The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-11-27
INLAND NORTHWEST

the foot and mouth disease in Mon
tana, Governor Oddie has issued a Sec
ond proclamation quarantinisg the
state against all states of TIN union
except California.
Complete but unofficial returns from
all counties Indicated that the bill to
abolish capital punishment in Oregon
carried at the election November 8
by a majority Of So votes.
Mrs. Frank Grier, who shot and
killed her husband at her home near
Astoria, Ore, and after successfully
resisting officers, succeeded in elud.
Ing posse. finally surrendered. She
says she shot in self-defense.
Bert Moffat, saloon man of Ger.
ZACH, New, is charged with embezzle-
ment It is alleged that Moffat ac-
cepted 5000 from H. b. Harris for
safekeeping, but returned only $500
OF the money when Harris applied
for IL.
Coyotes in the Pendleton, Ore, sec
ton have contracted rabies and are
attacking men and livestock. One
man is in the hospital at Pilot Rock,
taking the Pasteur treatment. Sever
al head OF livestock have fallen VIC
Tins.
On Thanksgiving evening carload
OF foodstuffs will leave Billings for
Seattle, Wash, to be placed aboard
the Belgian relief ship sailing from
that port and carrying the north
VESTS contribution for the relief
work.
Felix STOPPER. aged Is, was arrested
at Portland just after he had held up
and robbed Miss l. Gwaltney in an
East Side residence district At the
police station he confessed having
robbed ten young women and girls
within the past six weeks.
A shipment Of fifty-four carloads of
Montana horses destined to Europe,
purchased for war purposes by the
French government agents, was com.
pleted at Livingston, Montana last
week. The animals were bought at
an average price OF $S5 each.
Three masked bandits shot up and
robbed an Automobile stage two miles
from Spokane, probably tally wound
ing the driver, Albert Schnetzky, and
wounding his father-in-law, Henry
Carrye, in the shoulder. q. r. Will
son, the only passenger. was robbed,
but not injured.
Mr.. Ida Heller, 40 years old, died
at a hospital in Reno as the result of
being shot by her husband, Edward
Heller, a saloon keeper, of Haw.
thorne. The shooting terminated a
quarrel IN which husband and wife
engaged while the former was under
the influence of liquor.
Dusty and footsore, Virginia Tor
tolla, is years old, OF Verdi, appeared
at police station in Reno dressed in
boys clothes, and appealed to the po-
lice for protection against her father
to escape whom she had walked from
Verdi into Reno, dressing as a boy in
order to escape attention.
A committee representing the West
ern Governors convention will be
granted hearing before the public
lands committee of the United States
senate on December 16, according to
a letter received from the secretary
of the senate committee by Governor
=. M. Ammons, of Colorado, secretary
Of the conference.
Charles Erpenback, wealthy |
rancher of northern Idaho, is to be |
tried at the next term of the federal |
court In Sheridan, Wyo,, on the charge |
OF having held up number of stage |
coaches in Yellowstone park last sum.
mer and robbing the passengers. The
hold-up was the most sensational in
the history Of the park.
Louis Nj Lang, appointed last week |
by Mayor Hiram G. Gill to succeed |
Austin p. Griffiths as chief of police |
Of Seattle, has taken office in order |
10 relieve Mr. Griffiths. who was anx-
Ious to retire Immediately. The new /
chief OF police announced that he |
would continue the administrative
policy planned by his predecessor.
A decision by which the property
II a murdered wife is awarded to the
heir of the man who was hanged for
killing her was handed down in the
district court at Cheyenne. The suit
was brought to test the validity of the
will of Mrs. Jessie Root Jenkins, who
was killed by her husband, ]. Warren
Jenkins. in April, 1912. Mrs. Jenkins
eft an estate valued at $4,000 to her
husband by will
The Montana Farmers and Produc-
srs association in annual session at
Billings adopted. after heated debate,
\ resolution introduced by delegates
from the Huntley government irriga,
lion project that the association ap-
peal TO the legislative assembly
Montana TO pass law a. its comm;
session forbidding the purchase o.
holding OF real estate by aliens in
and that the proposed law
be similar in It's provisions to the
Webb anti-alient law of California.