The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-08-16

A total OF 1.1B1 ,065 voters registered
In California between january and
July q last, according 70 Frank e..
Jordan, secretary OF state. or this
number 126,sS3 declined to state any
party affiliations.
Twenty thousand dollars booty was
secured Thurday afternoon from the
Southside bank ~ Indianapolis by
three bandits. The boldness Of the day
light robbery disarmed SUSPECT > by
the cashier when The bandits entered
the hank Al the point OF the pistol
they compelled che delivery Of their
loot, then departed hastily.
The known dead AZ The result Of the
hurricane which struck southeast
Louisiana Tuesday afternoon stands
al eighteen, The property loss VIII
total si.000,0W
Apples cooking on the trees In the
great orchard region Of northern Vir-
Rlnia Is one 81 The freaks Of nature
eaased BY the hot spell
WASHINGTON.
John w Jarrett, American minister
/ At Tho Hagne, has been designated to
represent the state department ma 10
head The mission Of the United States
which viii meet German delegates st
Bern, Switzerland, within month 10
discuss the treatment and exchange OF
prisoners OF war.
Restrictions on the consumption OF
beef IN public eating places, and the
voluntary restrictions on householders,
lave been removed by the food admin
sEtratlon.
New draft regulations under which
the government would DO the selecting
ruther than leaving It 20 the registrant
are under consideration by the war de-
partment.
Calls for l30,207 draft registrants
qualified for general military service
70 Join the colors before the end Of
August were issued August s by the
provost-mnrshalg one hundred
thousand white reglstrants from forty
three states are ordered cntrained be-
tween August 20 aud August 30. Tween
ty-one states aud the District Of Column
bia are directed TO furnish 80,2O7 negro
regisrants, 10 entrain August 22.24.
Voluntary enlistments Ia the army
ana navy were suspended completely
on August 8, to prevent disruption OF
Industry pending disposition Of the bill
proposing TO amend draft ages to In.
clude all men between Is and 40 years |
Government acquisition and control
of al the principal stockyards, cold
storage plants and warehouses and
both refrigerator and cattle cars has
been recommended to the president by
The federal trade commission.
FOREIGN.
The French and British have gone
ahead with such rapldlty In Picardy
hat the Germans retreat must have
reached the proportions OF a rout In
places, The whole bottom Of the great
rlcardy salient WIS fiattened out In |
two days,
A squadron OF italian alrplanes, com
by Capt Gabrielle d'Annunzio.
has flown over Vienna ana droppeo
The planes were not
nolested
Gen. klkuzo Otani, one of Jnpan's
most distinguished soldiers. has been
chosen 10 command the Japanese see
lion aud win be the ranking officer
u the American ana allied expedition
in Siberia,
A dispatch 60 the Exchange Tele-
graph from Copenhagen says the Petro-
grad newspaper Pravda, organ Of the
announces thar following
a stormy meeting OF the workmen's
and soldiers deputies, Premier ienine
sent an ultImatum 20 Japan concern,
Ing Japan's Intervention In siberia.
French peasants found by the Ameri.
can soldiers In cave near vile Savoy,
just south OF the yesle, had been told
by the Germans that Il the Americans
discovered them the men would be XIII.
ed and the women mlstreNted,
The Russian government has issued
a declaration that a state Of war exists
between England and Russia, accord
Ing 70 q dispatch 10 the Lolsni Anzeiger
OF Berlin, which prints the news with
reservation"
NANAHhAihAA GAilNN WIS ltMNANIdttu /
president o. Colombia on August Z
with imposing ceremonies. II Is re.
ported that there Is an Increasingly |
favorable sentiment toward the allies
throughout Colombia.
Twenty-Five American Red Cross
men have been awarded the
Italian war cross Of merit for their
work during the recent fighting on the
Piaye. dispatch from Rome announe-
ed.
Not all the ships which German tor
pedoed and marine collisions send TO |
the bottom OF the sea stay there. In
less than three years more than 800 |
sunken merchant vessels have been
restored 60 service. And more than
one ship has been raised, repaired.
sent forth on new career aud then
sunk and raised anew for third |