The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02
NEWS OF 4 WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFKsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Llne@
INTERMouNTAiN

81 prisoner who was chained to ;
car seat, has been settled out o
court. The prisoner was burned Il
death when the car was destroyed b,
fire.
A. b. Elder, q former resident OF
Salt Lake, has been arrested at sar
Diego, Cal, on the charge OF using
the United States mail to defraud
The arrest was made on the com,
plant of Adolph Richter, a prominent
real estate dealer OF Salt Lake, who
alleges that Elder. under the name OF
Floyd Scott endeavored to sell him
ten lots, the deeds to which had
been forged.
Assistant Fire Chief Robert Wolfe
was killed, one fireman was severely
burned and property loss totaIing
100000 resulted from a fire In WaIla
Walla, Wash.
The high tension wires of the sal.
mon Falls and Shoshone Falls power
plants, owned by the Ruhns, were
torn down Thursday night at Malad
Canyon. twelve miles out of Bliss,
idaho, and the wires, carrying $4,000
volts, were cut. thus effectualIy dis.
abllng those plants from delivering
electricity for light and power at the
adjacent towns. 1t is charged an
employe of rival company tore
down the wires.
While driving across the tracks of
the Salt Lake q Ogden railroad In
St. Joseph, Utah, Victor Johnson, six.
ty years old, was run down by a train
and fatally injured.
A man hunt that had continued |
eleven days came to dramatic and
successful end at Wisenberg, Colo,
with the arrest of Harry Hill and
Frank Baldwin, wounded members of
gang of robbers that had been
operating in southern Colorado for
he last five years, 500 feet in the
bowels of the earth in an abandoned
nine
DOMESTIC |
Colonel Watterson makes the direct
statement that at the request OF Gov
srnor Wilson he. Watterson, under
ook to raise money for the Wilson
presidential campaign and that his
'tforts were mot altogether unfruit.
ul"
The three confessions made by viii.
lam Lee concerning the manner in
which he murdered his father,
mother, and brother at Bonneville
asst August were introduced by the
tate In Lees trial at Evansville, Ind,
.fter his attorney had made a vigor- |
us effort to exclude them.
The Alaskan Steamship company's {
wooden steamer Santa Ana went l
shore In Karta bay, Alaska. Her
line passengers were taken off In a {
aunch.
The conference at Louisville on
hid labor adopted resolutions urg.
ng congress to enact Senator Borah's
ill creating childrens bureau in {
with the department of {
commerce and labGl II
J. p Morgan Is Withdrawing large
'art of his collections of art objects
rom the Victoria and Albert museum
n London because he wants them in
his country and not because OF any
dissatisfaction with the museum man.
Investigation of fraud In an cleo
Ion of national officers OF the United
Zine Workers of America Is to be
made by the executive board Of the
William (Biliy) Delaney, known all
'ver the world as a famous trainer
" pugilists of the last half century,
lied at his home in Oakland after an
Illness of several months.
George ThorinGton, IS years old,
wealthy farmer of Romeo, Mich. is
lead. and his 60-year-old wife is dy.
ng at the Pacific hospital, Los Ange-
es. as the result of illuminating gas
eaking into their bed room from
'as Jet only partially turned off.
Silas N. Phelps, the Monroe Bridge
outlaw, was eleetrocuted at the
Mass. state prison
Thursday morning for the killing of
Deputy Sheriff Emmett F. Haskins
It Monroe Bride, June II, 1910.
At the county farm at Lawrence,
lass, Mrs, Lucy Carowell, who in
he last forty years has reared TWEEN
y-one children, none of them her
'wn, lies stricken with paralysis that.
he physicians say, will cause ner !
Ieath within day or two. :
After proceedings at Fort Worth,
Texas, in which the "unwritten law"
vas involved by frequent inference,
7. B. Sneed, slayer of Captain A. G.
3oyce, was released on $35, 1000 bond.
Riverside, Cal, school children and
heir parents are in open revolt
against an edict issued by the board
u health compelling all children at.
ending school to be vaccinated.
Recent reports that important
changes were to be made in the rail
road map of the west are denied by
James J. Hill, insofar as they in
Volved the Hill lines.