The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-12-27
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or TIA IMPORTANT
EvEhTs TOLD IN eRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings THAT Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given IN q Few Lines.
rERMoJNTAIN.

Officers at Camp Lewis estimated
that more than 10000 soldiers Will be
sent from This camp either TO Camp
Kearny, Cal, or the Presidio San
Francisco. for mastering out under or
ders received from the war department
that all Californians, Arizonians and
Neyadans there be sent to one Of these
two camps instead Of being discharged
at Camp Lewis.
Word OF the appointment by General
Pershing of DR. James G. Graves Of
Seattle, major In the medical corps
Of the United States army in France,
as one Of the ten physicians and suiN
geons to represent this country at an
inter-allied conference upon the prob
lem Of the disabled soldier, has been
| received.
A complete survey Of positions in
Utah open to discharged soldiers will
be made by the authorities Of Camp
Lewis, Wash, the state council of de-
Tense and the local bureau Of the fed
eral employment bureau.
The president, secretary and assist
ant cashier of the defunct Merchants
bank at Salt Lake have been indicted
| by grand jury of the crime of re-
ceiving deposits in an insolyent bank,
knowing that the bank was insolvent.
Twenty mining companies of Utah
are to bring suit against the state for
S51,0S1 paid as mine occupation
taxes, the suit being to test the valid
ity of the mine occupation tax law
passed by the last legislature.
John II. Cradlebaugh, prominent
Oregon newspaper man, pioneer miner
and frontiersman, who shared the
early life in many sections of the west,
died ut his home at Salem, Ore, De
cember II. He was 20 years old.
DOMESTIC.
The British schooner Pauline Mar
tin, leaking and rudderless, floundered
for weeks in terrific gales in mid-At-
lantle before her crew was rescued, ac-
eordlng to her skipper, Captain
Wayte, and his six seamen, who ar
rived at New York aboard the Swed-
ish steamship Elizabeth.
In its first report on the part 1t is
playing in restoring war workers and
discharged soldiers to peace time In
dustry, the United States employment
service announced that, during the
week ending December z, jobs were
found for S4,2S4 applicants who regis
tered.
Francis ("Silk) 0'Loughlin, famous
as an American league umpire, died at
his apartment at Boston, December 20
after a short Illness Of Influenza and
pneumonia. O'Loughlin had been III
umpire in the American league since
its organization and he had long beer
rated as one of the picturesque figures
In the baseball world.
Bernard Nadal Baker Of Baltimore
shipping expert died at a hospital a
Santa Barbara, Cal, following an i'll
ness Of three days. Mr., Baker cam'
west on advice Of his physicians. Ill
was formerly member of the shiI
ping board and retired at the time
the controversy with William Denmar
The United States army transpor
Henry II. Mallory arrived at NeN
York on Friday with 4461 America
soldiers from Bordeaux, Nine hui
dred and one of the men We're sick
wounded.
-Four negroes two of them womel
accused of the murder of br. p. 4
: Johnston, were taken from the Jail
Shubuta, Miss, and lynched, accordin
r | TO information received at Mobile.
D Dr. d. Nj. Pixley, mayor Of Mort
{ Little Rock, and Lieut., Paul Grabi
b were acquitted of charges of arson
: circuit court at Little Rock, Ark. III
charge grew out of the burning la
February of the clubhouse of the Arm
Athletic association, Of which lieute
q amt Grabiel was manager and In Whit
Mayor Pixley was alleged to have bee
interested.
Representatives OF agriculture,
,lustry labor and business from eigi
cen states will meet In Omaha, Febr
AIRY 1. 3 and 6 next, when the TraI
Mississippi REIMBURSEMENT eongre
conSenes there.
with bullet wound through {
head, the body Of DR. Louis Alvar
Calderon, consul OF Peru in San Fra
cisco, was found in his apartment
San Francisco. A pistol was fou
e close by the body.
The construction division of the arr
has been ordered by the war depa
N ment to abandon work ON the recla
u, alton INIT nj III Paso, Texas.
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