The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-12-31
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAlN.


Utah, was shot and instantly killed by
Marvin Turnbow, Moab rancher, at
Thompsons, Utah. Turnbow claims
Bailey had broken up his home.
The North Pacific Fruit Distributors
association, representing 10000 Wash
ington and Oregon growers, received a
welcome Christmas present in the
form of the release of huge consign-
ments of fruit, seized by British war
ships while on the way to Scandina-
Wan countries.
Arthur J. Hamilton, alias R. B..
Moore, aged 81, of Butte, Mont, is be-
ing held by the police at indianapolis,
to await the arrival of authorities
from Manitou Colo, where, he con
fessed, according to the police, that he
robbed bank on December Z of sew
eral hundred dollars in broad day
light.
A fiat increase of four cents an hour
In wages is asked by shopmen Of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway system
In petition to officers of the road,
according to the customary thirty-day
notice received by the state industrial
relations commission, says a Pueblo
dispatch.
DOMESTIC.
A sheriff's posse, using bIoodhounds,
Is trailing through tie ! Kiamitchi
mountains the band of robbers who
looted the safe of the Calvin, Okla,
postoffice.
Frederick Schleindl, a New York
bank clerk, charged with having fur
nished German agents with informa-
ton concerning shipments of arms
and munitions to the allies, was held
in $1.400 bail for trial by a police mag
istrate after pleading not guilty.
Four enginemen were killed in a
head-on collision near Veedersburg,
Ind. None of the passengers were in
jured
American and other foreign inter-
ests in the Yaqui valley no longer are
endangered. Most of the Indians have
left and there are sufficient troops to
secure protection.
Fourteen persons were injured, only
one or two seriously, in a head-on col
lision between two trains in the
suburbs of ST. Louis.
Constitutionality of the Clapp act of
1906, which permitted mixed blood In
dams to sell their lands, was attacked
by the government in federal district
court at Minneapolis in test case in
which titles to approximately $15,000,-
900 worth of land on the White Earth
Indian reservation in Minnesota are
involved.
w. j. Mills, former territorial gov
ernor of New Mexico and chief justice
of the state supreme court, died at his
nome in East Las Vegas, N. J.
Joseph Renock, who was imprisoned
four days previous by rush of coal
at the Richards colliery at Shamokin,
Pa, was dug out and will live. For
ninety-six hours 120 men in relays
worked at the risk of their lives to res
cue Renock.
Foreign trade of the United States
In November jumped to the unpre.
cedented total of S500,000,O00.
Robert L. Knox, surveyor of Gus
toms for the port of New orleans, and
prominent Louisiana attorney, shot
and killed Benjamin Foster of Hatties-
burg. Miss, a close friend and former
business associate, and Alexander
Fraenklin, at Baton Rouge.
Harry Nevlan, Turk, arrested on
complaint of A. Hussein Bey, the
Turkish charge at Washington, was
sentenced to serve six months in the
workhouse, or give bond to keep the
peace for having sent the charge
threatening letter last month.
Mrs. William Hafner of Joliet, ILL.,,
and her newborn baby were found
dead in their home Thursday and the
authorities gave starvation as the
cause.
Henry Hopkins, colored, was found
guilty Thursday of the murder OF
Galesburg's former chief of police. T.
L. Mathews. He will be imprisoned
for life.
Officers have failed to discover the
murderer of John Moye. his wife and
four children, whose bodies, with the
heads crushed, were found in the
smoldering ruins of their home on
the road near Nordheim, Texas.
An inventory of the estate left by
the late Ex-Governor Eben S. Draper
was filed in probate court at Worces-
Ter. Mass, showing he left property
valued at $6,926,720.
The committee representing all
trunk line railroads leading into New
York announced Tuesday that the
freight embargoes declared by the
many roads have failed to ameliorate
the traffic congestion, there being APP
proximately $4,000 cars destined for
New York on lines or at terminals
The prosecution has rested in the
&rial of Mathew A. Schmidt. charged
with the murder OF Charles Hagerty,
one of the twenty persons killed in
the explosion which destroyed the
Los Angeles Times building October