The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-20
NORTHWEST NOTES


| ing the MofSat tunnel election.
DR.. Samuel Towers Linklater, wide
| ly known In Oregon as a practicing
physician and surgeon, was strucN by
an Oregon electric train at Elmonica
station and sustained injuries that re-
suited In death at a hospital Few
hours later.
The people Of McGill, New. were
| last week afforded rare musical
treat when the X. Of P. Social club
produced its big minstrel show. -Four
hundred people Witnessed the two per
formances and pronounced them a
great success.
Judge Eakin, In the circuit court al
st. Helens, Oregon, refused new trial
to John Arthur Fender, convicted OF
murder in the first degree for having
slain Mrs. Daisy Wehrman in her
ranch cabin September A, 1911. A
small child of Mrs. Wehrman was
slain with her.
At the annual meeting Of the Noun
tain States Telephone e Telegraph
company, held in Denver, the an
nouncement by President Field that he
is in hearty accord with the plan of
the control of his company by state
utilities commissions elected by the
! people created much interest.
In a fierce twelve-round bout at
Helena, George Hanlon of Helena
was given the decision over
Ned Young of Salt Lake City. The
| fighting was fast and furious from
start to finish and both men showed
| to good advantage, with Young show
ing the greater hitting ability.
In the juvenile cour- at Price, Utah,
six keepers of pool halls and other
resorts were fined for selling tobacco
to minors and allowing boys to fire.
quent their places. Sixteen boys, all
Of them attending school, were before
the judge as witnesses, accompanied
| by their parents in most instances
General" Rosalie Jones and Col
oneP' Ida Craft, who led several part
les of women on marches to Albany
and Washington in the interest of suf,
| 3rage, will start west in few week.
to help Miss jeanette Rankin in the
campaign in Montana, where the ques.
ton of votes for women is to be de-
cided this fall.
! Potatoes grown in and shipped from
| California are under the ban in Idaho,
for Governor John -. Haines and
State horticultural Inspector G. K.
| Macy have placed quarantine
| against importing the tubers. In the
future and until the quarantine is lift.
| ed, Idaho growers will not be able to
make use of the California potatoes.
The first conviction for the series
of holdups which recently terrorized
the citizens Of Ogden occurred last
week, when John Durant, accomplice
of E. L. Craft, pleaded guilt to the
charge of highway robbery, waived the
statutory time for receiving sentence
and was Immediately sentenced to an
indeterminate term in the state
prison.
''Squatters' rights in the Oregon
and California land grant forfeiture
were given a blow when United States
District Judge Bean ruled against e
@. Mclaughlin in a suit to enjoin the
Silver Falls Timber company from run
ming its logging railroad under lease
from the Southern Pacific over cor
ner of the section which he occupies
in Marion county, Oregon.
Rafael Lopez, the notorious Utah
bandit, may be in Butte or immediate
vicinity, it is believed. The Salt Lake
authorities have received information
to the effect that in making good his
escape from Bingham he might have
come to Butte and as he has acquain
tances in that city there is a pos,
sibility that he is there under an as
sumed name and disguised.
Milton H. Lee, arrested in Salt Lake
on January 81, charged with having
counterfeiting dies in his possession
has made confession in which he
says he served three terms in San
Quentin for stage robberies in the
Yosemite and one term for train rob
berry in Oregon. Lee is 67 years old
He says he was known as the Gentle
man Bandit of the Yosemite in the
Sos and '70s.
Governor Oswald and Colonel B. X
Lawson of the Oregon militia have
been served with papers in damage
suits instituted against them by H.
Stewart, Anton Warner and William
Wiegand of Copperield. They allege
that Governor West and Colonel Law.
son, during the recent reign OF mar.
tial law in Copperfield, confiscated
their stocks of liquor They ask dam.
ages aggregating $4,000
Four men, including r. d. Hawley.
banker and mining investor, while
exploring during a trip on the Pes
Vine mountain range, north of Reno
New, were caught in the recent rec.
| ord-breaking snowstorms which al.
most buried towns and suspended
transportation. They, in their tent
buried under twelve feet Of snow