The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-13
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN aRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Hsppsnlnss That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAIn.


William O. Conrad, a wealthy Mon
tana man. and formerly political op.
ponent OF Senator Clark OF that state,
Is dead at Winchester, Va.
Noble warrum has been nominated
for postmaster OF Salt Lake City by
President Woodrow Wilson TO succeed
former Governor Arthur l.. Thomas,
whose term as postmaster expired on
March 1.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce,
Mt IT'S weekly luncheon Friday. took
initial action In plan which aims %
bring about a complete and permanent
reimbursement of the freight rate situa-
ficn In the trans-Misaouri territory.
Arthur Langowshi. aged "a, swore
before the federal strike investigating
committee at Denver that he received
80 day from the coal operators while
exploding dynamite for the United
Mine Workers Of America.
William A. Massey, former United
States senator. one of the most prom.
inent, able and honored citizens or
Nevada since 1886, died suddenly of
ieart disease Thursday afternoon
while on a train en- route from Reno
To Susanville. Cal
The Arrowrock dam In Idaho, said
TO be the highest In the world win
be completed In 1916 and settlers will
then be receiving water from 1t for
irrigation purposes.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea have paid practically $2.0OO.OOO IN
strike benefits to Colorado miners
since April /. 1910. was the statement
Of Edward i. Doyle. secretary and
treasurer OF district is, before the
house subcommittee investigating the
Colorado coal miners strike.
The call for the conference of west
cru governors to be held in Denver
April 7 has been issued by Governor
y. M. Ammons as secretary of the or
ganixation The eau Is In the form
OF a letter TO each governor.
DOMESTIC.
The Giants and White Sox, world
tourists, returned to New York on Fri
day The tour of the two baseball
teams proved financial success, the
proceeds being 100000 in excess of
expectations
Former President Taft deplored the
influence of newspapers on jurors. In
an address at Boston.
Food prices in the United States
reached the highest level In twenty
four years on November Is, 1918 Since
that date there has been a slight de-
cline In prices, though the average
still Is well above that OF year ago
A per cent discount on all imports
carried by ships OF American registry,
as provided for In the new tariff law.
has been granted by the board of
United States general appraisers in an
opinion given by Judge b. s. Waite at
New York.
William Cheney Ellis was found
guilty of numbering his wife, Mrs.
Eleanor Hosea Ellis last October In
Chicago hotel. Punishment was fixed
ut imprisonment in the state peni-
tentary for fifteen years.
Reports from Florida Indicate that
the vegetable crop was injured from
80 to 7b per cent by the recent frost.
Black Hand gangsters who murder.
ously attacked employees on the es.
tate OF John d. Rockefeller at Pecan
tico hills. are said to have been named
in a confession by Pietro Rebacci, who
is In the death house at Sing Sing
prison waiting to be electrocuted
Murder in the first degree was the
verdict OF district court jury at Des
MeiI es. Iowa, In the case of Edward
Cock. charged with killing his friend
Charles Driscoll. on January is. when
the latter discovered him In company
with Mrs, Driscoll,
Charged with appropriating to his
own use $4,000 of the banks funds.
Thomas X. Sheridan. former presi.
dent OF the First National bank OF
Roseburg. Ore. was arrested at Port
land. and released on $4,000 bond.
IT, is charged that he lost lhe money
in personal investments.
There are 45.617 unemployed men
IA Chicago, according TO figures com
by the police after a complete can
yass of the city at the request OF
the federal commission on industrial
relations.
United States Senator George f.
Chamberlain. Democrat, VIII be can
didate for reelection from Oregon this
year. His declaration has been filed |
With the scrtary Of state,
Patrick s. Collins. attorney for Mrs.
Cynthia Buffuin. convicted OF the
murder of her husband and sentenc-
ed to die in the electric chair at Au.
burn, y. r., prison next month, has
filed a notice Of appeal, which auto
matically stays the execution.
After six weeks search for Esther
Csotzer. who has been missing from
her haunts in Stockton the butchered
b0Gy Of the woman was found in Trap
per slough, near Holt, a small rail-
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