The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-04-05
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD I'M RRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are MakIHg History
information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In Few LInea.
lnrERMouNTAln

NTERMouNTAiN
Negotiations between the Employ.
ers association and The stirling
unions ~ Great Falls. Mont. have
come % an end. without settlement.
The uni8ns gent our two weeks ago on
y demand for higher wages, the com
mon laherer ID tbs city seryice asking
$50 per day as minimum wage
Judge Fred s. stevens died March
Is 81 his ranch two miles eust of
Hlnekfooi, Ida. Judge stevens was the
eldest settler IN the vicinity Of Black
foot. having come there Ia 1863 and
lived continuously since 1866 on his
ranch,
The farmers throughout Idaho are
planting much larger acreage Than
ever before. Wheat AMI sugar beets
VIII b. the prlnclpai crops for this
year.
An liquor III the State II Utah IL
contrHhand and selsable, no matter II
II WAS purchased prior to August !,
1917 when the state went Into the
prohibition column, aud regardless Of
the purchase for which the liquor was
obtained according 10 decision Of
the state supreme court
lrate citizens Of pocntell0 Idaho.
threatened 70 hang young man who
wns reported 10 have made seditious
and dlsloyal remarks The young man
clnims II Is all mistake aud has
proven that he tried to enlist and was |
rejected
Patrick poheriy md stephen Muir
pht have been formally charged with |
aedltion as result o. Insulting re-
marks mude 70 United States soldiers
~ Bnlte
DOMESTIC
a rain approaching cluudbuFsi Ia
severity fell nt SUero Tex. washing
ont crops and endangerlng some 81 the
stock plssarea In the iowlunds along
The Guadalupe river
SIS great German-owned New ler,
sey mUoien mills, with total yalu \
ation ~ more than S70000nOd, have Z
heeu taken over hs tlie alien property :.
custodian, who hus named governing !,
boards u directors 10 assume control
or Them !.
Charles and John purks were found ,
aillty If murder iii the second de-
gree III Stlyer CITY, n. NJ They were
charged with shooting Deputy sheriff
J. II Shamshcr Ill lInehta y NJ.
October 3i The defendants are prom
iutnt cattlrmep Of Grant county Is
President Wilson has teleGrtphcd
Governor William y, Stephens Of Call
forala asking executive Clrmeuey for
Thomas ) Mooney NOW under death
sentence Mooney WAS convicted ia
connection with bomb explosion IN
san Francisco lR preparedness pa.
rlt,it July %, 1915, which caused the
death uf ten persons aud injured forty
others
Ftfty MeSicans crossed the inter
national line az Fahen, Tex, raided
the Place ranch and The ranch Of Fed
erlco Arroeia took four horses from
each II these ranches aud recrossed !
slp liue to Mexico
one hundred and fifty men aud WON.
"a accused * seditlous Talk or Of Ills
regarding orders 10 register rs enemy
aliens we're arrested Ia Chicago on
March IS
All rabarets viii be abolished after
Mas / under the terms u an ordi.
nupsr PASSED ny the Chicago city
council
The court o. criminal appeals has
reversed aud relnanded for new trial
she ease Of Harry 1 saaneli, hotel pro
prletor, who WAS found guilty by a
Coleman county Jury qua sentenced to
serve hyr yours IN the peuitentlRrg for
The murder II Lieutenant Colonel NJ. g,
Butler Z 5, A., at Alpiue, rcxes, July
-. 1910
Cadet a. Ilooten ~ the Royal dying
corps Was killed 1T Everman field
British uytug camp near Fort Worth,
Texas. when hts airpiane got beyond
hls control aud crashed a. the ground,
nis death marked the forty-fourth fa-
tat utiattpn accident az the combined
British and American training fields
since their establishment last fall.
Cancellation of all contracts for
coal. outstanding Aprll I, when the
new game system II distribution be-
comes effective Is under consideration
by Tie fuel administration. This would
sliminate al high price contract coal
and place the conntrys eatlre produc-
tiou under control OF the fuel admin
isiyation.
The blu giving women the right 70
vote 10 Texas primaries and nominal
iag conventions has been signed by
Gov. W. r. Hobby Women VIII be en-
titled 10 vote IN the July primaries
Two were killed and nine injured,
when an aeetyIene tank exploded In the
chain room 81 a merchant ship being
repaired ii the Walk aud Murdoch ship
yards al Charleston. S. G.
Fire and church bells were rung
ut Pomona. Cal, az noon Tuesday as
n signal for people 10 unite ia pub