The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-07-09
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAIN.

i
B. Townsend, wanted in that state on
a charge of first degree murder, was
taken into custody
Progressive leaders at Seattle, who
planned to have a statewide confer
ence with Theodore Roosevelt on the
occasion of his coming visit, were dis
appointed by word from Colonel
Roosevelt that he would not be here
long enough to attend any dinners or
other functions.
A letter of credit for $750,O0O in ia
vor of General c. H. Bridge, an off
Ger in the British army, is either lost
| in the mails or has been stolen N
transit between Montreal and Denves.
Frank S. Smith of Hiawatha, Car
bon county, Utah, is reported wound
ed after an action near Givenchy.
northern France, on June % last, in
a list of casualties among the Cana
clan contingent.
Laden with cargo of 1000 old-style
Springfield rifles and 100000 cart
ridges loaded with dumdum bullets, ac-
ctJrding to the captain, the three-mast-
ell schooner Annie Larson arrived at
Hoquiam, Wash, short of both provi-
sions and water, and was seized 1t is
believed the cargo was intended for
ore of the European belligerents.
Eight Utah cities and towns voted
dry" at the special liquor election
held June %, while four communities
voted wet
DOMESTIC.
Tom Miller. negro porter in
cigar store, at Santa Barbara, Cal,
shot and killed Fart Baker. a clerk
in the store, wonnded a bootbluck
named Smith and then went to the
house of Clara Howard a negress, and
shot her five times, infiicting fatal
injuries.
Woman suffrage failed conclusively
for this session when the Wisconsin
| senate, by vote of IA to IL, refused
to reconsider its vote in killing the
Grell resolution.
Formal request for the extradiaon
of General Victoriano Huerta on vari-
Gus criminal charges has been pre-
sented to Governor Ferguson of Texas
by the villa governor of Chihuahua
state.
Five were reported to have been
killed in a heavy storm which swept
through northwestern Oklahoma in
the vicinity of ottawa county.
Seven midshipmen were placed I'M
der arrest at the naval academy at
Annapolis, Md, charged with hazing
or running members of the new
fourth class. formed since the close
OF the school year. early this month.
Mine operators controlling 90 per
cent of the lead and zinc mines in
| the Webb City, Carterville and Jop-
| lin district. in Missouri. announced
they will suspend operations of their
mines for two weeks pending an ad-
iustment of the strike inaugurated
June 2S. and which last week. saw
$500 miners out of work.
Steel mills in the Pittsburg district
have received within the past few
days orders for projectile steel which
aggregate $4,000 tons Early in the
year steel of this grade was offered at
! s31 ton, but latest sales are said to
have been made at S3S.
Three years to day since their
first meeting at the Baltimore con-
vention, Miss Genevieye Champ Clark,
daughter of the speaker and Mrs.
Clark. was married on June 80 at
Honey Shuck," the Clark home at
Bowling Green. Mo. to James Nell
hany Thomson, owner and publisher
of the New Orleans Item.
In addressing the Indiana Spanish
War veterans at Indianapolis. Vice
President Thomas r. Marshall asked
whether the lessons of the European
war were not of sufficient value TO the
United States for this country to adopt
a different naval policy.
Jose Zozaya, wealthy Mexican. was
arrested at FL Paso, Texas, on charges
of conspiring to set on foot military
expedition against friendly country
in violation of United States neutrali-
ty. He was released on $1,000 bond,
Former Governor John NJ. Slaton,
accompanied by Mrs. Slaton, left At
lanta. Ga, on Monday for me Pacific
coast by way of New York. and the
military guard stationed at his sub
urban home since the demonstrations
against the Communication of Leo NJ.
Franks sentence began, on June Il,
was withdrawn.
Adolf Garlic. Carranza representa-
J tive at Los Angeles. said on Monday
/ that several hundred Mexicans, told
that they were to serve under Huerta
} left Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
! Cotton, CAL. for Fl Paso,
The United States government ha:
frustrated for the present an attempt
on the part of General VictorianS
/, Huerta and his associates to launef
i from American territory a new revolu
tionary movement in Mexico, by ar
> resting General Huerta and Genera
r orozco at FL Paso. Both men wer'
released on bond.