The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-02-23
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from Al
ausrsers Of shs 0lobs and
Given In q Few Lines.
iNTERMouNrAln.

Fsson Gibson n Henry Hall, were
hanged at white Sulphur Springs,
Mont. There was but one scaffold. and
the men were taken out one az a time,
The men were convicted OF killing
and robbing Michael Freeman, a white
farm hand. on q freight train near
Judith Gap. October 0 last.
Clothed with the authority conferred
by the state legislature. Governor
Hamburger Of Utah has suspended
from office w. J.. Lynch, secretary Of
the state land board. and Fred w.
Chambers. state nsh and game com
missioner. pending the Investigation
OF the records OF those departments.
A bone dry bill prohibiting the
importation or sale OF alcoholic liquor.
except for sacramental, medicinal or
mechanical purposes. which recently
passed the Oregon house. passed the
senate February IA and 10 goes 20
the governor for his signature. II
will go into effect June 10.
A decree Of foreclosure has been
entered against the Colorado Midland
railroad IA favor OF the Central Trust
company OF New York. trustee for
the bondholders.
Mrs. Julia A. sager was killed and
nine other persons were injured. n
probably fatally, In an automobile
collision ct Denver.
The ight@ to abolish the public utiii-
ties commission before the Idaho leg.
islature was lost when the senate yot-
ed 70 ~sndennitely postpone the bill.
The governor Of Utah has signed
the prohibition bin. and Utah will he
dry" after August /. 1917, The
measure II one OF the most drastic
ever adopted.
DOMESTIC.
A robber strolled leiaureiy into the
First National bank al University
place. a Lincoln. Ncb., suburb. ut
noon. There was no one In the bank
out the president, Tho robber secured
$500 Ia currency and made his es-
cape.
The railroads of the United States
have Informed President Wilson that
the OF their organizations
are at the disposal Of the government
In the event OF war.
Charged with aendlng out a false
IS. o. s.. message. We are sinking
William y. Eckhoff. a ~i6-yearold
Brooklyn grocer boy. with a wireless
apparatus ON the roof Of his home. was
arFested and held In $500 bail.
The seamen's law was upheld as
valid by Federal District Judge Erwin
in a decision announced at Mobile.
Ala, which az far as Ii known. IA the
first constituting the constltutionality
OF the act.
News print paper manufacturers,
facing criminal prosecution In United
States courts for alleged combination
In restraint OF trade. have proposed
% the federal trade commission that
Il fix a reasonable price for the cut.
pat Of the principal plants OF the
United States and Canada.
The south Carolina Legislature has
parsed a bin prohibiting liquor ad.
y~ertisements In newspapers and pc
riodicals. or In any other form. in this
state.
Official announcement Ii made that
Halifax is TO be made an examining
port for neutral vessels crossing the
Atlantic eastbound, Whether ships
coming west also VIII have TO can al
Halifax has not been determined.
Jesus Pas. the ~lt.year-old villa sol
der who was captured by the Amer
leans during the Columbus raid and
the only surviving member Of the
band OF villa prisoners brought e
Deming. N. NJ. vas taken to Aibu
queruue Thursday TO be placed in al
orphan asylum there.
The inquiry ordered by the depart
ment Of justice to ascertain whethel
there is a combination or conspirac!
among manufacturers OF news prin
paper 10 limit production n increas'
prices. in violation of the crimina
sections OF the sherman antitrust Law
began before a special federal gran
jury at New York February is.
Women of Monroe, Wis, who cor
ferrcd on the high cost of living d.
cided that they will institute an Iris
potato fast unless the price of tuber
uSctAheu DIT once.
Elliott Cowdin. the first America
aviator to return home since the brea
eff with Germany. has offered b
services to the United States in cas-
of war.
Count ]. H. von Bernstorff, form,
German ambassador to the Unite
States, sailed for home on Februal
IA aboard the Scandlnayian-Americs
Liner Frederick VIII. With him we
the Countess Won Bernstorff and nea
ly 200 German diplomatic and co
sular officials.
Two masked men held up the We
iake branch of the Home Savings bal
at Los Angeles and escaped with abe
$4,000. F. H. Sanders, teller, and
G Rowland ho0LtraaDar 49, g..