The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-17

years imprisonment Woodss defal
cations amounted to $165.000.
Seal pelts. thought to have come
from the missing sealing steamer Sou
then Cross, were sighted seventy
miles south of st. Mary's bay by the
steamer Kyle, which has been search
Ing the coast for week.
The seventh annual conference Of
governors will be held at Madison,
Wis, beginning June 8.
| In federal court at Fort Worth.
Texas, Ludie Arnold OF Blytheville,
Ark, accused Of having sixteen wives,
was sentenced to sixteen years Inn
| prisonment ON technical charge OF
violation Of the Mann white slave act
Seven Of Arnold's alleged wives testi
fed against him.
A move to have the Republican
state convention at Augusta, Maine,
recommend the nomination Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt as candidate for
president In 1916 met with failure.
WASHINGTON.
Senator Lodge. veteran Republican
member OF the foreign relations com.
mittee, held the attention OF virtual
ly the entire membership and of
crowded galleries for more than two
hours on Thursday defending the po-
sition of President Wilson In insist
ing upon the passage OF the repeal
bill
The treasury department has not
taken action upon the request submit
ted by the Montana senators to have
the internal revenue office for the dis
trict OF Montana removed from Salt
Lake to Helena.
Senator Smoot has introduced an
amendment to the sundry civil ap-
preparations bill providing that s3O,-
600 be appropriated for making an
other test of Boring coal. The former
tests Of the coal from the Boring
coal fields were not considered suf-
ficient.
vigorous representations went from
the American government on Tuesday
TO General Carranza, the constitution
alist chief, urging that he modify
~
Spaniards from Torreon
A record-breaking winter wheat crop
y In prospect this year, the depart
ment of agriculture estimating on a
conservative basis that the yield may
exceed 55l,000,000 bushels.
FOREIGN.
Standing blindfolded on the brink OF
graves opened to receive their bodies
Francisco Fimhres and Joseph M. Can
oha. members Of Huerta junta on
the American side of the line, were
executed In the cemetery at Nogales,
Sonora
General Carranza considers that his
foreign policy has been justified in a
call made upon him by II. G. Myles,
British consul at Ell Paso, to ask that
certain British owned mining property
In rebel territory be protected.
Victor Fabre chief public prosecutor
who resigned In consequence of his
with the postponement OF
the trial of Henri Rochelle, alleged
swindler, was appointed vice-president
Of the court of appeals at AK les
Bains, France.
King Gustave OF Sweden was oper-
ated on Thursday at the Sophia hos 4
pital at Stockholm. The surgeons
found that he was suffering from ex.
tensiye liberation of the stomach.
Captain Herve, French military
aviator, and lieutenant he was car
rying as a passenger, were hacked to
death by insurgent Moors after they
had escaped uninjured from an aero
plane accident in the desert near Ra-
bat. Morocco.
The treaty between the United
States and Colombia settling the Pan.
anna controversy was signed April
Z, at the state department of Colon.
bia by the American minister Thad.
deus A. Thomson and representatives
OF the Colombian government.
The guillotine has made its appear,
ance in Mexico and new form OF
execution confronts the enemies OF
the constitutionalists In the state OF
San Luis Potosi.
The Japanese empire has been
thrown into condition of utter polit.
ical confusion by the inability of Wis.
count Kiyoura to form a cabinet TO
replace that under the premiership OF
Count Yamatoto.
May Richardson, the militant sui,
fraget who was sentenced to six
months imprisonment on March ~ |
for damaging Velasquezs rRokeby
Venus in the National gallery In
London, has been released from Jail
70 undergo an operation for appendi. |
citis.
BY majority Of eighty, an amend,
nent for the rejection of the home
rule bill was defeated in the British
house of commons and without Ii
vision the bill was given, for the
.hird time, its second reading in the
louse.
"fyel," Mrs. Flora Drummond. the
Militant suffraget shrieked SO loudly