The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-05-14
INLAND NORTHWEST

Migrants gathered in by the poiice
at Reno are being put to work on tne
streets, the usual sentence peins s'A
days.
William Chattin, president and gen
eral manager of the Union LUMBER
company, who was shot Sunday nisn''
died Monday at Portland
Big Bill Wheeler, arrested at Keno
on the charge OF having attempted -
kill Dan Brown, an indian, by cutting
his thriat, has been released from Gus
tody on bail.
Franklin NJ LeMonn, former man
ager of the United States CASHIER
company of Portland, who was indict
ed for fraud, has been brought Dack
from Toledo for trial.
BY proclamation of President Wood
row Wilson. under date of April Il,
1915, approximately AGO acres oil lana
included in the Cache national forest
reserve are restored to entry In the
states of Utah and Idaho.
The Idaho forest was, other than
the wyoming, the only one in district
4 In which lodgepole cones were
gathered in large quantities last fail.
Nearly all were secured from squirrei
boards and stored at the Thorn creek
ranger station.
President Wilson has ordered the
creation of naval petroleum reserve
No. 8, comprising 9,4S1 acres OF land
in Natrona county, Wyo. No wells
have yet been drilled in this area, but
experts believe the new reserve Will
prove a productive source of fuel oil
for the navy.
Validity of the Wolstenholme PAN
dering law, adopted at the last SEES
sion of the legislature, will be tested
in the district court at Salt Lake and
in order to determine whether its stat
utory construction is not ambiguous
and misleading, it may be taken also
to the supreme court.
Not discouraged by the removal of
Ogden from the Lincoln highway, the
business men of Ogden have laid plans
for a strenuous campaign to induce
transcontinental automobile travellers
to come to ogden and continue west
ward by the Midland trail through Box
Elder county and northern Nevada.
In the federal district court at Port
land, Judge Bean sustained demur-
rer to the indictment against Carlos
Byron, Seattle timber dealer, and
Frank e. Alley, an attorney of Rose
burg, charging them with fraud in con-
nection with applications for stone
and timber claims in southern Oregon.
Three governors, two former gov
ernors of Idaho, four United States
senators, one former senator, con-
gresham and numerous legislators
and state officials, participated in the
opening at Lewiston, Idaho, of the
canal, probably the largest gathering
of officers of that rank that has ever
assembled in any inland empire. city.
A movement that has for it's object
the transfer by the federal govern
ment of all public lands in the west
ern states to the states, or, if this can
not be accomplished, the adoption by
the government of more liberal regu-
lations relative to passage of public
domain into private ownership, has
been inaugurated by Robert P. Ervien,
public lands commissioner of New
Mexico.
The duty of water Investigations
carried on in Idaho by the government
expert, Don H. Bark, have attracted
such wide attention that Oregon in
vestigators are determined to have
similar investigation before several of
their large irrigation projects are
launched.
Mrs. Carolina Rowe, aged Al, cham
bermaid in hotel in Seattle, was
found dead in a room in the hotel.
with bullet wound in the left tenn
pie. The police say the woman was
murdered. They are seeking joseph
Potono, who came from Canada
month ago.
Thomas R. Smart, charged with
Fleeing 500 persons in Colorado, Kan
sas and Oklahoma. who forfeited a
ball bond of $1,000 at Idaho Falls,
Idaho, after he had been arrested as a
result of investigations started by
Roy e. Nelson, postoff1ce inspector of
Denver, is in jail at Spokane
Cora Wilmington, negro girl, has
been arrested at Tonopah with a COM
plete opium smoking layout in her
possession. 1t is said that the girl,
who is unusually intelligent, became
addicted to the drug habit through
evil companions and that she is will
ing to remain in custody of the gov
eminent until she had been broken of
the habit
Gilmore Cosgrove was arrested at
Reno on advice from Hawthorne that
ne mad broken into safe there and
stolen several hundred dollars worth
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