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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making HlBtory i Information Gathered from All Quarter of tho Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMO'JNTAIN. (Uiv. Hon W. Oh-ott was sworn into office on Marrh 7 us the successor of the late (low James Withyconibe, of Oregon. The senate ofhe Colorado legislature legisla-ture h.v a sh'ict party vote adopted a resolution favoring tho adoption of llie league of nations plan outlined by President. Wilson. The house last week liy a party vote tallied a similar resolution. I'.y a vote of -111 to 1(1, the lower liouse of the Idaho legislature adopted a memorial to congress condemning I'resiilent Wilson for his "defiant and dictatorial attitude In which he lias attempted to force his personal views and opinion upon the people of the Vnited States," and calling upon the T ailed Stall's senate to reject any treaty of peace which includes the " present charter for n league of tuitions. Sugar beet growers nt Grand June-lion, June-lion, Colo., represenling 10,000 acres planted to heels last year, served notice on the Western Sugar company thai unless a flat .fit) n ton rate was laud for beets, they would plant their entire acreage to wheat, the price of which is guaranteed by the government. govern-ment. That thousands of dollars of state money has been wasted through poor business management, is the finding of a joint conuniltee of the Montana state assembly in a final report submitted to both houses. Approximately 2D, 000 ensos of technical tech-nical violations of the selective service ser-vice law have been discovered by federal fed-eral investigators at Olympla, Wash., Clarence L. Bennies, special United Slates district attorney, announced on Thursday. The engineer ami fireman of a Denver Den-ver anil Itio Grande train, westbound, escaped miraculously, when the locomotive loco-motive of the train was swept from the tracks in Black canyon by u snowslide to the ice-covered Gunnison river, thirty feet below. DOMESTIC. Slorker Storkerson's exploration expedition, ex-pedition, which made its home oil ft floating Arctic ice pack eight months, did not float west from Alaska to Siberia, as it planned to do, hut was carried far north and then hack again, according to Gus Mesial;, one of the parly who has arrived at Fort Yukon, Alaska. The Marine Workers' Affiliation has decided to accept the terms offered of-fered by the railroad administration for a settlement of the strike which has paralyzed trans-Athintic and coastwise coast-wise shipping the past week. Opposition in varying degrees to the league of nations as outlined in the tentative covenant brought home by I'resiilent Wilson was voiced by Senators Sen-ators r.orah of Idaho, Heed of Missouri and Thomas of Colorado in addresses before the Socity of Arts and Sciences nt Xew York, Thursday night. Hilary A. Herbert, secretary of the navy during Grover Cleveland's second sec-ond term, died nt Tampa, Fin., nt the age of So. Mr. Herbert had been in feeble health for a number of years. Twenty-nine per cent of the wounded wound-ed soldiers at army hospitals, in which education departments have been established, es-tablished, were enrolled during January Janu-ary in some form of education work: Four bodies had been taken Wednesday Wed-nesday night from the ruins of one building wrecked at Kufaula, Ala., by a tornado ;md two oilier men were reported re-ported to have been killed in the same building. Supplies valued at l?1.f.3.0S2 nave been given by the American lied Cross to t'le American committee for relief in the near east, for distribution in Armenia anil Syria. Jacob l'eterus Van Trier, first ship's butcher on the Holland-American Line steamship Kollordani. was arrested at New York by custom officials of-ficials charged with violation of the trading with the enemy act. Approximately 1OO0 persons in California Cali-fornia are to be indicted as alleged evaders of the selective service act, according to information given out here. Unduly harsh sentences imposed on a number of persons convicted during ;!ie war emergency of violating the j i -piniu.ge act. will be corrected from to time through executive clem- by I'resiilent Wilson, it is an-iu.k-.v (!. 1 After she had sued for a divorce charging her husbnnd hnd gone Joy riding through the nlr with another woman, Mrs. Gertrude Cantwell has asked the court to enjoin Alfred S. Cantwell, member of the Aero Club of Chicago, her husband, from taking his aeroplane from the hangar. "Geuenyl" Jacob Coxey declared at New York that lie proposes to lend another "'army'.' to Washington ns a protest against national prohibition.; He has decided, however, that lie will' not go on foot, but will travel in li touring car and motor transportation; will be provided, lie said, for all hisi cohorts. Fire starling from an overheated, stove destroyed the mess hall and; quarters of K troop Twelfth cavalry,, at Hachita, N. M. The loss was esti-! nailed to have been .fL'0,000, exclusive: of a number of Liberty bonds belong-! ing to the cavalrymen which were! burned in their tent houses. WASHINGTON. Secretary Daniels and n party of American nnval experts will lenve for, Europe during the week to discuss with allied naval officials the best; type of capital warships to be built; in tiie future, based on the lessons') gained in the war. ; I'resiilent Wilson has written Repre-j seutafive Fuller of Massachusetts that lie is opposed to the sinking of the' surrendered German warships, but! that his judgment is not final us he has not yet hud opportunity to discuss; the matter with authoritative naval' men. In answer to numerous inquiries; concerning Liberty bond tax exenip-; tions, the treasury has announced that; a maximum of $110,000 of Liberty bonds may be held by any taxpayer,! with interest exempt from surtaxes'; and excess profits and war profits; taxes, providing the holdings are distributed dis-tributed in a certain way. Italy has been warned by the Amer-, ican government that unless she putsj an end to delays in movements of relief re-lief supplies to the newly established; Jugo-Slnvie nnd Szecho-Slavic states, steps will be taken to cut off the flow, of American foodstuffs to Italy. Brig. Gen Samuel T. Ansell, former acting judge advocate general, and one, of the central figures in the controversy contro-versy with regat d to the administration administra-tion of military justice, will be re-; turned to his prewar rank in the army; March 10, along with eleven other brigadiers. . The government lias determined to retain control of the railroads, despite, failure of congress to provide funds for the railroad administration, and, to have the roads finance themselves, for the next few months through private pri-vate loans on the open market or through advances by the war finance corporation. FOREIGN. The. Bolshevist government of Russia is preparing n lnw decreeing that all professionals and artists must work for the government,, according to Pet-rograd Pet-rograd advices. The workers in several trades in Cordova, Spain, have gone on strike. The municipal employes have also quit, work. Thtf Duchess of Marlborough, formerly for-merly Miss Consuelo Yunderbilt of Xew York, was elected to the county council from the North division of Southwark by a large majority over her opponent, a labor candidate. She 'stood for election as a progressive. George II. Roberts, the food minister, minis-ter, speaking at Newcastle, England, said that he could state on unimpeachable unimpeach-able authority that the situation with regard to food conditions in great areas of Kurope was tragic. Chancellor Scheideniann has handed his resignation to President Ebert to enable the president to have n free hand to deal with the present situation, situa-tion, according to the Zeitung am Mit-tag Mit-tag of Berlin. According to the Daily Mail's Paris representative, the powers have ngreef. to distribute the surrendered German warships among themselves, but the United Slates and Great Britain are in accord regarding the necessity for sinking their respective shares. From eight to twenty-seven persons are estimated to have been killed and from twenty-five to seventy-three wounded in rioting at the Kinme) military camp at Rhyl, Wales. Starvation prevails throughout Bolshevist Bol-shevist Russia and is killing off the population by thousands. Diseases due to undernourishment are rampant, and food is so scarce in I'etrograd av.il Moscow that cats sell readily foi each. The Spartacans have inaugurated a movement to seize Koenigsherg. East I Prussia, nnd thereby open a route of communication to Moscow, so that Bolshevist armies from Russia might move to the assistance of the Sparta-can Sparta-can forces according to an official government bulletin. Grave rioting is going on in Berlin, i many having been killed, according to I word from that city. Street battles are raging in several parts of the capital. cap-ital. Military patrols have been at-j at-j lacked and killed. j |