The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-03

ed against stockholders of the Pru.
Dental Insurance company of Ameri-
ca, who sought to have distributed as
dividends $2,500,000 of the company's
accumulated profits.
Throwing restraint to the winds,
Colonel Roosevelt, at Worcester
Mass. scarified President Taft merci-
lessly for the presidents bitter at
tack upon him. HE wanted war; /
am going to give it to him." remarked
the ex-president.
Mrs. Georgia G. Balch, widow of
Collins l.. Balch, a wealthy manufac-
turer of celluloid, has won the will
contest that she brought against her
daughter, Grace c. Balch.
More than a dozen persons were
badly injured, several fatally, in a
tornado which devastated southeast
Kansas Friday night. The greatest
damage was done ten miles southwest
of Neodesha, Kan.
Mail advices received at Chicago
from Guaymas, Sonora, tell of immi-
nent danger threatening upwards of
west coast of the southern republic.
WASHINGTON
Colonel Goethals, chief engineer in
| charge of the construction of the Pa
mama canal, may resign rather than
remain to undertake the opening of
administrative force, according to
John Barrett, director general of the
Panama Union, who has returned to
Washington after a visit to the canal
zone
AS a means of regulating drinking,
Senator Hepburn suggests that IL
censes be issued to the drinkers in
stead of to the saloon keepers.
Speaker Clark, while in his office
| Thursday, suffered an attack of lum-
| bago and later went to his home. His
! illness is not serious. Representa-
tive Saunders of Virginia was desig-
mated speaker pro tempore.
| President Taft donned his fighting
clothes Thursday, abandoned his pol
icy of silence under the attacks that
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has made
! upon him and his administration, and
for the first time since Mr.. Roose-
velts announced candidacy, launched
into a bitter denunciation of the for
mer president.
The senate, by a vote of AZ to 36,
refused to recede from it's amend
nent to the joint resolution providing
for the direct election of senators and
the measure was sent back to the
house.
The Smoot bill to consolidate all
national parks and monuments under
one bureau of national parks" has
been reported favorably by the sen
ate committee on public lands.
FOREIGN
M. Sazonoff, minister for foreign
affairs, in a statement on Russian
foreign relations made in the duma
referred to the abrogation by tbs
United States of the Russo-Americar
treaty of 1882. The minister sale
that President Taft had made the aD
rogation in a form acceptable to in
ternational intercourse.
SOuulLiO1lS dlOuS the "GSL QUASI Vi
Mexico become more alarming daily
according to refugees who told of tht
fears of the friends of Virgil York
a wealthy mining operator, formerly
Of Alamogordo, N. M. and an Amer1
can physician now missing, that thu
two men have been either killed o.
imprisoned by rebels.
: 1t is understood in Paris that the
powers are considering the matter o
: advising Italy either to try to force
the Dardanelles or definitely abandon
the plan as her present INDIGESTION EN-
harnesses intern 1tional shipping.
Matzalan, the only city in the STATE
| of Sinaloa held by the federals, i
now the rendezvous for American
refugees. OF these there are abou
$50 who have come from as far nortl
r as the Culiacan valley.
The upshot of the strike 0
l firemen and seamen on the Whit
t Star line steamer Olympic is that tn
t Olympic is back in her berth a
< Southampton and for the first tim
. in the history of modern trans-Atlar
l tic passenger traffic more than NIT
S deserters are in the custody of tn
, police charged with mutiny.
Two British warships are to b
r sent to Mexico to look after the inter
, ests of British subjects.
t 1t is understood that the interns
:, tional conference for the discussion
e of the subject Of the improved life
saving facilities on board ocean pas
n senger steamers probably will be he'll
j in London.
S Braulio Hernandez, the rebel mil
t lister" to Washington, who was arrest
- ed there on a charge of consptrac
to smuggle ammunition into Mexico
: and who was taken back to El Pasc
: wrote a letter to General Pasqua
4 Orozco expressing disagreement wit