The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-07-28
INLAND NORTHWEST

Oregon coast artillery reserves, are at
Fort Stevens, Ore, for their annual
encampment and drill.
C. E. Foley, Tonopah miner, lost
his life at the Tennessee mine as the
result Of a cavein of tailings upon
which he was working.
There is a strong probability that
part of the 100000 voted for expert
ments in underground water deposits
by congress will be devoted for use
in Utah and Nevada.
The auto traffic to and from Vel
lowstone park has thus far been al
most double that o. year ago, no
less than eleven states having been
represented during the past week.
Ernest Ythevebide, sheepherder,
was accidentally drowned in res
ervoir on a ranch near Golconda, Ne
vada. He was in bathing with two
companions and got beyond his depth.
Speed Barnes is being held at Gold
field on the charge of shooting j. w.
Dunfee, twenty-one buckshot entering
Dunfee's body. most of them lodging
in his breast and arms, one hitting
| him in the knee and one in the ankle
! The injured man will recover.
A reward of $500 has been offered
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the person or per
sons who dynamited the home of j
E. VOORHEES,, chief power man for the
Nevada Consolidated Copper company
! at Ruth, Nevada, on the morning o.
July Ia.
1t is reported that Elko county, Ne
vada, spent nearly hundred thou
sand dollars on her roads in the las
year The amount has been expend
ed in many ways, but mostly for la
Dor in making ew roads, improving
the old ones, building bridges and put
ting in culverts.
The Pacific coast representative o
one of the largest moving pictur
film distributors in America was Il
Reno last week to take pictures of II
dustrial, social, agricultural, min1n
and educational features of Nevada
Approximately 5000 feet Of film wi
be made to show Nevada's manifol
activities.
John Stringer, wel[known pionee
resident and candidate for couI
ty coroner Dn the Republican tickle
committed suicide in his rooms a
Kemmerer, Wyoming, by taking pc
son. Stringer was alone in the worl
and had been respondent since tn
death of his wife several month
ago.
Isaac Bullock, IS years of age,
, resident of Lone Tree, Wyo., and tn
first white child born in Wyomin
died at Ogden, Utah, where he wa
, visiting, on July 49, Mr. Bullock Wa
prominently identified with the Gait
industry in Wyoming and was one
the earliest members of the Wyomlr
Cattlemen's association.
Chief of Police Evans of Tonopa
is anxious to find the owner of b
wagon and TWO horses that wei
= found outside of the Campbell-Kel
foundry. The wagon was filed to C
: pacity with aluminium castings, bus
: ings, babbit metal and steel billet
The thief is supposed to have bee
! scared away and left his team.
V. E. Postell and D. E. McCaul'
were arrested at the Butte basebS
9 park Sunday on charges of betting I
the Butte-Seattle ball games. The {
. rests are the first to be made in Mo
tana on this charge, it is believe
, and are the result OF determinati'
i on the part of the local baseb;
team to put an end to baseball ga
bling.
! For the first time in the history
western railroads the Oregon She
q Line and the Oregon Washingt
Railroad & Navigation company, uni
Q of the Union Pacific system, will
: sue mileage books to the traveli
T. public, good between Portland a
9 Seattle and all intermediate points
y both roads east OF Granger and S;
Lake.
The old court house at Genoa
o rada, has been sold at auction by t
y ounty commissioners of Dougl
8 county, to the Genoa school distri
/ for the sum of $3.50. The building
! comparatively new and cost the col
g ty considerable sum, but since
J. county seat has been moved to M
II den, there has been no use for
IS buildings for county purposes.
3 Settlers living on lands entered
h Idaho under the Carey act won
IT cisive victory Saturday over wat
T, ompanies operating in this sta
r when the supreme court declared til
water could not be withheld from
n project because of failure of entrym
10 to pay the principal and interest
IA water contracts.
It The Grand lodge of negro Maso
of Washington and Oregon, in sessi
70 at Spokaa ne. voted to begin the er,
e ton of a home for the old and
d pendent members ON a 40-acre trs
d of land twenty miles from Portlal