The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-09-20
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
aEcoRD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RIEFKsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Az
Quarters Of the Globe and
0lven IN . Few LiBeas
INrERmouNrAiN

IRTERMouNTAiN
Express companies operating out OF
Portland and into dry" territory de.
clared on Friday they had received
no notice from Governor West 10 stop
sending liquor into the arid zones,
and, even II they did, they would con-
tinue shipping.
Mistaken for holdups, brigham Tay.
Tor or Provo, aged is years, and Ar
mold Deardall Of sprIngyille, aged 10
| years, we're shot down by former De-
putty sheriff u. y. johnson mile
south OF Helper. Utah, Taylor Is dead,
but Deardall will recover.
Colonel Roosevelt charged in an adj
dress at Ogden, Utah, that the inter
ests were Indifferent as to whether
election came to President Taft or
Governor Wilson, 20 that he was de-
feated.
Some idea OF the number Of ducks
| which have fallen victims OF the cpl
remic now rayaging the water fowl
OF Utah can be gained from the state
ment that near Ogden one day last
week three thousand dead ducks were
/ buried.
| Following q battle with three men
who resisted arrest, H. Y. Strand, city
marshal and saloonman Of Harvey
City, Ore. was shot and killed Three
men are under arrest
The Progressive party OF Utah has
placed complete state ticket In the
field. headed by Nephi l.. Morris, OF
Salt Lake, for governor.
George Creel, magazine writer. news
paper man, police commissioner Of
Denver and fiance of Blanche Bates
the actress has been indicted at Den
yer for failure to inforce the law re-
quiring the closing Of disorderly
| houses
DOMESTIC
| On account of internal troubles, the
Building Trades council has declared
strike Of IT'S members In Cincinnati
and called out 5000 men employed
on buildings now under construction.
Martin Thompson, farmer living
near Council Bluffs, iowa, killed his
wife and eight.year-old son and then
suieided. while temporarily insane
William Rand, freshman at the state
university at Raleigh, N, O., was killed
while being hazed by sophomores,
Rand, perched on a barrel and sur
rounded by his tormentors, fell Off and
gashed his neck on a broken pitcher.
The city OF Fago, N, D., has de-
clared dividend OF Ga per cent.
\ which viii be paid in cash March
1. 1913 Mayor Sweet, lnt announcing
the dividend. said; a'Ten thousand
dollars has been saved the city in
the last year hnd we have decided TO
refund the surplus TO taxpayers In por.
ton to their last assessment"
With the election of Judge Alfred b.
Beers OF bridgeport, Conn, as com.
manderin-chief for the ensuing year.
and the placing OF the selection of the
next encampment city In the hands OF
the administrative council, the forty
sixth annual encampment OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic officially ended
at Los Angeles on Friday.
Undeterred by the seriousness of
tho situation In Mexico and the trouble
In Nicaragua. Secretary of War slim,
son has plunged into the wilderness OF
California for stay of at least three
/ weeks.
Ed Collins, negro charged with
helping to hide the body of young
white woman after she had been at.
tackled, was shot TO death while in
jail at Cummings, Ca, by mob of
several hundred white men.
The grand chapter. Royal Arch
Masons, in session at Indianapolis,
selected San Francisco for the next
triennial convention in September,
1915, and upheld q ruling that the
Philippine islands are within the jur,
isdiction of the United States
! Receivers have been appointed for
the United States Motors company, a
! $42,500,000 holding corporation organ
lied In 1908 to control ten automobile
and gas engine companies. Its direct
ors number some of the best known
capitalists In the country.
The national convention of the Amer
lean Bankers association, which began
at Detroit on Tuesday, brought 5000
delegates from the United States, its
territories and Canada.
, Recognition by the United States Of
the belligerency of the rebels is the
! solution of the Mexican problem, IL
! the opinion OF A. b. Fall, United
States senator from New Mexico.
The international boundary surve!
! party, which has been marking tn,
: line between Alaska and the Yukon ter
! ritory, has arrived at Dawson. Y. T.
: having completed the task of suryeyin,
! the one hundred and forty-second mer
idian from the Pacific to the Arcti
) ocean.
Floyd Allen, leader of the Allie
| clan which shot up the Hillesvin
. courthouse in Carroll county o