The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-12-28
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Complete History Of the Past
Week Told in Paragraphs
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INTERMouNrAlN

The first announced sale of Wyo-
ming wool Of the 1918 clip, which will
De shorn next April and May, is that
of the Bare Sheep companys clip.
which will run about 125000 pounds,
for 70 cents per pound The Bar-Cs
range is In Natrona county.
Mrs. J. FL. Bush, 70 years old, has
confessed to officers that she killed
her son, John 0. Bush, near Montrose,
Colo, after he had killed her grand
son earlier in the day and dis
posed of the body by boiling it in I've.
William HUM, sheep ranch fore
man, was found guilty in federal court
at Cheyenne, Wyo., of making sedi-
tious utterances. Raymond Wilson
testified that HUM had expressed the
hope that the American forces would
suffer disaster and also had made
threats against the president.
Charles Granzow, wanted on a
charge of wrecking the steamer
Churchill, of which he was formerly
captain, and destroying a cargo of
copra for the British consul at Seat
tie, surrendered at San Francisco. The
Churchill was run aground on the
French Frigate shoals.
Led by the girl who asserts she was
attacked by negro soldier at Pueblo.
Monday night, seventy-five armed
Austrians made an attempt to obtain
the negro, Lewis Smith, who is
charged with the crime, and lynch him,
fnI hIr nFf
The first three C>ys of the weeks
drive in Denver for new members of
the Red Cross brought the total past
the halfway mark.
Efforts of President Wilson's media
ton commission, headed by Secretary
OF Labor Wilson, which spent several
days in Portland during November, to
settle a strike against the paper mills
at Oregon City, failed because Off
Gals of the paper company refused to
arbitrate, according to a statement by
the commission.
DOMESTIC.
Eric Campbell, motion picture actor,
was killed almost instantly at Los An
geles and three others We're injured in
an automobile collision. Campbell was
imprisoned under his car, which turned
over when it struck that of w. A. Hol-
Ienbeck.
Men of draft age qualified for pres
emit needs of the aviation section of
the signal corps can seek immediate
service, despite the recent ruling dis
continuing voluntary enlistments of
draft men.
The 1aqui Indians have issued
proclamation calling on all federal sol
dlers in the state of Sonora to sur
render to them and receive amnesty
or be killed wherever found, according
to reliable information received from
Hermosillo.
Eleven miners were killed in an ex-
plosion at mine No. of the Dour Coal
y Coke company Catoosa, near Memo,
Tenn.
Two robbers who escaped with S1O,-
700 after stunning Michael Binzen
saloonkeeper, at Gary, Ind, and kill
ing Spencer Tillman, a negro porter
serving as bodyguard, are supposed
to have fled to Chicago
Forty-three convicts, some of them
men serving life sentences, have left
Oklahoma state prison for Christmas
burroughs. They all have been placed
on their honor to return and resume
ther Imprisonment January 2.
Colgate & Co. of Jersey City was in |
aicted by the grand jury in the United |
States court at Norfolk, Va, for viola !
ton of the federal laws by refusing
to sell their products to dealers who
would not agree to sell at the prices
fixed by the company.
Joseph Seller, arrested at Cedar
kaplds, Iowa, as he aIighted from the
tender of a passenger engine and in
whose clothes We're found books and
papers which authorized him to col
lect dues and act as an organizer for
the |. W. W., was fined $1,000 and given
year in Jail by Judge Milo P. Smith
IN the county court at Marion.
Demands for increase in wages for
'5,OO0 locomotive firemen on all Unit
ed States railroads have been prepared
by committees headed by President
W. ). Carter. They will be submitted
to the firemen for Endorsement.
Representative George H. Tinkham
of Massachusetts, who was injured
when an army automobile in which he
was riding along the italian front
dropped twenty feet and was wrecked,
is reported en- route home. n
Maria Cueyas and Silvario Silva,
sentenced to be hanged Friday Deem
Der 21 for murder committed suicide
in the county Jail at Gallup, n. NJ, by /
hanging themselves. +,
Marked by the simplicity he himself
had requested, funeral services were
held December 10 for Frank A. Gotch, I
retired worlds champion wrestler, who |
died at his home at Humboldt, Iowa, {
Sunday after long illness.
f. J. Ryan, president of the Railway .
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