The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-05
INLAND NORTHWEST

plans are being perfected for the es-
Establishment of meat packing plant
at Eureka, Nevada.
The concrete highway from Reno 20
Carson City, Nevada, Is Y be tlhlsheu
during the year, 1t Is announced.
Smuggling liquor from Canada by
airplane into Oregon is said to be the
LATEST scheme to evade the law.
An up-to-date auto tourists camping
place Is TO be established In Billings,
Mont, this spring by the Billings coIn-
mercial club.
Work has been started on the new
| Eureka Nevada Railway company conf
bination passenger and freight depot at
Eureka, Nevada,
Cora Kennedy, aged II, received IA
| tai injuries when she was thrown from
/ an automobile at Missoula, striking
against telephone pole.
N. NIichels, recently discharged from |
4 the eastern Oregon state hospital, was
i killed when he threw himself in front
of a train near Echo, Ore.
Mrs. Frank g. Humphreys Of Reno
has been appointed special agent in
Nevada of the children's bureau, Unit
ed States department Of labor.
The school trustees Of Bozeman,
4 Mont. have decided on a raise of sal
airy for teachers, to go into effect at
the beginning of the next term in Sep
TENDER.
E. l.. Smith of Hood River, Ore, an
82-year-old pioneer, is the last survi-
yor of the Republican convention OF
1860 which nominated Lincoln for
president.
An characterization league has been
formed at Marshfield Ore, with more
than 100 members, for the purpose of
preventing the vaccination of school
children.
Montana sold S43,92112 worth of
war savings stamps and treasury saw
ings certificates during the month of
made public.
1t is estimated there will be approx
mately 1888, 460.22 of state money avail
able for the construction of market
roads in the various counties of Ore
gon during the year 1920.
John NJ. Murphy, aged 80, an alder
! man of Butte, was found dead in his
room from pistol shot. 1t is believed
he suicided, although many of his
friends claim he was murdered
If the present plans of the CONNER.
cial club working in conjunction with
the city council mature, Columbus,
Mont, will boast of one of the finest
camp sites along the Yellowstone Trail.
Grasshoppers cannot be classed as
squirrels noxious rodents or predatory
animals under the Oregon laws, and
consequently county courts are not au-
:, thorized to appropriate money for their
determination.
- The Reno fair price committee has
filed statement with the state fair
q price commissioner that prices in Reno
!, are unjust and unreasonable, and
= charge that price are fixed by Cali.
: fornia dealers.
1f AiStotOly dhllIlilS numbering OH
If were killed by the So men and women
If employed by the United States bio
Is logical survey in Idaho, Washington
I'd and Oregon during the six months end
ne ing December 81. ...
i'd The Rev. H. r. Sanborn, the flight
* ing pastor" of Sparks, Nevada, ha!
been commissioned inspector of the Ne
k. vada state police. DIR. Sanborn viii
Is' have charge of enforcement of the pro
in hibition law in Nevada. .-...
Existence of second commercial,
~ productive oil field in Montana is in
AZ dicated in the reported strike of tn
v Franz corporation of Oklahoma, il
:. the Cat creek district, six miles nortl
- OF Mosby, in Musselshell county.
Members of the La Grande, Ore
%. Ad club are congratulating themselye
on on being able 10 increase the popula
is ton of the city 70 $500 through clean
DIV up committee, which gathers up thos
Of missed by the census enumerators,
Indians in certain sections of Nevad
:" claim that spring has arrived, backin
ly. up lhelr assertions by the fact tha
CHI ants are beginning to come from thei
D." winter quarters, which the red me
ne claim is an unfailing sign of continue
ne warm weather.
all Every inhabitant of Piute India
village in Inyo county, Cal, near Dye
H. New, has been stricken with influenz,
su- according to a,report brought to Tom
j." pah by rural mail carrier. He sal
rs there had been more than 100 dealt
Ia and none had received medical attic
cir ton.
Four Horns, one of the best know
Indians of the Blackfeet reservatio
I. in Montana, is dead at the age If