The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-12-11
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM.
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN HRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Fsw LInss.
iNrERMouNrA,n.

Statewide prohibition carried In
Colorado by majority OF 11,572. ac.
cording TO the official canvass The
vote for the measure was 1859.
against lis OF.
II am theoretically In favor OF
union labor; practically. have no
use Tor H." Walter A. Curtis, presi
dent OF the Rapson Coal company, an
employer OF union labor, testified be-
fore the federal commission on indus
trial relations at Denver.
The American-Hawaiian Steamship
company announces rate on apples
from Seattle to New York OF IS cents
hundred pounds by steamers
through the Panama canal. Com
pared with the railroad rate, the new
schedule makes reduction Of 80
cents a hundred poundS.
Attacked and hrutally murdered IN
her home In Salt Lake City, the body
OF Mrs. Sophia Bourazanis. mother OF
Father Dorotheos Bourazanis, was
discovered by the son and a friend at
? o'clock Wednesday night The aged
victim was past as.
An Industrial commission to serve
without compensation as the panacea
for the industrial Ills OF the coal
fields, to which his administration
will be heir, IL suggested by Gov
ernor-elect George A. Carlson Of Colo
RADIO,
DOMESTIC.
Laden with full cargo OF dry
goods, boots and shoes, toys and sup.
plies for missionaries, the American
schooner Adelia r. Carleton has sailed
for ports on the west coast OF Africa.
The pleas In abatement, made hy
William Rockefeller and seven 9th.
ars Of the twenty.one directors and
former directors OF the New Haven
railroad, to indictments charging them
with criminal violation OF the law,
nave been dismissed and pleas OF not
guilty We're entered instead.
OF forty-seven persons shot al Naco.
Ariz.. during the past two months by
warning Mexicans across the border,
eighteen were Americans and twenty.
nine Mexicans Fourteen were Amer.
lean soldiers. Five Of the forty-seyen
are dead, one Is blind, and two are Ia
dangerous condition.
Three American cowboys, Carl Eek
William Rishop and William Spencer
met their death In Mexico BY being
dragged by ropes behind running
horses, according to the news that
comes from FL Paso, Texas.
William Rockhill, former United
States ambassador TO Turkey, was
taken from the liner Chiyo Maru on
her arrival at Honolulu from San
Francisco Friday. too Ill to continue
on his way to China.
Harvara's championship football
team was produced this fan at a
cost Of $4,000, according to figures
announced Friday. The largest item
was $500. the salary OF Percy d.
Haughton. head coach.
Governor George w. p. Hunt Of
Arizona telegraphed Friday night TO
Coroner Il. A. Folsom that he had
made another appeal TO the state de.
partment at Washington for the pro-
lection OF non-combatants on the
American side at Naco. Ariz., from the
Mexican fire.
Relief for the destitute inhabitants
Of the barren Labrador region has
been undertaken by the Newfound-
land government, and the steamer
Kyle Is now blowing her way through
the ice-laden water on the Labrador
coast carrying cargo OF provisions
TO Sandwich bay.
The National exposition at Panama.
which was To have been opened on
January next in eommemoration OIL
the building Of the Panama Pacific
canal, has been postponed until March
10. 1915.
The Russian government has pur-
chased In New York $4,000 55-gallon,
air-tight steel tanks at cost OF an
proximately s250.000. to be used in
constructing pontoon bridges In their
operations
Representative-elec Joseph q. Can. !
non OF Illinois, former speaker of the
house, spent $3,274 in his primary
and election campaigns this year, ac-
cording TO his report OF campaign ex-
penses.
From the beginning OF the great
war to date 1,400 amateur wireless
stations on the Pacific coast have
been closed. the better to enforce
neutrality. Commercial stations have
been interfered with.
Eight men instead of eleven win
die at Arizona's hanging bee" In the
Florence penitentiary December IS,
as result of the stay Of execution
granted by Governor Hunt. Il
Girl ushers in theatres of Chicago /,
are declared to be failure by the
bureau OF fire prevention.
An ordinance requiring all theatres
to employ men ushers has been sent
to the council.
All cats in Germany are to be
killed to make Innings for coats for
the soldiers, according to information