The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-01-12
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In . Few Lines.
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ted the Inter Ocean hotel at Cheyenne
on December ~, causing the death
OF Roy A. white OF Charlton. Iowa. his
wife and their four sons. IL the most
drastic OF It's character ever found in
Wyoming The verdict says that the
management and employees were
guilty OF gross negligence.
The secretary Of agriculture has de-
tailed Assistant Forester A. +, Potter
90 attend the annual meeting OF the Ma
tional Woolgrowers' association, 10 be
held in Salt Lake City January II 10
1s, and represent the department in
the discussion planned to take place,
Edward Mayberry, haifbreed In.
dian. sentenced In federal court at Spo-
kane 70 behanged January IL for the
murder OF Alice Vivian. an Indian girl.
on the Colyille reservation, has been
granted a sixty-day reprieye by Pres.
ldent Wilson.
An explosion OF gasoline on the 400
foot level OF the Pittsburgh-Id
mine at Gilmore. Idaho, at about
o'clock IN the afternoon imprisoned
thirteen miners. all OF whom we're res
cued.
ID. ]. Stevens. rancher. died al
Colorado Springs as the result OF a
gunshot wound IN the mouth. Sew
eral days ago Mr. Stevens lighted a.
match TO look into muzzle-loadlng
gun. The powder ignited and the bull.
let struck one OF his teeth, which was
driven through his mouth and lodged
In an artery in the back Of his head.
In the presence of 5000 people, ST.
mon Hamburger was inaugurated as
governor az the state capitol at Salt
Lake on January /.
DOMESTIC.
The giving way OF a 225.foot trestle
twenty feet above the river az Wis
sofa dam, on the Chippewa river neal
Chippewa Fails. Wis. resulted in I'll,
death OF c. Y. Holsch. ST. Paul. ant
probable fatal injury to James Muir
ply, Bate, Mont, and Charles Miller
81. Paul.
Combination Of the report that Ger
man Consul vogel OF Celima, Mexico
was being held for ransom by bandits
bptfNAAHb III AHAt htAtt hHa nNNh ~
ceiyed at III Paso from an American
consul In southwestern Mexico by an
American refugee,
spectacular fire Ia the state prison
inclosure az Joliet, Ills. destroyed two
buildings used IN the manufacture OF
chairs Seventeen hundred eonvicts
locked In their cells, behaved with ex
emplary discipline
Keith Neville. sS years OF age. the
youngest governor Nebraska ever had
was luaugurated at Lincoln on Thurs
day with brief and simple ceremonies
after John II. Morehead, retiring gov
erner. had delivered his final message
An estimate that $4,000 persons in
Massachusetts are addicted TO the
drug habit was included In the report
of commission appointed d,
Governor Mccall TO Investigate the
nrug evil.
Lincoln Stearns of the Hilltop Y. NJ
c. A. fell from the twenty-second floor
Of the oliver building at Pittsburg and
crashed through the skylight TO the
main floor. He was picked up alive
and rushed 10 a hospital. where hs
died.
Plans for an International exposition
10 commemorate the three-hundredtf
anniversary OF the landing of the Pill
grims were submitted to the Massa
ehusetts legislature on Thursday b,
= special commission created last year
TO investigate the matter
Bernard Wesley Lewis. scion OF 1
wealthy Pittsburgh, Pa. family, want
cd In connection with the murder o
Maixle Colbert. the artists model. II
Philadelphia apartment shot ans
killed himself at bis home in Atlantis
City. n. j.
Francis r Owings. once known al
the "skyscraper" king because he bull
fourteen.story structure in down
town Chicago back in the SOS, wheI
such daring architecture was deeme,
little short OF miraculous, has beer
declared insane and ordered sent 4
the hospital for the insane at Kan
kakee.
James b. Mcnamara, serving lii
sentence In the state penitentiary q
San Quentin. Cal, for dynamiting IN
Los Angeles Times building in 1917
when twenty-one lives were lost, Ia
been ordered into the disciplinar
dungeon for refusing 10 work in tn
jute mill.
As means toward better enforc,
ment Of the prohibitory law, tiovernc
Carl L. Milliken, in his inaugural a.
dress to the Maine legislature recon
mended the adoption OF a constit
tional amendment giving the govern,
power 70 remove a sheriff for caui
after notice and hearing.
Purchases OF nearly two billion d,
lars made the United Kingdom by 4
the best customer OF the United Stat
in 1916 An analysis published by Il
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