The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-10-29
INLAND NORTHWEST

Craeksrnen blesg the the safe Of John
Hedden, postmaster and merchant at
Scottsburg, Ore, and got away with
more than $4,000 of government and
private money.
Pilot James ?. Murray Of the Unit
ed States air mail service bumped into
a mountain near Arlington, wyo.,
when he became lost in a snOwstOrm,
wrecking his machine, but he escaped
with minor bruises.
Following a quarrel. John Mort, q
logger, aged Al, shot and instantly
killed Mrs. Olga Antonen, aged 80,
| owner OF a bathhOuse in South Abcr.
deem, Wash. Mort committed suicide
with the same weapon.
Lieutenant Walter Wilson, Jr.. is
under arrest at Puget Sound naval
station at Seattle, charged with
financial irregularities. It is said a
naval auditor found shortages of $4,000
to 5000 in Wilson's books.
The first action instituted by the
government in Montana against an al
legged still manufacturer was begun
at Butte last week against a tinsmith
who is charged with making and pos
sessing an unregistered still.
Adam Shock of Dayton made an IN
successful attempt to end his life in
Carson, New, by slashing his throat
with a pocket knife, and failed in his
purpose only because of the extreme
dizziness of the blade he used.
The body of u. D. Mcdonald, 81, a
musician, was found by deputy sher-
ifs who are searching the bed of
Sandy river, near Portland, for victims
Of an automobile tragedy. McDonaId's
was the second body recovered.
]. E. Haggerty, who has styled him
self as soldier, poet, professor of Chem
istry, inventor and government geOlO-
gist, was indicted at Portland by the
federal grand jury on a charge Of
using the United States mail to de-
fraud.
With road work at it's height In
Montana, the chairman of the state ac-
cident board says employees in indus
try are suffering many and painful
injuries in a new cycle of accidents.
They are due in most cases TO fright
ened teams.
The Carson (Nev.) News says that
George Fisher reports having been
held up by five coyotes while on his
way TO the gypsum quarry last week.
He succeeded in killing two of the ami
mails. Fisher believes that the coyotes
were rabid.
Having managed TO live a week after
bullet had been fired into her brain
by Fred Stock, a rejected sutton. Mrs.
Martha Levitt of Wolf Point, Mont,
now gives all indications OF recovery.
The bullet, which penetrated to a
depth of three inches, was extracted
by physicians.
John W. O'Neill, a survivor of the
Custer campaign, died in Helena, aged
Il. He freighted for many years be-
tween Fort Logan and Salt Lake City
and at the time of Clusters last stand
was driving supply wagon and was
among the first to reach the battlefield
after the massacre.
SeighbOrs of Charles E Johnson, a
farmer residing near Wolf Point,
Mont, who lost his entire crop Of
wheat when sparks ignited his stacks
at threshing time. gave a surprise
party at his home, presenting him
with $50 in cash, $50 bushels of wheat
and enough hay to carry his stock over
winter.
Taking into consideration the testi-
mony at the inquest over the body Of
W. r. Sullivan, who was killed the
night of September ~ on a Great
Falls, Mont, business street. Judge
Ewing has admitted to bail Ernest
R. Gust, Great Northern conductor,
held on a charge of murder, his bond
having been fixed at 5000.
r. Egulat and John Rodriguez. Mex
lean beet workers at Greedy, Colo. re-
Gently traded wives. One day last
week Rodriguez went TO Egulais
home and demanded his wife be re-
turned to him. In quarrel which en-
sued Egulai was fatally wounded
Rodriguez, with his original wife and
4-year-old child, fled in an automobile.
Several hundred thousand dollars
could be added to the revenue of Utah
each year if farmers would raise more
dairy cattle instead of paying almost
exclusive attention to beef and range
animals, according to II. r. Lochry,
dairy manufacturing expert OF the dairy
division of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, who has just COM
pleted a tour of the state
Estimates have been made that the
total production of beetS by all COM
panies operating in Utah, Idaho and
Washington viii be close TO 100000.