The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-08
INLAND NORTHWEST

uFNer ana Two japanese passengers
of 5000.
II. j. Thornburg, aged IS, a rancher.
was struck by an engine at Logan.
Mont, while crossing the track, and
instantly killed.
One hundred acres planted in can
taloupes is the object of the Canta-
loupe Growers association of the Fall
lon, New, section.
Search is being made by western
officers for Jerry Scraffin, who is al
legged to have killed a man at Cumber-
land, WyO., March %.
Geri Serafine, 80 years of age, who
killed Dominic Angelo, % years of age,
at South Cumberland, gave himself ND
to Sheriff d. c. Oakley in Kemmerer,
Wyo. Serafine pleads self-defense.
Earl johnson, the young man who
stole horse, saddle and rifle from
VIM. Gibbs i'll Clover Valley, New,
was trailed to Shafter, where he was
arrested and brought to Elko for trial.
Each person in Nevada would re-
ceiye properly valued at $2757 If all
property upon which a valuation has
been placed by the Nevada tax com
mission were divided equally among
the residents
Flying at rate of nearly two and
one-half miles Il minute, Pilot Harry
G. Smith of the aerial mail service,
is believed to have established rec
ord for speed between Rock Springs,
WyO., and Cheyenne, Wyo.
Henry Lunt, assistant cashier of the
State Bank of Charleston, Wash, shot
and killed himself. He had been in
i'll health for some time. His records
at the bank were declared to be in
on deposit there.
Bills to the number of 2S3 passed
both houses of the Nevada legislature
during the thirtieth session, an in
crease over the totals of bills ap-
proved of 249 for 1919 and 240 for
1917. In 1913 the bills approved num-
bered 2S9, and in 1915, PSI.
A movement is on foot among a
number of the large land owners of
the Fallon, New, section to bring in
Jap beet farmers and lease small
sized farm land subdivisions TO them
at rental rates in excess of that paid
by the average white tenant.
Organization of a S10,000,000 cor
poration to handle canning and mar
keting of the berry crops of Oregon
and Washington as a unit was eff
fected at Portland at a meeting of
twenty business men, cannery oper-
ators and financiers of the two states.
Terro Milaka, jiu-jitsu ltght-heavy-
weight wrestler. defeated Jack Tay-
lOr, heavyweight champion of Wyo-
ming. at Casper, in a iiu-jitsu match
by pfnning his shoulders to the mat
after four twenty-minute periods.
Taylor was carried unconscious from
the ring.
E. A. Book, former mayor of Salt
Lake, has again filed formal appIica-
ton for parole with the state board of
pardons. Book is serving an indeterm-
mate sentence in the state prison for
the theft of more than $4,000 from the
city of Salt Lake when he was city
auditor.
Norice of reduction of wages has
been served by the Butte Electric
Street Railway company upon its 200
employees, due, it was declared, to the
closing of the copper mines and the
consequent decrease in patronage. The
amount of the reduction will be an
nounced after a conference.
What is thought to be precedent
in the granting of pensions was made
known last week when it was an
nounced that the United States Bu-
reau of Pensions had granted an an
nuity to Fred Singleton, of Provo,
Utah, in recognition of his services of
the Black Hawk Indian war in Utah.
Della Oldham was badly injured in
runaway accident when the horses
on the Tuscarora stage coach started
to run down the hill just north of the
Parks dinner station, says the Elko,
New, Free Press. She was thrown out
and her right leg broken. The driver,
u.
right ankle being broken.
Levi Ankeny, former United States
senator from Washington, died at
Walla Walla, Wash, March 20, from
a stroke of paralysis. He was born
in st. Joseph, Mo-, seventy-seven years
ago and crossed the plains with his
parents in 1850 He was the first
mayor of Lewiston, Idaho, and ut the
time of his death was president of
seven banks
In a report made by a censorship
committee of the Ministerial associa-
ton of Missoula, Mont, it threatens
that the churches may go into the NOV