The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-07-08
NORTHWEST NOTES

Henry Clay Proyinse Of Tied Loage,
Mont, was nominated recently 70 Ds
receiver Of public money at Billings
Mont
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Ostrum OF
Addy, Washington, have positively /
Identified Henry Enright, half-breed
Indian. alias John Cobell, as one OF
the three men who robbed the Addy
bank.
Mrs. George De Beck of Marpole, b.
G. Tuesday celebrated her 107th birth
day. She is said to be the Oldest Wo-
man In British Columbia and possibly
the Oldest In Canada. She came TO
British Columbia So years ago.
Dr. w. L. Kistler, one of the best
known physicians of the State of New
ada, died Wednesday morning at
Reno hospital, after an extended per-
iod of illness. His condition became
serious, and for two days he had been
unconscious.
The Tonopah, Nevada, Extension mill
which has been closed down for the
past two months owing to strike con-
ditions, has resumed operations. Zen
stamps have been put to work and
more will be set dropping as fast as
men can be secured to operate the
mines.
Following search of several weeks
postal inspectors caused the arrest at
Tacoma of a man describing himself
as Henry Baker, 40, printing pressman,
In connection with threatening letters
said to have been received by Charles
Chaplin, motion picture actor, demand"
Ing $4,000 under penalty of death.
G. H. Rfdeout, secretary of the Mid
West Oil and Gas company, now In
process of organization, states that his
company has taken over the holdings
of the Union Oil and Gas company.
The new company, according to Mr..
Rideout, r'ans the development Of gas
fields fourteen miles north of Sair Lake
City.
The principals in '"The Sweetheart
Shop" a musical comedy playing at
the Olympic theatre, Chicago went
on a strike Monday when they failed
to receive their weekly sllaries. The
strike took place just before it was
time for the curtain to rise and money
was refunded to those who had pur-
chased seats.
There is no use trying to secure a
conviction against a pretty woman on
a murder charge in Chicago with a
| jury of men, is the way the attorney
for the state put it up when there was
a verdict of acquittal for Mrs. Cora
Orthwein charged with the murder of
Herbert c. Ziegler, whom she shot to
death in her apartments.
The Rocky Mountain Coal Mining
institute, representing an annual coal
output of about 100000 tons from
Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New
Mexico, opened it's sem:annTIl conven-
ton at Salt Lake recently when
the delegates were registered by Sec
rotary f. w. Whitesides. III all, about
fifty-six made registration
Albert Yick, also known as 70. q.
Davis, sentenced to hang ut Dillon,
Montana, for the murder Of Sheriff G.
X. Wyman, was denied new trial by
the state supreme court at Helena re-
Gently. This exhausts the last legal
source of appeal open to Y'ck, it was
announced, and his execution can be
After receiving information that he
Is wanted in connection with sabotage
In the wheat fields of Kansas and Ne
braska, the police of San Francisco
Monday charged John Harmon, q
supposed organizer of the Industrial
Workers of the World, with criminal
syndicalism, following his arrest as q
yagrant. Harmon was arrested June
Is.
prevented only by executive clemency
An army of grasshoppers, estimated
by County Farm Agent J. G. Hale Of
Colorado Springs to be fifteen mile.
wide and twenty miles long, Is advan
cling on El Paso county, Colorado, from
the southwest, Mr. Hale has announ
ced. In their advance the grasshop
pers are destroying virtually all vexe
tation in their path, according to tn,
county agent.
, The government is confronted witt
} the problem of deciding who capture,
Roy Gardner, the mail bandit, at Cen
tralia, Wash. Mrs. Marion Howell
proprietor of the hotel where Gardne
was taken, claims the reward becaus
she told the police. Officer Louis Son
ny claims it because he made the a,
rest. They may let Gardner decide q
to who is entitled to it.
Within fifteen days 1913 Brookly
families innlmdInn. rrrrn.-I..L, "a