The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-06-23
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD lA eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In > Few Linea
INTERMouNrAlN

lNTERMouNTAtN
Saving a bar IN two and bending
II back by main strength, George
Cullen, arrested last week on a
charge OF counterfeiting and indicted
by federal grand Jury in Helena.
escaped from the jail at Great Falls,
Mont
The southbound Shasta limited, was
held up and the mail chr robbed by
two hlghwaymen, between Drain and
Yoncalla, Ore. The robbers entered
the mail car. held up the clerks and
looted tho car, They stopped the
train at Yoncaila and made their es-
cape.
John Ryan, section foreman on the
Northern Pacific. was Instantly killed
by a train a mile west OF Silver Bow,
Mont, He was walking the track, go
Ing 10 the same direction as the
train.
The public Is being ground be-
tween the trusts on the one hand
and tbs farmers on the other, Is the
expressed opinion OF the retail gro
Gers, who are holding their national
convention In Denver.
one million dollars worth of rain
fell upon the parched area OF Utah
Tuesday night and Wednesday. Al
least conservative estimate OF the
value 10 the people OF Utah. In In
creased crops. reuslting from the
rainfall. Ia placed ut that figure
The seventh annual convention OF
the Idaho Bankers association, the
most successful in It's history. closed
| It's session 1T Roies Wednesday with
the selection OF Occur fAiene as the
place for holding the next annua
session.
There Will shortly be launched II
southern Idaho reclamation projec
aimed 10 redeem from the desert 600,
900 acres OF sage brush land and Il
cost In round figures $25,000,000. Tit
land 10 be reclaimed lies between
Bruneau and Bull, on the south banl
of the Snake river,
DOMESTIC
The first annual convention OF thu
National Association of Apple eide
Vinegar Manufacturers was opened
Friday at Rochester. n. Y. The as
ISOLATION Is interested in the enact
ment of more stringent pure foo'
laws.
Fred Sellers, d we'll known light
weight wrestler, was shot and kille'
nj Fairbanks. Alaska, by Boris Bake
soyich, u Slovenian miner, after
quarrel that grew out OF car
/ game.
Elmer l.. Smith, suspected Of b'
, ing one OF the ringleaders In the bi
, gold bullion robbery on the steame
Humboldt last year, pleaded guilt
, before Superior Judge Crahucco /
san Francisco on charge OF gran
I larceny for having $4,000 worth
, gold fltnga Ia his possession.
, After making q minute examinatio
. OF tho parts Of the Maine exposed
/ view. with the board OF engineer
+ General w. III. Hixhy stated that n
further developments of importanc
! IA connection with the work of raisin
1 the vessel are expected within II
4 next ten or twelve days.
! Lena Hernhofer. sixteen years oil
= shot and dangerously wounded Unite
4 state Deputy Marshal Fred Fonz
y whom no attempted to serve a writ I
dlspossesslon on the girls aunt. Mil
! Mary Beruhofer, proprietor Of u hot
! at SkaEway, Alaska,
: A silver punch set valued ut s1,oI
I viii be- presented to President NJ
4 Mrs. Taft on their twenty,ilfth we
!. ding anniversary by commercial NJ
: other organizations OF Atlanta, Ga.
The steamer John l., Lowery, wi
= nifty excursiuulsts aboard. burned
! the waters edge ut Hamletsburg, II
/, but no lives were lost
Y Mrs. Lottie Noah. her daughter al
) her sister, Jennie Ellis, were drown'
: In creek near Bandera, Texas, viii
J, the two FIRST named were endeayoril
to rescue the Ellis girl. who had gC
ten beyond her depth while hathtu
Oyercoats made their appearance
y Albuquerque. n. NJ, when the temper
!, ture dropped and cold rain beg
= failing. Rain in northern New Me
d" leo Ia doing great good to crops al
ranges.
y FIRE at St Louis. supposed to ha
y 'started from the spark OF n LOGON
y tive In the rear OF the Hutttg Sa
:, and Door eompany's plant, comple
!" Nv wipsd out eight acres Of lumb
. warehouses and factories.
y A report from Rockland, Me, sa
. that the battleship Utah will be giv
y her official acceptance trials beg
!" ming June 20. The Utah will be
y luired to make twenty and thir
~ four one hundredths knots on !
Standardization trial. which will
~ held on the Roekland course,
~ The scheduled fifteen round bout