The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-02-28
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF The IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN sRIEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters Of the Globe and
Given In Few Lines.
IRTERmouNTAIn.

the Mountain States Telephone & Tele-
graph company died ait his home in
Denver, February q, after a long III
ness. Mr.. Field was 60 years old. He
was one of the best known capitalists
in the Rocky Mountain region.
Plans for closer cooperation he
tween employers Of labor and the fed
eral free employment bureau were dis
cussed at meeting at Denver of
representatives of the federal employ
Inent service from every state west of
the Mississippi, except Idaho.
Joseph Kennedy, branch, secretary or
the Metal Mine Workers Industrial
union No. 500, !. w. W., one of the
organizations that declared a strike of
miners in Butte on February I, mas
been taken into custody by United
States immigration authorities
Union leaders in the strike OF 25,OOO
shipyard workers at Seattle expect ac-
ton at the Portland convention Of the
Pacific Coast Metal Trades council that
will result in a coast-wide strike in the
shipyards.
Butte's strike Of miners, which
threatened to paralyze Montana's prIn-
ciple industry, has ended. The strike
began February /, when the miners EN-
ployed at the Elm Orlu mine, a prop
erty operated by w. A. Clark, former
United States senator, walked out in
protest against an announced cut in
wages Of 81 a day.
J. Rheinstrom, real estate promoter,
for whom warrant has been issued
charging swindling of Sheridan county
| residents out of 100000 in the sale of
town lots near Bremerton, Wash. in
proximity to the Puget Sound naval
yards, has been arrested In Seattle.
DOMESTIC.
Rowen Miller, international secre-
tary of the American Federation of
Musicians for twenty-five years, died
at his home in st. Louis, February n,
from bronchial trouble. He was 6S
years old.
Willie Richie, former lightweight
champion, won newspaper decision
over Benny Leonard, the present
champion, in four-round bout at
San Francisco. February u. The
fighters fought at catch weights.
Strikes ON July 1 to make effective
the slogan mo beer-no work. have
been voted by the New York Iron
workers. shipbuilders', Iongshoremen-s
hatters, stationery firemen's PAYERS
and rammers' unions. it was announced
at meeting of the Central Federated
union at New York.
Senator Fail, Republican member of
the senate foreign relations committee,
has telegraphed from his home in New
Mexico to Secretary Tumulty, deelIn-
| ing President Wilson's invitation to at
tend the White House dinner to dis
cuss the proposed constitution of the
/ league of nations.
Predictions that the nations beer
supply would be exhausted by May 1,
was made in a statement issued at
Newark, N. J. by Christian W. Feigen-
span, president of the United States
/ Brewers association.
Characterizing the labor situation in
Arizona as desperate, resolution in
| trodueed in the lower house of the
state legislature urged that the vag-
rancy laws be suspended except in ex-
IRENE cases.
The recent strikes in Seattle. Wash. !;
! Butte, Mont, and Lawrence. Mass.
We're instituted by the "Bolshevfki"
and the Industrial Workers of the
World for the sole purpose of forcing
a nationwide industrial revolution in
the United States. William B. Wilson.
secretary of labor, declared in an adj
dress at New York.
Several passengers were slightly and
seriously injured when three cars of
Santa Fe passenger train No. Clio were
derailed one mile south of Sedalla,
Colo. A broken brake. beam caused
the accident.
Notices have been posted in the ship
yards and contract shops in the San
4 Francisco bay region, warning machin-
lists to cease taking the Saturday half
holiday that they have declared, or
face dismissal
The Chicago city council, by vote
of "a to 2. approved the proposed box
ing bill, which provides for state and
city athletic commissions with power
to regulate ring exhibits.
A bill to make it unlawful in Ne
braska to possess or display red or
black flags, except as railroad or
weather signals, has been passed by
the house of the state legislature.
Gen. John j. Pershing, commander
of the American expeditionary forces.
will not be candidate for the Repnb-
lican nomination for president in 1920,
according to a letter received at
sharon. Pa, Nv James Brackin, Mercer
county Republican leader. from Col.
Cary Boyd, the generals secretary.
More than 100 women. representing
every state in the Union, will so TO
France as Young Women's Christian
! association workers and be assigned TO
duty there in the twenty-five leave re-
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