The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-02-03


: from her home since December l, nd
N mitted that two letters demanding 9
II ransom for the young woman had been
= received with the past week
Joe Hampton OF wichita. Kans.,
aged 20. broke the worlds continu-
r GUS roller skating record, skating .
total OF twentyfonr hours. He fell
faiDting &C the close OF bis feat
For the first time. II was declared.
IN the history of aviation. an aeroplano
rose from the surface Of the water at
y San Diego, Cal. on Thursday, sailed
about. and, returning 10 The starting
point. landed on the water as easily as
a gull
The strike OF the cigarmakers at
Tampa, Fla, which has lasted several
nunths. has been called OF by the
Joint advisory board. conditionaily,
II All past records for the Adams coun.
~, Ohio. election inquiry were smash
ed on Wednesday when the grand jury
reported 32s new indictments These
we're against voters who had yoluu.
tarily entered pleas of guilty.
Il WASHINGTON
| One year IN jail for Samuel Com.
pers, president Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor; nine months for |
John Mitchell, the ylco.president, ana
Dix months for Frank Morrison, the |
secretary. were the sentences imposed |
On Friday by the United States su
preme court ID the celebrated con
tempt case. An appeal WIN be made
% President Taft.
ny direction Of the president, Rear
Admiral Edward 81 Barry, the former
commandments of the Pacific
haet. has submitted his resignation
for tho good Of the service" II was
Immediately accepted. The enforced
resignation was the outgrowth OF
charges which have been In circula.
ton affecting the moral character OF
the naval officer
Urging Che prompt passage of re-
eipFoeity treaty between the United
States and Canada. President Taft on
Thursday sent TO congress special
message, accompanied by the agree
mcnt looking TO such treaty reached
'by representatives OF the Canadian
government and Of the state depart.
ment at recent conference in Wash.
ington.
new domestic postal card Is being
ISSUED by the postofGiCe department.
designed primarily for index. or II.
1raEy purposes, being smaller than :
issues. The size is three by :
i've inches.
FOREIGN
Details OF the losses OF federal q
roops under Colonel Borante receiv. :,
d At San Jose, Mexico, show that =
70 lost lt5 men when his soldiers :,
we're led into an lnsurreeto trap near y
)jinaea, The revolutionary loss was =
wo, .
Robert Lawson, second officer of =
he British steamship Queen Alexan. ~
Ira, fell from ladder while boarding -,
lls ship at Vancouver, b. G., and was "
illled, his skull being fractured.
Immense crowds paraded through
he street at Guayquil, Ecuador. In s,
rotest against the proposal to lease hi
he Galapagos islands to the United G,
tates. The crowds hooted the pre- O,
ident Troops summoned to guard la
he palace dispersed the crowds. p
Two hundred Peruvian soldiers at. m
leked tho village OF Charcras, Ecudor, al
eur the boundary, Three Ecuador. M
ms were killed and eight others W
ounded, Pi
Nearly all the former members of OF
10 government garrison at Ceiba, NJ
onduras. are enrolled under the Bon.
Ia banners and sympathizers are
lmtng in every few hours to Join the -.
isurgent ranks. u
The scope of the reciprocity agree VI
ent between the United States and w.
anada came as surprise to the Brit. ~
h public. No one had expected so W.
any changes to the free list or such -
lportant tariff reductions The tariff Nv
form newspapers mad made light OF n nu
. negotiations and predicted failure ne
reach mutual understanding. lilo
That seismic disturbances have an
lportant bearing on colliery disas-
RS Is the declaration OF r. Napier
'uison Of the Victoria, b. c.. meteor. bel
sieal office, after carefully studying cal
records which he has set
pt for the last eleven years. cal
Russia is about to employ pressure frs
improve its trade conditions in nat
ongolia. II Is intended 20 force Chi ing
Il consent to the opening Of a con. Tn
late at kobdo. In western Mongolia, pull
us lifting obstacles now In the way cra
Russian commerce. Stn
Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie died See
London, Thursday, The immediate ELI
use Of death was heart trouble,
,ugh he had been In an enfeebled
addition since the recent election, the
ain OF the campaign having affected Fai
n severely. Sch
There Is much mystery In the death att
Prince Tehin Pomii. former Korean Jud
MISTER 10 Russia. whose body was nXe
md hanging In his lodgings In
lurh OF st, Petersburg Ii is be- :,
we'd he was murdered and his body '
cod where II was found. \ sou
\ special dispatch 20 London from IN
king says that because OF the ury
gue, the diplomatic body has ere'