The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-06-19
NORTHWEST NOTES.

| John Spear Ames, a resident OF
! Nevada for over forty years. died
at his home in Reno, after brief
illness.
Tony Mendeiros, the Portuguese
who shot Albert ochoa, a Mexican at
Winnemucca, New, was operated upon
for appendicitis in the county hos
pital few days ago.
DR.. e. A. Wheeler, Daniel Falvay.
Cyrus Rice and Herman Kruger, all
OF GoIdfield, we're killed when an au-
tomobile in which they were riding
went over an embankment.
The Churchill County tNevada)
Chamber of Commerce has appointed
committee to have proposal for
$4,000 Lincoln Highway bond issue
put on the November ballots.
With a Bleriot monoplane en- route
Reno residents are promised another
view Of air navigation at an exhibit
tion flight to be given at Moana
| Springs. June 81, Island July /, next.
The Wells Herald says that from
sources Of authority 1t learns that
the troubles which have beset the
Pacific Reclamation company, operat-
ing at Metropolis, are In a fair way Of
| amicable adjustment.
The board of directors of the State
| industrial school has awarded the
| contract for the construction of the
| industrial school building at Elko, Ne
vada, to McGinty & Son of Reno for
the sum of s26,483.
Secretary of State Brodigan reports
that his office has issued about 1,20C
auto licenses to date out of the 1,5G8
automobiles known to be owned in the
| state of Nevada. Over 300 of the
licenses issued during 1913 have failed
to be. renewed.
Eagle county, Colo, claims the dis
tinction Of being the only county in
the world with woman as Judge.
Mrs. Lydia B. Tagule has filled that
office since early in 1911. He home
is a log house, and she is the widow.
| ed mother of five children.
| so broad is the scope of the weights
and measures law passed by the Ne
vada legislature in 1911 that manufac'
| turers throughout the United States
have written Commissioners S. G..
Dinsmore regarding the Interpretation
of the law with regard to different
products.
The residence of Mrs. Carol at
Elko, New, was struck by lightning
| but fortunately little damage was
i done, and aside from tearing the pa
per from the wall in the hall and
momentarily stunning Miss Carroll
and Miss Patterson, who were in a
room in the rear of the house.
A. A. Taylor, Southern Pacific yard
| master, was shot and killed by r. H.
i Clapp, engineer in charge of a switch
engine in the Truckee yards, after a
quarrel. 1t is claimed Taylor was
proceeding to climb into the engine
when Clapp shot four times, three bull.
cts taking effect, killing Taylor in,
| stantly.
/ A diamond and pearl locket valued
1t $500, which was presented to Louise
May Gooding, daughter of Ex-Governor
/ Gooding of Idaho, at the time of the
launching of the U. s. S. Idaho in
/ 1905, was taken from negro Pull
man porter by the police at Denver.
He says he found it near the depot in
Cheyenne, Wyo.
The following figures indicate gen
eral crop conditions on June / in west
ern states, 100 representing the ten
year average of all crops reported
upon: Montana, 9S.9; Wyoming, 1882;
Colorado, 1882; New Mexico, 1O7; Ari-
iona, 1926; Utah, 105.9 Nevada,
104.5; Idaho, 1882; washington. 1904;
Oregon, 1888; California, 114.1.
The last of the machinery of tn.
mint at Carson City, New, is being
shipped to the coast for the junk pile
Boilers, engines and the smoke stack
have beeen torn down. The Carson
mint was at one time the busiest
place in the state.
There is persistent rumor' afioai
that there Is deal in course of com
pletion to consolidate practically all
the placer holdings in. Copper Basin
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doing away with all the petty differ
ences existing among interested par
ties in the camp. but to bring water
| onto the ground and sluice the whole
gulch under one management.
Several months ago Jim May, for
mer king Of Nevada gamblers, died
down in South America, and at the
time it was announced that he had
been killed by the accidental dis
charge of rifle in the hands of a com
panion while they were hunting
However, letters from the state de
partment received in Reno would in
dictate that May was killed by bandits
Grazing Examiner A. E. Aldous has
returned from the Ruby national for
est, says the Elko Free Press, where
he had been for ten days investigat
ing poison plant conditions and init
iating an experiment to determine
! how the losses resulting from grazing