The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-02
NORTHWEST NOTES

-NutlAAv WyO.
The mineral product of most imnor.
lance in Wyoming is coal the valna
OF which represents nearly % nor
cent OF the total mineral production
OF the state.
The development of the extensive
phosphate deposits IN the southwest.
ern part of Wyoming gives promise
OF establishing an important industry
there In the future.
After having quarrel with his vic.
Tim the previous night, r. c. Robin.
son snot M. ]. Welty, at Wadsworth.
pnnlcting two wounds which were
pronounced serious at the county hos,
pltal where the injured man was later
examined.
=. M. Davis, general superintendent
on the lines of the Southern Pacific
1or the past seven years, has tender
gu MS resignation, and will leave San
FRANCISCO about the first of the year
TO become general manager for an
eastern railroad
Negotiations have been completed
by Special Indian Agent Asbury for
the leasing of the Pine Nut mountain
range belonging to the Washoe In.
dams to stock growers at Minden and
Gardnerville, New. The Indian own
ers will receive $1,000 in January.
Lulu Elder of Seattle shot and kill
ed Frank Gregory of Denver, In her
room in Denver, and then committed
suicide. According to the stories Miss
Elder had told acquaintance, the
couple was to have been married the
next day. 1t is supposed that they
quarreled.
Edmund c. Won Klein of Chicago
was found guilty of bigamy at Port
land. The indictment was that he
lived bigamously with Ethel New
comb in 1911. He was twice tried on
charge of stealing Miss Newcomb's
jewels, each trial resulting in dis
agreement.
The value Of the products of all
the mines in Wyoming in 1911 was
$11. 493,377, of which the coal output,
amounting to 6,744,S64 short tons,
represented $10,5OS,S63 In 1912 the
value of all mineral products in the
state was s13,374,OSS, of which coal,
7,36S,124 short tons, represented $11,-
GAS, 1888.
Thomas Cruise, banker, gave as
Christmas present to Bishop Carroll
100000 with which to complete the
Catholic cathedral in Helena. This
makes a total of $180,000 Mr.. Cruise
has contributed toward the cathedral.
He also announced he would give
big pipe organ on completion of the
building.
The state supreme court of Oregon
has decided that the eight-hour labor
law applies to all state institutions
and that hereafter no employees or
the asylum for the insane, the peni-
Tertiary, the reform and industrial
schools and other state institutions
can be worked more than eight hours
in every twenty-four.
Sheriff Ed Rand has fatty refused
to carry out Governor Vests order
to close the saloons at Copperfield,
Ore, and said that the only way he
knew for the governor to have his
wishes carried out was to declare
martial law at Copperfield and take
in the militia and enforce the law
with it's assistance.
A baseball pitcher has involved the
city of Denver in damage suit for
$4,000 Mrs. Hazel G. Lehr, in a
complaint filed in the district court,
asserts that on September Il, while
she was passing the baseball grounds
maintained by the city at Washing
ton park, her nose was broken by a
ball. She asserts that the backstop
behind the catcher was too low to
stop a ball thrown by young pitcher.
Follow the red posts through Ne,
yada." That is to be the slogan OF
the recently organized Nevada-Lin'
coin Trail association. The associa-
ton has planned to mark the trail
through Nevada from the Utah line
at the north end of the lake in Box
Elder county, Utah, with red posts.
Tonopah mines have produced $685.
602,132.S5 since the discovery OF the
camp in 1901, and have paid $lS,14s,'
25S in dividends.
Foregoing the usual Christmas
spread and exchange of useless gifts
among themselves before the Christ
mas vacation, members of the Gam
ma Phi Beta sorority, at the Univers-
ity of Oregon gave a Christmas tree
and turkey dinner to score OF poor
children of Eugene. Gifts included
sweaters, shoes and other articles OF
clothing, besides toys for the younger
children.
w. =, Copeland, prominent min.
ing man of Denver, Colo, and well
known throughout the northwest in
mining and business circles, was kill
| ed by falling down the shaft OF the
Joe Dandy mine at Victor, Colo.
N. w. Geddes, wealthy farmer OF
| Davenport, Ia, who was on his way
TO Australia, shot and fatally wounded
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