The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-07
INLAND NORTHWEST

4 states, together with street ana ROAD
signs for municipalities are to be man
ufactured by inmates of the state pen
/ itentiary at Walla Walla Other pro-
4 ducts of prison labor are to be clothing
and shoes for Inmates of state institu.
tions and possibly aluminium ware for
use by the state.
The large gray wolf which for SIX
years has been raylshing herds In the
\ Pryor creek district of Montana is be-
lieyed to have been captured. The ami
NAL was caught in trap on the Thorn
as s. Hogan ranch near Billings and
| was killed by Walter and Bell Standish,
United States predatory animal hunt
ers. 1t is estimated that $50 head OF
horses and colts, cows and calves, have
been killed by the one wolf.
The charge made that the members
of the Scott caravan, which journeyed
from Brooklyn, New York, to Buha,
Idaho, to settle on the Roseworth tract,
had the land misrepresented to them
and that they had appealed to Cover
nor ID. w. Davis of Idaho to cancel
their contracts and return their money,
Is fatty denied by Governor Davis in
q statement given out.
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Insurance companies doing business
in Arizona must cease insuring owners
of automobiles and other vehicles
against loss because of confiscation of I
their vehicles for violation of the pro-
hibition laws, according to an order
issued by the state corporation COM
mission. The commission also direcsed
that all clauses in Insurance policies
now in effect on this subject must be
cancelled by October is.
Miss M. Pearl Mccall of Boise, for
eight years assistant secretary to SEN
ator Borah, Thursday was appointed
assistant United States district attor-
ney for the District Of Columbia. Miss
Mccall studied law at Washington coll
,lege of law and in 1919 was admitted
to the Idaho bar being the first wo-
man to pass the bar examination In her
home state. Before coming to Wash
,ngton, Miss Mccall taught school at |
Sand Point, Idaho.
Earthquake shocks beginning at z 80 |
and continuing In rapid succession for
half an hour caused more than $780, /
600 property loss at EIsinore, Utah,
Thursday morning. Three houses and
the new school building. were praetic-
ally wrecked and many other houses
and store buildings were damaged.
Near panic was created among resi-
dents, many of whom rushed from
their homes only partly clad. There
was no loss of life.
The entire forty talesmen summoned
under special venire order In the case
OF Mrs. LYDIA Southland onstriaI at Twin
rails, Idaho, for first degree murder
or her fourth husband, were Thursday
morning discharged by Judge Babcock
on the ground that they had been
summoned by Sheriff E. r. Sherman,
signer of the complaint in the case and
that acceptance of the talesmen, SO
summoned would be prejudicial to the
interests of the defendant.
Efforts now being made to return
soldiers to Yellowstone park to patrol
the reserve have no endorsement Of
park officials, who claim there is not
the slightest chance that the civilian
guards now employed will be ousted.
senator Il. j. Walsh Of Montana ID
among the representatives at Washing.
ton who has been asked to WORK for
the return of soldiers to the Yellow
stone. =.
information that definite approval
mas been given loan of $4,000. 900 ia
the Northwest Wheat Growers, asso.
citation, by the war finance corporation
mas been received by George G. Jewett.
general manager of the growers, or.
ganization at Spokane from Aaron Sa.
pro, its attorney, who has been con.
Quoting negotiations for the loan a,
Washington.
Washoe county, Nevada, road bonds
In the sum of 100000 have been sold
20 San Francisco firm, the bonds
bringing par vaue and premium q.
sz46o interest. The money realized
, the sale OF the bonds is to be ap.
ned to the competition of the Carson.
Reno road, together with other road
projects including the Reno-verdi
road.