The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-23
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in Few Lines.
iNTEaMouNTAlN.

ndNllS Deeu dFE6SIeu Dg the dutHoElIleS
and accused of having seditious liter
ature in their possession, while EN-
ployed on the government reservation
by a construction company.
All but six of the crew of the fishing
ship Manhattan, wrecked off Cape
Spencer, Alaska, have been picked up
by the Alaska Steamship companys
liner Mariposa according to wireless
messages received at Seattle.
Hans Deckendorf, said to be a cou
sin of Count Won Bernstorff, former
German ambassador to the United
States, is in Jail at Tacoma, Wash,
having been arrested by federal Off
GERS while working in logging camp
at Lake Tape, Wash.
In a hotel raid at Seattle, federal
agents and city detectives seized what
are believed to be the complete rec
ords of the Industrial Workers of the
World, covering the activities of that
organization in the Pacific northwest
and $4,000 feet of fuse, such as is used
in operations with explosives.
While thirty indignant citizens of
Boise, Idaho, acted as caustic art crit
les, G. G. Goetling, a farmer living
near that city, was forced to change
the color scheme of big derrick on
mis- place from the German red, white
and black to good United States red,
white and blue, and later to kiss the
American flag.
DOMESTIC.
The first convention of the League
If the Southwest, organized at San
Diego to promote industrial and social
relations of the southwestern states
closed November 16. DR. r. B. Won
kleinsmid, president of the University
Of Arizona, was elected president. Vice
presidents chosen included Governor
Simon Bamberger of Utah, Governor
Julius @. Gunter of Colorado and Gov
ernor William D. Stephens of Cali
fornia.
Paul Altar, his wife and Peter Tsep
tch, Austrians, who were murdered
with an ak as they slept, at Virginia
Mimi, are believed by officials to havt
been killed by fellow countryman be
cause they had subscribed to Libert.
bonds and aided the Red Cross.
Strikes which have impeded con
struction on important government
war plants in Boston and vicinity 70
the past few weeks have been calle
off.
As a demonstration of the loyalty o
Minnesota and the whole northwest
5000 persons, representing ever
county of the state and the other con
monwealths of the territory, gathere
in the auditorium at st. Paul an
affirmed their purpose to stand bac
of the government in it's prosecutio
of the war against Germany.
james 2. Farman of New York
student at the naval air station 3
Miami Fla, probably was fatally hun
in the fall of his aerOplane. He los
control when 500 feet in the air an
the machine plunged into Biscayn
bay.
Pigs sold on November Is on til
Omaha market as high MS sd hun
bred, $3.50 above the top quotation {
markets farther east. This is due
ing harvested in this territory.
The designations of Clifford Pinchc
and E. c. Lassater, Texas Gait
grower, have been accepted as mer
bers of the food administrators o
ganization. They resigned becau'
they differed with administration off
Gals as to how the meat situate
should be handled.
Mayor Smith of Philadelphia h;
been cleared of all connection Wi
the political conspiracy which resultt
in the killing of policeman there {
primary election day.
Denial of rail transportation to mo
than 500 commodities classed as no
essential was recommended to the go
eminent Thursday by the railroad WI
board.
Reinforcements have been rushed
the American troops guarding the be
der near Ysleta, Texas, who were fir,
on by Villa bandits Wednesday. T.
Americans returned the fire, killil
two bandits.
The body of the Rev. Walter
hdSItudn OF lldNEeuce, hdIiS.g inlulSt
in charge of st. Stephens Episcop
church of Wichita, was found by
hunter near Wichita with bullet he
Just below the heart.
Mrs. Red Tomahawk, wife of t
Indian policeman who enjoys the
tinction of having killed the famo
Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, danced h,
self TO death on the Standing Ro
Indian reservation, near Cannon BIZ
S. d.
A government "cOrner' on all silly
produced in the United States with
the next year is planned jointly
American and British officials to p
vent the competition of purchases
other foreign governments from ra
ing prices to the point where COMA
becomes Improbable.