The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-05-29
NORTHWEST NOTES

The three highwaymen that robbed
the state bank Of Spangle, Wash, Of
81, 800, have eIuded all pursuers and
their trail has been lost.
Vast quantities of Nevada land
have been sold within the last year
and there has just been thrown on the
market many thousands Of acres more
which is being grabbed up.
Manford Breedon. well known
young man Of Ontario, Ore, was seri
ously and perhaps fatally injured by
a double explosion of the gas tank
In the city pumping station.
Mrs. Mollie Irwin, postmistress OF
Austin, Ore, has been arrested on a.
federal grand jury Indictment charg
ing her with the embe2zlement of 81,
562 from the money order department
of her postoffice.
Charles Barr, who was recently
brought back to Winnemucca from the
Colorado State prison to be tried for
the murde.v of Deputy Sheriff Larkin,
committe n December, 1908, will be
place on s.ial next week.
The Tonopah Bonanza reports that
managers of railroads in Southern Ne
yada have held several meetings to
consider means for securing the rout-
ing of 1915 exposition travel through
the mining camps of Tonopah ana
| Goldfeld
May Slaughter, who was arrested
about three months ago on a charge
of cattle stealing, made her escape
from the jail at Winnemucca, by dig
ging her way through the brick wall
| She left note saying she would come
back for her trial
John r. Early, the leper whose case
attracted widespread attention a few
years ago, has escaped from the Dia-
mond Head quarantine station near
Port Towsend Wash, where he has
been confined under the care of the
United Staes public health service.
Heroic action by Miss Mary Stark.
| daughter Of Lincoln county, Oregon,
rancher, in beating off bull which
had thrown and was goring her faith
| err saved him from certain death at
their home. Stark, terribly injured,
was taken to hospital at Portland.
As result of the visit to irriga-
ton projects in Idaho of the thirteen
capitalists from Philadelphia, Balti-
more and other eastern cities, con-
struction work and completion of the
Sunnyside irrigation district near
Mountain Home, Idaho, may be MADE
possible.
/ Deputy Sheriff Drake of Lincoln
county, Montana was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded in duel with
an outlaw believed to be one of the
robbers who held up the Great Nor
/ thern's Oriental limited near Rondo,
Mont. The outlaw escaped with a
bullet in his leg.
The house of representatives refus-
ed to consider the senate bill allow
ing settlers on the government irri
cation projects twenty years instead
of ten years in which to make water
payments and providing for graduated
payments. Friends of the bill think
1t is dead for this session.
Five indictments charging viola
lions of the rebate provisions of the
Interstate commerce law were re
turned by a federal grand jury al
North Yakima, Wash, against Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana railway
companies, and the Potlatch Lumber
company of Palouse, Wash.
Mrs. ]. F. Parsons, business WON.
an of Elko, New. was arrested in Salt
Lake City on telegraphic order from
Ukiah. Cal. According to the police
the charge upon which the woman Is
wanted involves an alleged financial
irregularity in connection with a deal
OF several thousand dollars.
Reports submitted at the annua;
meeting at Spokane, of the trustees of
the North Pacific Fruit Distributors
association showed that in 1913 fruit
growers in the Pacific northwest had
shipped 1858 cars of fruit and 1,l25
OF potatoes and had derived from their
sale a grand total of $3,069, 1886. Apples
brought an average price of $126 2ep
box.
Prominent Utah and Wyoming can.
nalists filed incorporation papers last
week for the Rio Virgin Lands com
pany and announced that they had
under way project of some 1000
acres near Littlefield, Ariz., and about
forty-five miles from Carp, New, the
nearest railroad station on the Salt
Lake Route. Water for irrigation will
be taken from the Rio Virgin river
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reclamation service for a reduction
In the price of lands in order to pro
mote an influx of settlers. the price OF
lands in the Tieton and Mabton rec
lamation projects in Washington
have been cut in half and 10 years al
lowed for payment.
Frank C. Bright, alias Frank Berger
who has been in the city hospital at
Seattle since the night of April &c
| when he was shot while TRYING to es