The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-23
NORTHWEST NOTES

| jail at Tacoma. some zf otner ious
ers were vaccjnated.
Delegates from every wool prcduc
! ing state in. the union met in Sal
Lake on January IA to attend the soil
annual convention of the Natioua
Wool Growers association.
Lucas Ieleacon, a Greek, 80 wears
old, employed at Ely, New, was clean
ing the oil house floor with gasoline
when the fluid ignited, and he was
severely burned about the face and
hands.
Neyada's mines yielded in 1913
from ores sold or treated, $36,374,00c
in value in gold, silver, copper, lead
and zinc, according to preliminary es-
Inmates of ". C. Heikes, of the United
States geological survey.
1t is not always the brass buttons
and blue uniforms that make a good
officer, as Elko has full blooded In,
dian who acts as officer in his village.
and they say that no town presided
ever by his white brethren is as well
governed, says the Elko Free Press.
Alleging that the town was illegal
ly incorporated in order that saloon
might be establishe there, District At
torney Ringo, at the instance of Gov
ernor West, has instituted suit against
the officials of West WOODBURY., Ore,
asking that the incorporation be de-
clared void.
Harry Toy, a wealthy Chinese mer.
chant who was accused of having
made slave of Goldie Goodell, q
white girl, and daughter of Port
land clergyman, was found guilty on
six counts of violating the Mann anti
white slave law by a jury at Port
land, Ore.
Henry Clausen, an express driver,
who admits stealing $1zz from the ex-
press company at Butte, returned to
that city last week and gave himself
up. Clausen took the money at Christ
mas time because he was hard pressed
and could not buy present and meet
mis- express
Albert Dahlstrom, the religious cult
leader arrested at Tacoma by federal
officers several weeks ago and al
legged to have had more than twenty
polygamous marriages, has been in
dicted by the federal grand jury on
charge of violating the Mann anti
white slave act
M. G. Cole, formerly saloonkeeper,
but of late employed in sandstone
quarry Az Tenino, Wash, shot and in
stantly killed DR.. Charles e. Robinson,
then shot and killed himself. Both
meh leave families. Insane jealousy
on the part of Cole is believed to have
been the cause of the tragedy.
Because she spurned his advances
and refused to elope with him, John
Seri shot Mrs John Steffano. at Dia-
mond Hill, Wyo. Hearing the shot
Mrs. Steffano's husband rushed into
the room and was shot by Seri but
plunged a knife into his assailants
body. All three were MORALLY wound
ded.
Waylaying Margaret Lamson, a 49,
year-old school girl, on a lonely road
southwest of Reno, an unknown man
dragged her over stone fence and
inflicted forty or fifty knife wounds
on her arms and face The wounds,
according to the girls story, were
made carefully and deliberately with
pen knife.
Curtis Masterson and John Norling.
T1 on ha
sucker creek, in Oregon, were found
lead in Mornings cabin Mornings body
vas found UP in the bed and Master.
sons near the cabin door, each with
/ bullet hole through the head. Theo-
lore Alexander has been arrested.
charged with the shooting.
Children between the ages of 2 and
J must pay fare equal to one-quarter
If the adult rate when travelling on
steamers of the North Pacific Steam |
hip company, and families with more
han one infant under two years will |
e allowed to take but one child free
Iccording to an announcement made |
t the company's office in Portland
asst week.
John j. McCracken was accidental
killed at the Bohannen Creek gold
redge, near Salmon, Idaho In com.
any with Chris. Stuckey and j. Eos.
Ell, McCracken was standing on the
ank of the pool in which the dredge
'orks when the ground suddenly
roke off and the men fell into the
alter 10 feet below. McCracken be.
lg drowned.
Governor Oswald West, Secretary of
tate Ben w. Olcott and State Treas
rer Thomas B. Kay were nominally
rrested last week on warrants issued
the instance of Labor Commission
o. P. Hoff, to test the eight-hour
Nv as affecting all the employees of
ne state institutions of Oregon, over
.hlch the three state officers. as
tate board, have control.
Insurance on public buildings in
enver has been revised by the city
and the total fire in
france now carried is $452,O00, di.
Iaed among thirty-dve, instead OF