The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-03-24
'sSoRo OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEEEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making AIs.or,
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines
lNTERMoUNTaIN

the Mlnnequa steel plant of the CoIo.
RADIO Fuel C Iron company at Pueblo
Colo. 0''o'
Bearing marks of one of the most
cruel and heartless murders ever re-.
corded the body of Barbara Holtz.
man. a 5-year-old girl, was found on
a bed IN rooming house in Portland
The child had been sent on an errand,
and 1t is supposed was lured to the
room by man who has since dis.
appeared and was murdered.
Twelve nurses employed in the
hlng county hospital, at Seattle, went
on strike Wednesday night, leaving
zoo patients to be cared for by DR..
William P. O'Rourke, superintendent
OF the hospital, and two nurses who
declined to join in the walkout. The
strike followed a refusal of an in
crease in wages by the board of coun-
ty commissioners.
Inc commission form OF government
was Instituted at Spokane on Wednes-
day, when the first board OF five COM
m!ssioners, elected last Tuesday, as
sumed control.
professor j. Fl. Walters, principal
OF the Anacortes, WASH. high school
dropped dead while hearing recita-
ton. Walters came to Anacortes a
year ago from Cedar Rapids, la.
Julius Sirmay, the Hungarian youth
convicted January II of the murder
OF Thomas r. Karrick, a Salt Lake
.schoolboy, will be shot to death at
the state prison on May 5.
DOMESTIC
Branche Cole, aged IS, has writ,
ten from Los Angeles, Cal, to Gov
ernor Carroll of Iowa, requesting that
he aid in locating her mother, from
whom she was kidnapped by her ia
ther at Keokuk, Ia, thirteen years
ago. Just prior to his death in Los
Angeles, recently, the father confided
to the girl the story of her earlier
life.
Army men are discussing a rumor
that Within the next six months
force of 10000, including infantry,
cavalry, field and mountain artillery,
will occupy the Hawaiian and Philip
pine islands.
The so-called statewide prohibition
bill has been signed by Governor Col
quit of Texas, 1t provides for the
submission of constitutional amend
ment for statewide prohibition at an
election July % next.
In the ninth round when Ad VOL
CAST, Lightweight champion, was
about to knock out george Memsic,
Referee Eyton stopped the fight in
the Vernon arena near Los Angeles.
Adm Ballou Capron, until March
representative in congress from the
second Rhode Island district, died at
his home in Saltwater, r. l., on Fri
day. He was seven times elected to
congress as a representative.
DR.. Edward w. Hubbard, a we'll
known physician and surgeon, for
merly of New York City and Provi-
dence, R. l., is dead at his home in
Pasadena, Cal, as the result of burns
sustained when his clothing caught
fire from his pipe.
Charles Elliot Mitchell, who was
United States commissioner of patents
under President Harrison, died of
apoplexy at New Britain, Conn, on
Friday.
Nine men, including a former rail
hrnlynrG
financiers, were indicted by the fed
eral grand jury at CRcago on Thurs
day in the Matanuska river coal land
cases.
Frank Gotch, champion wrestler, in
his bout at Chicago WITH Henry Balm,
known as Samson, the 260-pound
German champion, threw his oppo-
nent so hard as to cause a fracture of
the Germans skull. Physician at the
match declared Balm was seriously
hurt.
The jury at HopkinsviIle, KY in
the case of Dr. Amoss, alleged night
rider, brought in verdict OF not
guilty.
John Callahan, alleged to be the
leader of a band of bank and post
office robbers, was convicted in the
federal court at Wichita, kans.. OF
selling stolen postage stamps.
Walking into a shooting gallery IN
San Francisco, Jack Kane, labor
er, laid a dime on the counter anu
asked for a revolver. He fired a shot
carelessly at the target then shot
dying instantly.
What is regarded as a strict form
of enforcing neutrality at Eagle
Pass. Texas, on Wednesday, in the
arrest and Imprisonment of Frederick
Chiccn, an American citizen. He was
accused of unlawfully carrying a PTS
toll.
While eating her supper in res
taurant at FGomation. Ala, Miss An
ME Cook OF Montgomery Ala was as
sassinated by a shot fred through
window. killing her instantly. she
ad been away about week, and It is
l. ,Iieved enemies followed her TO XIII
her
Edith Malber, convicted of killing
her only child by forcing acid down
it's throat on the night of January 10
last. near Albany, n. Y, has oeeA
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
"Packsy" Mcfarland, the Chicago
ri. .,,.,i,bt o,,tnDinted Owen Moran,