The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-04-05
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 7RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN . Few LIneA
lNTERMouNrAlN

bis bride OF a day, Bertha Backman,
aged al, has disappeared after he had
decided two valuable pieces of prop
erty 10 her. Lee desiring the courts to
transfer the property TO him.
Shooting at retreating automobile
which they had failed to hold up, rob-
bers fatally wounded George Hast
ings, travelling man, and slightly
wounded two others near Portland.
Mamie Cruise o'Brien-C otter, only
daughter OF Thomas III. Cruise, Monta-
ma millionaire, has applied at Helena
for her second divorce within year.
J. ]. Morris will be hanged on April
80 for the murder OF Joseph Axtell
In Salt Lake City on May 8, 1911,
following the holdup OF pawn shop.
Morris only hope is In the governor.
Hiram b. Clawson, ST., who was
private secretary to President Brig
ham Young. and one of the best
known pioneers OF Utah, died March
2s, at his home in Salt Lake. Few
men had been 80 closely identified
with the early history OF the state
OF Utah.
Mrs. Abner Morrison OF GLADSTONE.
Idaho, mother of Paul Clagstone, Re-
publican candidate for governor of
Idaho, died at her home in Spokane,
at the age OF 70.
The next biennial convention OF the
knights OF Pythias will be held in
Denver, August to is next
James Read, night Waterman Of a
store at Clearfield, Utah, was fearfully
slashed about the head and face by
trio of burglars who he discovered
footing the store. One of the men
has since been captured, Read will
recover
The mines of Butte were closed
one day last week to allow the min
ers TO take referendum vote on a
proposition to strike because of the
discharge Of certain men.
Eleven million dollar loss in Wyo-
ming livestock resulted from the re-
cent snowstorms and cold weather.
In many instances entire herds of cat
tie were wiped out.
John Meyers was drowned in the
Bear river near Preston, Idaho. when
he accidentally fell into the water
while working on a bridge, his fellow
workmen being unable to rescue him.
The National Irrigation congress
will meet In Salt Lake October to
5, inclusive, instead of from July 20
10 ~. as originally arranged.
DOMESTIC
Joseph Smith, who organized the
Reorganized Latter-day Saints church
and has been its president for more
than fifty years, has definitely desig-
mated his son Frederick NJ. Smith as
his successor
Union officials have ordered 10000
miners In the anthracite regions to
quit work Sunday. The suspension
was ordered because of the refusal
of the operators to grant the union
demands for increased pay,
Friel Allen, aged II, youngest mem.
Der OF the Allen gang which muir
dered the court officials at Hillsville,
Va, has surrendered and is now in
Jail
Aviator Charles X, Hamilton few
from Sacramento to Stockton, Cal,
distance OF 52.7 miles, in 90 min.
utes, the flight being made in 40
mile wind.
Municipal ownership or telephone
system was approved by two TO one
vote at San Francisco, 10000 voters
going to the polls to express their
opinion on this action.
Eighty-three OF New York's ninety
delegates will go to Chicago favoring
tho denomination of President Taft.
The president was opposed in sew
enteen congressional districts by
Roosevelt supporters.
Frankie Burns of Jersey City, ban
| tamweight. defeated Willie Gibbs of
Philadelphia in eight rounds at Mem
phis, Tenn,
bert B. FAN and Thomas b Catron.
Republican, were elected to the
United States senate on the eighth
ballot in the legislature at Santa Fe,
n. NJ.
Adolph Goldman, recently released
from San Quentin prison, is dead.
and a former mayor of Oakland, Ro-
land w Snow, is desperately wound
ed as the result OF a duel fought in
church at Oakland.
An attempt to extradite the heads
of the beef trust who have been I'M
der indictment in New Jersey since
1909 will be made by District Attor-
ney Pierre Caravan OF Hudson county,
New York. They are charged with
conspiring to raise the price Of food
stuffs.
Gaeteno Vivinao, IS years old, said
by the police to be the leader Of a
black hand" gang in the Italian
quarters in st. Louis, viii be deported
TO hts old home, Palermo, Italy, by
n the government AZ the instik cation of