The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-27
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or TIE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFRsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
--lnformatIon Gathered from Al
Quarters or the Globe and
Given In q Few Llnea
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Funeral services over the body Of
W.. II. Lucas, late president OF The
Union association and pioneer In base.
balloon, were held at Portland on
/ Friday.
A young woman Is being sought by
tho Portland authorities In connec.
tlon with the murder Of Harry g. Barr,
ain automobile proprietor, who was
found dead In che road
The United States circuit court OF
appeala at Denver has handed down d
decision in the Kansas presidential
case UNFOLDING the decision OF Judge
w. II sanborn. that court OF equity
has no Jurisdiction to enjoin state
election officer from performing HIS
statutory duty Of printing an election
ballot.
/ All 4 meeting In Denver Of the board
Of directors Of the Denver n Rio
/ Grande, II was decided to standard
gauge the present narrow gauge line
Il NEGN AIaAHtlAAA hbBt DEIWENt 3kAllutA
and Montrose, Colo. This involves
/ widening the gauge from three feet to
four feet eight inches for q distance
Of 1856 miles, at d cost Of approximate
| ly s2.0OO,OOo.
DOMESTIC
Robert Donaldson, assistant super.
intendont of navigation OF the Pacific
Mail Steamship company, and Henry
Gallagher, United States customs in
4 spector, have been arrested at San
Francisco, charged with completely In
an opium smuggling conspiracy In
which. II Is said, many other men are
implicated.
Two United States marshals are
dead and deputy United States mar.
shall and tho chief OF police OF Lena.
pah, Kans., are dangerously wounded
aa result OF clash with supposed
bootieggera whom the officers were
trying to trap carrying liquor acroBs
the Kansas. Oklahoma border,
Adam Clark, the i4.year-old boy who
killed his mother at Windsor. Cal, by
putting poison In coffee can, ia TO DO
placed In the reform school until he Is
ri years old.
Scores OF soldiers with bloodhounds
are searching the mountains at the
head Of Carbon creek in West Vir.
ginia for Tho men who tried to Are
tho ttpple OF the South Carbon Coal
company ut Charleston. and the resi-.
dence Of Charles Cable. superintendent
Of the mine.
Frederick Pinkus. millionaire linen
manufacturer, will spend eleven days
IN the workhnuse on Blaekwell's Is.
land because he tried stone.age meth,
ods OF kidnapping Miss Elsie Hu.tor. a
pretty little dressmaker, 80 years old
right under the white lights OF broad
way
The first serious violence In con.
ueetlon with the street car strike a,
= Superior. Wis. broke out Thursday
; night, when 5000 strike sympathizers
smashed six cars,
Mrs. Dasy ulreh Opo Grace. who
was recently acquitted In Atlanta
Ga, OF the charge OF shooting her
husband, Eugene Grace. has instituted
proceedings In common pleas court al
: Philadelphia for divorce. She
charges cruel and barbarous treat
ment
Former United States Senator Her
naldo de Soto Money of Mississippi
died ut his home near Biloxi. Miss,
! Wednesday afternoon OF uraemic pois
onlng, lie was "a years of age.
: Wednesday was the hottest day o
|, the year In San Francisco. The mer
|, curry at o'clock had touched % de
grees. one degree higher than the
. hottest previous day. The record /,
!, l0l degrees.
h Hazed by schoolmates who kicke,
!, him to urge him along while he push
n ed a pencil across the floor OF a room
= with his nose, Gordon Kyle, ssesh
man at the Middleton. o., high schoo
n lies at the point of death. Kyle
/. spine was severely injured,
a Cattle sold at Sill hundred pound
b at the stockyards In Chicago on tn
b 18th. This establishes new higl
{. price for the season. A further in
b crease In the price of beef was pre-
dicted.
m Arthur Hall shot and killed hi
IN brother, James ]. Hall. in the latter
1t downtown office, in San Francisco
IS then went to his victims apartment
T. fifteen blocks away, killed Mrs. Jane
n ]. Hall and committed suicide, Th
IN tragedy was the result Of famil
quarrel.
IN The republican national committe
IL on Wednesday accepted the resign
IN ton of it's members from Minnesot
IS. Oklahoma and Ohio and declared V
DC cant the seats held by members fro
Mt Nto,y Torsav MTaSt Uiroinin and Nor