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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed G S INTERMOUNTAIN. Willard G. Dieting, aged 24, lost his life in a fire which damaged a three-story three-story family boarding house, in Portland.. Port-land.. Dieting had previously rescued two other guests. Five persons were seriously injured. Edward Mayberry, a half-breed Indian, In-dian, was sentenced by the federal district dis-trict court at Spokane to be hanged January 9. He was convicted last week of having killed a half-breed Indian In-dian woman. A trolley car ran away on a hill at Seattle and, after gaining momentum mo-mentum by a race of four blocks, crashed into another trolley car moving mov-ing in the same direction. H. Bran-nan, Bran-nan, motorman of the runaway car, was instantly killed, More than a score of passengers in the two cars were bruised and shaken up. The Oregon-Washington railroad & Navigation company has filed an injunction in-junction suit at Portland in the United Unit-ed States district court attacking the constitutionality of the Adamson eight hour law. Reports received at Denver announce an-nounce that capitalists connected with the Amalgamated Sugar company will construct a sugar factory at Worland, Wyo., costing $1,000,000. Burns received in the sugar factory at Brigham City, Utah, caused the death of Edward T. Secrist, son of Thomas E. Secrist, county treasurer. Scalding hot syrup enveloped his body in the accident. Tile body of Dennis Searleu, San ' Francisco capitalist, -was found beneath be-neath his automobile at the foot of a seventy-five-foot precipice over svnicb the car had toppled. Four German U-boats are believed to be on their way to our eastern coast to attack British, French and Russian merchantmen. Warnings have been sent broadcast. The town of Red Level, Ala., was de stroyed by fire when safe robbers blew up a drug store safe and then set fire to the store. Nine stores and the post-office post-office were burned. Three seamen of the United States naval supply ship Glacier were drowned drown-ed in San Francisco bay when the launch in which thirty-six members ol the crew were returning to the Glacier Gla-cier after shore leave was crushed under un-der the stern wheel of the Southern Pacific river boat Apache. A bandit entered a jewelry store in Arkansas City, Kans., held up the only clerk in the place, and escaped with $12,000 worth of diamonds, after locking the clerk in the vault. WASHINGTON. None of the eight big warships authorized au-thorized by congress this year can be ready to join the fleet in less than three years and a half, Rear Admiral Taylor, chief constructor of the navy, told the house naval committee. The great inflow of gold into the country the past fiscal year increased the treasury holdings of the precious metal to $1,803,493,933 on June 30 last, an increase of $420,533,943 over the previous year. Breadstuffs shipments to Europe,-continue Europe,-continue to decline, a department oi commerce statement discloses, although al-though meat and dairy products are leaving the United States in increasingly increas-ingly quantities. Population of continental United States on January 1, 1917, wil be 102,-826,309 102,-826,309 and with Its outlying possessions posses-sions 113,309,285, the census bureau estimates, upon the increase as shown by the federal census of 1900 and 1910. Another appeal from the Belgian government for American influence Japanese in California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado have increased 13,000 since 1910, according to a census taken by M. Hanihara, Japanese consul con-sul general at San Francisco. DOMESTIC. A co-operative organization of citizens citi-zens which will buy foodstuffs, fuel and other necessities in large quantities quanti-ties to reduce the price to the consumer, consu-mer, was planned at a mass meeting at Little :Rock, Ark. Lewis Wilson, his wife, mother-in' law, and four children were burned to death in a Are that destroyed the Wilson home in West Cape May, N. J. Joseph Alaimo of San Jose, Cal., rode in an automobile fifty yards on the pilot of a locomotive after a collision at a downtown crossing and escaped without injury. Resolutions opposing conscription in Ireland and favoring abolition o martial mar-tial law and immediate operation of the home rule act, were adopted at a special conference of the United Irish League of American held in New York City. A fifteenth century carved and painted wood bust of a girl from the Devanzati palace at Florence, Italy, was sold for $17,900 at the sale in the American Art association galleries at New York. work in Germany was handed to the state department Friday by Minister Havenith. FOREIGN. Francisco Villa's automobile, which was being used by him to direct his campaign against the Carranza troops, was struck by shell fire and was abandoned near Fresno, southwest south-west of Chihuahua. Senator Abdul Hamid Zeihravi was sentenced to death by court-martial and executed for conspiring against the Turkish government, according to a Constantinople telegram to German newspapers. A Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam says that at the opening of the German reichstag the president paid a tribute to Emperor Francis Joseph. Trade unionism, which has been protesting pro-testing informally at the prospect of the introduction of colored labor in Great Britain, now has made a formal protest. The Greek ministry, examining anew into the entent demand for Greek arms and ammunition, has decided de-cided not to insist on resistance to the demand, according to reports from Athens. Rumors that there was a possibility for some definite negotiations towards More than forty counties in Alabama, Ala-bama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas will be released from cattle cat-tle fever tick quarantine December 11. Speaking before the American neutral neu-tral conference committee at New York, Dr. David Starr Jordan said he believed it was the plain duty of America Amer-ica to stop the war and to help adjust matters so that no nation shall gain through the war at the expense of any others. The interior of the city jail at New-hall, New-hall, Cal., was practically wrecked by twenty-two Industrial Workers of the World, who were removed from a Southern Pacific freight train and placed in jail there. The U. S. collier Caesar, America's 1916 Christmas ship to foreign shores, leaving New York in December for Beirut, Syria, will carry a cargo of food and clothing to the starving Syrians and Armenians. Mrs. Inez Mulholland Boissevain, widely known woman suffragist and welfare worker, died in a hospital at Los Angeles, Saturday night after an illness, of ten weeks. She was 30 years old. C. A. Wiseman, millionaire cattleman cattle-man and banker and founder of the town of Vega, Texas, was instantly killed when his automobile hit a rut end overturned. Messenges of good will from the the chancelleries of three of Europe's warring powers were read at a dinner din-ner given at New York by the League to Enforce Peace. The nations are France. Germany and Great Britain. Continuing its efforts to reduce the car shortage the railway conference committee on car efficiency has ordered ord-ered all railroads to return to their home lines all fruit refrigerator cars. David D. Overton, former clerk ol the Madison county circuit court, took the stand at Huntsville, Ala., at his trial for the murder of Judge W. T. Lawler, his political opponent, and testified that he killed the jurist in self-defense. Declaring that purchasing agents of the entente allies outbid his agents by 25 per cent in the purchase of raw-milk raw-milk from New York state dairymen, Loton Horton, president of one of the largest milk distributing companies in the city, predicted milk riots within with-in a few weeks. peace were Qiscountea UTiaay oy Lord Robert Cecil, minister of war trade, at London. The sale of wool or sheepskins has been prohibited in Australia without the permission of the prime minister, according to a Melbourne dispatch. The minister of war has introduced a bill in the Frenrh chamber of deputies depu-ties by which all persons exempted from military service or mustered out as physically unfit, prior to April 1, 1916, must submit to a further medical examination. Alexander Trepoff, Russian minister minis-ter of railways, has been appointed premier, according to a Reuter dispatch dis-patch from Petrograd. Reuter's Telegram company says it learns no answer has yet been returned return-ed to the application for a safe conduct con-duct of the new Austrian ambassador to the United States, made by Washington. Wash-ington. It adds that in all probability probabili-ty the reply will be unfavorable. The Greek royalist troops have refused re-fused to evacuate Katerina, as demanded de-manded by the entente authorities and General Sarrail, in command of the entente forces, has warned the government at Athens that unless an order for immediate evacuation is given giv-en he will proceed to use force. The Greek government has refused to comply with the demand of the entente allies for the surrender of a part of its supplies of arms and am munition, Reuter's Athens correspondent correspond-ent cables. The new Austrian ruler is said to have issued a proclamation to the Austro-Hungarians declaring his inflexible decs;on to maintain the war until "a peace assuring the existence and development de-velopment of the monarchy" is reaohed. Two hundred female textile workers have been deported from Ghent by the German authorities, according to a report re-port emanating from an authoritative source. The last tunnel on the Bagdad railway rail-way in the Taurus mountains has been blasted through, according to a Constantinople Con-stantinople dispatch. The Austro-German invasion of Rou-mai.. Rou-mai.. is proceeding unchecked, says an innouncement from the war office. Roumanian attacks were defeated and ground was gained on the Rothen-thurm Rothen-thurm pass road and in the Alt valley. |