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Show NEWS OF A WEEK Ifl CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening! That Are Making Hlitory Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Glvan In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. A tentative contract between the Lulled Stntes and the, canal companies' and Irrigation districts Interested in Ilie storage and utilization of the Hood and normal flow of the Snake river In Idaho has been approved by Secretary Secre-tary Lane. About 511,110(1 acres of public land in tin' Shoshone (Wyo.) irrigation project will be opened to entry March l.'l. Secretary Lane announces. ( lovernment regulation of the meat packliiK Industry was endorsed in u resolution passed at the closing session ses-sion at Spokane of the annual convention conven-tion of the American National Live Stock association. William Randall, convicted at Tuco-1 Tuco-1 1 1 a of conspiracy to circulate and publish pub-lish seditious literature, was sentenced to a three-year term in federal prison. A city ordinance barring the shimmy dance was passed at Sheridan, Wyo. The regulation provides for a fine of ?1(X). Mayor Camplin introduced the ordinance, which he said was requested request-ed by dancltif; maslors. The work of women forest fire lookouts look-outs In the Cascade forest last summer sum-mer was so successful that N. F. JIc-Dull', JIc-Dull', supervisor of the forest, wants a large number for next summer's work, he declared hum interview at Eugene, Ore. The Wyoming state senate has ratified rati-fied the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. The vote was 24 for the resolution and none against. Three members were absent. DOMESTIC. One bandit, armed with an empty automatic gun, robbed the mail car on a t'nion Tnclfic passenger train of all registered mall Friday between here and Fremont, forty miles west of Omaha. After he had left the train he dropped his gun and when found It was unloaded. r Women stowaways have become so j numerous since the war ended that Immigration Im-migration officials have cautioned all steamship companies in New York to have their vessels carefully searched before departure from Europe. The alms and objects of organized labor and of the American Legion are identical, (leneral I'ersliing declared in an address at I'lioenix, Ariz. "These two organizations should go hand in hand toward progress and a common understanding among the different classes In America." Peclaring that he will not transfer the government of Mexico to the presidential presi-dential candidate chosen at the election elec-tion to be held next July. President Oarran.a has proclaimed himself dictator dic-tator of Mexico, according to a dispatch dis-patch from Mexico City received by a Mexican newspaper published at San Antonio. Walker IX Hines, director general of railroads, in an address before the Transportation club at Louisville, urged the necessity of a division of -cess earnings of railroad corpora-lions corpora-lions above a reasonable return, in order to protect the public against excess ex-cess earnings of very prosperous railroads rail-roads and to insure a fair return to all roads. Harry S. New. convicted at Los Angeles An-geles of murder in the second degree for shooting Miss Freda Lesser, was denied a new trial and sentenced to serve not less than ten years, with a maximum of life imprisonment at San Quentin prison. Cartridge cloth, a new material created cre-ated by the war. is being transformed by war department experts into attractive attrac-tive goods for women's wear. Samples of the material, made up In woman's blouses of fetching design, are being offered for sale in New York stores. Gordon Fuwcett Hamhy, murderer, ; bank robber and train bandit, whose crime record reached from coast to coast ami culminated in the murder of two lirooklyn bank employees In De-j cember. IMS. went to death in the electric chair Thursday night In Sing Sing prison. Former service men may reinstate their war risk term Insurance at any time before July 1. 1020, under a new ruling of the bureau of war risk insurance. in-surance. The bill prohibiting smoking in pub-lb' pub-lb' eating places in South Carolina, passed by the senate, was killed in the ihou.se without a dissenting vote. The crew of the tank steamer Mlel-ero, Mlel-ero, which sank at sea off the Carolina coast, has been resetted by the steamer Sucrosa, a sister ship. The men were picked up Friday afternoon, after having hav-ing been afloat In small boats for five (lays. Direct charges that "certain railroads" rail-roads" were planning to reduce wages as soon as the roads were returned to private ownership were made by Timothy Tim-othy Shea, acting president -of the lirotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, speaking at New York. An Increase of 10 per cent in the wages of day laborers employed by tiie L'nlted States Steel corporation Is announced by Elbert H. Clary, chairman chair-man of tlit? board of directors of the corporation.. The increase, which is effective Saturday, will affect 275,000 men. WASHINGTON. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the government of the United Slates, and Ihere is no need of change in existing social standards and economic laws, representatives of seven national farm organizations have declared to congress. Republican members of the house ways and means committee, in conference confer-ence Friday, formally agreed to favor legislation authorizing the treasury to extend additional credits of $50,000,000 to certain countries of Europe for food relief. Indication of a widespread, spirit of unrest and diss;tisfactlon among the farmers of the country, so threatening as to be likely to disturb the existing exist-ing economic structure, is considered by government officials to be revealed in more than forty thousand replies to a questionnaire recently sent out by the postoffice department. President Wilson has asked Secretary Secre-tary Glass to make another appeal to congress for authority to loan $150,-000,000 $150,-000,000 to Poland, Austria and Armenia Ar-menia to relieve their desperate food situation. Farmers and dairymen demand the right of collective selling to protect themselves from the middlemen,-J. D. Miller of New Y'ork testilied before a senate subcommittee considering a bill to amend the anti-trust laws. Sick and wounded soldiers are not receiving the treatment guaranteed them by law, Representative Johnson, Republican, South Dakota, who served In the A. E. F., declared, in telling the house of his recent visits to government gov-ernment hospitals. I FOREIGN Cnpt. Karl Detzer, wliose court martial mar-tial on charges of cruelty to prisoners at Le Mans, France, where he was in command of a military police company, com-pany, was completed Friday at New York, was released by order of Major William F. Kelly, judge advocate at Governor's Island. The annulment of a marriage has been obtained at Milan, Italy, solely on the ground that it was childless. This decision is expected to be followed fol-lowed by numerous applications for annulment on similar grounds, for there is no divorce in Italy. William Marconi, the inventor, has Informed the Daily Mail that the period per-iod for investigating the sounds caught on various wireless apparatus will include in-clude April 2, when Mars is nearest the earth. Claims for ?32.1S9,71G.S3 (Mexican) representing damages alleged to have been suffered in the Mexican revolution revolu-tion of the last decade, have been filed with the Mexican indemnity commission, commis-sion, according to a report recently rendered by the chairman, of the committee. com-mittee. A bomb was thrown by a man impersonating im-personating a photographer at a motor car in which the minister of public works, Ismail Sirry Pasha, was driving, driv-ing, at Cairo, Egypt. The car was shattered, but the minister was not hurt. The bomb thrower escaped. Disturbance occurred in the streets of Madrid, owing to the shortage of tobacco. The police several fames were compelled to charge crowds in the Huerto del Sol, where they had assembled in front of the tobacco stores. A warning that "hard times" are approaching ap-proaching if lavish spending is not curbed immediately, was sounded at Toronto by Sir Edmond Osier, president presi-dent of the Dominion bank and brother of the late Sir William Osier. The fashionable nobility of France is forming a league witti the object of banning all extravagant functions and costly styles and to reduce French society life to the simplest and most inexpensive form. M. Pietri Sienkietel, a friend of Con-stantine, Con-stantine, former king of Greece, is visiting London Jewel merchants, offering offer-ing for sale the crown of the king, it is reported. The jewels are reported worth $150,000. i The second meeting of the council of the league of nations, which in reality will be the first actual business busi-ness meeting, will be held in London probably February 10, at which time j the world court is to be launched. |