The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-03-12
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BHIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
---informatIor Gathered from Az
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
,NTERMouNrAIn.


ter legislative fights In years by the
passage OF an anti-race track betting
law In Montana. the promoters Of rae
ing are going to appeal from the legis-
iature's act and the future OF racing
Is In the balance.
Cyrus Noble, one Of the most ia
NOUS bucking bronchos that ever tried
TO kick holes In the sky at the Pendle-
ton, Ore, roundup has been sold to
the French government for use as q
cavalry horse.
John Pemberton, until recently pres
ident OF the Horticultural Fire Relief
company OF Oregon, which has gone
into the hands Of receiver, died sud
denly al Salem. Ore.
Ralph w. Feeney, superintendent Of
the Horticultural Fire Relief com.
pany and the Oregon Merchants Mu.
tual company, both OF which we're
placed In the hands OF o receiver last
Monday, committed suicide at Port
land by taking poison.
Testimony that an larson syndicate
has existed In the northwest for the
last two years was brought out In ties.
timony In the superior court at Seattle
In the trial OF b. Rosenthal, tailor,
charged with arson In the second de-
gree.
DOMESTIC.
Nine Houston, Texas, physicians
have been found guilty Of using the
mails to defraud Sentences win be
passed later. The government charged
they advertised for patients and, In
response TO letters, sent stereotyped
treatment instructions. regardless OF
the ailment.
George PONY Boy Evans, the min
strel. died at hospital In Baltimore.
He came to the hospital several days
ago for an operation for stomach
trouble.
Or. Charles j. Games, noted chem
list, who has many chemical discov-
cries to his credit died at New York
City. aged "a.
The Arkansas state election In Sep
TENDER no longer win act as political
barometer, since Governor Hays has
signed the bill combining state and ma
tional elections
More than 500 University OF Penn
sylyania students formed free speech
society at Philadelphia and empow.
cred a committee to draw resolutions
denouncing the faculty for refusing to
70 permit Samuel Gompers, president
OF the American Federation OF Labor.
to speak In one OF the halls OF the uni
versity,
Seyenty.eight bodies have been re-
covered from the workings of the Ley.
land mines al Hinton, w. Va, where
an explosion entombed more than 40
miners, OF whom only ten escaped
alive.
The body Of Lillian May Cook, a
pretty 1S-year-old Brooklyn stenog.
rapher, was found In a lonely part Of
West Rock park, New York City. She
had shot herself to death with re-
volver.
Samuel Saleevy, arrested at San
Francisco January Is by customs Of
ficers and charged with smuggling dia.
monds valued at $4,000 into the Unit.
ed States from Mexico. pleaded guilty
Thursday in the United States district
court and paid a fine OF $4,000.
An Endorsement OF President VIII.
sons European war policy was tabled
in the Iowa senate. by vote of 20
10 g.
Colonel George w. Goethals has
been nominated to be q major general
in recognition OF his services in build.
ing the Panama canal
Mayor Roses veto OF the ordinance
20 regulate scent fare automobiles
was oyer.ridden by the Los Angeles
city council. which repassed the meas
ure, by unanimous vote.
Herbert B. Lanyon, baker, testi,
fed at New York that although -four
cost him more than 81 a barrel, 1t cost
bake loaf of bread: that he sold It
wholesale ut 3ia cents to one grocer
who sold 1t at retail for 4 cents.
The Rev. James Morrison Darnell,
the former Kenosha, Wis, preacher
who is under indictment at Chicago on
TO undergo an examination into his
sanity.
A fire which threatened the entire
town of Weed. Cal, destroyed $4,000,
600 feet of lumber in the yards of the
Weed Lumber company. The loss Is
estimated at 100000.
Operation of the New York stat,
alien labor law has been suspended b,
the supreme court ami writs of erro
were granted for a review Of the de
cision of the state court of appeals
which held the law unconstitutional
It is contended the building of tn
New York subway would be delaye
by the law.
The Sawyer racing bill, as amende
by the senate. was passed by the Al
kansas house of representatives, As t
IS. The measure creates a racing con
mission of three members and lega
4oao hating