The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-15
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
n EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTEKmouNTA,N.

union 10 mi her qnotn Of recruits for
the regular army AT the close Of re-
cruliing June 8. Monsena had 1874 war
volunteers for the regulars against q
quota Of 752.
Lee Caldwell, bucking horse rider,
who claims several riding and rope
throwing championships. Inns been
chosen captain Of troop y. cavalry
organization formed hy eastern Oregon
cowboys as unit 81 the Oregon Ma
iionai Guard.
Twenty-Five hundred pounds Of wool
sold at Cottage Grove, Ore. az hTM
cents pound. said 10 be the highest
price ever paid for wool In Oregon,
IN previous years wool hns ranged
from 30 20 40 cents d pound.
An estimate forwarded to Washing
ton, BY 4, v. FIlz Gerald. secretary
% Governor Simon Bnmberger, placed
Utah.s total registration nt 42.52s, and
the number Of persons claiming cxemp-
tiun from military service at 23,290.
Plans for raising the VESTS share
n the $i00,00o0O0 sought by the Ma.
Fional Red Cross society were dis.
GUESSED al conference In Denver par
ttcipated IN by representatives of ten
states. The campaign for raising the
fund Is 20 start June Is.
Conductor Phllpot and brakeman
walther fought n battle with two me-
groes and were bodily thrown from
their train near Cisco. Utah. while the
irnin was running thirty miles an hour.
The trainmen we're badly cut and
bruised. hut VIII recover,
DOMESTIC.
William II. Queen. his wife and his
daughter, Miss Eleanor Queen, a school
teacher. were murdered near Mount
Pleasant n. J. The farm buildings
were burned.
Good progress il being made by the
Joint committee OF four railroad broth.
erhood leaders ana four railway execu-
tives VI settling minor differences
growing out OF the general agreement
for d basic eight-hour day, according
10 a statement by w. n. Doak. vice
president of the brotherhood Of rail.
way trainmen.
AZ Interstate cereal conference has
heeD called 70 meet at Kansas City
Mo, June X 20 IA, the department Of
agriculture has announced 20 take ur
fhe subject Of Increased grain produc
iinn. similar conferences were held
NJ berkeley. CAL, Ia 1915 and at ST
Paul In 1915.
Only about 1900 men win be- tried
~ the second series OF eight officers
training camps 70 be held from An-
gust y 90 September 20. Adjutant
eieneral Mccain has announced Forty
thousand entered the first series Of
caiars but the war department has re-
tiueed the number for the fall encamp-
meats Ia the hope OF obtaining older
end more experienced men.
The four mothorless and now father
less children Of II. l.. wilkerson. a
farmer. told Judge Lewis PauldIn. Ia
ceJnty court vt Durant, Okla, how
ltcy planned aud executed the muir
lrs Of their father as he lay asleep
"a the wllkerson farm home near Ben.
uington.
10 conserve the wheat supply, bak.
ees have been asked by the commercial
economy hoard OF the council OF ma
tienal defense 10 discontinue their
practice Of taking back unsold bread
More than l0.OO00o0 young Ameri
rans enrolled themselves ON June FOL
Nar service. Registration day. will
hut few weeks OF preparation, saw
The first military census ever taken Ii
the United States completed wtthou
single untoward event OF conse
quence.
Tornadoes, high wind aud heav
iains through portions OF Kansas am
Missouri Tuesday night caused re
deaths and injuries 20 many person,
Much property and crop damage ri
suited and sinall rivers and creek
were brought to alarming stages.
G. G Porter, state secretary for n,
braska Of the Socialist party, has n
signed his position, declaring he coul
not sympathlze with certain element
within the party to oppose conseriI
tion.
After one prisoner had been kille,
eight severely injured and sever
others hurt during three riotous GU
breaks at the state prison at Jolie
HIS, by a thousand convlcts who o
iected to new rules enforced by Wa
den Bowen, raihstorm drove the la
200 of the mutineers to the dollhouse
Evidence that two complete hig
powered wireless installations, d
sembled at New York from vario
sources, were shipped piecemeal
Mexico, supposedly for use of Gs
man spy system in this country, W
unearthed in the arrest of three me
California laws imposing excl
taxes on foreign corporations for I
ms intrastate business have been /
held as constitutional by the suprel
court. The taxes based upon corp