The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-02-07
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN TEA
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INTERMouNTAIN


and Authorizations, Hazel Thompson
is years OF age, patient in Salt
Lake private sanitarium, committed
suicide by drinking solution OF
cyanide of potassium.
! The approval by the Idaho legIsla.
ture OF the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for the election
OF senators by direct vote brings the
total up to ten states that have ap-
proved the amendment
Chris Christensen OF Salt Lake City
declares that bullet wounds In his
breast, following an attempt at sui
eide, led to the discovery of a cure
for tuberculosis. For five years Chris
Jensen has suffered with the disease;
but now he feels that he is on the
high road to recovery.
That the consumer is paying four
or Ave times the price for farm com
modities that the producer receives
and the recommendation that pub
lie farmers market be established in
Salt Lake were features OF the adj
dress Of ID. F. Smith, manager OF the
Salt Lake Growers exchange, at the
roundup at Logan. Utah.
The man giving his name as Otto
Larcher who was arrested in the Of
fee OF Governor II. M. Ammons in
Denver while seeking an interview
with that official and from whom a
revolver was taken. will be deported
TO Austria II the United States auth
critics approve.
The report that has been current
In Denver for several days that the
Doherty and other interests are to
put $10,000000 into the construction
Of system to irrigate half million
acres Of land in southwestern Colo
RADIO and southeastern Utah has been
confirmed.
DOMESTIC
After eleven days devoted to pro
curing jury, the second trial Of
Clarence b. barrow, former counsel
for the Mcnamara brothers, on a jury
bribing charge growing out OF the ia
nous dynamite trial, finally got under
way at Los Angeles on Friday.
Valuables worth many thousands OF
dollars. loot OF two thieves who were
killed In revolver duel with the po-
lice In New York last November, have
been found In a lockbox In down
town safety deposit vault.
Marshall Black. former state sena-
tor and the first state official to lose
offira tudar tha raoali Io,, .I.nazI
guilty In court at San Jose. Cal, to
three charges of embezzlement arising
out OF the recent failure OF the Palo
Alto Mutual Building & Loan associa-
ton. OF which he was secretary.
Papers granting Miss FRITZ Scheff,
the actress. an interlocutory decree of
divorce from John Fox, the author,
were filed in the county clerks office
at White Plains. ~ ". on Friday.
Governor Sulzer OF New York has
signed bill Incorporating the Harri. |
man research laborator founded by
the widow of the late II II. Harri,
man.
An enthusiastic follower OF woman
suffrage, John F'risbie, respectable
farmer, broke up meeting in Daniel
son, Conn, when he arose and with
great ardor popped" the question to
Or. Anna Howard Shaw.
A kick on the head by a mule was
worth $500 TO John Allen. farmer
living near Enid. Oklahoma Imme.
diately after Allen was operated on for
q fracture OF the skull. which the
mules kick had inflicted. he remem.
bered where he had buried that
amount OF money in the financial panic
Of 1907.
John Newell. a carpenter OF Duluth,
Mimi. has received word from Eng.
and that his uncle in Cornwall had
lied and left e3.000.0O0. OF which Jew.
Ellis share, he expects. will be several
million dollars.
The third advance In the price of
rude oils during the week was an
bounced Wednesday, Pennsylvania
rude being placed at s226. the high
'st price 1t has commanded since
s95.
James. George, Mevin and Fred ,
lice, brothers. were found guilty of
'ounterfeiting by federal jury at
chicago. Their father, James Rice,
ST.. now is serving penltentiary
sentence for the same offense.
William Kavanaugh, president OF the |
Baseball league, has been | |
'hosen United States senator from /
for the short term. 4
Special deputies and striking EN-.
'loyes of the American Steel & Wire l
company clashed at Pittsburg, one 4
nan being killed and twelve persons .
INJURED. several fatally. All the wound. I
ID. except two OF the guards and 1
'oliceman, were spectators. Not a $
uiker was injured. v
An unidentified negro, accused of
omplicity in the killing of a white L
nan at the town of Goldfeld, Miss. h
asst month. was taken from a deputy {
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