The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
INLAND NORTHWEST

| Idaho to increase its wheat acreage
IL per cent in 1918 over this year.
The building trades throughout the
state of Washington have decided to
refuse to handle lumber made In 10
hour mills.
| Electrical workers employed by the
! telephone companies of the state of +
| Washington are about to take a vote
on strike for higher wages.
| The safety deposit vaults of bank
| at Medford, Ore, were robbed of $500
In money and $500 in jewelry. This
only clue to the robbers is,two chiseis
stamped 81. E. H.
Idahoans are shipping honey to
Europe this year. One of the largest
producers of the state living near
Meridian says his honey crop this
year will be 10000 pounds.
Idaho will get $4,000, her share of
the appropriation for vocational edu-
cation, if congress passes the special
bill drawn by the vocational education
bureau and sent to congress.
Jay Hague, an Idaho boy, who rec
emily was commissioned as first lieu
tenant, has been ordered to France.
The young lieutenant was born in
Bellevue, Ida, and his relatives live
in McCammon, Idaho
Senator Borah of Idaho will take
UP with President Wilson and Food
Administrator Hoover the question of
having Portland and Seattle estab-
lished as primary wheat markets at
which the 1917 price of 1920 shall
apply.
The silver, copper and lead output
of Nevada in 1917 will probably show
an increase over the output of the pre-
yious year, but no improvement is ex-
pected in gold, the production Of
which has been steadily declining for
the last few years.
Seventeen members of the I. w. w.
who had been picketing Testers camp
near Montesano, WASH, for two weeks,
were arrested last week. Fourteen of
them were fined $25 each and costs.
None. of them was able to pay, so
they We're lodged in Jail
Walter Fuller of La Grande, brake
man on an Oregon Washington Rail-
road & Navigation company freight
train, was instantly killed near Pen
dleton, Ore, when a light engine fol-
lowing the train plowed through the
caboose in which he was riding.
One thousand sheep persisted in a
forest fire which cut them off in the
mountains at the head of Rock Creek
Mont. The herder, who had 2000 ami
mails in charge, escaped with half his
flock. The sheep were owned by Mills
Wright of Burlcy.. Ida, and were
valued at $10,ooQ
A majority Of awmills and
single mills in the So of Washing
ton have been closed for several
weeks by strike of workmen for the
eight-hour day and higher wages. The
employers say that owing to the dull
market for lumber they can afford to
leave their plants idle.
Representative Smith of Idaho,
through a bill recently introduced and
referred to the committee on judiciary,
| proposes to wipe out the /. w. w. by
the application of drastic methods. He
would fine or imprison or administer
| dual punishment to all members of the
| |. w. W. and similar organizations.
Mrs. Emlee Carroll Kelly, wife of
Joseph Kelly, merchant, is dead as a
result of an alleged pro-German out
break in Rawhide, Nevada. 1t is
| charged that Mrs. Kelly was thrown
| bodily from the store. of w. A. Maggie,
| with whom she had disagreed over a
purchase, being found in a dying con-
dition.
| All of the fish in the upper waters
of Burnt Fork creek in the Bitter Root
valley in Montana, We're killed by
forest fires last week, according to
government rangers who inspected the
| devastated district. The heat from
the burning woods was so intense that
hundreds of trout were cooked alive
in the stream.
| Grain produced this year in the Pac-
| ific northwest will be milled at home.
The bulk of the flour will be shipped
to Europe, but the millstuffs will be
largely consumed here. This an
nouncement was made at Portland, last
week by Theodore B. Wilcox, federal
| mllllng commissioners, and Max Ill.
Houser, federal grain commissioner.
Organized labor is loyal to the pres
ident in the warMbut 1t demands an
increased wage in keeping with the
huge profits being made by manufac-
turegs because of the war, c. O.Young,
general organizer in the United States
and Canada for the American Fedora
ton of Labor, declared in a speech
delivered at Boise Idaho, last week.
Discrimination against the lumber
industry of the northwest states in
favor of California and southern states
is feared by 1.-THE Oregon Lumber COM
pany at Portland and other northwest
concerns in changes of minimum
weights on cars of lumber and lum-
Aar products, which transcontinentai
nos propose to make effective Sep
y