The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-08-26

praCLlcaliy out OF danger.
McMurray, of Oklahoma, according
to testimony given before the graft
investigation, drew big salaries from
several tribes besides his special fees.
Thirty-two of the ninety.thre sur
viving members of the old Quantrell
band Of guerillas met at the opening
Of their annual reunion at Kansas
City.
Although Governor ShalIenberger of
Nebraska has apparently been defeat
ed by Mayor Dahlman for the Demo
cratic nomination, he may still go on
the ticket as the Populist nominee.
A belated attempt to heal the Bal
linger-Pinchot breach in the forestry
7ervice and land office before the au-
umnal campaign gets fairly under
| way Is seen in the action of the de-
partment of agriculture in sending
representatives into Colorado.
Charles Gear was shot to death,
| Joseph Thomas was fatally injured
and Preston Gear crawled into the
woods, presumably dying from a gum
shot wound in a fight over a crap
game at Big Springs, KY.
The New York banks are still ac-
cumulating money to meet the great
demand which is bound to begin next
month, when the crops begin to move
! inearnest. One bank alone has be-
tween S60,000,000 and 100000 900 in
its vaults and all the big banking in
situations are more strongly intrenched
with cash than they have been for a
long time.
Baby Harry" Is years old, who
J weighs $50 pounds, and is star at
traction at Chicago park, was arrest
{ ed for violating the child labor law
by appearing as a freak.
New York City is to have a new POI
litical party. The organization will be
! known as the Federated Labor party,
and had its inception at meeting of
prominent labor men held recently.
, Beverly, Mass, was upset when
! news came of the New York defeat of
| Theodore Roosevelt for temporary
chairman of the New York Republican
state convention.
! CoIliding with large black bear in
the highway in the town of Lagrange
/ Tuesday, a motor car in which were
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Hopkins and
John P. Fassatt, all OF New York, and
Miss Marin Gordon of Philadelphia,
was ditched by the roadside.
L. R. Keogh Of the Ottawa collegi-
ate institute staff announces that he
| has succeeded in transmitting copper
/ into iron. He states that the discov-
cry is of no commercial value.
The United States marshal at Mo
bile was authorized to arrest J. Harry
+ Sleeves of the fishing smack Alba
rella and the entire crew, charged
with INJECTING corporal punishment on
John Roguis, a 15-year-old boy.
Mrs. Rasmus Hage of Warren,
I Mimi, and her 8-months-old child were
drowned, when an automobile slipped
on an incline from ferryboat and
backed into the river.
| The coal lands in North and South
Dakota, amounting to about million
acres, which were recently withdrawn
from the public domain by President
Taft, have been opened to homestead
! settlement under the act passed at
the session of congress authorizing
/ agricultural entries on coal lands.
WASHINGTON.
To satisfy the demands of DR.. G.
Campbell Morgan, the English
preacher, President Taft will not
speak at Winona Tuesday, August 30,
at the Presbyterian assembly.
Postmaster General Hitchcock will
soon start west to look over the post
offices and incidentally will try his
his hand as pacificator of the warning
factions of the Republican party.
The gross receipts at fifty of the
largest postoffices of the country dur.
ing the month of July showed an In
crease of $3.50, 465, or ETA per cent
compared with the same month last
year, according to a statement issued
by the postoffice department.
Officials say there is not the slight
est possibility of the cholera plague
spreading to the United States, the
quarantine measures now in force
here and in Russia being so effective
as to preclude any danger of Russian
immigrants bringing over the disease.
FOREIGN.
A $4,000 contribution for the relief
flood sufferers in Japan was forwarded
by the American Red Cross to Toxic.
Insurgent forces have apparently
won a complete victory in Nicaragua
after year of the fiercest fighting in
Central Americas history.
France honors George Washington
memory of the dedication of replica
of the famous Houdon statue in Ma.
| poleon hall, Versailles.
Hawley Harvey Crippen and Ethel
Care Leneve sailed for England on
the White Star liner Megantic and are
due at Liverpool at noon next Satur.
| day.
The Orion. Great Brltain's newest
| and greatest battleship, was launched
at Portsmouth. England, Saturday in
the presence of King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria of Spain.
An expression OF sympathy of the
American government and the people
of the United States with Japan in
tbO fIoDd cola p,itinS in which hun.