The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-10-09
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD Inv RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAlN.

The dispute over the contract for
the carrying of mail between Watson
and Vernal, Utah, it is expected will
be settled now that the government
has agreed to pay $4,000 for carrying
first and second-class mail, and SIPS
"a hundred pounds for parcel post mat
ter.
With indications pointing to muir
der, the body of Ernest Barry, dep
uty game warden, who had been miss
ing since Sunday from his home in
Salt Lake, was discovered Friday
near the edge of Williams lake, about
200 feet north of the Saltair railroad
track. Two bullet wounds in the
left side, either of which would have
proved fatal, gave mute testimony of
how Barry met his death.
While examining revolver which
he thought was not loaded, Joseph
Dorsey of Salt Lake, 16 years of age,
accidentally shot himself Thursday
morning. The boy died an hour later
at the county hospital.
Making quick dash from his bunk
tent, under the inclosing wire of the
camp ground at the convict road camp
near st. Joseph, in Davis county,
Utah, Frank Harmon, serving six
years for the burglary, escaped at
o'clock Friday night.
A fall of 100 feet and the weight
of an aeroplane engine are INSULT
cient to kill BENJAMIN Keyser, Chi
lago aviator. Keyser plunged a
hundred feet to the ground at Ster-
ling, Coloe,. Friday, and was reported
fatally injured. His chest was crush
ed. his arm broken and he suffered
conclusion of the brain. However,
doctors report that Keyser will sur.
vive his injuries.
A daring attempt to escape from
the county jail at Salt Lake was made
Friday by Frank Pluto, IS; Philip
Aldred, II, and Roy Christensen, IT,
three of the boys arrested Thursday
by the police charged with robbing
the stores of the Western Arms com
pany and the Meredith trunk factory
Three occupants of an automobile,
which collided with a street car
tuesday at Portland, Ore, died sew
eral hours later as a result of their
injuries. The dead are w. E. Hen
bricks, w. H. Thurston and lien
| Cook.
PRESIDENT Wilson conferred Monday
with Hywell Davies, one OF the labor
department conciliators, who drew the
plan for mediation of the Colorado
coal strike. 1t was said he was plan
ming definite move to bring about a
settlement soon. The president is re
luctant to leave federal troops in the
strike zone much longer, and feels
that the operators should accept the
plan already agreed to by the miners
In the glare of broad daylight, and
during the hour when many pedes
trains were passing in all directions
nervy robber entered the Sugar
Banking company's bank at Salt
Lake, Monday, forced the cashier ant
oookkeeper into large vault, grab
bed about $1,000 in currency and
made good his escape. Before leav
ing the scene he closed the door o.
the vault and turned the handle con
trolling the bolts, but did not wal
to turn the combination.
DOMESTIC.
The New York chamber of com
merce decided Friday to abandon it!
annual banquet because of the war
President Seth Low, in statemen
explanatory of the action, said it hac
been suggested that many member.
might be glad to send to the Rec
Cross checks for 500, the usual price
of tickets.
Judge David Cross, the Oldest alum
nus of Dartmouth college, who wa.
graduated with the class of 1S41. dice
Thursday. He was 81 years of age.
Twenty persons, most of them wo
men, delegates to the fortieth annua
session of the Missouri grand chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star, were
injured Thursday at Kansas City
when a temporary platform erected
on the lawn of the Shriners' temple
collapsed and precipitated it's 400 oc
cupants to the ground About a:
many more were bruised, but none
was fatally injured. it was stated.
Harry K. Thaw, who is in the Gus
tody of the federal court in the Man
chester, N. H., district, pending the
determination of the question of ex
tradition to New York, expects t.
pass the winter in that city. He ha.
leased an estate in an exclusive resi-
Dental section and will take posses
! sion next week.
Captain Benjamin Watkins, Second
infantry, was found dead at Honolulu
at the target range at Fort Shafter
Indications were that he had shot
himself.
| That the European war is respon
sible for an increase in prosperity
in the carriage building trade of thi.
country, was declared by delegates tc
the National Carriage Builders asso
citation, in convention at Atlantic
City. Factories which were about tc