the crest Of
the continental divide, seventy-five
miles west Of Fort Collins, Colo, and
there Is no hope of finding her alive.
Bullion valued at $3S,194,003 was re
ceived at the Denver mint in 1912.
This is an increase of $2,954,034 over
1911. The bulk of this was received
from Colorado and smaller quantities
were received from all the Rocky
mountain states, Canada, Mexico and
| South Africa.
Montana has available for military
duty 45,052 able-bodied men, according
10 biennial report of Adjutant General
Phil Greenan to Governor Norris. The
enrolled strength of the national
| guard of this state consists of one reg
iment OF infantry of twelve companies,
with total OF 762 men.
Consolidation OF the higher educa-
tional institutions of Montana into one
great DIVERSITY of Montana, located
near some city desirably situated, is
the aim and purpose of an organiza-
ton launched at Helena, which then
went before the state board of educa-
ton and submitted the proposition.
Over 100000 worth of land was
sold by the state of Montana in 1911
| IL. The sales of this year alone ex-
coed the total sales for seventeen
| years, from 1892 to 1908. inclusive.
Aggregate sales 1912. 26S,452 acres
for $4,119,257. This exceeds 1910, the
best previous year, by over $500
acres and $685.
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Power company has been sold to the
Utah Power & Light company, which
recently acquired the Telluride Power
company. Purchase OF the company
will be followed by that of plants at
Montrose and Ouray and others, until
the company has continuous chain
on the western slope from Telluride
to Grand Junction.
Bert Teachout and Ben Gilbert, for
merly express messengers at Grand
Junction. Colo, who recently were
convicted of robbing the Globe Express
company Of $4,000, have been sent
enced to the state penitentiary.
Teachout was given from two to four
years and Gilbert from three to five
| years.
The 500 line win lay rails into
Montana early in the year 1918, &C
cording to statement made by Ed
mund Pennington, president of the
road. The Ambrose line is to be ex-
tended about fifty miles into Valley
county. Mont. and another extension
from Plaza. N. D.. to point near
Goodall. Mont. has been approved
Bert Dalton, bank robber, one-time
leader Of the Whitney gang that held
western Wyoming in terror year ago
and who engineered sensational Jail,
break of nineteen convicts from the
Rawlins penitentiary, was captured
Friday at Big Piney, Wyo. Barefoot
and clad only in his underclothes,
he had been pursued through deep
snow all night.
After forcihly obtaining a check OF
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