The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-25
INLAND NORTHWEST

The season OF 1914, according to the
officials of the forest leryice, carried
greater danger from FIRE to the ma.
tional forests than am year since the
establishment OF the national forests.
G. w. Malone, timer. was found
not guilty on CHI &c Of kidnapping
Richard 0'Brien. another miner, dur.
ing the disturbances at Butte last
summer. The jury deliberated six
hours
Marking an epoch in the canning in
dustry Of the state, Utah tomatoes
and peas have been admitted to com.
petition with the canned products OF
other states for use in the United
States army
Tommy Burns, ex-heayyweight
champion pugilist, was severely in.
jured by fall in Pullman car near
Casper, Wyo. In the darkness Burns
stumbled, twisting his left arm and
wrenching his side.
Game Warden A. S. Hubbard OF
Ashland, Ore, 80 years old, was shot
and killed by Loris Martin, a profes-
sional deer hunter, near Trail. when
he attempted to search Martins cabin
for evidence of poaching.
A decision denying the right of CHR.
opractors 10 practice in the state OF
Utah was rendered by Judge ]. A.
Howell in the case Of the Utah board
OF medical examiners against F. ].
Freenor. chiropractor of Ogden.
J. H. Jerry Smith. a resident Of
Reno, was brought into town, suffer.
ing from crushed left arm which
viii require amputation as the result
of an accident at the new hoist of the
Sebastopol Mines company near
| Schurz.
Frank H. Tape. former Chinese in.
terpreter at the United States immi.
grafton station at Seattle, was acquit.
ted by a jury in the Unied States dis.
trict court of the charge OF accept.
| ing bride to admit Chinese into this
| country.
In Montana and Idaho alone. it is
said that the value of specific bodies
of timber which were threatened by
/ the approximate 1000 fires which
started and were put out by the Tor
est rangers last year aggregated the
enormous sum Of over s59,000,000
Patrick F. Carney, formerly one OF
the most prominent attorneys of
Goldfield, but who hac made his home
| in Berkeley, Cal, during the last
three years, died suddenly in a San
Francisco hospital. death being due to
complications from kidney trouble
DR.. r. E. Bryan. president OF Wash
ington State college, at Pullman
| Wash, has sent letter to the board
Of regents presenting his resignation
TO become effective January /, 1916.
He gives as his reason his wish to
retire to private life, at the end OF an.
other year.
! Lee Lun, the Fresno Chinese, and
May Swetnam, his American woman
companion, who were arrested at
Reno. are being held at the city jail
| pending instructions from the depart
ment Of justice in San Francisco re.
garding prosecution under the Mann
white slave" Law.
Harry E. Hillen, sentenced to hang
| for the murder of Denver restaurant
proprietor, tried to kill Warden Ken
ney at the county jail at Denver, after
failing in an attempt TO end his own
life. Kenney had been called by
| guards after they discovered Hillen
had cut his throat with a jagged
spoon.
Several hundred photographs OF Ne
yada scenery, taken by the expert ar
lists employed by the Southern Pa.
cihc railway, and collected with a
view Of exploiting the magnificent
beauties as well as the substantial re-
sources OF the state. will be on ex-
hibition at the San Francisco and
San Diego exposItions
Forty fathers Of families. many Of
whom had been out Of work for weeks
and weeks, have been given employ
ment by the city on the extension Of
water mains at Salt Lake, work for
which $500 was appropriated by the
city commission. They viii be al
lowed ~ work six days, when forty
more men will be given their places
Following the loss OF more than 100
hogs in the Russell creek district,
near Walla Walla, and the quarantine
placed on an area about $50 square
miles by D. T. Graves, state conn ais
sioner of agriculture. local officials
and farmers are awake TO the CT It'll
cal aspect of the situation, and pls.ns
are under way for the wholes ale
slaughter Of affected herds.
Throughout the thirty national ipr-
ests that comprise the Fourth distr ct
with headquarters in ogden, Utah, tue
program for the strenuous winter
work has been outlined Many of tie
supervisors and rangers already have
taken up their winter tasks. but vita
in few weeks at least a small army
of almost 400 men, the most pictui-
esque of Uncle Sans employees, viii
be engaged in the work for which nc
time can be found during the summer