The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-06-16
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD M BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN q Fsw Lines.
rNrERMouNrAIN.

madam army was arrested at Seattle
by special agents of the United States
department OF Justice. charged with
violation OF tie neutrality laws In re.
cruiting m9pfor the American legion
in Seattle.
The Central Trade and Labor coun-
ell at Pocatello, with the backing Of
the affiliated organizations, has en-
gagged the services OF Attorney r. II.
Palmer 20 test the constitutionality
or the poll tax law.
Developing symptoms OF disease,
thought to be either tetanus or
rabies. a horse owned by John Stall
ings, farmer residing at Eden,
Utah, has been locked up In stall
and is there being watched by veteri-
narians.
Six men were killed and seven in
jured when Rio Grande train was
wrecked near Cotton, Utah.
The legislative prohibition law can
not be referred to the voters, under
decision OF the Colorado supreme
court. The decision upholds the ac-
tion Of John Il, Kramer, secretary OF
state, In refusing to receive referen.
dun petition.
Street ears were not operating
Monday In Butte. The strike of the
Workingmen's union has tied up
transportation and miners walked or
rode to their work In jitneys.
DOMESTIC.
Francisco Alvarez and Juan San
chez. villa followers captured during
the raid on Columbus March 8. were
hanged at Deming. N. NJ, Friday
morning The men were hanged
eingly.
An estimate given out by the parade
committee which had charge OF the
suffrage demonstration at Chicago
sets the cost Of the parade at $60.39O
Lieutenant Richard Saufiey, the
naval aviator. was killed Friday when
his machine fell on Santa Rosa island,
says a Pensacola. Fla. dispatch.
Dan w Sale Of Virginia was elected
national president of the Travellers
Protective association OF America at
the closing session OF the national con
vention OF that organization at Lafay-
cite, Ind.
Mrs. Jennie Susanick. So years old,
her husband Frank. and their four
children were found dead at their home
In Chicago. The police believe Susan.
fisk killed his wife and then turned
on the gas and suffocated himself and
the children
A highwayman held up party OF
twelve sightseers In the oil fields east
of Wichita. Kans.. shot to death Miss
Ellen Miller and dangerously wounded
Dorothy Snyder.
Production forecasts OF important
crops based on their condition June /
and issued by the department OF agri-
culture show: Winter wheat. 100000
600 bushels; spring wheat, 100000 900
bushels. and all wheat, $4,000, 900
bushels; oats, 1.255.000.00O bushels.
barley, 1S9,000.000 bushels; rye, A.
100000 bushels: apples, 72O00,O00
bushels; peaches. 100000 bushels,
Freddie Welsh. lightweight cham
pion, outpointed Tommy Lowe Of
Washington in a ten.round bout at
Edmore. Md.
Charles NJ Levey has been elected
president OF the Western Pacific rail
way company. the new corporation
which, under the reorganization plan
approved by the federal court. will
take over ON June 2S the properties
OF the old Western Pacific Railway
company. now in the hands of receiv.
ers.
Strike breakers were employed at
San Francisco on Tuesday for the
first time since the walkout on June
OF longshoremen affiliated with the
Pacific coast district OF the Interna-
tional Longshoremens association.
Gifts aggregating almost 100000
have been received by the University
OF Chicago during the past year,
President Harry Pratt Judson an.
nounced In his annual statement at
the graduation exercises.
F1fty-nine persons are reported
killed and more than hundred In
jured in series of tornadoes which
swept Arkansas, June 5. North Ar
kansas appears to have suffered most
severely.
Reports OF damage done and the
existence Of great numbers of grass
hoppers in northwestern Nebraska
has reached state officials. Sheridan
county crops are especially menaced,
according TO reports.
The Women's Association OF the
Congregational church at Lodi, Cal,
expects to clear a neat sum from the
sale of carload Of old newspapers
they have shipped to the paper mills
at Antioch.
1t is believed 126 persons met death
as result of series of tornadoes
In Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi,
Illinois and Tennessee.
Every state in the Union is repre-