The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-25
NEWS OF A WEEK N
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In, a Few Lines.
iNrERmouNTAIN.

METROPOLITAN.
Manufacturers in Utah are highly
interested in the hearing being CON
Quoted by the state public utilities
commission in the petition Of Utah
railroads for permission to increase
coal freight rates - cents per ton.
The state council Of defense for
Idaho has gone on record as fayoring
a special session Of the legislature TO
enact needed legislation.
Federal agents asserted at Seattle |
that German spy pilot masquerading
as helmsman under the name Of
william Swanson" stood at the
wheel Of the Alaska liner Spokane
when she crashed on the rocks on lido!
Point, B. c., on the night Of Novem-
Der %, 1917, while bound from south
| eastern Alaska for Seattle with 23I
| passengers.
Three men, Sherman A. Howell, col
! Ored; Ray Gullich, alias O'Neill, and
| Frank Fisher, We're hanged in the jail
| yard at Butte, Mont, for murder. The
three men dropped through single
| trap.
A determination TO stand behind the
| government in the prosecution OF the
war to successful termination was
expressed by the delegates to the
American National Livestock associa-
ton convention which opened at Salt
Lake January IA.
Frank Skull, aged g., Mrs. Agnes
Perme. IS, and Frank Perme, IL, all
Of Pueblo, were frozen TO death in
blizzard three miles north Of Eads,
Colo.
DOMESTIC.
Seven armed men raided the CoSmo-
politan club. in the heart of the down
town district at Minneapolis, took ap-
proximately $1,000 in cash and $500
worth of jeweIry from seven faro play
ers and the dealer and about $500 in
cash from thirty loungers in the club
rooms. They escaped with their booty
A hunt for the prettiest girl in
America. whose picture Will be borne
by posters advertising government in
surance for soldiers, is announced by
: he soldiers and sailors campaign
counsel. a body of insurance men and
army officers in charge OF special
[ drive to solicit insurance before Feb.
ruIary l..
EXPERTS under the aircraft prOduc-
l ton board are 1T work, it is learned
upon an engine that is expected 10 sur
pass the Liberty moter in power. while
retaining All the qualities for quantity
: production
There is plenty Of grain to supply
the needs of the United States and tht
allies during 1918, but it is up TO tins
government TO move it from the farm:
10 the centerS of distribution, repre-
sentatives from grain exchanges from
q all over the country declared At th'
9 convention at Chicago of the Aationa
Q Council of Grain Exchanges.
Samuel Gonpers, president OF tn
American Federation OF Labor, de
e clared that the workers of the natiol
! will be the greatest sufferers from IN
/ fuel restriction order.
: For five days beginning Friday. jar
= uary IS. every industry in the Unite
States east of the Mississippi river VII
= be closed down in order 10 effect
saving of fuel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Guistorf, arrested q
" Hanford Cal, as a German agent VII
seditious documents in her possession
is suffering from mental aberrat1o
II and there is no truth in statement
She has made that she is 4 German sp
in this country. according to an III
nouncement by federal authorities.
Nearly a score of men, most of whol
were believed 10 be negroes, WeE
drowned in the estuary channel
Tampa. Fla. when two skiffs in wlie
they were being ferried across upse
only four deaths occurred anon
the 1900 troops in the western u
partment OF the army last week, q
cordins to the report rendered Maze
/. General Arthur Murray. commander
At San Francisco, by the departAei
surgeon.
mob took Sim Edwards, q negr
accused of killing 1T-year-otd Yer
willis. from jail AT Hazelhurst. Mis-
and burned him TO death mile an
half from town.
Fonr vessels of the shipping boar
fleet being brought from the Gre'
Lakes TO the Atlantic seaboard WEI
1 IoSr in terrific ST. Lawrence storm
| it is announced by the shipping boar
| Captain Bin Mcdonald, not'
Texas ranger and personal friend N
bodyguard of several presidents, ul'
m Wichita Falls. Texas, January !
Theodore Roosevelt accepted 4
honorary presidency of the America
Defense society ut luncheon given
the organization at New York.
Residents of five western states mi
| eat all the beef they want on meatle
4 DAYS. bur NO other meats, under a II
| ing by the food administration q
i signed to meek a peculiar situation