The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-21
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD M sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given IN Few Lines.
lNTEaMouNTAIN

tember 70 16 inclusive, has been de-
ciared on Failure 70 secure the en-.
actment Of law permitting race
track betting IL believed 10 be an i'm
portant reason for the abandonment
Of tho race meet
Gasoline used In house cleaning
operations exploded in the home OF A.
J. Williams at Ruby. Colo. three of
bis daughters being burned TO death,
while Mr.. and Mrs. Williams are In
the hospital and may die.
Two factories for the manufacture
OF opium we're raided at Pueblo by
the police at the request OF United
States officers. Three Cinnamon we're
caught preparing the drug, and fin.
iGhed product valued at $1,000 was
conilscated. Most OF 1t was concealed
In baking powder cans.
Governor shafroth OF Colorado has
issued a call for a general meeting OF
representatives OF all western states to
be held In Denver, September $3.50,
20 consider the best method Of man
aging the public lands OF the western
states, including Alaska.
Fire originating In furniture store
in Seattle destroyed threestory no
tel building, an adjoining apartment
house. and was extlnguished with a
loss OF about 100000
II 81 believed that Hugh Whitney,
the outlaw, boarded train at Soda
Springs, Ida, after shooting his horse.
The officers are using every endeavor
70 locate the man who had, II was sup
posed. succeeded in escaping into the
mountain wilds.
DOMESTIC
Mark Twain left actual property
worth S47i,l36. An appraisal of his
estate places this value on securities
aud real estate bequeathed TO his
only surviving child, Mrs. GaDrilo
witch, when he died on April Il
1910.
bud Mars. one of the most daring
aud sltillful OF American aviators. was
seriously injured at Erie, Pa, when
his biplane crashed to earth from q
height OF several hundred feet, crush
. ing him beneath the wreckage.
An order restraining the members
OF the Traders Livestock exchange a
the Kansas City stookyards from boy
] cottinE independent operators or do
ing anything that would be In re
j stralnt OF trade, was made by Judge
/ Thomas in the circuit court at Kan
! sas City
With nearly $4,000 miles of trans
/ continental, interstate and trunk line
/ highways contemplated In various
sections OF the country. II all the plan,
| are carried out. II soon will be posi-
! bic TO drive wagons or automobile
I from the Atlantic TO the Pacific coast
! from British Columbia to Mexico AM
from Canada TO Florida.
Los Angeles won the fight for tn
+ next shriners' convention.
a by vote OF II to rs the New Yorl
!. state senate refused to advance tn
i. stllwell woman suffrage resolution
a from general order 10 the final pas
) sage. thus killing the measure.
William u. I.onsberry, well,know
4 farmer. has been arrested at Char
/ lotte. Mich, pending investigation @
4 story told by his mother, 81 year
!, old, who declared that she saw he
/, son choke HIS wife to death six year
a ago and place the body IN an old We
II George Webster. 10 years old. bar,
footed and freckle.faced, was arreste
a at Long Beach, Cal, on charge G
J, forgery, The police say he admitte
, passing three forged checks for
4 total of s12 during the past month.
4 Preparations for handling large
1 whisky output than during the 19l
!. season. when thirty two million bal
rels were used. was one of the impor
n ant subjects taken up by the Nations
u coopers' association. which began II
4 soml-annual meeting at Chicago 0
Il Wednesday.
4 Mrs. Narclsga owen, so years OLE
!. mother OF United States Senator Ro'
u ert L. owen. died at Guthrie, Okla
Wednesday. as result OF injuries n
9 ceiyed from fall. She was Cher
/. kee Indian by blood and had achieve
b fame as an author and artist,
z Frank u. Jordan. hrother.inlaw I
r Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett th
e wen known novelist, was killed I
r Port Washington. n, Y, in collis,o
between Mrs Burnetts automobil
\ ana trolley car.
o Governor Hoke Smlth was electe
a United states senator from Georgi
Il on the first Joint legislative ballot !
b noon Wednesday, lie succeeds JOSEF
D NJ Terrell, who was appointed h
Governor Brown to al the unexpire
Il term OF the late Senator A. s, cla
D Now York state went on record Q
70 Wednesday in favor Of federal 4
Is come tax when the assembly, by
k vote OF 81 TO 90 passed the resoluue
10 ratlfying the proposed amendment
20 the federal constitution authorizir
such tax. The measure passed u
senate April 19.
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