The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-12-21
NEWS OF 4 WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in Few Lines
lNrERMounrAin.

senator Brady 81 Idaho has intro
dueed bills appropriating $4,000 for
the purpose III completing the big Fort
Hall Irrigation project near pocatelio
aud authorizing the creation of town.
sites on the reservation,
The Seattle city council BY n vote
q 8 70 s, declined - adopt q rcsoiu-
fion containing impeachment charges
against Mayor Hiram G. Gill
Governor IIoux 81 wyoming has IS.
sued estraditlon papers for George NJ.
Mcdonald, promoter Of . string Of pri-
waite bunRs III four wyoming counties,
who disappeared last September after
three OF his bnnks had been closed by
the state examiner. Mcdonald has
been located Ia san francisco.
II cost the state Of Idaho Sas5 per
capita 70 forward % environment
camps for training 10 the new national
army total u 2l0s men.
There win be no Increase IA the
price of coal ID Utah unless evidence
ndduced nt Il public hearing IA Salt
Lake q sufficient 20 convince the state
fuei administrator aud The federal fuel
administrator that all advance Is justi
fed.
Nndc Hamilton, negro, who Il few
hours before had been held to the dis.
triet court for attaching three white
women ut Blairtnwn, near Rock
Springs wyo., was taken from Jail and
iynched on December H.
p0MEgytC
For the first time Ia history, the
Chicago, Milwaukee n Sc Paul rail-
read ON December II suspended trains
on account " shortage Of conl.
Frelghts bound enst were annuled and
other traffic was cut down or delayed
Homes and Industries Ia New York |
are confronted with the most serious |
coal shortage IN the city's history be-
cause u Inability % get supplies across
the river on barges from New Jersey |
tidewafcr points, where thousands of |
tons are lcebound.
Two 'llghtless nights" week have |
been ordered hy the fuel adminlstra-
ton Sunday and Thursday of every
week win see the city white ways and |
snry street lights used and only such
lights as the law requires Ia offices
ana stores not open Tor business,
A SiO0.OOO,OOO Liberty loan for the
restoration u the Jewish state hi PAT
estiue ~ proposed Ia statement IS
sued az New York BIS Harry Fischel,
treasurer Of the central committee for
the relief Of Jews suffering through
the war
A sentence 0f i've years IN the peni
Tertiary at Jefferson City has been i'm.
posed on Mrs. Kate Richards 0'lIare,
convicted OF making utternnccs Ia u
speech ~ Bowman, \. T.. last summer
tending to discourage obedience 70 the
military registration,
John Johnnnsen, helmsman on, the
Norwegian steamer limo, the Belgian
relief ship. whose collision with the
ammunition steamer Mont Blame. led
d the disaster at Halifax. has been
detained as a German spy suspect
Tho United states guard win be the
name 81 the 26,000 auxiliary force Of
troops authorized by the war depart
mem "a supplement- state and other
forces now guarding war supplies and
doing police duty essential 70 the con.
duet u the war
Board ~ Commerce officials esti.
m0ted that plants employing upward
~ 10000 persons may have to shut
down cutirety ana many other fac-
tories must curtaU operations II heavy
coal shipments are not received Ia DE
troit Rt once.
Prompted hy attacks on the Red
Cross IA Long Beach Cal. by Rev. w
81 Biederwolt and hints Of German
propaganda Ia Long Beach, the city
council u defense has declared Itself
unanimously ga favor Of the infection
Of the death penalty upon German
sples la the Unlted states aud dis
loyallsts Of Prusslan lineage, but Of
American birth
The toll OF death resulting from the
explosion Vt the munitions ship Mont
Blame Ia Halifax harbor has been OF
neialiy fixed al l226, Including idensl-
hcd and unidentified bodies aud the
missing
Martial law win be declared Ia Min.
ncapolis and 81. Paul in case the
threatened sympathetic strike Of ap,
proximately 10000 union men In the
twin cities develops situation that
the county sheriHs are unable 10 cope
with.
Governor James NJ. Cox has branded
the agitation for coal for the north
west while Ohio literally was being
starved 20 death. as an ''unspeukub,e
outrage declaring he had discovered
Il was move 10 enable coal opera,
tors 20 get prices higher than those
fixed by President Wilson under the
fuel control iay.
Ten sons from the home ~ Mr.. and
Mrs 5. g. Ball Of Vancouver have
been killed ia action during the war
Mrs Ball. a widow. with 1--WE sous. was
f..H "a ssag a.