The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-16
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD in BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Hsppeplngs That Are MsElnp sslsterg
--lnsorrstIon Gathered from All
Quarters ef tina Globe ARD
Given IN . Few Lines.
lNrERMounrAIN.

hi which Utah, Neyasia and other vest
efn states viii BE- represented.
salmon fishing ia Alaska waters q
ever for the season and The pack u
the Bristol bay cnnneries Is approxi-
malels The same as last year. ,5O0,-
600 eAses according to adyices receiy-
"a II Portland
The 9yenr.oId son Of john Mooney,
n rancher, shot and killed Mrs win
Mooney and sounded her son, Archie,
Years Of age, III his fathers rnnch
near Buffalo, wyo,
Changes III the registration law IL
Idaho since the last general election
make Il necessary for all voters to
register again this fan II they want
70 vote, whether they voted last time
pf not
Municipal ownership 81 the water
plant was voted Ia Denver By i heavy
majority, according TO incomplete re.
tuns, The proposal was Ia the form %
bond issued for Si8.n7O0OO submitted
20 the taxpayers
The Colorado supreme court has
stopped temporarily the lunking Of the
Colorado Midland railway, granting an
application to stay action until the |
attorney general has had IA opp0rtuHl.
" 70 present On application Tor writ /
~ supersedeus
DOMESTIC.
Charles W. Morris. q pacills, who
taid the court he would not tight II
The Turks sent m army ID America and
carried on American women for their
harems, was sentenced BY The federal
court a. Roanoke. Va, to ninety days
IN jail,
George n. Howard, secretary OF
state ~ Texas, has enlisted IN the
United States navy us an apprentice
seamchn ~ New Orleans,
Advertising, either through news
papers or rs other means, 20 obtain
unakllied iabnr rs employers engaged
wholly 81 partly on whr work with d
maximum force Of morc than 100 men
e prohibited By nm order issued b. the
department ~ labor
The United states guards. organized
70 strength of forty baltnllons, e
being filled out ~ The transfer Of men
81 draft age who after Induction into
service ami trdlning have been found
disqualified hy minor physical defects
for overseas service.
Fire. originating from the explosion
81 trench mortar shell, destroyed
five buildings, blew up two powder
magazines. exploded scores of shells
and lid damage estimated mt 100000
al The Western Cartridge company at
East Alton, Ills,
Loss uf i7l.0O0,O0O bushels ot corn
ana ia.O00.Oo0 bushels OF wheat from
the prospective production of this
years Important food crops. as indl.
rated a month ago was shown IN the
department Of agrieulture's crop report
resulting from canvass made August
AIRS. Carrie sterling divorced wife
George slerllnE committed suicide ut
The palatial home Of her sister, Mrs.
Frank Ravens az Oakland hy swallow
ing cyanide Of potassium
orders for the immediate moblliga-
ton At Camp wausworth. Spartan.
burg. 5. O., Of the Slavic legion, author
ised by the army appropriation bill
have been announced
Information that the American
steamship MeFaE, 30a9 tons gross, was
sunk b. d German submarine Off Cape
Hatteras on Tuesday has been received +
IN mnrine insurance circles at New
York one small boat containing elgh-
teen meuhers Of the crew Is sill ua-
accounted for
Sandbags carried to the sea's depths
the body Of Captain Y Yamamoto.
master o. the Japanese steamer Cana.
"a Maru who ended his life at a
Canadian Pacific port because, Il IL
believed he Feared disgrace as result
= the siraadlug nf his command Jaly
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twenty two ~ the twenty-four
haHrats Oh Gerstner eviation field.
negF Lake Charles. Ga. were blown
down aud many airplanes destroyed OF
81 tlrely swept sway by the tropical
= ,m which struck that region GA Au-
Fust q
one msn Was killed aad over a
eoFr Were seriously Injured as a re.
>ul, d "a explosion. followed by many I
~ cse,iiug explosions GA an American
irejghter ui New York.
Army and marine corps casualties
reported from overseas during the
week ehdiHE August ! Increased 1880 I
col Ipared with 1850 the week before.
Total casualties reported are 1876.
ineludiug the army list Of iS3--the I
largest number SCI reported Ia single
day d marine corps list OF two.
secreiury W. G. MeAdoo, speaking az
Chicago 81 the next Liberty loan said
',rhe rate ~ interest win be AZ per
cent II would be- ridiculous 10 raise
this interest Il would mean that the
American people we're trying 10 lift
iIe3s slvs % by their boot straps