The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-03-10
NEWS of A WEEK IN
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 Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAIN


view In Salt Lake City, charged Com
mander Robert E. Peary with immor-
ality and inhumarity in the for north;
scored Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
for ''teaming' with Peary, and
wound up an unusually bitter arra!gn-
ment by accusing Peary OF various vi
Citations OF various commandments, in
addition to almost every phase Of pro-
fessional ethics.
4 senatorial deadlock which began
with the opening of the Montana leg.
islatiye assembly, was broken in its
closing hours on Thursday by the Sc
lection of Henry L. Myers, a promi-
nent lawyer. as successor to Thomas
N. Carter.
Shipments of -four from Puget
sound to the orient during February
broke all previous records, aggregat-
ing 263,688 barrels. Flour men state
that the months shipments even ex.
ceeded those Of the boom days Of
1907.
Officers Of the Spokane Clearing
House association are promoting a
national movement to erect a fitting
memorial in Washington, D. c., TO
Salmon P Chase, founder Of the ma
tiOnal banking system, who was gov
eruor Of Ohio, secretary Of the Unit
ed States treasury, senator from Ohio
and later chief justice Of the United
States supreme court during his not
able career.
DOMESTIC
George Anderson, alias old Bill"
Minor, was given q prison sentence Of
twenty years and George Hantord and
Charles Hunter sentences Of fifteen
years each at GAINESVILLE, Ga, for al
legged completely in the robbery Of an
express car on q Southern Railway
passenger train near White Sulphur
Springs recently.
The second strike Ct United States
Epress company drivers and helpers
within year, called unexpectedly on
Friday, was settled during the Gay,
both sides making concessions.
That gold in paying quantities les
mixed in the dirt beneath the old
Southern Pacific arcade depot in the
heart of the east side business district
of Los Angeles is the belief Of Mrs.
Margaret Hunter. who has field a no
tice Of a placer location on the TWEEN
ty acres Of railroad terminal properly.
Asbury Spicer, a Hargis clansman,
led a Jail delivery at Jackson, KY,
three other prisoners escaped with
Spicer, whose appeal from a coRvic-
JiOn from murder is now pending in
the state courts.
Disappointed because she did not
receive 5000 leaned to a friend in
more prosperous days, Mrs. jose
phine ". Quirles, aged 81, said to be
a daughter Of the late Davis H.
Waite, former governor OF Colorado,
committed suicide at Los Angeles by
tnhaling gas.
Only the interference Of the state
attorney general at Chattanooga,
Tenn, prevented the marriage in Jail
Of DR.. John W. Sherman, held with
out bail for killing his brotherin-law,
and Miss Cleo D. Lucas.
Neighbors who discovered the home
of James Hyatt, aged 50. six miles
from Penn, n. Y, on FIRE, found
Hyatt's charred bones in the ruins.
1t is believed he was murdered.
Il is reported that Charles D, Nor.
ton, whose resignation Us secretary to
President Taft has been announced,
will become yice-president OF the First
National bank in New York City, sue
ceeding Thomas ". Lamont, who
withdrew to enter the firm Of J. P.
Morgan & Co.
That the double tracking Of the
trans-cOnunental lines OF the Southern
Pacific and Union Pacific railways
will be completed in time for the op-
ening of the Panama-Pacifc interna-
tional exposition, was the statement
made in San Francisco by President
Robert s. Loyett Of the Hartman
lines.
The Democratic party Of Michigan
met in state convention at Mus
ksSon. on Wednesday, with the larg-
est number OF delegates in attend
ance present at any Democratic
spring convention in several years.
John Mitchell, former president of
the United Mine Workers OF America
and recently chairman Of the trade
agreement department OF the National
Civic Federation. has made public his
resignation OF his office and member
ship in the latter.
Edgar Striking. Tor I'VE years
chief OF police OF Danville, Va, under
The name Of r. f. Norris, has been
arrested as an escaped murderer
from the PRISON in Harris county, Ga
The Vets" gained several Of the
larger r4ues Of Indiana that rreYio's-
" had been on the dry side in -"cai
>r.irr elections in fourteen c3Ua lies
II the state on TUESDAY.
Forty persons attending the funeral
services OF Henry Guss".aa aI Er.e.
IA. we're prec!qit3;ed 70 Tie has.
r.eu; when tha Goor collapsed. None
were seriously injured.
TWO masked and heavily armed ron-
be~s held up the express car on an
Iron Mountain train within the city
rir,i~s 0f s. Louis escaping with