The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-08-28
NORTHWEST NOTES

threatens to eliminate in open war
fare as the result of the murder of |
johnny Lancaster, one of the leaders OF
the tribe.
The work OF equipplng engines on
the salt Lake division of the Southern
Pacific with nitrogen lamps is pro
crossing at the rate of one engine per
day, and will be continued until prac-
tically all of them have been 30
equipped.
Inquiries received concerning the
1914 Elko rodeo set for September z,
and 8 next, have already demons
trated that throughout the state there
Is a keen interest in the cowboy
frontier show.
Acting on orders from the Califor-
mia railroad commission, the Nevada
California-Oregon railroad will restore
the day passenger service and elimr
nate the night train service which
was recently established.
| Mrs Johanna Dawson, who had
been held in Jail at Portland as ma.
| terial witness since her husband died
of strychnine poisoning July Is, has
been realised. the grand jury return
| ing a report generating her.
Fire which had its origin in the
acetyline lighting plant of the Fair
view hotel for a time threatened the
destruction of the entire lower town
of Fairview Nevada, and resulted In
| ~ ohn
George Gibson, an ex-convict, twice
sentenced to the penitentiary from
Goldfeld, and now out on parole, was
i arrested at Reno on a warrant charg:
n ing him with disturbing the peace,
and may be sent back to prison.
i DR.. w. s. Wilcox of Verdi, Nevada,
i was seriously injured and narrowly es-
capped death when his automobile sud
denly jumped the road at the junction
of the Verdi road and the Orr ditch
ment.
The gathering of exhibits from Ne
vada for the San Francisco and San
Diego fairs has been halted by mem
bers of the faculty of the state uni
versity ON account of the tying up OF
the funds appropriated for that pur.
pose.
Thomas McQueeney and James
Doyle, said to be two members of the
trio of bandits who during the pas
month have perpetrated some of the
most daring robberies of the year il
Salt Lake have been arrested al
. Butte.
Mrs William Britt, formerly resi-
dent of Salt Lake, is missing Wher
her husband last heard from her She
l was in Salt Lake and the focal police
have instituted a search for her at thu
instigatien of her husband who is nov
in Victor, Colo.
A large force OF government engi
neers is working on the roads in thu
Yellowstone park, preparing for tn,
: roadbuilders. Five miles of macad
!. amixing will be made this fall, and
' is thought the government will con
/ tinue the work next spring.
e Steve Koski, an Austrian miner
G became SO excited after shooting an
killing his wife at Kemmerer, Wye
that he dropped his weapon as he fl
0 ed the second shot. The contact wit
! the sidewalk exploded the gun, tn
bullet passing through his neck. H
suffered serious wound
The coming election at Pocatell
On the question of issuing bonds TO
purchasing or establishing munich
s al water system and also to proyid
n funds for other improvements seem
y TO be attracting such little atentio
J, that there is danger of all bond prof.
d ositions being defeated from apathy
Methods employed by the Utah Stat
2 prison in working convicts on stat
9 other public improvements with col
L vict labor will soon be studied by
:, special commission representing tn
!, United states department of agricu
: ture and the federal good road con
mission
The Oregon Short Line has prepal
ed to move the first shipment of crop
e, from Idaho Usually the heavy traffi
begins about September l and keep
UP for fifteen days, and then begiI
ming October l and ending Decembe
: rs the heavy movement of potatoe
J, and grain creates a great demand fc
?, refrigerator box cars.
,e Founder of the now fiourishir
:. city of Greeley, in Colorado, Henry
It West, 80 years Of age, and still in e
= cellent health, lives in Caldwell, Id
: no, with his children, grandchildre
: and great-grandchildren
Grading for the ten-stamp mill I
l the Golden Arrow Development cor
| pany on it's property in the Golde
4 Arrow district forty-seven mile
4 northeast of Goldfield, is under wa
= IN,