The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-01
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Civsn In q Few LInss.
lNTERmouNTAln.

TN fEnWQ0EtHtN.
Eight passengers and three train
men we're injured, none fatally, in a.
rear end collision between two sec
lions OF westbound Southern Pacific
passenger train near INLAY, New,
A verdict OF guilty OF kidnapping
Martin Harkins In Butte on August %
last was returned against owen smith,
q miner
Arrangements for beginning the
withdrawal Of federal troops from the
Colorado strike districts within the
next ten days we're made Wednesday
at conference between President
Wilson, Governor Ammons OF Colo
RADIO, Governor.elect Carlson and
Senator Shafroth.
The annual national western stock
show. billed for the week Of January
Is in Denver, has been called of by
the directors OF the association in
charge OF the exhibition. The action
was attributed to fear that foot and
mouth disease might be brought into
she state.
Colonel James Lockett, command
ing the federal troops in the south
ern Colorado strike district an
nounces that beginning January /,
the federal authorities viii impose no
more restrictions on the sale or ship
ment OF. liquor in the district.
Jack White, who was shot during
an / w. w. riot at Tonopah recently.
was shot again at Tonopah with his
own pistol, In row with a
gambler. and Is believed 70 be fatally
injured.
DOMESTIC.
In an argument over the payment OF
81 account. Louis Kurilla, aged SS, a
farmer residing six miles west Of
Solon Springs, Wis, killed Fred Dick
inson. aged 80, a blacksmith, by shoot
ing him with q shotgun, after which
he suicided.
Warden J. J. Smith played Santa
Claus TO 1,115 convicts at Folsom
(Call prison on Christmas, when he
took away their striped suits and gave
each man brand new uniform Of
blne.gray cadet cloth,
British golfers in the canal zone
recently have violated quarantine reg.
ulations. according 10 the canal rec
ord OF December 16, Just received at
Washington, but no mention Is made
OF alleged infractions OF American
neutrality.
LottR's fountain, San Francisco
downtown landmark. as well known as
the town itself, was the focal point
Thursday night for crowd estimated
at 100000 persons who congregated
from all sides of San Francisco bay to
sing Christmas songs In the warm air
Segregation OF the 10000 negroes in
Louisville, KY, is the rightful exer
else OF police power In the state, ac
cording 10 an opinion handed down
in the criminal court by Judge James
r. Gregory. 1t violates neither the
fourteenth amendment nor the Ken
lucky bill of rights, the court said.
Sixteen million animals for human
consumption were sold for $409, $4,000
spot cash at the stock yards in Chi
cago during the last year. according
20 figures made public.
Two men were shot and killed al
Middletown, Ohio. by Albert HALEY. q
private in Company 1877, coast artil
lery, stationed at Fort Hancock, N. j.
after he had been hit with a snowfall
while watching snow fight
The nations of Europe have placed
contracts In the United States FOL
more than S3OO.000.OOO worth of sup
plies since the beginning OF the war
according to Charles NJ, Schwab
president OF the Bethlehem Steel cor
poration. who has just returned from
England.
Mrs. Hannah Koskoff. said to have
been the oldest woman in the United
States. died in New York According
to the most authentic records in tn,
possession Of the descendants sh,
was III years old, having been borr
in Kief. Russia. in 1897,
Kansas City has reaped seyera
millions OF dollars from the warning
European countries by supplying
them horses and mules and feeding
and providing shoes for their sol
diers, according TO figures complies
and announced by the Commerce.
club.
Peace along the entire Mexica
border is a possibility as the resul
OF conferences between Brigade
General Hugh l.. Scott, chief OF sta
OF the United States army, and tn
two Mexican leaders OF Sonora.
James ID. Phelan, senator-elect frol
California. has been appointed as
special commissioner to inyestigat
charges against American Minists
Sullivan in the Dominican republic.
Members of the All-American al
All-National baseball teams, wi
played series of exhibition games
Hawaii, arrived in San Francisco (
the liner Matsonia from Honolulu.
The right of the state Of New Yol
to extradite larry K. Thaw from Ne
Hampshire has been upheld by Il
supreme court in an unanimous OPT
ion.