The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-04-11
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN 5RIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given In a Few LInes.
INTERMoJNTAIN.


A triple tragedy took place at Ho
GUAM, WASH, when A. A. Sedgwicl
shot and killed Sidney NJ. Heath, al
attorney; Louise Sedgwick, his wife
and then ended his own life.
Preliminary plans have been com
pleted for peace jubilee, to be held
at Tacoma, from June 80 to July A, t.
raise a fund for the erection of q
memorial to soldiers and sailors of the
war.
With the opening of spring work and
the advent of the lambing season, a
shortage of labor is being experienced
IN Oregon and the local branch of the
federal employment service is unable
to supply the demand of local ranch
ers for farm help.
The fat stock show opened at Salt
Lake on April 3 for three-day session
with a record attendance.
An order authorizing the two local
street car companies to charge 6 cents
car fare on their city lines was issued
by the state public service commits
sion mt Seattle on the compan-
les petition to increase the fares from
to I cents.
Seattle police believe that when they
arrested John Field, a miner, they
stopped an Industrial Workers of the
World plot to kill Chief of Police J..
F. Warren.
e Mayor Charles L, Thomas, whose re-
call has been demanded, was returned
in Tuesdays municipal election at Col
orado Springs by a majority of 1000.
Two commissioners favoring the may
or's policies also were returned.
DOMESTIC.
Besides the destroyers which will
patrol the course to be mapped for
the naval seaplanes on their proposed
flight across the Atlantic ocean in
May, a fuel ship, probably the Mel
vile, will be stationed along the route,
so that if necessary the planes can
take on fuel at sea.
The estate of the late James Still
man, for many years head of the Ma
tional City bank, New York, was APP
praised at $40,3SS, 121 in a report filed
with the surrogate.
Negotiations for the early return to
their owners of the eighty-seven Dutch
ships which We're requisitioned by the
United States in March, 1918, are in.
progress.
Urging that Americans awake to the
problems confronting the country,
Senator Johnson of California, in a
statement issued April 4, declared.
We've been afflicted with mental far
since the signing of the
and unable to see and care
for the ills and problems of our own"
A strike which has involved praeti-
,ally 10000 machinists in the San Fran
cisco bay shipyards since early in Feb
ruary ended when the machinists
agreed to accept an offer submitted
oy their employers.
Approximately 1000 independent
fishermen went on a strike at San
francisco against the fixing of fish
prices by the state market director.
Fourteen hundred men are on strike
It Monterey and as many at San Pedro
or the same reason.
William S. Allen has resigned as
owa's secretary of state, effective
July |, terminating legislative inves-
igation of the conduct of his office
which resulted in charges of misman-
cement and incompetency.
Director General Hines of the rail- |
Dad administration which is the larg-
'st purchaser of steel in the United
states has refused to accept the price |
arranged by the depart
1ent of commerce in conference with |
of the steel industry.
The California legislature disposed |
f its prohibition enforcement bill on |
Wednesday when the senate concur
ed in amendments made in the as
emily after the measure had been
aSsed by the senate. 1t now goes to
he governor for his signature.
Iowa's house of representatives
assed the senate measure declaring
nat human labor is not commodity
r an article of commerce and permit
ng organization of unions for the
of lettering conditions of
'orkerS.
Indictments charging fraud and sab
otage in the manufacture of shells
" the United States government were
sturned by federal grand jury at
Tenn, against William ].
liver, head of the concern, and nine
its employees. T.