The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-10-06

Announcement is made that the IN
ION Pacific has been quietly preparing
at Omaha for a strike. An old build
ing has been equipped with cots and
1T is said strike-breakers will be
brought there at once from the east
All available space on the entire
feet OF the Nippon Yusen Waisha
from Seattle for China, has been book
ed for the next four months and the
greatest movement OF -four to the
orient In history is under way
Speech returned to Mrs. Henry Bare
helpless paralytic OF Alameda, Call
for the FIRST time In seven years when
she was told OF the death OF her two
daughters. who were killed by e
train.
Breaking into the county jail at
Dumas. Ark, and oyerpowering officer
In charge, q mob Of 400 men took
| Charles Malpass ST., white man to
water tank and lynched him.
With the death OF Chief satago al
st. Ignace, Mich. there passed away
the last great sachem Of the once
powerful Chippewa nation. He was
los years old
WASHINGTON
Former Congressman Charles n
LAttle6eld OF Maine will be associated
with William e. Black Of Milwaukee
as counsel for Senator Isaac Steph
enson in the investigation which vii
4 begin October 3
i william A. Lewis, a bodyguard Of
Abraham Lincoln during the civil wal
and policeman at the White
House with doorkeeper's duties for
thirty.fiye years, died In Washington
Thursday. He was IS years old.
4 The forest service has just issued a
bulletin on grazing and foods with
view TO establishing its contention
that oyer-grazing Is responsible fol
great damage during high water.
/ Although the quadrilateral treaty
for the protection OF seal life In Arc
tic waters was planned to 80 into eff
feet within less than three months
from this date, apparently no steps
have yet been taken by either Great
Britain, Russia or Japan to change
the ratifcations which are necessary
to bring the convention into play.
FOREIGN
A state OF war exists between Italy
and Turkey and hostilities have be
gun No sooner had the time limit
fixed In the uitimatum expired on Fri
day than, ignoring Turkeys concilis
tory request for delay, Italy declared
war.
The Turkish cabinet, which hat
been for some time Insecure, resigned
on Friday, when war was declared
and new ministry was formed undei
Said Pasha, but retaining the former
able war minister, Mahmoud Shefket
: Pasha,
The London papers, discussing the
respective lighting forces Of Italy anC
Turkey, comment on the weak posi-
ton to which Turkey has been re
duced by neglect OF her navy. Sh'
controls a fine army, approaching /,
100000 men, and 1900 guns, but thu
; great lighting machine is imprisonet
In Europe, because Turkey is power
: fess against ltaly's effective fleet,
There was heavy break in tn
market in Berlin on Friday and tn
4 Goettinger bank suspended. The d
reetors express belief that the ban
!, viii be able to pay its depositors tn
$750.000 due them.
Ten large totem poles from south
eastern Alaska Indian villages, co
lected by a representative of tn
i Brooklyn institute Of arts and science
, were shipped from Seattle to Brool
= Ign last week
Among the educated classes in Cor
stantinople. especially the Youn
= Turks, resentment against Italy's al
d gression is strong and the minister
. are severely censured for their negleC
. to take the most obvious military an
= diplomatic precautions in the face {
recent warnings.
y Sir Edmund Lacon, fifth baron I
y the name, was killed by the owe
"a turning OF his automobile on hill
:, side on the Kelowana road, about tw
= miles from Vernon, B. G.
There are unconhrmed reports thi
Turkey intends to send an ultimatuI
- to Greece to abandon her claims Q
- Crete, and is massing troops on II
70 Thessalonian frontier
!, A terrific explosion of rockets an
: bombs In crowded church at Quad
lajara, Mexico, resulting in the deatf
of four persons and serious injury
= fifteen others cast a shadow Of glool
40 over the merry-making attending Il
40 coming OF Madero to that city.
y The Johnson-Wells championsh
" tight, scheduled for October 2, hi
~ been definitely abandoned by Il
principals and promoters. owing
d. the opposition OF the authorities al