The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-30
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsr
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from Al!
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
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James Hamilton Peabody, governor
of Colorado during the "Cripple Creek
strike in 1903, when there were a
number of clashes between the state
troops and the strikers and their sym
pathizers, died November %, at Den
Yer. Mr.. Peabody was IS years of age.
He had been i'll several months.
Industrial Workers of the World are
summoned to meeting in Frederick,
Colo, a coal mining town near Den
yer, to spread discomfort in the north
ern Colorado coal fields" in notice
turned over to the office of the federal
fuel administrator for Colorado by of
ficers of the National Fuel company,
who said the notice had been posted at
one of their mines near Frederick.
Three men are dead and four 9TH
ers are suffering from injuries as the
result Of a wreck on the main line
of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Rail-
way company at Fairyiew, Idaho, two
engines colliding.
Seven gallons of ''moonshine" were
discovered in a raid on an Austrian's
humble abode in Tooele, Utah. With
the liquor was found the complete STILL
crudely made of large milk can, a
barrel and pieces of pipe.
Fifty thousand Chinese are needed
in Washington by fruitgrowers and
farmers, according to DR.. G. Luther of
North Yakima, who addressed the
fruitgrowers' conference held at Spo-
kane in connection with the national
apple show.
DOMESTIC.
A fine of $4,000 day, effective No
vember %, was imposed on the Texas
& Pacific Railroad company by the
Louisiana railroad commission for
every day on which the road fails to
operate all it's trains.
Oklahoma coal operators are threat
ened by Fuel Administrators Garfield
with government seizure and operation
of their mines if they permit produc-
ton to halt pending action on their
demand for higher prices.
A concerted countrywide effort to
round up fake" British army officers
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American public in many ways, is to
be made by British army officials now
in New York.
Eventual government pooling and
sale of all the coal mined in the United
States was seen as a possibility in the
fuel administration approval of a
producers pool just formed at Cleye-
l., n oh rlt,1 DO Of
mines in Ohio, West Virginia, part
of Pennsylvania and perhaps Tennes-
see and Kentucky. Creation of other
pools will be encouraged.
Complete agreement between the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com
pany, its employees and the federal me
diation commission, headed by Secre-
tary of Labor William B. Wilson, was
reached Thursday at San Francisco
and the telephone strike settled.
Speaking at Buffalo, n. u, former
President William H. Taft said that
the League to Enforce Peace, of which
he is president, SIS firmly committed to
the accomplishment of the objects OF
the world war as the allied nations see
them.
George Wilkes, 81 years old, we'll
TODD farmer, was shot and killed in
his home near Verona. Mo. The as
sassin, who fired through window, es,
capped. When Mrs. Wilkes attempted
to telephone the authorities she dis
covered the wires had been cut.
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Industrial Savings bank at Chicago
which failed for 100000 last summer
was convicted of receiving deposits
after he knew the bank to be insoiv
ent, and was sentenced to three years
Imprisonment.
Selection of a jury for the trial OF
thirty-four persons charged with hav
ing conspired to foment a military UP
rising in India for the purpose of EN-
barrassing the British government has
been completed at San Francisco.
Sentence of twenty years in the fed
eral prison at Atlanta has been I'm
posed on Tony Petroshki, of Norwich
Conn, convicted by court-martial FOL
failure to report at Aver, Mass, VIII
other drafted men from his district.
Lassen peak, in recent years thu
only active volcano in the Unite'
States. is dying, according to repor
brought to Redding, Cal, by men Wit
have Just made the ascent of TIL
mountain. Its cauldron, that for thre'
years had elected steam, boulders an'
hot mud, is fast turning into cavern
of ice.