The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-08-21
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLL in BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAIN.

ing in the Cascades southwest of
Hood River, Ore, took heavy toll Of
property when the big sawmill plant
of the Stanley Smith Lumber com
pany was destroyed, entailing loss
of approximately $4,000.
strike vote Of all telegraphers
in the service of the Sunset, Central
and Southern Pacific systems from
New Orleans to Portland, Ore, and
Ogden, Utah, has been ordered. The
men demand an increase of 1914 per
cent in wages.
President Wilson has nominated
Herbert Goodall of Helena, Mont, for
assayer in charge of the United States
assay office at Helena.
From score of points throughout
the northwest reports came Thursday
of forest fires, which in some cases are
doing heavy damage. A pail of smoke
SO dense as to render objects indis-
tinguishable at a distance greater
than 300 feet hung over Portland.
Edward Godat, who is said to have
shot and killed his wife, Minnie, at
Price, Utah, and afterward escaped
to the hills, was captured at yelling
ton, seven miles east of Price.
Mrs. Minnie Godat was shot and
killed Wednesday at the home of Nord
King at Price, Utah. She died almost
Instantly, the bullet piercing her
heart. Her husband Edward L. Godat
is sought by the officers, who say
that after shooting his wife Godat fed
to the hills.
Conditions in the fish canneries OF
this state of Washington were severe
ly criticised by DR.. Theresa Mcmahon
L former member of the state indus
trial commission, in her testimony be
fore the federal industrial commits
sion.
That the snowslide at Wellington
Washington, on March l, 1910. wher
two Great Northern trains We're ear
ried down the mountain side anC
wrecked and ninety-two people were
killed, was caused by an act of God
is the ruling of the state supreme
court
DOMESTIC.
Harry Forrest, for many years prom
inent in educational, political and leg
al circles in the state Of Washington
committed suicide by shooting himself
at hotel in Atlantic City. y. J.
Three men were killed at Dongala
H., when the wall of a burning build
ing fell on them.
Building operations in the United
States showed an increase Of Is pei
cent last month as compared with the
same month year ago
Eugene Chassanoil, aged ca years
former president of the New Orlean:
stock exchange. shot and killed him
self at the exchange. He had beer
:. III health for some time.
That the. United States will becom,
the most prosperous among nation
as result of the war in Europe, il
the prediction Of Frank G. odcll 0
Omaha, secretary Of the American
Rural Credit association.
Frederick r. Seaton, a characte
acter and moving picture star. wa
shot to death at his home at Bogota
y. j.. by his wife, Virginia Clay Sea
ton, an actress who once attracte,
countrywide attention by her abilit.
as a sharpshooter.
The first steamship to pass through
| the Panama canal-the Cristobal-
made the trip from the Atlantic to tn
Pacific in eleven and one-half hours.
Fire which started in a livery barr
practically destroyed two entire bus
ness blocks Of Detroit, MINI.
Proposed increases in new freigh
rates on lumber from Arkansas an,
other states to the east. ranging iron
l to cents per hundred pounds, hav
been suspended by the interstate com
merce commission, pending invest
CATION.
| The International Harvester com
pany was declared to be a monopol,
in restraint of interstate and foreign
trade and was ordered dissolved by
majority decision filed by Judge
Smith and Hook in the United State
court at ST. Paul.
Former United States Senator JIG
seph w. Bailey will be a candidate
for nomination as United States sen
ator in 1916, he announced at TIL
Democratic state convention at E
| Paso.
w. G. Long, Jr., brother of Perc
V. Long, city attorney of San Fran
cisco. and their nephew, Crayton Long
a Stanford undergraduate. togethe
with the laters roommate at Stan
ford, were killed in the Big Blue mine
about thirty miles from Bakersfield
\ CAL, by an explosion.
The American liner Philadelphia
with the first great crowd of Ameri