The Meridian times., 1917-03-09
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 Few Lines.
lNrERMouNTAlN.

iNTERMoUNTAIN.
With more than 100 leading mill
operators In attendance, the West
Coast Lumber Mems association, at
Tacoma, adopted resolution pledg-
Ing the lumber industry's services
and resources In the event of war
with Germany.
snowslide two days ago swept two
houses across the street near w. II.
Hudson's store at Jarbidge, Ney. One
man. William Perkins, was hurt, but
not fatally. The slide narrowly miss
ed the store.
approximately $4,000 Indians would
be willing to serve In the military
forces of the United States in the
event OF war, according to statement
by Henry A. Larson, special agent OF
the Indian service, made public at
Denver.
The record price of hogs on the
Denver market was broken on Febru-
airy rs. when the top price of $13.40
was paid. This is more than $3.50
above the high record made seven
years ago.
About 500 men are out of work in
Great Falls. Mont, as a result ofea
city.
DOMESTIC.
Five young men, late at night, mas
querading at police officers, gained ad-
mittance to the apartment of Mrs.
Isabel G. Merrill at Des Moines,
bound and gagged her and escaped
with diamonds and jewelry said to be
worth $1,000 and $34 in money.
Charged with desecrating the Amer
ican flag by burning it together with
flags of other nations in the back yard
of the Church of the Social Revolu-
tion on Jauly last, the Rev. Bouck
White and ten of his followers, includ-
ing two women, are on trial in New
York City.
Numerous applications have been
made for passage ON the first armed
steamship of the American line to
sail from New York. officials of the
company announce.
Conditions in the congested railroad
yards of the middle west are reported
to be rapidly approaching normal.
The senate and the house of the
Missouri legislature voted to submit a
constitutional amendment providing
statewide prohibition at an election
in November, 1918.
A bill empowering women to vote
on constitutional amendments in New
Mexico was defeated in the senate by
q vote of IA to 8.
The bandit who with companion
robbed the bank Of Collinston, La, of |
So 900 and later shot and killed Mayor
Vaughan of Collinston, member of
the pursuing posse, was captured in
a negro church near Collinston.
Harry F. Black, 26. years old, of Tiff
fin, o., shot and killed his wife, Hazel,
22,, and his mother-in-law, Mrs Will
liam J. Smith, so, and then killed him
self. He was separated from his wife,
One of the leaders OF the Villa junta |
At El Paso said he had dispatched a
courier to Villa to propose an alliance
the Mexican rebels and the
United States government in the event
If Carranza joining Germany as an
lctive ally.
Eighteen hundred men employed by |
he Baldwin Locomotive works at Phil |
ldelphia in making 13-inch shells for
he entente allies were laid off March |
because of completed contracts. ac-
cording IT, an announcement by the
Prince" August Schrader, self-styl- |
ID divine healer, who's trial for alleged /
fraudulent use of the mails was inter
'upted by his illness. died February
Is at the county hospital at Los An
yeles.
The Dela%are senate has rejected
he woman suffrage amendment. s to s. /
Three members were absent. Twelve
-otes were required to pass the
p. G. Tomplxins was killed. VIII
Ioffstetter fatally shot and Jim Hoff-
tetter and Mrs. w. A. Bevington, a
,ystander, were wounded during a
tght in the court house at Nashville,
Tenn.
The Associated Press issued state
nent ON February %, declaring it was
bile to reveal that Germany. in plan
ling unrestricted submarine warfare
md counting its consequences, had
an alliance with Mexico and
fapan to make war on the United
States if this country should not re-
main neutral.
w. J. Bryan. in statement issued
It Jacksonville, Fla, announced he
vas opposed to granting powers to
he president such as Mr.. Wilson re
iuested of congress.
Seventeen suits to recover an ag-
,regate of 2,72D acres of oil land in
he Midway field in Kern county. said
o be worth s2o,000,009. were filed at
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