The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-04-25
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or TIE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD m RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE,
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In a Few LInes.
lNTERMoyNrAIN.

INTERMoJNTAIN.
Seven of the ten men charged with
criminal conspiracy in connection with
the sale of tags attempted by the
Soldiers and Sailors council at Taco
ma, April 5, pleaded not guilty before
Judge Chapman in the superior court
Preparations are going forward
quietly for what is expected to be a
general walkout of metal miners at
Leadyille, Colo, on April 20 as pro-
test against an announced reduction
of the wage scale from $3.50 day to
$3.50 day. The walkout is expected
to affect ten or twelve of the largest
mines in the district.
Brig. Gen. Harvey J. Moss, adju-
tant general of Washington, has issued
call for the twentieth annual CON
yention of the National Guard associ-
alton Of the United States to be held
at Chicago. May 8.
Walter Reisenweyer, IL years old
has confessed that he killed Charles
Johnson, manager of railroad board
ing house at Sheridan, Wyo., with an
axe and robbed the body of 500 in
currency.
Two Seattle policemen, Sergeant
Gus V. Hasselblad and Patrolman w.
f. Patton, were arrested by federal
officers, charged with theft of liquor
worth about $4,000 from the United
States customs appraisers store on
March 81.
Unless Governor Olcott succeeds in
devising plan that will satisfy them
that the state fish and game commits
sion has been put on an efficiency and
business basis officials of the Oregon
Sportsmen's league and the Multnomah
Anglers club declared they would
draft an initiative bill and carry it to
the electorate at the next general
election.
DOMESTIC.
Two divisions of japanese troops
have been ordered to Korea to sup
press revolutionary uprisings, accord
ing to a cablegram received by
the Japanese American, a newspaper,
from a Toxic agent.
Under supervision of the federal de-
partment of fisheries. 10000 fur seals
will be killed at the ST. Paul islands,
Boring sea, this spring.
Several naval seamen were drowned
at New York when the propeller of the
transport Saxonia sliced off the stern
of the naval tug Freehold while the
smaller vessel was docking the troop
ship at Cunard pier.
Removal from office of Postmaster
General Burleson was requested of
President Wilson in a resolution adopt
ed at the annual convention of the
Georgia Federation of Labor.
Efforts to impeach Gov W. L. Hard
ing for his part in the Rathbun par
done case were defeated in the Iowa
house of representatives when that
body adopted resolution censuring
the chief executive.
Albert Wheeling, a farmer of Hol-
comb, Mo. who pleaded guilty, to hav-
ing chopped off his left hand with an
ak July p last to eyade selective SER
vice, was sentenced to six months in
prison.
Eighteen foreigners were taken into
custody by federal authorities at De-
troit and held for hearing before the
local immigration board on charges
of spreading Bolshevist propaganda
The first wo!nnn's bill ever signed by
a governor of California was approved
April 10 by Gov William D.. Stephens,
when he placed his signature upon a
measure by Assemblywoman Saylor to
place a sister on an equal plane with
brother in the administration of
estates.
Six carloads of California beans and
one carload of rice will be sent to the
starving peoples of Armenia.
Hope that the principles of anarchy
and Bolshevism that now sway por-
tions OF the world will not get DOM
inant foothold in America, but that the
golden rule eventually shall prevail
here and elsewhere was expressed by
Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle in an adj
dress at San Francisco.
The California senate adopted the
proposed constitutional amendment in
PRODUCED by Senator johnson provid-
ing for a S40,0O00O0 bond issue for
highway construction.
A contest of the will of Mrs. Frank
Leslie. leaving the bulk of her estate
to the woman suffrage cause, was be-
gun April Is at New York by AIthea,
the Baroness Salvador, Dutch SUBJ
ject residing IA Paris.