The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-02-24

Statehood for Arizona Is impossible
at this session of Congress, because
the returns of the election held Febru.
airy cannot be canvassed and certi.
fed under the law in time to reach
Washington for action by congress.
Mrs. Mary Louise Snyder, wife of
Charles P. Snyder, head of a stove
manufacturing corporation at MASH
lon, O., was fatally injured in Los
Angeles by an automobile which ran
over her as she was crossing a street.
Two masked burglars broke into
the town Jail at Warrior Run Pa,
and bursting open the door OF the
cell in which Stanley Jandus, the
only prisoner, was confined, robbed
him, at the point of a revolver, of $29.
William H. Large, formerly secre-
tary of a large cracker company,
jumped or fell from the fire escape
landing of the fourteenth floor of an
Office building in St. Louis. He was
instantly killed.
WASHINGTON
The Hobson bill to encourage the
development of the American mer
chant marine and to promote COM
merce and the national defense was
reported favorably to the house by
the committee On merchant marine by
vote of nine to three.
That prejudice against the negro is
| just as intense in the north as in the
south, and that the north plays the
! hyprocrite in it's contentious to the
contrary, was boldly and bluntly as
serted in the senate on Thursday by
Senator Borah of Idaho.
Representative Macon of Arkansas,
speaking in general debate on the ma
val appropriation bill in the house on
| Thursday, made an attack on Captain
Robert Z. Peary, denouncing him as
a fakir and declaring that he should
be driven from the naval service"
If the plans of Senators BOrah and
BeVeridge with reference to the cleo
ton of senators and the charges
against Senator Lorimer are not trus-
trated, the senate chamber will be
relieved within the next week of two
measurers which have occupied much
of the senates working time.
President Taft has issued procla
nation calling for funds to aid the ia
mine sufferers in China.
After many years of delay, the bill
for the creation of a national forest
reserve in the White mountains and
the southern Appalachians, passed
the senate on Wednesday, the vote
standing 81 to 8.
FOREIGN
Insurgents attacked and captured
Velardena, Mexico, installing a schoo
teacher as the new jefe politico.
The recent announcement that En-
peror William would attend the cere
mony of unwilling the national mem
orial to Queen Victoria, which will
take place in front of Buckingham
palace on May 16, has been confirm
! ed officially.
l American soldiers of fortune ar
: said to be joining the Mexican revc
/ lutionists in large numbers. Genera
2 Berthold, it is believed, has been sen
to Los Angeles to arrange for tn
+ smuggling of rifles and ammunition
: over the border at a point nea
! MeXicai.
: AS a result of defeat at Mexical
< the federal force which Governo
Vega spent several weeks in organic
ing was hopelessly dispersed. Vega
desperately and perhaps fatal
/. wounded, has reached his camp at La
2 Juntas with barely a BODY guard GU
: of his former forces.
The Chinese foreign board decline
1 to make a statement concerning Rus
S sia's representations with regard t
the Iii province in Chinese Turkestar
e saying that reply to NJ. Kortovitl
S Russian minister to China, had nc
s been determined upon. 1t is no
= doubted in Pekin, however, that Oh
f mas surrender will be complete.
4 The continued talk of annexation
r kept alive by the opposition journal.
is causing resentment in Canada, anC
f according to some of the leading SUI
f porters Of the government, may jeoI
: ardize the reciprocity measure nov
before parliament.
t Pope Plus has practically recovere
2 from his attack of influenza.
d The relations of Russia and Chin
n are strained to the breaking poin
Y Russia has notified the government
d Of the United States, Great Britain
e France and Germany of her intentio
t to make a military demonstration o
t the Russo-Chinese frontier, owing t
China's persistent violation of the S
Petersburg treaty of 1881.
a A battle between Mexican troop
4 and the insurgents TOOK place Wee
:. nesday. when a force of Mexican so
: diers advanced from the desert an
+ took up a position Immediately oppc
site Mexicali. The insurrectOs sue
ceeded in standing off the regulars.
General Navarro, at the head o
, 1000 federal troops from chihuahua
entered Juarez Tuesday evening. TIL
entire trip, consuming twelve days
was made by train without the firms
of shot or sighting the revolution
l lists.
A powder explosion destroyed tn,
ammunition barracks at Managua