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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF H K Ellis RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home nd Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, nd Prepared for Busy Men (NTERMOUNTAIN. Warnings to farmers anil ranchers In the in ii rt coyote districts lo go armed in their fields and to keep an eye out for the protection of their children iiave been issued by the 1'tah slale hoard of health. Two largo companies operating in I ho tuiiK.it on field, says a Boulder. Co!o.f dispatch, have derided to or-Kaiiize or-Kaiiize to proleet tin; camps from an apparently organized hand of high graders, who are paid to he respon sihle for the disappearance of from $"!, 000 to $100,000 worth of high grade ire monthly. One hundred and fifty delegates to the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining institute, in-stitute, to open at Salt Lake City June IS, will leave Denver on June 14 ror Salt Lake City. Two robbers blew off the time lock of the outer vault of the Union State bank at Bountiful, Utah, but failed to secure anything of value. All Portland, Ore., high schools "began "be-gan Monday the saving daylight plan. The school board announced that the high school clocks would be set ahead an hour so that the sessions would begin be-gin at 8 instead of 9 o'clock in the morning. I). W. Oldfather, 51 years of age, of Longmont, Colo., was killed and six others were Injured, one seriously, when an automobile-stage in which they were traveling became unmanageable unman-ageable on a steep incline, dashed down the mountain and was wrecked. William L. Paterson, a cigar store owner, jjhot .and killed his wife and liaby daughter at Salem, Ore., and then turned a revolver upon himself. He died soon afterwards. Neighbors said Paterson had become mentally unbalanced over worrying about his wife, who had been 111. DOMESTIC. James J. Hill, railroad builder and financier, died at St. Paul, Minn., May 29, from blood poisoning at the age of 78. Fifty men ended a seventy-two-hour battle, extinguishing a forest fire that burned 300 acres and threatened the town of Gascon, N. M. A new placer gold strike is reported report-ed on Foley creek, a tributary of Notch creek, twenty miles from Shu-shanna Shu-shanna City, Alaska, with good prospects, pros-pects, four feet of pay gravel and bet ter pans each foot down. Interviews with senators and representatives repre-sentatives from the Rocky mountain and Pacific northwest states indicate that practically all these states are likely to vote for the nomination of Justioa Hughes in the Chicago convention conven-tion after the preliminary first ballot is taken. The convention of bituminous coal miners from district No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, in session at Pittsburg, by unanimous vote declined de-clined the wage scale recently signed in New York and adopted a resolu- j tion providing for the election of a committee which will confer with op-1 erators in this district in an effort to obtain a new agreement. I Convicted of murder in the first de- gree for poisoning his father-in-law John E. Peck, a millionaire drug' manufacturer of Grand Rapids, Mich., Dr. Arthur Warren Waite will be sen-, tenced June 1. I Fire, which early Saturday destroyed ; the administration building of Penn j college at Oskaloosa, Iowa, took a toll j of four lives, instead of two, as had i beru supposed. United States District Judge Mau-1 rice T. Dooling at San Francisco fixed $1S, 000,000 as the upset price for the i sale of the Western Pacific railway last week in the foreclosure suit brought by the Equitable Jrust com-, pauy of New York. Boston sentiment for national preparedness pre-paredness found expression Saturday in the greatest street demonstration that the city ever has witnessed. Two deaths by drowning marked the opening of the swimming season at Lincoln, Neb. The victims: Arthur Sorenson. 19. Siebert, Colo.; Lawrence Dwiger, 11, Lincoln. Northern Oklahoma was swept by wind and hail storms Sunday, with the damage centering in Garfield county. Seven buildings were wrecked at Fair mont. Two persons were injured slightly in Enid. Dtllas, Texas, has been selected as the place cf meeting of the 1917 general gen-eral assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States. Two men and one woman were killed, while another woman was se riously injured, in a collision at Sing-nc. Sing-nc. N. J., between an automobile In which they were riding and an express ex-press train at an unprotected grade crossing. Barricaded in a houseboat on the edge of San Francisco bay. a lone desperado fought a half hour gun and revolver battle Friday with t!:ty policemen po-licemen who surrounded his lair after he had ki.'.ci Police Sorg-ant John Moriarily. The bandit was finally ki!!u--. A ri-port of murder was returned at Hartford City, Ind., after a coroner's .'nquest, in the death of Geraldine Stout, ai-'t-d S, wiio, while riding in , an automobile with her parents, was! struck and killed by a bucket of corn, i hurled by Albert Thomas, a farmer, j as he stepped aside to let the machine pass. The removal of Mayor John Purroy Michel from office was asked in resolutions reso-lutions adopted and sent to Governor Whitman by the United Independent Democrats of Kings county. New York. Six persons were seriously injured and pri-pcrty damage estimated at -f .j'l't.ijijtj was done in and around Wimbledon, Wim-bledon, N. D., in a terrific tornado that passed over that district. There will be fewer delegate seats contested in the Republican national convention, which meets in Chicago, .I'ine 7, t Int n at any national convention con-vention of the party in twenty years. WASHINGTON. I President Wilson celebrated Memo- rial day by delivering an address at i I Arlington National cemetery on j "American Ideals." The exercises will I j lie under the auspices of patriotic or- i ; gap izations. Secretary McAdoo has informed Chairman Loebeck of the house committee com-mittee on expenditures in the treasury treas-ury department that the department is enforcing the income tax law "with ail the vigor which the small force authorized by congress will permit." The senate passed the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, carrying approximately $43,000,000, by a vote of 35 to 32, after adding many amendments. amend-ments. The three Riggs bank officials, on trial at Washington for perjury, wera found not guilty Saturday after the jury had deliberated nine minutes. President Wilson declared Saturday before the League to Enforce Peace that the United States was ready to join in any feasible association of nations na-tions to preserve the peace of the world against "political ambition and selfish hostility," and in service of "a common order, a common justice and a common peace." Federal employees will not be permitted per-mitted hereafter to charge shoe shines or hair cuts to their expense accounts. FOREIGN. Forty thousand Bulgarians have been landed on Greek soil. The German Ger-man strategists have struck to take the allies on the flank. "Irresponsible peace talk received its quietus from Sir Edward Grey last eek, but no doubt President Wilson's ' peech before the League to Enforce eace will revive the discussion in certain quarters," says the Liverpool Post. The hostilities in Europe will have gone on two years should the war continue con-tinue to August 1. Attempts to gauge its burden to all the powers involved have resulted in a calculation that, if it is still in progress ou the second anniversary, an-niversary, the direct cost of the struggle strug-gle will have been in excess of $45,000,000,000. i ne iNaiiKiug conieience nas ueeu dissolved without effecting a compromise compro-mise between the north and south. Strong constitutionalist columns have been dispatched by General Jacinto Ja-cinto Trevino, military commander of northern Mexico, to surround Hacienda Hacien-da Mimbrera, about 125 miles from Jimenez, Ji-menez, where General Igtiacio Ramos recently reported Villa, with a few followers, fol-lowers, to be hiding. An intimation that he might retire from the premiership soon because ot his advanced age was made at Tokio by Count Okuma, the prime minister, in an address at a meeting of the doshikai o'r unionist party, of which he is the leader. Martial law will be continued in Ireland Ire-land for the present, according to a proclamation issued at Dublin. Infante Alfonso of Orleans, son of Infanta Eulalia and cousin of the kit g of Spain, flew from Madrid to CarLa gena, breaking all Spani; h aeroplane records for distance without a descent en route. General Jose Y'nez Salazar and the three privates who followed h'm to the end of Iris harmless revo'ution appeared ap-peared before General Gavira in the Juarez headquarters on Sunday and obtained safe conduct papers to allow al-low them to return to their homes and civil life. A Bulgarian army of 25,000, led by German officers and supported by German Ger-man cava'ry, has crossed the Greek border. They have captured Fort Roupe, have reached the site of the Demlr-Hiisar bridge recently blown up by the French and are swarming over the Strumitza valley. Reports to the Tokio Asabi from Pe-kin Pe-kin state that the condition of Y'uan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese re-i re-i public, is grave. He was taken ill Tuesday and cannot speak. It is suspected sus-pected lie has been poisoned. The aggregate German losses before Verdun are set at about 350,000 by the petit Parisien. The rumor in circulation abroad that Prince von Buelow, former German Ger-man chancellor, is going on a special 'mission to Washington is onicially denied de-nied at Berlin. In an impromptu speech in the ! ouse of commons, Sir Edward Grey, the Brii.sli fore.gn secretary, set aside all ideas that peace r.tgot.auons were possible at the present stage and p.a.n-y p.a.n-y reiterated that the position of the allies in no way was changed . General Joseph S. Gallieni, former minister cf war, died at Versailles, France. M; y 27. In the British house of commons on Thursday the leaders of all factions Hocked t j the standard of the prime jnrnister in an effort to achieve a last-'ins last-'ins seu'.em. nt of the Iri.: c.jetion. |