The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-07-23
INLAND NORTHWEST

1t Is estimated that $4,000 visitors
were in Seattle Monday night on ac-
count OF the forty-hrst annual Inn
perial council Of the mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine.
Rabbits are so numerous in Reese
river valley, Nevada, that plans are
talked OF for movement OF some
kind to reduce their number by about
10000 during the month Of August.
Cecil Thompson, wealthy Tonopah
pioneer and partner of George Wing
field, the Goldfield millionaire, when
their combined capital amounted to
S1.92, is dead at his home in Los An
geles on July Is.
The voters Of Washington Will have
an opportunity at the fall election of
1916 to register approval or disap-
prevail Of seven measures passed by
the last legislature, upon which the
referendum was invoked
Richard Grant, aged 81, was found
dead in his saloon, at Pinedale, Wye.
His skull had been split with an axe
and his body hacked in score of
places. The safe OF the saloon and
the cash register had been rified.
The camp OF the biological survey
near Newcastle, Wyo., was swept
away by cloudburst Ralph G. Du-
sell Is reported drowned and Others
We're marooned in trees. The party
was engaged in DISCRIMINATING prairie
dogs.
According to the water resources
branch OF the United States geologi-
cal survey, the effect of the light
snowfall throughout Utah and Ne
yada last winter is becoming appar-
ent in the diminishing flow OF the
different streams,
Colonel Alden J. Blethen, for near
~ twenty years editor and publisher
OF the Seattle Times, died at his
home at Seattle last week OF CON-
plication of diseases, following an i'll
ness OF many months. He was 6S
years Of age.
Two masked men, each armed with
Two guns, held up a saloon at Tono.
pah and secured $500 from the gam
bling game they interrupted. from the
cash register and from the pockets of
sixteen men, whom they forced to
lace the wall with hands up.
Chester A. Dickey, former clerk in
the Corvallis (Oregon) State bank.
pleaded guilty in the circuit court last
week OF having embezzled $1,49o Of
the banks funds. He was sentenced
70 the penitentiary for an indeter-
inmate term of one to ten years.
Tse-Na-Gat, Piute Indian renegade
whose trial at Denver for the muir
uer or Juan Chacon, an obscure Mex
lean sheepherder, In the wilderness
OF southwestern Colorado in March
1914, stirred nationwide interest. Is
Tree to return to his native desert.
The Humboldt river in Nevada is
now practically dry in certain locali-
ties, where last year there was 4
large surplus over ali requirements.
Inc water shortage is not as pro.
nounced generally throughout Nevada
as II Is in the Humboldt drainage re-
gion,
samuel krasner, once active in pol
itics at Portland, but RECENTLY con.
vlcted in the federal court Of white
slavery, after being brought from
view Orleans where he was arrested
on a federal warrant, was sentenced
70 serve eighteen months In the men
itentiary.. pon-
Inc frst act Of vandalism in con
nection with the trip OF the Liberty
bell occurred between Pendleton
Ore, and Walla Walla. Bows stand.
ing on high bank by the side Of the
track threw rocks at the bell and ono
mt squarely but apparently did not
damage 1t.
Inc state law providing statutory
provisions for the enforcement 81
statewide prohibition in Colorado
cannot be referred to the voters. AZ.
cording to an opinion handed down by
Attorney General Fred Farrar. The
opinion was rendered on the request
OF J. e. Kramer, secretary of state.
After being compelled to stay in
their cabin two nights and a day by
an insane man who threatened to de-
stroy them with their own shotgun.
Z. Muldoon and partner were liberat
ed by the arrival OF Sheriffs Ferrel
OF Washoe and Stern of Ormsby
county. Nevada, summoned by Mul-
doom who managed to sneak out Of
the cabin and make his way to a tele-
phone.
William Anderson, alias Tip Sell
widge, who escaped June % from a
salt Lake hospital, where he was re-
covering from an ugly cut across the
throat, alleged to have been inflicted
at the county jail by Gregorios Polo
seorgi. who was being held there on a
charge of assault with deadly wea-
pom on Leonidas Skliris, Greek labor
agent, has been arrested at Great
Falls, Mont.
Adrian G. Wheeler. better known