Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-12-09
MONDAY.

FIChCH anu IoIitlSA tIO0pS dCIIOn
with Italians on the Piave front
Fighting on huge. scale continues at
Cambria. with Germans on tho often
sive.
Treasury department announces sill
YER output will be bought by govern
ment.
salem.
Supreme court holds deposit in Bank
OF Nampa to be trust fund.
Lawyers OF state asked to assist in
second draft.
for writ Of habeas corpus to FREQ o.
v. Allen.
Coal shortage reported at Murphy
and Silver City.
Notice given draft men may enlist in
army and navy up to Dec. Is.
Pure food commissioner declares
egg savers are fraud.
TUESDAY.
President Wilson delivers address to
congress. asking that war be declared
on Austria Hungary. and declaring
America is in the war to finish.
Announced that American engineers
and doctors participated in fighting at
Cambria.
Chairman Of state council defense
| declares just one thing after another
may be expected while war in prog
| ress.
Organize state Red Cross for new
members with E. w. Dewey in charge.
War department declines to permit
national guard to be organized in state.
but favors home guard.
Old Allen dummy loan Is cause Of
suit to recover Judgment.
Ten cent bread authorized sold In
Boise instead Of 18-cent loaf.
WEDNESDAY,.
Interstate commerce commission
places special report before congress
urging unification Of the country's
lines for period Of the war.
Germans open desperate attempt to
force British back from the newly won
ground Ground Cambria.
Secretary McAdoo in report to con-
gress estimates cost Of war for United
States to June 80, 1918. at i2.s16.-
2sb, 900.
Figures issued showing total cost of
first draft in Idaho.
Announcement made radio night
classes to be held at high school for
draft men.
Judge Davis brings prisoner to state
| penitentiary.
| Statute Of limitations said to run
against crime committed by o. v. AL
| len.
THURSDAY.
| French munitions shop Mont Blanc
sunk in Halifax harbor in collision
with Belgian relief ship limo. Whole
water front destroyed and fire spreads
over entire city. Two thousand killed
five thousand injured and twenty
| thousand homeless.
German air fleet of Is planes at
tacks London and Kent; two brought
down.
Germans capture Graincourt, An
neux and Noyelles in the Cambria re.
gion, forcing British back two miles.
Austro-Ger forces bring W
thousands of guns for assault on Ital-
ians; defenders give ground slightly
Agreement for the suspension OF hos
tiIities from the Black seas to the
Baltic reached until Dec. II reached by
Russians and Germans.
Provost marshal general instructs
It is up to draft men to know orde,
number and keep posted.
Mystery over fire which destroyed
main building Of Lewiston state nor.
NAL school
i Attorney general says public utili-
ties cannot collect war tax on public
business.
American express company an
nounces 1t will deliver orders for money
to Russia Poland
Callahan in new complaint alleges
wife after his millions.
Boise bank merger abandoned afteI
directors meet.
Gillum- Mckay boxing match a draw
FRIDAY.
Congress declares war on Austria
Hungary.
! Cold weather adds to suffering OF
survivors OF Halifax disaster.
i British hold lines in Cambria region
In face of terrific German assaults.
Six attacks by Austro- German ar.
mics checked by the allies.
Rumanions sign truce with Russians
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