The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-05-28
INLAND NORTHWEST


Montana will be held in Kalispell July
% and "a.
v. j. Safro was arrested at Chey-
enne on information that he is Frank
Il. Linton and wanted in Seattle,
Wash, on forgery charge.
Two masked men held up Charles
G. Smithson, delivery truck driver for
laundry at Ely, Nevada, and robbed
him OF collections amounting to 5000.
The custom of observing Carson
Valley Day, June 18th, as designated
number of years ago, will again be
fittingly celebrated at Minden, Nevada.
More than $5,000,000 will be received
in Nevada this season from the wool
clip, according to estimates made by
those familiar with conditions in the
industry.
Reports from every section of the
country, with the exception OF Idaho
and Wyoming, indicate that the wool
crop this year is one of the largest
on record.
Fred Peterson was sentenced to one
year in Jail by Federal Judge Bean
at Portland when he pleaded guilty
to having altered war savings stamps
in his possession.
L. w. Fristoe, who was convicted of
killing Arthur st. Clair, constable of
Deeth, on February 20, has been SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment in the
Nevada penitentiary.
A raise of fifteen per cent in sal
aries has been granted all teachers in
the Winnemucca, Nevada, district
school. All the teachers have been re-
elected for next year
The population of the Nevada pen
itentiary will be reduced to seventy
five with the placing in effect of par
oIes and pardons recently granted by
the board of pardons and parole.
Statistics just compiled by the fed
eral crop appraising bureau indicate
potato acreage in Idaho at least per
cent less than last year, or $4,000
acres, compared with $4,000 acres in
1919.
Adopting a resolution in which the
members of the order oppose divorces
and demand that Sunday laws be
passed in Ely, the Knights of Column
bus convention held in Ely, New. came
to close on May IS.
Judge Moran of Reno has Quashed
the summons in a divorce suit, holding
that when a person in a divorce suit
comes to Nevada with the sole purpose
of submitting to service to summons
it constitutes collision.
John Francis Sullivan, an empIoye
of the Ward mine, is dead at Ely,
Nevada, as the result of falling off
truck used for hauling ore. The
truck wheels passed over the right
side of his body, severely crushing
him.
A fund of $4,000 will be given from
the funds of the state veterans well
fare commission to pay the expenses of
representative from every county in
Montana to attend a two-day school in
Helena during the latter part of this
month.
One of the five boys who escaped
from the state industrial institution at
Worland, WyO., by knocking their
guard senSeless was drowned. Of the
rest, one has been recaptured, two are
still at large and the fate of the fifth
nnlIht n oh ie tI,,
able that he also was drowned.
Mrs. Jennie Posner, 60, with her two
grandchildren, Fred, aged 4, and Billy
Kramer aged 6, lying on either side
of her in bed at her home were found
dead by asphyXiation at Portland. The
woman is said to have become de-
spondent over the death of her daugh-
ter, mother of the two children.
Miners in Wyoming gain an average
increase in wages of $2.4O over the
pay received when the strike was
called last November by a new agree
ment signed between Wyoming mine
operators and representatives of dis
trict No. %, United Mine Workers of
America. The increase is retroactive
to April 1.
Coyotes and wildcats are taking a
very large toll of lambs from the
tlocks of the Adams-McGill company.
according to the Ely, Nevada, papers.
The losses from the depredations of
these animals are greater than from
weather conditions. From ten to
twenty lambs from each flock are
killed every night.
Nevada has nearly a million acres
If land under cultivation. Five hun.
dred thousand cattle roam her free
ranges. Sheep to the total of f5O0,-
OOo find subsistence in the desert
places and her mineral product in
1918, according to the United States
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