The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-02-11
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from Al
Quarters Of the Globe ana
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAlN.

While they were attempting to re-
move debris scattered on the tracks
of the Oregon Short Line In Bear
River canyon, between Cache juno
ton and Wheelon, Utah, six Mexican
and Greek section hands were buried
by a second slide, two being killed.
An increase from 1917 to ~ cents
an hour for common labor at its Pu-
! eblo (Colo) steel plant was an
nounced at the general offices OF the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company on
February 2.
The federal government is without
right to Dust from oil lands concerns
operating prior to a federal order OF
May 6, 1914, although such compan-
les had not discovered oil at that time,
according to a decision by Judge j. A.
Riner, in federal district court for
Wyoming. The decision is victory
Cor oil men.
Ninety-one arrests for intoxication,
as against 4S2 year ago, were made
by the Seattle police during January,
of which thirty-six we're made on the
first day of the year. Total arrests
for the month were 765, as compared
with 2,12S for January, 1915.
The famous Oregon land case, in
which the government charged the
Oregon Lumber company, David &c
cles and others with having obtained
several thousand acres of forest lands
through fraudulent entry, was decided
in the federal court at Portland on
Monday, when a decision was handed
down in favor fthe Eccles interests.
DOMESTIC.
Diamonds worth $1,000 and cash es-
timated at $500 were taken from the
pawnshop of Max Stern on one of the
principal business streets of Kansas
City, after Stern had been beaten into
insensibility by five men who entered
his store ostensibly as customers.
In some parts of the snowbound
region of northeastern Arizona there
has been no freight for four weeks
and people are feeling the lack of the
necessaries of life.
Six women lost their lives in fire
which destroyed the home of Mrs
Casimir Tag at Brooklyn. Mrs. Tag,
widow of the president of the German
Savings bank, escaped, but two of her
daughters were among those who per
ished.
The Metropolitan Street Railway
company, under a settlement reached
In the circuit court at Kansas City
agreed to pay Miss Evelyn Whiting
ton, 16 years old, $500 for a kiss ad.
ministered by one of the eompanys
conductors.
Two lepers, Petro Caro- and NJ
Giuteras, escaped from the Los An.
geles county isolation hospital after
severely beating two TRUSTEES, also
iepers, who wer oeSs guard.
The convictions of Dom NJ. Rob.
erts, the former mayor of Terre
Haute, Ind, and ten others found
guilty with him of election frauds
were sustained by the United States
district court of appeals at Chicago.
The name of Charles w. BRYAN
brother of former Secretary of State
w. j. Bryan, was filed at Lincoln,
Neb., as a candidate for the nomina,
ton for governor, subject to the Dem
ocratic primary.
The United States Steel corporation
is to build group of 1900 by-product
coke ovens at Clarion, near Pittsburg
The total cost will be $15,OOOOOO
Frederick Schleindl, formerly a
clerk in the National City bank. New
York, convicted of selling confidential
information regarding the shipments
Oh ammunition to the entente allies,
has been sentenced to the peniten.
tlary for an indeterminate term
Eleven lives have been lost and
hundreds of thousands of dollars dam.
age done by the floods now devastat.
ing Arkansas. Hundreds of families
are homeless.
me Methodist church paid 81 200
oOO IN pensions to retired ministers
ana Widows and orphans Of ministers
curing 1918, according to the annual
report OF DR.. Joseph B. Hingley. sec.
rotary OF the board of conference
claimants, submitted at the annual
meeting OF the board at Chicago.
Jess Willard and Jack Dillon bovo
been matched for ten-round bout 70
De held in New York City some time
between April 10 and %.
Frank NJ. Wooden, mayor Of Tn,so
OKLA was found guilty by iurv II
district court of unlawful and w;1lf,l
neglect of duty and failure to enforos
laws. PiohiDltlon
M B. Jones was shot and killed =,
san francisco by NJ. B. Chamber,in
u, United States deputy collector .,
internal revenue, on whom ZONES Ma :,
opened fire when Chamberlin attema 49,
ed to arrest him as a dealer in mia ~
full drugs. III uhlaW'
J. ?. Morgan quietly sailed ,or n,
rope on February 2, upon the stu l.u
ship Rotterdam, presumably 20 0'eall'
range a large French loan IN a., 81,
United States, This loan oona, .ne
70 well informed financial in.e'