The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-08-25
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Llnea
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Frank MI Wilson, In jail III Denver
has made full and complete confes.
sion 20 the robbery OF the Overland
Limited train at Reese, Utah, the
evening Of Jananry 2. when William
Davis and A. NJ Taylor. negro por.
teFs, were shot to death and more
than 100 passengers robbed OF their
yaluables, The other two men en-.
gagged In the robbery. he says. were
Joseph Collins OF Omaha, and II. Nj.
Roberts OF Mullen. Heb.
The Union Pacific Railroad com.
pany has issued orders closing down
the shops at Cheyenne all day every
Saturday and making the other ave
days eight hours instead OF nlne.hour
days.
Charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government by securing con.
tract TO supply coal TO forts IN Alas
ka In 1903, at an alleged excessive
price per ton. John III. Bullock, former
president OF the John ]. sesnon com
pany, OF Seattle and Alaska. has been
arrested at Portland.
w, r, Faulkner, 30 years OF age, OF
Denton, Tex, where his parents are
said to be prominent, swallowed pois.
on In his room In Portland and died
shortly afterwards In Multnomah hos.
pital
Recall petitions against Mayor Geo.
W. billing and Councilman Max
Wardall. Il. l.. Blaine and J. Y. G. KEEL
logg were filed with the city comp
troller OF Seattle on Thursday, by the
Citizens Recall association, OF which
Mr., end Mrs Frank A. stirtan are the
leaders
DOMESTIC
The leaders OF the Amalgamated
Society OF Railway Servants declare
that 100000 men, or nearly half the
total employees OF the railways OF
England. ireland, Scotland and Wales,
have answered their call TO stop
work, Managers OF the railways say
these figures are greatly exaggerated.
"cy" Young. the veteran pitcher
who was Internationally released by
the Cleveland American league club
several days ago. has reported to the
Boston club Of the National league.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation OF Labor. sees
Ia the present labor erisls in England
a revolutionary movement which will
result In rightiug labor conditions in
that country.
| A wlndstorm and cloudburst demoI.
lshed the Commercial hotel and sew
eral other buildings at Winkleman,
Arizona
Officers OF the national conservation
congress, to be held at Kansas City
next fall. gradually are moving their
headquarters to that city.
A daughter has been born TO Mr..
and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., OF
san Francisco, Since their marriage
tae Rooseyelts have made their home
in San Francisco, where Mr.. Roose.
welt 10 engaged In business.
| Jessie Mcdonald. aged 20, was
found. with her baby, In room al.
joining the dental Office OF A. w. Nc
David, at san Bernardino, Cal. The
| girt claims that sho aus been kept In
the room for fifteen months by the
dentlat, who persuaded aer 70 leave
| school and hide in the room all that
timo, and that he Is the father of her
child McEayid, who is married
man. Is under arrest.
Prospecting for oil In Valencia and
MCKINLEY couaties, New Mexico,
where oil wells were recently found,
a party found an immense deposit OF
fps saphaltum believed to be the only
one Of it's kind in the United States.
From behind the bars In Sting Sing,
captain Tetor c. Hams. Jr, army oil.
deer and inventor, has begun his bat.
lie for freedom against his beautiful
vile, Claudia Hams, for love OF whom
ae shot and killed his former friend.
William h. Aunis, az the Bay Side
Yacht club three years ago,
HoTdes Of grasshoppers visited In.
dependence. hNns., on Tuesday. OLD
settlers said there had not been sueh
visitation OF the pest since the ear.
" days, waea they had destroyed tie
crops and ate everything in the shape
OF vegetation. They sat thick on the
stseCts ard covered the walls OF
many buildings,
John CaQu.n and II. Claveck are
ssoan 10 have been killed and half a
dozen other persons were injured by
a tornado that LETT trall OF wreck.
ase III IFS path at Noonan, n, d.
United States senator Isadore Ray.
nor is seriously m at Cambridge. on
The eastern shore oi Maryland,
Richard Shields. aged IS. who dis
appeared from Dunkirk, Ind. forty.
shgte gears ago. reappeared last week
at the home OF a relative. lie was be.
heyed 70 be dead
An old wen at the former home Of
E, h. Hesse at Tecamseh, Neb.. has