The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-29
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
INTERMouNrAlN.

Proposed increases OF about per
cent in freight rates on lumber from
Chicago, st. Louis and other points to
destinations in Montana were disap-
proved by the interstate commerce
commission.
Paul Siebach, aged II, was killed
and ten men were injured in a snow
slide on Red mountain, near Ouray,
Colo. Siebach and companions were
swept into a gulch and buried under
the avalanche. His companions, 1t is
said, will recover
Colonel William F. Cody buffalo
BID is seriously Ill at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. May Decker, in
Denver.
The application for pardon of o. vi
Allen, former state treasurer of Idaho,
who confessed to the embezzlement of
$1,000 of state funds, and OF Fred NJ
Coleman, former deputy state treas
urer, who confessed to the embezzle-
ment of $4,000, were denied Friday
by the Idaho state board of pardons.
Ristic Kalick was found in his cabin
at Globe, Wyo., with his throat cut. 1t
is not known whether he suicided orl
was murdered.
With an attendance of more than
5000 persons, at least 1900 of whom
were teachers from every part of the
state of Utah, the twenty-second an
nual convention of the Utah Educa-
tional association opened at salt Lake
City on Wednesday.
Woodrow Wilson carried Nevada by
a majority over all other presidential
candidates and plurality of 5,649I
over Charles r. Hughes, according to
the official canvass of the vote of the
state.
DOMESTIC.
Christmas pardons for thirty-three |
prisoners in the state penitentiary |
were issued by Governor George w. |
Hays of Arkansas. Among those |
freed are eight persons convicted of
second degree murder, whose sen.
fences aggregated 127 years.
Arrangements for the American po-
lar expedition, to be headed by Cap
tain Robert A. Bartlett, Pearys navi-
gator on his dash to the north pole,
have progressed to the point where it
is possible that the expedition may
get away next summer.
The country's foreign trade this |
year probably will reach total of ST.
S00,000000. A bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce statement shows
that for the eleven months enueu with
November, exports and imports COM
bined totaled $7,14S,000, 900.
Charles S. Miller, convicted in fed
eral court at Wilmington, Della, on
mining scheme to defraud, dropped
dead in the wardens office at the
county worl1house a few hours after
he had been sentenced to serve three
years in the Atlanta prison.
A bonus amounting to $1,000,0 900 will
be distributed by Wells-Fargo & Co.
among 5000 employees drawing salar-
les of $4,000 year or less, the COM
pany announced Friday.
A petition has been filed in thel
state supreme court at Lansing, Mich,
by attorneys for Henry Ford, asking
that writ of mandamus be issued to
compel three circuit judges in Detroit
TO show cause why the temporary in
junction restraining the Ford Motor
company from business development
activities should not be Immediately
dissolved.
Baron Robert e. oppenheim. London
and Paris banker, held up at New
York by immigration authorities on
the ground that he had been impli-
Gated in charges involving moral tur-
pitude, was ordered released by the
immigration bureau, under a bond of
$1,000 for three months, pending fur
Their investigation.
Detailed plans for new transpor-
tatton system for Chicago, which will
provide adequate service for popula
ton Of 100000 at cost of $3.50 ,O00,-
600 in 1860. have been sent to tne city
council by the Chicago traction and
subway commission.
President Wilson's plurality in
Texas at the November election was
220,96O according to the official count
announced Wednesday. The vote
stood: Wilson, 2S5,9O9; Hughes, 64.-
949. The Prohibition vote was 1892
and the Socialist, 1909.
Bought as Junk" the Chicago, Ana
mosa & Northern, otherwise known as
the Can road, has been resold and
will be torn up and its rolling stock
shipped to England and relaid.
The Masonic home at Wichita, Kan
sas, occupied by aged persons and
children, was destroyed Friday morn
dng, twenty lives being lost. The fire
is believed to have started in the base
ments.
Luther Burbank, plant evolutionist,
was married Friday at San Francisco
fO hia SECRETARY Miss Elizabeth Wat