The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-19
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAIN.

position because of his pacitist views.
Through the delayed explosion of a
smoke bomb at TT. Douglas, Utah, Pri-
vate William ID. Shugart was so Sc
riously burned about the head and face
that he may be blinded for life.
Ten thousand farmers, represented
by the state farm bureau of Utah,
telegraphed assurance of their sup
port In food conservation to the ma
tlonal food administrator IN October
{, through w. w. Armstrong, federal
food administrator for Utah.
Additional army training camps will
probably be located In the west, 1t be-
came known with the issuance of an
order from the western department of
the army to Major Richard Park, corps
of engineers, to investigate sites at
Hackstaff, Cal. Reno and Tobar,
New; Boise, Idaho; Umatllla and
Warm Springs, Ore, and at Tenino.
In broad daylight burglars entered
O Salt Lake rooming house and car
ried away a safe containing $500 in
gold and currency and diamonds val
ued at more than $3.50.
Mrs. Edna Gregory of Portland was
convicted by a jury in the federal court
of having sent candy containing pois-
through the mails to Mrs. Carter.
Mrs. Gregory was said to have con
fessed to officers who arrested her,
but at the trial she repudiated the al
legged confession.
A strike in Seattle's wooden ship
yards, called September IA, in sym
pathy with the efforts of timber
workers to obtain an eight-hour day,
was called off in response to a tele-
gram from Secretary of Labor Wilon,
uring the men to take this course.
DOMESTIC.
Herbert Wood and Leo Keane were
found guilty of the murder of Scott
Clark, Il negro, who died as the result
Of injuries received in the recent race
riots in East st. Louis, and the PEN
atty was fixed at fourteen years inn
prisonment.
A regiment Of Oklahoma Indians
may be one of the American fighting
units in France, $50 or more drafted
notwithstanding Indians are to be
transferred to the First Oklahoma ma
tional guard regiment, which already
has a considerable number of Indians
In It's ranks.
Mayors throughout Ohio are prepar.
ing to seize coal to prevent suffering
which is becoming widespread.
Cleveland is to become the head
quarters of a new organization, "The
Fathers and Brothers of Our Soldiers
and Sailors" being formed. The or
ganization proposes to supplement- the
work of the Red Cross among depend
ents of the country's fighters and is
intended TO become nationwide.
Walter Clark, a negro, who muir.
dered his wife in their home at Dan
vile, Va, and afterward b~arricaded
himself in a house, where he shot and
killed Il policeman who attempted to
arrest him, and then probably fatally
wounded Deputy Sheriff Boisseau, was
killed when he attempted to escape
from the building in which he hat
taken refuge.
New York City received its first sup
ply of water from the Catskill noun
tains on October II, when Mayor
Mitchell accepted a fountain in tn,
northern reservoir of Central park an(
turned on the flow that will give New
Workers 300,000,00o more gallons daily
The fountain has five Jets, and th,
pressure from the Catskill aqeduc
throws a stream 1t5 feet in the air.
Nine baking firms and nine member
of individual firms were found gull
" by a jury at Los Angeles on
charge of conspiring TO fix bread price
In violation OF the terms of the stat
antitrust law.
, II Progreso, an Italian newspape
|, published In New York, received
cablegram from its special correspond
eut,at Rome on October II stating tina
thirteen Austrian submarines hav.
been sunk in the Adriatic during tn
last few weeks. The dispatch give
no details.
Captain Franz o Papen, forme
ettuche Of the German embassy Il
Washington, who Is now in Europe
! and seventeen other men we're ludlct
ca October n by a federal grand jur,
at New York. They are charged Wit
placing bombs In the Lusitania am
/, many other ships In 1915.
|, City officials OF Akron sent al
armed force OF special officers 10 selz
!. coal I'm the PENNSYLVANIA raiIwa,
yards, The railroad had armed mc-
guarding the coal, They were out
numbered by the special officers am
offered no resistance, Three cars o
coal We're cuntlscated.
Mayor Thomas II. Smith OF phila
delphta, has been held In $4,000 bal
20 await the action OF the grand jur,
on six charges growing out OF tn
murder by imported gunme of a pc
licemau In the Fifth ward on prlmar,
election day.