The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-04
LAND NORTHWEST


lss 900 and the total value Of cat
otber than mich cows at S24, 075,-
rwo children were burned to death,
voung women suffered burns and
ar mother was hurt severely, when
/ residence of Henry Bloyd at Kelso,
FASH. was destroyed by fire.
according to an announcement that
4 omes from Reno, preparations of an
a,ltIatiye act repeating all state pro-
slbItion legislation Is under way for
&resentation TO the next legislature.
At the annual ceremony of the
brand lodge of Masons to be held in
Reno. June 2, more than 100 novices
rom all parts of the state are ex-
pected to be initiated into the rites
vi the order.
Nearly 100000 acres of phosphate
4 hands in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming
Will be opened for leasing under rules
and regulations approved by Secretary
n Payne Of the United States depart
! ment Of the interior.
It is estimated that more than ST.
100000 will be received this year by
the Nevada wool growers, while prob
ably S1,50O,000 already has been paid
the growers of the state for the ship
ments made this season.
The entire Hadley family, father,
mother, two children and Mrs. Had
ley's mother, residents of Newark
Valley, Nevada, are in Reno taking
the Pasteur treatment, following an
attack by rabid coyote.
Plans are being perfected at Elko,
Nevada, for the formation of a fair
association, it being planned to take
over the old rodeo grounds and re-
model the buildings and grounds for
the holding of annual fairs.
About twenty sheepmen of Nevada
have combined to import 200 head of
Corriedale sheep from New Zealand
for the purpose of extending that
breed of sheep on the Nevada ranges.
The project will cost about $4,000.
Only 1872 per cent of the popula-
ton of Nevada has access to free pub
lie libraries, leaving more than $4,000
persons not provided with free library
service, according to the estimate of
the United States bureau of educa-
ton.
The body of Robert III. Lindsay,
mining engineer of Great Falls, who
had been missing several days, was
found in about 20 feet of water In the
shaft of the Ticon mine at Butte.
Friends say Lindsay had been suffer
ing from nervous troubles.
Five trainmen We're injured, two
fatally, when two huge cleo
trio locomotives drawing a single
caboose on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound railway plunged over a
'OO-foot embankment in the Cascade
mountains in Washington.
Punch boards and sticker cards,
which have been operated in Great
Falls cigar stores and pool halls for
long period without interference,
lave disappeared from those places
Ollowing the delivery of orders to
hat effect from the sheriff.
Arrangements will be made for an
lual spring outings of farmers and
heir families at series of district
MEETINGS. m ho hold or pfIl;puS NInnt
nder the auspices of the county farm
'ureau. Picnics are to be held in
very farm district in the county.
The American Carrara Marble Co,
'hich has been for about ten years
ngaged in opening marble quarries
Carrara, Nevada, seems now to be
leeting with success in spite of the
lany losses and disappointments from
arious causes suffered. The present
orce is about 40 men.
Transcontinental automobile traffic
as opened for the season in earnest,
ccording to officials of the Utah
tate Automobile association, who in
Vo days have furnished road infor>
alton to more than twenty parties
assing through Salt Lake on their
ay east or west.
Unconnected with the "outside
orld" by railroad or wires, Jordan,
'unty seat of Garfield county, Mon
ma, has solved the problem of speedy
by the establishment
a wireless plant, operated under
schedule of rates approved by the
ontana state utilities commission.
Despite the talk of % cent sugar
Id proriteering, Roundup, Mont, peo-
e may still buy sugar by the sack
r II to Is cents per pound. InVesti-
ltion shows that the local merchants |
I'VE not taken advantage of the |
Use in adjoining towns, but have
aintained the legal price and rate of |
oft.
That magpies kill calves is the |
atement made by f. G, KILLER, re-
ling on a ranch at the head OF |
cody creek in Garfield county, Mon