The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-01-11
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Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad. inyoIy-
Ing about s32,O00.00O, was confirmed
n q decision handed down In the
United States circuit court 81 appeals
at New York
THE indictment. charging Congress.
man John III Nelson and his son. by.
ron Nelson, with conspiracy 70 evnde
the draft INV, waa aunshed by Federal
Judge Charles Carpenter IF Chicago
~ the United States coHrf n Madison,
Wis
Louis Fots, Republican,, runnng on
lnn America fifst4 platform. defeated
Edmund Il Metns, Socialist. III spe.
ciai election III the Eighth senatorial
district ~ Wisconsin Fons will fill
the scat vncated III the state senate
BY Frank Reguse. who was expelled
last spring by file legislature for an
alleged disloSal remark.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson laid before con
ference If house leaders on Friday a
definite Legislative policy to develop
the nations water power, 100000
horsepower of which Is estimated By
government engineers 10 be wasted an
nualiy.
i Pians for q TWO billion dollar gov
eminent ship-bulIding program were
revealed when the shipping board
asked congress Tor authority "a place
ST0IoO00O0 worth IL additional ship
contracts.
The American railroads are not TO
be turned back 10 their private own
ers unless congress DEGREES, under the
terms OF The Administrations railroad
bin introduced january 1.
Fifty thousand real slackers III the
| United Suites y Provost Marshal Gem
erhI CrowderB estlmate III his report
g Secretary Baker That calculation
supposes that ten men 10 each regis.
tratlon district have escaped service
without being caught.
| Herbert q Hoover food admlnistra.
tor wound up his stormy session he
fore the senate manufactures aubcom-
mittee late Thursday with the declara-
tlou TINT America viii have fair
sugar supply this year, with prices
reasonable.
All men for the war armies still to
be raised by the United States viii
come from elass one under the new
selective service plan Provost Mar
shat General Cr0wder has announced.
/ A substitute for the war tax law Is
% be introduced soon by Senator
smoot- II would practically recon,
sttuct the present income and excess
profits tax sections from which II Is
proposed To obtain about three-fourths
~ the total amount TO be raised by the
hlll
FOREIGN.
I,nst year a0I Norwegian vessels
with nm aggregate tonnage OF 100000
were sunk an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Copenhagen reports. Sine,
the beginning Of the war 2l5 Danish
ships With totnl tonnage Of 2240O(
have been sunk aud 23i Danes have
been Killed.
Floods III siam, worst since 1891
are devastating the country. Dis
patches from the American lega
lion NJ bangkok say the water hn'
risen 70 the roofs Of houses, causing
great crop and cattle losses A relic
commission has been appointed,
The Carranza garrison at Cruces
chihuahua, was annlhIlaiea hy viil
" bandits last week, 1t Il reported.
Tho Teuton 'camouaagodn peac
clause, which by It's phraseolog
: pledges the central powers against ~
neXution. but IN spirit aims At swa
a lowing i've Russian borderlands, ha
= heen rejected By the Russians,
z Compulsory ratlonlng Is to be pt
into effect IN England at an earl
D date. according 10 Lord Raondda, Il
u food controller
r The Marquis ~ Groves, former lol
~ president % the council the nai
d, Press says, has loaned his LondC
y hOmc. Grove house, 10 the gnyerhme
Fur national purpose, The hou
II wilt be used, il Is sald, as the offtct
Ia Headquarters of yiscount Northclit
Il and the British mission TO the Unit
ID states. thus becoming great Angl
American exchange devoted to 4
~ work III the two countries
be A train on the Southern Pacific
lu Mexico WAS attacked 1T point thlrt
II two mites south 81 EmpRme, Sonoy
and from twenty to thirty passenge
ut were killed,
ed Eighteen British merchantmen
ud 1850 tons az over have been sunk
.th mine or Submarine during the III
40 wepk Mine French merchant shit
lily We're sunk
IN the lasy year 1000 trawlers, viii
ct are uspd as uine sweepers around {
ht British isles, have swept an avera
e Of 5000 square mites daily. III
1ei swept ~ 1000 German mines,
soy Another attempt 20 cross the Pia
.ud river has hee0 defeated by the Italia
The the Wur office announces Half
score az vessels loaded with enel
of troops were dispersed ut mtestadt
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