The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-05-07
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In . Few Lines.
lNrERMouNrAin.

xchnd 400 or MS newly shorn nock VI
1900 sheep alive on April 80, after the
pitiless storm of wind, snow. sleet and
haii which for two days had swept that
portion OF the United States lying west
Of the Rocky mountains.
The body OF Gordon Taylor OF Ru-
pert. Idaho, was found on the North
ern Pacific tracks at Butte, and police
authorities think he was murdered
and the body placed on the tracks.
The skull was fractured and the jaw
bone broken
John Foley, veteran Oregon Short
Line engineer living at Pocatello, died
at Butte from the shock attendant
upon losing his left leg. Foley fell
from HIS engine at Dubois when walk
ing on the running board to drive
tramps from the tender.
In accordance with the proclama-
ton Of Governor William Spry, April
rs was Good Roads day" throughout
Utah, and in every section citizens
spent the day improving the high
ways.
After signing an affidavit to the eff
feet that he had purchased liquor from
Hoken Olsen, an alleged bootlegger,
Roger Peterson, 20 years of age, a
resident OF Huntsville, Utah, attempt.
ed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid
II is thought he viii recover.
y seems certainty that the Salt
Lake tabernacle choir will so to San
Francisco to the International Expo
sition eisteddfod, to be held in the
last week OF July.
DOMESTIC.
DIR. George H. jerks, the aged cler-
gyman and physician, who took poison
at Los Angeles after an experience at
the hands OF alleged blackmailers. died
at a hospital.
In San Francisco two boys were
killed by live wire during severe
windstorm.
Another contingent OF Red Cross
surgeons and nurses has sailed from
New York for service in the war area
Of Europe. They will be distributed
throughout England Germany, Aus
tria-Hungary and Serbia.
Pierre M. LOCKER, former president
OF the Monaton Realty & Investment
corporation, New York, has been sen.
fenced to serve year and day In
the federal prison at Atlanta for using
the mails TO defraud investors in his
company.
An arbitration award advancing to
some extent the rates OF pay of $4,000
locomotive engineers, hremen and
hostlers employed on the 100000 miles
OF line Of ninety-eight western rail
roads in the great area OF the United
States and Canada bounded on the
east by the Illinois Central and the
great lakes, has been signed at Chi
cago.
Sixty-hye vessels of the Atlantic
feet will pass In review before Presi.
dent Wilson In New York harbor on
May IL.
Persistent reports that parts OF sub.
marine boats have been shipped from
the United States into Canada are
still under investigation.
Four bills by Speaker Of the AS.
sembly c. C. Young. establishing non.
partisan state elections in California,
have been signed by Governor II. w.
Johnson. They represent the chief
legislative wish of the administration
The longest early spring drought In
more than forty years now exists over
the more eastern portions OF the coun-
try. the National Weekly Weather and
Crop Bulletin announced Wednesday.
The Interoceanic Canal company,
incorporated in 1900 with the object
OF connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
by canal through Nicaragua, has
Med at Trenton. N. j.. certificate OF
dissolution.
u Is asserted that a new steamship
line has been established between
Iceland and New York. under the Nor.
wegian flag, TO divert to America the
trade OF the island that has been Eu.
ropes ever since Iceland was settled
Willard Mack, actor and author OF
Kick In" is in serious condition
as the result OF an attack made upon
MIN by holdup men In New York CIV
Conclusion OF the brain has developed
The A. d. Matthews sons depart.
ment store, for nearly seventy years,
and until recently. one OF the leading
retail mercantile establishments OF
Brooklyn, went into the hands of a
receiver through involuntary bankk
ruptcy proceedings on Monday.
Captain L. ID. Hockersmith, So years
old, who is reputed to have dug bis
way out OF the Columbus, Ohio, peni
Tertiary during the war between the
states and TO have liberated his com
mander. the Confederate General John
H. Morgan, with number OF his men
died at his home In jacksonville, KY
The s250,000 damage suit brought
against Edward N. Breitung. capitalist
of Marquette, Mich and his wife by
Max Frederick Kleist. their sonin-law
has been dismissed Kleist charged
his parents nlaw with alternating his