The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-12-15

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more on Friday when the governors
Of fifteen states gathered there as the
guests OF the city. The southeFners
held conference on the question OF
| immigration to the south, and the
westerners, who are touring the coun-
| try, came to exhibit the agricultural
and mineral resources.
The United States battleship Maine,
which sunk In Havana harbor Febru,
airy, 1898, as a result of an explosion,
was blown up from the outside. This
was announced on December by the
naval board that has been examining
the wreck.
Successfully maintaining his heart
action by means OF a pulmonary
pump. the physicians attending VIII.
| liam Hubbard of Tulsa, Okla, whose
lungs are declared to be dead. are
wondering how long he has to live
His case is puzzle to physicians.
Leaders OF the Socialist party,
which was defeated in the municipal
election at Los Angeles on Tuesday,
announced Thursday that their cam
paign to win control of the state leg
islature in the election Of 1912 had al
ready been put under way.
WASHINGTON
For two hours on Friday President
Taft and his cabinet wrestled with
the Russian passport question and at
the end Of the session 1t was &C.
knowledged solution that would
satisfy American Jews and at the
same time not embarrass either the
United States or Russia had not been
found.
The famous intermountain rate
cases, in which the commerce court
recently enioined temporarily the in
terstate commerce commission from
enforcing It's long and short haul or
ders have been docketed in the SUI
preme court. 1t is understood there
will be an early hearing.
Subpoenas have been issued by the
house sugar trust committee for
number OF farmers engaged in beet
sugar culture, They are to be called
to refute the testimony of Colorado
farmers that the beet sugar refiners
do not deal fairly with the beet farm
ers.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has declared its assumption of
| jurisdiction over the practices of
railroad, or railroads constituting a
through route, affecting the right of
the shipper to safe and speedy trans
portation Of his freight"
An appeal from the Persian people
to the congress of the United States
for aid and sympathy in their contro-
versy with Russia threatening their
independence was read Thursday in
the house Of representatives. 1t ask
ed aid consistent with Persia's dignity
and independence. :
The general business of the coun-
try as reflected In banking opera
tons, was quite satisfactory" in the
year ending October 81, according to
the annual report of Lawrence o.
Murray, comptroller of the currency,
submitted to congress Thursday.
.- FOREIGN
4 Fourteen members Of the crew of
the Belgian steamer Vandyck were
drowned when she was wrecked off
the Cornish coast. ..
DEGREES dissolving the reichstag and
fixing the date of the general cleo
tons for the new reichstag on Janu-
airy ~ are published in the Imperial
Gazette at Berlin.
In an interview received in Paris
from special correspondent in Te-
heran, w. Morgan Shuster, the Per-
sian Encouragement, Is said to have
declared that II the national assembly
should indicate its belief or the pow
ers demanding his dismissal can show
that any substantial advantage will
accrue to Persia by his departure, he
Is ready to go.
Shi Hsu, the Manchu prince who
was offered the grand guardianship OF
the emperor on the resignation of the
regent has accepted the post
Senator Smoot has introduced a bill
to establish bureau of national
parks under charge Of a director to
receive $4,000 annual salary. The bill
provides that the director shall have
the supervision of all national parks.
I An imperial .edict has been issued
sanctioning the cutting of of queues,
says Fekin dispatch.
Premier Asquith announced in the
house OF commons on Wednesday that
the government would use all the con.
stitutional means at its disposal to
pass home rule bill for Ireland dur
ing the lifetime of the present parlia-
ment
:. The Berlin correspondent of the
Vienna Die zeitung says that during
the height of the Angro-American
crisis the French and English banks,
having withdrawn their credits from
the German banks the latter appealed
to American banks for aid.
The steamer Marando is ashore at
Cat island, one of the Bahamas. She
was bound for Colon with machinery