The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-04-09
RECORD or The lMPoR rANT
EVENTS TOLD ~ sRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe ana
Given In q Few Linea-
iNTERMouNTAIN.


Analysed and, II II reported, ne found
be Ind run into high-grade oil,
Salt Lalters passed the coolest April
In the past fortyfiye years, with
the exception Of 1874, according to
records OF the local weather bureau.
Temperature slightly lower than ~
degrees WINS the lowest recorded In
the downtown district,
Ernest Boyd, 20, was arrested in
Spakane, Wttsh,, on charge Of rob
bling the postGff1ce safe nj Erestone.
Colo, II February, OF S64o.
James AStcu has been convicted at
Trinidad, Colo, of tile murder Of Louis
TInjllio, postmaster at Troy, Colo,
June .. 1877 The state charged that
Altell Ind planned the robbery Of the
w@tofflce. Axtell pleaded self-de-
fense.
POSSES are securing the hills of
Ciielnn county, Wash, for the four
convicted L w. WIS who broke Jail
at Wenatchee, Wash.
William Jennings Bryan departed
from Denver early Tuesday, refusing
70 discuss The Democratic nomination
for president When he arrived In
the morning, he said he was not
candidate,
poMEsTiC.
THE Colorado river power and lrrl-
gation project, which Is expected to
take definite form as the result of the
annual convention 1T Los Angeles Of
the League Of the Southwest, ean be
developed, United States senator Rob.
ert L. Owen Of Oklahoma told the con.
ventfon, without the imposition by
congress of further tax ON the
American people"
Whether the five ousted socialist as
selnblymen will be called upon to face
criminal court proceedings ana whether
the socialist party will be prosecuted
on charges of conspiracy hinges upon
conference TO take place In Albany
next week
Calixton Rui. arrested in connection
with the murder of Lewis Connolly and
Waterheuse, American avlators, whose
bodies were found on the beach ut Los
Angeles bay in Lower California has
confessed TO killing the officers, ac-
cordlng TO a report from Calexico,
The five Socialist members of the
New York state assembly We're ex.
PEELED from the lower house of the
legislature on April /, by an over
whelming majority.
The name of President Wilson,
which had been entered by petition in
the Georgia presidential preferential
primary, has been withdrawn by ne
tion Of u number OF signers of the
petition.
Alphabetically proved to have been
overwhelmed In prehistoric volcanic
eruption, the skeletons of boy and
girl were brought to Santa Re, n.
NJ, and are being exhibited in that
city preparatory to shipment to Wash.
ington.
Counsel for the two sons and
daughter of Richard Croker, ST., for
mer TAmmany leader at New York,
announce that the Palm Beach county,
Florida, court ISSUED Il temporary in.
Junction preventing the transfer or
disposal of all Cookers property in
that state pending institution of pro-
ceedings by his family to have con-
servator appointed to manage his
estate.
Districts of the middle west and
south swept by tornadoes with loss
of l64 lives are recovering rapidly and
rebuilt homes and buildings have be-
gun 70 rise from the wrcekage.
The $40 members of the ST. Louis |
fire department have voted unani- |
inossty 20 strike May l unless their |
wages are increased
Three whisky thieves, posing ms
federal prohibition enforcement Off |
Gals, engineered u daring liquor rob
berry at Lake Geneva, Wis. They read |
warrant" to the caretaker of the |
summer home Of Frank Rehm. son-in-
law of ]. Il. Grommes of the Grommes |
Wilrich Liquor Co, of Chicago, and |
escaped with $4,000 worth of choice |
whisky on a motor truck.
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the
wealthy young Philadelphia draft |
eyHder, has been sentenced TO five
years Imprisonment at hard labor at |
the Hnfted States disciplinary bar
racks at Governors Island.
Tornadoes that struck In half n doz- |
en- states Sunday caused a death list |
that may pass three score, caused a |
property damage reaching maRy mil |
lion dollars and played havoc with
wire and railway service in wide
spread areas. The greatest damage
was In Elgin, Ill. Indiana, Michigan,
Missouri. Ohio, Wisconsin, Alabama
and Georgia suffered heavily as re-
suit of the storm.
Ninety per cent of Chicago's fire
men win walk out unless their de-