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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM FECORO OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Llnea. INTERMOJNTAIN. The Butte city council voted to discharge dis-charge nil members of tlie city fire and police departments with the exception of the chiefs, captains and lieutenants. The action follows an announcement hy the members of the departments to resign unless provisions were made for cashing last month's salary warrants. John Milch, a former saloon man, was found guilty of sedition by a jury In the district court at Helena, Mont. United States troops from Camp Lewis are quartered in Seattle and Taeoina to "stand ready for any emergency," emer-gency," as army officers said, resulting result-ing from the general strike on February Febru-ary 0 of 85,000 union men, in sympathy sym-pathy with 25,000 shipyard workers w ho walked out January 21 to enforce demands for increase of pay. Seven persons were burned to death in a lire which destroyed the Tokyo house, a lodging place at Seattle. Eight are missing and fourteen reported injured. in-jured. Lieutenant Commander John Borden, Bor-den, Arctic explorer, hunter of big game and for the last two years a hunter of German submarines in his own armed yacht, has returned to his home in Denver and announces that lie intends to be off for the north pole as soon as he gets his business affairs shaped up. J. Henry Alhers, formerly president of the Albers Brothers Milling company, com-pany, with establishments in several 1'acifie coast cities and Ogden, Utah, was found guilty at Portland of violation vio-lation of the espionage act upon two of the seven counts charged against him in the indictment. Teaching la foreign languages' will be prohibited in Washington, if a bill introduced in the house of representatives representa-tives becomes a law. DOMESTIC. Railroads should be kept under government gov-ernment control until congress has developed de-veloped a permanent plan for their management, Glen E. Plumb of Chicago, Chi-cago, spokesman for organized railway rail-way labor, told the senate interstate commerce committee. William Allen White of Emporia, Kans., and Prof. George Davis Herron have been appointed the American delegates del-egates to the Marmora conference with the Russian factions. James S. Griffes, better known under un-der his pen name of "Luke North," not d advocate of the single tax, died nt L is Angeles after an illness of several sev-eral weeks. l ire believed to have been of incendiary in-cendiary origin destroyed the building, machinery and stock of the Michigan Seating company, located within the walls of the Michigan state prison, causing a loss of half a million-Twenty million-Twenty buildings in the heart of the Fairbanks, Alaska, business district have been destroyed by a fire which started Thursday morning. Firefighters Fire-fighters wore handicapped by the extreme ex-treme cold. The tire started from a defective furnace in the basement of a jewelry store. The bill' giving presidential suffrage to women in Indiana was' passed by the Indiana senate, 44 to 3. The measure mea-sure was adopted by the house recently recent-ly and requires only the governor's signature to become a law. Scott Neuring, one time professor in the University of Pennsylvania and Toledo To-ledo university and a Socialist candidate candi-date for congress in New York last fall, was placed on trial in federal court at New York on Tuesday on a charge of sedition. About 800 orange growers of the San Gabriel Valley, California, many of them armed, drove from that vicinity vi-cinity thirty-live Russians, including four women, alleged to have attempted to intimidate Mexican orange pickers. Governor Esteban Cantu of Lower California has issued a statement to "the people and government of the United States" against a continuation of the move to annex Lower California io the United States and referring to it as "a conspiracy framed by some of the citizens of the United States to assail the integrity and freedom of a friendly nation." John Jahnezek, 47 years old, a farmer farm-er near Omaha, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of a revolver In the hands of his 17-year-old son, Joseph, just as the falher. with a shot-pun shot-pun in his hand, was going hunting Willi the hid. Sidney Dickinson, 68, traveler, magazine mag-azine writer and newspaper correspondent, corre-spondent, died nt Oberlin, Ohio, of Injuries suffered Tuesday night when he was run down by an interurban car. The Western Fruit Jobbers' association associa-tion at Its fifteenth annual meeting nt Chicago adopted resolutions condemning condemn-ing the service of the American Railway Rail-way Express company operating under federal control. Hospital reports' from the expedition, ary forces show there were 95,902 sick and wounded among the American soldiers on January 10. This wns a not decrease of 97,480 from the total on December 19. Henry J. Whigham, editor and publisher pub-lisher of the Metropolitan Magazine, has admitted that the position of contributing con-tributing editor, held by Theodore Roosevelt, had been offered to Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, who was one of the former president's closest friends. WASHINGTON. The .$6,000,000 war revenue bill, the greatest tax measure in the history of the world, was formally presented in the house on February 6. Enactment at this session of measures meas-ures prohibiting immigration until four years after peace is declared and extending ex-tending government control of telephone tele-phone and telegraph properties until next December 31 is now regarded by administration leaders as doubtful. American rights in Mexico will be amply safeguarded by the Mexican government, gov-ernment, according to Ambassador Henry F. Fletcher, who is in Washington Wash-ington from Mexico City for conferences confer-ences with state department officials. Eradication of the evils of competitive competi-tive warfare between water and rail transportation, developments of the nation's inland waterways and its harbors and their full utilization for the promotion of the national prosperity prosper-ity were urged at the opening session at Washington of the national rivers and harbors congress. Sweeping investigation of Bolsheviki, I. W. W. and other propaganda was ordered or-dered unanimously by the senate after two hours of tempestuous discussion in which several senators declared organizations or-ganizations were plotting to overthrow; the American government by violence. After months of deliberation, house and senate conferees have reached a final agreement on the oil leasing bill under which more than 50,000,000 acres of government-owned oil, gits, coal, phosphate and sodium lauds in western west-ern states and Alaska, would be opened for development under a leasing leas-ing system subject to a royalty which, in the case of oil and gas, will be not less than one-eighth of the gross value pf production. FOREIGN. Karl Kautsky, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in the Ebert cabinet, was elected president of the German assembly by a vote of 374 out of 399 cast by the assembly. Total casualties in the American forces in the Archangel region of Russia Rus-sia up to and including January 31 were 181 killed, died of wounds, sickness sick-ness or from other cause, or missing in action, and 299 wounded or injured, making a total casualty list of 410 out of a force that numbered 4925. Women will be admitted as delegates to the permanent international labor conference which is in process of formation for-mation at Paris, The American Red Cross hospital at Neuilly, organized in the first week of September, 1914, by several prominent Americans, including William K. Vnn-derbilt, Vnn-derbilt, Mrs. Vanderbilt, Robert Bacon and Mrs. Bacon, was closed last week. Only one of eighteen members of the crew of the Danish steamer Carmen Car-men was saved when the steamer was sunk by a mine in the North sea. The accident occurred near the Lister fjorde. A general strike which embraces the whole northwest of Hungary started at Komorn, according to advices from Budapest. All business was suspended suspend-ed and hotels and cafes closed. Fifty-one French - generals were-killed were-killed daring the war. Of these fifteen were division commanders and thirty-six thirty-six were brigadier generals. In order to avoid all possibility of disaster, the allied and American troops in northern Russia, now somewhat some-what scattered, will in all probability be moved back nearer to Archangel and more closely concentrated. If the allies persist in pushing upon Germany demands which will make that country the "wage slave" of its enemies, the allies must, keep Germany in subjection for decades by armed force, against which, the Germans would rise at an opportune moment and again plunge the world into war, Prof. Hans Delbruock, historian and publicist, declared in an addre.-s at Berlin. The Russian soviet government, in a wireless message received in London announcing that it is willing to begin conversations with the entente with the ohject of bringing aboitt a cessation cessa-tion of military activities, declares it is willing to acknowledge financial ob-'liga'hm ob-'liga'hm regarding the creditors of "iuxsiu of entente nationality. |