The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-27
NORTHWEST NOTES

| Pendleton, Ore, OF twenty s1aho JuiS
| indictments.
California creameries have stopped
deceiying the public and are now Diac.
! ing sixteen ounces Of butter IN their
| packages
with statewide prohibition an ID
sue In Oregon In the forthcoming NO
| yember election, both sides are mar
shaling forces.
Mrs. John Larsen, who is mayor OF
! Troutdale, Ore, caused the arrest Of
her own husband on a charge OF sell
| ing liquor to minors.
The IdahoOregon baseball league
| which fourished last season with four
clubs is to be an active organization
again this year with strong prospects
| that six towns will be represented.
The three Pacific coast states, Cali
/ fornia, Oregon and Washington, 10
gether with Idaho and Colorado, are
| the battle-ground for 1914 of the ma.
tional prohibition movement, and the
campaign will start in earnest April /.
Mrs. Eva Hamilton, So years old,
was arrested for the second time in
two years last week for the alleged
kidnapping OF her 6-year old grandson,
Gilbert Hamilton, son of Mrs. Will
lam Jensen of Portland.
According to reports in banking cir
Giles in Denver, the Hamilton National
bank which was established four years
ago and the City Bank & Trust com.
pany, one of the oldest financial insti
tutions in Denver, will be merged
within a few days.
Catherine Mitchell, alias Alice
Smith, alias Mitchell, formerly OF
Salt Lake, has been sentenced to
serve 100 days In the Helena jail and
to pay fine of $500 after she had
been convicted of perjury by jury
at Great Falls, Mont
A movement to secure general re-
adjustment of freight rates for the
plains and Rocky mountain states
west of the Missouri river will Re
launched at Denver. April 7, at con.
ference of representatives of CONNER
cial bodies from seven western states.
The Oregon supreme court has up
held the minimum age law and the
1O-hour law passed by the last legis-
lature. The decision also upholds the
minimum wage of 1854 weekly for
adult women workers which was fixed
by the Oregon industrial welfare COM
mission.
So strong is the belief of company
OF Kamiah, Lewiston and Walla Wal
la citizens that clay deposit a few
miles from Kamiah has remarkable
| medicinal curative properties, the pro
duct has been put on the market fol
lowing number of experiments made
by two miners who discovered it.
In discussing the coal fields OF
southeastern Idaho the annual report
OF the state mine inspector states that
the people of the state will soon be re.
lieveG of the enormous tribute they
have paid Wyoming and Utah the past
generation for fuel, as the Idaho pro
duct will soon be made available.
Representative Smith of Idaho has
received assurance from the author OF
the cold storage bill that all references
TO fruit will be eliminated from the
Dill, for the reason that she committee
is now convinced that it would be I'M.
wise to limit the time apples and other
fruits should be kept in cold storage.
Laurence Duke, nephew Of James B.
Duke, the tobacco manufacturer. was
found not guilty by jury in the SUI
perior court at Seattle of the charge
OF manslaughter preferred after his
automobile ran down and killed Henry
y. FAIR, saloonkeeper, on the coun-
ty road south of Seattle, October Is
last.
Because of intense bitterness said
TO exist between the respective friends
OF the victim and the alleged slayer
all spectators were searched for weap-
ons, where Luigi Farcia was placed
on trial in Portland. Farcia is accus-
ed OF the murder of Mike Zebzola ON
January Z, 1914, In saloon which he
owned.
Horace N. Hawkins, attorney for
Mother Mary Jones, has announced
that 1t had been decided to make pub.
nc announcement of the time of her
departure from Denver for Trinidad.
where. according to the statement of
Adiutant General John Chase. rear
rest awaits the S2-year-old strike
leader.
In line with the nationwide move.
ment for expert instruction in agricuI.
ture, that the federal government is
deyoting attention to the Indian Is
eyineed by the fact that M. M. Muir
ply, specialist in alfalfa and clover
growing, as well as hog and cattle
raising, has been assigned to duty on
the Nez Perez Indian reservation IN
Idaho.
George E. Stone, deputy sheriff
vas shot and killed at Tacoma by
MRS. Sadie King, who then killed her
self. Two men across tha s+r,e4 e..