The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-06-21
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
accord or 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.
lNTERMouNTAlN.

since the old territorial days, passed |
out of existence at midnight Saturday !
night, under orders from the war de-
partment. This action is taken as pro-
lection to the men who are to be quar- |
tered at the University of Nevada this
summer for training in technical
work
Maj Gen. George NJ. Randall, re
tired, veteran of the civil and Spanish
American wars, died at Denver, June
IA, after a short illness, aged "a years.
He retired in October, 1905.
E. e. kellogg, a retired farmer living
at Mount Pleasant, Ore, charged with
disloyal utterances, was given a coat
of tar and feathers by twenty-five
men, who went to the place in auto
mobiles.
Andrew O. Ceilings Of Salida, Colo,
was killed and fifty three persons were
injured Wednesday afternoon near
Salt Lake City, when a Rio Grande
passenger train jumped the track and
went into the ditch. The japanese
section foreman is blamed, it being
charged the rails had not been spiked
down, and that he had failed to flag
the train.
At a conference of "wet" and "dry"
forces held at Reno, an agreement was
reached under the terms of which Ne
vada will go dry in 1920.
At Walla Walla, Wash, a stream of
water was turned on fifteen Industrial
Workers Of the World, jailed several
weeks ago as federal prisoners. This
treatment quelled a disturbance that
had been in progress almost contlnu-
ously since the men were placed 10
Jail.
DOMESTIC.
Use of luxurious private cars has
been discontinued by the railroad adj
ministration except In a few cases of
serious illness, when a patient must
be moved with unusual care. In addi-
ton, railroad executives have their
office cars for business uses.
| The steamer f. A. Kilburn was de
stroyed by fire Friday off Key West,
Fla. Captain Wailard of San Fran
cisco and all Of the crew, numbering
thirty-one, were saved.
Martin PIunkett, Socialist candidate
for governor and secretary in Con
necticut OF that party, was arrested by
department Of justice agents ut his
place of business in Wallingsford,
Conn, Friday afternoon on charge of
violating the espionage act
Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood. COM
mandant Of the first naval district said
in a statement at Boston that mot
one single report of the presence of
any enemy submarine in these waters
| had been confirmed"
| Former President William Howard
Taft said in an address at Rock Is
land, his, the war would be over and
won by the time the United States
had been in the conflict three years.
Elton Mitchell, a farmland negro,
was lynched by mob near Earle,
Tenn. Mitchell wounded Mrs. w. F.
Langston, wife Of a prominent Earle
| planter.
Instead of staying at White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, to recuperate from
his throat trouble, Secretary McAdOo
may make a trip through the west in
the next few weeks.
The lower house of the Arizona leg
islature has passed a bill creating a
state council of defense to consist of
the governor, chairman and fourteen
members. one from each county to be
named by the governor and approved
/ by the county supervisors,
More thau million men will be in
service in France in the near future,
declared Secretary of War Baker in
/ an address Wednesday to 1877 gradu-
ates of the United States Military
academy at West Point.
William G. Russell of Lubbock, Tex,
was found guilty at Ell Paso, Tex, of
the murder of Charles Qualey and his
sentence fixed at ten years in the state
4 prison.
Six st. Paul (Afinn.l Socialists who
refused to obey military commands
were sentenced to twenty-five years at
\ hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, 1t
was announced Saturday at Camp
/ Dodge, Iowa.
The fate Of organized baseball for
the duration of the war will be deter
mined within the next few days. In
4 that time Provost Marshal General
Crowder will render a decision as TO
| whether his work or fight order will
be applicable to the national game.
I
Frank ]. Michael, % years old. Of
st Louis, who was killed in battle in
| France, was a distant relative OF the
| kaiser, according to his mother, Mrs.
William ]. Michael, who Thursday said
her maternal great grandmother was
a second cousin Of the German en-
/ peror.
William Jennings Bryan, speaking at
4 the rally of Anti-saloon league workers,
said he had no doubt that within the
| coming year enough states win have
ratified the federal prohibition amend
ment to cause intoxicating liquor TO be
baniShed from the nation.