The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-07-05
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNTERMouNTAlN.

lNTERMouNTAlN.
California and Nevada will be called
upon to furnish practically the entire
amount of tungsten required by the
United States, according to J. II. Nc
Kenzie of the United States bureau Of
mines.
With more than half the 5000 citi-
zens Of Cleelum, Wash, homeless, the
result of Tuesdays devastating fire,
leading citizens face with scant hope
the problem of reconstructlng the
town. The loss is over million dol
ars.
g. II. Young, Seattle, Wash, was
elected president of the association OF
governmental labor officials of the
United States and Canada in conven-
ton at Des Moines.
Officials of the United States forest
district No. /, which includes western
Montana and northern Idaho, esti-
mate that forest fire fighting in the
district in June will cost approximate
! ly $4,000
Construction of a 55-mile highway
across the main range of the Rocky
mountains from Glacier Park station
OH the east to Bolton, Mont, on the
west viii be started Immediately by
the state highway commission, it was
announced Wednesday at Helena.
With the exception of serious fire
along Kalispell creek in the Kaniksu
forest, all dangerous forest fires in dis
trict No. 1, in Montana, of the United
States forest service have been put
under control or checked.
Women will be welcomed into the
ranks of organized labor in the state
of Washington, where they take mems
places in the emergency created by
the war, and the unions will support
them in obtaining equal pay with mer
when they do mems work.
DOMESTIC.
Daniel Stone and Mrs. Roma Brouck
father and daughter, were shot anC
Instantly killed at Blaco, Okla, b!
Perry Tucker, neighbor Tucker
was arrested and placed in Jail. N,
motive for the double killing has beer
discovered.
Three men We're killed outright, al
army major was fatally injured, and
score or more hurt when an electri
train crashed into an auto true
loaded with stone at Elmhurst, III.
The nomination of Governor Lynn ]
Frazier of Hoople, N. D., non-partisal
league candidate, over John Steen 0
Rugby, Endorsed by the Independent
Voters association, in the Republican
gubernatorial race in the primaries i
conceded.
A quarter of million America
boys between the ages of 16 and p ar
going to help increase war food pre-
duction this summer. Thirty-seven @
the AS states report an actual enrol
ment of 100000 and an expected ell
rollment of 100000. Several larg
states still are to report.
Edward Cermak, Chicago, wandere
wounded for eight days in no man
land and was rescued by Red eros
/ party, according to letters received b
I the young mans parents from Re
Cross headquarters in the field.
A loss of between $7,000,00O an
$S000,000 in corn alone was sustaine
by Northern Indiana farmers ms a r
. suit of the frost last Saturday nigh
according to estimates made public
the Purdue university agricultural e
, pertinent station.
! Charles NJ. Jackman, residel
of Chicago, British subject, who WI
taken prisoner by the Germans in 10
, from the steamship konnng2n Re
! entes, and held until last January,
home again. He was released in ,
!. exchange of prisoners. He rep0
: prisoners are starved and otherwi
) mistreatment by the Germans.
) Five workmen who were digging
shaft in tunnel near Oakland, Ca
to locate water supply source, we
killed Instantly when they dug in
= and exploded pocket of natural q
/ Fifty-fve members of the Hage
. back-Wallace shows who lost the
lives in Michigan Central railro
! wreck near Gary, Ind, We're buried
I Wednesday in one gigantic grave
Woodlnwn cemetery in Forest park,
Chicago suburb.
!, Mrs. William Cumming Story, for
/, er president general of the Daughtt
of the American Revolution, was
rested Wednesday ut New York
indictments charging her with gra
4 larceny in connection with the AHA
Y Of the National Emergency Relief
u eiety, of which she is president.
Texas became officially dry"
June &c. when bill enacted by
special session of the legislature d
,e which prohibits the manufacture
sale of intoSicants within the ST
/ q In