The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-11-10
INLAND NORTHWEST

Nathan ingram, resident OF GRAY
ell Ford district, near Marshfield. Ore,
was shot and killed by accident while
hunting.
A steady decrease in crime in Ore
gon is noted in the biennial report Of
John Mimic, warden OF the penitenti-
airy, filed with the state board of cor.
troll.
A new high record for the north
west was made on the Portland grain
exchange last week. when spot blue
stem wheat bids tovched $3.50 per
bushel
The returns from alfalfa pastured
hogs OF the Truckee-Carson reclama
ton experiment farm in 1915 were
much larger than could be expected
from alfalfa made into hay.
Raymond McCreary, II years old.
died in Reno from a gunshot wound
inflicted in his room at the Arlington
hotel in Carson City, where he had
been employed for several months.
C. c. Chambers. picturesque char.
acter Of Goldfeld, a member of the
/. w. W., and an orator Of ultra-so-
cialist persuasion, is in jail at Gold
field, charged with assault with intent
TO kill.
John P. Oleson, Chicago. has pur-
chased for 100000 an Oregon tim
her tract embracing about two bill.
lion feet Of lumber The land lies in
Tillamook. Washington and Lane
counties.
A new Odd Fellows lodge was in
stituted at Miller's, New, last week,
with an initial membership Of Is. The
ceremony was conducted under the
direction of Sam Kelso Of Hawthorne,
grand master for this state.
The most important business of the
closing session Of the state federation
of women's clubs at Goldfeld. New,
was the selection of state president,
to which exalted office Mrs. Parais
B. Ellis of Carson City was elected.
The sanitary conditions in most o.
the milk depots supplying the city OF
Elko were found in an "execrable con.
dition" by Professor S. c. Dinsmore
of the University of Nevada, and In
spector Bulmer of the pure food de
partment.
After eight years without represen-
tation in the state legislature, the
voters of the southern end Of Nye
! county have put candidate in the
field for the coming election. i. B.
Perkins, a newspaper man, is the
| choice of the voters.
When a group of Indians of the Yin
| tab reservation assembled in western
| Mesa county, Colo, fortnight ago
| they were not engaged in marauding,
but were mourning the death of q
| chief, according to dispatches re
ceiYed from Grand Junction.
Since the establishment of the fed
eral reserve system there have been
no national bank failures in III,
Twelfth district, which includes thu
seven states west OF the Rocky noun
talns: Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Ore
gon, California, Washington and Ida
no.
Denver postoffice inspectors are
seeking to apprehend forgers Of pos
| tai money orders. Forged money or
ders have appeared in a number OF
western cities. it is said. Each order
is for SASS. Small merchants are
said to have been the victims OF the
forgers.
Counterfeit Indian head s. bank
notes, which appeared in Salt Lake,
Butte and other intermountain cities
six months ago after being in circula-
ton covering a period of more than
three years. were the product. it is
alleged, of H. R. Wilken, who is under
arrest at Los Angeles.
Harry Anderson. well-known Reno
| man, who had been studying aviation
at Redwood City for the last three
months and who qualified three days
previous, died in Redwood City as the
result of injuries received during the
morning when his plane collided with
a high tension wire and fell about
forty feet.
George Dugan Of Tonopah, reports
an exciting experience with q coyote
in a cowboy camp at Stone Cabin
where he spent the night. While the
boys were sitting around the camp
fire. smoking. chewing and spinning
yarns, a rabid coyote. evidently at
tracted by the CLEAN of the IRE, sud
denly leaped into their midst.
The claim of An Dor. Chinese pro
grietor of q restaurant at Cheyenne
that he was robbed of 500 by some
outsider who invaded the sleeping
quarters of the restaurant force. is be
ing probed by the police on the theory
thar the robbery. if a robbery was com
mitted. was the work OF one of the nu
merous Cinnamon employed at Al
DORIS place.
Due TO late frost last spring. which
killed early tomato plants. the tomato
pack in Utah this year lacks 80 per
cent of being normal When fros;
killed the plants in the spring, 3
smaller acreage was replanted, and as
result only $4,000 cases of "A cans
aarh have been hacked. The average