The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-02-02
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM.
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
lNrERMouNrAIN.

Utah guardsmen engaged in a tight
with Mexicans west OF Ariraca. Ariz.
None OF the guardsmen were injured.
The Rev. II. Martyr Hart, dean OF
the Cathedral OF st. John the Divine,
appeared Ia police court at Denver.
admitted he had left an automobile
given by his parishionera standing
more than the hour limit on down.
town street, and received a fine OF SIS
and costs. The fine was later re.
mitted.
A peaceful boycott 10 not Illegal and
cannot be abated a. a nuisance, ac,
cordlng to a decision OF the Montana
supreme court. The court upheld the
decision Of the lower courts In deny
ing an Injunction asked by a Butte
theatre against the Silver bow Trades
and Labor council and others.
Speaker Boon Best created sensa.
ton In the lower house Of the Colorado
legislature by ordering the sergeant.
alarms 20 exclude from the floor all
persons Interested for or against any
measure before the legislature.
The stock judging team from the
University OF Nebraska won tho an.
aual college students stock Judging
contest at the Denver livestock show.
Alfred G. Watts OF Salt Lake City
was reelected president OF the Rocky
Mountain Coal Mining institute at the
semLannual convention at Denver.
The lower house OF the Utah legis.
laturo has passed drastic dry" bill.
only one member voting against L.
The senate Is not expected TO concur
In the measure. and II II does the
governor Will veto IL. II Ii expected
the senate win present d more accept.
able measure.
DOMESTIC.
Fifteen 10 twenty passengers on the
steamship Prince John were rescued
by other steamers after the Prince
John had struck rock and had been
heaehed on the coast OF southeastern
Alaska.
President Wilson has scnt letter
60 Mrs, Carrie Chapman Gait, presi.
dent 81 the National American Wo
mans Suffrage association, congrat-
ulating her upon passage by the
North Dakota legislature OF bill
granting 70 tho women OF that state
the right 70 vote for presidential
electors and for municipal officers.
Arthur Waldo Dewey OF London,
England, cousin of the late Ad.
mIral George Dewey, was stricken
with heart disease on trolley car in
Boston and died while being removed
70 a hospital,
Asserting that a sentence In prison
should teach far.reaching lesson 10
factory owners and tenants who fail
to provide proper fire exists, supreme
Court Justice Kapper sent samuel
Barkin to Sing Sing for from two and
half 10 five and half year. Nine
women and four men lost their lives
In fire in a building owned by
Harkin.
Directors Of the Chicago. Milwaukee
Il ST. Paul railway have authorized
the eleetrification OF some 200 miles OF
the road from othello. in the state OF
Washington. TO tho Pacific coast.
Food exports generally from the
United States fell off $4,000, 900 last
year.
In statement given out at Boston.
Cardinal Gibbons expresses the hope
that President Wilson will veto the
immigration bill.
An anti-liquor bill presented TO the
Kansas legislature by the temperance
committee of the lower house would
permit the use OF liquors only for
church communions and medicinal pur-
poses in Kansas
Eleven men, among them two Re.
publican city councilmen, an assistant
clerk OF the city council. and Ham,
ilton county deputy sheriff. who were
named in indictments returned by the
federal grand jury in connection with
alleged frauds at the last presiden
tial election, have been arrested al
Cincinnati.
Coincident with the withdrawal Of
General Pershing's force from Mexico
an urgent appeal probably win be sem
by the United States to Carranza L
make every possible effort to protec
foreigners in the district that has beer
occupied by American troops for tn,
past ten months.
Nearly half million acres Of OF
land in the San Joaquin valley, Cal,
valued at $S2,O00.OOO. are at stake ii
the governments suit against tn,
Southern Pacific railroad on trial a
New York.
Botulism, rare disease contracts
by eating infected food, was name
by the Coroner as the cause of tw
deaths at San Diego.
The amount of whisky consumed b
the American peope il 1916 appa
emily was greater than in any previou
year since 1909, according to tax r.
turns to the treasury department
Potatoes at Sc a bushel have mad
their appearance at Aurora, T.
They we're new ones, and dealers gel