The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-03-08
NEWS OF A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of tho Globe and
Given In Few Llnea
lNTERMouNTAlN

4
men In public life In Nevada died 4
Carson, Ney., after short illness
Mr.. Pratt was formerly surveyor ger
erai OF the state. While ne never al
tended school q day in his life. Ii,
mastered telegraphy, surveying an,
asaaying, and often was called upol
70 expert books OF public offlciaIs
| Il Is said that within few month,
salt Lake will become the western
manufacturing home OF the u. /. Dt
Point de Nemours Powder company
A branch factory the building oil
which will involve fortune and
which will be capable OF supplying
the entire intermountain mining ter
ritory. Is promised.
Charles Norcross, commissioner OF
publicity for the agricultural and ir.
rigation bureau and brother OF su.
preme Court Justice Norcross, clash.
ed with Hal Mighels, editor OF the
Carson Appeal, al Carson. New, and
both combatants were badly mussed
UP before separated by friends.
A request from citizens OF Ogden.
Utah, presented 10 President Taft
urging the government to Investigate
the strike Of the machinists on the
Hartman lines. was referred to the
department Of Justice.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
James Sweeney and state Printer 10.
seph Farnsworth made entry into the
white hope class at Carson, New.
on Wednesday They chose the cor.
ridor Of the state capitol building and
each proved gintton for punishment
until bystanders interfered.
DOMESTIC
The longest winter drought known
IN California In the last ten years |
was ended Friday by a rain storm |
which swung into the southern end
Of the state from the southwest short
~ before daybreak and worked stead. |
Ily north.
The Jury In the case of Vernon |
Cole, the Christian Science practi.
TONER charged with practIcing medi-
cine In New York without license,
was unable to agree on q verdict and
was discharged
Representatives OF commercial or.
ganizations In Boston. Philadelphia,
San Francisco and Portland, Ore,
urged President Taft to see to Il that |
no transcontinental railroad be per- |
mitted to operate steamship lines |
through the Panama canal. They ad. |
vocated free traffic through the canal |
or tolls favorIng American shipping. |
Standing seven for acquittal and |
five for conviction. the jury at Fort
Worth, Texas, which tried John BeaI |
Sneed for the murder OF Captain A.
G. Boyce. the aged Panhandle cattle
king. was discharged. after having
been out 1l2 hours.
Fourteen passengers were injured
when sleeper train of three cars on
The Illinois traction system was de.
rallied and turned over in ditch nifty
miles east Of 81. Louis.
Secretary OF State Knox made in
Panama "Wednesday night the first of
MS public addresses on his "a trip to
he capitals of Central America,
lorthern South America and the West
indies. He declared the United
States craved neither sovereignty nor
erritory in Latln.America.
Evidence that nine OF the ten de-
endants met every Tuesday after
room between 1907 and 1910 behind
'losed doors in the directors room
II the National Packing company
vas given by two Witnesses in the
'aekers' trial at Chicago.
Two hundred and nine persons
we're killed and Asa injured in train
accidents during July, August and
September, 1911. according to an ac. /
tdent bulletin issued by the inter I
tate commerce commission. I
Permanent offices from which SUP
'orters of Theodore Roosevelt win {
wage his fight for the Republican {
residential nomination were opened l
It No, | Madison avenue, New York,
m Monday, in charge of Oliver Gin |
on Carpenter. lawyer who was one '
# the lieutenants of George Il. Cor, !
eiyou. chairman of the Republican :
iauonal committee in 1904
Announcement is made on behalf of
he anthracite coal miners that their !
lecision regarding the demands of the '
United Mine Workers of America :
would not be made public until the :
conference between the operators !
and the miners March IS. !
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Theo-
lore Rooseyelt's intimate friend and ,
lose counselor, issued statement
Monday night saying that because of I
heir lifelong friendship he could not :
personally oppose the colonel and
therefore, would take no part in the !
campaign for the Republican presi- !
iential nomination. ,
The commission appointed by 6
Mayor Harrison to investigate the
causes for $4,000 men being idle in T
Chicago has made arrangements to 5
,ail as witnesses many men who are /
1ow- out of work. In