The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-08-03
INLAND NORTHWEST


body of Jack Moody, who met death |
by drowning at Moana Springs.
1.-THE l. w. W. situation is close to
normal in north Idaho" said A. C. |
Hindman, assistant attorney general, |
who returned to Boise from the north !
last week.
Charles Moran, president of the
Nevada, California. Oregon railway,
expects TO leave his home in New
York soon to engage in railway work
as a commissioned officer behind the
lines in France.
Three persons We're badly hurt and
IL less seriously injured when a pas
senger train on the Oregon-Washing-
ton Railroad 4 Navigation company's
line collided head-on with freight
train near Hindman, Ore.
A Seattle dispatch says the advance
guard of the countless millions of sock
eye salmon that viii enter the strait of
Fuca this year is passing in, and more
than 800 fishing boats are fishing off
Cape Flattery or lying in Neah bay
waiting for the big run.
To assure prevention Of a possible
coal shortage in the northwest, oper-
ators in the Pittsburg district have
been ordered by the national railway
war board to direct at least 80 per cent
of their product to luke points for re-
shipment to this territory.
The venerable elms on Carson street
| at Carson, Nevada, are being cut down,
| and the people are entering serious
objections. Asphalt paving is the ex
cuse for the destruction. 1t is said
the roots viii buckle up the pavement
unless the trunk is amputated.
George Wingfield. millionaire min
| ing man. banker and horse fancieA
charging extreme cruelty and asking
legal custody of both Wingfield chill
dren, filed suit for absolute divorce
In the district court of Reno last week
against Maude Murdoch Wingfield.
After listening to arguments on
demurrer filed by attorneys for Hulet
NJ. Wells, Sam Sadler, Aaron Fisher
man and r. +. Rice, charged with con-
spiracy to delay the execution of the
selective draft act, the case was taken
under Amusement by Judge Neterer ut
Seattle.
Rev. w. J. White, who went to Cali
fornia in 1S49 and two years later en-.
tered the Methodist ministry, died al
: Spokane last week, at the age of 8.
d years. For the last 80 years, unit
+ four years ago, he was engaged il
> missionary work in Washington an
northern Idaho.
a A new forage crop, said to be I
n more nutritive value than alfalfa ar
J. more fattening than clover, has bee
If discovered by A. r. Waldo, a HON
@ steader, near Sterling, Colo. The pla
1t has many-leaved stem in the for
e of spikes and is crowned by lari
a flower, not unlike clover and very fir
r grant.
A fire which started in the plano
e shed of the Grant Lumber compan
e at Harrison, Idaho, destroyed the Ell
: tire plant of the Grant Lumber con
e pany, the dry kiln of the Harriso
S Single company, and then spread t
t the business part of the town, de
: stroying the entire business distric
: and many residences.
y Because thSfe are great man.
n more aliens and alien enemies regis
e tered in some counties than in Others
e Governor Boyle of Nevada has mad
d n Encouragement of the quotas TO
the counties of Nevada, giving Washo
county a net quota of 2l5 instead Q
2O3 men who must answer the draf
call to arms.
e The federal farm loan banks ma
: force Idaho to reduce it's rate of in
$ terest on loans made from the stat
d school fund, according to NJ. G. SLOT
;, register of the STATE land boart
n Stott says farmers have recent
II cancelled state loans in the sum q
s several thousand dollars for the pun
r pose of taking out loans on thei
G lands with the loan banks.
q Since the establishment of the heat
$ Quarters of the western division of I'll
I Union Pacific at Green River, Wye
II the town has felt the need of sewers
q new business establishments to tai
y care of the business needs OF the PEE
le pie. Contractors who are putting L
le a large number of dwelling houses fiji
III difficulty in keeping men.
= Bands of cattle thieves are opera
e ing i'm the vicinity of Lovelock, Me-
= II has been announced in Il warniT
issued by the merchants association
- - that place to the cattlemen. The oper
- tions are said to be on state-wi'
= scale, and their methods consist chic
: " in driving cattle to districts whe
~ the brands are'not known.
Louis Zakovich, for injuries inclu
ing broken nose, fractured clavicl
:. bruises and confusion on his bac
~ chest and head, was awarded $l2SS
~ the industrial accident commission
j, Nevada. Zakovich was injured VIII
. he was thrown from a descending ca
- and landed in station in the Tonopi
10 Belmont mine July II, 1916.