The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1919-08-08
ffLEGRApH|C TALES
TERSElY TOLD
A RESUME or THE WEEKS 90.
iNos lN THIS AND OTHER
couhTRlEA
important Events on tire Past sevsH
Days Reported By Wire and Pre-
pared Ter shs Benefss Of the
suSy Rsadsr
tMrERMouNTAlN.

METROPOLITAN.
Complaints from ranehers IN snoho-
miah county Washington. that beavers
have Increased Ia number - rapidly
that much valuable land Is being inun-
dated hy water oferflowing from their
dams. that Game Warden Leckie took
steps g open the dams
a eioudburst AZ Dubois. on Horse
creek Fremont county. wyoming.
Thnnsiat night drowned four persons.
The bodies Of Or. Welty. 70 years old.
and ison Long, aged -. we're recoy-
srcsl John Shaffer. plano tuner.
and au unidentified farm hand were
the Aihef victims.
Pollre Investigation Tuesday u the
mysterious explosion that wrecked The
home Of Jake r. Moiinsky. fruit ped.
sieF saf Deaver disclosed that the Mo
Husky family was not IN The house al
the tine the explosion occurred.
Suffering intensely from their ln-
tnries, exposure and lack u neurlsh.
nncnt Z. Harris. his WIFE their child
ann ihe grandmother were Monday
brought 70 Greenriver Utah. after
ihey had been subjected for twenty.
four hours 10 the desert heat after
their automobile crashed through
broken bridge fifteen miles east az
here They were an severely Injured
With the exception 81 The child.
Gardeners Monday ID the public
tg4EH M Ifatff 4
the FIRST green corn ~ the season.
Peaches pears aud apples were pleu.
tsful when the market opened.
james 0Neill, back from France
Nith four service stripes aud one
Nound stripe aud only is years old. Is
~ samp Lewis for discharge from the
army His papers show he enlisted
with his fathers consent when copy
hoy llf ne art department on Chi.
cago newspaper
DOMESTIC.
Into the high tide Of Oakland har.
Dor the ttaenrbOn, Uab's Liberty
loan homer ship, WIS launched at 3
o'ciock Thursday afternoon. California
Nihe and Utah mountain water glisten.
INK on the bow as the big oil tanker
giideti down the ways az the Alameda
yards Of the bethlehem Shlpbundlng
corporation,
The demand for tobacco Is the great.
est ~ the worlds history, according 10
Heniafnln Duke. He declared that
America y supplying much OF the
worlds output aud that 1.OOOOO0,OOO
eignreis arr made "a the United States
every three days 20 meet the demand.
Fifty-shree ships have been complet.
Ell "a Seattle shipyards In the past
seven months, equallIng O. per cent OF
the lpls tonnage output, Il was an
nouneed
One hundred steamships built on the
great lakes during the war have been
sold by the shipping board to the An
aerSen Overseas corporation OF New
York for approximately Ss000OO0o.
More than s4.O0O.OO0 worth OF sur
plus textiles We're auctloned off al
New York Ia about three hours by the
surplus property division Of the army,
with representatives 90 Admiral Kol-
ehak's siberian government taking
nlore than Si.0O0.OOO Of Il.
Operations 81 the big packing com
panles aud ether concerns dealing Ia
foadsluffs are 10 be Investigated by
Attorney Alexander j. Gruesbeck. Of
Michigan, 10 determine whether prices
are controlled Ia violation OF Michi
Ean's antitrust law.
Ratification OF the federal suffrage
amendment was voted By the house OF
Representatives OF the Montana legls
lsture. in special SESSION Tuesday.
Among the soldier pupils at Camp
DIX army college, was Major General
n. e. Hale commander Of the canton.
ment. who will take the course Id mo.
tor mechanics.
Two whites and coloFed man are
reported TO be dead and approximately
nifty are said to have been injured. a
number probably fatally. hen race
rio,ing broke out Sunday 10 Chicago
among white and negro bafhers along
South Side beaches, from Twenty-ninth
street south TO Thirsy.fifth street.
wAsHiHeToN.
Universal army and navy and yoca-
hOnal training for youths between rs
ami 20 years and national registru-
ton system are proposed IN bin In
trp'ueed Thursday BY Senator Cham.
bsriain, democrat, % Oregon.
The Nebraska legislature went into
special session here Tuesday 10 con
slider tie question 81 Falifylng the fed.
sfai woman suffrage amendment
The house war Investigating com.
n8ltteA inqulriBg into expenditures
abroad wtiI sail for Europe on August
. on the transport Mount Vernon, Il
Nas announced Thursday Composing