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Show NEWS OF II WEEK II CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making Hletory Information Gathered from Alt Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. I NTE R MOUNTAI N. As tin? ri'siilt of a lovers' quarrel, Mike Torimiin, aged 22 years, wiis shot and killed at Ogden, Utah, by his cousin, Jennie Scurdino, not yet lli years of nge. 'I'lie trial at Montesnno, Wash., of the ten I. V. W. accused of the Cen-tralia Cen-tralia armisiice day murders was brought to a sudden halt, owing to the .serious illness of Juror Edward I'arr, who, physicians believe, is suffering from an attack of pneumonia. A father who is compelled to take active charge of the task of caring for his children is eligible for a pension under tin' provisions of the Colorado law pensioning mothers, according to a ruling made hy Judge lien 13. Llnd-sey Llnd-sey of the Denver juvenile court. Two lU-gallon whisky stills, turning turn-ing out moonshine liquor within 50 feet of the Juab county, Utah, Jail, were seized by officers last week. Patients cannot obtain prescriptions calling for Intoxicating liquors in Montana, Attorney General Ford has ruled. Distribution of alcoholic liquor of airy kind for human consumption is barred hi tills state, despite the federal fed-eral ruling permitting use for medicinal medic-inal purposes, he held. The, beautiful oQ.-year-old wife of Hussel Clark, tjvlntor and automobile dealer of Trouttlufe, Ore., was found In her home, with two revolver bullets bul-lets In her hrjln. Clarlc is missing. COMESTlC. llieluml I'utz, aged 1(5, walked into a haberdashery store in Chicago and asked for a pair of socks. J. E. Burch-nn, Burch-nn, the clerk, showed him a pair. Putz offered a dime in payment. The clerk asked a quarter. I'utz drew a gun and shot the clerk twice. Burchan lied alid the l,ny was booked for first degree murder, K. T. LeWI., one of the first jurymen jury-men passed in the Bisbee deportation trials, is in a Douglas, Arizona, hospital hos-pital seriously wounded, and J. B. Seal, a neighboring rancher, is free on bonds after surrendering himself and confessing he shot Lewis. Two bandits entered the bank at Camp Verde, sixty miles northeast of I'rescott, Ariz., at noon, held up Cashier Cash-ier Butler and escaped with approximately approxi-mately $1XX). .Ai uiur irenice, janitor oi uu aputi-tneut aputi-tneut house in Chicago, who barricaded barricad-ed his home when police sought to urrest him and stood off a squad of policemen throughout the night with it shotgun, surrendered Thursday. William Welch Adams, American mine superintendent, reported kidnaped kidnap-ed in Zacatecas, Mexico, February 13, has been released. Morris Hillqult, Socialist leader, predicted, while testifying before the New York assembly committee, that control of the United States government govern-ment would pass peacefully into the hands of the Socialist party when it enrolls the working class. Elbert Coutts, former I. W. W. organizer, or-ganizer, testlfed for the prosecution in the trial at Stockton, Cnl., of C. K. Bentley, charged with criminal syndicalism syn-dicalism that the I. W. W. manufactured manufac-tured Incendiary bombs at Stockton and at Oakland. He told the jurors of the places set fire by the I. W. W. in IMS. A building boom involving an outlay of $G,(XHUHiO,UX) is to be launched this spring, according to delegates to the convention of the Associated General Contractors, which held its first session ses-sion at Chicago on Wednesday. The boom, the contractors say, will last for live years and will relieve the shortage short-age of dwelling places throughout the con ntry. An attempt was made in the closing clos-ing session of the National League of Women Voters at Chicago to reconsider recon-sider a resolution against universal compulsory military training, passed earlier in the day. The motion to reconsider failed after spirited argument argu-ment on both sides. Trior- to I'.ilO. statistics for which are not rvnilablo. the largest number of strikes and lockouts in the United States in a single year was 4',Ci'. in I'.tlT. Unless differences are ironed out la-fore June, it appears possible that two .North Dakota delegations will go to Chicago claiming recognition at the J lU'puMiran national convention. j The Immediate throwing on the market of enormous quantities of I foodstuffs and a consequent material I reduction in the cost of living is expected ex-pected to restdt from an order for wholesale prosecution of food hoarders, hoard-ers, received at Chicago. The railroad brotherhoods have declared de-clared war upon the railroad bill as reported out by the senate and house conferees. Two persons were killed and nine injured, in-jured, three seriously, when a westbound west-bound VIcksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Pa-cific passenger train struck a freight car at Gibsland, La., and burled it upon the station platform where a number of persons were standing. WASHINGTON. Representative MucArthur, Republican Republi-can of Oregon, has introduced a bill proposing that thirty consecutive days' absence from continental United States or disabling illness lor a like period on the part of a president, would cause the vice president to assume the duties of the office. Hear Admiral Robert E. Peary, aged fi-1, retired discovered of the North pole, died at his home in Washington, February 20, after a two years' illness of pernicious anemia, during which thirty-live blood transfusions had been of no avail. President Wilson flatly denied in a formal communication to the senate that he had any agreement or understanding under-standing with British officials regarding regard-ing disposition of the fleet of former German liners. Amendment of the Volstead prohibition prohi-bition enforcement act so as to permit per-mit the states, by referendum, to authorize au-thorize sale of 2.73 per cent beer and 10 per cent wine is proposed in a bijl introduced by Representative Min-ahan, Min-ahan, Democrat, of Now Jersey. Pointing out that a L:rge percentage of the niPQ taken into the army during dur-ing the War were physically defective, defec-tive, Representatives Fess, Republican, Ohio, has introduced a bill providing for physical training for all school children from the ages of 6 to 18 years. Acknowledgment that the treaty is in p hopeless deadlock from whlcli it can he extricated only by a vote of the people at the next election was made in the senate Friday by Senator Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, the administration leader. Advocates of universal military training won a great victory In the house when, by a vote of 11 to 9, it was decided to include in the forthcoming forth-coming army reorganization bill a provision pro-vision establishing this policy. FOREIGN The steamer Danube struck a mine itl the Black se.1 thirteen miles off Cape Ramili on the European shore at the entrance to the Bosphorus, thirteen persons on board being killed by the explosion. A diplomatic dispatch from Berlin Friday states that undoubtedly the forthcoming negotiations regarding prisoners between Germany and soviet Russia will develop into peace negotiations. nego-tiations. The Prince of Wales will leave on his trip to the Antipodes on March 5, on which date his ship, the dread-naught dread-naught Renown, will depart from Portsmouth. Sir Auckland Geddes has been definitely defi-nitely chosen to succeed Lord Grey as British ambassador to the United States, the London Times announces. Bolshevik forces have captured Archangel, Arch-angel, on the White sea, according to a wireless dispatch from Moscow-. The "Whites" abandoned the town and the troops joined the Bolsheviki, the message mes-sage declares. A demonstration in support of the wide-spread demand upon the Pekln government that it refuse to enter into negotiations with Japan over Shantung Shan-tung province and refer the subject instead to the league of nations, has been in progress at Shanghai for several sev-eral days. Thirty-six thousand of the Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak troops in Siberia are to be sent home in American ships, while the other 36.000 will be sent in British and other vessels. At the ceremony through which President Deschanel was formally Invested In-vested with his new office, at Paris on February 18, there was a felicitious exchange between him and the retirinj president. M. Poincare. I mi Birkenhead and Jules Cam-bon Cam-bon .vill bead the interallied commission commis-sion v. hich is to insure the strict end proper carrying out of the trials of German alleged war culprits by the German supreme court at Leipzig. German press comment on the allies' concession allowing trial of the alleged war culprits by the German supreme court ranges from suspicion of tricks and "man traps" expressed by the government organ, the Vor-waerts. Vor-waerts. to the jubilantly triumphant "we told you so" boasts in the Nationalist Nation-alist press. The British labor party delegation which visited Ireland recently has re-pnried re-pnried in favor of withdrawing the government's Irish bill anil settling the Irish qiiosiion from a different standpoint, it is stated. |