The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-06-09
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMoUNTAIN.

~. AchlI, duOCH6r Armenian, IN the
mine clubhouse following war argu-
ment, which developed into fight.
Anticipating a walkout on the part
of laborers on jobs declared unfair
at meeting of the Workingmen's
union at Butte, the employers turned
every industrial plant, outside of the
mining industry together with all con-
struction work, is closed.
Large quantities of sugar beet seed
shipped from Vladivostok, Russia, for
the use of the American farmers have
begun to arrive at Seattle.
Seven persons were injured in de-
railment of Denver & Rio Grande pas
senger train No. 2, three miles west
of Grand Valley, Colo. Five cars were
derailed.
Albert B. Rockhill, 4S years of age,
and his son, Milton Rockhill, IL years
of age, of Salt Lake, and Joseph Clark,
aged %, of Springville, Utah, were
killed when the Rockhill automobile
turned turtle near American Fork,
Utah.
Warnings to farmers and ranchers
in the mad coyote districts to go
armed in their fields and to keep an
eye out for the protection of their
children have been issued by the
Utah state board of health.
Two large companies operating in
the tungsten field, says Boulder,
Colo, dispatch, have decided to or
ganize to protect the camps from an
apparently organized band of high
graders, who are said to be respon-
sible for the disappearance of from
$4,000 to 100000 worth of highgrade
ore monthly.
DOMESTIC.
The report that soldiers whose
three-year terms have expired will be
held in the army indefinitely under
the reserve provisions of their enlist
ments, has been confirmed by Gen
George Bell at Fort Bliss.
Teaching deaf person to sing, a
feat which hitherto generally has
been considered impossible, has been
accomplished by Mrs. Christian Born,
wife of Columbus, Ohio, brewer,
after weeks of experimenting with
Maedalene Sattler, an 1S-year-old
Cleveland student at the state school
for the deaf.
President Wilson Unexpectedly
made an address to the naval acad
envy graduates at the commencement
exercises at Annapolis, declaring
that great responsibilities rest on
naval officers of the United States.
Bouck White, pastor of the Church
of the Social Revolution, in New York
City, who participated in the burning
of the American flag and other ma
tional emblems in the rear of his
of special sessions of desecrating the
American emblem and was sentenced
to thirty days in the penitentiary ant
TO pay a fine of $1,000.
Despite the threatening tone Of
General Carranza's last note, his mil
itary forces in Chihuahua state are
being disposed in general accord witt
the plan disclosed by General Obre
gon during his conference at El Past
with Generals Scott and Funston.
Frank Moran and Jack Dillon, con
tenders for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world, have beer
matched to box in Brooklyn on the
night of June 49,
warrant for Samuel E. Graham Of
Kansas City, charging embezzlement
of $4,000 from the mutual benefit de
partment of the National Association
of Letter Carriers, has been issued
Graham is letter carrier, treasurer
Of the department, and has been il
The postoffice service twenty-five
years.
Senator Smoot, of Utah, who ar
rived in Chicago on June l, is quoted
as saying he saw no chance of Jus
tice Hughes being defeated for thu
presidential nomination.
Francisco Dominguez, notoriou
Mexican bandit, was killed in an en-
counter with two Texas rangers nea
Pulvo, Texas.
The first Joint conference between
representatives of the railroads o
the United States and their conduct
prs, trainmen, engineers and hremel
on differences over working hours AM
wages, began at New York. June
In executive session. 1t is predicte
that three weeks will elapse befor
an agreement is reached.
The police have branded the Sc
called attempted assassination
Colonel Roosevelt at Kansas City as
hoax" the work of certain new
takers, carefully rehearsed in advance
The flow of immigration into tn
United States, at one time halted b
the European war, shows greater IL
crease toward normal with each sue
eeeding month.
Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles of Lo
Angeles was elected president OF tn
General Federation of Women's clubs
At the New York session, defeatin