The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-03-05
INLAND NORTHWEST

aggregating $4,000. Seven firms suf-
fered losses
Appropriations made by the Oregon
legislature OF 1918, including continu-
ing appropriations and fees, totalled
$7,735,921.6S, while for this biennium
will total about $7,64S,04e.
Joseph Booker, an inmate OF the
clubhouse at the smith mill, near
Marshfeld, Ore, when it took fire
February IS and was destroyed with
the loss of seven lives, was arrested
at Wagner, 20 miles away and is held
as material witness.
One hundred thousand rose bushes,
enough If planted together to make
hedge 56 miles long, were set out IN
the gardens of Portland residents and
In street parkings one day last week,
as a result of a city beautiful cam
paign recently inaugurated.
The Oregon legislature has adj
journed. The workmen's compensa-
ton act, which was the principal rock
on which the two branches had
strained, retained intact as finally
supported it's membership of three,
including Miss Fern Hobbs, former
secretary to Governor West.
Three little children were burned
to death at farm near Alderton,
Wash. Jack Chorak and Mrs. Chorak,
parents OF the children, left the three
tots playing in the kitchen and went
to the barn to attend to milking the
cows. When they returned the house
was in flames and rescue impossible.
The passage of a law abolishing
the juvenile court of Denver and d.
verting its work to the district courts
has been agreed upon at Republican
caucus of the Colorado house of rep
resentatives. The effect of the meas
ure would be to eliminate the posi-
ton now held by Judge Ben B. Lind
sey.
The house of the Montana legisla-
ture concurred in the senate amend
ment to the legislative referendum
statewide prohibition bill, fixing the
date when the law shall become eff
fectiye at December 81, 1913 Only
necessary now to put the question up
to a vote of the people in the 1915
election.
Richard Imento, the crippled section
hand from Montana who shot and
killed Charles o. Dryden and R. E..
Patton, Northern Pacific clerks, at
Seattle, because of grievance he had
against their employer for failure to
be compensated for loss of his leg, is
dead from bullet wounds inflicted by
tured him.
Following the lead of the house, the
Montana senate has adopted a report
of a standing committee recommend
ing bill abolishing race track gamb.
ling. The senate also passed a saloon
closing law, the hours during which
they may be open being from a. m.
to IL midnight.
Fishing in the Narrows west of Point
Defiance, oliver d. Clarke hooked an
octopus or devil fish that put up a
vicious fight, throwing its long arms
or tentacles around the bottom of the
boat and nearly capsizing it. The &C.
topus weighs 144 pounds and it's eight
arms measure nine feet in length MAX
ing a spread of more than 20 feet.
Although the Oregon house of rep
resentatives, by holding night ses-
sions, limiting debate, slaughtering
what were pronounced unimportant
bills in committee, and withdrawing
others, had succeeded last week in
disposing of 420 of the AIS bills in
troduced in that body, more than fifty
appropriation bills remain to be intro.
duced.
An answer has been filed in the dis
tirct court at Butte to the suit of Pres
ident Charles Fl. Meyer and other Of
ficers of the Western Federation of
Miners against officers of the Butte
local to regain control of the local, al
legged that Meyer hired gunner when
he came to Butte last June, and that
the local organization was forced to
pay them.
Summer and Albert Lakes in Lake
county. Oregon, will be the scene i'm.
mediately of the Inauguration of a
$7,OO0,000 development project, as the
result of the ratification by the legis-
lature of a lease of those bodies of
water to Jason c. Moore and asso-
ciates of New York, for the saving of
valuable mineral deposits which their
waters contain
The Oregon Short Line has. during
the past two weeks. been storing
gravel and all other material needed
to check the flood water, which usual.
ly results in a great loss to the COM
pany in the canyon just west of KEN.
merer, Wyo. On the sidings at the
stations of Fossil and Nugget is stored
two trainloads of this material. to he
used in case of need.
Death claimed another of the Mo.
neers of western Wyoming when
Charles Rathbun succumbed to heart
failure at Kemmerer last week. Mr.
Rathbun was 60 years Of age and nnA
been i'll only two days.