The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-01-12
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFHsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
HappenInss That Are Making History
---Informatlcn Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Llnsa
iRTERMouNrAlN

or OF Fisher valley, near Moab, Utah
was fatally injured IN an explosion
Of giant powder while building road
Both eyes were blown cut and on,
arm and part OF his head torn away
4 Wholesale "bootlegging" on til,
/ Flathead Indian reservation In Mon
tana is Indicated by batch OF In
dictments returned by the fedora
Grand jury at Helena. Several resi-
dents OF Missoula are charged In true
bills with having sold whisky to In
/ dams
After Ave days chase which led
the pursuing posse into the wilds d
Independence mountains In the mos
severe cold ever experienced there
Sheriff Harris captured Fred Hess
an outlaw cowman, who drove two
men and a woman of Carlin, New,
into the cold at the point OF a pistol
and forced them to walk twelve miles
scantily clad TO find shelter.
Early marriage seems TO run In the
feminine ancestry and progeny OF
Mrs. Hazel Cenklin OF Denver, who at
the age of forty-seven years finds her
self q OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
John Nader, ~ years old, helper
In the Great Northern railway shops
NJ Great Falls. Mont, was almost In.
stantly killed Monday when he thrust
his head out OF an engine cab window
Just as the engine was entering the
shops, His head was crushed be.
tween the door post and the engine.
DOMESTIC
Ex.President Roosevelt declares he
has no Intention OF letting the public
know what he thinks OF the selection
OF candidate for president. He de.
elared his intention of bottling him
self UP at Sycamore Hill and refus.
Ing to answer any questions.
The contract for the completion OF
The 0akdaie (Cal.) district irrigation
system has been awarded to the Utah |
Construction company for $1,277 900. |
The people Of the Oakdale district
are 1uhliant over the assurance that
their aysten. ~ distribution canals is
assured.
Over $50 representative California
women, who are trying to find out
Just what they want to do with their
newly acquired suffrage, put under
way at a luncheon in San Francisco
a movement which probably will de-
termine whether or not those or their
sex In the state will stand as a power
ful unit Ia securing legislation affect.
Ing woman and her life,
Captain John Cussons is dead at
Glen Allen, Va. He was chief of
scouts under stonewall Jackson and
General Lee and gained fame In the |
west as an indian fighter,
The lowest total on record for re.
eeipts of eggs at Chicago was reached |
on Friday and there was consequent
increase OF cent dozen for oil |
grades, Responsibility was charged |
to the extreme cold
Two sticks of dynamite, taken into
court In handbag by woman de.
tective, were placed on exhibition Fri.
day In the trial at Los Angeles of |
Bert H. Corners. one OF three union
men indicted on the charge of having |
conspired to dynamite the county hall /
Of records.
Sheri1 Henry Thompson OF ella
Arizona. has been indicted
for the murder OF Mike Jurascovich.
4 SlaFonian bartender, two weeks
ago. Thompson at once resigned his
office and Deputy Frank Hayes was
named as his successor by the super
visors,
Leonard t"Baby'9 Bliss. reputed
he largest man in the world, was
'ound dead in his home at Blooming
on. Ills. NeiGhbors found his frozen
body seated in a chair with gas es-
gaping from gas stove. He had
been dead several days II ls bellev.
ID he arose TO get warm and In some
way accidentally opened the jet,
For the purpose of stimulating in
crest in the history and present con-
iition of the American Indian. the
Archaeological Institute OF America
invading the lecture field
The trial at Muskogee, Okla, of
he third of six persons charged with
Killing two children by dynamite to
ret possessionof oil land worth $780,.
100, ended Wednesday when F. l..
Martin, we'll known business man,
vas acquitted.
Miss Anna Thornton was found
lead from starvation in her luxurious
rome in Dayside, L, l.. Wednesday.
The woman was Go years old. She
vas wealthy and lived alone.
Percy Vanderoef. well known in
circles in New York, sur
'endered at the criminal court build
ng Wednesday to face charges of
of approximately $780,
100 from the large wholesale dry ;
goods house of Van Keuren & Thorn
.on company, of which he was treas
lrer.
Jesse Bryan. a prominent attorney
and clubman of San Francisco, was
killed by an automobile as he was
crossing a downtown street. The ma
chine was travelling at moderate
speed