The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-01-24
NEWS Of A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
E4appenInss That Are Making History
information Gathered from All
Quarters OF the Globe and
Given In q Few LInes.
INTERMoJNTAIN.

Inc members or the l40th flelu
artillery (Utahs OWN have arrived at
Logan, Utah, from France, and viii be
sent 10 their homes from that point.
The soldier boys were given an en-
thusIastic welcome by the people of
the state.
The Wyoming legislature ON Janu-
airy 10 unanimously ratified the pro
hibltlon amendment to the federal CON
stitution
Plans for the establishment Of sol
dier settlement board. for the purpose
of cooperating with the national gov
eminent In supplying returned soldiers
and sailors with homes and employ
ment, have been submitted TO the gov
ernor of Utah, with the request that
the matter be brought before the legis-
lature.
Approximately 500 workers leaving
parade through Seattle's business dis
trict singing |. w. W. songs, were dis
persed by twenty mounted police of
ticers, supported by five automobiles
containing police armed with carbines
and behind these a platoon Of police
with clubs.
Alfred J, Smith. who said he for
merly was advertising and circulation
representative of the Pueblo (Colo)
Chieftain at Denver, testified before
The senate committee INVESTIGATING Ger
man propaganda that the paper made
an agreement with Cunt Won Bern
storff in 1915-1916 by which it was to
be paid $4,000 for publishing articles
favorable to the German cause.
The state supreme court has upheld
the charter amendment to the state
constitution giving charter cities the
right to regulate public utilities in a
decision In suit brought by the city
of Denver to test the right of the state
public utilities commission to increase
| telephone rates.
Washington's legislature has passed
over Governor Ernest Listers veto
| 'crimlnal syndlealism" bill, often
| spoken of as measure aimed against
| Industrial Workers of the World and
| organizations and individuals opposing
the government.
DOMESTIC.
A general strike of organized labor
designed to paralyze every industry in
| the country beginning July next was
decided upon by the National Labor
congress at Chicago as a means Of
| obtaining new trial for Thomas J..
Mooney and warren Billings, if fed
eral Intervention and every other
means adopted to procure the desired
| relief fail
| Official figures see now available for
! the first time showing the full extent
| to which American ships transported
the American army of approximately
100000 men to Europe. The official
figures show that 1925 per cent of
all the American troops We're trans
| ported exclusively in American ships.
Camp Dick, Texas, at which approx
imately nine-tenths of the men in the
| American aviation service are said to
have received their training in mill
tary discipline was closed finally by
| the war department on January 10.
More than 10000 fliers are said to have
trained at the camp.
Nine persons are known to have been
killed and about fifty injured by the
| explosion of huge tank of molasses
ON the water front at Boston. Eight
bodies were removed from the wreck
age and one man died at the relief
hospital Most of those injured suffer
ed only bruises.
Seven states on January IA COM
pleted ratification Of the prohibition
constitutional amendment and brought
the number taking such action to
thirty. The number necessary for rati-
fication is thirty-six. Alabama,
Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas and North Carolina We're the
states that completed ratification.
Captain A. Olsen, skipper of the
American schooner Encore, and First
Officer NJ. Buckard of the American
bark Beluga. both Californians. have
reached New York after months OF
adventure ms prisoners on the famous
German sea raider Wolff and in Ger
man prison camps.
The British troopship Empress OF
Asia passed through the Panama canal
Wednesday on its way from England
with 400 discharged soldiers on board
1t is understood that ii is proposed T.
send home all Canadian troops who
live west OF Winnipeg by way Of tn,
canal.
Refusal OF northwestern railroads Il
furnish cars Of less than 240O cubi,
feet capacity for understanding was
declared unreasonable by the inter
state commerce commission in sustain
ing complaints of manufacturers il
washington, Idaho. Oregon ana Mon
tana.
A movement 70 change the name o.
Yellowstone park, Americas creates
public pleasure ground and game re
serve Co Roosevelt park as nationa
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