The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-18
INLAND NORTHWEST

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sewing class has been organized
! by the Reno Red Cross that will meet
every Monday and Wednesday from
2 to 4 p. m. to work on Red Cross sup
| plies.
Congress has recently appropriated
an additional $4,000 for the Fallon,
Nevada. federal building, making
total appropriation of $4,000 for the
building and site.
A committee from the Goldfield
Mothers club has prepared letters on
behalf of the club urging conservation
of grain now used in the manufacture
of alcoholic liquors.
n. T. Scott, pioneer of Harrisburg,
Ore, was run over and killed by a
northbound Southern Pacific passen-
ger train. He was deaf and evidently
did not hear the train.
Employees in the lumber mills of the
Smith Lumber company at Bunker Hill
and Bay City, Ore. have struck and
the plants are completely tied up. The
men demand fat increase of 90 cents
day in wages.
Elko, Nevada, has contributed AZ
men to the army and navy and the 10y
atty parade last week gave ample evil
dence that there is still enough patriot
ism in the town to prompt five times
that many more to enlist if necessary.
May G was Loyalty day in Carson,
New. The entire city was decorated
| with flags and bunting in anticipation
| Of the day and the big parade, in
which several thousand men, women
and children took pafr was the feature
of the day.
| Sheriff w. T. O'Conner of Virginia
! City, Nevada, has received instructions
from the government to make food
survey of the city, listing all supplies
OF staple foodstuffs ON blanks furnished
by the department of agriculture. The
work has already been begun.
Chief Klaus of the Virginia City,
! New, fire department has offered a
reward of $25 for the arrest and con-
viction of the party or parties guilty
| of turning in false alarms from the
| first ward. Three false alarms have
beensrung within the past week.
The Idaho council Of defense, in SEES
sion in Boise, recommended an indus
| trial census of the state, and the or
| ganization of home guard companies,
and wired congress asking that the
age limits in the military compulsory
service bill be fixed at 81 to 40 years.
| Herbert Mayeroff and George Bren-
| nan were tried in the Goldfield district
court before jury on the charge of
| burglary. The jury was out eight and
half hours, finally returning YER
dict of acquittal in the case of Bren-
nan and reporting a disagreement in
the case of Mayeroff.
The Washington conference of the
| Evangelical association in its final SEES
sion ut North Yakima, took action
cancelling the ministerial license of
Rev. A. A. Powers of Harrington and
severing his membership relations.
Powers was charged with dishonesty
in business dealings and improper con-
duct with woman.
E. J. Denkle of Calfente, New, has
filed suit against former Sheriff Ron
now, District Attorney Orr and Justice
of the Peace Frank Palmer of Cali
ente at Phoebe, in which he seeks to
recover $4,000 damages for alleged
false Imprisonment. The case grows
out of Denkle's arrest some time ago
when he felled two trees located on
railroad property, but which obIcured
full view of his sign.
| Bids for the new Churchill county,
Nevada. high school We're opened last
/ kxr ha nd ~ obi nd
the lowest bid found to be sol, 800.
This does not include the heating sys-
TEN, which it is estimated will cost an
additional $4,000, making the total
cost of the school about 5000
More than 100 acres of coal lands in
the Tongue River valley. Wyoming,
| will be put into food crops under plans
which are being formulated by the
manager of the mine. School children
will work large community garden
while the grown ups will work the
acreage in tracts of an acre or more.
Location of trails to and from the
winter ranges of Lincoln county,
Wyoming, have been agreed upon by
sheepmen and officials of the govern
ment Mt n meeting held in Kemmerer,
The passage of the 640-acre homestead
law has made the problem of estab-
fishing trails in the range big one.
Utah Construction company has been
awarded the contract for rebuilding
the Mackay dam by the Idaho state
land board so that nothing now stands
in the way of commencing actual con-
struction work under the plans
adopted.
Jacob Crull of Roundup. Mont who
was defeated for the Republican nomi-
nation for congress in his district by
Jeanette Rankin, at the 1916 primary,
died at Elkhart, Ind. the result of
taking poison. No cause for the act
fe