The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-09-26

ty-ssventh annual encampment a
Chattanooga. TeEn.
Joseph Kupf. a respected merchan'
OF Vallejo. Cal. with three grown
children, faces extradifion to Ne
hraska. on a charge Of murder. alleg
ed 20 have been commifted by him in
that state fourteen years ago.
What is believed 10 have been the
maximum OF heat in California thi.
year was reached at silver Lake On
Thursday. when the mercury sizxled
AZ the l27 mark. Considerable cror
damage was reported
In a hRnd.so-hand fght with his Graz.
ed negro cnaunear. armed with an
ak. In his garage. Charles b. Gush,
former president OF chocolate com.
pany. shot and MORALLY wounded
bis assnilant at Baltimore
Through misty rain. several thous.
and Union veterans ana Sons Of Vet.
Grams marched at Chattanooga. Tenn,
on the 18th. ID the 4Tth annual parade
CT the Grand Army OF the Republic.
WASHINGTON
The complete revision OF American
banking and currency methods. pro
posed In the Democratic currency bill,
WAS started on its way 10 the statute
books Thursday. by a vote OF 2SG to
81. the House passed the bill In prac
tically the same form in which ii was
originally proposed,
Gabe E. Parker. Choctaw Indian
Of Academy, Okla, the first man OF
his race 10 be register OF the treasury,
was sworn into office on Thursday.
His signature win appear on all cur.
rency and he declared he regarded his
appointment as signal recognition OF
the red men.
So far as the Washington admin
lstration Is concerned. no move is
being contemplated In the Mexican
situation at present. The elections
OF October &c now are awaited here
with keen interest.
In spite OF the unsettled conditions
In Mexico growing out OF the resoIu
ton. trade OF the United States with
that country In the fiscal year Just
closed was greater than before
President Wilson has nominated
William Hayne Leavell OF CarroIlton,
Miss. for minister to Guatemala. He
Is retired clergyman.
FOREIGN
Felix Dlaz, who has Just returned
TO Paris from Biarrltz, says that he
had seen the dispatch from Mexico
City in the Paris newspapers, an.
nouncing that he had been summoned
back to Mexico by President Huerta,
but that he knew nothing about the
matter.
That counterfeit banknotes SO
skillfully executed as TO deceive local
bankers and shopkeepers were made /
BY convicts in the Peterhead, Scot
land prison was startling discovery
made Friday by Scotland Yard de-
tectiyes. In printing the banknotes
the convicts used paper in which
rations had been served them.
A congress to test the efficiency
OF the "divining rod" in discovering
deposits OF potash and coal. subter-
ranean caves and water streams OPP
ened Friday at Halle, Germany, un-
er official sanction.
King Constantine OF Greece. travel
Ing IN the strictest incognito. arrived
Friday In Paris from London.
The deaths OF the late Francisco
l. Madero and vicapresldent Jose
Maria Pine Suarez were not brought
about by punishable crime, accor-
ing to a decision pronounced by the
court at Mexico City.
Gable communication with Canton
was Interrupted Friday BY a violent
typhoon blowing along the Chinese
coast and up the Canton river.
Princess Sophia OF Saxe-Weimar.
Eisenach. a beautiful young woman Of
sunny disposition and much courted
by the officers with whom she often
rode TO hounds az Baden court. com.
mitted suicide at Heidelberg. Ger.
many. Her body with bullet wound
Ia the temple. was found in her room
n the palace Of her father Prince
William.
The control of petroleum field l..
700 square miles In extent in Columbia
has been secured by Canadian syn.
iicate.
score OF women and children
we're trampled upon, some OF them
'eing-seriously hurt. In panic which
occurred In the plaza at Puebla, Mexl.
%. as result OF pistol shots fired
Turing the celebration OF independ.
nee day
A petition requesting an inyestIga-
Ion into the alleged relations OF the
obaeco trust with the German cigar
cite industry. has been sent to the
ierman secretary OF the interior BY
be Hansa league. a national associa
lon OF business men.
A Shanghai dispatch says the jap
nese-Chinese situation has become
ceentuated. In PeL-n II Is believed
hat Japan Is acting with the tacIt
Import Of Russia The Chinese GOV.