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Show is n History of Past Week The News Happenings of j Seven Days Paragraphed I o INTERMOUNTAIN. i Ten million dollars tor drought re- lief in Molilalia and an administration : organization siniilav to Coveruor Slew- art's proposed welfare commission are provided in a bill introduced in llic state senate Monday afternoon. A daily contingent of approximately 100 men is cared for al the Ited Cross canteen as they pass through I'oca-tcllo I'oca-tcllo in all directions. Monday night a contingent of sixty-live men traveling travel-ing together, en route to Camp Lewis for discharge, were cared for. Forest fire conditions in the rend Oreille and Coeur d'Alene forests of northern Idaho, were worse Saturday : while in the St. Joe forest, where sev- I eral small fires were burning, liitle j change was noted'. Delayed thirty-four hours liy a washout wash-out near Crescent. Colo., a Denver & Salt Lake train, due there atli:-J Thursday night, arrived in Denver at 4:30 Saturday morning. The train was backed to Tolland. Colo., wheif-provision wheif-provision for the feeding of the passengers pas-sengers was made. Nine of the pa sengers, however, walked eight miles through the flood and debris to Plain-view, Plain-view, Colo., and hoarded : freight train for Denver. Herbert S. Iladley, former governor of Missouri, and widely known in legal circles throughout the country. Friday j was appointed counsel for the Colorado Colo-rado state railroad commission. Two fatalities and thousands of dollars dol-lars worth of prop-rty damage resulted result-ed from a serie-; of heavy thunderstorms thunder-storms in various parts of Colorado Friday night. Complaints from ranchers in Snohomish Snoho-mish county Washington, that beavers have increased in number so rapidly that much valuable land is being inundated inun-dated by water overflowing from their dams, that Game Warden Leckie took steps to open the dams. A cloudburst at Dubois, on Horse creek. Fremont county, Wyoming, Thursday night drowned four persons. The bodies of Dr. Welty, 70 years old, and Don Long, aged 13, were recovered. recov-ered. John Shaffer, a piano tuner, and an unidentified farm band were the other victims. DOMESTIC. Rewards offered for arrest and conviction con-viction of persons guilty of placing n bomb which Sunday destroyed the home of Oscar Lawler, formerly assistant as-sistant United States attorney general Monday night totaled .$11,000. Seventeen negroes were charged with rioting and murder in indictments voted by a special grand .jury investigating investi-gating race riots, which, for five days last week, held the south side of Chicago Chi-cago in a reign of terror. More than two score persons were injured, many seriously, when two in-terurhan in-terurhan cars on the Peninsula railway rail-way collided head-on nine miles from Sun Jose, Calif., at noon Sunday. One of the cars was crowded with' picnickers picnick-ers bound for Congress Springs, a resort. re-sort. Miss Anna Adams Cordon, president of the W. C. T. IT., admitted Sunday Hint, her organization is conducting a eanvpaign for an amendment to the constitution to prohibit the manufacture manufac-ture and sale of tobacco. ltevenge for the part he played in the prosecution of a group of dynamiters dyna-miters in t lie middle west several years ago was assigned by the police here as the probable motive for an attempt at-tempt on the life of Oscar Lawler, at Los Angeles, former assistant aflor-new aflor-new general of the. United Stales. Mr. Lawler's home was practically destroyed de-stroyed by a bomb and subsequent fire Sunday and lie and Mrs. F.awler both seriously burned and otherwise injured. in-jured. An injunction restraining the police department of Los Angeles from interfering inter-fering with the sale of 7."i per cent beer in cafes here was granted Saturday Sat-urday by the superior court on application appli-cation of restaurant men. Itul Gottfried, a St. Paul police detective, de-tective, was wounded and an unidentified unidenti-fied man killed Sal onlay when police detectives entered a house in South Minneapolis in search of men who wre believed to he counterfeiters. The destroyer Philip, first vessel of the new Pacific fleet to reach an American port on the Pacific coast from tile Atlantic, arrived al San Diego, Saturday afternoon to bring mail from the fleet and take mail hack to it. Lieutenant Commander K. W. St rot her, the Philip's commander, expects ex-pects to join the I'iagsbip New Mexico on August ". two days before the fleet is due at this port. Giannini Vineyard interests, comprising compris-ing 400 acres of fruit and alfalfa lands near Visalia have been sold, it was announced, to .1. K. Gnree, a Japanese, of Fowler, for .f47r,000. I Into the high tide of Oakland harbor, har-bor, the l'tac;irl)on,' Utah's Liberty loan honor ship, was launched at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, California wine and Utah mountain water glistening glisten-ing on the bow as the big oil tanker glided down the ways at the Alameda yards of the Bethlelm Shipbuilding Corporal ion. WASHINGTON. The bouse Saturday pa -sed the first protective larilf measure to b" acied upon since the Republicans regained control of congress. The measure levies lev-ies high duties on chemical glassware mid apparatus. It now goes to the senate. The fight of I lie railroad workers of the United Stales to force upon congress con-gress the acceptance id' government ownership as a solution of the railroad problem is to begin at once at Washington Wash-ington and will be unrelenting in its intensity. A special certificate to be issued to soldiers wounded in Hie war with tier-many tier-many has been adopted by the war department. de-partment. It will hear al 1 lie top the legend. "Columbia Gives to Her Sons the Accolade of the New Chivalry of Humanity," and below the name, rank and unit of the soldier and the action in which he was wounded. 1 n'versal army and navy and vocational voca-tional training for youths between 18 anil lid years and a national registration registra-tion system are proposed in a bill introduced in-troduced Thursday by Senator Chamberlain, Cham-berlain, democrat, of Oregon. The house war investigating committee com-mittee inquiring into expenditures abroad will sail for Kurope on August 7 on the transport Mount Vernon, it was announced Thursday. Composing the committee are Representatives Johnson of South Dakota, Bland of Indiana and Flood of Virginia. Appealing to the senate to refuse ratification of the articles of the peace treaty which give Japan possession of Shantung, the Chinese Students' alliance alli-ance in the United States, said to have a membership of lfiOO, through its president, pres-ident, Feng Una Huang, gave out an open statement declaring Hint tlr, "American peace commission does not attempt to justify this spoliation of China.'' The first issue of the official victory ribbon bars will be made to the army soon after August SI, the war department depart-ment announced Wednesday. On that dare the first delivery of 400,000 will be made to the New t'ork supply officer, of-ficer, who will ship to army recruiting recruit-ing stations and posts only for distribution dis-tribution to officers and men in the service. When the victory medal is ready it will he distributed, together with n ribbon bar, to all officers and men who participated in the war. A naval board of inquiry will be appointed ap-pointed by O-npf. .1. N. Lmfrees, U. S. N., to investigate the sinking Wednesday Wednes-day of the U. S. submarine G-2, which went down in Long Island sound, off Pleasure Beach, with the loss of three lives. FOREIGN. The government at London has decided de-cided to revert to its prewar policy of noninterference in industrial disputes, says the Daily Mail, leaving employers and workers to adjust their own difficulties. diffi-culties. The transport Virginian arrived on Monday from Brest with 118 officers and 304!) men of the Twenty-third infantry. in-fantry. The Twenty-third is a part of the famous Second division, made up of regular army, marine and coast artillery ar-tillery troops. Herr von Maurig, Austrian consul general t. Zurich, and bis wife, Countess Count-ess Servy, committed suicide Sunday. They left a letter saying they were "unable to survive the disgrace of the Austro-Hungarian empire." The Spanish senate has begun discussion dis-cussion of the question as to whether Spain shall enter the league of nations. na-tions. No definite action, however, is looked for until it is certain that the league is a reality. The (own of Onega, on the north i Russian front, has been bombarded j and captured by anti-Bolsbeviki rnili- ', tary forces, according to a Bolsheviki I military wireless report received al London Saturday. Because of the steadily increasing cost of living, with the price of rice soaring daily, labor unrest is ; spreading in Japan. Numerous strikes ; have occurred in Tokio, Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya, in which women have participated. A Caproni airplane, flying from Venice to Milan Saturday with four- teen persons on board, fell to the ground from a height' of 1000 meters, near Verona. All on hoard were killed. The following officers and men were named in the list of distinguished sef-j sef-j vice cross awards announced: Ser-gennt Ser-gennt F.rnest A. Smith (deceased), Waterloo. Iowa ; Pharmacist's Mate Vincent A. Nolan. 742 101st avenue, i Seattle. Wash.; and Private Mandel j Olson, Grand Forks. N. D. I All American soldiers, excepting ! about SOOrt who will remain on the i Rhine indefinitely, will be out of Ger-! Ger-! many by August -0, according to the latest instructions from general head-! head-! quarters. j Two hundred and seventeen American Ameri-can citizens have been killed in Mexico j since the end of the retime of I'or-I I'or-I firio Diaz on May 125, 1011. the senate was informed Friday by Secretary : Lansing in response to a resolution i by Senator King, democrat, Utah. 'Claims filed by American sitizens ask-' ask-' ing damages because of Mexican depredations de-predations during the time have to- taled 0412. Mr. Lansing said. Dr. Karl Rentier, the German-Aus-; Irian chancellor, and Herr Franzt, the Austrian Conservative leader, have conferred, with a view to establishing i between tile parties of t lie left and : the Conservatives mid Liberals a coal-; coal-; ition intended to cheek Bolshevism, the ! Petit Pnrisien says. i Zurich. Switzerland, is in the grip j of a strike movement which has be come so serious as to call for action by the slate council at a special ses- sion. The state council decided to re-j re-j quest the federal council to send troop j : to Zurich |