The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-06-06
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In q Few Lines.
INTERMcJnTAIn.

tNTE RMCJNTAlH.
Constitutionality of Nevada's prohi- |
bition law, the first and only initI-
ative measure enacted by direct vote
of the people in this state, was upheld
on May 20 in the supreme court.
Formal charges, backed by affi-
davits, ranging from complaints re-
garding improper food and insanitary
living conditions to charges that pa
tients at the order of hospital physi
clans have been put in straightjackets
at the United States army general
hospital No. q. at Aurora, Colo, have
been forwarded to Washington.
Two persons We're killed and five
injured near Portland when an auto
moving picture company overturned
and threw out the thirteen passengers.
An epidemic of mysterious origin
has broken out in the Waverly baby
home of Portland, and as result
eleven babies are dead. Twenty-One
are afflicted with the malady.
Trial of eight men arrested in the
Tag Day" disturbances at Tacoma,
in April, began in superior court on
Monday. The defense is being under
taken by the workers, soldiers and
sailors council, which defied the city
authorities and sold tags ostensibly to
raise a fund for returning soldiers.
The city officials declared the organi-
cation is on the model of the Russian
soyiets
Thomas ]. Tinker and his wife,
Maude Tinker, are charged with the
murder of Joseph Briggs, wealthy
stockman, at Salt Lake, on January 3.
DOMESTIC.
| One ship a week for a year, is the
| worlds ship building record, claimed
at the launching of three 5500-ton steel
| cargo vessels at the Newark bay ship
yard on May 80.
The food administration grain cor
poration has announced that for the
present it would. make no further pur-
chases of wheat flour, victory flour or
cereal products, but would re-enter the
market for flour probably early in the
new crop year.
Tribute was paid to the memory of
Col. Theodore Roosevelt on May 80
Hundreds of persons visited his grave,
at Oyster Bay, bringing flowers and
wreaths. Many were children.
A nationwide campaign for a con-
gressional investigation has been in
augurated as result of the mob muir
der of Jay Lynch, white man at
Lamar, Mo-, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Peo-
pie has announced
Threats to kill Police Inspectors Fen
ton Thompson and Thomas Wood and
to blow up the city hall at Oakland,
are made in a letter received by the
inspectors from Los Angeles. The let
ter is signed i. w. W."
Germany spent more than 100000
men in the vain effort to take Verdun,
declared Secretary of War Baker in
Memorial day address at Camp Mer-
rift to $4,000 soldiers. Germany ad,
mftted this loss, he said.
While complete figures are lacking
there is every Indication that the Sal.
walton army passed the $13,O0O,OOO goal
in its home service campaign by ap'
proximately S3O00,0o0.
Plans for the Inauguration of per
nit system TO control the movement OF
this years mammoth grain crop, an
nounced Friday by the railroad admin
istration, contemplate the appointments
of grain control committees at eacf
primary market, comprised of rep
resentative of both the operating ant
traffic departments of the railroad ad
ministration, and a third party repre-,
senting the transportation division o.
the United States grain corporation,
With the circulation of referendum
petitions against the national prohibit
tion amendment actually begun in Ok
lahoma and Nebraska, eleven states
now are attacking the amendment b!
referendum.
The body or Mike ChaponiS, ;
machine operator, was found decapi
tated and partly sliced into shreds il
a fifteen.foot cylindrical chur9 use,
in the manufacture of fertilizer ut tn
Armour Packing company's plant a
Sioux City, Iowa.
| Twelve Austrian vessels were in
termed in American ports at the out
l break of the war and later were takel
over when this country entered th
war. Under the terms Of the treat
| of peace they are to remain the prop
erty of this nation.