The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-12-07
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al!
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
INTERMouNrAIN.

Tcted of criminal syndicalism and
sabotage. He is J. Otis Ellis, SEN
fenced to serve from one to fourteen
years at hard labor for attempting to
influence laboring men to strike and
damage property unless paid the wages
they demanded.
Resolutions calling upon the city
council to impeach Mayor Hiram Gill
because of his alleged laxity in sup
pressing vice were adopted at a mass
meeting that filed a large theater at
Seattle.
Emil Koski, Finnish miner, who it is
alleged, has been uttering seditious re-
marks, fired fusillade of shots at the
liberty" committee, which was seek
ing to arrest him at Red Lodge, Mont
Koski then turned his rifle upon Mrs.
Anna Jackson, landlady of the hotel
where he stayed, and killed her.
Desire of the Circola Studi Social,
an alleged pro-German-Italian anar-
hcistic organization, to cripple Ameri-
cas- war plans, led it to distribute
propaganda and send out agitators to
give false warnings to American house
wives that the federal food administra-
ton planned to seize their canned
fruits jellies and other stored food
stuffs, according to Seattle officers.
An American flight lieutenant, Pat
rick O'Brien, native of Seattle,
Wash, who had been flying with the
British for year, and who was taken
prisoner on the western front by the
Germans two months ago, arrived in
London on Wednesday, after escaping
from German prison camp.
Representatives of fourteen civic or
CARNATIONS decided by unanimous vote
at conference at Seattle to call q
mass meeting of citizens which will be
asked to petition the city council to i'm
peach Mayor Hiram @. Gill.
DOMESTIC.
Hunting fatalities for the season of
1917 were cut down to twenty-three
known eases, as compared with eighty
six in 1916 and fifty-nine in 1915, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
Chicago Tribune. There were only
eleven seriously injured this year, as
compared with forty-one in 1916 and
sixty-six in 1915.
Six thousand bushels of potatoes
which had been lying in Youngstown,
Ohio railroad yards until in danger
of decay were seized and placed on
sale by the local administration COM
mittee.
Profits of about 100000 on an in
vestment of 100000 were made by
one beet sugar refinery in southern
California last year while beet grow
ers lost money, according to a tele-
gram sent TO President Wilson and
Food Administrator Hoover.
A. A. Blender, 40 years of age, a
wealthy farmer, living near Benedict,
Neb., was shot to death by Louis Cho-
bar an employee. Chobar then bound
and gagged his own wife, housekeeper
on the farm, and escaped in Blenders
automobile,
Charles Robel, manager of Lord Lis
ter hospital, Omaha, was killed near
Oakland. Iowa, when car in which
the parents and six brothers and sis
tiers of the dead man We're driving ran
into the ditch because of heavy fog
and overturned.
ten-inch bomb with an unlighted
fuse, was found on the window ledge
at the police station at Detroit. The
city chemist said it contained a suffl-
cient quantity of powder TO have
wrecked the building.
Eight American deserters have been
discovered to be in Juarez, Mexico,
and an effort is being made to have
them turned over to the military
authorities here by the Mexican Off
Gals. Two of the men were said to
be of German descent.
Eighteen miners were imprisoned in
coal mine at Christopher, ILL.,, follow
ing an explosion. The explosion
wrecked the main shaft and the air
shaft.
Mobiliza ton of the tugs and tow,
honts of the great lakes along the At
Iontic coast for the winter months to
lid in relieving freight congestion by
greater use of the inland waterways
and of barges, has been proposed by
Secretary Baker.
Albert Dunlap of West Liberty
Iowa, shot ana killed MS vie 'lhu A-tiu
self. He was released from Jail tive
days previous and had just returned
home.
The police have no clew to the
donble murder mystery revealed in g
cheap hotel at San Francisco by
chambermaid who found the bodies OF
two men, one strangled to death anc
tbo other with his throat cut and his
hands tied to a bed post
Federal Judge Lands, in a speech
delivered at the Anshe Sholem syna
goaue in Chicago under the auspices
Of the state council for defense
charged Mayor Thompson with being
traitor and of trying to become
limited States senator through disloya
votes