The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
BRIEF REVIEW Of
4 Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
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INTERmouNrAlN


so carefully planned that one SNUG
gler knew scarcely any OF the others
involved, the biggest opium ring dis
covered on the Pacific coast in recent
years Is being broken up by customs
/ agents at Portland. Ore
/ That California sue Nevada before
the United States supreme court for
equitable apportionment OF the waters
.. Lake Tahoe in California is recon-
mended In report to Governor John
son by the California conservation
commission
Returns show that OF the charter
amendments and proposals submitted
TO the voters OF Seattle, the single
tax. the municipal bank plan, the
public market plan and the Griffiths
bill to restrict the power OF the police
were defeated
To avoid a filibuster In the senate
| by the Nevada senator's, who gave no
tice OF talking the legislative appro-
praition bin to death, the senate and
house conferees agreed to continue
the assay offices for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1914.
The Montana assembly has passed
the bill legalizing 12-round boxing
contests, The measure had been
passed previously by the senate and
now awaits the signature OF the gov
ernor.
DOMESTIC
One.half the butter In cold storage
In Chicago is adulterated in violation
Of the internal revenue laws, the
adulteration consisting OF water mois-
ture In quantities OF from is to So
per cent OF the actual weight OF the
butter. according to officials OF the
United States internal revenue depart
ment.
The first 14-inch gun mounted on
the new battleship Texas, under con
struction at Newport News, Va, has
been named by workmen Woodrow"
kuntil the mighty dreadnaught goes out
Of commission the gun will be known
as Woodrow" by all jackies.
Iowa's senate passed, 81 to Is. wo-
mans suffrage amendment, but refused
TO recede from vote asking Iowa
women to vote upon suffrage two years
hence.
Police are hunting the man who
robbed Peter Morrison, aged 80 years
and II months of $S7 in currency,
which the aged victim had tucked
away in his vest pocket when he sat
down TO take nap in the lobby of
| nrfrg,nf In.
/ Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for
the Americas cup will be considered
at special meeting OF the New YORK
Yacht club called by Commodore
Pratt for the evening of March IL.
John lille. the University Aof Mime
sofa student who was injured while en-.
gagged in wrestling bout at Mime
apolis gymnasium, Is still living, al.
though his neck was broken in the ac-
cident.
Packey Mcfarland outpointed Jack
Britton in ten rounds OF fairly rapid
and clever fighting at Madison Square
Garden, March Z.
Commodore Perry's old flagship, the
Niagara. which for almost a century
has rested at the bottom of Misery
bay, an arm OF Lake Erie, has been
raised TO the surface.
Tho Sodus Point home of the late
Edward II. Hartman has been decided
by Mrs. Hartman to Right Rev.
William d. Walker, bishop of the
Episcopal diocese OF western New
York for the use OF clergymen in need
OF rest
Several members of the Democratic
national committee are urging on
President Wilson the appointment OF
Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, N. Y,
former chairman Of the committee, as
ambassador to Austria
In the excitement OF finding their
house on Are with no water at hand
| John Landrez and his wife hurriedly
moved out what furniture they could
and left their 2.year-old son to burn
to death The couple live at Cons.
4 CAL
Professor Oscar NJ Olson. demon
strator az the Minnesota school of
Agriculture, surrendered himself to
Inv PohSN VI ols ENutt huhniiluE that
he shot and killed Clyde n. Darling.
laundry driver.
Jess Willard, the Kansas white
hope. knocked out Jack Leon, the
former wrestler, in the fourth round
Of scheduled ten-round bout at Fort
Wayne. Ind 1t was an easy victory
for the Kansan.
| Floyd Allen, leader OF the outlaw
banc In Carroll county, and his son
Claude Swanson Allen. viii be exc
cuted in the state penitentiary March
% for their part in the Hillsville court
murders. Governor Mann has refused
TO commute the sentences to life i'm.
prisonment.
A telegram received by his business
associates states that Frank Horace,
an American real estate dealer of Col