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Show o History of Past Week a The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed - I NTE R MOUNTA1 N. Electric operation of passenger trains over a const section of the Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway between be-tween Othello, Wash., and Tacomx will begin about March 1. The Aero Club of the Northwest, with headquarters at Seattle, Wash., has asked official sanction for an aerial derby from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, and return, it is announcer1 by the Aero Club of America. Freight rates will be increased on the Union Pacific system because existing ex-isting legislation does not give a guarantee guar-antee of fair returns for the roads, according ac-cording to Carl K. Gray, newly elected elect-ed president of the Union Pacific and subsidiaries, in an interview at Salt Lake. Idaho's legislature, called together by Governor Davis for that special purpose, on February 11 ratified the suffrage amendment to the national constitution by a large majority in both houses. W. T. Van Eaton, a farmer driving B heavv fourinjr car. was nicked ur. Resolutions for the advancement of the co-operative movement in America Ameri-ca and for legislation favorable to farmers ami workers, were passed at the final sessions of the national Fanner-Labor Co-operative congress at Chicago. The next meeting will bti held on Lincoln's birthday, place to be determined later. Prayers for rain to break the Ions spell of comparative dryness throughout through-out California were offered Sunday at San Francisco by congregations of many denominations. Delegates to the victory convention at 'hicago of the National American Woman Suffrage association paid homage to the memory of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, former president of the association, at a memorial service on Sunday. WASHINGTON. Ilefore passing the !?:il),000,000 agricultural agri-cultural appropriation bill, the house reduced by $100,000 the half-million dollar fund for combating hog cholera and refused to grant $.'$00,000 to fight the European corn borer. Soldiers who have served overseas since July 11, 1919, will receive an increase in-crease of 20 per cent on the entire base pay, instead of on the old base pay authorized in war days. It is estimated that from 2,"i0,00() to R00.000 soldiers will submit claims for back payment. Vice President Marshall in a letter to E. G. Hoffman of Fort Wayne, Ind., secretary of the Democratic national committee, has announced his candidacy candi-dacy as a delegale-at-Iarge from Indiana In-diana to the coming San Francisco convention upon "an old-time, Democratic Demo-cratic platform." Kobort Lansing on February 13 re- oar and all, by an eastbound Union Pacific passenger train at the Lincoln highway crossing, near Nunn, Colo., and carried 1175 feet without injury. Military training has been made compulsory in the public schools of Cheyenne. The school board ordered the plan put into immediate action because be-cause of its merits from the military and physical viewpoints. I. N. Stevens, principal owner of the Pueblo Chieftain, widely known in banking and legal circles, died February Feb-ruary 11 in Philadelphia. DOMESTIC. Lieut. Col. Christian Rath, veterans of the Cival war jind executioner of those convicted of conspiracy to assassinate assas-sinate Abraham Lincoln, died at Jackson, Jack-son, Mich., February 4. He was bom in Friedentsadt, Germany, where he fought in a rebellion, during which he fled to America, and immediately Joined the navy. The strike of 300,000 members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers, Labor-ers, has been indefinitely postponed. A damage suit directed against the Standard Oil company, John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller and others for $120,000,000, in which two women are plaintiffs, has been filed in the supreme court at Lincoln, Nebraska. The defendants are accused of conspiracy in depriving depriv-ing the women of profits from a food invention. Gov. Edward I. Edwards, "wet" candidate, can-didate, easily wins "dry" Iowa for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to the returns, completed Saturday, of a state-wide poll conducted conduct-ed in tho last fortnight by eleven state newspapers. Twenty-nine radicals, said by secret agents to include the most, dangerous terrorists in the United States, members mem-bers of the notorious L'Era Nouva group, whose creed is assassination, and violence by individuals without waiting for "mass action," were captured cap-tured Sunday at Patterson, N. J. Two burglars were shot to death in a pistol battle while seeking liquor in the cellar of a palatial summer home at Rocky Point, Conn., and the two wealthy men who first cornered and then shot them were painfully wounded. Governors of the various states who have not ratified the. federal suffrage amendment will receive telegrams demanding de-manding immediate consideration and prompt action by the legislatures, as a result of action decided upon nt the opening of the fifty-first annual convention con-vention of the National Woman's Suffrage Suf-frage association at Chicago. "The navy's most pressing need" is the establishment of a naval base in California, Secretary Daniels told a delegation from Alameda, Cal., in accepting ac-cepting tentatively a deed for a base site at that city. Wireless telephone service for commercial com-mercial purposes will be established between Chicago and New York. Young men of America should marry at the age of 21 and the girls' they wed should be 13, Mrs. F. Josephine Stevenson of California told the Woman's Wo-man's National Bar association, in convention con-vention at Chicago. Municipal buildings, places of business busi-ness and private homes at Orange, N. J., were decorated with flags and bunting on February 11, in honor of the seventy-third birthday anniversary of Thomas A. Edison. Julius Chambers, widely known newspaper man, short-story writer, explorer ex-plorer anil playwright, died at New York of pneumonia. He was born iu Bellefontaino, O., in ISiT. Several houses were demolished by a tornado near Camilla. Ga., and one person, a 10-year-old negro girl, was killed and several others were injured. At least two Germans were fighting In the Mexican army August 27, I'.US, nt Negates, according to the testimony of C:pt. Frederick T. Herman of the Kighru cavalry before the sentf'.e J'lb-cominittee. J'lb-cominittee. at El Paso. signed as secretary of state. Mr. Lansing left office because he was charged by President Wilson with assuming as-suming the prerogatives of the chief executive during the past four months in calling and presiding over the meeting meet-ing of the cabinet. FOREIGN Agreement has been reached by the supreme allied council to permit the sultan to maintain his court in Constantinople, Con-stantinople, but Turkey must give guarantees, especially relative to the Dardanelles, and must not have an army, according to London advices quoting a statement by Premier Mil-lerand. Mil-lerand. Bolivia has formally laid claim to a Pacific port in the province of Arica, according to dispatches from La Paz, which say the Bolivian chamber of deputies has passed a resolution declaring: de-claring: "The time lias now come to incorporate in the dominion of the republic re-public a port in Arica." J. O. Atkins, said to be an American citizen, was one of four men arrested in a new military raid in Dublin. Norman Ross, the American swimmer, swim-mer, won the three-quarter-mile Australian Aus-tralian championship, covering the distance in 17 minutes 29 1-5 seconds. He defeated the Australian swimmer, F. E. Beaurepaire, by five yards. If Holland takes a carefully worded hint that is said to be contained in the note which the allies will dispatch to The Hague, the world may before long witness the re-enactment of the last act of the Napoleonic drama, with William Hohenzollern as the central figure. Canada has given Great Britain notice that it objects to any change in the covenant of the league of nations which will preveut the dominion from being a full-fledged member of the league and having a vote in the assembly. as-sembly. British war prisoners iu Russia will bo released and British civilians repatriated, re-patriated, Russian war prisoners in England will be released and " Great Britain wiil provide transport for the repatriation of Russian prisoners in neutral countries, it is announced. The German army is still 400,000 strong, according to a report receive by the committee of foreign affairs from General Niessel, head of the Baltic Bal-tic mission. In addition, there are 100,000 policing forces, officers and non-commissioned officers. Two hundred fifty soldiers of the American forces in Germany who have married European girls, have been instructed in-structed to start soon for America willi their wives, in accordance with a recent order of Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, in command. Nels Nelson, Revelstoke, claimant of the amateur Canadian ski jumping title, retained his honors when he won the championship event at the Britislr Columbia ski tournament at Revelstoke, Revel-stoke, B. C, with a jump of 1S5 feet, standing. The German government will shortly send to the allies a "counter list' containing con-taining the names of allied nationals whom Germany accuses of crimes similar sim-ilar to those charged against the Germans Ger-mans demanded by the entente for trial, says a Berlin correspondent. Reports of new activities of Francisco Fran-cisco Villa, the revolutionary leader, who recently was reported surrounded by federal troops in the hills of northern north-ern Mexico have been received. Federico A. Pezet. Peruvian ambassador ambas-sador to the United States, declares that reports of attempts of anti-government Peruvians in this country to organize an expedition in Mexico for a revolutionary attempt in Peru had been substantiated by in fonnatior which he had received from American government sources. A throe-day secret session will marl; the opening of the council of the I league of naiious at Loudon. The lid I of secrecy was clapped down light I after the inaugural speeches by Leon I Bourgeois and Arthur Ilalfo il |