The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-19
INLAND NORTHWEST

100000 a year through bad accounts,
according to an estimate made public
by the secretary Of the Commercial
club.
The increased price of fuel and 9TH
er things necessary to the conduct
Of a steam laundry recently caused the
temporary suspension Of the Carson
Electric laundry.
Nike Cordick, an Austrian, who be-
came violent a few days z and hit
Joseph Cazanave over the head with
d chair at a hotel In Reno, has been
sent to the asylum.
Federal immigration officials are
now cooperating in the hunt for Seat
ties woman slugger, the perpetrator Of
4 score Of brutal attacks in this city
in the past two weeks.
While playing near their home on
Shambers prairie, in Washington,
Lowell Click, aged 10, was accidental
" shot and killed by his ~10-year-old
stepbrother, Joe Whipple.
A convenient way to kill wood
chucks, prairie dogs, ground squirrels,
and rats living in holes in the ground
is to smother them by introducing a
small quantity Of carbon bisuIphid in
to the burrows.
: Twenty million bushels of wheat and
proportional quantities of other cereals
are annually lost by waste in harvest
ing and threshing, according to esti-
mates of specialists in the wheat dis
tricts Of the west.
VIII Reymers, son Of ex-Stafe SEN
ator Barney Reymers of Yerington,
Nevada, was fatally injured while
duck hunting. Reymers' gun was ac-
~cidentally exploded while hunting in
company with friends.
Adolph Schneider, a manufacturer,
was instantly killed and seven other
persons were injured, some dangerous
ly, near Reedville, Ore, when a passen-
ger train crashed into their automo-
bile at a grade crossing.
Friends of the McInnis brothers at
Carson City, Nevada, q few days ago
arranged a banquet in honor Of the
four boys from one Nevada family,
who have entered military training. A
fifth brother is too young TO go into
service.
The city council of Elko, New, has
adopted ordinances covering licenses
for virtually every class of business
in the cry. It is estimated that ap-
p~roximately $4,000 u year win be
added to the resources OF the city
through this legislation.
The report OF the state assayer Of
Nevada shows that shippers consigned
4j9.45 o n of ore to the care Of the
state assayer during that period and
that charges amounting to $123.O2
We're assessed, as compared with 1868
tons and S50.63 for August.
Chief Of Police John Wanewich died
1t Colville, Wash, after he had been
shot twice by supposed burglars ii a
department store. He declared, Just
before his death. that he was attacked
as he approached the rear Of the
store, by two men. who made their
escape.
Rev. Father Jerome Diss, who
served as pastor OF the Catholic
church in Toncpah for several years.
has received an appointment as in
terpreter in the United States army
Father DiSS bears the rank Of colonel
and probably will be sent to France at
an early date.
In order TO bring the lessons of
patriotism and of national and inter,
national relations within the compre-
hension of children, the instruction in
conversation which is to be given in
American schools this year at the in
tance of President Wilson will begin
with and emphasize home and local
problems.
Attention is being called to the in
creased facilities needed by farmers Of
the northwest for storing potatoes and
other root crops. The high price Of
grains is greatly increasing the de-
mand for potatoes; and ali who have
cellar or other storage facilities are
being encouraged 10 lay in a winter
supply.
Great Falls, Mont. labor unions and
employers have sent TO President VIII
son. Secretary of Labor Wilson and
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation OF Labor. a re-
quest TO establish a national arbitra-
ton board and compel the submission
of all labor problems to it during the
period of the war.
Utah coal producers are urging the
national fuel administration TO grant
Utah mine owners the same conCeS-
sions in the prices of coal recently
granted the Wyoming producers. The
fuel administration on October l
raised the price Of screened coat at
the Wyoming mines from $40 a ton
to $3.50 and reduced the price of slack
from S225 TO St.25.
Sam Juich, wanted in connection
with the alleged murder of Anthony
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