The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-22
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
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 Llnes.
INTERMouNTAIN.

Influenza epidemic conditions remain
unchanged in Utah, as far as the
spread of the disease and the setting
of a definite date for the opening of
places of public assemblage are con-
cerned.
All shipment of troops from Camp
Lewis, Wash, have been suspended by
orders received there from Washing
ton. Several hundred men of the One
Hundred Sixty-sixth depot brigade
who had been assigned to other posts,
but were held because of the influenza
quarantine, are affected
Gables received at Seattle said
thirty-four white residents and $50
Eskimos of Nome, Alaska, have died
as result of the influenza. Nome's
mayor said that the epidemic was on
the decline
Scores of soldiers stationed at Camp
Lewis, Wash, and relatives of soldiers
already are trying to obtain the re
lease of soldiers from the army. The
attempts should not continue and are
demoralizing to the morale of the
army, officers announce.
Because u is more valuable as junk
than as railroad, tint portion of the
Las Vegas & Tonopah System" lying
between Las Vegas and Beatty has
been abandoned and will be sold.
Returns from twenty-four of the
thirty-nine counties of the state on the
questionable sent out by the federal
reclamation service through the Wash
ington State Land Settlement associa-
ton show that there are at least p
| 100000 acres of eastern Washington tr-
rigable lands and approximately p
100000 acres of western Washington
logged-off lands awaiting reclamation.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Mary Simpson, widow was
killed, and twelve persons were injured
in tornado which swept through
Prague, causing property damage es-
| timated at 100000.
4 Excessive Quantities of trinitrotoluo
and other explosives, as well as fin
| ished shells were stored not only in
magazines, but in freight cars about the
plant of the T. A. Gillespie shell load.
ing plant at Morgan last month when
the plant was wrecked by an explo-
sion which killed nearly 100 men, ac-
| cOrding to evidence submitted.
When the city council of Long Beach,
Cal, attempted to make kissing in
public a misdemeanor it acted arbi-
trarily and in violation of the consti-
tuition, according to a decision rendered
by Superior Judge FrankR. Willis.
Edward n, Hurley, chairman of the
United States shipping board, an
nounced Friday on the eve of his de-
parture for Europe that the govern
ment intends to return to this country
speedily large part of American ex-
peditionary forces.
Irving Morgan was convicted of sec
ond degree murde'' in Shelby county
circuit court at Shelbyville, his, for
the murder of his wife. MoTgan threw
his wife from car window.
Extension to November 80 of the
time in which Christmas parcels will
be accepted for mailing to members of
the American expeditionaf1 forces in
France is announced by the postoffice
and war departments.
That women have been doing more
than their bit is illustrated by the fact
that there are about 100 of the fair
sex working in the roundhouses of the
Erie and Pennsylvania railroads at
Kane, Pa.
Shipbuilding ia this country is to be
continued steadily, )ut the program
of the shipping boa d, based Or war
needs, will be revised and designs for
ships will be changed with refe ence
to economical cost of operation,
Chairman Hurley said, outlining the
boards peace time plans.
More than 1882 American prisoners
in German camps We're released imme-
diately by the signing of the German
armistice, according to the latest fig
ures prepared by the American Red
Cross in Switzerland.
Two men were killed in several ex-
plosions in the plant of the Western
Powder Manufacturing company at Ed
wards, Ill.
Victory" bread soon will disappear
from the American table and its place
viii be taken by bread made from
whole wheat flour. Victory for Amer
lean and allied arms, however, is re-
sponsible only in part for the change
1t is chiefly due, according to the food
administration. to the tremendous
wheat crop raised by the American
farmers this year.
The will of Mrs. Margaret Olivia
Sage, who was the widow of Russell
Sage, was flied for probate Wednes-
day at New York, disposing of an es-
tate valued at about SJG.0o0,0Oo. OF
this, 100000 is bequeathed to her
brother, Joseph Slocum.
Although the British, Belgian,
French and American armies have
rested on their arms, they neverthe-
less, are on the alert for any eventu-
aIity And thus If is nurnoSed they