The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-04-20
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMoUNTAlN.

uTen, ADMISSION one potato and D
cents" The size of the potato is not
stipulated and several bushels of po-
tatoes are taken in each night, as
legal tender. The theatre manage
ment is giving the potatoes to needy
families.
The entire population of Shannon,
Wyo., thirty in all, has offered their
services to Governor Frank L. Houx
for war. The women and girls volun-
teered for Red Cross work.
All Utah has been called to the
country's cause in proclamation is
sued by the governor.
Attorney General Leslie E. Hub
bard of Colorado has filed a confes-
sion of error in the case Of John r.
Lawson, former district president and
international board member of the
United Mine Workers of America,
who was convicted OF murder in con
nection with the strike in the south
ern Colorado coal fields in 1914. The
attorney general recommends that
Lawson be freed.
A possible conspiracy to blow up
the mines of the Standard Coal com
pany at Standardville was the pivotal
object of an examination of Fritz
Schmidt, German, arrested at Salt
Lake City.
More than twenty tons of yegeta-
bles, principally potatoes, have been
contracted for by the Denver Trades
and Labor assembly to be sold at
cost to persons AFFILIATED with the
body in an effort to reduce the cost
of living.
DOMESTIC.
The Progressive national conven-
ton has ousted the national commit
tee that last summer endorsed Charles
E. Hughes, the Republican nominee
for president, and named a new ma
tional committee to carry out the
plans for amalgamation with the Pro
hibition party.
Information that a German com
merce raider, in the guise of sail
| ing ship, has entered the Gulf of Mex
leo, is reported in Galveston.
Charged with making alleged threats
against the life of the president, Paul
W. Kaucher, rs years old, was ar
rested at Little Rock, Ark, by federal
officers. Kaueher formerly was a
member of the Arkansas national
guard.
Repairs on some of the German lin
ers seized at New York by the federal
authorities upon the declaration that a
state of war exists with Germany has
been begun by squad of hundred
machinists under the direction of gov
eminent experts.
DR.. Ernest Sekunna and Wolf Won
Igel, Germans, and Chandra Chakra-
berty and Heramba Gupta, Hindus,
were indicted by a federal grand jury
at New York for alleged conspiracy in
setting on foot military expedition
in this country against friendly ma
ton.
The American schooner M. d. Cres-
sey, which left New York April 7 for
Hayre with a general cargo, was sunk
during gale, when about 200 miles
southeast of Sandy Hook.
The destruction of German sub
marine through striking mine while
the U-boat was Smelling British horse
transport was described at New York
by an eye-witness-an officer on
Dutch steamship recently arrived.
Charged with controlling SIS per
cent of the country's news print paper
production and using their power in
restraint of trade in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law, six paper man
ufacturers and a banker prominent in
financing news print paper companies
were indicted by the federal grand
jury at New York.
Warnings sent out April IL from
San Francisco that German submaI
ines were operating in the Pacific
served to renew interest in a story
related there several days previous by
man who claimed he saw a Ger
man submarine last Saturday near
Guaymas, Sonora, in the Gulf of
California.
A statement made by a high Of
fetal of the Eddystone Ammunition
corporation at Chester, Pa, placed
the blame of the disastrous explosion
on disloyal employee, who is thought
to have sacrificed his life with the
116 known dead, most of whom were
girls and young women.
The steamer Eastland, which turned
over in the Chicago river in July, 1915,
with a loss of SIS lives, is being CON
verted into a gunboat to be ready for
service July l.
Richard Olney, statesman, once sec
rotary of state and always noted
student of international affairs, died
at his home in Boston, at teh age.
of 49,
Sailors of the German auxiliary
cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, informed
at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, will be put to
work raising vegetables as soon as
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