The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-05

Speaker Champ Clark should be the
nominee for the presidency.
Jack Johnson, the worlds heavy
weight champion, will box Samuel Nc
yey at sydney, Australia, during the
spring, probabaly on Easter Monday
Johnson IL to receive $4,000, 10 get In
| advance $4,000 expense money, and
will have an interest In the moving
pictures which will be taken Of the
| battle.
AS the result Of an order issued by
the state banking department, the Am
erican Union Trust company Of Kan
sas City closed Its doors Saturday
Officers OF the bank say the 1000 de.
positors will be paid In full. Its bills
payable are said to aggregate $493,43s
and the assets $395,000. The deposits
total 100000.
Boxing clubs properly conducted
will be allowed TO give entertainments
In Cincinnati under the incoming
Democratic administration, according
to Mayor-elect Henry r. Hunt.
WASHINGTON
American lemon growers on Satur-
day won a signal victory over foreign
competitors and the rrans.continental
railroads when the interstate com.
merce commission reaffirmed its pre-.
vious order upset by the new com.
merce court, reducing the freight rate
on lemons from California.
Senator Smoot Of Utah spoke before
the American Economic association,
holding It's twenty-seventh annual con.
vention at Washington, In support OF
the creation of an international com.
mission to investigate the cost OF liv-
ing.
The United States will not recognize
the new Chinese republic formally un.
I'll 1t becomes clearly apparent that
the imperialists are no longer capable
of maintaining themselves in power.
II Ia reported that President Taft
will ask Otto T. Barnard of New York
City to accept an important position
in connection with the campaign lead
ing up to the national Republican con.
ventlon.
DIR. Joseph A. Holmes, director of
the federal bureau of mines, has
startled the chemists with the declara-
ton that of all the coal mined in the
United States fully one-haIf was vast
ed, The waste, he estimated, amount.
ed to $500, 100000 annually.
Using the McNamaras as an illus.
tration OF what might be expected in
this country IL labor conditions are
not improved, a delegation of social
workers on Saturday urged President
Taft to create a labor commission" ~
Russia Is making preparations for
safe passage of w. Morgan Shuster, Jf.,
dismissed treasurer general of Persia,
out OF that country, according to dis.
patches received at the state fdepartt
ment from Ambassador Guild at st.
Petersburg.
The work of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
was Endorsed as ''of great benefit to
the public health and welfare" in reso;
buttons presented at the general SEES!
sion at Washington of the Association
for the Advancement of Science.
Taking OF testimony in the renewed
charges of contempt of court against
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, officials of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, began Sat,
urday. @
FOREIGN ]
The Turkish cabinet resigned Satur'
day in consequence of the obstruction
OF the opposition. the members OF
which absented themselves from the
sitting Of the chamber of deputies
which rendered impossible a discus
sion of the proposed modification OF
the constitution,
The independence of outer Mongolia
Ia considered at Pekln as conclusive
since the proclamation OF the kutuktu
rs khan. Russia is expected to reeog
niZe the Independence of Mongolia af
ter some months.
Pablo Moreno, reputed to be 127
years of age, died Saturday at Navajo
Mexico. He had smoked cigarettes
for lis years and always lived OF
coarse food. He had never seen q
railroad train or an automobile,
Ftfty'seven persons died at Berlin
as the result of eating tainted fish
while ninety more are in serious
condition.
A nine days siege of Tabri2, Persia
! by the Russian troops has resulted il
its complete occupation by the Rus
sian forces and the dispersal of tn,
c0mhatants belonging to the oonstitu
tional progressive party or Ftdais.
| King Emperor George and Queen
Empress Mary returned to Caicutt;
Saturday morning, the former from
big game expedition in the northern
dependency OF Nepal during whcI
he bagged no fewer than thirty tiger
and thirteen rhinoceri.
DIR. Sun Vat Sen. who has been che
sen president OF the republic of China
has issued the following: II eonside
it my duty to accept the presidency
My policy will be to secure peace an
a stable government by the promptes
methods possible. My single aim is /
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