The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-01-19
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMOUNTAIN.

of land near Yellowstone, the state
line entrance to the Yellowstone Ma
tional park, to the Oregon Short Line
railroad for hotel purposes. !
Returning to his home from work,
Everett Crozier, a farmer residing
near Greeley, Colo, found the bodies
of his five children laying in the house
shot to death and his wife lying un-
conscious in a field with a pistol in
her hand.
Pending definite action by congress
in regard to universal military SER
vice, the Utah legislature will be en-
couraged by Governor Bamberger toll
keep appropriations for the Utah ma
tional guard to the lowest amount
possible to meet the immediate needs
Of the state militia.
Il didn't know it was loaded"
sobbed 13-year-old Frank Hewitt of
HALEY, Idaho, when he rushed into a.
neighbors house and told how he had
Just shot and killed his brother, John
Henry Hewitt, aged Is. Two younger
brothers were present at the shooting.
A drastic statewide prohibition
measure has been introduced in the
Utah legislature.
The Umatilla, Oregon, municipal
government was turned over to wo-
men Tuesday night, when Mrs. Laura
j. Starcher. wife of the retiring
mayor, whom she defeated at the last
election, took her office, along with a
woman recorder, treasurer and four
CONDITIONER.
DOMESTIC.
The Pere Macquette railroad has
announced that because of the coal
shortage it has become necessary te
reduce it's passenger service.
Four hundred thousand pounds o
powder was destroyed by fire and ex
plosion at the Haskell, N. j.. plant o
the Du Pont Powder company. Tw'
employees are missing.
Withdrawal of the Pershing expedi
ton across the American border ant
sending of Ambassador Fletcher t,
Mexico City are understood to be thu
first steps that will be taken in thu
new plan to settle the Mexican prob
lem
The mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of Mrs. Charles Cochran
wife of an engineering professor o
the University of Kansas at Leaven
worth, was solved when her bodl
was found in the Kansas river.
Three men were killed in the explo
sion of the boiler of freight train en-
CINE on the St. Louis & San Francisco
railroad near GrandYiew, Mo.
Harry Kendall Thaw. under indict
ment in New York, together with two
so-called body-guards, for an alleged
attack on Frederick Gump, Jr., a 10
year-old high school boy of Kansa!
City, in New York hotel last Christ
mas, attempted suicide, cutting hi
throat in rooming house in Philadel
phia, but will recover.
The Baseball Players fraternity
through its president, David L Fultz
has thrown down the gauntlet to or
ganized baseball and declared that un
less the magnates agreed to the re
quests of the fraternity there would b
no need of training camps this spring
Miss Margaretta Washington,
at-great-grand-niece of Georg
Washington, died at her home in Phi
! adelphia. She had a wide reputation
, among physicians and medical school
for her skill in drawing anatomica
, sketches.
, The Nebraska senate passed unan
Z mously a resolution of appreciation TO
what Colonel Cody had done for NJ
braska, and urged upon his family tina
r he be buried at North Platte, wher
i he was so long stationed.
/ The political feud between Georg
: w. Hays and the Arkansas legislator
4 led to the former governor being hus
: led out OF office Wednesday and the il
!, auguration OF DR.. G. H. Brough, hi
E successor, an hour and half ahead {
: the time set for the induction GER
? monies.
i A resolution calling for an invest
: cation of the activities of the Indu
: trial Workers of the World in Mi
nesota has been introduced in tn
( state senate by Senator E. j. Yves
. lake.
e Seven prisoners were taken by me
r of the First New Hampshire infantI
y regiment in their brush with filibu
: tiers Saturday night near Zapat
!. Texas.
= Fred Fulton of Rochester, MinI
knocked out Tom Cowler of Englar
in the first round of a ten-rour
match in Brooklyn. Fulton weighe
4 21S pounds and Cowler 20SA.
4 Chief of Police Charles c. Healt
4 was arrested at Chicago on charges
1 extortion. bribery and conspiracy, ;
! was Lieut.. Martin White and thrC
others.
Captain Frederick Courteney s
: lous, author and hunter, who accoI
: panied Theodore Roosevelt on b
r hunting expedition in 1909, has bee