The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-12-10
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNrAIN.

woman and a chauffeur probably IA
tally injured when an automobile
plunged over sixty foot embankment
in Ute Pass, near Manitou, Colo.
Fred Big Top, a full blood Indian,
convicted in Wyoming on a statutory
charge, and en- route to the United
States penitentiary to serve twelHy
years, leaped through the window OF
railroad train near st. Joseph, Mo-,
and escaped.
Rienzi G. Dickens, son of William
H. Dickens, the aged banker who was
killed in his home at Longmont, Colo,
by at bullet fired through the library
window, has been arrested in connec-
ton with his fatehr's death
A compromise in the Kansas Colo
radc water suit, involving the rights
to use the waters of the Arkansas
river for irrigation purposes, which
has been in the courts for several
years, has been virtually agreed upon.
An an inducement to blow up the
Hercules powder plant at Bacchus,
| Utah, and so stop it's alleged supply
| ing of explosives to the allies, Samuel
Murphy of Bingham was promised a
| large sum of money by c. G. Crowley,
| in a letter received by Murphy from
! Crowley three month ago, it is said.
Edward B. Traitor, on trial in the
United States district court at Chey-
enne on the charge of robbing TWEEN
| ty-three stages coaches in the Yellow
stone national park July "a, 1914, was
found guilty.
Nick Damos, found guilty of the
| murder of William Dick, wealthy
| Walsenburg, Colo, merchant, was SEN
tarced to be hanged during the week
| beginning March Is, 1916.
William Macdonald of Pueblo has
been killed while fighting with the
! Canadian contingent on the Gallipoli
/ peninsula.
DOMESTIC.
Sheriff Stanley of Malvern, Ark.
was wounded in a pitched bat
tie between officers and bandits who
had attempted to hold up an Iron
Mountain passenger train. The rob
bers failed to secure any booty.
After being robbed and then tortur
ed by Villa soldiers, who demanded
that he give them 5000 which they be
lieved he had hidden, McEnnis Ring
an American mining man and store
keeper at Cos, Sonora, a short dis
lance north of Nacozari, has arrived
at Douglas, Ariz.
Allan Gardner, bank messenger
and George De Brosa, bandit, dice
from bullet wounds received in a sen
sational attempt made by the latter tt
steal bag containing $4,000 in a New
York City street subway station dur
ing the rush hour.
Two men were injured and the plan
of the Peters Paper company at Kings
ton, Pa. was damaged to the exten
of $4,000 by an explosion. The cause
is not known.
Resolutions creating central com
mittee to organize the farmers o.
America into cooperative societies
covering every farm product, from
poultry and garden truck to grain ant
live stock, and operating in each O.
the forty-eight states were unanimous
ly adopted at the closing session a
Chicago of the national conference OF
marketing and farm credits.
The validity of contracts for adver
| Using in Sunday newspapers has beer
upheld by the Missouri supreme court
Father Louis M. Lesches was insane
when he shot and seriously wounded
Bishop Patrick R. Heffron of the Wi
mona diocese last August, jury de
cided at Winona, Mimi.
The New York Central railroad fol
lowed the lead of other importan
trunk lines in its large October earn
ings, made public December l. OpeT
ating revenue of $16 140,579 showe'
an increase of $2,531,52 over the pre-
yious October and net income in
creased $2,44S,10S.
Thirty-one workmen were killed an,
six fatally injured Tuesday in terri
fic explosion of about four tons o
black powder at the Upper Hagle,
yard of the Dupont Powder company
at Wilmington, Della.
A mistrial was ordered in the FED
eral court at Augusta, Ga, in the cas-
of Thomas F. Watson, the Thong
son, Ga, editor and author charge
with having sent obscene matte
through the mails.
Hearing of the suit by which tn
government is seeking to separat
the Central Pacic railroad from tn
Southern Pacific has begun at s.
Louis.
Friends of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young
superintendent of Chicago's publ
schools, on December l celebrated he
completion of fifty years service
school work with golden jubilee
dinner at which Mrs. Young was tn
4 guest of honor.
More than half the town of Avalon
on Santa Catalina island. was d,
stroyed by fire Monday, the loss bein
estimated at over million dollars.
S. P. Smith. farmer, accidental
shot and killed his grandson, Elmer
Smith, aged T. while hunting nes