The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-07-23
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM.
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
iNrERMouNrAIN.

iNTERMoUNTAiN.
A jury has decided that Albert
Geddes is son of David Eccles, the
Utah millionaire lumber and sugar
king who died recently, and that the
boy is entitled to share in the Ecc1es
estate.
Judge John A. Perry in the district
court at Denver fined Arthur MacLen.
nan, managing editor of the Denver
Times. $3.50 and costs for contempt of
court in refusing to divulge informa
ton to recent county grand jury.
The Utah Power & Light company,
serving large territory in Utah,
extend its electric power and light
service into Emery and Carbon coun-
ties, according to an announcement
made at Price, Utah.
The sheriff's office has been inves-
tigating the deaths of Mrs. Marion
Mamizritch and Mrs. Balaba, Austrian
women who died at Tooele, Utah, af-
ter taking a dose of patent medicine.
Frank Peak, 80, night marshal Of
Loveland, Colo, was found shot to
death near Loveland. His own re-
volver was found beside the body
empty.
Old Geromotte, Ute Indian police
man, testified in the United States
district court at Denver that he heard
other Indians planning conspiracy
to send Tse-Na-Gat, renegade Piute,
to the gallows on a false charge of
numbering Juan Chacon, a Mexican
sheepherder.
The camp Of the biological survey.
near Newcastle, Wyo., was swept
away by cloudburst A man named
ers were marooned in trees. The
! party was engaged in exterminsting
| prairie dogs.
DOMESTIC.
The first consignment of cattle ever
| received at ST. Louis from Honduras
was sold to local packers on July 16.
The lot of 200 head sold at $3.50 a
hundred pounds.
General Julia Madero, brother of
former President Madero ofs Mexico,
and Miss Carmen Garcia, daughter of
Francisco Garcia of Hermosillo, were
married at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Ellen G. White, one of the
founders of the Seventh-day Adven-
lists, died at st. Helena, Cal, aged IS.
She was widely known among the
| IF haf ,oti nm
| throughout the United States, and by
many she was regarded as their pro-
| phetess.
Jim Flynn won from Andy Malloy
| of Salt Lake in the second at Pueblo.
The gong saved Malloy in the first
after hard right to the jaw had
laid him out on the floor.
Five dead, scores injured and more
than two million dollars worth of
property damaged were the toll of
floods which resulted from torrential
rains throughout central Ohio. Hun
ter and vast areas imperiled by weak
levees. and entertainments.
William H. Sprouse of East St.
Louis, H., was hanged at Clayton,
Mo-, for the murder of his wife. His
last request was to see his six chill
dren who had testified against him.
They refused to come to him.
Two men held up and robbed the
Farmers Savings bank at North
Liberty, Iowa, of practically all of the
cash it had on hand, shortly before
the closing hour Friday.
Frank Repetto, 1.-THE man who never
had a chance was hanged at Joliet,
Ills, for the murder of Charles Mas
tiers, his cellmate at the penitentiary,
year ago.
Charles d. Cook, hotel man from
Telluride, Colo, attending the Elks'
reunion, died at Los Angeles from the
effects of poison taken at the hour set
for his wedding to Miss Elizabeth
Wilcox of Bell Flower, suburb.
Cheered by 10000 people who
thronged the streets along the line o.
march, 10000 Elks in gorgeous cos
tunes paraded through the bushes,
district of Los Angeles on Thursday
Fire destroyed the business sector
of Valdez, Alaska, on July Is. The
loss was 100000. United State;
troops from Fort Liscum aided il
fighting the flames. Dynamite wa,
used to check the fire.
More than $500 tons of sugar wer.
destroyed in fire which caused tn,
destruction of a large number o
buildings at Iloilo, P. /.
BY a virtually unanimous vote the
bill of rights committee of the New
York state constitutional convention
committee decided against proposals
to abolish the death penalty.
Prospects for the billion bushel
wheat crop continued to grow during
the week ended July IA. Spring
wheat had the most favorable week
of the season over much of the belt.
The trial of Henry Starr and fou
others. charged with robbing the banl