The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-12-01


only clerk in the place. and escaped
with $4,000 worth of diamonds, after
locking the clerk in the vault.
Wholesale arrests OF food specular
tors and price manpulators by the
city of Chicago as a means Of reliev-
ing the present high cost OF living IS
urged by john H. Lally, assistant Unit
ed States district attorney.
A recess of two weeks has been re-
quested by the Mexican members of
the Mexican-American joint commits
sion at Atlantic City, ~ j., to give
them an opportunity to lay before
General Carranzs the proposals form
ulated by the Americans for border
control.
The physical valuation Of the New
Orleans, Texas G. Mexico railway, an
nounced by the interstate commerce
commission. places the cost Of repro
duction at $685. The road is
capitalized at s4O,93S,031.
WASHINGTON.
Breadstuffs shipments to Europe.
continue to decline, a department Of
commerce statement discloses, al
though meat and dairy products are
leaving the United States in increas-
ingly quantities.
Population Of continental United
States on January !, 1917. viii be 1O2,-
$4,000 and with Its outlying posses
sions 1I3,309. 2s5, the census bureau
estimates. upon the increase as shown
by the federal census of 1900 and 1910.
Another appeal from the Belgi21
government for American influence
against the deportation of BeIgians to
work in Germany was handed to the
state department Friday by Minister
| Hayenith.
Nationwide prohibition was urged
on congress by the National Grange in
resolutions adopted which asked spe-
cifically that the District of Columbia
be included in any national prohibit
tion legislation.
High wages ashore and the increas-
ed cost Of living have seriously ham
pered navy recruiting, Rear Admiral
MCGOWAN, paymaster general, told
the house naval committee, in expla-
nation of why there are only about 55.-
| 600 enlisted men in the service, al
though congress has authorized a to-
tai strength of 77,0O0
FOREIGN.
Rumors that there was a possibility
for some definite negotiations towards
peace We're discounted Friday by Lord
Robert Cecil, minister OF war trade, at
London.
The sale of wool or sheepsKlns has
been prohibited in Australia without
the permission Of the prime minister,
according to a Melbourne dispatch.
The minister of war has introduced
bill in the Frenrh chamber of depu-
ties by which all persons exempted
from military service or mustered out
as physically unfit, prior TO April l.
1916. must submit to further medical
examination.
Alexander Trepoff, Russian minis
ter of railways, has been appointed
premier. according to a Reuter- dis
patch from Petrograd.
Two hundred female textile workers
have been deported from Client by the
1
port emanating from an authoritative
source.
Reuters Telegram company says it
learns no answer has yet been return
ed to the application for a safe con-
duct of the new Austrian ambassador
TO the United States, made by Wash
ington. 1t adds that in all probabili-
ty the reply will be unfavorable
The Greek royalist troops have re-
fused TO evacuate Katerina, as de-
manded by the entente authorities
and General Sarrail, in command Of
the entente forces, has warned the
government at Athens that unless an
order for Immediate evacuation is Civ
en- he will proceed TO use force
The Greek government has refused
TO comply with the demand of the
entente allies for the surrender of a
part Of its supplies of arms and am
muniIion, Reuters Athens correspond
ent cables.
: The new Austrian ruler is said to
have issued proclamation to the Aus
tro-Hungarians declaring his inflexible
/ decision to maintain the war until a
peace assuring the existence and de-
velopment of the monarchy" Ia
reached.
: Three times on November %, Fran
cisco Villa attacked the first line
trenches which defend Chihuahua City
: and three times he was repulsed,
} leaving his dead and wounded on the
plains outside of the city to the south.
Albert Edward Kemp of parliament
for East Toronto. who has been minis
ter without portfolio in the Borden
cabinet since its formation in 1911,
: has assumed the office OF minister of
I militia and defense, succeeding Lieu.
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