The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-03-18
BREYTTIES
AND NATION

AMI /
There will be meeting at the Com
mercia Club tomorrow afternoon
called by the directors for the discus
sion of the Boise-W innemuca Rail
road project. Mr.. Fletcher and c. R
Shaw will speak.
Ross w. Bates who is in the employ
of some Carey act companies at Sho-
shone was in the city yesterday.
Since the beginning of the European
war over $300,0O0O0 worth of horses
have been sold at Caldwell.
DR. Bodle yesterday succeeded DR.
v. c. White as State Veterinarian.
May 10 has been selected by Presi-
dent Wilson as the date for holding
in Washington Pan-American finan-
cial conference.
Federal Judge William H. Seaman
of the United States Circuit Court
Of Appeals, died at Coronado Beach,
California, on March s.
A convention of advocates of teach
ers' and mothers pensions will be held
in San Francisco at the exposition
on July 20, n, p.
The Indiana Legislature on March
sent to the Governor for his sigma
ture a bill placing a prohihitive Ii
cense tax on the trading stamp BUSH
ness.
The Federal Commission on Indus
trial Relations will begin at Dallas,
Texass<on March IS, probe into the
land question.
The Supreme Court of the United
States on March suspended, tempo
rarily, the operation of the state law
of New York against employment of
aliens on public works.
A statewide prohibition amend
ment will be voted on i'll South Da-
kota in 1916. The legislature adopt
ed resolutions providing for it on
March 3.
An explosion in the Layland coal
mines at Hinton, West Virginia, on
March 2 resulted in the death of at
least 90 miners and possibly Of 1l6.
Forty seven men were rescued after
the explosion.
Patrick l.. Ouinlan, convicted of
melting to riot the Paterson, New Jer-
sey, strike of two years ago, began
on March to serve his sentence at
the Trenton penitentiary of from two
to seven years.
On March II, at the Berkeley Thea
ter, New York, was celebrated the
tenth anniversary of the founding of
Mother Earth, published by Emma
Goldman at 20 East 125th street, New
York, and edited by Alexander Berk-
man. Addresses were delivered by
Leonard d. Abbott, Bolton Hall and
Emma Goldman.
Fifteen hundred British vessels,
American Consul Lathrop at Cardiff,
Wales, reports, have been taken over
by the British admiralty on time
charters to supply Britain's armies in
the field. These vessels represent
tonnage of 100000, and the govern
ment agrees to return them in as good
condition as when received.
Under the date of February IS, Sec
rotary of the Navy Daniels wrote to
Fred R. Moore editor of the New
York Age, in regard to treatment of
Negroes enlisted in the navy. Mr..
Daniels said that "They are treated
in all respects the same as other per-
sons in the navy, and that no distinc-
ton is made on account of color"
Governor Clark of Iowa on March
6 signed the woman suffrage amend
ment, which now goes to a popular
vote. Woman suffrage was defeated
in the Texas legislature on the same
day A bill was introduced in the
Illinois legislature on March by
Senator Shaw repeating the woman
suffrage act. The Minnesota senate
defeated the woman suffrage amend
ment on the same day "a to 80.
A debate took place at the German
town Y, M. c. A. in Philadelphia on
February % between Bolton Hall and
Professor w. B. Guthrie of the col
lege of the city of New York, on the
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