The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-17
NORTHWEST NOTES

The second annual tournaman,
the Northwest Bowling congress- OF
held at Portland last week ur,s, was
entry list assuring $4,000 n ~ an Z
and with forty-fve teams in actia ties
The state supreme court i
RADIO has issued a habeas corna. So'o-
Tor the release of Mother M 10y
Jones, now held as military nr,aa ary
In the coal strike zone at Wa,saaS ,oler
James G. Mcconnell, GO yaara
age, pioneer lumberman Of ro,ns y
and brother of Judge AIexandas a =.
Connell Of the supreme court - po ue-
sylyania, died Sunday at paea aa,
Springs, Colo Sosa
Mrs Catherine Pence, wife Of lao,
cite Pence, former represan.a.st
from Colorado in congress. was CO..
ed an interlocutory decree Of divosa
Dy the supreme court in BROOKLYN
Pence did not defend the suit
1t was an awful fall" remarroa
George Schultz when rescuing nart,.
found him after he fell 100 fet a.
a mine chute at Butte. He suffaras
a fractured leg, broken arm. masbod
chest and cuts on the head. He disS
two hours later.
A public utility commission, the mi
tiatiye and referendum, state Ioan.
on lands, an antipass law, president;al
primaries and a workingmen's com
pensation law are among the reforms
to be proposed for Wyoming in inc
campaign next fall.
1t is announced that a leagua ~
all the intermountain states viii ~
formed to promote immigration into
Utah, Idaho. Washington, Oregon
Montana, Wyoming and Nevada. The
plan was evolved by Major Reed com
missioner of immigration of Idaho
Governor Spry of Utah. in an al.
dress before the governors at Denver
declared that the fight for reclama.
ton of western lands is not politi-
cal one and no one political party
can be charged with the governments
failure to do what the west wants
Myrtle Teeples, the fifteen-year-old
daughter of Jacob Teeples of Goshen
Idaho, has preferred charges against
her father for assault Teeples be-
came angered at his daughter, it is
alleged, and during display of insane
temper, kicked her on the thigh with
heavy shoe.
Food and dairy inspectors of the
intermountain states, meeting at Salt
Lake last week, formulated general
rules regarding weights and measures
and labelling of food products to /,
which the commissioners of Utah,
Idaho, Nevada, Montana and Wyo.
ming subscribed.
1t has been reported at Blackfoot
Idaho, that large gray wolves have
been making raids on bands of cattle
pasturing on the foothills and on the
Fort Hall Indian reservation killing
a number. The wolves are said to
be the largest seen in that section
for number of years.
The Rev. Otis L. Sturgeon of Des
Moines, Iowa, who was kidnapped
from a Denver hotel and taken 10
the outskirts of town and warned
never to return, declares his face was
beaten and his body barred and
burned and he was thrown into the
weeds at the roadside and left to die.
Despite his protestations that he
was a graduate of Bellevue hospital
New York, and formerly practition'
er in Portland and Salt Lake, Dr
Charles Heimore was adjudged
vagrant and fined $500 at Butte.
roll of Confede@.e currency running
into $1.70O and crooked dice proved
his downfall
The condition of the winter wheat
crop at Pacific northwest points is the
best known at this period OF the year
Two hundred and sixteen grain deal
ers, millers and farmers reporting te
the Portland Journal under date OF
April /. gave the condition OF tne
winter wheat planting at an unusually
strong figure.
Three men were instantly killed
one was so badly hurt that he hVeu
only few minutes, anothers nose
Wdo pAOWu Oil anu LII &C OShSAS
less seriously injured by an explosion &
On the Dallas-Celilo canal Works
near Big Eddy, Ore, when a govern.
ment steamshovel struck "misseo
hole" and discharged TREMENDOUS
blast of dynamite.
Emil Malta is in jail at Butte on
robbery charge and Otto Korbi IS "
ing held by the police pending ah
in connection with tne
lold-up of Joseph Smith Wnep
Smith refused to give up his mones
the hold-ups tortured him by Mlss
ing his leg until his knee was ais
located and he was badly crlppieu
md writhed in pain.
The initial move to secure the UNI,
cooperation of the towns and cl.ies
II the lower Boise valley in an ellois
o obtain government aid in reclaim
ng the 10000 acres of fertile isnu
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