The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-06-13
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD m BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In . Few LInea
inrERmouNTA,N


The success OF all the socalled
regular" candidates for Office in the
election held by the Butte Miners
union, the parent body of the West
ern Federation OF Miners, Is conceded
by Socialist watchers.
Jacob d. cole OF Albert, Colo.
while walking with party OF friends
near the summit OF Mount Wilson,
California, In the moonlight, lost his
footing and fell from precipice to
his death
Douhle-tracking part OF the com
pany's lines In Nevada viii cost the
Southern Pacific company s2lS4,l20,
according to an itemized statement
filed with the state railroad commits
sion
Nearly one mile OF moving pictures
we're taken OF the pupils of the Salt
Lake public schools in their field day
sports on Friday.
Custer proceedings against Henry
! J. Arnold, Allison Stocker and Daniel
NJ. sullivan, who refuse TO deliver
their respective offices of mayor
treasurer and sheriff OF Denver to
the newly-elected commissioners. have
been filed.
Sentence OF six months In the coun.
| ty Jail has been passed upon Joseph
Taylor. resident OF Salt Lake. for
failure to provide for his wife and
minor children.
Edward Day, S-year-old son OF Seth
Day. blacksmith OF Bountifui, Utah,
choked to death on rock which he
had been holding In his mouth, pre-
paratory to placing 1t in a clipper"
DOMESTIC
James McNair, ticket agent for the
pennsylvania railroad at the Union
station In Plttsburg, was shot and
killed and his chief clerk Ralph Paul
| ~. was fatally wounded by d. G. Sage,
clerk who had failed to be promoted
In recent staff changes in the ticket
department.
John Il. Hedges, for the last twenty
one years managing editor of the Gal
weston News, was found dead in bed
Mt Mansfield, o.
Scathing arraignment of the detec
tive bureau OF the New York police
department and charge that a part
nership exists between some detec
tiyes and criminals are contained II
the Curran committee report on DO
lice conditions.
An intense but purely local tornado
. said 10 be the first storm of the kline
ever recorded in California, snapped
Off mile and half of telegraph
poles three miles south Of Redding
iprooted fruit trees and unroofet
many lightly-built barns and sheds.
! Louis christopher. aged So. negro
: was given life sentence In the peni
tertiary for contributing to the delin
quency OF several young girls at Du
buque. Iowa.
Miss Agnes Hart Wilson, daughte
OF the secretary OF labor in Presiden
Wilson's cabinet, addressed the Ma
: tlonal Womans Trade Union leagu
convention at st. Louis, and urge
: that the woman purchasers Of ciotf
Ing be educated to demand the unto
label.
Henry Gassaway Davis. Democrat
. vice-presidential candidate in 1870.
was painfully but not seriously il
|, iured at Elkins, w, Va, when he wa
I. thrown from his horse after the al
: lmal had been bitten by dog.
A Rock Island passenger train wa
:, wrecked by the spreading OF the rail
: At wallingford, Iowa. Five coache
left the track and the smoker an
, lay coach turned over. Many OF Tn
I City passengers on board wei
bruised and shaken up. but no on
i was seriously hurt.
The brotherhood OF Railroad Trail
men selected Detroit, Mich, as III
convention city for 1916, Houston
I Texas, was second choice and Cley
I land. o.. third.
I, Confederate memorial day, th
. birthday OF Jefferson Davis, was ol
: served at Lexington. KY, on Tuesda,
General Bennett II. Young OF Loui
= vile. grand commander of the Unite
! Confederate Veterans. delivered a
: address In Lee Memorial chapel, an
. he tomb Of General Robert r. Ia
:, was strewn with flowers.
. Jack Johnson. the negro heay
! weight champion, has been sentence
i 10 one year and one day in the sta
i penitentiary at Joliet and fined SIZE
y for violation OF the Mann white sla'
act.
70 In furtherance OF plan for exte
is slye improvements over its systel
a, including construction work in Lou
n. lana, Texas and California, the Soui
70 ern Pacific has made application
al issue S30,00O.0O0 in two year p
cent collateral trust notes.
or Mrs. Mae Evans. who shot al
"a killed state Veterinarian Edward
ad Moore OF Brookings and attempted
by kin herself. has been formally charg,
pt. with murder at Sioux Falls, s.
in Mrs. Evans Is still in the hospiti
a but ~ said TO be recovering from ty