Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-20

Harris made herself heard above the
cries. Clinching her fists above her
head. her eyes turned upward. ana
glfstening. she appealed for silence.
lust for moment"
Police pleaded with the women. but
they grew gradually more and more
hysterical. A newspaperman who was
in the crowd OF reporters. volunteered
his services and he mounted the
steps.
Go on home" he told them in Yid-
dish. THE mayor has promised to
see you tomorrow. He is for YOU He
wants to do all he can for the peo-
ple.''
who are your they asked.
What do you represent"
They cheered him loudly when ho
informed them he represented q Jew
ish newspaper.
BREAKS OUT AFREsH.
Just as they were scattering out UNI
der the urging Of the police they
caught sight of Marie CAM. being
loaded into patrol wagon and the
riot broke out afresh.
The forward groups, being urged
over toward Park Row. began TO yell
and make dash across city hall place
for the patrol wagon; while the other
groups surged away from city hall
steps and hurried to join the chase.
They took time as they ran to shake
their fists and cry:
I'VE want food"
Give us milk"
I'VE are starving!"
RiIt ho s<r toht a. he
| tween the raiding women and the black
patrol wagon directly in front of
| Brooklyn bridge. and the rush degen-
| Grated into a free for all fight between
the women, the police. movie men and
! reporters. on whom the women began
to vent their wrath.
SMILED At CROWD.
Meantime the patrol wagon whizzed
away. the women yelling and shaking
their fists after IT, and Sweet Mari
CAM waving a handkerchief and smil-
ing at the crowd from the back door
of the fast disappearing wagon.
| After the brief skirmish in the park
space between the city hall. Park row
and Brooklyn bridge, which followed
this, with the general crowd breaking
through the police lines and taking
part, the women surged down Center
street past the Tombs and on toward
police headquarters. with police, mount
ed and on foot, galloping along beside
them. A crowd Of thousands of men.
women and children trailed excitedly
in their wake.
SERIES OF RIOTS.
The drastic action to reduce the cost
OF food in New York followed riots in
three Of New Yorks congested tene-
ment districts. Push carts were strip
ped, overturned and burned by frantic
| women.
In the Williamsburg section on Long
Island the open air market was wreck
ed and dealers hid behind barred and
locked doors. Police reserves battled
TO restore order. The riot followed /,
sudden jump in the price Of onions and
potatoes.
In the Brownsville section and on
the east side of Manhattan there were
food riots almost as serious.
! WOMEN STARTED TROUBLE.
The trouble was started in Williams
burg when woman, unable to pay the
price demanded for onions, put her
shoulder to the push cart and tipped
it over. In minute hundreds Of wo-
men We're scrambling for the pota
| toes and onions.
Two thousand residents of one dis
| trict assembled in mass meeting to
hear the peddlers' side of the case One
man declared he made but 20 cents
| on barrel of potatoes that cost him
! $40.
| The dealers charged they were al
! lowed to purchase at one time from
only two cars OF potatoes, when IL
were on the tracks.
| A boycott, in which women OF these
districts will agree to buy no more on
| ions or potatoes until the price goes
down, and in which the dealers will
agree not to purchase any more, seems
| probable.
Commissioner Of Weights and Mea-
sures Tartigan planned today to send
to state departments Of food and mar
kets, or other state officials through
out the Union a letter urging that food
shipments to this city be increased
His letter asks for particulars re-
garding producers. growers. dairy pro-
ducts. canneries. shippers and handlers
of food and manufactured products.
Prices OF foods, not only In the push
cart, but in every section of the city,
have advanced tremendously. The diff
ference in the prices of some vege-
tables is shown in the following:
1917 1915
String beans, pound SOC 20 to 40c
Lima beans pound $500. .40c 20 to 30c
Spinach, pound .........25c 6 to Sc
White cabbage, pound ....l5c to Sc
White squash, each ......15c Ito PC
yellow squash. each Loo s to &c
Cauiiflower, each .......25o zoo
Potatoes, pound ........1 0c 4c
Onions, pound .........18c &c
SWEDEN MAKES DEMAND.
Copsnhagen, Feb. 20.-Ths Swedish