The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-23
NEWS OF 4 WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF TIE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRiEFGsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
0lven In = Few Llnsa
iNTERMouNTAia

iNTERMOuNTAia
Il While the Ogden police were inves
tigating his story of having been q
pal Of William Schmidt, alleged slayer
OF Mrs. Marcia Groff, who was stran.
gled to death In Salt Lake City a
month ago, William Arthur Neuen.
dorm hanged himself with a piece OF
baling wire In his cell at the Weber
county jail.
Amasa b. Campbell, one OF the fore.
most mining operators OF the west,
died at Spokane OF cancer OF the
throat. Mr.. Campbell virtually died
pf hunger and thirst, having been un.
able to take nourishment OF any kind
for some days. He was 67 years old.
-Four men are dead and nine 9TH
ers are suffering form burns and
painful hurts as result OF the wild
run Of an ore train. along the tracks
OF the Copper Belt" branch OF the
ID a r., @. on the mountain-side
above Bingham Canyon, Utah.
Delegates from every mining state
In the northwest attended the open.
Ing session OF the Northwest Mining
convention at Seattle. Plans we're
preached for forming mining associa.
tons In every camp in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana and British
Columbia.
X. II. McWhorter OF Tacoma, secre-
tary.treasurer OF the Washington Or
ehard Irrigation and Fruit company,
surrendered himself to the federal au.
thorities at Seattle on complaint of a
postoffice inspector, charging him
with using the mails to defraud.
Three masked men held up and
robbed the conductor and motorman
OF street car In the eastern part of
Ogden, Utah. The bandits secured
about s35.
DOMESTIC
Three men held up a diamond deal |
er on crowded street in New York,
within 200 feet OF policeman. talk.
Ing a wallet containing $4,000 worth |
OF unset diamonds from his coat |
pocket,
William H. King. yice-president OF
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suddenly at Hartford from apoplexy,
aged n years. He had been associat-
ed with the company for forty.nine
years
Edward Brown, who conducted
banks at Paige, Elkhart and Ellinger,
Texas, and who recently became in
volyed in bankruptcy proceedings, 10
oh
ing worthless paper for securities.
Abe Ruef has been brought back to
San Francisco as witness after ex-
actly eleven months in the state peni.
Tertiary at San Quentin, where he is
serving fourteen.year sentence for
bribery. He is wanted as witness
against his former political ally, for
mer Mayor Eugene Il. Schmitz.
George Smith, blind peanut ven
der of Columbia, Mo, has received
word that he had inherited $4,000 |
from an aunt in San Francisco. Smith |
says he will use the money in trying |
to get his sight restored.
Characterizing as absurd the charge |
of the government that he conspired |
TO another in violation of the federal |
laws, Moulton Fl. Davis, prosperous |
lumber dealer Of WestChester. Pa, |
for whom the United States authori. |
ties had been searching, has surren.
dered himself.
More men were hanged in Chicago |
Friday than suffered death for throw
. hn Ia
chist riots of 1886. Two murders
five men to walk to the gal.
lows and drop to their death through
the trap. while four were hanged for
the Haymarket bomb.throwing.
The state railroad commission OF
California has taken sweeping action
against the freight rates of the South.
ern Pacific and Santa Fe, ordering all
long and short hauT inequalities
abolished by March Is,
Three persons were killed and six.
ly.seyen were injured when the Penn.
sylvania Limited eastbound, Jumped
he track at Warriors Ridge, Pa.
Drifting in from the Gulf of Cali.
,ornia in a calm. the schooner Alien,
Captain Jose Rosa Villaviencia, which
cleared from Ensenada, Lower Cali
'ornia, December Is, was found with
he captain and three of her crew
lead of thirst. II
John j. Rickels, a farmer, aged "a,
Ind his step-daughter, Clara Belle
Stickney, aged II, were found muir
iered in slough on the Rickels farm,
Eight miles north of Topeka, Kans. /
The setting of Clarence Darrow's
trial on the indictment charging jury 1
bribery, which was scheduled for last 4,
Wednesday, was continued until Feb
ruzTy 26. il
Charles w. Morse and Mrs. Morse
sailed from New York for Mediter-
ranean ports on Wednesday aboard
the Hamburg-American liner Kaiserin 4
Auguste Victoria. The former banker
convict was feeling well
Judge J. f. Knowles laid aside ju.
a fl a y