The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-06-30
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,
iNTERMouNTAlN.

nc CFeSSOH mine, one or the rich
est in the Cripple Creek district, has
been sold to a syndicate of Chicago
and New York men for S4,270,O0O. ac-
cording to an announcement made
from Denver.
The Colorado board of pardons has
granted ninety-day reprieve to Col.
James c. Bulger, under sentence to
be hanged for the murder of LLOYD F.
Nicodemus. Denver hotel proprietor.
Floods in the northwest and in
British Columbia, according to reports
received at Seattle, show no signs Of
abatement.
Boise, Idaho, citizens turned out
Tuesday night in one of the largest
preparedness parades ever held in the
intermountain country. Fully 1000
people were in the line of march, wav-
ing flags and keeping time to the live
ly military airs played by the Boise
military band.
The commissioners of Utah county,
Utah. have placed bounty of three
fourths of cent per pound on all
grasshoppers caught within the Dor
ders of the county.
Mrs. Blanche Coltman, formerly of
Omaha, Neb., aged 81 was found dead
In her apartment i'll hotel in Seattle,
her throat cut by a knife. John Sou
das, cigar store owner, is under ar
rest in connection with the investiga-
ton.
DOMESTIC.
The National Electric Medical as
ISOLATION decided at their closing SEES
sion at Cedar Point, N Y, to notify
President Wilson that the services OF
more than 1000 electric physicians
and surgeons are at his disposal for
Mexican war service.
Between $4,000 and 10000 from
hands are needed to get in the wheat
harvest in Texas this year.
National guard organizations
throughout the country are straining
every nerve to prepare for active ser
vice on the Mexican border.
Second-class boatswain's mate l. NJ.
Laughter of the U. S. gunboat Annap-
oils, who was shot during fight at
Mazatlan with Carranza soldiers, died
the following morning.
An American cavalry patrol is pur-
suing a small band of Mexicans, who
were reported to have raided the Par
ker ranch, thirty-five miles southwest
of Hachita, N. NJ.
Francisco Villa has been in Juarez
several times in the last four weeks,
according to reports received by
agents of the United States secret ser
vice at Ell Paso
Announcement has been made at
military headquarters in Juarez that
all Mexicans who have been exiled for
political reasons during the Carranza
regime may return to Mexico in
safety, according to reports.
More than a score of American fam
lilies have fed from their homes near
the boundary line south of San Pedro,
Ariz., because of threatened raids
from the Mexican side by forces seek
ing horses and supplies.
Rev. F. C. Battershell, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Marinette,
Wis, has resigned his pastorate and
has enlisted in the Wisconsin national
guard.
American and Carranza troops
fought battle near Carrizal, Mexico,
June 81, twenty American soldiers and
forty Mexicans being killed in the en-
gagement. Claimed that Americans
were ambushed Mexicans claim
Americans made first attack.
Three Chinese merchants who left
Nogales, Sonora, for the Orient, by
way of Tucson and San Francisco, un-
der bond, estimated the loss to the
Chinese colony of the Mexican town,
through seizure of their goods by Car
ranzistas, at 100000.
Charges that Miss Gertrude Clay
poole, niece and heir to one-fifth of
the $10,O00,000 estate left by John w.
Bookwalter of Columbus, o. had been
drugged, held as prisoner in New
ark hotel and forced to sign away GER
tian of her rights in the estate, have
been laid before the district attorney
at New York City.
Frederick Griese, German banker
of Mexico City, was under detention
by agents of the department Of JUS
tice at III Cdso, Texas, charged with
violation of the United States neu-
trality laws. Greise was prevented
Tuesday night from crossing INTO
Mexico.
Facing Carranza's defiant army IN
northern Mexico, there will be sta'
toned along the Rio Grande within a
week or ten days an American force
that will total. it is stated, almost
10000 men.
American aviators serving in Europe
under the colors of France, have been
invited by the Aero Club OF America
TO return to their native country ioi
ccrvice IN the event of war VIII