The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-09-22
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
+ --.Informaslon Gathered from Al
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In . Faw Lines
INTsaMouNTAlN

court az Boise. Idaho, returned YER
diet o. aequlttai on ali counts In the
case OF Frank w. Kettenhach. the
Lewiston banker, charged with hay
Ing made false reports 20 the COMP
troIler Of the treasury
After serving eight years OF tenn
year sentence in the federal prison at
Leayenworth. Kans., for robbery,
Harry Allen was given his freedom
Wednesday. only to be rearrested by
sheriff w. ~ gelIy or Missoula. Mont.
on warrant charging similar Of
Tense.
Tho resignation OF Horace w
Clark. second ylce-president and gem
erai manager of the Denver q Rio
arande railroad. Is announced at Den
yer. III health, which compels Mr.
Clarke to seek lower altitude, Is as.
signed ais the reason.
The anomaly OF reduction in -four
prices al a time when the wheat mar
ket Is rising Is now before the north
west trade. Flour Ii now quoted at
$3.50 per barrei az Portland, the cheap
est opening price for four years
sam uondrey, who Is said TO have
been wanted for years by the Montana
authorities on the charge Of horse
stealing. was arrested by the north
west mounted police near Calgary af-
ter a desperate fight
DOMESTIC
The agility OF John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., saved his life when the rope by
which q bundle OF construction steel
was being hoisted to the roof OF his
fathers mansion at Tarrytown, N, H.,
broke. allowing the steel 10 drop, Mr.,
Rockefeller Ieaped from under. call
ing to the workmen to jump for their
lives. Five were not quick enough
and sustained serious injuries. One
| will die.
Property lost approximating half a
million dollars was caused Friday
when the streets of MillYale, Etna,
sharpshurs, Turtle Creek and other
suburban towns OF Plttsburg were
transformed into torrents by cloud
burst Che hfe was lost,
John D. Rockefeller's protest that
the tax appraisal on his Forest Hill
estate Is too high was ignored when
his legal representative appeared be-
fore the county commissioners at
Cleveland. O, 10 argue the protest.
As a result the oil king will have to
pay on valuation OF st,052,t0S, an
Il ...,,..,.,.. ~ ,,,ara thnn ana t,ar rant
over last years valuation.
Ward Prouty. examiner. and j. T,
Marchard, attorney for the United
States Interstate commerce commits,
sion, have left Albuquerque, n. NJ, for
Denver, after having finished there q
hearing on complaints regarding
freight rates on wool, hides and pelts
shipped from New Mexico and Ari
zcua over the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific railroads,
Spreading wreck and ruin In Its
wake, disastrous wlndstorm held
Springfield and central Illinois in its
grip three hours Wednesday, The
damage will total hundreds OF thou
sands OF dollars
When the steamer Ramona found
cred and sank OF Spanish island
Alaska, she carried down with hel
$4,000 of gold bullion from til,
Treadwel mine, consigned to Sal
Franclseo.
Governors Of twenty four states yot
ed 10 unite In protest to the United
states supreme court against wh9
they consider an invasion OF states
rights hy federal courts. The deci
sion OF Judge sanhorn in the Mime
sofa rate case Ii the particular "tu
yaslon~ 70 which the governors es
taoilsh a precedent In American his
tory,
Leaving her bed IN the Odd Eel
lows home At Thormalito, Cal, Mrs
c, Hahn. eighty years OF age, of Sal
Francisco. went 10 q fan pond on tn
grounds. lay down In two feet o
water and was drowned.
II IL believed that general recouu
OF the vote in Maine will be made 4
view OF the narrow margin by whicl
{ | INV HEQhAItNANu AANHNANh As'N WA Wv
cided
No fewer than 624s women, SOM
OF them youthful and many quit
handsome have written TO Colonel /
III green. son OF Hctty Green, III
richest woman in America, pleadinI
for the privilege Of being his wife,
John J. Johnson. otherwise know
a. "Dogskius johnson, has contesse'
10 the abduction and murder % littl
Annie Lamberger, seven years old
whose body was found In Lake Nc
noria at Madison. Wis, He was I'm
niedlately sentenced to life imprisor
ment
James J. Ward FIRST aviator 10 star
from the east 10 west In the tran,
continental air race for the $4,000
, prize offered by William Randolp
Hearst. made but 20 miles ON his frs
days. flight, becoming confused as I
the route