The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-03-19
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or 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 a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNrAIn.


airy against the renegade Piute In
dlans under Old Polk and Old Posey
il being planned by Brigadier General
Hugh l.. Scott following the failure Of
his efforts TO persuade the Indians 70
surrender.
The eleventh session OF the Utah
legislature ended March H.
Al the annual meeting OF the Credit
Mems association. which was held at
nj Paso. Texas, II was voted to send
large delegation to the national
meeting OF credit men, to be held In
salt Lake In Jane.
The eleventh session OF the Utah
Legislature passed the aiytieth day Of
Its organization at noon on March IL.
and while the members OF both
houses debated on bills the clock was
stopped and time enioined in It's
night.
Representatives OF the Denver Post
were excluded from the floor and gal
ieries OF the Colorado house Of repre-
eentatives for the remainder OF the
Legislative session on Thursday. The
action grew out Of an investigation by
special committee OF the alleged re-
ceipt OF a package OF currency by Rep.
resentatiye w. w. Rowland.
Three million, one hundred and six.
ty-four thousand, nine hundred and
elghty.seyen dollars and seyenty-fiyo
cents TO run the state Of Utah for two
years and three months viii be asked
Of the legislature.
DOMESTIC.
The death OF William Washington
Cole, the oid.time circus man, In New
York City Is announced Cole was
IN his sixty-ninth year.
The American ship Honduras. with
arms and ammunition for General
II Key West by direction OF customs
headquarters while the case has been
referred 10 the state department.
Formal announcement Is made Of
the termination Of the si00O00.000
gold pool organized Ia the early
weeks OF the European war by New
York banks and trust companies to
stabilize foreign exchange between
New York and London.
From inside" sources Il was learn.
ed that the Johnson Willard cham.
pionship fight, scheduled for Sunday.
April 4. at Havana, will positively
not take place. American capitalists
in Cuba are going to protest, fearing
race riots.
Deliberations In the lower house
Of the Nebraska legislature were in.
terrupted one day last week by ply.
steal encounter between Representa-
tive w ], Taylor and p. A. Rarrows.
correspondent for an Omaha news
paper.
A resolution fayoring branding all
butter made from neutralized cream
and putting q tax on the same was
passed at the closing session OF the
National Association OF Creamery
Buttermakers at Mason City. Iowa.
The Minnesota senate has rejected
bill proposing constitutional
amendment for statewide prohibition
A law providing for the disposal or
the prohibition question by counties
already has been enacted By this leg,
is.ature.
Willie Ritckie OF San Francisco, for.
mer worlds champion lightweight, out.
fought and outpointed Freddie Welsh
Of England. the present titleholder. in
every round OF fast ten.round bout
at New York.
Returns from municipal elections
held In about 200 towns and cities OF
Minnesota showed the anti-saloon
forces had been successful In more
than thirty towns previously in the
wet" column.
Mayor +. ". Woodruff OF Peoria
opened the fifteenth annual tourna-
ment OF the American Bowling con.
gress at Peoria, Ills, by rolling the
first ball down one of the fourteen
new alleys.
In speech in New York City, oscar
W. Underwood, house majority leader
In the last congress and now sena.
tor from Alabama, declared that eff
governmental regulation Is unable to
wv VIVA Inv tSANa RAVbAOh iAdl CQll-
fronts US, the people will accept gov.
eminent ownership as the next step
ahead"
Many OF the leading polo men OF
the United States are on the Pacific
coast, where they are taking part in
the contests now in progress at the
San Francisco exposition.
Clarence Lambkin, a mechanician
was probably fatally injured when {
racing automobile being tuned up BY
Arthur Jonas, skidded and tor,
through the fence of the Venice rae,
course.
The Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain
railway system, nucleus of the SO
called Gould lines, has passed from
control OF the Gould family.
Mrs. Helen M. Angle is on trial a
Stamford Conn, on charge of havin
killed Wald B. Ballon, whose battere
body was found June % last in iron