The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-10
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAlN.

oOoHS, twenty miles east or Pueblo,
Colo. The shooting is said to have
grown out of testimony earlier in the
day in a suit over land claim.
The strike at Leadville, Colo. of
smeltermen of the Arkansas Valley
plant Of the American Smelling &
Refining company for increased wages
and other demands is practically
over.
Orders approved by President viii
son restore to entry 113,348 acres of
public land in western Wyoming, 1885,
1853 acres in eastern Utah and 1898
acres in west central Montana.
A passenger train was wrecked by
a snowslide in the Black canyon of the
Gunnison river, near Sapinero, Colo.
Two persons were killed and number
injured.
His head wedged between the con.
crete floor and the top of the automa-
tic elevator in the Weber club build
ing, Joseph Strong, aged so, wealthy
sheepman and wool dealer of ogden,
Utah, sustained probably fatal injuries
Bloodhounds have been placed on the
trail Of Ernest B. Hardenburg, sheep
herder, who shot and killed sam
Richardson, a farmer living near
| Nampa, Idaho. Mrs. Richardson, who
is Hardenburg's divorced wife, was
| fired at several times. as was also Miss
Maude Brooks, her sister
DOMESTIC.
Noah Lundy, a farmer living near
Arcola, Illinois, is mourning the loss
of $3.50 in crisp United States cur
rency. Lundy had secreted the bills
in mail order comipany's catalogue
and while away from home his wife,
while cleaning house, burned the book
along with other waste papers.
Former Senator Elmer Jacob Bur-
kett of Nebraska has just put his
name on the rather limited list of Re-
publican vice presidential candidates
He is now lawyer in Lincoln, Neb.
The hearing of the suit for divorce
brought by Harry K. Thaw against
his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, has
opened at Pittsburg. Mrs. Thaw was
not present.
Admiral Fletcher declares that only
fifteen of the twenty-one battleships
of the Atlantic feet are on active
duty in West Indian waters, three oil
the other six being so crippled for lack
of officers and men that they cannot
operate with the fleet and the other
three either awaiting or undergoing
extensive repairs.
Chicken Joe" Campbell was denied
a new trial at Joliet, Ills, and sen
fenced to be hanged April u for the
murder of Odette Allen, wife of the
former warden of the state peniten
tiary.
Indictments charging bribery, ac-
ceptance of a bride and conspiracy
to commit bribery were returned by
the federal grand jury at Chicago
against A. c. Frost, defendant in the
SIC, 900 900 Alaska land fraud case
three years ago.
Theodore Roosevelt's determination
not to allow the use of his name as
candidate for the presidential nom
nation in the spring primary cleo
ton was emphasized by the announc
ment that his secretary, John w. Nc
Grath. has directed the withdrawal
of Mr.. Roosevelt's name from the IL
linois primaries.
The Sioux City, Iowa, packing
house strike, involving $500 men, was
settled March 2, at mass meeting o.
the strikers.
Five million bushels of May wheat
have been bought by milling interests
in the last week as prices tumbled
according to estimates of Minneapo
lis chamber of commerce traders.
Robert M. Jones, noted electrical
and hydraulic engineer ana construc
tor of the Salt Lake street railway
system, died at Carlsbad, N. M.
Warning that the plant of the D
Pont Powder company at Parksdalt
Wis, would be blown up "early i
March" has been received by employ
ees Of the company. Letters were re
ceived by the workers, urging them t
remain at nome.
.. After a series of conferences hel
in san Francisco between leaders rel
resenting new and old line Re
publicans. looking toward a possibl
coalition of forces, it was announce
that it had been found impossible
harmonic beliefs and principles.
o,is E,ortine a ranch hand EN-
ployed by Peter Rurrer, near Oxnard
Cal. has confessed that he killed Fur
rer, his wife and baby, and then Sc
the house on fire.
, Henry Ford said Wednesday ths
q was not to be seriously considere
: as a Republican candidate for tn
presidency, and that the filing of hi
{ name at Lansing, Mich, was joke.
: The Iowa anti-tipping law was hel
to be unconstitutional by Judge Georg
Jepson in the district court here Wee