The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-12-05


until March 30 next of a tariff OF the
st. Louis and San Francisco railroad
proposing to withdraw milling In tran
sit privileges on grain and seed now
enjoyed by shippers.
| Ten thousand rounds OF rifle and re-
volver ammunition were seized by
customs inspectors at New York
aboard the steamer Seminole, lying
at her pier there. The Seminole was
to sail for Haiti and San Domingo.
Jimmp Clabby gave Soldier Logan
a thorough trouncing In fourteen
rounds at San Francisco on Thanks
giving. but did not escape injury him
self by any means.
Seth Storer, aged 10, while deer
hunting near Finlayson, Mimi, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed by his SON
in-law. Harry Christoferson.
Agents OF the department of justice
arrested General Jose Santos Zelaya,
former president of Nicaragua, arous.
ing him from his bed in a New York
apartment house The warrant served
charges him with murder.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary McAdoo has issued a state
ment declaring that banks throughout
the country reported to be restricting
credits In order to meet the provisions
of the expected currency law. are max
Ing mistake. He announced thar the
resources in the treasury would be at
the disposal of the banks to aid them
In complying with the new law when
II Is put on the statute books.
Public hearings on the proposed
quarantine on Irish potatoes from
Canada and Europe because of DOW
derry scab will be held at the depart
ment Of agriculture December IS.
President Wilson and members Of
the cabinet discussed the Mexican sit
uation briefly Tuesday and assurances
were given later that no change In the
attitude of the United States toward
the Huerta provisional government
had taken place.
More than 100 witnesses have been
called by the government to testify in
the trial of James Dunlop Smith, sam
uei 81 Darby, Lee De Forest and Eli
mer II. Burlingame. charged with con-
spiracy to defraud investors In wire
less telephone stock.
War will be declared by the United
States on jack rabbits, ground SOUR
rels and prairie dogs, IL Representative
Addison t. Smith of Idaho can whee-
die an appropriation of $4,000 from
congress- to enable the department OF
agriculture to begin operations in the
Rocky Mountain states.
FOREIGN.
The movement of General Francisco
Villas troops to the south to attack
the federaPs stronghold at Chihuahua
was begun Saturday, when nearly L.
600 men under General Rosalio Her.
nandez departed from Juarez.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, whose
long sojourn in Austria led to repeated
reports that he intended to abdicate
has returned to Sofia.
The Daily London Telegraph pub
fishes the report that Italy has pur-
chased the Brazilian dreadnought Rio
Janeiro.
The Unionist party carried the war
into the enemy's territory on Satur-
day when Andrew Bonar Law, leader
of the opposition in the house OF the
lrish-Unionists and other prominent
men, arrived in the Irish capital to
deliver speeches on home rule.
The Thanksgiving dinner OF the
American society at London was note
worthy because of the announcement
of the British governments indorse-
ment of the Monroe doctrine by Wis
count Haldane lord high chancellor.
Five East Indians were killed in an
ARRAY between the strikers and the
police, which occurred on the Black
burn sugar estate In the Mount Ed
grom district. about fourteen miles to
the north of Durham, Natal.
A league for the purpose of oppos-
ing the adoption of Confucianism as
the state religion of China, has been
organized at Pekin at a meeting held
at the Young Mems Christian associa.
ton.
to death when their biplane caught
gre near Chantemerie. France, have
been identified as Captain Briot OF the
artillery, and Sergeant Pouillard. The
men were attached to the French army
aviation center of st. Cyr,
A suggestion that the Prince OF
Wales should attend the official open
ing of the Panama canal is under con-
sideration by King George, according
to the Liverpool Courier
The British superdreadnaught War
spite, which is to cost $14,00O,O00 and
will be the most formidable battleship |
afioat, was launched at Devonport.
England. in the presence OF an enor.
nous crowd.
The oil and other concessions OBJ
tanned by Lord Murray of Elibank Ia
the republic OF Colombia, where he |
went on behalf of the Pearson con.
Germ. have been surrendered by Lord
cOMdray who has dpcidad ~ nho,, |