The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-07-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

are dying at an alarming rate.
President Wilson has nominated
William p. Cresson of Nevada, now
secretary OF the legation at Quito, to
be secretary OF the legation at Pan
anna
Accused Of having sold or provided
Indians with liquor, Alex Snyder and
Edward Foster were held by a justice
of the peace at Reno, to answer and
their bends were fixed at $500 each.
The train robber killed by a deputy
sheriff near Pendleton, Oregon, re
Gently has been proven not to be Hugh
Whitney, the Idaho Wyoming bad man
and bandit, but relative of Whitney's
by the name of Charles Manning.
John Ghiggieri, pioneer resident of
Reno, died last week at a Reno hos
pital after a long illness. Deceased
had resided in that district for nearly
half century and was known to all
the pioneers of the state He was a
native of Italy and was aged seventy
five years.
a. B. Claflin, senior member OF
the house of H. B. Clafiin & Com
pany, whose failure for $35, 900. 900
marked an epoch in the mercantile
history of the country, was at one
time an extensive mine operator in
Nevada and made money from invest
me9ts in Lincoln county.
Harold F. Henwood, under sentence
Of death for the killing of George e.
Copeland, was denied third trial by
the state supreme court of Colorado.
The death sentence imposed by the
lower court is affairmed and it is
ordered to be carried out the week
beginning October %, 1914.
Frank Burton, who introduced the
hunger strike in the jail in Tonopah,
failed to stick it out, the Bonanza
says, having begged for food after
several days of fasting. Burton's
temper has grown worse with the
effort and he is said to be making life
miserable for the other prisoners.
Joseph Smith, who lives four miles
south of Vale, Ore, was severaly in
Jured when he attempted to stop a
runaway team attached to dray that
was dashing down Main street He
was knocked down and one wheel
passed over his chest. His scalp was
gashed and he sustained other injur-
les.
A boy baby weighing eighteen
pounds has been born to the wife Of
Frank Moran of Butte, this being the
record weight infant of the state.
Mrs. Moran is of slight stature and
her husband, who quit the police force
recently, was known as the "littIe
man OF the force. He was the young
est cop.
The big match race at McDermitt.
New, between Angel Aboitis' "Chief.
and Tim Mills "Baldy Bears" a Tor
dan valley horse, was won by the lat
ter. The race was quarter-mile dass
1or $1,000 a side. There was heavy
betting and it is said that between
$4,000 and $4,000 changed hands as A
result of this race.
Delegates from the eleven Rocky
mountain states, including the govern
ors of these commemorative VIII
gather at the first western CONNER
oial congress at Sacramento, Cal. SEN
TENDER 10 to is, to discuss changes.
economic and political which win he
wrought In the western country by the
opening of the Panama canal.
w. A. Casselman is held at vale
Ore, in default of $1,000 bail for rob.
berry In connection with the mysterious
disappearance of Harry Hill at Nyassa
whose nat was found on the river
Dank after he had been in the com
pany OF suspicious characters who arc
supposed to have robbed him and
thrown MS body in the Snake river.
Aided by the officials of the forestrv
service, the stockmen of Nevada. mar.
ticularly In the Humboldt national fo--
est, are investigating the cause of
ueath OF twenty-five head of cattle in
the eastern part of the forest To
avoid further losses sheep are being
grazed exclusively in the locality
where the cattle have died.
Theresa Hackett, an actress and
singer, who say she was left penniless.
and was obliged to abandon her in.
fant to her former husbands parents
when ne left Denver, has appeared tc
claim her boy who was placed under
their protection by the courts Mrs
Hackett says she now receives q
large salary and is able to care for
her child.
The log drive for the Kemmerer
Coal company is all in and the yards
at Frontier are piled high with the
10000 pieces of props and sawlogs
This is a sufficient number of logs to
last for two years and there will he
no more cut this winter.
Andrew Blomstrom, As years of age
was instantly killed when he fell
from crane forty feet in the air
landing on his head, at the smelta,
power house at Anaconda ,r4