The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-02-22
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
ouartera Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
iNTgRMouNTAIN.

q Three negroes, Leslie Fahley, Ha
rison Gibson and Henry Hall, wer
4 hanged at White Sulphur Spring.
Mont. There was but one scaffold, an
the men were taken out one at timt
The men were convicted of KILN
and robbing Michael Freeman, a whit
farm hand, on freight train nea
Judith Gap, October s last.
Clothed with the authority conrerret
by the state legislature, GoYernoi
Hamburger OF Utah has suspende,
from office w. ]. Lynch, secretary o
the state land board, and Fred w
Chambers, state fish and game com
missioner, pending the investigation
or the records of those departments
A bone dry" bill prohibiting the
importation or sale of alcoholic liquor
except for sacramento, medicinal OF
mechanical purposes, which recently
passed the Oregon house, passed the
senate February IA and now goes to
the governor for his signature. It
will go into effect June TO-
A decree of foreclosure has been
entered against the Colorado Midland
railroad In favor of the Central Trust
company of New York, trustee for
the bondholders.
Mrs. Julia A. Sager was killed and
nine other persons we're injured, one
probably fatally, In an automobile
collision at Denver.
The fight to abolish the public utili-
ties commission before the Idaho leg
islature was lost when the senate vot-
cd to indefinitely postpone the bill.
The governor of Utah has signed
the prohibition bill, and Utah will be
dry" after August /, 1917. The
measure is one of the most drastic
ever adopted.
DOMESTIC.
A robber strolled leisurely into the
First National bank at University
place, Lincoln, Neb., suburb, at
noon. There was no one In the bank
but the president The robber secured
$4,000 in currency and made his es-
cape.
The railroads of the United States
have informed President Wilson that
the resources Of their organizations
are at the disposal of the government |
in the event of war.
Charged with sending out a false
IS. o. s." message, I'VE are sinking"
William f. Eckhoff, a 16-year-old
Brooklyn grocer boy, with a wireless
apparatus on the roof of his home, was
arrested and held in $500 bail.
The seamen's law was upheld as
valid by Federal District Judge Erwin
in a decision announced at Mobile.
Ala, which as far as is known, is the
first constituting the constitutionality
Of the act.
News print paper manufacturers,
facing criminal prosecution in United
States courts for alleged combination
in restraint of trade, have proposed
10 the federal trade commission that
Il fix reasonable price for the out
put of the principal plants of the
United States and Canada
The South Carolina legislature has
)assed a bill prohibiting liquor ad- :
in newspapers and pc l
or in any other form, in this
tate. Z
Official announcement is made that
Halifax Is to be made an examining
'ort for neutral vessels crossing the
atlantic eastbound. Whether ships
oming west also will have to call at {
Halifax has not been determined.
Jesus Pas, the 14-year-old Villa sol
Ter who was captured by the Amer =
cans during the columbus raid and q
he only surviving member of the U
and of Villa prisoners brought to q
'eming, N. NJ was taken to Albu. U
uerque Thursday to be placed in an
rphan asylum there. h
The inquiry ordered by the depart it
lent of justice to ascertain whether fC
lere is combination or conspiracy ii
mong manufacturers of news print II
aper to limit production and increase So
rices, in violation of the criminal
sctions OF the sherman antitrust law. L,
egan before special federal grand NJ
Try at New York February Is. N
"ohVu VI MONROE, WIS, VINO con- or
FRED on the high cost of living de- re
ded that they will institute an Irish
'tato fast unless the price of tubers -,
'clined at once. ~
Elliott Cowdn. the first American 90
'iator TO return home since the break izo
with Germany, has offered his 90
rviees to the United States in case Nv
war.
Count ], II. Won Bernstorff, former
lrman ambassador to the United 40,
ates, sailed for home on February mo
aboard the northumberland 80,
ner Frederick VIII. With him were 90,
Countess Won Bernstorff and near al,
200 German diplomatic and con.
lar officials.
Two masked men held up the West an
Re branch of the Home Savings bank ide
Los Angeles and escaped with about ing
SEQ. F. II, S@iders, teller, and w. wa
Rowland, bookkeeper, were forced fail
0 the vault at the point of a revol- Dor
lbel
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