The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-04
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vada win be fixed at conference of
coal dealers with the federal fuel adj
mlnistrator for Nevada, at Wirnemue-
en-, on January ?.
The Catholic war fund being raised
Ia Nevada through the instrumentaIity
Of the Knights Of Columbus, Is steadi-
~ growing despite the handicap OF
other relief campaigns.
Apple rinds ana peanut butter is the
latest soup mixture for war times adj
yocated by Miss Lillian Tingle. head
OF the department Of household arts
at the University Of Oregon.
Bonnie Pitts, an Indian convicted In
Douglas county in 1913 and sent to
the Nevada state prison for man
slaughter, was arrested in Reno last
week on charge Of having violated
his parole.
Demands for % per cent increase
IN wages having been refused, nearly
200 men employed In the refining, cast
ing and anode furnace departments
Of the Tacoma smelter went on strike
last week.
Wooden shipbuilders of Oregon In
session at Portland, voted to assure
Chairman Hurley Of the United States
shipping board that Oregon will furn-
Ish the government $50 wooden hulls
in 1918 IL desired.
Claiming that California Is not ex-
tending Nevada proper courtesy as a
part Of the First internal revenue dis
trict of California, the Reno CONNER
cIal club has asked that Nevada be
made a separate revenue district
Fred Green and Miss Jessie Whar-
ton were killed almost Instantly near
| Butte, when train struck their auto
| mobile Green was a member of the
| engineering department Of the mines
of Senator w. A. Clark at Butte.
Twenty-Five thousand cancelled pos
| tage stamps, representing thirteen adj
minlstrations, have been used by Mrs.
| Sarah Erickson of Aberdeen Wash, to
make government coat-of-arms. The
stamps were gathered in the last
twenty-five years.
An open war on impure milk, with
arrest of dealers, has been declared by
| the Reno board Of health following the
! entrance by the city milk inspector
! of eight downtown establishments and
the selling of various quantities of al
legged dirty milk.
AS a result of an opinion written
| by Attorney General Brown, the in
| dustrial accident commission of Ore
| gon will suspend payment of benefits
under the compensation act to laborers
| or their dependents who are subjects
of Germany or Austria.
A fire in the boiler room Of the state
penltentiary at Salem, Ore, while
many of the prisoners and guards
.sua,,.. .4,Iliopina a lnovinR picture show
in the prison auditorium, threatened
the institution and made hard work
necessary to extinguish the flames.
The estate of the late David II,
Moffat of Denver, builder of the "Mof-
fat road" owed $1,S52,000 more than
1t had assets when he died, according
to report to the attorney general of
Colorado by examiners of the inner.
itance tax department of his office.
That S. L. Graham, boss railroad
switchman at Auburn, WASH, shot and
+, killed William Applesteele, night
| Waterman at the Auburn transfer
shed, is the gist of an alleged confess
sion obtained Friday from ]. e. Casey,
a switchman who worked with Ora.
| ham.
| For the first time since the resig.
nation OF A. w. Hendrick as president
of the University of Nevada, nearly
year ago, the institution has an of.
ficially appointed president in charge
Of affairs in the person Of DIR. w. +.
Clark, who arrived from New York
City last week.
Whisky confscated in recent raids
by Seattle officers and valued at about
$1,000, was last week turned over to
the Womeu's League for National
Service for use in army hospitals. Ap
proNimately $4,000 worth OF contra
band liquor has been disposed Of il
this way in the last few months.
Street singing of Christmas carol,
by school children was phase of tn,
Red Cross Christmas membership
drive in Denver. A hundred little tot
rode through the streets in tramwa.
cars, stopping ut important corners t,
render carols and going into hotels an,
department stores to sing from bal
comics.
BY agreement the estate of Ma
Arkwright Hutton, which has been tn
,, subject OF litigation in the Washing
, ton and Idaho courts for sever0
months, was settled at Spokane by |
w. Hutton and the Youngstown, O
and Portland, Ore, heirs by the pun
, chase of their interest for $4,000 /
! cash. The heirs win pay the 3 pc
! cent inheritance tax.
Arapahoe county is saving none
n through curtaIlmeut Of expenses col
2 uected with the county jail at Iittl,
8 ton, Colo, because prisoners are vii
tnv to toIand ,yuflfV Ia most any cbarp