The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-02-07
NEWS Or A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD or THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN RRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
--Informatlon Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In a Few Lines.
lNrERMoyNTAIN.

gNTERMOJNTAIN.
Utah Is going to join in the nation
wide fight against the new Burlesor
schedule Of long distance telephone
tolls The initiative viii be taken BY
the state public utilities commission.
A lone unmasked bandit boarded 3
northbound Great Northern passenger
train at Samish, Wash. and held M
the rain crew and the day coach pas
sengers.
Representative w. w. Corner OF
Seattle, has introduced into the Wash
ington legislature a bill aimed to APP
propriate 100000 for the immediate
relief of needy American soldiers and
sailors. The act proposes to relieve,
not reward, the men, Representative
Common said.
Plans for the organization of cor
poration with $4,000 capital to extend
financial aid to returned service men
We're made at a meeting of business
men at Spokane.
Frank Leroy Silyie, a 15-year-old
runner employed by the Denver Ma
tional bank, is the object of search
on the part of police and private de-
tectives following two escapes from
officers, after he had absconded,
according to bank officials, with $3.50
in cash, checks approximating $4,000
and several Liberty bonds.
William J. Ruff, while digging well
near Bountiful, Utah, was crushed to
death, the walls caving, burying him
beneath fifteen feet of earth.
Henry L. Pittock, connected with the
Oregonian since 1858, and it's publisher
for more than sixty years, died at
Portland, following an illness of sew
eral weeks duration. He was SO years
old.
DOMESTIC.
Nat c. Goodwin. the actor, died at a
hotel in New York City, January 81,
after a brief illness. He came to New
York on January 81 from Baltimore.
where he had been playing. Death was
due to a general breakdown in health
following an operation for the. removal
OF his right eye several months ago.
While postal inspectors were investi-
eating the accounts of William Schuck-
mann, postmaster at Nogales, Ariz.,
Schuckmann went into an adjoining
room and killed himself by inhaling
gas.
Speakers at the annual meeting of
the American Fruit and Vegetable
Shippers association at Chicago sug-
gested that many thousands Of the re-
soldiers and sailors win find
plenty of work at good pay on the fruit
ranches and vegetable farms of the
far west and northwest.
Capt. Archibald Roosevelt, son of the
late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, aided 4
New York policeman in capturing an
alleged robber after a street chase in
which the patrolman shot and wounded
Frank Marcello the man pursued.
Because of the prevalence of infiu-
enza and pneumonia in viruIent form
at Camp McClelland, Ala, Surgeon
General Ireland has recommended that
no more troops be sent there for de-
until conditions improve
Fifteen persons were injured fonr
seriously, when the rear coach Of mas
senger train No. LOG of the Chicago.
& st. Paul railroad iumned
the track and crashed on its side near
Burbank, S. d.
Thirteen railway express messar-
gers, employed ON runs between New
YORK and Boston, pleaded guilty TO the |
larceny of goods in transit. Twelve |
were sentenced to terms of from four !
months to one year.
Philadelphia on January 30 extend.
ed a hearty welcome to 2197 men of
the American expeditionary force, first
OF the overseas contingent to arrive at .
that port. They came on the liner
Haverford, which sailed from Brest on
January Is.
Three 10-year-old boys who boasted
OF their liking for whiskey, beer and
cigarets, confessed to the police at Chi
cago that they had killed Wadisla wi
delkis, 10 years old, by clubbing hin,
over the head with an empty beer hot
tie While he was asleep in shed,
The release of 11s conscientious Oh J
iectors, honorably discharged from tho
service by war department orders wos
begun at the disciplinary barracks u
Fort Leayenworth ON january u Two
however refused to leave. saying #
was against their religious scrnnlos
flre OF undetermined origin vlrtual
y destroyed the federal discinlinnrr
barracks at Leayenworth, Kan witS
resultant loss estimated at SlooOoo