The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
NORTHWEST NOTES

az register Of the land office at Seattle.
Ss.~.a.-
Science, art and the law are one in
declaring Julius. b. SoFine the father
Of the third child of his divorced wife
at San Francisco. The mother had
declared the husband was not the
father Of the child, whose custody he
sought.
Officials of the cemetary worksEY
union announced recently at San Fran
cisco that union members would go on
strike in three Of the largest ceEneter-
les If an announced reduction of 81
day is put inta effect. The men are
being paid Sc.
Ted Price, deputy sheriff Of Ther-
nopnlis, Wye, died with a bullet In
his heart and Jack MuIlendure, alleged
whiskey runner, was probably fatally
injured in fight between a sherffrs
posse and whiskey runners near Their
mopolis Thursday.
Fred Brewster, age II, Of GIen1o.
Wyoming. was torn to pieces during
the week when team of young mules
he was using to NOW with became un-
rnanageableand threw him under the
machine, breaking his neck and mutt
lating his entire body.
The state railroad commission of
Montana Wednesday received an ap-
pileation from the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and Chicago, MiIwau-
Zee & St. Paul lines for the adoption
tn Montana of the national code of
weighing rules HOW used by the Amer
can Railway association.
OEe man has been killed and thou
sands Of acres of timber land have been
buried over in Montana and northern
Idaho. according TO reports Thursday
TO the federal forest service. Dry, fp1t
winds are blowing in most of the ma.
/ tional parks of the district and the
situation was declared TO be serious.
One man is dead and another per
haps fatally wounded at ThermopoIFs,
wyoming as a result Of a battle be-
tween sherif's deputies and alleged
10atieggerS. Deputy Sheriff Ted Price
was killed and E. L. MeIIendure, al
legged bootlegger. was wounded when
the battle took place, early Wednesday,
on lonely road Orth OF there.
Perpetual fear that haunted him day
and night, led R. Martin, Chicago
youth. into the police station at Globe,
Arizona, Thursday with a confession
that he was one Of the bandits who
held up and robbed the bank at Cur
lew, Iowa, August 10, Of $500. In
cidentalIy, the youth had but $3.50 left
from his share of the robbery.
The Daughters Of the American Rev
"iution Of Wyoming have recently is
sued a booklet describing the activf-
lies of the state during the world war.
The book will be placed in the files of
ne national society at Continental
Memorial hail in Washington, D. C. F.
$ Burrage. editor of the Laramie
t"yo) Republican, edited the fore
word.
Expansion of a Utah industrial en-
terpriSe which centempIates the dew
elopment of the Iron county iron de-
posits the building up of a manufac-
turing plant of extensive capacity and
the possible attraction of additional
manufacturing Projects to Salt Lake
and the state, Is reflected In the an
nouncement of the Utah Steel eorpor-
alton that it proposes to increase its
capital stock from s2,5o0,OW TO S.
10000
A petition signed by county, city and |
federal officials and many residents of !
Santa Cruz county. Arizona. was for
warded to the war department Tues
day, asking that detachment OF SOL |
diers be stationed at Ruby, Ariz., for :
the protection of residents OF that |
town Postmaster Frank ]. Pearson
and his wife were killed by bandits |
there last Friday. and Postmaster Fra
ger and his brother were killed there
about a year ago. Both crimes were
to Mexican bandits.
Adolphus L. Fitzgerald of Eureka,
New, 81, dean OF the supreme consis-
tory of the thtrty-shind degree, Scot
fish Rite Masonry for the southern
OF che UHited States. died
morning at the home OF
his son, Richard. whom he was visiting
IN Boston. Mass He was born In
North Carolina, served with the con