The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-12-12
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD I'M BRiEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
happenings That Are Making History
information Gathered from Al
Quarters o. the Globe ana
0lven In @ Few Llnsa.
lNTERMouNrAiN.

ment win be closed.
Three men entered Jewelry store
at Portland, bound and gagged the
janitor and clerk, and made away
with diamonds and jewelry estimated
by the police TO be worth $4,000.
Temporary suspension OF the pnbl-
cation Of the Butte Daily Post fol-
lowed waikout BY printers employed
IN the composing room Of the news
paper. The men are demanding S9
for a 7-hour day.
Belief that the beet sugar factories
OF Utah and Idaho have sufficient coal
supplies 10 continue their runs for six
10 eight weeks, during which time the
sugar beet crop can be utilized and
maximum production secured to pre-
vent a sugar famine, Is expressed at
Ogden, Utah.
William Carlisle, train bandit, cap
tured after being shot In the right
lung by Sheriff A. s. Roach of Wheat
| land, Wyoming, Will recover, unless
pneumonia develops or Infection sets
In, according to physicians.
Mrs Lester Tabor and A. Walter
Tabor were working IN Freewaftr,
Ore. two weeks ago, according to In
| formation received at Walla Walla. II
was said when they left they intended
going TO California. Persons Of those
names are being sought in connection
with the death Of Miss Maude Tabor
at Lawton. Mich.
William Carlisle, train bandit, again
Is a prisoner, under guard in the
Douglas, Wo., hospital, where he Is
suffering from bullet hole In his
right lung. He was shot down by
members Of posse near Douglas.
DOMESTIC.
United States Senator Miles Poin-
dexter Of Washington charged IN a
speech at Chicago, that the govern
ment was encouraging the disastrous
coal situation by not exercising IFS
! full power. lie said back of the pres
ent labor unrest Is an attempt to par
/ alyze industry In order to effect the
abolition of the wage scale, the elim-
nation of private property rights and
the adjustment of the constitution,
Chairman Payne has announced that
strikes have cost the shipping board
SGT 100000 since January |. The estl-
mates included marine and harbor
strikes, longshoremens and shipyard
strikes ON the Atlantic, Pacific and
gulf coasts and did not include the
coal strike.
Following grilling at Lawton,
Mich, of Joseph Virgo, South Bend
undertaken. who was the sweetheart
OF Maude Tabor, whose dead body
was found In the basement of the
Tabor home after an mterment OF
three years, Ii was stated that Virgo
lind married Miss Tabor In February
of 1916
William O. jenkins, the American
consular agent, imprisoned at puehla
Mexico, was released Thursday night
Three persons were burned to death
ieyen were injured and two are un
accounted for IN the wreck of a motto
bus which jumped the rails of the Mus
eatIne, burlington 4 Southern railway
near Museatine, Iowa.
The Institute of American Men
Packers in statement issued at Chi
cago declares that the average week.
wholesale price OF dressed beef TO
the entire country decreased 34.2 pc
cent between May and November 2
! this year.
In an attempted hold-up by fou
masked Mexican bandits of the stag
carrying payroll from Esqueda, s.
nora, to the I'll Tigre mines south 9
Douglas, Ariz., one of the six federt
soldier guards was killed and on
wounded.
Information charging criminal col
: tempt OF court has been filed in tn
Z United States district court at Ind
, annapolis, against eighty-four interni
!. tional and district officers OF the Uni
ed Mine Workers, named in the cou
Injunction issued Immediately aft
the strike was called and reQuirir
their appearance to answer Il
!, charges.
/. Gen. John ]. Pershing, accompani'
e by staff of ten officers, has lie
,e Washington on an inspection tour
!: army posts in the south, on the Me-
O. can border, the Pacific coast and d
middle west.
The plant Of the international Shl
building company at Pascagoula, Mis-
y has been ordered permanently clos
y as a reprisal against the machini'
e who walked out when their dema
= for more money was refused. I
!. suspension of the plant threw q
~ men out of work.
re Indignant because Of the city adm
nv istration fostered the ou+ttr ordinar
re which resulted in withdrawal Of str
an cars from the city, business men ha
mt started movement for the recall
- Mayor SphrpfhPr and all but fgyO III