The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-01-30
NORTHWEST NOrFS

number is within three or fonr inN
largest number ever in the inst, - me
at one time and it is rather cro rss.oa
Livestock growers of the un,.
States met last week in na a''eu
to attend the seventeenth annual
yention Of the American National ~
stock association, which held !. .se
days session. 'iee
]. w. Hunt of Ogden was yro,.,
to pieces under a wild Southern D.
cific engine in the yards at Eiko NJ
Main line traffic was tied up for ~
by the wreckage of the engine. wbias
jumped the track after 1t had run w lss
for mile. wv
According to cattle buyers neya,
before in the history of the nor,s
west have cattle been SO difficult i
obtain at reasonable prices as thew an
at present and the prediction is freals
made that even present prices vii,
soar within the next sixty DAYS.
With the death of John Seri at Ma
mondyille, Wyo, the end came IL !.
tragic incident which has cost tbree
lives. Seri was the slayer os Mr. and
Mrs. John Steffano and himself suc.
cumbed to stab inflicted by Steffano
after the latter had been shot down
by the murderer.
News of the death In South Americ,
of Jim May, who was noted charac.
ter in Reno and the west for manv
years, has been received over six
months after his death occurred. NAV
was instantlypt killed when a rifle in
the hands of a companion was acct
dentally discharged.
Boise and Payette bankers who de.
sire to present their views to the or
ganization committee of the new fed
eral reserve system will have an Cd
portunity of appearing before this com
mittee, headed by Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo, when it holds its
hearing at Seattle on January 20.
The postoffice inspector has been
informed by the contractor who car
ries the mail on the star route be-
tween Paradise, Ore, and Anatone,
Wash, that farmer at Paradise has
notified the postmaster that this
month he will ship by parcel post
$500 pounds of timothy seed to q
Lewiston, Idaho, grain house.
w. L. Cummings, % years old, plead
ed guilty in federal court at Salt Lake.
City and was sentenced to three years
Imprisonment for attempting to black.
mail Miss Dorothy Bamberger, a
wealthy society girl. Cummings threat
ened to kill Miss Bamberger with an
Internal machine of his own invention
which could be exploded at distance
by wireless.
At conference held in Spokane Of
dairy and food commissioners of Idaho,
Oregon and Washington, it was decid-
ed to ask western congressman to give
all possible aid to Congressman Smith
of Idaho in his appeal to the depart
ment of justice to send special repre-
sentatives to Idaho and other western
states to investigate operations OF an
alleged creamery trust.
A new fraternal organization, west
ern in its origin, ideas and activt
ties, and known as the Independent
Order of Cowboys, will soon be
launched. A permanent organization
will be effected at a meeting OF the
delegates from several of the west
ern states in Cheyenne on February
s. 1t has been practically decided
that James Dahlman, the COWBOY
mayor of Omaha, will be chosen TO
head the new order and that neaa
quarters will be established in Oma
ha or Cheyenne.
More scientific methods in wool
growing and cooperative action III
marketing their products, as well az
In obtaining legislation favorable !"
the industry, were advocated py
speakers of the fiftieth annual CON
vention of the National Woolgrowers
association, held at Salt Lake Guy
last week.
In the arrest at Seattle OF T. n :
Kelly, secretary, and Arthur BTU.
treasurer, of the Pacific Mutual Bonu
G. Loan company, on federal war
rants charging them with using inc
mails to defraud, postoffice inspectors
declare they have unearthed one O
the largest swindling schemes ever
conducted in the Pacific northwest
John Liebe, who was shot through
the left arm on New Years day, wiz
undergo an unusual operation al
hospital in Butte, and his case y
greatly interesting the medical pi0
fession. When the rife bullet toie
through Liebe's arm it carried WIN
about two inches of the bone. IL
necessary to replace this bone, II tn'
man is to have the use OF the arm
again.
No,trace has been found OF the nv
'obbers who held up the GRANNY
Falls, Wash, State bank last wee
ind escaped with $1,772 after ru'
hing pistol battle with posse Oh o''
zens.
During the last fiscal year tne