The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-03-02


BY unanimous vote the Maine sen.
ate adopted resolution providing for
woman suffrage by constitutional
amendment
All the passenger ships OF the Amer
lean line now are believed to be safely
away from the European war zone.
Five OF them are tied up at their piers
In New York.
An investigation into the sharp ad-
vance Of food prices conducted by the
state market directors office shows
the price OF foodstuffs in San Fran
cisco has increased more than 43 per
cent in the last fifteen months.
Hogs sold within cents Of $13 a
hundred pounds at the Union stock
yards. Chicago, February 81, the high
est price paid In the history OF the
Chicago market.
The Vermont house OF representa-
tives defeated a bill to extend to
women the right to vote for presiden-
tial electors.
WASHINGTON.
Absolute prohibition legislation took
its longest forward stride in the ma
TONS history when the house, on Feb
ruary 81. approved by a four-tO-one
majority a senate measure which
would raise an iron-clad barrier
against importation OF liquor into pro
hibltion states.
National banks during the calendar
year 1916 showed the largest earnings
ever reported since the organization
Of the United States national banking
system half a century ago.
The administration espionage bill.
providing severe penalties for spying
on matters OF national defense. and
furnishing conspiracies to violate
American neutrality, was passed by
the senate by vote Of 60 to 10.
One OF the measures which Presi-
dent Wilson win insist upon as a part
of the program to be completed by
congress before II adJourns is the ap-
preparation OF $4,000 requested by
the federal trade commission for an
inquiry into high prices.
President Wilson is considering
breaking another precedent OF more
than hundred years standing by not
calling the customary special session
OF the senate Immediately at the be
ginning OF his new term.
I FOREIGN.
A number OF Sim Feiners, who had
recently returned from internment in
England, were arrested February 2;
. In Limerick. Galway and Skibbereen
as we'll as in Dublin. The arrests
we're made under the defense OF the
realm act
} The present British operations II
! the far east are having q definite Of
: feet on the general situation by pre-
a venting the Turks from sending
5 forces TO Join their allies on the Eu
ropean fronts. according 10 adVicei
3 received in London.
a The banquet Of the American clul
( OF Paris. on the occasion OF Wash
inGtons birthday, was q patriots
d demonstration.
q Vice Admiral Won Capelle, Germai
y minister OF the navy. told the reich
n stag, according 10 Berlin dispatches
that the submarine warfare mad no
|. only realized but surpassed the navy
a expectations.
o The frontier correspondent OF tn
L. Amsterdam Telegraf says that q strik
ID In the Krupp works at Essen, inVolN
ing 1900 woTkmen, has been in prof
a. ress for a fortnight.
81 The German merchant submarin
d Bremen was not lost. and the repoI
" OF its failure TO reach America wa
ID deliberately planned for the purpos
OF mystihcation. according to StocI
m holm newspaper.
a There were approximately two thou
10 and persons killed or injured in II
a recent railroad accident near Chi
a urcha in northern RoumRnia, accor
IN ing TO the Moscow newspaper Rus
koye Slovo.
70, One-third OF the Armenian popul
TO ton either has been massacreed
ID died OF starvation or disease since Il
~ European war began, and one-naif
those remaining are homeless and
&c ing In exile, according to u cable me
7
na sage from John Maseiield, famol
he English writer. made public at Ne
York
on In introducing the naval estimat
in in the house OF commons. sir Edwa
he Carson. first lord OF the British &
ice miralty, said the vote for 100000 me
which the government was askir
m. demonstrated the strength OF the nav
lal The government viii ask from 1
IN. relehstRE at the coming session nt
ch war credit OF fifteen billion mari
lie says a Berlin dispatch,
So IL Is reported from Copenhagt
Ice says the Overseas News agency. N
,rk 400 persons were killed and 80
aw wounded In an explosion OF ammu
ar. ton at Archangel. Russia
Frederic C. Pcuncid. American a
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