The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-11-24
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD w eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings THAT Are Making History
conformation Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN Few LIneA
INTERMounTAlN

INT TAIN
Salt Lake has won the 1912 conyen
tion OF the Trans. Mississippi CONNER
cial congress, for which Seattle ans
Des Moines have been fighting fol
over a year.
Gertrude Gibson Patterson, who will
be placed on trial at Denver on .
charge OF numbering her husband
Charles A. Patterson. has written q
remarkable biography for the use Of
her attorney In which she accuses 3
millionaire manufacturer or Chicago
OF having spoiled her life, and Of hav
ing bribed Patterson TO marry her.
Rather than see her chickens
which moulted late In the season
suffer from the cold, Mrs. r.. StockeI
OF Colorado City, Colo, has made
neatly fitting coats which button un
der the wings and has also supplied
the chickens with soft flannel caps
Elmer &c. Estes, brakeman on the
Union Pacific, was killed. by a west
bound passenger train near ThayeI
junction. Wyoming. The young man
was married and lived at Rawlins.
Fire at Ogden. Utah, on Wednes
day caused the loss OF half a million
dollars, while two men were seriously
injured and q number had close
call.
The Mountain states Telephone and
Telegraph company has purchased the
Kemmerer and Big Piney Telephone
company, operating 625 miles In tht
western portion OF Wyoming.
Albert Baker, brakeman, was
killed at Sheridan, Wyo, when ht
jumped from an engine about t.
crash into the rear of freight train
Nickoia Sanchelll, nineteen year
old. is charged with having killed hi
father at Miles City, Mont, by shoot
Ing him In the breast with revolver
He ned and has not been seen since
Suit to test the constltutionality o
the commission form of government
law, under which the recent city cleo
ton was held In Salt Lake, was filet
In the Third district court on Tues
day.
DOMESTIC
Norman u. Mack OF Buffalo, N. Y
chairman of the Democratic nationa
committee, said In an interview at DE
troit; Roosevelt Is now an avowet
candidate for the Republican nomlna
| ton for president. IL will be neck
and.peck race between him and TAT
In the convention"
Or. A. s. Dalla Of Los Angeles afte
announcing his purpose to fellow pas
sengers on a train near Pauls Valley
Okla. swallowed carbolic acid ant
| leaped through q window of tn,
sleeper.
| Express Messenger Irving G. Barge
was killed near Scranton. Pa, and tn,
safe In his car on the Delaware
Lackawanna q Western road looted
Of sum said to be from $500 t
$4,000 Friday night. There Is M
clue to the robbers,
A temporary jury of forty,seven hal
been obtained In the Hyde murde
trial at Kansas City, The final juror
william zumwold, farmer livinI
near independence, Mo-, was obtainet
| Friday,
| President W. Il. Brock Of the Chat
tanooga, Tenn, chamber OF com
merce was shot and painfully wound
ed while on hts way up Missionar,
Ridge on Wednesday. Four charge
from shotguus were fired at him b.
four unidentified men.
Governor Mann has declined to In
terfere In the case of Henry Cha!
Beattle. Jr., and the young wife mur
derer's last hope of escaping the cleo
trio chair at Richmond. Va, ON Fri
day. November "a, was swept away
Four men, an engineer, an oiler ant
two deck hands, employed on con
structiou work on the Seneca rive
section OF the barge canal, were soald
| cd to death at Albany, n. Y. in tn,
explosion OF boiler,
| The fourteenth annual report OF tn,
Union Pacific railroad for the fsca
year ended June 80 last, ISSUED
| Thursday. gives total revenue iron
operation as SSS.9S2,l07. decrease o
s1.24t.s94, compared with the previou
| years.
James NJ. Smith, carpenter. VIII,
gave his home address as San An
| tonic, Texas. has been arrested at Lo
! Angeles. charged with bigamy. Tit
police say Smith has four wives liv
| ing and one dead.
The strike OF the garbage collect
ors OF New York City is regarded a
I practically at an end.
Rect sugar manufacturers who hav,
been meeting In Chicago for the las
few days closed their session Thurs
day. after formulating plans to com
bat the propaganda In the interest o
free sugar. alleged to be carried o.
BY the cane sugar refineries and tn,
New York importing interests.
Charges that a coffee combine ex