The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-09-23
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTER.MouNTAlN.

forty hours, the three-year-old baby
Of Mary Georgia, daughter of &
rancher, near Pierce, Colo, was res
cued and lived several hours. The
mother Is under arrest, charged with
burying the child alive
The much heralded insurgent STAN
pede from the Republican state con
yention at Missoula, Mont. failed to
materialize, and the party platform
recommends nothing more startling
than the direct election Of United
States senators.
President Taft's administration
Secretary Ballinger's conduct in of.
flee and the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
were Endorsed by the state Republican
convention at Rawlins, Wyo. Attor.
ney General Mullen, of Sheridan, was
nominated for governor.
The Democratic state convention in
session at Provo, Utah, declared in
favor of state wide prohibition, the di.
rect primary law. the election of Unit
ed States senators by vote of the peo-
pie, the initiative, referendum and re-
call, and the commission form of gov
eminent for cities.
The $1,000 contributed by the Ma
tional Red Cross society and the en-
ployes of the forest service in Wash
tngton for those injured in the recent
forest fires in the west will not be
sufficient, according to District For
ester Greedy at Missoula, Mont. He
estimates that $500 will be needed.
The codfishing schooner Joseph
Rush, which has arrived at Port
Townsend, Wash, from Boring, sea,
reports a narrow escape from destruc-
ton by being buried under ashes
thrown from the crater OF Mount Shis-
haldin on Unimak island.
James H. Dear, a well known stock
man of Livingston Mont, was acct.
dentally killed while at work in
sheep camp near that city. Dear was
carrying revolver strapped to his
side, and while STOPPING over in the
act Of SHINING a sheep the revolver
was In some manner discharged. the
bullet striking him In the left breast
DOMESTIC.
In a desperate attempt to escape
from the New Mexico reform school
at Springer, N. M, three youthful
desperadoes nearly killed the assist
ant superintendent.
Insurgents were victorious in three
out of twenty-five congressional dis
tricts of Illinois in the primary cleo
ton.
Arizona's constitutional convention,
which will meet on October Is, will
have forty-one Democrats and eleven
Republicans.
A reduction in the debt of the Am
srican commissioners for the foreign |
missions from s35,585 to $6,OO5 during
the last year is shown by the state
ment of the boards accounts for the
year ending August 81.
William M. Bradshaw, a guard in
the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth. shot Bertha Schmetz while at
her home near Horton, Kans,. and
then committed suicide. Miss Schmetz
will recover.
An epidemic Of infantile paralysis,
which began early in the summer, has
spread to an alarming extent through
out the state of Rhode Island.
That the four daughters of John
Jensen, a leper, isolated at Calumet.
Mich, would not be menace to the
school population and cannot be ex-
cluded from the public schools, is
he conclusion drawn by Attorney
General Kuhn.
Two bodies, identified as those of {
fred kibbe and George Hillpot. Globe
business men, who left on a hunting !
rip, have been found at an abandoned ,
tage station on the Fort Apache road,
Is miles northeast of Globe, Ariz. Both
men had been shot through the head,
I'D ii is practically certain that they
ware murdered.
"A vat In a brewer at Fort Wayne, ,
nd, collapsed while workmen were =,
epair;ng its founda ton. The vat
obtained $4,000 gallons of beer, which
'ouAad through the streets. The work. q
men were caught in the rush and |
we're rescued with difficulty from /
ROWING.
'9shE persons, FIVE won en- and three
aen, we're more or less seriously in l.
lred hen Wright .leroplane driven Q
y Arthur Hoxey, swerved sidelong '
rom its course and plunged into a c
rowd before the grand stand at the t
tate fair at Milwaukee. a
John j. Evans, proprietor OF a no.
81 in Chester, Pa, was murdered c
lille asleep in his room, and his son, t
ichard, aged 10, is charged with the a
rhine. Richard. who four years ago ii
las injured while playing football. b
as been acting strangely of late, and y
believed to be insane. k
The Society of Shakers. whose es.
tie of 1880 acres is located near Il
Ugh Bridge, Ky, is to sell all their II
oidings. The youngest member of o.
lie society is 20, and they feel that Il
is time to disband the communistic "
>ciety, o.
The wheat crop of the United
tates is short 61,OOO,0OO bushels, all n
the shortage being in spring wheat. Il
he winter wheat crop for the year g
tailed 45S000,000 bushels, against G
t6 $3.50, 900 for 1909. making the total /,