The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-02-09
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
lNTERMoUNTAIN.


Governor Withercombe of Oregon
on Friday signed the absolute prohi-
bition bill recently passed by the leg
islature, and Immediately it became
law. No more orders for liquor, per
mitted under the previous law, can be
sent, but mail-order houses in other
states have five days in which to fill
orders now on hand.
Oregon's anti-aIien land bill was
withdrawn from the legislature by
Senator George R. Wilbur, Democrat,
who introduced it because, as he said,
he did not want to handicap President
Wilson with possible Japanese compli-
cations during the present fnterna-
tional crisis.
expects to kill the anti-alien bill
passed by the house, and which strikes
at Japanese, because OF pressure
brought by Idaho's delegation in CON
gress and Secretary of State Lansing.
Thomas W Jones, president of the
Utah state board of sheep commits
sioners and widely known stockman
and capitalist of Salt Lake City, was
found dead FIVE miles west OF Hamp.
ton, Wyo. Heart disease is believed
to have been the cause of death.
Utah cavalrymen passing an adobe
hut near AraYica, Ariz., were fired
upon by two Mexicans who were in
the house. The shots went wild and
the Mexlcans were escorted across
the border
Oregon's anti-alien land bill, aimed
to prohibit Japanese, Chinese and
Hindus from owning land or making
/ long term leases, will not be passed
BY the legislature, is freely predicted
The Young prohibition bill in it
amended form, believed by Utah legis
ators to be the most drastic and tn
most efficient prohibition measure ye
enacted in the United States, passe
both houses of the legislature on Fet
ruary /, with but one dissenting vot'
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth-contr
advocate, and her assistant Miss Fan
Mondell, were found guilty at Ne
York of disseminating information fc
hidden by law.
Six persons were killed and fit
two were injured when a passeng
train was wrecked near Cromwe
Iowa.
The senate Of the Idaho legislatul
Former President Taft prefaced
prepared speech on the League to E
I NJ IN
reference to the new German crlsi
declaring that If the United State
were drawn into war Germany woul
force it by 'ther defiance of plain pril
ciples of justice and humanity whic
should obtain between civilized n
TONS"
European countries took Sc per cen
Of American exports in 1916, as show
in statistics announced by the depart
ment of commerce.
Appointment of a committee of nv
with plenary powers to cooperate
with the interstate commerce commits
sion in the administration of new
set of car service rules, adopted witt
a view to solving the car shortag,
problem, was decided upon by tn
American Railway association meet
ing at New York.
Two persons are known to hav'
been killed, and the police assert tina
between forty and sixty others pei
:shed in an explosion which wrecks
three-story tenement building ant
caused unestimated damage through
out the foreign quarter Of the ives
side of Chicago.
The repeal of the law authorizlnI
ten-round no-decision boxing bouts i
New York was urged in special mes
sage sent to the Legislature by Coy
ernor Whitman. A bill designed t
meet the governors wishes was intro
ouced in the senate.
Charles Evans Hughes. who wa
guest OF honor at the annual dinner 9
the New York alumni of Brown un
versity Thursday night. declare
every loyal American would stan
behind the administration in thi
solemn hour" without partisa
thought.
Guiseppi Carlo Pia, under life ser
tence in Folsom, CAL, penitentiary 10
criminal assault, is innocent, ACCORD
ing to an affidavit submitted to Dii
trict Attorney Edward /. Butler c
Marin county. Pia has served eigh
years.
Twelve dollars, the highest pric
since the Civil war, was paid for lly
hogs at the Union stock yards at On
cago on January 81.
approximately $4,000 year wa
expended from November Is, 1912,
December 81, 1915, for the supper
and maintenance of John Jacob Asto
The 4-year-old son of the late CO
John Jacob Aston, who lost his life
the Titanc disaster.
Samuel Gompers. president of tn
American Federation of Labor, r
ceived one of the greatest ovations {
| his career when he arose to speak {