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Show NEWS OF A WEEK Ifl CONDENSED FORM RICOnD OF THE IMPORTANT VENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Qlobe and Given In a Few Llnee. INTER MOUNTAIN. Freight rules will bo increased on the Union Pacific system because existing ex-isting legislation (lues nut give guarantee guar-antee l' I'n I r returns fur tine mails, according ac-cording lo Carl It. Cray, newly elected elect-ed president of tlio Union I'acll'ic and Rulislillarles, in an Interview at Salt Lake. Idaho's legislature, called together liy (iovemor Davis for Hint special purpose, on February 11 ratified the sulTrngo ainenilinent to the national constitution by 11 large majority in both bouses. V. T. Van Eaton, a fanner driving heavy touring car, was picked up, -in- and nil, by an eastbound Union Pacific passenger train at the Lincoln highway crossing, near Nunn, Colo., and carried 11 To 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 und physical viewpoints. I. N. Stevens, principal owner of the Pueblo Chieftain, widely known In banking ami legal circles, died February Feb-ruary 11 In Philadelphia. Eight hundred miners are on strike lit Bingham, Utah. It is charged that the striking miners are I. W. W. members. mem-bers. There has been no violence, but six of the strikers have been arrested on the opeu charge of being "agitators." "agita-tors." Four officers of the Cray's Harbor Motorshlp corporation of Aberdeen, Wash., anil three officers of the Sea-horn Sea-horn Shipbuilding company of Tacoma have been indicted by a federal grand Jury at Seattle, which has been investigating inves-tigating alleged frauds in wartime shipbuilding in the Pacific northwest. DOMESTIC. (iovernors 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 at 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. daylight bandits, in attempting to ho. SI up a Liberty loan brokerage house in the heart of downtown San Francisco, shot and killed E. Stroud and 11. A. liowhlman, who struggled with them, and wounded Mrs. M. La-sater. La-sater. Wireless telephone service for commercial com-mercial . purposes will be established between Chicago ami New York. Young men of America should marry at the age of "I and the girls they wed should be IS. Mrs. F. Josephine Stevenson of California told the Woman's Wo-man's National liar association, in convention con-vention at Chicago. Julius Chambers, widely known newspaper man. short-story writer, explorer ex-plorer and playwright, died at New York of pneumonia. He was born iu Bellefontaine. O., In 18-1". Several houses were demolished by a tornado near Camilla, Ca., and oue 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, 191S, at Nogales, according to the testimony of Capt. Frederick T. Herman of the Kightn cavalry before the senate sub committee, at 1.1 Paso. Twenty-five victims of a new "coroner's "cor-oner's cocktail" are iu hospitals in Chicago In a serious condition and hup has already died. Analysis of the home-made liquor showed the ingredients ingredi-ents to be nltrobenzol and grain alcohol. al-cohol. Municipal buildings, places of business busi-ness and private homes at Orange. N. J., were decorated with flags and hunting on February 11, in honor of the f.eventy-thlrd birthday anniversary of Thomas A. Edison. An attempt was made by American legion members and service men, after services at St. Paul s Keformed church at Lancaster, Pa., to mob Evangelist Evan-gelist Henry Stough for having declared de-clared in an address that many men In khaki were "riff-raff and scum." Negotiations of the union railroad employes for an Increase In pay practically prac-tically have been suspended until the rail properties again are in the hands of their owners. Co-operative banking to keep the money of the fanners and working-men working-men within their own ranks was one of the wants which most of the speakers speak-ers voiced before the American Farmers-Labor congress, held at Chicago. Itatilication of the woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution, by a special session of the Arizona legislature, leg-islature, was completed February 12. Failing to reach an argeenient with the representatives of the more than 2,000.000 railroad employees on demands de-mands for increased wages, Director General I lines has decided to submit the case to President Wilson for decision. de-cision. WASHINGTON. Hubert Lansing on February 13 resigned re-signed as secretary of state. Mr. Lansing left office because be 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. Vigorous opposition to shipping board plans for the sale of thirty former for-mer German passenger liners has broken out in the senate. John I'.nrton Jayne, chairman of the shinning board and formerly generally counsel of the railroad administration, will become secretary of the interior March 1, succeeding Franklin K. Lane, whose resignation will become effective effec-tive on that date. Definite steps looking toward the return re-turn of America's soldier dead from France were taken when Secretary linker appointed a commission to take charge of the work. Confidence that Europe's monetary problems would be settled satisfactorily, satisfactori-ly, was expressed by Secretary Houston Hous-ton in a review of the international financial situation. The original longhand manuscript of Lincoln's Gettysburg address was read in the senate on February 12, by Senator Sen-ator Keyes, Republican, New Hampshire. Hamp-shire. Kobert Underwood Johnson of New York, author and editor and one of the founders of the league to enforce peace, has been selected by President Wilson as ambassador to Rome to succeed suc-ceed Thomas Nelson I'age of Virginia, who resigned several months ago. FOREIGN 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 iirevent the dominion from being a full-fledged member of the league and having a vote in the assembly. as-sembly. British war prisoners in Russia will be released and British civilians renin re-nin rial ed. Russian war prisoners in England will be released and Great Britain will provide transport for the repatriation of Russian prisoners in neutral countries, it is announced. Reports of new activities of Francisco Fran-cisco Villa, the revolutionary leader, who recently was reported surrounded by federal troops in the bills Of northern north-ern Mexico have been received. 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 with their wives, in accordance with a recent order of Maj. Gen. Heijry 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 British Columbia ski tournament at Revel-i Revel-i stoke. B. C, with a jump of 1S5 feet, standing. The German government will shortly I 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. The treaty by which Norway gains sovereignty over the Spitsbergen archipelago archi-pelago was signed at Paris, February 9. Hugh C. Wallace. American ambassador ambas-sador to France, signed the treaty for the United States. The hitest plan of Londoners to accommodate ac-commodate the expected invasion of hundreds of thousands of American tourists this spring and summer Is to lodge them on war vessels, there not being enough hotels in London to take care of the anticipated visitation. |