The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-01-26
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines
TGRM oUNTA1N.

has been returned to her home in
Ogden, Utah. Her mother has made
good the checks and paid all her
daughters obligations.
The Wyoming senate has passed a
bill submitting prohibition as a con-
stitutional amendment to the people
of the state in 1918. The bill now
goes to the house.
A joint resolution has been intro
duced in the Utah legislature direct
ing and empowering the governor of
the state to assume control of the
shipments of coal over all common
carriers in Utah and to call upon the
military and police powers of the
state for aid in this work if necessary.
The twenty-eighth session of the
Nevada legislature convened Janu-
airy To-
Mrs. Stella Newton Smith, society
woman of Denver, shot and killed her
husband, claiming the shooting was
in defense of herself and daughter J.
Realizing that he was suffering from
an incurab1e illness and that life held
ma, 40 years of age, thirty-second de-
gree Mason, committed suiced at Salt
Lake, taking cyanide of potassium.
The funeral of Colonel William F.
Cody buffalo Bill was held at Den
YER on January IA, prominent people
from all over the west being present.
DOMESTIC.
John P. Brazelton, former wealthy
mining man and widely known in Mon
tana political circles, died in Oak
Park, suburb of Chicago, from self
inflicted bullet wound.
Earl Henry, chief of the department
of mines, has announced that 375 min
ers had been killed in the mines of
the state of West Virginia during 1916.
A gun fight between two alleged
bank robbers and a posse near Oke-
nah, Okla, resulted in the death of a
deputy sheriff, the killing of one OF
the men pursued and the capture OF
the second man after he had been
wounded.
DR.. w. T. Stell, an American physic.
ian of Guerrero, who was reported ex-
ecuted by the Villa troops that entered
the town October last, reached the
American lines several days ago, &C
cording to arrivals at Columbus, N
M, from Mexico.
Seventy-three lives and fourteen yes
sells were lest on the Great Lakes dur
ing 1916, according to the annual re-
port of the Lake Carriers association
made public at Detroit. This casualty
record is the most serious since 1913
Charles Crawford of Ottumwd, Iowa
charged in court at Omaha with aiding
and abetting the passing of raised
checks in Omaha, was found guilty in
the United States court and sentenced
to ten years in the federal peniten-
tiary on each of six counts. the sen
tence to run concurrently.
Jack Beaton, |. w. w. organizer
was sentenced to serve six months in
the county Jail at Phillips, Wis, on
being convicted of carrying concealed
weapons.
Deer are being killed in such mum
bers in the United States that the day
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outside Of the state estuaries anc
parks, it is charged.
A man known to the police at st
Louis as Charles Bowling shot ant
wounded Mrs. H. Gerreald, 20 year:
of age, so seriously physicians say sht
will die, and then committed suicide
The freight car shortage, which Il
November was becoming increasingl!
serious, has decreased nearly so pc
cent since that time, according to fig
ures for January 1, 1917, which thu
American Railway association ha
just made public.
1t is announced that the Withdrawal
/ of Major General Pershing's troop
from Mexico and the sending of Am
bassador Fletcher to the Mexican
capital can be expected in the nea
future.
Fifty persons were seriously hurt
ten probably fatally, when half tn
population of the little town of Hart
ford, Pa, was trapped in burninl
frame structure during wedding re
, ception and dance.
. The Mexican-American joint con
mission, which failed to effect an &C
justment OF the questions at issue be
, tween Mexico and the United State
after a series of conferences that bt
gan four months ago, was formally dii
solved on January 10.
John M. Couch of Oklahoma Cit!
| nlxIa shot and killed Miss Nellie
Dunn, his sister-in-law, after which h
speeded in an automobile to the cor
servatory of music conducted by Row
land B. Williams and killed him b
cause Williams was favored over hin
self by Miss Dunn.
John Nadolski, aged SO, an escape
!. ''trnsty" from the Joliet, ILL.,, prison
4 walked into the police station at De
: Moines, Iowa, and surrendered. N;