The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-02-13
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
0iven In q Few Lines.
InTERmouNTAIN.

INT OuNTAiN.
Jasper Phillips was shot and ser
aiously wounded at Tremonton. Utah.
by Jesse Ormin. ranchman, as the
result Of family row.
II 10 announced that the reclamation
service has appropriated $6S6.OO0 for
the Strawberry irrigation project In
Utah.
w. g. Simpson. president Of the de-
funct American National bank OF Cald-
well. Idaho and 8. ID. Simpson cashier
have been indicated by federal grand
jury on several counts charging mis-
appropriations OF the banks funds and
violations OF the national banking laws.
Two inspectors OF the state labor
department, who were investigating
reports that contract labor Ia being
employed I'm the southern Colorado
coal fields. we're deported from Sopris
by the militia
A municipal woodward Is planned by
the Portland city commission for the
benefit OF the unemployed, now nous.
ed In an auditorium in Portland. Ar
rangements are under way to open
the wood choping camp near the
city.
With the mercury at eighteen de-
grees below zero Butte on Thursday
was experiencing the coolest snap
this winter The extreme official
temperature during the night was %.
Governor Ammons has returned TO
Denver from a trip through Utah,
where the people. he declares, are
strong In their support Of the fight
waged by Colorado against the with
drawal Of radium lands.
DOMESTIC.
Stanko Stepech, one OF the striking
copper miners, who was wounded in
the seeberville, Mich. shooting affray.
testified at the trial OF two deputy
sherlffs and three Weddell-Mahon
guards that the saw the officers as
sauIting John Kollan before shot had
been fired.
President Wilson, In letter to VIII
liam Il. Marbury OF Boston, says that
the exemption OF American coastwise
ships is a mistaken policy from every
point Of view and benefits for the
present, al any rate. only monopoly"
Avenard Nyayllt. slayer of Marie
Prandin, woman Of the underworld,
when sentenced at Oakland to life
Imprisonment In San Quentin prison,
told the court that he was the son OF
Vice Admiral Nyayllt OF the French
navy.
Mrs Bridget Peixotto, New York
school teacher who won preliminary
battle in the state supreme court after
having been dismissed by the school
board because she absented herself to
become a mother, has met with rever-
sal by the appellate court.
Eleven young women pickets. charg.
ed with ohstructing the sidewalk In
front of a Chicago restaurant where
the Mattresses are ON strike, were
arrested.
Alfred II. Smith president OF the
New York Central lines. In addressing
the engineering society of western
Pennsylvania at it's annual dinner at
Pittsburg, expressed the highest con
fidence In government commissions for
railroad regulation.
Claims against the Henry Siegel
company OF Boston amount to SLOTS
500, as far as they have been ascer-
tanned, according to the bankruptcy
schedule.
Hans Schmidt was found guilty at
his second trial in New York City OF
murder In the first degree for killing
Anna Aumuller, young woman he
had married through self-performed
ceremony while acting as a priest at
st. Joseph's church.
A box of gold nuggets weighing 40
pounds, and estimated to be worth
$4,000, was found buried in hill
near Jetmore. Kan, by Ralph Ches-
ney, homesteader.
The Progressives of the state OF
Maine have rejected a proposal of
the Republicans for amalgamating the
two parties 1t was decided to place
complete ticket in the field
On his knees In the chancel of Grace
church. jobs Ogden former town
treasurer Of North Providence. r. l.,
drew a revolver and shot himself IN
the head. He died almost instant
ly.
Mary Lloyd, an English vaudeville
singer, was refused readmission to
the United States from Van Couver.
B. C.
A Mexican brass band marched
through the streets at Brownsville,
Tex, on Thursday. leading a parade
Of eighteen wagons loaded with am
munition, the first regular importa-
ton for the constitutionalists ct
northeast Mexico since the lifting o,
the embargo by President Wilson.
Lucius N. Littauer, former CON
gresham, and his brother William
were fined $1,000 each and sentenced
to six months in Jail in New York