The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-07-20
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters or the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
INTERMouNrAIn.

Interstate phase Of the Industrial
Workers ~ the World
Arrangements hive been completed
FOR the organization Of u branch of
the san Francisco federal reserve
bank IL spokane The branch win be-
controlled by 1--WE directors.
State troops took charge Of the In
dnsirial Workers Of The World hall III
Pasco, Wash, this being decided upon
after national guardsmen aud the SHEER
~ had rounded III twenty-five men
IN the railroad yards. Two of these
men, all % whom arc In Jail, ure re-
puted 20 be |. W. W leaders.
Wyoming has asked that 1900 farm
laborers be- diverted from knllsils to
that state III once.
III feeling which Is said 10 have
been smolderIng IN the tribe q In
dlans on the Deep Creek Utah, reser
yation since two af their number
were arrested for failure to register
June for the selectiYe draft army, |
broke out agRin few days ago when /
the Indians left the reservation, stole I
horses and we're threatening settlers
along Snake creek
Mystery surrounds the discovery Of
large hole cat In The burhel wire
stoekade surrounding the third war
prison barracks ~ Fort Douglas, Utah.
Tint an escape Of some sort was be-
ing planned Is tile opinion Of cnmp Of
ficlaiss
Fritz Mueller said 10 be dan
gerpns Germnn spy, who escaped from
fhe Tucson, Arlz., prison after being
arrested as an allen enemy recently, I
and was recaptured az Nogales, was
one Of five prisoners Of war who ar-
rived Ia salt i.nke under heavy mill
iars guard on July Y, and was IN !
termed Ia the war prison barracks
The Metal Mine Workers union
Of Butte has issued cali TO every
metal mining camp In the United
States 20 send delegates to Denver
not later than August 10 organize
new international organization,
which viii include Canada,
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Amy Il. Archcr-Gllllgan was
found guilty Of murder In the first de-
gree II the superior court at Hartford
Conn, She was convicted nf the MUIR
Der BY poison of Franklin II, Andrews
on Mny 80, 1914. Andrews was an ire
mate of her home for elderly people NJ
Windsor,
Between twenty and thirty men We're
injured some Ut them probably
fatally In rioting between Americans |
nnd foreigners employed IN the mines
az Flat River. Mo,
A terrific rain ard windstorm north
III Homer, H., leyeled farm buildings
and crops killed Que and Injured more
than Il dozen persons,
Eleven neutral Steamers Ioaded with
grain ami other curgaes whlcn could
not he exported except m,Ier license
after President Milsons embargo proc
lnmation became effective Monday
cleared from an Atlantic port Friday
for European ports without British let
tiers 81 assurance and win attempt 10
run The allied blockade
Deportation undertaken July u al
Iisbee, Ariz. Of more than 1000 In,
dustrlul Workers ~ the World cen.
tered the eyes of the nation on nm
agitation which has arisen ia the
west To considerable proportions aft
or manifesflhg itself sporadlcally
from cnnst 10 coast Tor Years.
The American Red Cross war fin
nnee committee announced July II
The receipt OF $5OOW0 from the
Rockefeller foundation payment of
its pledge OF $5,0O0000 other con-
tributions received amounted to
$S9.071. including $4,000 from the /
Lackawanna Sreel company.
Herbert q. Ilotallng of Mupleton |
Mimi. was elected president OF the |
National Editorial association, aud lit /
tie Rock and Hot Springs Ark, were
chosen as the 1918 convention cities III
The closing session of the convention
at Minneapolis.
aConspicuous leaders" of the Luti-
eran church i'm the state and seer.
tain professors of the University OF
Nebraska were denounced for treason
able utterances disloyal activity and
passiyity that has tended To give aid
10 Germany, an enemy" in statement
issued Thursday by the Nebraska state
council of defense. "after the most
solemn and serious investigation and
consideration
fund of s1.0oo,Oo0 for war re-
lief work was appropriated by the
Benevolent and Protective Order OF
Elks in session at Boston.
Seven persons are believed to have
lost their lives when the excursion
steamer Muskegon was wrecked on
Big Stone lake near Ortonville, Mimi,
during heavy storm.
Colonel Edward H. r. Green, son of
fhe late Hetty Green and probably the
most proposed-to man in the United
States, was married at Chicago, July
10, TO Miss Mabel +. Harlow OF High
land Park, Il suburb.