The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-10-05
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD nv BRlEFEsT
MApNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters o. the Globe and
oiver. IN a Few LInea.
INreHMouNrAIN.

yost Marshal General Crowdcr, IN
charge OF the seiective draft will be
among the drnftcd men who Will leave
Denver for Camp Funston, October 3.
An order for half gram OF radlum
concentrates has been received BY q
Colorado company from France for
use In manufacturing war materials.
The value placed on radium here Is
sl20Oo0 gram.
Senator King, who has been urging
the Officers OF the signal corps 70 se-
acct Salt Lake or some nearby place
as d site for an aviation school, hns
20 be established VIII be located 10
Utah.
Judge Richard H. Scott Of the Wyo-
ming supreme court, for more than
thirty years Intimately connected with
the growth OF Wyoming, died at Chey,
enne September 20 after n long Illness,
lie was = member OF the Wyoming CON
stitnsionai convention which met In
Cheyenne Ia 1880
Approximately 1000 workmen IN
three Portland steel shlpyards laid
down their tools Monday and Joined
the 5000 men who walked out Of the
Portland wooden shipyards recently to
enforce their demands for Higher
wages aud the closed shop. Work
ON government contracts at the steel
yards was halted by the strike.
DOMESTIC.
Twenty-seyen persons We're killed
ana ffty injured half OF them serl-
ousiy, ia beud-on collision enc mile
west " Kellyyille, Okla, when *.
Louis 4 San Francisco passenger
train No. Z ran into an empty east
bound troop train.
The arrest az San Francisco Of
Frank Herman Glossman, q German
hotel proprietor, as an alleged spy
became known Friday when the prls.
Oner was giycn preliminary hear
log before the United states commits
aiOner.
All members Of unions concerned ia
the strike OF $4,000 metal trades work
ers az San Francisco have been In
Etrnctea by the Iron Trades Council
20 retura 70 work.
The jury 10 the trial of Rev, Lyn
George l. Kelly, charged with murder
In connection with the Yilllsca, Iowa,
ax slayings, was discharged for fall
ure 10 agree on verdict Kelly VIII
be tried again.
Immediate removal Of all restrlc-
lions Ga American salt water fisheries
for tho war period Is proposed by the
food administration as a war conserya'
tion measure.
The practice Of sending cigarettes
Rnd tobacco 10 soldiers was condemned
Ia resolutions adopted az the state
convention at Freeport ILL.,, " the Key
stone league Of Christian Endeavor q
the United Evangelical church
A "saye the girls" movement inaug
urated by The state council Of dcfens'
Is drawing many women at Omaha =
its support. Twenty-Five women VIII
nrc prominent In club ife have yolun
teered 10 act as special police In IN
endeayer,
Lieutenant General G. T, NJ. Bridges
who accompanied the Balfour missile
20 the United States last summer, ha
lost leg In consequence OF woun
received In action.
Passengers arriving ut an Atlant
mort on steamship from q BIRTHS
mort told Of the sinking OF two Ge
man submarines, one Of which had
tackea a transport conveyed by BIRTHS
desuoyers,
The strike of 25,000 iron workers at
other mechanics in San Francisco hs
region was settled az meeting Of u
Iron Trades council on September
Declaring Senator Robert NJ. La y,
lette Of Wisconsin 20 be "the most 81
lister foe Of democracy In this cou
Try" Theodore Roosevelt iD spec
on srhe Children OF the Melting 10
AZ Chicago, launched scorching ph
applc al pacihsts IN general and unpI
paredHess.
A roundup OF Germans IN New 70
who haye violated the terms OF y
inits granted them TO enter zor
barred 10 enemy aliens, or who ha
gone into these districts without p
mits. has begun.
i've men. including q member
The county draft board. were indie'
at 81 Joseph, Mo, on charges OF
tempted violation OF the select
draft law.
Tederai authorities win make an
mediate Investigation Of the are VII
swept the horse market section Of
National stock yards at St. Louis,
sulung Ia injuries 70 four persons /
property loss OF $4,000,
III were this minute member
the United States senate would
ashamed TO sit ia that body unit
found out some method Of depriy
senator la Toilette OF his seat In
chamber which he now disgraces
mis- presence there" Colonel Theoc
r1nl,ae,llt declared In q tnlk ~ KAI