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Show HEWS OF ft WEEK If! CONDENSED FORI! RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happtnlngs That Are Maklnfl History Information Gathered from AU Quarters of the Globe ana Given In a Few Linos. INTERMOUN f Al N. A proposal tliat the United States adopt a Japanese exclusion act similar sim-ilar to the measure now in force, regarding re-garding Chinese, led to a heated debate in the convention of the League of the Southwest, at Denver. Denver may win the name of the great unwashed. Local dealers declare there is a shortage of bathtubs and plumbing fixtures that threatens to curb personal sanitation there. The Colorado supreme court has refused re-fused to take action in the appeal for stay of execution to liberate seven striking traction union leaders, in jail for contempt of court for calling a strike of car men, until a complete record rec-ord of the ease in the lower court has been submitted. A mysterious feud which ended near Lauder, Wyo., with the shooting and seriously wounding of Mrs. Nancy Wales, and the slightly wounding of her husband, is being investigated by officers. The shots were fired from ambush while Wales and his wife were in the yard at their ranch. State tickets were placed in the field by the Republicans and Democrats Demo-crats of Idaho on August -o. Senator Nugent was renominated by the Democrats Dem-ocrats and Frank Gooding will make the race for the senate on the Republican Re-publican ticket. II. D. Sager, GO, of Boulder, Colo., was instantly killed when his automobile automo-bile skidded and plunged over an embankment. em-bankment. Other occupants of the car were uninjured. DOMESTIC. The food price pendulum has started the return swing and before the resting rest-ing point is reached further living cost declines will be measured, food dealers at Chicago declare. The public has had too much jazz and is turning toward more natural music, said I'aul B. Klugh, president of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, in an address at New York, before the National Association of Masters of Dancing. People are buying fewer shoes and more dry goods, stationery and hardware hard-ware on the Pacific coast this year than they did last year, according to the monthly review of business conditions. condi-tions. ' T. Niino, Japanese, who killed his Japanese sweetheart in Kings county, California, because her father would jiot let her marry him, was hanged Friday at the state prison at San Quemin. Longshoremen stopped work on four big White Star liners at New York in protest against the action of the Baltic crew in allowing British authorities to take Archbishop Mannix, pro-Irish prelate, from tiie ship on her last trip to England. State history was made in the little drab municipal courtroom at Akron, Ohio, on Thursday, when the first jury of women returned a verdict for the defendant in an eviction case;. The decision de-cision of the jury saved a newly wedded wed-ded couple from being evicted from Shirley Blakely, 24, of Kansas City, confessed having stolen furniture valued val-ued at .f.'SOOO from St. Vibiani's cathedral cath-edral at Los Angeles, according to the police. He stole furniture in order to marry Ruth Creed, 10, of Pasadena, he told officers, after he had rescued her from a white slave den. Ten thousand dollars in gold dust, bags of coin and water soaked currency curren-cy was taken from the safe of the sunken steamer Princess Sophisa, released re-leased by clivers, says a dispatch from Juneau, Alaska. The steamer was sunk several years ago. Pennission to construct a 29-mile branch line to develop the North Platte Irrigation project has been asked of the interstate commerce commission by the Union Pacific! railroad rail-road company. The line would extend through Scott's Bluffs county, Nebraska, Ne-braska, and Goshen county, Wyoming. A proposal to bar from membership Japanc-o who served in the world war was voted clown by the state convention conven-tion of the American Legion at San liicgo. Russell N. Smith of San Francisco and W. 11. Vrcdenliurgli, Jr., of Freehold, Free-hold, N. J., were found drowned pinned under their overt unied automobile in a pool of water along the state highway, high-way, five iniies east of Livermore, Robert S. ("Cupid") Sparks, chief of the marriage license bureau at Los Angeies, for nineteen years, has been transferred to clerk in the superior court. It is considered a demotion. Sparks was censured when he kept the Fairhanks-l'ickford marriage license li-cense secret several days. Women of South St. I'aul, Minn., claim the distinction of being the first erf their sex to vole under the provisions provi-sions of the federal suffrage amendment. amend-ment. They voted Friday in a bond-election. bond-election. Announcement, of a reward of ?n00 for the arrest of the man who has fallen into the habit of holding up the stage between Cetlarbrook and Miami, in the mountains near Yosemite national na-tional park, has been posted by Governor Gov-ernor Stevens of California. The holdups hold-ups have occurred every year for the last twenty-two years. WASHINGTON. The right of women to the ballot was formally made a part of the constitution con-stitution of the United States on August Au-gust 2G, when Secretary of State Colby proclaimed ratification of the nineteenth nine-teenth amendment. Gordon Woodbury, formerly a member mem-ber of the New Hampshire legislature, has been appointed assistant secretary secre-tary of the navy to succeed Franklin D. Roosevelt. Operating incomes of seventy telephone tele-phone companies in the United States for March amounted to $T,:100.970. an increase of $S53.233 over Marc h, 10.19, according to reports issued by the interstate commerce commission. Attorney General Palmer has instructed in-structed United States attorneys to investigate alleged conspiracies and combinations among dealers to increase in-crease coal prices. Nearly twenty nations will be represented repre-sented by speakers at the fifteenth international in-ternational congress against alcoholism, alcohol-ism, which convenes in Washington, September 21, according to the tentative tenta-tive program made public by the American Amer-ican executive committee. FOREIGN. British labor is demanding that the government take immediate steps to bring about peace between Russia and Poland. The laborites take the attitude atti-tude that Great Britain, chiefly instrumental instru-mental in forcing the bolsheviki to modify their armistice terms, should now exert possible pressure upon the Poles to compel acceptance of the proposals pro-posals which were previously approved by Premier Lloyd George. The United States has been requested request-ed by the Serbian government to appoint ap-point representatives to an allied commission com-mission to investigate the conflict between be-tween Albania and Jugo-Slavia. One hundred and fifty Christians have been killed at Ajlun, a village about fifty miles northeast of Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, by a band of Bedouins, according accord-ing to a dispatch received from Haifa, Palestine. The Polish legation at London has issued a statement of the Polish premier, prem-ier, Witos, that Poland still desires an armistice and peace with Russia and does not desire to appropriate foreign for-eign territories. Due to war influences, ten European Euro-pean nations engaged In the World war show a potential loss in population popula-tion of 3o.:!20,00!J persons since 1914, according to a statistical research. Unofficial reports would indicate that the bolsheviki lost nearly half of their effective fighting units in Poland. Po-land. The number of reds engaged was estimated by General Haller at about 30U.CHX). The ivimber of prisoners pris-oners taken by the Poles was said to be nearly SO.UOU,. while about GO.OIIU have crossed into east Prussia and been interned. The entire business section of Dun-daik, Dun-daik, Ireland has been destroyed by fire, alleged to have been set by Sinn Fein sympathizers in reprisal for the burning of property in Belfast and Lisburn by Unionists. Three persons were burned to death. When rioting was resumed In Belfast Bel-fast on Thursday, military forces summoned sum-moned to the scene of the disorder fired on a crowd, killing one man and dangerously wounding two girls. The northern Polish army is continuing con-tinuing to move up in the region between be-tween Sierpe and Soldau, near the East Prussian border, and are marching march-ing on Cherzellen, to the east of Mla-wa, Mla-wa, to cut off the retreat of the remaining re-maining soviet forces. It is announced that Great Britain and Italy will refuse recognition to the Russian soviet government if it clues not withdraw its demand, presented present-ed as a part of the peace terms at Minsk, for a proletarian armv in Poland. Po-land. A conference of Irish moderates, called to enable every shade of homo rule sentiment to unite1 in a statement to Premier Lloyd George relative to the future government of Ireland, is being held at Dublin, many women being in attendance, as well as a number num-ber of priests. A dispatch from San Jose, CoMa Rica, says congress has passed a I..W giving Hie right of suffrage to all cili- |