The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-09
INLAND NORTHWEST


program of progress outlined.
Charles C. Blanlzenship has been
brought back from Texas to Hardin,
Mont, to answer a charge Of cattle
rustling.
Work for the Improvement and exc
tension of the Ely, Nevada, school of
mines has been started by state and
federal educators.
Apprehension for the crops and live
stock of Nevada during the fOrthcom-
ing season has been completely dis
PEELED by the recent storms.
Outlook for the designation of Reno,
Nevada, as the seat for one of the
new mining experiment stations of the
United States bureau of mines is fav-
orabIe.
During a fit of insanity, Mike G ant
slashed his throat and shot himself
through the abdomen at st. Regis,
Montana. death resulting twenty-tOur
hours hitter.
The state capitol commissioners
have approved plans for the memoir
ial building at Carson, Nevada. and
work on the building is expected to
begin at once.
Devoted exclusA ely to young girls
who are engaged in the business, pro-
tessional and industrial world, free
employment bureau has been opened
at Salt Lake,
The Reno Elks have established four
II IA ,,, aF ~ do cto mi
yersity, carrying $500 apiece, the
awards to be made by a committee
from that lodge.
Livestock dealers and other boosters
of st. Paul, Mimi, to the number of
100 are expected to attend the Mon
tana Stockgrowers' convention at Bill
ings, April 20 and d.
Roscoe Dorsey died In the Wallowa,
Ore, hospital as the result of wounds
from pocket knives in the hands of
| two of his pIaymateI d few weeks ago.
He was 10 years OF age.
The president of the gold producers
meeting held at TonOpah recently has
| appointed a committee of seven to raise
! Nevada's quota of $4,000 to assist in
the passage of the gold relief bill.
| Pursuing a search that he has carried
OIL for eighteen years, LIE Roy Moore
of Chicago has appealed to the Denver
police to aid him in finding his daugh-
ter, who he believes is in that city.
Reorganization of the sugar factory
of the Nevada-Utah Sugar company at
FalIon, New, is being effected at pres
ent with view to putting the plant
into operation after an idleness of three
! years.
! Union carpenters of Cheyenne voted
to reject compromise wage offers of
| building contractors and called a strike.
effective April 1, for an increase of
| 81 a day to 50. The contractors of
fered So.
movement has been started in
! Grant county, Oregon, to create new
county out of the northern portion to
| include the towns of Hamilton, Range,
Fox Granite, Austin, Long Greek and
| SuSanville.
The worlds largest jewel, black
opal found in Nevada in 1917, has
been placed in the hands of lapi-
Diary in Chicago to be cut and polished
II is said that $25O,OOO has been Of
fered for the jewel.
Discovering a vein of high-grade coal
in his back yard while digging a eel
| l3r. John Weigeh, a Wyoming rancher,
| declares he has no use for the coal
! and is much put out because he feels
he must dig a new cellar.
The state asylum board at a meet
ing at Carson City, Nevada, directed
the state architect to complete the
plans. and specifications for Il new adj
ministration building that bids may be
called for in the near future.
4 vocational training school for all
! those who have not as yet completed
| their eighth grade work and have
| dropped out of school to go to work
will be opened in the La Grande, Ore.
high school building in the near future.
| Every available certified Burbank
! and White Rose seed potato in Oregon,
! aggregatfng more than 1000 sacks, has
been purchased by Marion county
ranchers, according to a report filed
with the county community federation.
Emmett Hogan threw a brick through
a window of hotel at Billings, strik-
| ing the clerk in the head and inflict-
ing a painful wound, because of a
fancied grievance. Hogan faces a
charge of assault and destroying prop
erty.
The stork delayed the funeral at
Denver of Frank Allen. Just as the
cortege was about to start for the GEM
etery the bereaved widow was hurried
from the funeral carriage into the
Allen home, where a baby girl was