The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-07-10
NORTHWEST NOTES

| According to a church census re.
Gently completed less than Is per
cent Of the people Of Medford, Ore,
are regular church-goers.
A six-day celebration began at Reno.
on June 30, by the members of the
Moose and Eagles, thousands of Wis.
itors from other Nevada towns at
tending.
Total collections Of the United
States internal revenue office for the
district of Montana, embracing Utah,
Idaho and Montana, for the fiscal year
ending June 30, are shown to be ST.
| 115,454.73.
One hundred shingle mills in west
ern Washington shut down June 80,
for annual holiday and probably will
remain closed for some time. Slack
building throughout the country has
caused an overproduction.
The new charter submitted to the
voters of Seattle was defeated by a
vote OF two to one. The proposed
charter provided city manager plan
OF government with a council of thirty
members elected by wards.
Mrs. Victoria Ordwaye wife of the
late Charles Ordway, one time prom.
inent on the Comstock, died at Reno,
June %, after long illness. She was
7S years old and had lived in Nevada
45 years, 25 of which were spent in
Reno.
Stockmen in the Northwest are be-
ing warned by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture that the plant
Menziesia is poisonous and may kill
sheep and cattle. Menziesia is strag-
CLING, branching shrub which grows
to be from 8 to feet in height.
At the eighth annual convention OF
the Oregon Retail Merchants asso-
citation, held at La Grande, the action
OF Idaho's pure food commissioner
with respect to egg albumen in baking
powder was considered and resolu-
ton of condemnation was adopted.
w. c. Whaley, collector of internal
revenue for the district of Montana,
announces that it will be days before
he will be able to determine accurate
individuals delinquent in the pay.
ment of corporation and income tax
A bill looking toward the appoint
ment of receiver for the Denver
Union Water company was filed in
the United States district court al
Denver by counsel for the New York
Trust company, trustee under a mort
gage for $S,OO0,OrG, given by the wa.
ter company.
Eight automobiles, loaded with dane
ers, en- route to roadhouse dance,
were held up, one after another be-
tween Marshfield and South Inlet,
Oregon, by two masked robbers who
stripped the occupants of the automo-
biles, both women and men, of all
money and jewels and then escaped.
For the first time in the history Of
the Spokane country the brave act of
an Indian has received public recog-
milton. Tam-mttsa, Nez Perez chief,
through his service to the United
States troops, shares equal honors
with Colonel E. ]. Steptoe and his
band, on monument dedicated with
impressive ceremonies at Rosalia,
Washington, recently.
Frank Benninghove, is years of age,
an attache of a Reno hospital, was
drowned at the Moana Springs bath
ing pool within few minutes after
he drove from the springboard. 1t
is believed a contributing cause to his
death was the fact that he plunged
into the water soon after partaking Of
hearty meal. producing a partial
paralysis, and rendering him power
less to rise.
Nevada's new divorce law wa4 sus
tanned by the supreme court of Ne
vada in a decision handed down July
/ in the Worthington case, which
was sent up from the district court
of Reno three months ago to test
the constitutionality of the act. The
applicants for divorce in Nevada must
reside one year in the state before
the courts will acquire jurisdiction.
Warrants for the arrest of those
implicated in the raiding of local
headquarters of the Western Fedora,
tion of Miners, the blowing and rob,
bling of the miners union safe on the
night of June Is, stealing the powder
from the Stewart mine June % and
blowing up of the miners union hall
were issued at Butte by the county
attorneys office. The charge of rob-
bling the miners safe has been pre-,
ferred against Kid Davis and Red"
Foley.
Scott East, Ga years old, weather
stained and footsore, walked into po-
lice headquarters at San Francisco,
and told the police he had walked from
Boise, Ida, in search of his brother,
DR.. Samuel Thomas East, and asked
for aid for his quest The brothers
have been separated forty-fve years.
When they found themselves under
a hail of rifle shots. burglars who blew
the safe in the postoffice in a store