The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-10-31
INLAND NORTH WEST

1t is estimated that to box the APP
pie crop of the northwest alone, $4,000
000 feet Of lumber is required.
The eleventh annual convention of |
the Nevada Federation of Womans |
Clubs was held last week at Elko.
Jerry Holland and John Sievers,
station tenders, were killed at the East |
Colusa mine at Butte, when the cable
in the main shaft parted, the men !
falling 300 feet.
The county commissioners of Mussel- |
shell county, Montana, have called an
election for January 13, 1920, to vote |
on the issuance of 100000 of road i'm
provement bonds.
While operating a circular saw at
Ely, New, Lee Lockett had his hand
caught In the saw, which resulted in
the amputation of four fingers and the
thumb from his left hand.
Reports from the new camp of Ar
rowhead, in Nye county, located be-
tween Ely and Tonopah, indicate the
most important mineral discovery
made in Nevada for many years.
| AS the result of a runaway on the
Miller ranch near Las Vegas, New. a
valuable mare tore her foot off when
it became entangled in the barb wire
and it was found necessary to shoot
| the animal.
The Las Vegas Land & Water com
pany will help supply the demand for
furnished houses at Las Vegas, New,
by completely furnishing % of the 60
houses erected f@ rhe company Tor
their employees.
Within a few minutes after he ar
rived in Billings to visit his sick wife,
y gorge Steele of Bear Creek, was held
up and robbed of $3.50 by two UNI
masked men within block of the hos
pital for which he was bound.
One-fourth of Buttes merchants
have not paid their annual city Ii
censes. Furthermore, they have
agreed among themselves not to pay
them until forced by decision of the
state supreme court.
Salt Lake is to retain headquarters
Of the Oregon Short Line railroad
and Portland will retain headquarters
Of the Oregon Railway & Navigation
company after the railroads are re-
turned to private ownership.
Denver S. Dickerson, former gov
ernor of Nevada, and at present in
spector of federal prisons, has been
laid up at Carson for the past two
months as the result of an accident in
which he suffered a broken leg.
To reduce loss and damage claims,
the northwest is planning to secure
uniformity in sizes of boxes and to
attempt to get fewer and better pack
ages. CALIFORNIA; standard sizes of
, boxes have been incorporated into a
code.
] Gasoline yield from crude oil run
r through Wyoming refineries in the sec,
/ ond quarter of 1919 amounted tc
e about SO per cent, being the same as
D from Appalachian crude. Wyoming
crude sells at minimum of $1.50 d
3 barrel. Pennsylvania crude sells al
j SIPS.
a John B. Ronstodt suffered peculiar
. and painful accident at Las Vegas
New. Mr.. Ronstadt was working will
a large pipe wrench when something
J slipped and he fell, striking his throat
fracturing his hyoid bone, or Adams
= apple.
: Elijah Bess, Upper Saltwater ranch
! er and trapper, was found guilty a
: Columbus, Mont, of murder in TIL
! first degree, the jury fixing the pen
! atty at life Imprisonment. Bess o.
b July last shot and killed Jake Lyons
his neighbor
IS Ivan Mcclellan, convict from SpC
s. kane county, was killed in the Washing
g ton penitentiary at Walla Walla in
1t terrific hand-to-hand fight with
Stevens, another prisoner. The figh
% resulted from quarrel that was start
d ed in the dining room.
1t Water can convert untapped re
IN sources of Montana into millions o
ID dollars and increase agricultural pre-
: duction 400 per cent. The availabl
= water supply in Montana is sufficien
Is to irrigate 100000 acres although tn
II area now watered is but $4,000
ID acres
y Jordan, located in the center of Ga
:. field county, Montana, and possessin
- no telegraph lines, will have wireless
communication with the outside worl'
according to the claims of the Jorda
Power company, which has incorpora
n ed for $4,000 for the purpose of il
stalling wireless service betwee
Miles City and Jordan.
II Efforts made by Denver capitalists
II to finish the James Peak tunnel 0