The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-05-07
INLAND NORTHWEST


tional, New.
wool clip aggregating approx
mately 10000 pounds, was reported
sold at Draper, Utah, last week. fol
rs cents a pound
The cost to the United States gov
eminent to land in Jail Tse-Ne-yat
Indian wanted for alleged murder, in
southern Utah, was approximately
$4,000.
The estate OF the late w. Fl. ban
croft, vice president of the Oregon
Short Line and the Salt Lake Route
is estimated at from s1,5O0.0O0 to
$500, 900.
A total Of s1,152.00o is the amour;
estimated by the board OF education OF
Salt Lake as needed 10 meet the ex-
penses of the public school system fol-
the coming school year.
Five thousand, two hundred and
eighty marriage licenses were issued
in Utah in 1914 and S72 DEGREES foa
divorce, both interlocutory and final
were granted.
the Yellowstone park for the 1915 sea.
son. arrangements have been made to
transport the park employees to the
national reserve early in June.
Harry Brandon, an American refu.
gee from Mexico, who reached Ogden
last week. said he was worth $31, 900
at the time Madero was killed, but
did not have cent when he left Mex
ice March %.
Establishment of the executive Of
fees of the reclamation service at
Denver, Colo, with Sydney A. Will
hanson, chief of construction, in
charge, is formally announced by sec
rotary Lane.
Prominent mining men from all
parts Of the state attended a meeting
Of the Nevada Mine Owners associa-
ton at Reno last week, a large
amount OF business before the associa-
ton being disposed Of
The Nevada Short Line railway, the
narrow gauge road which runs from
Mcneil, on the Southern Pacific, to the
Rochester Mines company mill at
Lower Rochester. is to be completed
in the near future.
After covering about 100 miles of a
proposed hike" to Washington. d. G.,
Emma Emmertson of Ogden and Elsie
Christensen of Lentz, Ore. deaf girls,
who were students at the state school
at Ogden, have abandoned their plan
and returned home
There should be 10000 tourists at
least to visit in Salt Lake on the way
to the coast in automobiles this year.
according to G. T. Bindbeutel, editor
of Motor Print. Mr.. Bindbeutel esti-
mates that there will be 10000 go to
the expositions in automobiles.
Pittsburgh capitalists are in the
west to inspect the coal mines and
coal lands OF Utah and Wyoming with
a view to erecting coke ovens In Utah
to make fine foundry coke for con-
sumption on the Pacific coast and in
the foundries of the intermountain
country
Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davis Ste
gal, who shot and killed Jack Whyte.
Industrial Workers of the World Or
ganizer at Tonopah, several months
ago. took his own life. according to
adyices received from Tonopah. Re
morse over the Staying OF Whyte il
believed to have affected StegaPs
mind.
Eastern wool buyers who have been
in Nevada since the beginning OF the
spring shearing are not reporting sue.
cess. There seems to be deadlock
between the buyers and the sheepmen
in the eastern part of the state, and
all because of the poor price the
sheepmn received for their product
last year when they sold early.
Habeas corpus proceedings on be |
half Of zee Foo Lun, Chinese herbal I
LIST, serving ninety-day sentence in
the county jail at Salt Lake, for prac (
ticing medicine without a license /
have been instituted in the district
court by Lun's attorney. The consti
nationality of the law under which 4
4un was convicted is challenged.
The Pacific Livestock company has
brought suit against the Nevada Tax
commission, county auditors and as
SCISSORS OF Humboldt and Washoe
counties, praying for judgment in the
sum of s7.021.60, and costs of suit. II
BEING charged that the tax commits.
ZION had unjustly increased assessed
Taluations of the company's lands.
A case of murder was the statement
II the police, after they made an in.
Iestigation into the strange death OF
fordon Taylor, aged 80 years. of Ru.
'ert. Idaho. His body was found on
he Northern Pacific tracks east Of
suite. A companion who was seen
'us'lng him by the arm and who was
aiking to him in an angry voice a
hort time before the body was hit by
train. is being sought.
Only few hours after his release
rom the federal penitentiary at Nc
'ehss island Samuel Bridges former