The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-11-17
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe ana
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTERMouNTAIN.

Luc WiuleI. oHOW was 6SASi~A
throughout Prickley Pear valley and
northern Montana and fell to a depth
of three feet six inches.
Indications are that the bone dry"
prohibition amendment, which was
aimed to stop all importation of liquor
into Oregon for beverage purposes,
has carried by about 1900.
Ross M. Bonny, prominent attorney
of Salt Lake, was shot and killed by
Mrs. Amy Hill at Salt Lake, Wednes-
day night. 1t is said Bonny had re-
fused to marry the woman, Divorce,
with whom he had been intimate for
four years.
| Howard Turner, age %, and Mrs K.
M. Bushong were arrested in Denver
and are being held in connection with
the murder near Wilson, Kansas, Oc-
| tober 81, of the husband of the woman.
Names of sixteen Pacific coast &C.
ment manufacturers accused of form
| ing trust in violation of the Sher-
man act were made public by federal
officials at Portland indictments hav-
ing been returned October 81 by a
United States grand jury.
Frank P. Walsh, former chairman
Of the federal industrial relations
commission, has announced that he
would not take charge of the defense
of the Industrial Workers of the
World in Jail in Seattle in connection
with the riot at Everett, Wash.
DOMESTIC.
William Boone, former president of
the defnnct National bank of Fort
Smith, Ark, has been sentenced in
the federal court to seven years i'm
prisonment as a result of his convic-
ton for making false reports on the
condition of the bank.
Charles Noel Flagg, widely known
as an artist and portrait painter, was
found dead in bed at his home in
Hartford, Conn.
The American Express company has
| declared an extra dividend of So on
it's stocks in addition to the regular
quarterly dividend of $3.50 This es-
| tablishes the stock on an per cent
dividend basis.
Benny Leonard of New York City
defeated Stanley Yoakum of Denver
in ten-round bout. Leonard was
the aggressor throughout, scoring a
clean knockdown in the eighth round.
What is believed to be an attack
been begun by two railroads in the
United States district court at Chi
| cago.
The Nebraska State Teachers asso-
citation has adopted a resolution favor
| ing the use of simplified spelling as
| adopted by the National Education as
| ISOLATION.
A petition enjoining the federal dis
trict attorney and labor leaders from
putting the Adamson eight-hour bill
into effect was filed in the federal dis
trict court of Kansas City, Kan, on
November 8, in the name of the At
| Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe railway
Both hard and soft coal again scared
in price Wednesday at Chicago. An
thracite was raised 81 ton for egg,
range and chestnut, making the price
| $1,000. No more anthracite will come
by water this winter.
The Golden State Limited of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
went into the ditch near Newman
Kans., injuring number of persons.
So far. no casualties have been re.
ported.
The Union Pacific Railroad com.
pany has filed suit in the federal court
at Omaha to test the constitutionality
of the eight-hour law recently passed
by congress and known as the Adam.
son act.
The Arizona corporation commits
sion has complained to the interstate
commerce commission that the Santa
Fe and other railroads charge higher
freight rates on general traffic from
the east to Arizona than from the
east to California and that this is
prejudicial to Arizona.
In the course of his closing cam
paign speech at Lincoln, Neb. vii
liam j. Bryan, former secretary OF
state, served notice to the world that
with the 1916 campaign at an end he
would next turn his energies to the
cause of national prohibition.
A census of the coal supply in New
York City to determine whether spec
ulators are taking advantage of tnt
public in certain sections has been be
gun by the police.
Charles Adams, descendent of Presi
dent John Quincy Adams and broth
er of Mrs. Clara Adams Darling
founder of the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution and the Daughters o
1872, died Sunday of heart disease il
his home in Chicago.
Homer Heard and w. w. Dunn wer,
found guilty at Little Rock, Ark, o
robbing an express car on a Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific train. Heard
son of wellknown Little Rock attor
; ney, and Dunn, formerly a railroa,
conductor, have been tried three time