Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-08-01
NEWS Of A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in a Few llnea
NTERMOUNTAIN


Fire that started in a rooming house
at Bingham. Utah, ragged for three
hours before it could be controlled,
doing damage estimated at not less
than $40, 900.
F. G. Bonfils. part owner of a Den
yer newspaper. was found guilty OF
contempt of court in proceedings
growing out of suits for libel filed by
William G. Evans and former Mayor
Robert w. Speer, and a~ggregating
more than $1,000, 900.
The five-year-old daughter of NJ.
Walsh, a rancher living near Sheri.
dan, was killed by a heavy hailstone.
The hail damaged crops in northern
Wyoming valued at 500, 900.
After selecting Hancock, Mich. as
the next meeting place, the twentieth
annual convention of the Western
Federation of Miners adjourned at Vic
tor, Colo, late Friday. Hancock won
over Denver by the close vote of III
to 116.
Relief work for the victims of a
cloudburst at Mazuma, New, is pro-
crossing more satisfactorily. A large
corps OF trained nurses from Reno
and other Nevada cities has been sent
to the stricken mine town.
One man was drowned, it is believ-
ed. and 100000 damage was lone IN
the worst flood in the history of Mer-
rlll, Wash, which struck the city fol-
lowing a rainfall of twenty-four hours.
Because personal enemies had made
charges of insanity against him, Emil
Siren, aged As years, attempted to
commit suicide at Boise. Idaho, by cut
ting his throat with a razor. Siren
denied he insanity charges and alleg-
ed that enemies only sought to isolate
L m He is not expected to live.
Stephen Batemen, % years of age.
Of Murray, Utah. was dangerously if
not fatally injured when he fell from
a speeding car of the scenic railway
at Lagoon and hung suspended in the
trestle work twenty-five feet above the
ground.
Senator Borah has appealed to the
president to release the Injunction
against the Salt Lake & Idaho Railroad
company, which delayed construction
of that railroad across the Minidoka
irrigation project because the company
secured right of way from the settlers
instead OF from the government.
DOMESTIC
Many persons were injured when
200 Masons and their families, seated
on a wooden platform covering a
small ravine in front of an open air
theatre at a park in Wheeling. Va.
were precipitated to the ground by
the collapse of the structure.
Forest fires are still raging near
Skagway, Alaska, and a high wind
spreading the flames. The loss of
wood and timber is very large. Fern
castle, a famous tourist resort. burn
ed.
A Spangle. charged with having rob-
Der a bank in Newata, Okla. was
arrested at Susanville. Cal, by oper-
atives OF a private detective agency,
after he had eluded the police for
months.
Eight aldermen of Detroit and the
secretary OF the comon council COM
mittees We're placed under arrest Fri
day on charges of accepting brides
and conspiracy to accept a bride for
their votes and influence in the pas-
sage of a measure affecting city prop
erty recently transferred to the Wa,
bash railroad.
That James B. Mcnamara, serving
a life sentence in San Quentin peni-
Tertiary for murder committed in the
of the Los Angeles Times
building, is held in solitary confne-
ment in an effort to make him con-
TESS further details of that conspir-
acy, is charged by prominent labor
officials and Indignantly denied by the
warden.
Away from the heat and noises of
he city, free from the callers who
come at all seasons, and left absolute
y to himself and his books, James. 4
Cardinal Gibbons. on July % ce;ebrat-
his seventy-eighth birthday ami
'tiSdiy dl lut nome OF i. HerDert |
Shriver. seven miles from Westmin-
ter, Md.
The announcement of a sweeping
in transcontinental freight
'ates, in som instances amounting to
Is much as 100 per cent, was made
Thursday at the general offices in San ,
francisco of the Southern Pacific and
Fe Railway companies. ,
The killing of DR.. James w. Wal
len, a leading Democrat, by Perry
Vallin. a Republican leader, has -.
AIMED to a threatening outbreak the
mouldering political feud in the Black
Water district, near J%onesville, Va.
through the district the clans are {
up.
Colonel Frank NJ. Joyce, first vice (
of the American Automobile
and chairman of the COM g
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