The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-02-09
Lying on a cot in the penitentlar,

Lying on cot in the penitentIary
hospital at Santa Fe, N. NJ, E. w.
Blancett pleaded not guilty to the
charge Of killing Clyde Armour near
there last October, waived prelimin ~
hearing and was held to the grand
jury without boLd.
Federal officers have been unable
to ascertain the cause Of the sinking
Of the German freighter Liebenfels,
which settled to the bottom in the har-
Dor at Charleston. S. G., under circum-
stances that led marine men to he
lieve she had beea scuttied.
Congress will be asked to grant
public hearing on the plan to turn the
clock forward one hour during the
summer months, under resolutions
adopted by the National Daylight Saw
ing convention at its closing session
at New York.
The federal shipping board at its
first meeting on Tuesday unanimously
agreed on William Denman of San
Fracisco as chairman. It was decided,
however, not to make the election per-
manent until fifth member is named
to succeed Bernard N. Baker of Baltt-
more, who resigned
WASHINGTON.
President Wilson's veto Of the imfni-
grafton bill because of its literacy test
feature was oyerridden In the house
Thursday by a vote of 2S6 to 106.
Party lines we're ignored in the fight.
Secretary Of Agriculture Houston
has announced that national forest
grazing fees would be advanced %
per cent for the 1917 season. instead
of 3315 per cent, as previously an
nounced.
The administration revenue bill,
framed to meet the prospective treas
ury deficit next year, was passed by
the house by vote Of I'll to 1856.
Whatever course Of action President
Wilson has chosen to meet Germany's
declaration of unrestricted submarine
warfare IS known only to three or four
members of his official family.
Germany has declared unrestricted
submarine warfare in determination
to prevent food supplies reaching Eng
land. 1t is feared that war between
America and Germany will result. from
U-boat raids.
Full diplomatic relations with Mex
leo are to be resumed Immediately
in an effort by the United States to
solve through formal channels the
troublesome questions pending with
the Carranza de facto government,
and for its moral effect in aiding Car.
rama to restore order and set ur
constitutional government.
Il FOREIGN.
Bad weather hampers large scale OF
ian fronts.
Award Of contract for constru
i ton of a 200-mile railway in China
the Siems-Carey company of st. PAT
!, is announced in dispatch from Il
! American legation in Pekin.
Reuters Stockholm corresponds
reports that owing to the coal s5ol
age the minister of the interior hi
I approved immediate restriction OF {
= passenger traffic on the state "a
ways. An early restriction of freig
2 traffic is foreshadowed.
. Persistent reports nave been recei
ed by the newspapers at Rio Janeil
2 that the German raider has been sun
: in an engagement with BIRTHS
? squadron. The British cruiser Am
thyst Is said to have been in an Ell
: gagement with German submarin,
Five Americans, including a negro
were aboard the British steamer Yal
rowdale, which was captured by
German raider in the South Atlantis
The men had been informed in Ger
many but were released and sent 4
Copenhagen.
An official statement issued at Lon
don says that if the German threat
of no longer tolerating hospital ships
between line drawn from Flambor
ough Head, England, to Terschelling
Netherlands, and line from Lands,
end, England, to Quessant, France, is
carried out, reprisals Will be taken
Immediately.
Russia's offensive on the northern
end of the Roumanian front has been
resumed with some measure OF sue
cess. New ground has been gained
along the Kimpolung-Jacobent rail
road, where the Russians are pushing
Southeastward in Bukowina.
The colonies captured from Ger
many during the war will never BIZ
returned, said Walter Hume Long
secretary of state for the colonies
: speaking as a representative of tbs
overseas dominions, in an address a
London.
Four persons were arraigned quietly
in the police court at the Derby guild
hall Wednesday, charged with plot