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Show NEWS OF II WEEK III GONDEfiSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening! That Are Making Hlatory Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Ellminn I ing high costs by organized civli' el'I'orl, citizens of Norlli Ogden, llah, will turn out in a body lo build u t'i'i' block slrclch of sidewalk. Whisky smugglers, operating over a i'i giilar route from Rohsart, Sask., to 1 1 . i r r', Monl., with it iiuiiibcr of auto-iiinbilcs auto-iiinbilcs ji 111 briuking whisky Into Montana Mon-tana have been cnplured ii ml their au-lomohi au-lomohi le con f iscn t cd. In spite of ii car shortage which Is iilTociing hiinber product ion In the northwest, prices have dropped materially mate-rially in I lie last few w eeks, according accord-ing to latest reports. It Is said that work wdll begin within with-in sixty days upon the government ordnance depot at Ogden, which will cost $2,000,000. A reported oil strike In the Keese River valley, six miles from Austin, Nov., has caused (.'rent excitement, men and women alike joining In the rush to locate claims. Portland physicians, surgeons and dentists may form the first union of professional men to seek affiliation with the. American Federation of Labor. Th recent 14 per cent wage Increase awarded coal miners will add $5,000,-0(10 $5,000,-0(10 annually to the burden on consumers consum-ers in Colorado, If coal operators there are allowed to Increase prices to produce an adequate return on their investment. It Is asserted. United Slates' Senator George E. Chamberlain has filed with the secretary secre-tary of state at Salem, Ore., his declaration dec-laration of candidacy for re-election. A detachment of federal troops has been ordered to Montesano, Wash., where alleged Industrial Workers of the World are on trial on murder charges arising from the Centralist armistice day slayings. DOMESTIC. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion cham-pion of the world, and Ins manager, .lack Kcarns, were indicted by the federal grand jury at San Francisco on a charge that they conspired to have Doinpsey evade the selective draft. A second indictement against Dempscy charged actual evasion of the draft. Telegraphic advices reaching Douglas, Doug-las, Ariz., from Hormosillo, Sonora state capital, conveyed the information informa-tion that the conference to arrange a tentative peace between the Cnr-ranza Cnr-ranza government and the various inuts of Yaqul Indians warring in the state of Sonora, failed and that Yaqui representatives withdrew. Bone-dry prohibition was approved by Yukon territory voters at plebiscite just concluded. Two proposals favoring favor-ing liquor were defeated. Arrest and deportation of anarchists and other radicals Is continuing. Anthony An-thony Caminotii, commissioner general gener-al of immigration, announced. During January, 12707 warrants were issued, of which S0O were for normal immigration immi-gration cases, including the apprehending appre-hending of immigrants who had entered enter-ed the country under false declarations. declara-tions. The record number of warrants war-rants was 3007 in December. Labor has received its maximum increase in-crease in wages and could do much better by co-ope-raiing In efforts to cut the cost of living. Howard K. Figg, assistant as-sistant attorney general, declared at a conference with Federal Food Administrator Admin-istrator Williams at New Y'ork. The amendment to the Lever food control act was declared unconstitutional unconstitu-tional by United States District Judge Karis at St. Louis when he sustained a demurrer of the defense and dismissed dis-missed the case of the L. Cohen Grocery company, which was charged w ith asking an unjust profit on sugar. A dispatch from Calexico, Oil., announces an-nounces that the Colorado river broke through tl'.e Oekerson levee. Fifty thousand acres of rich land were being inundated hy flood waters, which are heading for a weak point on Volcano lake levee. Former Governor George W. I Hunt, of Arizona, has been chosen by the president as minister to Siam. Thirty-three and one-third per cent gross profit is necessary for retail shoe dealers If they are to continue In business, according to a resolution adopted by the Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana Retail Shoe Dealers' association asso-ciation in convention at Dallas, Tex. A lNt of twenty-six slates that will co-opera : e in opposing tin action of Kliode I .land ill seeking to have the national prohibit inn niiiomliiieiit do-I do-I ctaivd iiiicnstitiitional. has been an-l an-l iioiuici'd by Go ornor Milliken of .Maine. An airplane carrying Maj. It. W. S. -brooder, chief test pilot at Mcf'ook field, Dayton, O., fell over five miles after reaching an altilude of 30.020 feet, said to bo 5U20 feet higher than the world's record. The major Is In a hospiial suffering from shock and temporary partial blindness. Mike Yokel of Salt Lake recovered at Boston, Thursday night, the world's middleweight wrestling title, which he lost last spring, by defeating Waluo Ketonen, two falls out of three. Thefts of liquors from bonded and distillery warehouses have increased at an alarming rate since the country went dry. WASHINGTON. Discontinuance of the offices of surveyors sur-veyors general in twelve western slates and the territory of Alaska next . I line 30, was disapproved by the house mi February 20, which by a vote of 82 lo 50, granted appropriations of SKI.IKW for the expense of these offices of-fices for the next fiscal year. Daniel C. Roper, commissioner of Internal In-ternal revenue, has informed governmental govern-mental officials of his intention to resign re-sign short Iy. Appropriation of an additional $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 a year for the next four years to aid the states in road building is proposed in a bill introduced by Senator Sena-tor Chamberlain of Oregon. Soviet Russia's proposal to the United Unit-ed States for pence will receive no consideration from the American government gov-ernment it is said at the state department. depart-ment. Bernard M. Baruch told a house war investigating committee that except ex-cept for government fixing of raw material ma-terial prices during the war, only the shame of producers would have limited limit-ed their return and that the morale of the nation would have been broken under a riot of greed. President Wilson, in his reply to the British and French premiers on the Adriatic question, adheres to his previous decision, that unless the terms of settlement are returned to the provisions of the agreement - of December 9 he "must take under serious ser-ious consideration" the withdrawal of the treaty of Versailles and the French alliance from the senate. Morrison Marshall, the young adopted son of Vice President nnd Mrs. Marshall, died at Washington, February 2G. after a short illness. He was suffering from acidosis. FOREIGN The reply of the British and French premiers to President Wilson's latest Adriatic note lias been received, the allies- disavowing any purpose to ignore ig-nore the United States in the Adriatic settlement, and declaring a willingness to withdraw objectionable agreements. Major VuIIemin, pilot, and Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Chains, observer, who were lost for more than a week in their flight across the Sahara desert, are reported report-ed by the French aviation department to have landed safely at Mentaka, a village east of Timbuctoo, on the Niger river. Government military raided the former for-mer Sinn Fein headquarters at Dublin Dub-lin and seized $5000 in cash and some documents. France is on the brink of the most serious labor crisis since the armistice, armis-tice, and Alexandre Millerand, who inherited the premiership from the i "Tiger," arch foe of radicalism, has : served notice on France's "reds" that he is no more disposed to countenance" 1 a revolution than was his predecessor. ' It Is announced in London that Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of national service and reconstruction, has been selected as isntisn amoassauor 10 Washington. Governor General Harrison, in a special message to the extra session of the legislature at Manila, urges the passage of an act making effective prohibition in the Philippines, ratification ratifi-cation of woman suffrage and a bill permitting clean boxing exhibitions in the territory. Three are dead and seven dying as a result of a determined Sinn Fein attempt to capture the police barracks at Mount Pleasant, County Cork, Ireland. Ire-land. ! Winnipeg. Manitoba, newspapers, ! have announced that on account of ; the paper shortage they will be oblig- j ed "until further notice" to discon- j tinue the publication of advertising matters. They will continue to pub-i pub-i lish news. j ! The bill for Irish home rule, long : ' promised by the government, was pre-! pre-! seated in the British house of com- ' mens on February 25. The bill ad- ' heres closely to the measure as out- : lined by Lloyd-George in the house on . ! December 22 last. The government's : . project centers on the setting up of i two parliaments in Ireland, one for ! the south and one for the north. ( |