The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-06-22
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
,REcoRD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
---infcrmstlcn Gathered from An
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few LInes.
lNrERMouNrAln.


Killed at Tooele. Utah, when gnso
line engine he was using III the dIg
Ging Of well exploded with terrln,
force.
Approximately 500 employees Of ths
Internntional Smelling company IL
Tooeie, Utah. went on strike June ~
and the big smelter Is ut d standstill
The action OF the men. who comprise
common laborers and semI-skllled Ia
borers, came as n surprise.
Workers IN twenty Seattle laundrigss
struck on June IA for a general In
crease IN wages. The workers decided
on the strike when they learned the
proprietors were planning lockout OF
the unton employees.
Officers of the United Mine Work
ers. representing members Of that or
Eanixatlon employed oy the Colorado
fhei and Iron company. hive fels-
graphed their national officers asking
permission 10 strike.
Three Russians of military are. ar.
rested III Seattle when they we're about
70 embark for the Orient, were found
10 have more than $4,000 in special
belts, ~ their shoes and sewed ia their
clothing
The body Of Manus Duggan. tool
boy who led twenty-five entombed
miners TO safety Ia the North Butte
Hine DISASTER and directed the work /
u bulkheadlng them against the polls.
ohouS gases from the recent fire has
been recovered.
Arthur i. Willard, principal OF the
hanghan, Utah, high school shot 10
oeatt Cecil Holmes. one OF his pupils
ahd friend OF years. who Willard
claims wrecked his home.
1 DOMESTIC.
George G. Campbell "a yenrs OF
nge. receiving teller In The Dcs Moines
National bank; O. II, Phelps, % years I
Of age, press feeder for the Western
Newspaper Union. and their wives
were drowned In the Dies Molnes river
when their gasoline launch rnu out ~ {
fuel and unset against Submerged oil.
lag n the flooded stream Il
The American people have respond.
ed 70 the governments cali for funds
10 finance the war with an oyersnl-
scripiion TO the s2000,OO0,000 liberty
loan.
Fifty-hye per cent OF the women Of
the United States are 'finppers," ac-
cording 70 Mrs. Raymond Iscbins Of
the woman's committee OF the national
council OF defense. Mrs RobInss def
milton OF Aaappers Is woman who
does not workwomen Of ali kinds
who live at home and are supported
By their relatives.
Organized labor has been called upon
formally by the American Federation
Of Labor 20 get behind the campaign
for enactment OF the administration
food legislation by July !. All unions
are urged In letter by President I
Gonipers 20 press their congressman =
Tor prompt action, g
Japan will send mission to the
United States. The mission will have q
broad powers, especially in tiIplomatlcl .
consultation, and is expected to leave =
Japan during the first part Of July.
The mission Is regarded as offering an
unparalleled opportunity for closer
understanding between the United
States and japan.
Jail life has SO far tanned the sixty
seven slaekers arrested at Duluth. that
fifty-one Of them changed their minds
and were willing 10 register. They
We're told that local authorities had
no power 20 allow such action now
and that their cases would have to 20
before the grand jury.
Two men are dead, two are dying,
ilfteen others are in hospitals serious
y wounded, and fully twenty others
are missing as the result of a fire
which destroyed an eleven-story build
ing used as a refinery by the American
Sugar Refining company on the Brook
lyn water front
Two American cavalrymen held the
ford at Ysleta. Texas. Wednesday
night against a band of twenty-five
armed and mounted Mexicans who at
tempted 10 raid the American settle
ment, driving them back into Mexico
after a third had come to their as
sistance.
Waldemar Won Nostitz, So years old,
former editor of the waechter Und
Anzeiger, German daily published at
Cleveland, has been arrested by fed
eral agents on the charge of being an
alien enemy, and win be informed for
the rest of the war.
Mrs. Rena Herman Mooney shed
tears at her murder trial at San Fran
cisco when one of the MANNED victims
OF the preparedness parade bomb ex-
plosion testified about the circum-
stances attending her injury by the
blast.
The CONSUMPTION act will provide an
army of 2,T50,000 men who have Of
fered themselves without Indicating
any exception because of physical dis
ability, dependent relatives or occuna