The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-15
"a RESUME OF THE Weeks DO.
iNas IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES.
important Events Of the Past seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit OF thu
Busy Reader,
INTERMoUNTAIN.

Whsh.t naval corps, was announced +
by the navy department Thursday. 1
Nolan was decorated for service with 1
the marines during the operations /
around Blanc Mont ridge.
Frank B. Stappas, Oregon Short /
Line brakeman, was killed at Cleft, !
idaho, Thursday. He was run down
by his ow nengine after he had thrown
switch to let the train take a siding.
Indignation has been aroused among
officials of the revenue department at
Washington over attempts ON the part
of Utah state house Democrats to have
L. Z. Thomas removed as COLLECTOR of
revenue at Salt Lake. They are urg-
ing Mrs. r. E. L. Collier of Salt Lake
for the post
That the citizens of Ogden should
take immediate steps to organize
yigilante committee and work to the
end of cleaning up the town of the
undesirables and firebugs was the as
sertion of w. III. Watts, president of
the Utah Construction company Tues
dag night during the fire that destroy
ed five large Union Pacific railroad
Ice houses and the plant of the Utah
Ice and Cold Storage company. leased
to the Pacific Fruit Express company.
A transcontinental marriage was
performed Wednesday by long dis
lance telephone. when Mrs. Marie j.
West, in Denver was welded to James
A. Horne, a Denver inventor, in New
York. The Rev. o. Elizabeth Ander-
son of Loveland, officiated at the Den
yer end.
Ten million dollars for drought re
lief in Montana and an administration
organization similar to Governor Stew
arts proposed welfare commission are
provided in a bill introduced in the
state senate Monday afternoon.
A daily contingent of approximately
100 men is cared for at the Red Cross
canteen as they pass through Poca-
tello in all directions. Monday night
a contingent of sixty-five men travel
ing together. en- route to Camp Lewis
for discharge, We're cared for.
Forest fire conditions in the Pend
0reille and Occur d'Alene forests of
northern Idaho, were worse Saturday
while in the ST. Joe forest, where sew
eral small fires We're burning, little
change was noted.
DOMESTIC.
Provisions for teaching German in
the University of Texas placed in the
educational appropriation bill by ;ne
Texas legislature was vetoed by Coy
". F. Hobby.
John Edward Addicks, capitalist
gas magnate and three times candidate
for United States senator from Della
ware, died in a private sanitarium
Ahurstlay in New York from hear
disease
Early Thursday, after a session ex
tending from Wednesday night, the
peace convention of the Knights OF
Columbus at Buffalo unanimously
adopted resolution calling for the
full recognition of the independence
OF the Irish nation.
William Lucking, representing Hen
ry Ford, and Weymouth Kirkland
representing the Chicago Daily Fri
bune made their closing argument.
Thursday at Mt. Clemens, Mich. ii
Mr.. Ford's S1,O00,000 libel suit agains
the Chicago newspaper.
The Nebraska railway commission
Wednesday granted the Omaha {
Council Bluffs street railway compan,
permission to charge cents for sin
gle fares.
An unidentified negro, riding on
Southern railway train. which arrives
at Cochran, Ca, told other negro pas
sengers that he was from Chicago an,
purposed to help the negroes o
Georgia "do what the negroes of Chi
cago did" On their complaint h
was taken from the train and put il
the county Jail. Later his body wa
found swinging from small tree out
side.
Three persons werekilled and prop
erty damage amounting TO thousand
of dollars resulted from rain an
electrical storm which swept over MOI
thern Indiana and western Ohio Tues
day afternoon.
Supporting the demands of sill
workers for an immediate forty-fou
hour week and a 12-cent increase
pay I0UU uNetS eulpluSeu 10y IN
Wiedman Silk Dyeing company. Pa
terson, \. J., went on strike. 1t
estimated that $4,000 are idle.
A special certificate to be issued
soldiers wounded in the war with Gel
many has been adopted by the war d,
partment. 1t viii bear at the top tn
legend, columbia Gives to Her Son
tho AeaofadA nf tha New ChiYllry {
Humanity" and below the name, ran
and unit of the soldier and the actio
in which he was wounded,
Rewards offered for arrest and cor
viction of persons guilty of placin