The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-02
INLAND NORTHWEST

A. G. Watson was found dead in his
room in Hamilton, Nevada, a victim
Of a self-infilcted wound. An investi-
CATION showed that Watson had knelt
down and fired bullet into his fore
head.
In the first days drive Reno's one
troop of Boy Scouts secured 100000
in subscriptions to the Liberty loan.
This, they claim, is record for the
entire country, per capita of popula-
ton.
There are approximately 1000 cars
Of the best Jonathan apples ever
grown in the northwest now awaiting
shipment in the Boise and Payette
districts, in Idaho, but cars are not
available.
Frank f. Dupray, master mechanic
at the Belmont mine at Tonopah, was
shot twice and robbed of $160 in bills,
several dollars in silver and a dia-
mond ring by a highwayman at Reno.
His injuries are not serious.
Dewey Morgan, chief train dispatch
er for the Virginia & Truckee rail-
road, left Carson, New, for st. Paul
last week to report for government
| service that may require him to go to
Russia within short time.
Montana's 1917 wool clip is esti-
mated at 100000 pounds, 100000
pounds less than last year. The fall
ing off is due in large part to the
severe winter at 1916-17, with the
lamb crop last spring cut in half.
Utah will have plenty of drafted
men to complete it's full quota de-
spite the fact that 1913 men have been
rejected by the military authorities
at American Lake, Wash, according
to members of the state district appeal
board.
Employees of the paper mills of the
Crown-Willamette company at Oregon
City, Ore, and Camas, Wash, have
presented to the company a demand
for % cents a day advance in wages
Cor all employees, with extra time for
overtime.
Five hundred men were thrown out
of work by fire at the GolcOnda, Ne
vada, mines recently when two large
mills were destroyed with the larger
part of the camp. The loss is esti-
mated to be about 100000 with an
insurance amounting to $4,000.
Two human skeletons, believed to
have been buried half a century ago,
have been unearthed on a ranch near
Billings, Mont. The fact that they
were buried six feet under ground
leads to the belief that they are the
bones of white men, and not Indians.
According to the president of the
Utah Gamers association, Utah's
1917 tomato crop will run about q
per cent below normal. But farmers
who grew tomatoes this year will
make fair profits, for prices are $1z
per ton in 1917, as against SO in 1916
After being idle for almost one
month, the shipyards of the Seattle
district resumed operations Monday
morning. 1t is expected that work
will be pressed to the maximum
capacity of the plants, many of which
are working on government con-
tracts.
George B. McFarlin, manager of the
Churchill Telephone company, who
was tried and convicted of embezzle-
ment and was sentenced to serve
from one to fourteen years in the Ne
vada prison, will be admitted to bail
pending a motion for new trial based
on newly found evidence.
The board of regents of the Oregon
University in session at Eugene, Ore.
accepted the resignation of Allen ii
Eaton, a member of the faculty, who
was charged with disloyaIty. Eator
participated in the gathering in Chi
cago of the Peoples council of Amer
lea for democracy and terms of peace
An eight-hour day and appointment
of shop committee of three members
from each craft or calling in a shop o
yard to take up grievances with tn,
foreman, superintendent or presiden
of the company for adjustment, ar
: features of the settlement plan upol
which the Portland strike was ended
Efforts are still being made to fint
the three bodies buried in the wrecl
at Giluly, Colo. Three collins ar
waiting on the little sidetrack at Gil
: uly, intended for the crushed remain
of the fireman and the two tramp
that were stealing a ride upon tn
wrecked train, whose hats were foun
among the wreckage.
Blame for the existing shortage Q
fruit cars in the Yakima valley @
Washington is placed on the shoulder
; of fruit shippers in a statement
Northern Pacific officials. They al
serted that the average of 5000 cal
, loads out of this valley this season ha
: been $40 boxes, in spite of appeal
from government and railroad official
to load the cars heavier.
n Property of men enlisting or drafte
!. into the army will be cared for by q
? organization recently formed by Fe
I: gus county, Mont, citizens who pr
t pose to assess themselves 81 each
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