The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-13
BRIEF REVIEW or
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM
Home and Foreign News Gathered
From All Quarters Of the World,
and Prepared for Busy Men
iNTERMouNTAlN.

Shipyard wOrkmen at Portland, esti-
mated to number several thousand, laid
down their tools at noon Saturday and
refused to work out the day. The
wOrkmen said they were dissatisfied
because the summer Saturday half
holiday had not been extended through
the fall and winter.
There were only fifty cases of COM
municable diseases in Camp Lewis
during the past week among the 3d.
293 men stationed there during that
period, the weekly health report of
Maj. l.. /. McGlassan, camp sanitary
inspector. shows. There were no
deaths.
Charged with desertion, impersonat-
ing an officer of the United States
army and passing bad cnecks, Private
Il. ]. Simmons, who said his home
is In Ogden, Utah, was arrested at q
fashionable hotel at Denver by q
United States secret service agent.
When train on the Uintah railway
leaped from the track at sharp curve
near Atchee, Colo. and rolled down
the mountalnside, the conductor, P. j.
Fitzpatrick of Cimarron, Colo, was
crushed to death and the engineer,
George LYMAN Of Bingham, Utah,
was severely injured.
George Mangios, a section hand, was
killed and George Kasonius, section
foreman, was seriously injured near
Aberdeen, Idaho, in avoiding a colli-
sion between their fast-driven power
section car and school wagon con-
tanning twelve children.
DOMESTIC.
Colonel Horatio Gates Sickles, u. s.
A., retired shot and killed himself in
his home in st. Louis. He was 81
years old, a son and namesake Of a
civil war general, and formerly was in
charge of the Twelfth cavalry. He was
In charge at Columbus, N. NJ, dur
ing the Mexicon trouble.
A man who registered at a hotel as
L. N. Schermerhorn of Des Moines. Ia,
is being held today by the police in
connection with the shooting at Kan
sas City Of woman who said her
name was Miss Ruth Shoemaker, 49, of
Rockwell City, la.
To conserve gold for essential none
tary purposes the government has for
babe issuance Of gold bullion from the
minis at Philadelphia, Denver, San
Francisco and from the New York as
say. office, without license from the
wal, industries board, federal reserve
board or the secretary Of the treasury.
Under new policy of reporting cas-
ualties Of the American expeditionary
forces adopted by the war depart
ment, the names of the men wounded
will be sent to the United States by
courier twice week and only the
names of the dead and missing will be
cabled by General Pershing when the
system Is fully in effect.
Ten. and seven-tenths per cent re-
jections for all causes were figures
given out by the medical examination
board at Camp Kearny as indicating
the. high physical qualifications of
about 1000 recruits whose examina.
tons had been completed.
Plans for collecting fruit pits and
nut shells to be used in making gas
masks for the army have been extend
ed to the home and all persons are
urged to deposit their collections in re-
ceptacles provided by hotels and res
taurants, according to an announce
ment made at New York.
Ninety-three members of the I. W.
w., including Secretary William D.
Haywood, were placed aboard a spe-
cial train on the Rock Island road at
Chicago, Friday night, under heavy
guard, to be taken to Fort Leaven-
worth prison.
Persons writing poetry, fiction and
advertisements are engaged in essen
tial industries and are not affected by
the ''work or fight" rules, according to
information by the provost marshal
generals office to a Boston draft
board.
One man was killed and forty-three
were injured, several seriously, when
three coaches of Rock Island train
were derailed at Comanche, Okla. The
dead and injured were members of a
party of eighty drafted men from Gar
field county, Oklahoma, on their way
to training camp.
Nearly a million railroad employees,
including clerks, track lab0rers and
Of way men, are to re-
ceive wage increases of $25 month,
the equivalent of 81 day or IL cents !
an hour, over the pay they received
last January /, under wage order
issued by Director General McAdoo.
A bomb exploding in the entrance
Of the federal building at Chicago, on
Wednesday afternoon, killed four per-
sons and wounded rs others. The blast |
was attributed to the I. w. w. by
Philip J. Parry, acting chief Of the
local federal investigation bureau.
On the ground of German owner
ship, the American Transatlantic Co.,
which, until it's ships were comman-
daarod nv the shining hoard last Or. |