The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-04
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
,NTERmouNTAIn.

cent reports from Denver that deal
Is in progress for the sale Of con
trolling interest of the road and that
he would be eliminated from its at.
fairs.
George A. Black, former territorial
secretary of Utah under Governors
Vaughan and Woods, and who fire.
quently served as acting governor of
the territory during their absence, by
reason Of which he was Familiarity
known to many as Governor Black,
died suddenly Thursday at Waltsburg,
Wash, from heart trouble.
Jess H. Waters, president and gem
eral manager of the Florence & Grip
pie Creek railroad, died Friday as the
result of injuries received in a col
lision between railroad motor car
and light engine at Cripple Creek.
By the use of strychnine-sacchar-
in solution, mixed with starch and
added to wheat or oats, prairie dogs
on approximately 10000 acres in the
Sewer natinoal forest in Utah, have
been extermianed at cost OF about s
cents an acre.
Howard r. briggs of the University
of Utah faculty was elected president
of the Utah Educational association
at the convention in Salt Lake.
Wholesale arrests of those CON
cerned in the recent disturbances in
butte are promised as the result OF
evidence obtained a few days ago al
the trial of Michael Mcdonald.
DOMESTIC.
The American steamship St. Hell
ems, Captain Odland, which sailed
from New York November IL fol
San Francisco, arrived at Colon Fri
day and reported that she had beer
fired on by the British cruiser Der
wick.
2. D. Kelly of Savannah, one Of tbs
participants in the S00-mile motor
cycle race over the grand prize race
course, died from injuries received
when his machine struck a tree.
Passengers arriving at New Yorl
on the steamer Lusitania from Liver
pool say the dreadnought Audacious
reported sunk off the Irish coast, hal
been raised and is now in drydock a
Belfast, undergoing repairs.
E. P. Sears, a travelling salesman
for New York publishing concern
whose home is in Salt Lake, was foun'
dead under a cotton scale platform il
the business district of Pine Bluff
Ark. It is believed he was murdered
Brandishing revolver and threat
aning to shoot Mrs. Newton D. Baker
wife of Cleveland's mayor, and he
TWO children if she did not immediate
" hand over her iewelry and money
robber obtained $500 worth Q
iewelry and small amount of money
The police caught the man in twent
minutes.
Five army transports brought MajC
General Frederick Funston and NOR
than 1000 soldiers of the Unite
tates expeditionary forces from Yer
rue to Galveston.
Covering 300 miles at the rate (
: Pullen won the annual Corona roa
race at Corona CAL, and establishe
5 new speedway record. Eddie O'Dol
nell, newcomer, was second.
DR.. James Truman, a former dea
/ of the dental department of the Tn
! versity Of Pennsylvania, who va
identified with dental work and teac
ing for nearly sixty-one years. die
at his home in Philadelphia. He ";
I IS years old.
: Reports from all parts of Arkans;
: indicate that a slow, steady raj
which is continuing to fall all ov,
the state is checking the forest ar
field fires, which were threatening
q assume serious proportions in maj
sections.
Fighting Billy Murray knocked o
Sailor Ed Petroskey at San Francis
Q in the second round OF what was
have been a twenty-round bout.
u Richard Croker, one-time leader
Tammany hall, was married in Il
home of Nathan Straus, New York,
Miss Beulah Benton Edmondson, 4
granddaughter OF a Cherokee Indii
. chieftain. Mr.. Croker is ~ years Q
and his bride, who is singer, is %.
!, Hundreds of windows in Gary, III
were broken by a nitro-glycerine |
plosion in the works of the Act
S Power mills, four miles distant.
d one was killed or injured.
[ Forty-three survivors have be
rescued from the wrecked wood
steamer Hanalei, which went ashc
in dense fog on Duxbury reef, nj
II miles north of the Golden Gate, a
was shivered into splinters by {
pounding surf. Eighteen dead ha
been either washed ashore at Bolin
~ The Nicarsguan claims commissi
ye has finished it's work. The comm
20 sion has been dealing with clai
= arising from the landing of Americ
marines and bluejackets at Corn
about two years ago to protect I
' American legation.