Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-12-17
NEWS SUMMARY


presented to congress during the
week.
The Rose county option law was
declared constitutional by Judge
Duncan of the common pleas court at
Finlay. Ohio.
The constitutionality OF Pennsyl-
vania's two-cent fare law is again at
tackled in an equity suit fled in the
common pleas court of Pittsburg.
A New York chauffeur convicted for
the third time of violation OF the au-
tomobile speed laws, was sentenced
to pay a fine of $3.50 and spend thirty
days In jail.
Triplets were born last week tc
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose E. Calhoun of
Columbus, Ga. This couple now has
twenty-five children. The father is
So years old.
John Solomon and Frank BabinsKv
were killed by an explosion Ut dust
| following a windy shot in the Spring
field Colliery company's mine at
Springfield. Ill.
Speaker Cannon has made known
his unalterable opposition to the pro-
position of financing waterways I'M
improvements by the issuance OF
government bonds.
Charges of criminal libel preferred
against Omar X. Benedict, manager
OF the Oklahoma City Times, by
Governor Charles N. Haskell of Ok
| lahoma, have been dismissed.
Licking county, Ohio, last week
voted dry by 700, doing away with
eighty-four saloons. Harding county
was carried by the "drys" by 1900.
| Twentyone saloons are affected.
The town of Pine Bluff, Ark, is
| again endangered by food waters OF
| plan is conceived to check the wa
tiers there will be a heavy property
| loss.
James Gordon Bennett has present
ed to the French Aero club an inter
| national aviation cup, valued at
| $1,000, as well as three sums Of $4,000
| to be added as prizes in the first
! three annual competitions.
A concurrent resolution provid-
| ing for the appointment of three SEN
ators and three representatives to
make the necessary arrangements
for the inauguration Of President
Taft has been adopted by the senate.
In speech to the delegates in at
tendance upon the Southern Com
mercial Congress, held in Washing
| ton. James Bryce the British embas-
| hn rnnufpffOr fhat
| q great future is about to dawn upon
| the south.
| Appropriations aggregating $780,
300 were made at the annual meeting
OF the board ofstrustees Of the Car
negie institution of Washington.
This amount is to be used in 1909
merely to continue proJects hereto
tfore initiated
1t develops that some one stole a
pocketbook containing $4,000 belong
ing to Senior Don Juan Barrios, minis
ter of foreign AFFAIRS of Guatemala,
Is he was lying unconscious by the
roadside after an automobile accident
near Washington.
The voroners jury in the inquest
at Trinchera, Colo, into the killing
Of the Garcia family, returned YER
dict that the five persons had been.
murdered by Francisco Martinez,
who then committed suicide by blow
Ing out his brains.
President Roosevelt and President
elect Taft publicly put themselves on
record last week In advocacy OF the
issuance OF government bonds for the
| construction of permanent public i'm
provements to conserve the natural
resources of the nation.
The long overdue British ship.
Hadden Hall, over whose safety
much anxiety was caused, arrived at
Seattle. 245 days from Liverpool via
Montevideo. The ship had most
tempestuous voyage, during which
many Of her crew were injured.
Governor Hughes of New York de-
clares that he does not deem It ad-
visable to at this time appoint COM
mission of citizens to investigate the
conditions surrounding the pife in
surance companies Of New York
state, and report to the legislature.
Sixty-five years is the age limit for
members of the University of Min
nesota faculty The board of regents
decided that contracts with members
Of the faculty should expire when
they reached that age. The rule will
re applied beginning with this week.
Becoming suddenly insane, Hiram
Badger OF Wakefield. Mass, killed
his two daughters, then ran amuck
through the town, shooting at per-
sons he met and into the store win
dows. A grocer's clerk received a
wound in the leg. Badger was finally
captured.
Advocates of the establishment OF
an Appalachian and White mountain
national forest reserve. headed by