The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-03-06
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD I'M BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Llnss.
inrERmouNTAin.

the OFfcult VINO hITtftu III iUtUiuht
unattended from Yokohama on the
Japan steamer Chicago Maru, has
been ordered deported by the United
states immigration authorities.
Secretary Lane has called con
ference on the general subject OF the
irrigation OF the arid west to meet In
Denver on April Q, and has requested
the governors OF Arizona, California
Colorado. Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico. Oregon, South Dakota,
Utah, Washington and Wyoming to
send representatives.
Miss Fern Hobbs, private secretary
to Governor Oswald West, won an
other victory for Oregon prohibition
forces Friday when word was receiy-
ed from County Judge J. G. Henry
that the Union county court would
meet March and declare the town OF
Cove dry"
Governor Lister has ordered an In.
vestigation OF the strike of 400 labor.
era at the Guggenheim smelter In
Ruston, an incorporated town adjoin-
Ing Tacoma.
William II. Doolittle, lawyer and
member OF congress from the First
Washington district from 1892 to 1896
died at Tacoma. aged "a.
Charges that miner employed
by the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
was kidnapped. brought to Trinidad
and offered inducements to swear to
false statements before the congress-
ional investigating committee were
made on the witness stand at Trini.
dad Colo.
Denver and Colorado paid tribute to
the late Henry Moore Teller, former
secretary OF the interior and for thirty
years United States senator, Wednes-
day. For three hours friends and adj
mirers In all walks OF life filed through
the rotunda OF the state capitol past
the bier for last look at the face OF
the dead senator.
DOMESTIC.
Stricken with heart failure at the
wheel OF his motor car, orrin Jacobs,
retired capitalist, was whirled
through crowded street at Gilroy,
Cal. until the uncontrolled car crash.
ed into tree and pitched him to the
pavement dead
Mrs. Kate Edwards. who has
been in the shadow OF the gallows for
nearly thirteen years for the killing
OF her husband, was released from
the Berks county. Pa, jail under
pardon granted by Governor Tener
and secretly taken from the city to
begin life over again
Harry French, a railway conductor,
has been convicted OF manslaughter
at la Crosse. Wis. for the killing OF
Ed. Murphy, tramp. who was kick
I'D off French's train while II was In
motion and received injuries from
which he died. French denied eject
Ing the man.
r. III. Martin and Joseph Borders,
Kansas City agents of the Florida
Fruit Lands company. pleaded guilty
IN the federal court at Kansas City
60 the charges of conspiracy.
Ranger Captain ]. j. Sanders, re-
porting to Governor o. b. Colquitt OF
Texas, made the direct charge that
Clemente vergara, an American ranch.
man. was shot to death while In the
custody of Mexican federal troops.
ostensibly en- route from the jail at
Hidalgo to federal headquarters at
Piedras Negras, Mex.
The country Is not facing an un.
usual crisis in Its numbers OF unem,
ployed, This was the concensus OF
opinion expressed at the National
Conference on Unemployment, which
held a two days session in New
York
Such a fascination has counterfeit.
ing for Thomas Blanton that, al
though he is now serving three years
in San Quentin penitentiary for that
crime he was caught making counter.
felt S. gold pieces in his prison cell.
A BIN providing for a constitu-
tional amendment giving the vote TO
women was reported favorably to the
Massachusetts, senate by the commit.
tee ON constitutional amendments. II
is the first time that such report on
suffrage bin has been made in this
state.
Six men attempted to rob the Trad.
ers bank at Vail. Iowa. but were frus,
trated by call sent to the sheriff at
Denison by the telephone operator.
Disappointed in love, Abraham Pep
per, Of Tacoma. Wash, called Mrs.
Dorothy Johnson, his father sweet
heart and a bride of week, into the
hall of the hotel in San Francisco.
where she was spending her honey.
moon, shot her dead at her husbands
feet, and then shot himself.
The wet" element at Galesburg. III.
has been startled by primary results.
One thousand two hundred and eight
six women went to the polls and nom
mated dry" candidates for aldermen
in every ward. The city will vote on
the saloon question April Z.