The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-06

charge OF placing dynamite at diner
ent points In the city, presumably to
discredit the labor unions.
The trust attitude OF the Democratic
land Republican parties was scathingly
assailed by Colonel Roosevelt In
speech at st. Johnsburg, VT. Friday
might ON the village green, winding up
la tireless day Of stamping.
General Homer Lea, former mill
tary adviser to the Chinese reyolu-
tionists now at Ocean Park, Cal, plans
to return to the orient In the near
| future and resume his military duties
He has fully recovered his eyesight
| A pet kitten saved 12-year-old Olive
Henderson Of Venice, Cal, from prob
able death The kitten led the way to
the end OF an amusement pier, where
the child was found hanging head
downward from a large spike In pile
She had fallen from the pier and her
clothing had caught on the spike,
WASHINGTON
That Enrique Maza, the reporter
who attacked Hugh Gibson, American
charge d'affaires OF the legation Ia Ha
yana. was merely a tool In the hands
lof Cuban plotters who are antagon.
lstic to the United States. is tho opin.
Ion expressed by the Cuban minister
at Washington.
A marked increase in both imports
and exports is shown in the July fig
ures OF foreign commerce as compiled
by the division of statistics OF the
department OF commerce and labor
July imports we're valued at $f48,
$4,000. against sl1S,054,204 In July,
1911, and for the seven months end.
ing with July, 1898. 199,69O, against
1881 ,S00,l56 In the corresponding
months of last year.
Judge n. w. Archibald OF the com
merce court, whose trial under inn
parchment proceedings Ii pending be
fore the senate, has asked Chief Jus
tice White OF the United States SUI
preme court, temporarily to relieve
4 him Of duty.
Il Emphatic demands upon the Pan,
anna government to control the Pan.
anna police and put an end to the
gross brutality with which Americans
soldiers, sailors and ciyilians--have
been treated have been issued by the
American state department.
A new 2-cent stamp In commem.
GRAFTON of the Panama Pacific exposi.
ton in San Francisco in 1915 has been
approved by Postmaster General
Hitchcock.
Cities hereafter may have free wa.
ter for municipal purposes and for ir.
rigation under revision in regula.
tons for governing water power de.
yelopment on public lands outside
national forests
Repair men examining the furniture
OF the house, discovered that Speaker
Clark, during the last nine months,
had used his gayel with such effect
that virtually the entire top OF the
desk was wrecked,
FOREIGN
il Warning has been issued to Guada-
lajara Mexico, the second city in the
republic, with population of 100000,
that II is to be destroyed by a vol.
eano. The warning is given in all
seriousness by the government
through the seismograph branch OF
the national observatory at Mexico
City
Virtually deadlock has been
reached in the unofficial peace con.
yersations" between Italian and turk.
ish delegates In Switzerland, accord.
ing to special dispatch to the Paris
Matin.
Great indignation in American and
foreign circles was caused at Havana
by the release again of Enrique Maza,
the newspaper man charged with as.
saulting Hugh S, Gibson, the Ameri,
can charge daffaires The Judge let
him 20 on bail OF $500.
Americans will be killed by rebels
after September 10, is the declaration
of Colonel Emilio p Campo, q, leader
of orozco's rebel army, who with 500
men, is operating along the Southern
Pacific OF Mexico below Nogales, Ariz.
Great Britain has reaffirmed its
protest against the Panama canal
bill In note filed with the state
department by A. Mitchell Innes,
charge of the British embassy at
Washington, 1t was stated that IL a
, satisfactory agreement could not be
reached Great Britain would appeal
to The Hague tribunal for arbitration
Thirty-four thousand persons stood
with barred heads while forty bands
Numbered the sonorous music OF the
Dead March From Saul" Wednesday
|, night as the body of General William
Booth, asleep forever in a plain pine
coffin, was borne through the greaI
Olympia to the funeral bier.
H, J. d. Ruley, the aviator. few
from Hendon, England, to Hardelot,
near Boulogne, France, In three hours
and Ave minutes. He carried as a
passenger in his biplane Miss Mary
Davis.