The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-02-02
INLAND NORTHWEST


Three men were burned to death
and fourth received serious injuries
in fire that Quilted hotel in Port
land.
A night school for the education
of aliens who desire to become nat
uralized has been organized at KEN.
merer, Wyo.
The Oregon senate adopted me-
mortal urging congress to submit a
national woman's suffrage amend
ment to the voters Of the nation.
AS a result of the fuel famine that
now is general throughout Nevada, re-
ports come from various parts of the
state that the schools will be closed.
A lot has been donated for a
church at Goodsprings, Nevada, and
Bishop Hunting will at once purchase
material for the building, which will
be frame structure.
The strike called at Seattle last
March by the Puget Sound Steam
boatmens association, to enforce the
closed shop principle, has been aban-
doned by the strikers.
The Nevada assembly held two ses-
sions last week without single bill
being presented at either session,
breaking all previous records for lack
of introduction Of bills.
Floods along the Madison river
made it necessary for the Northern
Pacific railroad to route all overland
trains through Helena last week in
stead of by way of Butte.
In a measure presented to the Me-
vada legislature a state highway
board is created. The measure pro-
vides for an appropriation of $150,000
and tax of two mills on every dol
lar.
Chris Evans, former leader of the
EvansS ontag gang of outlaws in Cali
fornia, has been committed to the
'Multnomah county, Oregon, poor
farm at his own request. lie is 20
years old.
A movement has been begun in
Lyon county, Nevada, to organize a
post of Spanish War veterans. 1t is
believed there are enough veterans
of the war with Spain in the county
to make this possible.
The thirty-seyen members of the
lower house of the Nevada legisla-
ture voted to man in favor of the
measure providing for a semi-monthly
payday. 1t is expected the measure
will not have such smooth sailing in
the senate.
Senior Gumaro Villaloba, member
of the Mexican cabinet, occupying
the portfolio of secretary for mines,
spent several days in Toncpah last
week inspecting the fiotation machine
invented by A. HI. Jones, superintend-
ent of the Belmont mill.
By mile of ice in the meadows
between Logan and Three Forks.
Butte was cut off from all through
traffic on the Northern Pacific rail
road as result of the cold weather
freezing the overflow from the ice
jam in the Madison river.
Clifford Thomas, who was brought
back to Elko from Detroit, Mich.
pleaded guilty in the Elko district
court to charge of embezzling mon
ey from the Western Pacific at Deeth
last fall The penalty is from one to
ten years in the state prison.
The deficiency caused by the at
tempted enlistment of two troops Of
| Nevada cavalry last summer. follow
ing the call of the president for sol
diers for duty on the border, will be
paid off If a measure presented to the
| Nevada legislature receives the APP
prevail of the lawmakers.
Walter Dixon, arrested at Winnie
mucca on charges of robbing the safe
| In meat market there and later set
ting fire to the store, as a eonse-
| quence of which almost an entire
business block was laid in ashes, has
confessed to robbing the safe of the
Ely Meat company about year ago.
In a suit for $4,000 damage, Elisha
Williams, a Southern Pacific block
signal maintainer, AYERS that he was
| riding along the track on his gasoline
car when vicious dog kept by the
railroads section men at Comas sta
ton, New, chased and overlook the
car and suffered injuries which con-
fine1 him to hospital for three
months.
Harry Loisis, "a years old, was al
most instantly killed by huge rock
rolling down a frozen embankment in
the Eureka pit of the Nevada Consol-
idated Copper company at Ely. New,
and Harry Stathos. 81 years old, was
found in the eSrly morning hours
with both legs cut off alongside the
track in the converter building of the
same company.
The lower house of the Oregon leg
islature is intending to amend the
sailor boarding house law so that
American vessels will be placed on a
parity with foreign vessels in securing