The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-12-13
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFKsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Arc Making History
Information Gathered from Az
Quarters OF the Globe ard
Given In q Few Llnea
lNTERmouNTAiN

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merce and Real Estate exchange be-
fore his departure that the James
Peak tunnel should be built or that
some other method should be devised
to shorten the distance and establish
direct communication with Salt Lake
and the coast.
Heavy SHOWS and extreme cold
have driven packs OF gray wolves out
OF the timber into the vicinity OF
Steamboat Springs, Colo, and many
cattle are falling victims to their at
tacks. Cattlemen have offered boun-
ties for wolf scalps.
Sardio Summerfield, Progressive
candidate for United States senator In
Nevada. filed his expense account
with the secretary OF state last week,
showing an expenditure In the gen
eral election Of $50 and an aggregate
expenditure of $46S,50 for the pri-
mary and general election.
Forty-four witnesses, business men
OF Seattle, intimate acquaintances OF
w. u. De Larm and investors In his
bankrupt Columbia River Orchards
company. have been subpoenaed to
appear In Portland December 26 and
testify In the trial OF the Orchards
company promoters, who have been
charged with using the mails to de-
fraud.
David Eccles OF Ogden, the million
aire banker and lumber baron, died
Thursday night at the emergency
hospital OF the Salt Lake police sta
ton, following fatal attack of heart
trouble. He was stricken on the
street and his identity was not dis
covered until after death.
The contract for the building OF the
capitol at Salt Lake has been let the
successful bidder agreeing to erect the
structure for $1,106,0O0.
DOMESTIC
At the governors convention at
Richmond. Va. resolution was
passed censuring Governor Cole s.
Blease OF South Carolina for his adj
vocacy OF lynch law, and his declar-
alton that the constitution OF South
Carolina could so to hell"
Charles A. Sherman. 60 years old.
a delicatessen storekeeper, was shot
and probably fatally wounded by one
of three automobile bandits in Chr
cago after a determined resistance by
the aged man, In which he had dis
armed one of the robbers.
The value Of the estate of the late
Senator Isadore Rayner Of Maryland
will approximate 100000. The prop
erty Is divided equally between the
widow and the son,
A woman was passenger aboard
the United States battleship Kansas
which. with other vessels OF Admiral
Fietcher's feet. arrived In Galveston
harbor Friday from New Orleans. She
was dressed In mems clothing and
was hidden in the bunkers.
Henry Disher of Davenport, Iowa,
aged 73 years and veteran OF the
civil war. just welcomed his twenty
third child. 1t Is a few days old. His
Oldest is son 43 years old. All are
iiNlhS. Aio Nos OSVh heh'Aeo ASAA
times.
William Collier OF Los Angeles and
an unidentified companion We're
burned to death In the jail at Crow
ley, La, after they had set fire to
the structure in an effort to escape.
The resignation of Newman Erb
as chairman OF the board OF directors
OF the Ann Arbor Railroad company
was announced Wednesday in New
York. He will succeed to the pres.
idency OF the road in the place OF Jo-
seph Ramsey, Jr., who viii retire.
Eight troops OF the Third United
states cavalry now on Mexican bor-
der patrol duty have been ordered to
concentrate at Fort Sam Houston.
The Second cavalry, now at Fort
Bliss, win go on Mexican patrol duty
Robert ]. p. widney, prominent
Los Angeles real estate dealer, is in
a hospital In san Francisco suffering
from a bullet wound that may prove
fatal, and Mrs. Frances " Lyons is
a prisoner In the city Jail as the re-
suit OF the shooting.
The jury In the case OF Mrs. Agnes
Orner OF Ell Paso, Texas, on trial for
the third time on the charge OF pois-
oning her l1-year-old daughter Lille,
disagreed. and was discharged.
Eleven dead and Ave seriously In
jured is the wreck score as result
OF rearend collision on a railroad
near GAINESVILLE, O.
Peter Pan. James II, Keene's run.
ming stallion. has been sold for $780,
600. II is reported that agents of
Frank Gould purchased the horse and
that he viii be shipped to France
some time next week.
Jack Johnson. the negro pugilist,
and Lucille Cameron. the Minneapolis
white girl. we're married in Chicago
on Tuesday.
Eddie McGoorty OF Oshkosh. out
pointed Mike Gibbons OF st. Paul in
every round OF ten-round bout at
Madison Square Garden, Wednesday
night