The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-06-28
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFKsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
-~lnfcrmaticn Gathered from Al
Quarters Of the Globe sna
olvsn IN o Few LInea
lNTERMouNTAIN


Ing to Illustrate q matchmaking plot pc
lleyed to have been framed up BY the
Whitney gang OF outlaws. Bert Dial.
ton Is IN jail charged with tho shoot.
Ing.
The wool clip Of tho Swan Land &
Cattle company Or Cheyenne, Of over
4 million pounds, and the largest single
clip In the state, has been sold to Bos.
ton buyers for II cents per pound,
/ AZ Union, Utah, near Salt Lake, i
shocking fate almost overlook d five.
months.old baby. The child was saved
from being deYoured by hog only by
the timely arrival OF its father. Be
fore the vicious animal could be
driven of II had severely bitten the
baby's lips, one Of It's ears and one of
its hands,
The State Federation OF Idaho Wo.
mems clubs concluded its three days
annual convention at Boise. Idaho.
Thursday, with the election Of officers.
The delegates placed the ban on
white slavery, indorsed bill creating
state art commission and wom-
ems building 1t the University Of
Idaho at Moscow.
Or, Ben Reitman. anarchist. who
recently was expelled from San Diego
and given coat Of tar and sage
brush. declared at Seattle that Chief
| of Police Wilson Of San Diego would
BIO assassinated
The early purchase by the Denver
Rio Grande Of forty passenger and
freight locomotives and sufficient
sighty.fiyepound steel rails to lay fif-
sy'iige miles Of track and build twenty
miles Of second track costing In all
sl0,OOO,00O, Is announced.
Ia the local option election on We'd
neaday Boise voted wet by d majority
II 1890. The country precincts re-
turned dry. leaving the net wet major
~ ! 500 or 1000 more than two years
ago
DOMESTIC
For hundreds OF miles In either al.
reetion from Needles the lowlands
along the Colorado river are In the
grip OF the worst rayages of food since
the river began TO rise. Though the
water Ii reeeding, heavier damage Is
being done than occurred with the
rise,
Judge Parker has accepted the tenn.
porary chairmanship Of the Demo
cratic national convention.
Henry Turner. an oVerzealous avia.
lion pupil, was perhaps fatally injured
At Hampstead. NJ ". by twenty-five.
foot fan Ia hlpane In which he at.
tempted to fly In spite OF orders from
his instructors to remain on the
ground
William jennings Bryan has re-
fused TO commit himself ON the re.
port that he Is opposed to Alton b.
Parker's presiding MS temporary chair.
maa Of the Democratic national con
nentiou
A bandit who held up the passen-
gers Of two San Joaquin river Ianches
about forty miles south of stockton,
Cal. was beaten to death after he had
shot Samuel Grlsscom. engineer OF
one Of the hoats.
at San Francisco early In August at
1873 pounds rlngside BILLY Nolan.
manager for Attell. says he will post
a side bet OF $4,000
Figures compiled by the telegraph
companies at Chicago show that all
records for outgoing dispatches were
broken al the opening day of the Re
publican national convention. 1t was
said that approximately 100000
words were handled.
Formal sanction for running the |
Vanderbilt cup and grand prize races
over the new course at Milwaukee has
been given by the consent of the
Automobile Club of America,
Arsenic In large quantities has been
found in the liver of Arthur Lindloff. |
whose mother, Mrs. Louise T4indloff, |
ts under arrest at Chicago In connec,
ton with his death, according to a re-
port from the eoronor's office.
William J. Mccoy. one of the fore.
most American composers, is con.
fined in hospital at Oakland with
broken leg and other injuries, hav-
ing been struck by motorcyclist
Chester Yates was arrested at San
Francisco on information from the
New York police, In which he is
charged with having robbed an aged
broker of $4,000 worth OF bonds in
that city a year ago.
Clarence s. barrow occupied the
center Of the stage at Los Angeles or
"Wednesday in his trial for alleged jury
bribery, when he consumed nearly the
entire day with his examination Of
George Benin OF Portage, Wis. an un-
lie Of ortie E. McManigal.
William Jennings Bryan's ticket to
the Republican national convention as
/ reporter for a number of news
papers was snatched out OF his hand
at the door of the Coliseum by wo-
man who gave her name TO the police
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