The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-06-17
INLAND NORTHWEST


ton in Idaho will be outlined at the
states convention to be held In Poca-
tello on June 18th under the auspices
OF the Idaho Reclamation association.
Mrs. LYDIA Southland, charged with
murder Of her fourth husband, Edward
Meyer at Twin Falls, Idaho, arrived
n San FranciscoTuesday from Homo
lulu, In custody OF ". HI. Ormsby. a
deputy sheriff OF Idaho, and his wife.
practically all the sheep men of
Mantf, Utah have sold their years clip
at prices ranging from loo aud zoe per
pound The representatives Of the
Nantucket Mil company purchased a
good portion OF the local product at
from 1Sh to 20 cents. However, some
was sold to Utah concerns, consigned
to the Jeremiah Williams company of
Boston.
Cooperation and joint action by all
the metal working trades unions in the
country to resist further reductions
In wages and increases in the hours
of labor was urged Wednesday by
James o. Council, president of the met
al trades department of the American
Federation of Labor, in his annual
address to the departments congress
at Denver Colo.
Increase of 100 second feet in the
flow of the Boise river during the
past "a hours was announced Tuesday
night by ]. B. Bond, head of the U. S.
reclamation service at Boise, Idaho.
The flow of the river registered 10,
700 feet Monday morning at O'Clock
and 17.400 feet at o'clock. Tuesday
morning it jumped to $4,000 at s O.
clock and was 1880 at 5 o'clock in
the afternoon.
Representing the state board of agri-
culture in the absence in Victoria,
B. c. of H. r. Hagan, chief of the
bureau of plant industry, J. w. Fox,
county crop and pest agent of Utah
went 10 Callao to suggest and organize
campaign against grasshopper
plague which is reported to be damag-
ing the crops there. The call for help
was sent in from Ray Rawlins, presi-
dent of the farm bureau at Callao.
Contest of the will of James A. hurry
wealthy western capitalist, was filed
in court at Salinas, Colo, late Wednes-
day, by his sister, Anna NJ Flynn, and
his niece, Agnes @, Doyle, on the
ground that the document already
filed is not Murry's will, and secondly,
that the local courts have no juris-
diction in the case because hurry was
resident of Montana. The hurry
estate is estimated variously at from
$5,0O0000 to 15,000,000.
Wage reductions ranging from
slightly under II per cent to 1879 per
cent. and averaging in the aggregate
approximately I'm per- cent, are re-
commended by the board of arbitra-
tion to which was submitted the
controversy between the Utah Light
and Traction company and its plat
form shop and track employees. The
decision of the arhitrators was rend.
cred Wednesday night, and it Will
mean a decrease in the annual payroll
of the traction corporation approxim-
lttng $125.000.
After four days of terror and suffer
ing, Pueblo was astir Wednesday in
an optimistic mood The city and its
citizens nerves have been restored, as
Ill fear of further floods have been
alayed. As the raging, angry waters
of thn Arkansas ond Eroup+aiy rivnr.s
subside, buoyant course prevails. For
the first time since Thursday night,
iaSt, citizens slumber was not distur-
oed by alarms of floods. The churn-
ing, rushing waters of the eddying
currents was replaced by the hum of
motor patrols and the buzz of attemp-
TED business resumption.
Ten San Francisco planning mills
ana lumber yeards, closed in sympathy
with the Builders exchange lockout,
reopened Wednesday on union basis
without reduction in wages for union
men employed, it was announced by P.
II. Mccarthy, president of the San
francisco Building Trades council.
Inc exchange started a lockout more
& than month ago because the union
employees refused to accept IN
per cent wage reduction decided on
oy an arbitration board. Last week
NE exchange announced that its mem
GERS would resume business June Ii
on an open shop basis.
The Ark of the Church of the Liv-
thg God, n vessel built by J. f. Lewis,
negro evangelist, with the declared
intention of carrying party of mis-
soharteS to Africa, was lying at the
oottom Of the Los Angeles harbor We'd
ueS''ay, having sunk shortly after it's
aullcIdng late Tuesday night. The