The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-16
NORTHWEST NOrHs

1918, when compared to the vo,,sS
OF business transacted in 1912
There is an increase in the a.,
dends paid by the Occur dAlena r,ao
during the year 1913 of almost 1, aae
900 more than were discussed in ,a,s
Bids for the construction of tba
$4,000 state Industrial school a, nv
New, will be advertised as soon !,
The plans and specifications -.
| drawn. ais
The Boise (Idaho) Ministerial ASA
citation is up In arms over pronoaos
ordinance introduced in the citv go.
ell which will permit "raggin,s Or
public dance halls.
Portland's municipal rockville .,
hthe unemployed was opened last woa,s
for operation, but was poorly patron
lied. Men are paid $3.50 a dav ~,
work on the rock pile.
Posing as Adolphus Busch II of M
st. Louis family of brewers. John D
! Dew of Beleville, Ill, was arrested
at hotel In Denver after he had bor
rowed several hundred dollars.
Lloyd H. wilkins, convicted slave,
of Lou L. Winters, real estate agent
who was killed in front of his bonso
In Portland, October IL last, has heon
sentenced to be hanged March "a
President L. G. Gilman of the sno
kane, Portland & Seattle railroad com
pany has announced officially the an
pointment of w. d. Scott as general
manager of the affiliated Hill proner
ties in the northwest.
Gov. e. M. Ammons Of Colorado
has sent his assurance that he win at
tend the Farmers Roundup and House
keepers conference at the college AZ
Logan, Utah, January 81 to February
I, and take part on the program.
United Mine Workers have begun
preparing affidavits in connection
with the deportation of strikers from
the Oak Creek coal district in Route
county, hoping to get congressional
action into the Colorado coal strike.
That nearly half million trees
were planted in the Pocatello Ma.
tional forest during the past three
years Is the statement of Supervisor
]. F. Bruins. 1t is the record number
in District No. A of the forest service.
Four days of incessant rain have
sent rivers in western Washington
bankful, but as yet there has been no
serious damage to property. High
water in Cedar river near Renton, IL
miles east of Seattle, washed out 90
feet Of track ON the Columbia & Puget
Sound railroad
A slide in the bank of the famous
stadium o fthe Tacoma high school
covered the tracks of the Northern
Pacific, which parallel the water 'front.'
carried two steel cars over the bank
and broke down the poles supporting
the power line of the city light de
partment and the Tacoma Railway
Power company.
The controversy between Governor
West of Oregon and the civil courts
over the governors right to maintain
martial law in Copperfeld, where he
BUSTED the city officials and closed
the saloons because of alleged viola
tons of ordinances regulating the sale
of liquor, will be decided in the courts
Of Baker county.
Bids have been asked by the Union
Pacific system for furnishing s4,30O,0OO
worth of rolling stock during 1914. OF
this amount, $1,260,00O worth is for
the Oregon Short Line, the remainder
to be distributed over the Union Pa
cif1c, Oregon-W Washington Railroad &
Navigation company and st. Joseph 4
Grand Island roads.
Another step towards Kidding Uinta
county, Wyo., of the gang of sheep
rustlers which has been raiding focks
In that district for several years was
made in Evanston, last week. when
Charles Holder, charged with receiv-
ing stolen live stock, and Avery Green,
charged with larceny of live stock,
were bound over to the district court
for trial.
January 21-28 will be farmers week
At Bozeman, Mont Short courses
Tor farmers and homemakers
are to be held daily from
to IL a. m. and from / to $3.50 p. NJ
Forty-two different instructors are
listed for lectures or demonstrations
In these courses, which comprise
work in dairying, poultry, farm crops
stock Judging, veterinary science, u
ology, horticulture, economics, COOK
ing, sewing, health, education anu
adorning the farmstead.
J Orlando w. Powers, Democratlc
leader in Utah, and widely known 90
a lawyer, is dead. He was associate
J counsel in the defense of Clarence
barrow at Los Angeles and defenaea
Anna NJ Bradley, who in 1906 kllieu
former Senator Arthur Brown III
Washington, d. C. He was GA years
old.
Mrs. Lewis Gauier, wife OF a pam
ter. was held up at Great Falls MONT
at the point of a revolver by wv