The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-16
NEWS OF 4 WEEK N
CONpfNSED FORM
Ha@ AeSD or THE IMPORTANT
AAfEAATs TOLD nv BRlEFRsT
MANNER Possible.
E4appenlngs That Are Making History
--lnformstIsH Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Glebe and
nlveR In rev Llnsa
NrRRMouNTAlM

&h1 county grand jury at Portland
Indicted Wong 81 Sam and Low Soor
on Friday on charge Of murder Ii
connection with the death OF Seis
Wan Blng, the Chinese whose mutt
lated body was found recently In
trunk In the Seattle depot.
Governor Tasker Il. oddie OF Ne
vada has issued cali for the state
legislature 70 convene In apeciaI SEES
sion on February 20 at Carson City
\ The session ID called for the purpose
says the governor IN his proclamation
FIRST, to provide for state loan for
4 he purpose OF enabling the state "a
transact business on cash basis. and
second. 10 provide for a statc tax
levy
/ William McVey, alias Baker City
Slim wanted In Salt Lake on q
sharge Of numbering William Sander.
cock, who was slain In his store at
iartleld November 90, 1911, was ar.
7ested in New Orleans Thursday.
1 The Western Pine Manufacturers
association in session at Spokane
adopted a resolution urging congress
70 preserve intact the appropriation
pf 100000 for lighting forest fires.
The state railroad commission no.
titled the traffic departments OF ali
railroads operating in Montana that
u will not approve the new western
classification TO 30 into effect Feb
ruary 10. but that the old classified
ton will continue In effect.
DOMESTIC
Three children we're burned to
death, one man fatally injured and a
woman seriously hurt In mysterious
explosion which destroyed the home
Of Isaac Smith, farmer living near
Maxwell, Iowa.
Colonel w. IL Stewart, hero of the
battle OF the Crater and former com
Inander.ln chief Of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, died at his home in
Portsmouth, Va, Of pneumonia. He
was "a years old.
Theodore "Ted" Marks, one OF the
best known figures In the theatrical
world. died Friday In New York City
after several weeks Illness.
Ten thousand men are searching in
d territory 100 miles square for the
murderer Of little Goldie Williams,
whose body was found in vacant
house in Grand Island, Neb,
Former Senator w. A, Clark Friday
afternoon laid the cornerstone OF the
! s260,000 Mary Andrew Clark memorial
home at Los Angeles,
The sixty4wo miners entombed in
the Bunker Hill mine az Suffer Creek
Cal. by a cave-ir In the mouth OF the
shaft, were rescued Thursday after a
night OF desperate work by miners
from nearby mines, None Of the men
were injured.
Just forty minutes after his arrival
In Los Angeles, where he intended to
spend the remainder OF the winter.
r. II. Walther. aged 63 years. a veal
thy miIlowner Of st. Paul, Mimi, fell
from the steps Of street car and died
an hour later
Robert @. Fowler OF Gilroy, Cal, the
ocean.to.ocean aviator, officially fin
ished his long flight across the CONT
nent when he landed at Moncrief
park. Jacksonville. Fla, on Thursday.
Detailed plans for the accommcda.
ton OF al least 100000 troops at varl.
Gus points in the state are being per-
tected in the department Of Texas
Although no official order has been
received for this great movement of
troops, yet preparations for their con.
eentration are practically complete.
w. III. M. Smith, editor of the
Truckee tCal.) Republican, was shot
twice and fatally wounded by r, Nj.
Doyle. merchant and owner of the 10,
cal electric power plant, Smith.
through his newspaper, has been wag-
Ing crusade against the saloons OF
Truckee and against Doyle as being
connected with them,
According TO officials, bandits who
held up . Rock Island train near HUI
burt, Ark, early Tuesday morning
were poorly recompensed for their eff.
| forts.
Charles w. Morse, tho New York
banker recently paroled by President
Taft, departed from Atlanta, Ca, for
New York wednesday afternoon, He
was accompanied by his wife, 1t is
understood he will go abroad.
Abe Ruef, former political boss OF
San Francisco, is to be brought from
his prison cell to testify in the bribery
trial Of former Mayor Schmitz.
Union labor officials and agents,
said to number between thirty and
forty, whom the government holds
eriminally responsible with the Nc
Namaras and Ortie +. Mechanical foI
| perpetrating mose than 100 explo
sions, have been indicted by the
grand jury at Los Angeles.
! Antonio Maggiore, Jr., IS years old
for whom tho police have beer
searching since January 2S on tn,
suspicion that re had been kidnapped
appeared at his home in Chicago OF
Tuesday and admitted that he haC
run away home