The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-08-26
NEWS OF A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTER-MoUNTAIN.

INTEa-MoUNTAiN.
Two men boarded a Santa Fe pas
senger train at the Russell Fork
bridge, two miles east of BuckIin,
Mo-, held up and robbed two of the
passengers and escaped.
Othello M. Evans of Kansas City
was arrested in Salt Lake City upon
bigamy charge. 1t is claimed he
| was married man with a wife and
three children when he married Grace
Norman of Grand Island. Neb.
Western governors in session in
Salt Lake City decide to send strong
delegation to the st. Paul congress to
seek amelioration of conditions arising
| from forest service abuses.
Afraid to face the future painted by
her invalid husband, with whom she
was discussing the family finances,
Mrs. Emma Freidburg, in the midst
of a conversation seized a bottle of
carbolic acid and swallowed its con,
| tents
San Francisco police claim that the
arrest of Man Cow, a Chinaman, has
revealed a widespread conspiracy for
bringing Chinese slave girls into the
country under the guise of wives of
native-born Chinese.
Released from the federal prison at
| Fort Leavenworth, Kuratore Suzuki,
a Japanese, was arrested at the gate
iCro ion
| officer from Butte, Mont, who will
take him back to San Francisco for
| deportation. Suzuki was convicted of
importing Japanese women for i'm
moral purposes.
1t is stated that Senator Hepburn
| stopped an orchestra from playing
Dixie" at Wallace, Idaho.
Statistics show that Denver has the
largest per cent, increase of suicides
in 1909, with Salt Lake City second
in the list.
DOMESTIC.
James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat
king, who made his money gambling
on the fluctuations of that commodity,
warns the American youth not to gam
| BILE with cards.
1t is political death to Republican
in Kentucky to indorse Speaker Can
non or the things that Speaker Can
on stands for, according to Represen-
| tative Ollie James.
Eastern railroad magnates declare
that the outlook for business generally
this fall and winter is exceptionally
bright
A superintendent of a Children s
Home Finding society in western
| state, says that the one great cause
for the dependent child is the unskilled
parent. and that the unskilled house
keeper is one of the greatest curses
in the land today.
Attorney General O'Malley in an
opinion sent to Governor Hughes of
New York, holds that exhibitors of
the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures are
not violation of the penal law of the
state.
Business prospects are excellent all
over the country, but speculation is
dull owing to the uncertainty of the
political outlook
According to the census figures the
back to the farm" slogan don't work.
These figures show a constant in
crease of urban population.
According to the preliminary report
of the commissioner of internal rev.
enue for the year ending June 3, which
has just been received in the local
revenue office, the prohibition wave
in the United States has resulted in
1881 saloons being put out of bust
ness, and the government has lost
S190,7SS.74 in licenses from these sa-
looms.
Harry Foster. % years old, of Car
men, Okla, who killed his father
when he was about to strike Mrs. Fos-
ter, after she had accused her hus-
band of infidelity, was arrested on a
charge of murder after a coroner's
jury had exonerated him.
After forty years or separation,
which began in their infancy, F. ].
Eheihard of Los Angeles and Mrs. C..
A. lessen of Salt Lake City, brother
and sister, were reunited in the for
mer city.
Fifty railroad cars were demolished
or damaged among them the private.
car of President Peters of the Long
Islyand railroad, when an explosion
occurred in the express shed of the
Long Island railroad in Long Island
City.
The support of the negro electorate
of the United States for a possible
third term was pledged in behalf of
Colonel Roosevelt by the 100 dele
gates of the National Negro Business
Mems league in convention at New
York.
The Evangelist Committee of Forty,
headed by James G. Cannon, president
of the Fourth National bank of New
York City, which will conduct a ma
tion-wide campaign against evil, will
hold a meeting in Niagara Falls on
Monday to outline further plans for
the great national revival
1t is expected that the federal grand
Jury which has been investigating the
methods of the so-ca led beef trust for
more than a month will attack what
the government considers the heart of
the problem by returning indictments