The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-08-20
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 6RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings THAT Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
,nTERmouNTAin.

iNTERmouNTAiN
The business section Of Copperfeld,
Ore. which came into prominence
more than year ago when Miss Fern
Hobbs closed the saloons there under
orders from former Governor Oswald
West. has been practically wiped out
hy a FIRE believed to have been 81 In
eendiary origin
An s.year-old boy, the son OF J.
Martin, a farmer living mile from
Thistle. Utah. was the victim Friday
when giant powder, which was being
prepared for blasting, exploded The
Sad was killed instantly and an old
miner probably fatally injured.
A special Denver & Rio Grande
train. including the private car OF
benjamin Bush. president Of the road,
was wrecked by rockslide four
miles south OF Grand Junction. Colo.
Engineer o. NJ Potter was pinned ~
the cab and seriously injured, but the
brennan. +. M. Stamm, escaped by
jumping. No passengers We're IN
3ured.
Water was let. over the spiliway OF
enc gigantic dam at the Big falls OF
the Missouri river, fourteen miles
from Great Falls. Mont, on August
III. The dam cost s5,ooo,0Oo to con-
struct and has been building nearly
three years. The Montana Power
company built the dam.
A plot TO deliver Harry Brewer, con.
yicted murderer. from the state prison
ct Salt Lake. has been frustrated.
A training camp for citizens desir
GUS OF learning the rudiments OF mill
tary regulations will be conducted by
the state at Fowler, Colo, for one
week, beginning September IS.
DOMESTIC.
Dashing down hill on tracks made
slippery by oil dripped from automo'
biIes. an Angeleno heights street car
crashed into Glendale suburban cleo
trio train in the north end OF Los
Angeles and twelve persons were IN.
iured. Both cars were wrecked.
ofncsals Of big mining companies
which have their osnees in phnaaeA=
phia say that az result OF the war
this country viii become the worlds
silver market. with New York or san
Francisco as the center.
Thomas Anderson. age 80, q widely
known golfer, was killed near Mont
clair Friday night by being crushed
under his automobile, which went
over an embankment.
r. e. Donaldson OF Milford. Iowa,
owner OF the racing car Emden, which
won a place at indianapolis and $1,000
at Omaha, was instantly killed while
driving that car in the automobile
race at Spirit Lake, Iowa,
Mrs. Frances Holroyd, an exposition
visitor. said to be the widow OF Gin
cinnati millionaire. Ia lying probably
fatally injured at a San Francisco hos
pital. Mrs. Holroyd was struck by a
taxicab.
Andy" Crum was shot to death IN
jail al Osceola, Ark, by mob OF nj
teen men after the iailer had beer
overpowered. Crum was arrested II
connection with the killing Of S. d
wauldin. sheriff OF Mississippi county
Arkansas
Two men were killed and six IN
Sured, one probably fatally, by an eS
piosion at the plant Of the Westinf
mouse Electric 4 Manufacturing con
pany near Turtle Creek. Pa.
Churches in Arizona which us
wines for sacramento purposes wi
not receive renewed supplies unit
suit IL brought to test the state PR
hibition law on the point. accordin
60 Eugene S. Ives. railroad attorney
The killing on Friday OF three Mex
cans near Mercedes. Hidalgo count,
Texas, and the capture OF twenty-tw
OF the bandits saddle horses in Ii
same vicinity led TO the belief that I
feast one OF the bands Of Mexica
raiders mas been scattered.
Ten counties and townships
Illinois and one county each In Ind
ana, Michigan and Minnesota hay
been placed under close quarantine
the department Of agriculture 4
foot and mouth disease.
The International Hotel Steward
association, In convention at Detro
selected New York for next year
meeting, and elected officers for u
ensuing year.
A cIoudburst struck Clinton. low
Ten square blocks. including the bu
ness district. are under four feet
water. Street car service has be
suspended. The property loss
heavy.
Let thrift be taught In the Anne
can schools" was the keynote slog
OF the First international Congre
for Thrift. which convened Wedn
day at the Panama,Pacific expositi'
Twenty-one filibusters and allies
adherents OF General victoriano Hu
Ia. arrested near Fort Hancock, Tex
have been imprisoned pending act
by the grad eury.
The Georgia Legislature adjourn
without passing the regular approx
alton bills. and Governor Harris 81