The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-08-19
NORTHWEST NOTES

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Nearly one thousand oil wortx.
Bakersfield voted in favor of oarn
strike September first If owners
fuse a wage conference.
Charles McNulty, 81, is dead n,
three other persons are in a hosr,.',
tonight as the result of eating noIsSnt
pancakes for breakfast Thursday mo- mo-
ing In Minneapolis.
The Tonopah ad Goldfeld Rauw.
company has applied to the public -
vice commission for permission ].
build q branch line from Coaldalo !.
Fish Lake valley.
b. J. Finch, district engineer az q.
bureau of public roads, left Ogden
few days ago for Jackson, Wyo., IN 4.
spect the work on the Hoback canvoa
project which leads to the YellowstoDs
Park.
Harry E. Stewart, mayor of Rem
New, and chairman of the Nevada IA
publican state central committee ana
Miss Adeline NJ. Braun, formerly !,
Reno, were married at Redwood Civ
CAL, late Wednesday.
Henry T. Hazard, former mayor a,
Los Angeles and said to be the oldes.
patent and land attorney on the Pae
itic coast, died at his home at Ins
Angeles at the age of rs. Hazard cana
to Los Angeles In prairie schooner a.
years ago.
Mrs. Madelin ObenchaIn, wealthy
woman and divorced wife of a Chicago
attorney, ia held for investigation fol.
lowing the mysterious murder of John
ID. Kennedy, rich Los Angeles insur.
ance man at Kennedy's cottage at Bev.
erly Glen near Los Angeles.
Positive identihcationof a naked, mu.
tilated body found In trunk in Lake
Union at Seattle, Wash, as that Of
Mrs. Kate M. Mahoney, missing veal
thy Seattle woman, was made by Mrs.
G. Hewitt of Wenatchee, Wash, niece
of Mrs. Mahoney police have announ-
ced.
Proof that DR.. W. e. Stone, former
president of Purdue university, reached
the summit of Mt. canon, an achieve
ment hitherto unaccomplished, mo-
ment before he fell to his death, has
been found by the party which recover
ed his body, declared dispatch from
Banff.
A great portion of the little town Of
Ayimer, Que, was In ruins Thursday
and 125 or more families are homeless
as a result OF fire. The body of d.
Forties, 6S, grocer, was discovered
In the ruins of his shop. Provisions
were being sent from there and from
Hull, Quebec. g..
Lead mines in the Occur d Alenes
which have been operating under diff
culities for several months, probably
will take on q new lease Of life be-
cause freight rates on pig lead froGi
Brawley, Idaho to the Atlatic seaboard
will be reduced from $40 to $3.50 q
J ton, says a report from Wallace, lda-
he.
The Wyoming & Missouri River rail-:
road, which operates between Aladdins
Wyo, and Bell Fourche, SD, aus
lance of eighteen miles, viii be solo
at public auction at Cheyenne, Wyo:
September 81, next, to satisfy a judg-
ment held by Mahlon S. Kenmore; OH
Pittsburg, Pa, Uaited States Marshat
Hugh. Patton has announced.
What the forest service Officials
termed the worst fire of the season IN
Montana and northern Idaho was
burning in the Flathead forest in north-
western Montana Famed by a mgn
wind, the flames swept over half mile
of trenches. The blaze has burned
over $500 acres. New fires were repor-
ted today from other national forests ID
Montana and northern Idaho.
Another chapter in the story OF ~
years litigation over Elk Hills oil lana
near Visalia California, worth IRON
s2O,OOO,OO0 to $4,000, 900, is scheduled
to open soon, when United States ianO
office officials begin rehearng an &c
ton of the federal government agains'
the Buena Vista Land & Developmeh
company of Kern county, with the sta''
of California and the Honolulu con
solidated OIL company as interVeners