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Show ; All Corners of the Earth rLftf ' ' Vi'r "yFiiHapiBfim" Complete History of the Past Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMCJNTAIN. (Icorgc Mc'ivcr of Purtliinil, lias an-Ii an-Ii on 1 1 t his (li'iiTiiiinalliiii to spend as 1 1 veil ii s ijiCOi) if necessary to recover fi) cents sient at a local vaudeville theatre. The (iicstIon Involved is whether a theatre patron can got his money hack it ho is told to go up in the gallery when he paid for seats In the hitlcony. Twenty-nine men horn in Norway, Sweden, liussia and Switzerland, who helween Deceniher 17,.1'JUS, and August Aug-ust 17, 191S, niiide declaration of their Intention to heroine citizens of the United Slates and who after the United Unit-ed Slates entered the war renounced these deelaral ions, were forever debarred de-barred from American citizenship by ordors signed by Judge Italph Well in superior court at Everett, Wash. The Washington Safety First association asso-ciation has started a movement to prevent pre-vent the solemnity of funeral processions proces-sions from bell)),' broken by passing vehicles. In order lo assist the government in recruiting 50,000 volunteers to replace soldiers in the army at present, thirty- five men and officers from Camp Lewis will -start this week on a recruiting re-cruiting campaign over the northwest. r. Ifobert H. Karkeet, a Tortland physician, rushed through fire and smoke to save bis two babies who were fast asleep when their home caught fire. Dr. Karkeet was able to make bis escape only by jumping from 'a second story window, . with the children in his arms. - Neither was injured. K. E. Weiland, Socialist and international inter-national president of the Timber Workers' union, was defeated for election (o the Aberdeen (Wash.) city council by William Irvine, newspaperman. newspaper-man. X'i'operty valued at $25,000 was destroyed de-stroyed and blooded live stock, including includ-ing twenty span of horses and mules, burned to death Wednesday when a big ban) on it ranch near The Dalles, Ore., was burned, Mrs. Nnp.cy Jane Bush, 70 years old, was found guilty of murder in the second degree by a jury 'in district court at Montrose, Cal., which-heard the evidence in her trial on a charge of killing her son, John O. Bush, with an ax and disposing of the body by boiling it with lye in a soap vat. ; DOMESTIC. Ke-afrest and enforcement of a ten-year ten-year prison sentence imposed upon Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader convicted con-victed of violation of the espionage net last summer, Is expected within the next week. A bill to provide for compulsory insurance in-surance in New York passed the senate sen-ate by a vote of 30 o 20. The toll of Tuesday night's storm in northern Texas, southern Oklahoma and a portion of Arkansas has reached a total of 100 deaths, with hundreds reported injured and a property loss that probably will run into millions of dollars. Sidney Drew, actor on the stage and for the movrng picture screen, died April 0, at his hoine in New York. Japanese who have served as soldiers sol-diers in the United States army cannot become American citizens under the law waiving declaration of intention and other formalities connected with the naturalization of aliens, Judge W. K. Smith decided in the United States district court at El I'-aso, Texas. A counterfeiters den in full operation opera-tion has been discovered within the walls of the eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia. Three convicts were doing the work in their cell at night. Mrs. Alice Cult, an actress, and a daughter of the late Clara lioed, who created the role of "Little Eva" In "Uncle Tom's Cabin," died . at New-York New-York in her fifty-second year. The New Jersey assembly has gone on record as favoring eugenic marriages, marri-ages, passing a bill compelling prospective pro-spective candidates for matrimony to submit to a physician's examination before a license is issued. Without complaint from state or city officials, laymen or clergymen., for the first time in the history of Vermont, moving pictures were exhibited exhib-ited on a Sunday for amusement purposes pur-poses at a Burlington theatre last Sunday. Yaqui Indians on Sunday crossed the boundary from the state of Sonora, Mexico, into the United States, obtained obtain-ed a large amount of arms and aniuui-ni aniuui-ni ion and then recrossed into Mexico, beaded, it is believed, toward N'ogaU-s. Ninety-two persons killed, approximately approxi-mately 300 more or less seriously Injured In-jured and property damage estimated at nearly $1,000,000, was the toll exacted ex-acted by Tuesday night's storm that swept a portion of Arkansas, north' Texas and southern Oklahoma, accord-1 lng to revised reports. MoonshiHing is rapidly shifting from) lis traditional habitat In the mountain fastnesses of the south and southwest to the centers of culture in the thrlv . lng cities of the east, treasury department depart-ment officials in charge of the enforce-) menf of prohibition have announced. , A score or more houses In the west-j ern part of Omaha were laid low andi n number of persons Injured Sunday,: as the result of a tornado, but nij fatalities were reported. ) WASHINGTON. President Wilson has been appealed to by cable to take a hand in the controversy con-troversy between the railroad admin) istration and the department of comJ nierce's industrial board. J An extra session of congress will bei called by the president between May ll and 15. The peace treaty will be, ready for submission to the senate sometime in June, it is predicted. . Forecast by the department of agriculture agri-culture on April S that the nation's winter wheat. crop would total So7,-000,000 So7,-000,000 bushels, the largest crop ever grown, aroused immediate specula-; tion as to the cost to the government of such an enormous yield. Lieutenant Colonel Ansell, former acting judge advocate general and one of the leaders in- the controversy over court martini procedure, has been directed di-rected by Secretary Baker to prepare and submit a bill which, in his opinion, opin-ion, would correct deficiencies in the existing military justice system. During the month of March the secretary sec-retary of agriculture (approved 105 federal aid projects, involving the improvement im-provement of 1.14S.93 miles of road, at a total estimated cost of $14,525,-6G7.3S, $14,525,-6G7.3S, and on which federal aid in the amount of $5,481,005.30 was requested. Senatorial aviators have become so numerous among statesmen whiling away the hours in Washington until congress reconvenes that leaders have become apprehensive of casualties and are demanding the adoption of a "pairing" system in arranging flights. FOREIGN.- The league of nations commission has adopted a new section to the covenant, cov-enant, specially providing tbafc the Monroe doctrine is not to be affected by the provisions of the covenant.. The members of the strike committee com-mittee in Essen were arrested by government gov-ernment troops under instructions from Berlin, a dispatch from Essen reports. re-ports. Civilians then attacked the troops, hut after considerable firing, the civilians were dispersed. Iii a battle at Ungvar about 100 miles southwest of Lemberg, between the reds and the Czechs, thirty reds and ISO Czechs were killed, according to advices from Budapest. Arrangements are being made for the removal of the remains of the martyred nurse Edith Cavell, from their present resting place, according to the London Daily Chronicle, which adds that reinterment will be marked by considerable public ceremony. Former Emperor William is continuing contin-uing in excellent health but ardor for wood sawing, which he displayed for so long, has apparently cooled as he is working much less than formerly. Diplomatic relations have been established es-tablished between the Russian and Ba varian soviet governments, according to the Zwelfuhrblatt. The responsibility of the German emperor for the war and the means for bringing him to trial by one of the allied al-lied governments, probably Belgium, have been definitely determined upon by the council of four. This follows the definite decision on the terms of reparations for damages, whereby $5,-000,000,000 $5,-000,000,000 must be paid within the next two years and Tin interallied commission com-mission assess the remaining damage for a period of thirty years beginning May 1, 1921. American soliders were brutally attacked at-tacked by a mob of Japanese soldiers and civilians in Tientsin, China, the mob unlawfully invading the French concession there for the express purpose pur-pose of seizing and beating every American whether soldier or civilian they could find. Mexican newspapers report a revival of banditry in the state of Vera Cruz, immediately south of Tampico, and record re-cord six serious attacks on trains since the middle of March. The Arabian king of the Hedjaz, who aided the allied campaign against the Turks in Palestine, has just issued in Mecca a manifesto claiming for himself him-self the title of "commander of the faithful" which has been among the titles of the sultan of Turkey. The evacuation of the Black sea port of Odessa by the allied forces Is confirmed con-firmed officially. President Wilson met with the premiers pre-miers of (ireat Britain. Frame and Italy on Tuesday for the first time |