The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-12-19
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM.
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAlN.

The city OF Denver joined hands
with the local street railway company
and the larger coal retailers to
result was the lifting OF the blockade
on coal delivery which has existed In
many residence sections since the
| snowstorm of week ago.
1t was reported at Bingham, Utah,
| on Friday, that Sam Rogers, shift
boss at the Utah-Apex mine, had seen
and talked with Rafael Lopez, the
! Mexican murderer, and that Lopez
declared he would not be taken alive.
William Tracy has been held by the
/ police as suspect, believed to be
/ responsible for a double murder by
| placing poison in whisky, which he
gave to Fred Wallace and Thomas
| Brown, who were found dead in the
Starting hotel in Boise.
Utah Products day, which was orig
| mated for the statewide recognition
of the products and manufactured ar
/ ticles of the state, was observed In
every city and town in Utah on We'd
nesday December 10.
Following the announcement of a
$1,000 reward by Governor Spry Of
/ Utah for the capture of Rafael Lo-
! PEE, about twenty volunteers appear
| ed at the Andy tunnel at Bingham
Wednesday afternoon and expressed
o desire to go in and hunt for Lopez,
but Sheriff Smith refused to allow
them to enter the mine.
Mayor Stevens of Salem, Ore, has
been offered the services of the mi
litia by Governor West to aid him in
enforcing the dry amendment to
the city charter, particularly against
/ several fraternal orders.
DOMESTIC.
State railway commissioners of
states which have put in force re-
duced express rates won their fight
at Chicago to prevent adoption by the
convention of the National Associa-
ton of State Railway Commissioners
or measures looking to the establish
ment throughout the country of uni
form rates named by the interstate
commerce commission.
Miss Jessie Wilson, Miss Willie
Stewart and a negro nurse was killed
when the automobile in which they
were riding collided with an interur-
pan train near Dallas, Texas.
Labor organizations are allowed to
exist In the United States, yet the
right of coalition, union and free
speech is denied them under the Sher-
man antitrust law, Samuel Gompers.
president of the American Federation
OF Labor, asserted in an address In
New York City.
| Robbers blew open the safe in the
general store of the Buxton & land
street company at Weaver, w. va
and stole $1,700. They escaped after
q battle with citizens.
Lashed to fury by some unknown
force, huge waves wrought damage all
along the ocean shore of Southern Cal.
ifornia on Friday. At Venice seventy.
hVe Feet OF an unfinished concrete pier
was washed out. Observers believed
that the phenomenon was due to some
submarine disturbance.
Mrs, Cynthia Buffum was arrested
at Little Valley N. Y. on the charge
OF murder in the first degree in having
poisoned her husband, William Buf-
rum. One child died under mysterious
circumstances, another is diving and
three others are suffering from pois.
oning.
After three hours deliberation n iurv
at Cairo, ILL.,, found Harvey r. Fields
guilty OF the murder of DR.. e. Il. Cor.
don and fixed his punishment at TWEEN.
W years In the penitentiary.
| After celebrating twenty.four hours
the jury at st. Paul, Mimi. in the case
OF Joseph Gyarmati and John Osik,
charged with the murder of Gyarmatis
Wife, returned verdict of guilty.
| The need of uniformity in reduction
OF intrastate express rates to conform
TO the reductions ordered IN inter.
state rates was urged upon members
OF the National Association of State
Railway commissioners by representa-.
ives OF the express companies at Chi.
cago.
a boom for William Jennings Bryan
for president in 1916, was started AZ
the meeting at Lima, O., of the Ohio
state Grange and was indorsed by
the 600 delegates present.
Nelson Sharp died in the electric
chair at Auburn, N. r., for the murder
OF Patrolman Frank Ford of the Roch.
ester police force, May IS, 1912.
Opposition to woman suffrage was
declared by the Massachusetts State
Grange at the closing session OF It's
forty-trst annual convention at Bos.
| ton.
Joe Mandot of New Orleans and Pat
Drouillard, the Windsor lightweight,
stood toe to toe and battled eight vic,
ious rounds at Windsor, Ont. The pop.
ular decision gave Mandot shade.
Two shootings that may have fatal
results occurred at Bingham, Utah,