The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-11-21

| Alfonso Madero, head OF Ia Ma,
dero family, spent mysterious
twelve hours in Kansas city Friday
and departed suddenly. His trunks
we're checked to Ell Paso, Tex. .Pri.
yate business" was all he would say.
Profit sharing seems to afford tho
only way out of an fntolerable condi-
ton Of industrial strife" in the opIn,
ion OF President Emeritus Charles w.
Eliot Of Harvard university.
Henry Spencer, confessed slayer Of
Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat, dane
ing teacher, was found guilty OF MUIR
der by jury at Wheaton. suburb
Of Chicago, on Friday. The death PEN
atty was fixed by the jury.
Condemnation of alleged segrega-
ton OF white and negro employees In
government departments In Washing.
ton, as violation Of the just prln-
clple Of equality, was voiced by the
forty-seyenth annual meeting of Con
gregationalists at Waterbury, Conn.
The shores OF Lakes Superior, HUI
ron and Erie were strewn Tuesday
with the wreckage Of a three days
gale and snowstorm which cost the
lives Of probably three-score persons,
and caused q monetary loss that will
run into the millions.
WASHINGTON.
Federal investigation Of the cost Of
manufacturing clothes, hosiery and
knitting has been ordered by Sec
rotary Redfields OF the department Of
commerce.
President Wilson has instructed
Assistant Commissioners Hanger OF the
board OF mediation and Cancellation
to proceed at once to New Orleans
70 aid In setting the strike Of Son
thern Pacific railway operating en-
ployees.
The administration currency re.
form bill, as II probably will 90 to
the senate with the approval OF pres.
ident Wilson. has been completed by
SIX Democrats OF the senate banking
and currency committee.
United support from the great pow
ers abroad for the American policy
toward Mexico, shown In a variety of
quiet diplomatic activities, gave Pres
ident Wilson and Secretary Bryan
confidence Thursday that the elimina-
ton of General Victoriano Huerta as
provisional president of Mexico would
soon be an accomplished fact.
A decision of the United States cir.
nf n Iu Ia
having an indefinable mixture" OF
white blood Is mixed blood" and
hence entitled to sell his allotment Of
Indian land, 1t Is believed will put an
end 10 many government suits to an
nul such sales on the ground that the
grantors are full bloods" and incap-
able Of conveying land.
FOREIGN.
The conviction Is growing at Toxic
that the dispatch of the Japanese
armored cruiser Izumo to Mexican
waters means the Inauguration of d
new policy by the Japanese empire,
namely, the affirmation OF Japan
prerogatives as one OF hte great pow.
ers to participate in questions inyolv.
Ing the powers. whether in the east
or the west.
A large force OF rebels operating
between Tuxpam and Tampico has
compelled the shutting down of all
work In the oil fields In that region
In which 500 Americans are employ.
cd.
In reply to President Wilson's com
municatlon announcing his determine
ton to eliminate Gen. Huerta and his
adherents from power In Mexico,
Great Britain has answered formally
Britain has answered formally
through Ambassador Walter ii. Page
that her policy was strictly one Of
non-interference.
Members of President Huerta's of.
fetal family are working diligently for
the re.opening Of the negotiations and
claim to have the consent of General
Huerta TO make concessions which
they believe will be satisfactory to the
United States.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was
the guest of honor at great ban.
quet at the Colon theatre at Buenos
Ayres, Wednesday night. at which
covers were laid for more than 1000.
Ten towns were destroyed and
several hundred persons killed In an
earthquake which occurred in the
mountainous Peruvian province OF
AQmarais. New of The disaster
reached Lima by courier.
Tho steamship Rappahannock, one
OF the steamers which aided the Vol.
turno when she was burning. brought
into port at Queenstown the steam.
ship South Point, bound from Phila.
delphia for London, whose engines
We're crippled in terrific storm ON
4.
The officers and bluejackets of the
Wyoming. flagship OF the
United States squadron visiting Flu.
ropean ports. are regarded as the most
poular visitors to the island for many
years.