The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-03-12
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsr
MANNER POSSIBLE,
Happenings That Are Making HIstsTs
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe ana
Given In a Few LIssa,
lNTE RMoUNTAIN,

Having first made arrangements
with the undertaking company for the
cremation Of his body, for which he
paid 500 and took a receipt month
ago Henry Sturgeon, machinist. age
10, shot and killed himself in his room
at Seattle.
Concessions have been made to Col
orado sugar beet growers by the Great
Western Sugar company whereby a
price in excess of So a ton for beets
VIII be paid in the form Of a sliding
scale bonus, provided the seaboard
price Of sugar exceeds 81 a hundred.
The barkentine GeOrgiana arrived
mt Astoria, Ore, from Honolulu with
| one mast missing. The crew reported
that the vessel came near destruction
on February 4, when a terrific whirl-
wind caught the ship about $50 miles
| northwest of Honolulu.
J. Greenwood. aged 81. on suicide
intent, decided that the icy waters of
the Jordan river. at Salt Lake. were
no proper element in which to die,
| and swan ashore after he had jumped
into the stream. AT police headquar-
tiers he promised that he would not
| again make an attempt on his life.
Robbers entered the safety deposit
vault of the Peoples State Bank at
Lehi, Utah, and secured Liberty bonds
and other yaluabIeS aggregating sew
eral thousand dollars.
The banks, trust companies and pri-
vate investors in the Twelfth federal
reserve district, comprising the states
Of Washington, Oregon. California,
Idaho and Nevada. a part of Utah
and the territories of Hawaii and
Alaska, subscribed to 1867 ,932. 800 in
government securities, exclusive of
the Victory loan, during 1919.
DOMESTIC.
Robert F. Straud. convicted of the
murder of Andrew Turner, guard at
the United States penitentiary at Leav-
enworth, Kans., March 70, 1916, has
been sentenced to hang on April %.
Antoinette Bonner, who acquired the
international sobriquet of the diamond
queen" when she was brought back
from Paris in 1914 with Joseph B. ks
linger to face charges of large jewelry
thefts in New York, ended her life
dramatically Friday by drinking poison
as she was being placed under arrest
In Kislinger's office here, charged with
theft of diamonds valued at $1,000.
Twenty-seven ships. aggregating 1885,
ass lightweight tons, were launched
for the shipping board during January.
The board now controls 1880 vessels,
with a total tonnage Of 9.104,361
Dressed beeves swinging from the
roof of a refrigerator car are said to
have caused the wreck on the Burling-
ton railroad in the outskirts of Omaha,
which tore up the track for distance
of nearly half mile. and the demol-
ishing of a dozen freight cars.
The population of the Philippines is
placed at 10.350, $40, according to fig
ures compiled in the 1920 census. Of
that number. 9,42S,S5T are Christians,
b4u0 DelnS Americans.
Douglas Fairbanks. well known
screen actor, broke the fOrefinger of
his right hand and sustained painful
cuts while roping Il horse for film
play in the painted desert, twenty-five
miles north of Holbrook. Ariz.
The National Tube company, sub
sidiary of the United States Steel cor
poration, has announced that work
will begin Immediately on the cree
ton of mammoth tube plant at
Gary, Ind, costing S40,000oo0 and
giving employment to 10000 men.
An immediate billion dollar reduc-
ton in federal taxes was suggested
in a statement issued by William G.
McAdoo, former secretary of the treas
ury. The present tax burden is too
great, he said. and is having an in
furious effect ON business"
Following their arrest as insane
suspects as the result of twenty
four-hour seance with ouija boards,
four Italian residents of Martinez,
Cal, were committed to state hospitals
for the insane by the superior court.
The 5000 carpenters who went on
strike Monday at ST. Louis have vot-
ed TO return to work, pending adjust
ment of differences.
immigration into Canada from the
United States fell off 4S per cent dur
ing the last fiscal year, according 10
report of the Canadian department
OF immigration. Last year 4O,I15
Americans settled in Canada, against
n ,S14 the preceding year.