The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-12-05

cars at Chicago, but the commission
IN It's decision ordered the traction
companies to sell ten tickets for on
cents each and fifty tickets for 8 cents
each.
WASHINGTON.
The government has served notice
on soft coal miners ard operators that
Interference with coal production
would not be tolerated.
A government plan for settling the
soft coal strike which embodied a IA
per cent wage increase for miners
and the stipulation that there should
be no Increase In the price paid by
the public, win not be accepted by
the miners.
Declaring there Is mo legal founda-
lion nor principle OF international
law upon which the United States
bases IT'S demand for the immediate
release Of William o. jenkins, United
States consular agent at Puebla, the
Mexican government has declined to
accede to the request of the Amerl-
can state department.
Like the miners and operators,
whose troubles It is trying to adj
just, President Wilson'S cabinet seems
hopelessly deadlocked on the question
Of wage increase In the bitumlnous
coal industry
final study OF the selective draft
records just made public fixes the mill
tary strength of the United States at
100000 In potential military man
power
Postmaster General Burleson has APP
proved pending bills to reduce the rate
of local first-class letter postage TO a
penny an ounce. A letter for delivery
within the postal limits of the Office
In which II Ii mailed would take l.
cent stamp instead Of a 2-cent stamp.
FOREIGN.
An agreement has been arrived at
between the Belgian and German gov
ernments whereby Germany during a
period of twenty years will redeem
81 ,20o000,000, which were issued by
the Germans In the occupied terri
tories.
Plans for a new campaign against
Francisco villa, the bandit chieftain,
rapidly are taking shape In a noun.
famous region OF eastern Chihuahua
known as the range of the doves"
An American corporation has erected
large plant at Papeete, Tahiti, for
the making Of cocoanut oil from copra.
Heretofore the copru has been shipped
from the islands In bulk.
The supreme council has adopted
the British suggestion for partition Of
the German war fleet. Under the ar
rangement Great Great Britain will re-
ceiye 70 per cent the total tonnage,
France 10 per cent. Italy 10 per cent,
Japan per cent and the United States
per cent,
Governor.General Francis Burton
Harrison has urged the Philippine
legislature 10 enact a prohibition law
TO conform TO the constitutional amend
ment adopted In the United States
which some assert does not apply In
| the islands.
II is stated In authoritative quar-
ters at Berlin that Germany will MOI
comply with the demand OF the entente
for 100000 tons OF dock dredges ant
tugs as an offset to the German war
ships sunk at Scapa Flow.
The Chilean parliament has author
lied a loan for the construction o
port works at valdlyla, Lebu. Consti
tuition and Talachuano. The publ
works committee OF the chamber o
deputies has approved the construC
tion of Il trans-Andean railwa
through Lonquimay pass.
Cardinal Annette, archbishop @
Paris, has issued pastoral lette
protesting against the lmmodest tot
cites OF women and indecent dances
The wooden steamer Flush has bee
wrecked south of the Aland island
! off the east coast of Sweden. with tn
loss of all the crew, according 90
: dispatch to Lloyds.
Bumper world crops Of corn, poti
toes, barley. rye, sugar bests and ris
2 for this year are shown in estimate
J. complied by the International lnstitut
/ OF Agriculture at Rome.
Twelve prominent Jugo-Slavs haN
! been arrested and held as hostages
: the italian forces of occupation In Da
: malta, according to advices receive
d from Sebenico, thirty miles southea
of Sara.
= The socialist press of Paris is thres
II ening general strike for Christm
l. in protest against exorbitant pric
n asked for French toys which are G
S, tirely out of reach of the works
people.
n The interallied commission h
* stopped hostilities between the Ii
We uanians and the Gemans and Russia
at and has directed the combatants
ed retire to the demarcation line of
az tober 80, according to advices to