The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-02-27
INLAND NORTHWEST


dahl, miners, were killed at Butte.
Jumping from an auto truck, John
McManus, aged s, ran in front of a |
street car at Butte anu was instantly |
killed.
At last report Montana banks were |
carrying total of $110,924, 40 In
demand deposits and $72, 5S3, 566.67 in |
time deposits.
Over one hundred students at the |
University of Nevada, at Reno, earn
part of their own expenses while at
tending college.
More than four million acres Of
Montana land were treated with pois-
on bait in the campaign against
gophers in 1919.
Two Mexicans charged with robbing
store at Loyelock were captured at
INLAY, Nevada, and portion of the
stolen goods recovered.
1t is reported that there are %
cases of smallpox in the Moapa valley,
Nevada. However, all the cases re-
ported are mild in form.
John Rolich, AZ, was shot and killed
by Frank Eltz, 46, at Butte. The
shooting is said to be the result of an
argument between the two men.
| All labor troubles at Tonopah came
| to an end when both miners and oper-
ators unanimously voted to accept the
| proposed wage agreement providing a
raise of 30 cents day for the men.
Fred Baldwin of McGill, New, was
the victim of a distressing accident
that resulted in the loss of his left
| eye, as well as other bodily injuries,
/ being accidentlly shot while hunting.
Official figures show that Fergus
county, Montana, lost 81 men, all told,
| during the war. OF these IS we're
! from Lewistown The town of Win
nett lost five men, while Winifred lost
four
1t is reported that Rileyville, locat-
| ed about sixteen miles southwest of
UnionvilIe, Nevada, has taken new
| lease On life, due to the increasing
price of silver. The camp has been
good producer in time past.
The railroad shops at Sparks, New,
| have gone on a nine-hour schedule.
The employees are working on a basic
eight hour day under the National
agreement and will receive time and
half for the extra hour worked on
the daily shift.
| Alleging that on Dec. %, 1919, while
he was travelling on the public high
| str lrnanlyn6
down and beaten, NJ. Ballinger has
| filed suit at Kalispell, Mont, 20 re
cover damages from Edward Beebe
in the sum of $500.
The gamblers of EIkO, Nevada, have
refused to be bound by the recent
order of the board of supervisors tax
ing each game played in the town the
sum of 500 per month, and are 60
ing to take the matter before the peo-
pie on a referendum vote.
A pastor at Elko, Nevada, has re-
sorted to the moving picture as
means of bringing people to his church
on Sunday evening. Recently the
| clergyman secured the first two reels
of the life of Abraham Lincoln and
showed them during his services.
Fay Kennedy died at Gold Circle,
Nevada, as the result of drinking hair
tonic. 1t IS not known whether she
drank the stuff with suicidal intent or
by mistake, in ignorance of its poison.
GUS character. She was in terrible
agony for hours before death ended
her sufferings.
After having lain idle since its con,
struction more than 10 years ago al
a cost of between 100000 and $500
ON,O, the old AIkali basin reservoir OF
the Teton Cooperative Reservoir com
/ pany, three miles west OF Bynum
Mont, is to be taken over by the By
mum irrigation district.
Arthur F. Olson, aged 80, is under
arrest at Salt Lake on suspicion thai
he is the man who committed the dar'
ing slngle-hand hoidup and robbery OF
a mail car on a Union Pacific traiT
near Omaha, January 80, when thous
ands of dollars in currency was stoler
from the registered mail.
Twenty thousand dollars is asked
In d damage action filed at Missoula
Mont, by Delore Martin Huott'
against Ernest Thelin. MIR. Huott'
alleges that his wife's affections have
been alienated by the defendant and
that $4,000 is about what he should
. have to permit him to play even.
, Governor Stewart of Montana, being
asked If he was candidate for th'
vice presidential nomination on tbs
: Democratic ticket, said he was no
actively after the honor, but II th'
conditions at the San Francisco con
,, ventfon called for the naming of /
western man for the position his name
would nrnhahlY go before the dele