The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-23
NORTHWEST EOTES

iHOSe VINO fODDcu lle huntington IA %
Cal, branch Of the Los Angeles Trust
and Savings bank, August 26, of S43,-
600, are under arrest at Seattle.
After an illness Of several months,
| William g. Spauld.ng, for II years q
business man Of Billings, died recently
at St vIncent's hospital. He was 80
years old, and Is Survived by widow.
O son and a daughter
II Is reported that the coal mines at
Lehigh, Montana, which have been clos
ed for some months, will shortly be
started again. The mines employ a
large force of men when running, max
Ing Lehigh lively town
b. H. Mcclure. berkeley, Calf, IA
Their Of Mrs. Il. d. Boyle, wife Of Gov
ernor Boyle of Nevada, died at the
governors mansion Wednesday after
having been stricken with apoplexy
while talking to friends in the Sage
brush club here Tuesday.
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Miss Sadie Champion of Warren,
Arizona, two miles south of Bisbee and
but few miles from the Mexican bor-
der, was beaten Wednesday by band
Of men, said to have been Mexicans,
that she discovered attempting to steal
or butcher cattle belonging t. her.
The Canadian government steamship
Canadian Importer, few weeks ago
virtually given up for lost, following
her disablement in the Pacific ocean
off the California coast, reached Vic
toria Tuesday in tow of two tugs. She
had a six degree list.
Announcement has been made from.
the headquarters of the Ninth army
corp In San Francisco of decision to
form three divisions Of the organized
reserves in the corps area, with head
quarters of one division to be located
in Salt Lake and the other two in San
Francisco and Portland, ore.
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Steps were taken by leading bankers
Of Montana Monday at o conference
held at Helena with Eugene Meyer, Jr.,
chairman and managing director OF the
War Finance corporation to- bring re-
lief to the livestock industry of Mon
tana and put stop to- the shipping to
market of immature stock, due. to III
quotation.
A current bulletin of tie geological
survey says ''six named peaks, in Mon
tana have elevations exceeding 620O0
feet, and several are in the Bear Esoth
national forest in Carbon eountyy in
the south central part of the state.
The highest of of these is Granite peak,
1850 feet. The next highest2isiM Mount
Wood 12y75O feet"
Sam francisco among other novel,
ties. now boasts Shaveteria. nhe Ia
novation was initiated by Phil Eespia,
1882 Twenty street, as am, adj
junet to his Cleanatorium Booths,
equipped with hot water and mirrors,
have been arranged in an alcoveN anl
patrons Of the cleaning establishments
are given hathrobes and permitted DO
shave while they wait"
Ole Larson, president of the defSlnet
Scandinavian American bank, was
Wednesday, acquitted by jury in taae
superior court at Tacoma, Wash, on
the third count on which he has been
tried. The acquittal was on a charge
of enlbezzling $4,000 of the banks
funds Larson was found guilty on the
first two counts and still has sixtasn
indictments and charges to face.
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one-third of all Japanese in Caif'for-
mia are under 10 years of age, accord
ing to estimates made public by l.. E.
Ross, director of the bureau Of vital
statistics of the state board of health.
Ross estimates show that during the
last ten years the Japanese population
has Increased 30,596 in California and
that births have exceeded the deaths
2O,191 or 66 per cent of the entire in
crease.
That the anthrax quarantine in effect
IN the Battle Mountain and Beowawe
districts for five weeks, win be lifted
within the next twenty days is the
statement of DIR. Hills, state veterinar-
ian with headquarters at Elko. He
says that there have been no deaths
from anthrax among the cattle in the
quarantined districts for several weeks,
and that It is now thought all danger
is passed and that stockgrowers will
be permitted to ship their cattle soon.
Oh has been struck in well being
drilled between Charleston and Asotin,
Wash, about six miles from Lewiston,
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