The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-04-02
INLAND NORTHWEST

Governor boyle OF nevada mas
signed the fish bill making 1t unlaw-
full to sell or offer for sale trout less
than fifteen inches long
Women will serve on city election
boards at Reno during the election OF
May 4, according to a decision an
nounced by the city council.
The section house at Bliss, New,
six miles east of Winnemucca, was
robbed of clothing and supplies val
ued at about $3.50. 1t is supposed to
have been the work of hoboes.
AS a result of inability to get de-
sired freight rates, members of the
Utah Gamers association have I'm.
animously agreed to curtail the pro
duction of canned tomatoes so per
cent.
Notice of divorce proceedings has
been served on w. NJ. Donovan, man
ager of the New York American base
ball club. The suit was filed 81 g emo,
New. Mrs. Donovan charges Ronsup-
port.
Osteopaths are physicians under
the strict meaning of the word, and
as such are entitled to prescribe
opium and other narcotic drugs, ac-
cording to an opinion given by the
attorney general of Oregon.
At the second annual meeting of
the Nevada Cattle Owners associa-
ton at Reno all of the incumbent ex.
ecutive officers were reelected to Of
f0,- hn IN Tho
secretary's report showed member
ship of 1872.
Mrs. Thomas A. Harrell, 26 years
old, wife of rancher living near Ell
Iensburg, Wash, was killed when she
| jumped from buggy and fell over a
seventy-fvefoot cliff when the horses
| her husband were driving became
| frightened at two automobiles racing.
Thirty-one men were arrested at
! Gresham, Ore, in a raid on a cockpit.
! A score of dead cocks, apparently
freshly killed while fighting in the
pits, were found, and dozen live
ones were seized with long steel
spurs attached to their legs in prep
aration for further bouts.
A. B. Cook, formerly a real estate
broker at Salem, Ore, and who was
recently arrested at New York and
brought back to answer several
charges of forgery, pleaded guilty to
obtaining money by false pretenses
and was sentenced to term of from
one to five years in the penitentiary.
N P Birch, an Industrial Worker
of the World street speaker, who
sought to test the ordinance against
the use of abusive language at street
meetings in Seattle by appealing from
a $40 fine assessed in police court,
was found guilty of disorderly con-
duct by a jury in the superior court
The body of Wallace Webb, aged
46, freight checker, was found on
pier at Seattle, where he had for
wound in the head showed the man.
ner of death Webb had shot Mrs
Clara Robinson in the jaw, infiicting
serious wound, and had eluded the
police.
The great pipe organ of the Nor
the most widely known instruments
in the country, is out of service and
cannot be used again for several
months. The pipes, made of native
woods before a railroad entered
Utah, are intact, but the mechanism
must be replaced.
Organization of saloon porters al
Billings, Montana, and a demand thai
only union men shall be employed il
that capacity is the object of an agi
tation which has been begun by Bill
lings labor leaders. The movement i!
said to be the first step in an or
ganized effort to eliminate Japanese
J from the industrial situation in east
ern Montana.
The killing of Berdeen Peterson
aged "a, by Miss Olga Aagetvedt
: aged 81, at Stanwood, Wash, was &C
cidental coroners jury found. Tes
timony showed that Peterson, whit
had Tilted the girl, was trying t.
} leave her when she attempted t
, shoot herself. He tried to take tn,
: pistol from her and during the scuff
, was shot through the head.
The Idaho legislature has amende,
the law regulating bounties by tn
state for the determination of preda
tory animals. County commissioner
are directed by the act to levy spe
cial tax of mills on the dollar o
t the assessed valuation of sheep and
7 mill on the dollar each for cattle
$ hogs and horses, to be collected a
taxes and kept as separate fund t
| defray the expenses of paying bour
t ties
After one of the most strenuou
days of the entire session the twenty
seventh session of the Nevada legisls
: ture adjourned sine die long afte
! midnight, March 10.
: The teachers pension bill passe
the Nevada legislature. 1t has had
> narrow escape, having been table