The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-01-16
INLAND NORTH WEST

$S6.l0 without board.
The annual meeting of the Nevada
Bar association will be held at Reno
on January 16 and IL.
The Associated Industries OF Mon
tana will hold its annual meeting jan
nary q at Lewistown.
At meeting of county assessors Of
Montana, held at Helena, q much sim
pier and shorter system for assess
ments was adopted.
Lillian Grey, aged 25 years, died at
a hospital in Ely, New, as the result
of poison which she took with suicidal
intent a few days before.
Plans for a special session Of the
Nevada legislature In the immediate
future have been abandoned, according
to a statement made by Governor
Boyle.
Through the cooperation Of the
larger employers of Butte and the
Americanization school, vast strides
are being made in the naturalization
of aliens.
The Commercial club at Las Vegas,
Nevada, is planning the establishment
of free camping grounds for autoists
at that place, in an effort to induce
auto parties to stop in the city over
night.
The Western Meat company's alfalfa
meal mill at Fallon, New, was set in
motion last week after shutdown Of
many weeks during which effective
dust retaining machinery was in
stalled.
At Reno last week, Mrs. Helen
Draper Taft, daughter of former Gov
ernor Draper of Massachusetts, was
given divorce from Walbridge
Smith Taft, nephew of former Presi-
dent Taft.
Sale of thrift and war savings
stamps continues heavy, despite the
high cost of living and other obstacles,
according to an associate director of
the war loan organization of the
Twelfth federal reserve district.
Egisto Ceragioli of Reno has re-
ported to the police that two barrels
of wine were stolen from his cellar
almost Immediately after he had paid
Federal tax on the wine, which was
manufactured for home consumption.
1t is announced that the secretary
of the interior has given assent to the
plan for adding the Thunder Mountain
area to the Payette and Idaho forests.
The act which provided for the addi-
ton called for the approval of the Sec
rotary.
After twelve years of effort upon the
part of w. B. Graham and his friends,
the relief bill carrying $3353 for ex-
penditures made by Mr. Graham to
maintain the post office in Ely Ne
vada, during the early boom, has been
passed by congress and allowed.
Fires caused by man have become
such a menace to the forests of west
ern Montana and northern Idaho that
vigorous campaign to eradicate in
cendiary blazes, as well as those origi-
mating in a manner contrary to special
laws, will be initiated next year.
Farm labor in Utah and Idaho, when
paid on a monthly basis, that is, per-
manent labor and not labor employed
just for the harvest, gets higher wages
than Is paid in any other state in the
union, and not far from double the
wage paid in those states, in 1910.
Reports received at the office of the
Nevada Public Health association at
Reno from Red Cross Christmas seal
workers indicate that almost quar-
ter Of million Red Cross Christmas
seals have been disposed of since the
1920 campaign began, December /.
According to the annual report of
police activities, there were $50 more
arrests in Salt Lake in 1919 than In
1918. OF these, 462 were for drunken
ness and 315 for liquor violations.
There were 34S taken into custody for
gambling last year, as against BOG in
1918.
The report of the city fuel admins
traitor shows that it cost Livingston.
Mont, $3S63 to obtain and distribute
fuel during the recent coal strike. Fiji
ty-two carloads of coal and fourteen
carloads of wood were distributed
under the direction of the fuel admin
istrator.
f. S. Peabody, president of the Pea.
body Coal company of Chicago. has
closed a deal whereby the company,
for consideration of S7,0Oo,OOQ, ac-
quires eight commercial bituminous
mines in Sheridan county, Wyoming,
with an output heretofore of 1900 600
tons annually.
A report issued by the Oregon Short
Line shows that seventy-one accidents
occurred at railroad crossings during
1919, which resulted in six deaths and
torty-one injuries; fifty-eight of the to-
tai number involved automobiles, one
a motorcycle, and twelve were acct
dents TO horse-driven vehicles and to
pedestrians.