The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-09-26
RECORD OF TIA IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRlEFEsT
MANNER PossiBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
--lnformstIon Gathered frem Az
Quarters Of the Globe ara
Given lH q Few Lines.
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Kanasket Wash,
The till authorizing transfer 20 tile
city OF Boulder. Colo. ~ 100 add.
tionaI acres III the Colorado national
fores, for the city's water plant has
been approved by congress
Closing down OF NIL Grays Hnrbor
salmon cauneries II threatened as the
result ~ strike of fishermen at
Aberdeen Wash, who demand more
money FOR fish. Packers declare can.
ned salmon prices are weakening and
that higher prices cannot be paid.
An Initiative petition 70 make UNI
lawful the sale, use or possession Of
cigarettes in Oregon after January !,
1871. has been filed with the secretary
~ state hy ID. n Frost Of Portland,
lntlator Of the measure Il will he
given ballot tile
Nearly 100 fire chiefs from various
parts ~ the Pacific northwest were IN
Portland on Tuesday for the annual
convention.
. Frank Renfrp. rs years old, sales
manager for large Denver realty
company, was shot and killed near
berkeley Park by an unknown assal.
ant, Who escaped
DOMESTIC.
Hundreds Of thousands OF bushels Of
wheat are on the ground IN danger Of
naifinE IA western Nebraska because
elevators are already filled and be-
cause there Is shortage Of railroad
ears together with m embargo on
wheat shipments 20 Omaha and Kan.
sas CITY.
The Anti-saloon League of America
will cutter national politics immedl.
ately, II was announced at Chicago 10
enforce the demand that the political
parties next yenr nominate candidates
for president who are openly pledged
10 unreseryed enforcement Of the pro-
hibltlon amendment to the federal
constitution.
Five thousand well-to-dc British wo-
men, Determined 10 obtain American
husbands, soon will arrive Ia the Unit.
ed States, according to Il warning is
sued To bachelors By Mrs. \. q. Sey-
mour Of Camden, n, j., who has just
returned from Europe.
The eating Of meat was the target
u attacks In addresses delivered be.
fore the international conference az
New York % woman physicians,
Following addresses al ST Paul and
Minneapolis, senator Hiram W. John,
son announced that he had abandoned
his proposed trip to the Pacific coast
"a answer President Wilson'S speeches
On the league OF nations.
THE Anti-S'Soon League of America,
al a conference 81 It's officers and
state superintendent AT Chicago, an.
nounced plan 10 raise fund OF $50.
oO0ooO Ia the next five years for sup
port ~ campaign for World prohl.
hltloh, law enforcement and education
ana Amcricanizatlon
Miss Julia Heinrich of Philadelphia
Metropolitan opera company singer,
WAS Instantly Killed by baggage
truck which was knocked from the
Illinois Central tracks By il locomotive
az Hammond Ia
al AWAAAaA AttAr7fAihAAN AHNNAlAk sNh
g.lies, Arlz. for Mexico on the south
ern Pacific d. Mexico railroad, whose
business VIII take them through ter
riIOry occupied rs the laqui Indians
or Mexican bandits. were requested hy
MeXhu CONSUL Emilio TnmeI 10 sign
ii statement that they relieve the Alex
lean government Of responsibility fol
anything which might happen 10 zen
while IN that part Of Mexico.
A series OF unexplained explosions
IN underground electric light ant
power cable condnits IN Chicago en-
uangrred the lives ~ scores Of people
threw the city Ia darkness and tieI
up surface and elevated car traffic,
Bishop Paul : Nussbaum of Corpus
CHRISTI Texas, reported among th'
identified storm dead. has been a
Corpus Christi since 1913. and was
noted member Of the Phulist order Ill
served as missionary In Buenos Aire
aud the Argentine republic.
The Boston police, by going ol
strike, have challenged the eonstitu
ton OF the United States, Elihu Rooi
former secretary of state, declared Il
an address at the National Securit
.eagues constitution day celebratio
At New York.
The public service commissions Q
Washington and Oregon have aske
lie interstate commerce commission I
get aside the increase in rates ON gree
fruits and apples.
The worlds altitude record wa
broken at Roosevelt Field. n. Y, whe
Roland Rohlfs climbed to height {
34.61O feet in Curtis triplane wit
a 400~horsepower motor,
Plans for trans-Pacific flight fro
America to Australia were announce
at Vancouver, b. O., by Capt. Err
Donaldson. an Australian aviator, wi
arrived on transPacific steamship