The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-30
INLAND NORTHWEST

Saturday, May /, was set aside
as Nevada Good Roads day by Gov
ernor Boyle in an official proclama-
| ton.
1t has been decided to open the Ne.
Vada racing season in Reno on July
10, and to continue it for a period OF
thirty days
After May ] the Oregon Short Line
will operate the twenty-mile branch
of the o. w. R. & N. from Juntura,
Ore, to Riverside, Ore
E. F. Baldwin, well known in Reno
for the last six or seven years as
correspondent of many eastern and
coast newspapers, died suddenly last
week.
| The sole Progressive in the United
States senate, Miles Poindexter Of
Washington, announced at Spokane
last week that he would seek re-elec-
ton on the Republican ticket.
John Maxi of Superior, Wyo., is
dead from wound in the ankle ae-
cidentally inflicted by Mann Lahti
while they were hunting. Maxi bled to
death. He is survived by widow and
six children.
An 11-year-old Japanese girl Of Ore
gon City, Ore, for the second time in
two months has demonstrated her
right to the title of champion speller
OF Clackamas county in her school
grade, the fifth
Twelve hours after his wife SUE
cumbed from the same cause, Albert
Bordeck, SO years old, a baker, died
at Seattle of ptomaine poisoning
which physicians said was caused by
eating canned soup.
What amounts almost to a dead
lock has arisen between Idaho wool
growers and eastern buyers, and as
a result little wool in either south
western Idaho or eastern Oregon is
changing hands.
Traffic arrangements have been IN
tered into between the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul and the oregon
Short Line to carry through passea-
gers from the Milwaukee to Yellow
stone National park.
4 ASAN - EAOQSn HOO4 III ElaD
county to clothe the entire state OF
Nevada, according to the Free Press.
/ Thousands of pounds of the fleece IS
being stored in Elko, not a single
pound having yet been sold or con
| tracted for.
Two daughters of Robert Robinson,
an orchardist, lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed their home near
Hood River, Ore. The victims were
Violet, aged Ia, and Ruth, aged I.
Robinson and his son were badly
burned in an effort to rescue the girls
Six foreign laborers who have been
working on the construction of the
field Ore, successfully passed it is al
legged more than $500 in forged checks
at various stores in North Bend and
Marshfield. Four of the men were
captured.
Mortoring will be permitted in Vel.
lowstone national park beginning An
gust l, Secretary Lane has announced
thus opening the last of the great
government reserves to automobiles
Control stations are to be established
at junction points throughout the
park to regulate traffic.
In quarrel over an invention
George Kapovick, an Austrian, was
shot and killed at Tacoma by Samue
Blaskovick fellow countryman
Each claimed to have exclusive rights
to an air paint brush, concerning
which they had been in communica,
ton with the patent office at Wash
ington.
1t is said that James H. Wallis, for
mer pure food commissioner and sani
tary inspector of idaho who was in
dicted by a grand jury At Boise on {
charge of violating the state law il
issuing certificates for salaries anC
drawing certificates On the wrong
funds, as appropriated by the legisla
ture, will go from Salt Lake to Boise
in the near future to plead to the in
dictments.
The body of Stephen Ranage, 6;
years old. wealthy and eccentric
bachelor who lived in cabin nine
miles south of Port Orchard, Wash.
was found lying face downward on the
floor of his lonely abode. He had been
murdered, the top of his head having
been blown off by charge of buck
shot.
The state tax commission of Wash
ington has ruled that 1915 taxes OF
stocks and liquor must be paid a
once. Ordinarily such taxes would
not be collectible until next year. bu
prohibition will go into effect Janu
airy 1, and it is taken for granted
that prudent liquor dealers will have
disposed of their stocks before tina
day.
81 knew from experience tina
whisky and ammunition mixed makes
trouble and wished to close thost
saloons so as to remove the on,