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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD tN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTF.RMOJNTAIN. Seven ol' the ten men charged with criminal conspiracy in connection with tlie sale of lags attempted liy tlie Soldiers' anil Sailors' council at Taeo-mn, Taeo-mn, April 5, pleaded not guilty before Judge Chaitnan In the superior court. Preparations are going forward quietly for what is expected to he a general walkout of metal miners at Leadviile, Colo., on April 20 as a protest pro-test against an announced reduction of the wage scale from $4.50 n day' to $3.50 a day. The walkout is expected to affect ten or twelve of the largest mines in the district. Uric. Gen. Harvey J. Moss, adjutant adju-tant general of Washington, has issued u call for the twentieth annual convention con-vention of the National Guard association associ-ation of tlie United States to be held lit Chicago, May 5. Walter Iteisenwever, 17 years old has confessed that he killed Charles Johnson, manager of a railroad boarding board-ing house nt Sheridan, Wyo., with an axe and robbed the body of $100 in currency. Two Seattle policemen, Sergeant Gus V. Hasselblad and Patrolman W. F. Patton, were arrested by federal officers, charged with theft of liquor worth about $30,000 from the United States customs appraisers' store on March 31. Unless Governor Oleott succeeds in devising a plan tbnt will satisfy them that the state fish and game commission commis-sion has been put on an efficiency and business basis officials of the Oregon Sportsmen's league and the Multnomah Anglers' club declared they would draft an initiative bill and carry it to the electorate at the next general election, DOMESTIC. Two divisions of Japanese troops have been ordered to Korea to suppress sup-press revolutionary uprisings, according accord-ing to a cablegram received by the Japanese American, a newspaper, from a Tokio agent. Under supervision of the federal department de-partment of fisheries, 30,000 fur seals will be killed at the St. Paul ismds, , Bering sea, this spring. Several naval seamen were drowned lit New York when the propeller of the transport Saxonia sliced off the stern of the naval tug Freehold while the smaller vessel was docking the troopship troop-ship at a Cunard pier. Kemoval from office of Postmaster General Burleson was requested of President Wilson In n resolution adopted adopt-ed at the annual convention of the Georgia Federation of Labor. Efforts to impeach Gov. Y. L. Harding Hard-ing for his part in the Rathbun par-done par-done case were defeated in the Iowa house of representatives -when that body adopted a resolution censuring the chief executive. Albert "Wheeling, a farmer of Hol-' Hol-' comb. Mo., who pleaded guilty to having hav-ing chopped off his left hand with an ax July 21 last to evade selective service' ser-vice' was sentenced to six months in prison. F.ighteen foreigners were taken into custody by federal authorities at Detroit De-troit and held for a hearing before the local immigration board on charges' of spreading Bolshevist propaganda. The first woman's bill ever signed by a governor of California was approved April 15 by Gov. William D. Stephens, when he placed his signature upon a measure by Assemblywoman Savior to place a sister on an equal plane with a brother In the administration of estates. Six carloads of California beans and one carload of rice will be sent to the starving peoples of Armenia. ' Hope that the principles of anarchy and Bolshevism that now sway portions por-tions of the world will not get a dominant dom-inant foothold in America, hut that the "golden rule" eventually shall prevail here and elsewhere was expressed by Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle in an address ad-dress at San Francisco. The California senate adopted the proposed constitutional amendment introduced in-troduced by Senator Johnson providing provid-ing for a $10,000,000 bond issue for highway construction. A contest of the will of Mrs. Frank Leslie, leaving the bulk of her estate To the woman suffrage cause, was begun be-gun April 1.1 nt New York by Althea, the Baroness Salvador, a Dutch subject sub-ject residing in Paris. Six days of a modern wild west adventure ad-venture erided In the killing of one youth and imprisonment of three others In the Aztec, N. M., jail on a charge of automobile thefts and robbery rob-bery In two states. Charlotte is the first Michigan city. If not the first in the country, to subscribe sub-scribe its full quota for the Victory Liberty loan, $7.0lX). Efforts will be made to triple the quota. Members of the Brotherhood of Electrical Elec-trical Workers in California, Washington, Washing-ton, Arizona and Nevada have voted In, favor of joining a national strike to force government recognition of telephone employes unions. Widespread distribution of the fifth and final Liberty loan the $4,500,000,- 000 Victory loan as an antidote to Bolshevism was urged by Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury, in an address ad-dress before 4000 loan campaigners of the New York federal reserve district. dis-trict. WASHINGTON. Great interest has been aroused in ofifcial and diplomatic circles at Washington by private advices from London, stating that Great Britain, France and Italy and the United States propose to recognize the Omsk government as the defaeto government of non-Bolshevlki Russia as soon as the peace treaty Is signed and the details de-tails incident to it have been concluded. con-cluded. Julius R. Barnes, president of the Federal Grain corporation, has been appointed wheat director of the United States by President Wilson. Mr. Barnes will direct tlie handling of the entire 1919 wheat crop and will administer ad-minister the $1,000,000,000 fund appropriated ap-propriated by congress to take care of the wheat crop under the government govern-ment guaranteed price. In a cablegram to Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, President Wilson de- clared himself "cheered and encouraged encour-aged by reports he had received of the favorable reception awaiting the league of nations covenant when it readies the United States senate." March was the first month in which a decided decrease in army expenditures expendi-tures accurred, an official statement issued April 16 showed. In that month expenditures were $494,000,000 or just 58 per cent of the previous monthly average. Acting Secretary of State Polk has authorized the statement that no serious ser-ious 'questions were pending between the United States and Japan, and that the indications were that minor issues arising from the situation in Siberia and the recent trouble at Tien Tsin, as well as peace conference problems, soon would be amicably settled. FOREIGN, German and Baltic-German troops have forcibly seized Libau and overthrown over-thrown the Lettish provisional government, gov-ernment, according to advices received by the Lettish press bureau at Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. Six candidates are in the field for the presidency of Mexico in July, 1920, despite President Carranza's request that, politics be put aside for the present, according to advices from Mexico City. The government has begun the work of re-establishing normal telegraphic communication through Spain which was interrupted by recent strikes. The latest news received at Madrid indicates indi-cates that quiet prevails generally. The Bavarian anarchist Sondheimer has succeeded in obtaining control of the new communist government in Munich, according to advices received at Berlin from the Bavarian capital. It was stated at Paris, Friday, that the situation of the peace negotiations was such that President Wilson probably prob-ably would be able to sail homeward May 20, and possibly a little earlier May 15. The body of Edith Cavell, the English Eng-lish nurse who was executed by the Germans in 1915 at Brussels, will be brought to England May 15 and taken to Westminster abbey, where ceremonies cere-monies will be held. German and Baltic-German troops have forcibly seized Libau and overthrown over-thrown the Lettish provisional government, govern-ment, according to advices received by the Lettish press bureau at Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. The allied governments', according to the Temps, apparently have decided not to wait beyond May 15 for a definite def-inite answer from Germany as to whether she will sign or refuse to sign the peace treaty. 1 The entente delegates to the peace i conference believe Germany will require re-quire at least one week after receiving receiv-ing the peace treaty before it can be digested and an answer prepared and also that the delegates will need about four days for travel between Berlin and Versailles and return. The Belgian peace conference delegation dele-gation has informed Paris correspondent correspond-ent that Belgium had not been offi-ially offi-ially requested by the council of four to bring the former German emperor to trial anil that the Belgian government govern-ment would feel obliged to decline to take the step, even if there were any request for such action. |