The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-03-24
WASHINGTON

pl9CeS pears portrait of Brigham
Young, and picture of the Mormon
tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
AS the first direct result of the gov
ernments antitrust suit against the
So-called electric lamp trust" the
department of justice mas received in
tlmation that the prices of all electric
light bulbs will be reduced 80 1-3 per
cent all over the United States.
Careful study of the neutrality laws
mas left the administrations advisers
doubtful If the United States can pre-
vent the shipment of arms and ammu-
milton to the Mexican insurrectos.
The present partol of the Mexican
frontier will be increased in a few
days by several troops of cavalry
from the mounted forces now being
assembled in the southern border
states.
FOREIGN
The japanese conquest Of the For
mosa savages has only been begun,
according to mail advices received
from Yokohama. There are 10000
Of these aborigines, who live in the
mountains that extend the full length
of the island.
With the leader, Louis Rodriguez,
and seven of his followers dead on
the field of battle at Tecate, Mexico,
and the remnants of his band scatter
ed to the four winds in the noun
tains; with the Mexican federal infan-
try holding the passes and hamlets,
the revolution on the west side of the
mountains in northern Lower Califor-
MIA received a severe blow on Friday.
The excavation in the central divi-
sion of the Panama canal, including
the great Culebra cut and the Chag-
res section, during February was the
greatest on record, being 1,409,338 Gu
bic yads.
St. Patick's day was celebrated
throughout Ireland with unusual en-
thusiasm because of the promise of
home rule at an early date. The troop
ing of the colors at Dublin castle was
carried out with elaborate ceremony.
The war begun in Formosa by ia
pan last year, and which has caused
the death of hundreds of Japanese
soldiers and thousands of natives, has
resulted in the Japanese gaining con-
troll of 125 square miles of territory
between Gerau and Shinshiku. Eight
thousand sayages have surrendered
their firearms.
1t is understood the Mexican gov
eminent has made overtures for peace
with the insurrectos. The insurrecto
leaders declare that before they will
listen to such proposals, President
Diaz must agree to declare null his
election of 1910 and must agree to
submit to a new election under the
terms for a free balloy allowed by the
constitution of 1857 He must agree
to grant all the political reforms de-
manded. The insurrectos must not
be required to surrender their arms
until peace is assured.
Investigation of the accidental
death at La Paz, Bolivia, of Malcolm
Knowles, son of American Minister
Horace G. Knowles, developed that
the trolley pole of an electric car fell
and, striking the young man, crushed
his skull.
The dry farming congress meeting
at Adelaide, Australia, has decided to
adopt the system followed in Wyo-
ming which several Australian ey-
perts recently investigated. The re-
suits of the experiment will be tab
ulated for purposes of comparison.
A dispatch from Saloniki to the
Zeitung says that the
Young Turks control committee has
received a dispatch from the seat of
hostilities in Yemen that the Turkish
troops are putting the Arabs to flight
everywhere, and that the machine
guns have caused great havoc among
the tribesmen.
The rigorous winter Just closing
has caused extreme suffering and
probably many deaths among the peo-
pie in the barren Labrador PENN
sula who have been cut off for months
by great ice fields from the POSSIBLE
ity of securing food and clothing.
A total of SS75,7G9,925 gold mas
been invested in twenty-one years by
foreign interests in Mexico outside
the mining industry, according to
bulletin issued by the bureau of man
ufacture of the department of COM
laerce aud labor Americans head
the list.
Jose Santos Zelaya, who was COM
peIIed to relinqu.sh the presidency OF
Nicaragua during the recent revolu-
tion. gave an interview in Paris
paper on Wednesday, in which he
violently attacked the attitude OF the
United States in the Mexican AFFAIR.
Instructors on Wednesday @ght
to blow up the barracks
ut ,Iuarez. Mexico. Two heavy charg-
es of nitro glycerine We're placed I'M
der the place and exploded, tearins
out parts of the buildings occupied
by the Mexican troops. A number