The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-11-07
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Llnss.
INrERMouNTAIN.

GOl- w. n. Iuckeft fEtifeh, former
assistant paymaster general Of the
United States army died Mt hos
pitaI at Hood River, Ore, Of acute
stomach trouble.
Arthur HOLDEN, 35, who came 70
Wilcox. Neb., a week ago from his
home al Tabernash Colo. shot and
killed his wife and then took his own
life.
With Col. George i. Byram IN per
sonal command. 100 infantrynen from
Fort Douglas were dispatched from
Salt Lake to Helper, Utah, 10 meet any
contingencies which might arise In the
coal camps.
james NJ. Smith, Canadian war vet
eran, was found guilty OF murder Ia
The second degree for the killing nj
Seattle last February OF his girl wife,
Helen.
]. Vince Johnson, prominent farmer
OF the Thomas district, near Black
foot Idaho, Is in Jail, accused Of
having shot and killed Leon Reese
Howard, 10 years Of age.
Backed by the Chinese government,
bank capitalized at $l0,000000 now
being established In New York, will
establish branches in Vancouver, Sc
attic, WASH, San Francisco, Cal, and
Montreal.
Twenty children were left fatherless
when James Nelson Of Perry and Ne
phi Moss OF Ulntah, Wyo., were instant
~ killed by an Oregon Short Line
train AT railroad crossing near Brig
ham City, Utah, the ear In which they
were riding being struck by the train,
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Russell Sage left an estate with
n gross value OF $4o,05l ,045, according
TO report Of the state appraiser made
public at New York.
Resolutions requesting that the prae-
tice Of importing picture brides" from
Japan to this country be stopped have
been sent by the Japanese Association
of America, representing 10000 Jap
anese IN California, 70 the Japanese
government.
Fifty-one acts OF herolsm were rec
ognized and rewarded by the Carnegie
hero fund commission at a meeting
held at Pittsburg. In five cases silver
medals were awarded; In forty-six
cases bronze medals,
Park employees have begun razing
suicide bridge" the high viaduct IN
Lincoln park, Chicago, from which
some forty persons have leaped TO
death or injury in recent years.
Suit 10 enjoln the government from
enforcing the wartime prohibition act
and attacking II as unconstitutional,
was filed in the United States district
court AZ Chicago by Levy Mayer, coun-
sci for the distillers,
The short workday and the ''ever in
creasing wages demanded by Industrial
labor" were declared TO be "ailies Of
the profiteer in keeping up the high
cost of living In resolution adopted
hy the Farmers National congress az
its concluding session at Hagerstown,
Nd.
Four men held in connection with
the alleged plot to kidnap and hold
for ransom Edsel Ford son Of Henry
Ford. Detroit automobile mnnufactur-
cr. we're sentenced IN police court At
Toledo TO three months In the city
workhouse.
The mlddlewelght catch-as- catch-can
title changed hands Thursday, John
Kllonis Of Manchester, n, H.. winning
from Ira Dern Of Salt Lake in straight
falls al Boston.
Magistrate Dale, sitting In a Brook
lyn police court. suspended sentence
ON man convicted of drunkenness OF
the ground that "a good many hypo
critics in congress have created a con
ditlon whereby good many Ameri
cans will be deprived Of their persona
rights"
Gov. Lynn G. Frazier has issued ,
proclamation ordering an extra SEES
sion of the North Dakota legislator,
20 convene November 20 Ratifica
ton of the federal suffrage amend
ment, assistance for drought-strickel
farmers and enactment of Legislation
10 carry out the states industrial pre-
gram are mentioned in the call,
The first aerial derby around tn
world for prizes totalling 100000
is scheduled to start July A, 1920, am
end on or before January 3, 1921, &C
eording to announcement made at Lo
Angeles by Alan II, Hawley, presiden
of the Aero Club of America.
Dan o'Leary, rs years old, pede'
trian, departed few days ago fror
Chicago on hike which he said woul
carry him into every state in the unioI
calling on each of the governor
He said he would be gone two year.
John Armstrong Chaloner, recent
victor in twenty-two-year fight to b
declared sane in New York, is to 6
on the stage. He has announced this
he is to appear in Broadway pr,
N,,ofion IN his own nlaV "RnhhaI