The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-09
NEWS Of A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AapPenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Linea
INTERMouNTAlN

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| Horticultural association all Prove
Utah, IL was decided to hold mex
/ years session at Ogden.
/ Workmen, drilling $3.50 feet from
this portal In the MarshallRussel
tunnel at Georgetown, Colo, unearth
ed what they claim to be yeritabI,
underground river, many OF the work
men narrowly escaping drowning.
Nearly 1000 articles Oh value. sail
by postoffice inspectors to have beer
stolen by w. T. Johnston, Union Pa
cific travelling electrician, have beer
found IN Johnston's room In Denver
Andrew !. Mouiton OF the real Ell
tate Arm Of Zimmerman q MouItor
was caught by policeman early
Tuesday morning getting out OF q
window Of the postoffioe at Helena
and lodged In jail charged with bur
giary.
DOMESTIC
The theft OF d loaf OF bread by
Matthew w. Harbeson, son OF a mil
itenaire brick manufacturers OF Wood,
nliffe, ". IT, for which he was SEN
fenced TO serve thirty days in jail,
prompted HIS relatives to take steps
70 have alienists examine him.
Charles Corbin, only son or the late
Philip Corbin, founder Of the hard.
ware trust, who cut of his son with
$4,000 In . will disposlng OF several
millions, offering him an additional
$4,000 II he married again, will win
that extra $4,000 on February 28 BY
marrying Mrs. Bonita Rabbit at her
home Ia Mansfield. Mass
Present prospects are that there
will be 60,000,000 bushels OF grain In
the Duluth and Superior and the Port
Arthur and Fort William elevators at
the opening OF navigation next spring,
counting the amount In vessel storage
at the latter points.
Delegates to the convention at In.
dianapolis OF the United Mine Work.
ers Of America adjourned Friday,
leaving the details OF new wage
agreement with the scale committee.
The present contract expires April i,
and attempts will be made before that
time 70 reach an agreement which
win be submitted 70 referendum
vote OF the miners,
Mrs, Aemlia Jones, convicted re.
comfy AZ Iona. Mich, OF attempting
to murder her husband by feeding him
poisoned ple, has been sentenced to
rem Ave 10 ten years in the Detroit
house OF correction.
While more than 500 men and
women were sleeping at the Winches-
ter hotel. San Francisco, lone high.
wayman who had registered two hours
before as a guest, looted the till In the
hotel office OF almost 5000.
Thirteen persons were killed and
twenty-four were injured during the
Oklahoma hunting season which
closed January 80. OF the injured,
ten We're disabled permanently
Major r, j, Anderson. Kansas
pioneer and politician, died at his
home at Topeka, Wednesday, OF apo,
plexy. Major Anderson came to
Kansas in 1857 and served through
the civil war until he resigned to be-
come adiutant general OF the new
state.
Edward Ttlden. president of the Ma
tional Packing company. surprised
his fellow defendants in the United
States district court at Chicago, by
declaring that he had eaten break.
fast OF alfalfa, served in the form of
pancakes. and expressed the opinion
that alfalfa meal would some day
cause the price Of wheat to fall to SO
cents a bushel
Prospects for victory OF the cause
of national prohibition of the LIQUOR
traffie are bright. says Charles r.
Jones, chairman of the Prohibition
national committee, in the official call
for his party's national convention.
Congressman Martin d. Madden OF
Illinois in an address before the Ham.
ilton club at Chicago. said that II the
United States Is ever to go to war with
Japan the conflict will come before
the opening OF the Panama canal.
The jury in the case OF Allison M.
mcfarland. on trial at Newark, N. J.,
for the murder of his wife by cyan.
ide poisoning, returned verdict of
guilty OF murder in the first degree.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
Of Gallipolis, o.. private concern
owned by j s. Howard OF Columbus,
closed its doors Wednesday. Howard
Is former traction company presi-
dent.
A bill designed to protect women
from gossip has been introduced in
the Maryland house Of delegates. The
proposed law indicts Imprisonment
for from six months to three years
upon any person who makes an as
sertion rejecting upon the good name
Of a woman.
A cake Of her own baking with 102
! lighted candles, each candle symbol
lzing a year of her eyentfuI life, held
the place Of honor on the table Tues.
day when Grandma Eleeta Ken
nedy gave birthday party in her
home al Healdsburg, Cal.