The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-03
NORTHWEST NOTES

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About sixty unemployed men, en-
route east from California. weres fed
at the expense Of Salt Lake City on
Monday and went on their way east
they appeared to be hungry and
caused no disorder.
Governor william Spry has been
chosen by the Western Governors ar
sociation to lead a two-day discussion
| of the question of state control OF state
resources before the conference OF
governors to be held in Madison, Wis.
| A proposed ad ance of about 10
per cent on transportation by express
4 Of carload shipments Of fruits and veg
| etables from California to Montana
and the east has been suspended by
| the interstate commerce commission
until July "a.
| A misunderstanding as to signals
| Is said to have caused one of the most
disastrous wrecks in the history OF
| the Nevada Northern, when two trains
crashed together near Ely, New. Five
| trainmen we're injured and two loco
motives partially wrecked
Charged with kidnapping her 6-year-
| old niece, Bette Edna Cole, from
| Asheville, N. c., Mrs. Bette Hutch1n-
son Tuesday was arrested at Moclips,
beach resort near Aberdeen, Wash,
| where she was working in a hotel to
support herself and the child.
Twenty-seven true bills, including
indictments against Mayor Stewart
and all councilmen of Copperfeld,
Ore, against whom charges were pre-
ferred by Governor West, following
| his crusade last January, were re-
/ turned by the grand jury.
Harry Porch, resident of Ely, New,
! during the boom days of 1907, said
| to be members of an alleged bunco
/ gang, which operated in Southern Cal
| ifornia, was brought to Salt Lake last
4 week by a detective and lodged in the
city jail. 1t is claimed that Porch has
been earning more than $4,000 in
the last three months
4 Washington, which ranks fifth In
the list of wheat producing states, is
expected to yield record breaking
crop this year, according to advices
from bank correspondents, railroad
experts and agents of grain handling
firms. This record is 52,728,000 bush.
els in 1912, last years crop being a
million and half bushels less.
j The state of Oregon will produce a
bumper crop of wheat this year. I'm
less all signs fail the yield will be a
record. Estimates just compiled
and based on reports from all districts
give an approximation of 100000
bushels as the probable 1914 wheat
i yield for Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, as against 56,0OO,OOO in 1918.
| That the ssrious sheep disease
known as "bighead," which, accord
ing to DR.. F. e. Murray, chief of the
United States bureau of animal indus
try, has caused losses in Utah, Idaho
Nevada and Wyoming, is superinduced
by sun and heat rather than locality,
is the statement made by DR.. H. J.
Frederick, veterinarian of the Utah
experiment station.
The body of Miss Rosanne Broulette
formerly of Boise and lately of Los
Angeles, was found cast up by the
sea near that city on March %. Miss
Broulett has been missing for two
weeks and the mystery of her disap,
pearance was only partially solved on
the finding of the body, as it is not
known whether death was due to sui
eide, accident or foul play
The Montana railroad commission
has telegraphed it's protest to the in
terstate commerce commission al
VIZ shington against rates proposed to
be put into effect April / by the Mil
waukee, and April 20 by the Northern
Pacific, on shipments of cattle ano
sheep from all points in Montana to
eastern markets. 1t is understood that
the Great Northern is preparing sim
liar tariff
William Sawyer, who died at Grand
Junction, Colo, recently, left his en-
tire estate of $4,000 to the Socialis
party upon the death of his sister. Ii
the will filed today small requests are
made to every Socialist newspaper
and the residue to the national exc
cutive committee of the party.
The taxes paid in the state of Ne
vada for the year 1918 by the West
ern Pacific Railway company amount
ed to $l25,175.21. The Western Pa
cific also paid wages in the state O
Nevada alone amounting to 1852.
S7919, $169,676.32 of which was pax
to residents of Winnemucca.
d. Bowman, Dale Mitchell and Geo
Hughes, prominent cattlemen in west
ern Colorado, were arrested at Gran,
Junction, Colo. on an indictmen
charging them with the murder o
Peter Swanson seven years ago. Swan
son was shot to death by band o
cowboys while guarding 1000 sheer