The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-03-09

Two unmasked men locked the
cashier OF the Rice Growers bank
Al Wheatley. Ark, in the vault, and
escaped with 81 800
The Texas house defeated finally a
resolution calling for submission Of
the prohibition question to the people
Of that state The vote was 80 10 Il.
submlssionists being two votes short
Of the % necessary 20 passage.
Harry K Thaw Is a physical and
mental wreck, according 10 a report
made by Or. John Wanamaker, a po-
lice surgeon gt Philadelphia
Seven dead and twelve Injured In
The hospital, AT least two OF whom
~lH de, Has the toll OF an automobile
accident at Lima, O.
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson, on March /, In re-
Spouse 10 the senate's call laid before
that body official Information that the
United states IS in possession of evil
dCnce which establishes the authen-
deity Of tho sensational document dis.
closing how Germany intrigued TO ally
Mexico and Japan with her TO war on
this country.
bill 10 empower the president 10
arm merchant ships but not extend
Ing the authority he requested TO use
other instrumeutaitics." in defend.
Ing American rights against the sub.
marine menace, was passed by the
house on March /. by a vote Of 4O3
to 49,
President Wilson's request of con
gress for power 10 arm ships Is held
In diplomatic ana official circles at
PeIograd to constitute the second
step toward war with Germany and
to be the logical sequence OF the break
ing Of diplomatic relations with that
country
The administration revenue bill, de-
signed to raise $3.50 100000 through
special taxes and bond issues, was
passed by the senate by strict party
vote. AZ to 33.
The council of national defense has
issued an appeal to the people of the
United States to show every consld-
GRAFTON In the present international
situation to allen residents in this
country.
FOREIGN.
The New Mexican constitution,
adopted at the constitutional conven-
ton at Quaretaro. became effective
throughout the republic on March /.
The Loadon Daily Chronicle thinks
dermany's attempt with Mexico on a
par with her other activities, but adds
1T Is not often that such a complete.
ly damning document Is brought TO
! light at such a dramatic moment"
That bread cards would be instituted
| In France to prevent waste was an
nounced March / by Eduord Herriot,
minister OF provisions.
| Withdrawal of the German forces
along an eleyenmile front on both
sides of the river Ancre, In France, Is
admitted by the Berlin war Office for
the first time,
British casualties during February
reached total OF l,243 officers and
| l7lS5 men, according TO adylces from
/ London.
Canada Is making active prepare,
lions to take a prominent part In the
great allied offensive on the western
/ front this spring
The German submarine which on
I February ~ attacked the French
coast at the mouth OF the Adour river
in the bay OF Biscay. has returned un-
damaged to It's base the Overseas
News agency announces.
The German government has offer
( ed 10 replace the seven Dutch mer.
/ chantmen, which were torpedoed Oft
the English coast last week. with
/ German freighters until the end of
the war, on condition that Holland
/ purchase them afterwards
"Nive L'Amerique" and 'Viye VII
son" we're shouted by thousands OF
persons when Captain Allen Tucker
and the crew OF the American steamer
Orleans stepped OF the gang plank of
the steamer at Bordeaux
The women Of Ontario were virtual
~ assured the right TO vyte when the
government, through Premier Hearst.
on February 81 Endorsed the bill OF J.
w johnson providing for equal suf-
rrage,
II is announced that the third ca.
madam domestic war loan will be
opened Tor subscription ON March IL.
II viii be for $3.50. 100000
According to stories gathered from
passcngers from the l.aconia the
steamship was torpedoed about 10
O'Clock Sunday night, The passen
gers and crew had taken to the boa $
when the second torpedo was fred
into the sinking vessel.
Germany's proerastlnation in com.
plying with repeated American de-
mands for release OF the Harrowdale
prisoners Is bringing the con royersy
20 a stage OF extreme gravity,
In tha NgbFfpv an cha fr,uta "a,