The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-08
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines,
INTERMouNTAIN.

Animas and Huerfano counties, Colo
ado, were opened January 1, for the
drst time since April % last
Anthony Perry was found guilty OF
hrst degree murder and a sentence
Of life Imprisonment recommended by
a jury in the district court at Boulder
Colo, for the killing of Stephen Ko-
luAaroff, leader of the Bulgarians al
the Hecla mine, at Louisville last
August. The killing resulted from a
personal quarrel.
Statewide prohibition became a
part of the constitution of Colorado
on January 1, with the issuance by
Governor e. NJ. Ammons of proclama-
tons putting into effect two constitu-
tional amendments, one initiated and
one referred law approved by the
electors at the November election.
The annual report of the Denver
mint shows that during the year 1914
the mint coined a total of 21,550,5 500
pieces of money with a value of ST.
/ O09,S30. The value of the gold and
silver received at the mint for coinage
was $34,253,952, compared with $751;
| 759,899 in 1918.
The Bingham State bank at Bling
| ham Canyon, Utah, was held up Tues
day afternoon by an unmasked man
and $16,492 in gold and currency
| taken. Within thirty minutes after
the commission of the holdup a man
giving his name as Bert Heaton was
under arrest and the money recov-
ered
DOMESTIC.
The Utah state building of the Pan
ama-California exposition at San
Diego was dedicated January l in the
presence of a large gathering, includ-
ing the representative delegates from
Utah at San Diego. Governor William
Spry conducted the ceremonies.
Child Scavengers," the children of
the tenements who go to dump heaps,
freight yards, markets and ash bar
rels in search of food, fuel and
clothes, are the subject of a report
issued by the Massachusetts Child La
Dor committee.
Sixteen persons were injured, two
dangerously, when two trains collided
near Liberty, Mo.
Mrs. Charlotte Van Horn, aged %,
was lodged in Jail at Macon City,
Iowa, pending investigation of the
death of her husband, a prosperous
farmer of Clear Lake, Iowa He was
found dead in bed on the morning of
November 20 with bullet wound in
his head.
Charles Tozer aged 80, was killed
by George Vasleopolous, a restaurant
owner at st. Louis, while he and two
accomplices were attempting to emp
ty the cash register.
AS a New Year greeting to its $500
employees, the Twin City Rapid
Transit company at st. Paul, Mimi,
announced that pension plan provid-
ing retirement on practically half pay
at the age of IS has been adopted, to-
gether with plans for accident, sick
ness and death benefits.
For selling pint of whisky on Jan
uary /, after Arizona's prohibition law
had gone into effect, Louis Gherna
was arrested at Tucson. His viola
ton of the law and immediate arrest
was by previous arrangement for the
purpose of testing the self-executing
feature of the prohibition law.
Hot Springs, Ark, saloons were re-
opened at noon January 1, and that
city now is the only wet spot" in
the state. Saloons in all other cities
were closed at midnight and under
the statutes petitions containing a ma
iority of the names of white adult
citizens must be presented to the
county court before they can secure
licenses.
immigration through the port of
New York for 1914 fell off to the ex,
tent of 601,41O persons, or As per cent,
as compared with 1913, according to
figures compiled by the commissioner
of immigration
w. A. Scripps, brother of the news
paper publisher and founder of the
Scripps home for the aged at Pasade-
ma, Cal, is dead, aged 76. He had
been i'll for long time.
According to the police, Nettie Sa
lines, % years old, who has been TAX
confessed that she caused the death
of her husband, Alexander Salines, by
putting poison in his food on Deem
Der 20 to collect insurance of $1,000
he had recently taken out.
Miss Marion Howard of st. Louis,
who was reported to have recently
fallen heir to a fortune, committed
suicide in her apartments at fash
ionable hotel at Atlantic City, N. ].
The Valley bank, largest in Arizona,
which was closed November 10, will
be reopened with new set of Off
GERS and directors.
A quo warranto suit asking that the
st. Louis Livestock company be GUST
ed from the state of Illinois on the
ground that 1t is a trust in restraint
Of trade has been fled at Chicago by |