The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-24
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN eRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few LInes.
INTERMouNTAIN

Nary, appointed by Governor Witty
combe last winter to complete the I'M
expired term of the late Senator Lane,
of Oregon, and Oswald West, former
governor, were elected candidates in
the general primaries for the seven
year senatorial term beginning next
March. McNary is Republican and
West Democrat.
Nearly 200 patients had narrow
escape from death, and damage esti-
mated at many thousands of dollars
| was caused when fire completely de-
stroyed the engine room containing
the heating and lighting system, to-
gether with the laundry, at a Salt
Lake hospital.
Members of the Oregon and Wash
ington Poultry Breeders association
have offered to give free settings of
eggs to all people who will promise
to set the eggs and raise the chickens
| for market. The offer is war meas
ure.
The last of the national army re-
cruits received at Camp Lewis, Wash,
in the April draft were put through
the mastering office of the depot bril-
gate on May 10, and became either
soldiers or were sent back to civilian
life as unfit.
Two Oregon counties, Union and
Wallowa, on May Ia announced them
selves lover the top" in the second
national Red Cross drive, which opens
officially May 20. The joint quota of
the counties, which comprise one dis
trict Tor the coming state Red Cross
campaign is $4,000.
DOMESTIC
The meat packing industry as at
present constituted was denounced as
"a vicious system, which STILES live
stock raising, SO vital in the prosecu-
ton of the war and in feeding our ma
ton and our allies" in an address by
United States Senator John B. Ken
drick of Wyoming before the conven-
ton of the National Livestock eX-
change at New York.
Wooden ships have been launched
at the rate of more than one day
for the past four weeks.
German hospital, one of the oldest
institutions in San Francisco, bearing
that name since 1854, became Frank
lin hospital Friday by vote of the di.
rectors.
William Fl. Carlson, former mayor
of San Diego, and several years age
q banker at Los Angeles, has been sen
fenced to four years Imprisonment fol
using the mails to defraud in the sale
of Imperial valley land.
DIR. w. HI. Bruce, SO, retired
physician of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn, gave
his wife a dose of what he thought
was quinine in an effort to cure cold
Mrs. Bruce soon complained of being
i'll, and in an effort to reassure her
DR.. Bruce himself took dose of the
drug. The wife died shortly after
wards and DIR. Bruce cannot recover
The New York assay office has
shipped to the orient in the last week
about 100000 worth Of silver bars
in accordance with an arrangement eff
fected with the British government
some time ago to stabilize silver in In
dia. where it forms the principal me
dunn of exchange in trading opera
lions.
"a superwheat," containing IA PEE
cent gluten. has been evolved by Luth
er Burbank, the noted California hor
ticulturist, after experiments extend
ing over eleven years. The wheat ma.
be grown In any climate.
The death rate at national army ant
national guard camps last week wa
the lowest since last November, tn
surgeon-general has reported. Tota
deaths were 1872 against 18S the weel
before.
The Sacramento, CAL, city board o
education voted to close the city school
June z, approximately three week
y earlier than usual, in order TO releas'
, children for farm work.
| Thirty business buildings were de
stroyed at Fulton, s. D., when higl
winds swept the flames from blaz'
In the railroad yards into the bushes
section of the town.
and other establishments were calie
upon May Is by the federal food ao
ministration for the state to contribut
their wheat flour savings to collet
, ton of flour to be taken to ports
the allies by fleet of ships built i
California.
Plans had been made in 1914 70
. a revolution of Germans in the Unite
States in case this country should b
drawn into the European war; accord
ing to testimony at the state attorne
generals investigation at New York
hidden munitions.
Stark Starkensen, one of the liet
tenants of Vilhajalmar Stefanson, tn
Arctic explorer. has set out at the hea
:. of an expedition of exploration acros
. the Arctic ice in search of new land
Z ! according TO letters received here frol