The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-05-11
RECORD OF The IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 6RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
INTERMouNTAiN.


Copper company's property at Magma,
Utah, will probably die. Some dyna-
mite caps that Bernardo had in his
pocket exploded when he fell.
Alfred Woodland, aged %, was shot
and mortally wounded by his father,
Jedediah Woodward aged go, during
a quarrel at Salt Lake City.
All students, except thirty seniors,
have "struck" at the Colorado School
of Mines at Golden, Colo, and most
of the approximately 40 strikers"
have left the institution as a result of
the faculty's refusal to reduce sus-
pension of several students for rubbing
a professor with sand.
Los Angeles and Salt Lake capital
lists are interested in the establish
ment at Port Angeles, Wash, of a
shipyard with a capitalization of $780,
900 and capable of building two wood
en- power ships of from 200 feet to 300
feet in length at the same time.
Provision for employing women in
various branches of railroad work is
made in orders issued by ]. J. McCul-
Tough, superintendent of the Puget
Sound division of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
G. Ell. Muir, Idaho Falls, Idaho, was
listed among the killed in action on
April 80 by the Canadian casualty list.
DOMESTIC.
Women dominated the municipal
rule of Valley Center, Kans., when
Miss Avis Francis, who, with an en-
tirely feminine council, recently elect
ed, completed her appointments by
naming Mrs. William Goodrich as
city marshal and Mrs. George Bright
as street commissioner.
Fire at Los Angeles destroyed an
entire block of two-story frame build
ings and drove five families into the
streets in their night attire.
A call for 100000 men to volunteer
as Boy Scout leaders has been issued
by the National Council of Boy Scouts
of America.
The first aerial mail route within
the continental limits of the United
States will be established between San
Diego and San Francisco and then ex-
tended until the system reaches nearly
every important city in the country.
The full strength of the first wal
army organized under the selective
draft bill will be 1888 officers and
52S,659 enlisted men, making up eigh'
teen war strength divisions complete
In every arm and supplemented by
sixteen regiments of heavy field artil
lery, equipped with large caliber how
tiers.
Only about one-third of the winter
wheat acreage in Iowa will produce o
crop this season, according to reports
received by the Iowa Weather and
Crop service.
James w. Gerard, former ambassa
dor to Germany, told members of the
Chicago Bar association at banquet
given in his honor, that the war Will
Germany "would be long and bitter
Dan Shay of Kansas City, manager
of the Milwaukee American association
baseball team, shot and fatally wound
ed Clarence Euell, negro waiter, il
q hotel at Kansas City in an argumen
over sugar bowl.
Total operating revenues Of tn
Union Pacific railroad during 191t
aggregated $114,412,607, an increase 0
$22, AGO, 1862, OF 24.4 per cent, accord
ing to the annual report issued May !
The strike of union bakers, whicl
had been in progress at Chicago wa
settled May after a conference o
representatives of bakery owners an
employees in the office of Unite
States District Attorney Charles L
Clyne.
The governorship contest in Ar
zona between former Gov. G. w. /
Hunt and Thomas e. Campbell, q
facto governor. who has held the Of
fee since early in the year on orde
of the supreme court, has been de
cided in favor of Governor Campbell.
A dispatch received in New Tor
from Petrograd by the Jewish Dali
Forward says that disastrous foo
has overtaken Krementchug." Krt
mentchug is city of approximate
10000 population on the Dnieper rive
in the province of Poltava.
Baron Alhard Won den Busch
Muench, said TO be related to Cour
von Bernstorff, formerly German an
passador to the United States, is hel
at San Francisco as an alien enemy {
the government.
The enormous inroads on the world
shipping made by German submarine
within the last few weeks has brougf
TO American government officials
full realization of the disaster tbs
faces the United States and the allie
if the undersea warfare is not checke'
The French mission, headed b
Rene viviani, Marshal Joffre and AZ
miral Chocheprat, is on tour of NIT
die western and eastern states.
Fffty-one more vessels entered I'll
port Of New York last month than
March, Notwithstanding the Germa