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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE M WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WE8TERN Red pepper was tlie substance used by two men who gained entrance to the room of W. L. White, recently elected el-ected comamnder of the Disabled Veterans Vet-erans of America at Butte, and after knocking White unconscious, totally blinded him. All citizens of Denver roust be vaccinated vac-cinated Immediately if they have not been inoculated against smallpox within with-in the Inst few years. Dr. William II. Sharptey, nniHiger of health and safety for the city, ordered. The order was iKsuecl in the form of an emergency proclamation in an effort to stump out the disease which has cost 200 lives in the last fifteen months. Relatives of Walter .T. Sehmauss are investigating the report that he had committed suicide by leaping from a train near Wilcox, Ariz. ' The opinion that the compact worked out by the Colorado river commission com-mission for the apportionment of the water of the river among the basin states Is such as to protect Arizona's rlglits is expressed in a telegram received re-ceived by Governor-elect George W. 1. Hunt from Herbert Hoover, chairman chair-man of the commission, which Is now In session at Santa Fe, N. M. Favorable weather during the week has enabled Utah fanners to resume the vigorous prosecution of sugar beet harvesting and other outdoor wor':, Including alfalfa seed threshing, and work of this description is now fasi nearing completion throughout the state, according to the weekly weather weath-er bureau report made public. A great memorial athletic stadium, already named the "den'' of the Golden Gol-den Bear, is soon to rise in Strawberry Straw-berry canyon, in the Beikeley hills, on the University of California campus. The stadium is to cost $1,000,000 and will seat 72,000. Following the precedent set in Detroit De-troit lust week, Municipal Judge William Wil-liam F. Wappich of Omaha sentenced auto speeders to visit speed victims in hospitals. Toncilb, Oregon, which two years ago elected a city government composed com-posed entirely of women, has selected men to serve in the various city offices of-fices for the coming two years and only two women remain in office, those serving on the council. GENERAL New York. Anthony Cassese, described de-scribed by the authorities as "the bootleg boot-leg king'' was convicted by a jury in federal court on a charge of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and Judge Knox sentenced him to two years in the Atlantic peniteniary. The judge also al-so imposed a fine of $10,000. Ada, Ohio. Governor J. B. A. Robertson Rob-ertson of Oklahoma scored another oort victory here in his defense (inst a charge lodged in Okmulgee unty that he accepted a bribe, and tha way was opened for an attempt by the executive's attorneys to have the indictment against hiin dismissed. Birmingham, Ala. Eighty miners were killed and sixty injured, some of them seriously, in a dust explosion in Dolomite mine No. 3 of the Woodward Iron company, nine miles from this city, which trapped 4S0 workers beneath be-neath the surface, according to an official offi-cial statement issued here by D. IS. Wilson, president of the company. Greensburg, Pa. After Mrs. Razella Splnelli, on trial In circuit court for the murder of Mrs1. Jovina Sposatu. announced thnt she had decided to plead guilty ft murder In the second degree, one of the Jurors arose and Informed In-formed the court thnt so far as he was concerned, the plea was not acceptable. accept-able. M.Alester. Okla. Fifty-nine sleeping passengers were catapulted from their berths when six Pullman cars of the first Missouri, Kansas & Texas train No. 3, St. Louis to Galveston, left the rails and overturned Into a ditch nine miles north of here. The ex'stence of a m?dical association associa-tion for the protection of constitutional constitution-al rights, founded by 100 of thel ading physiclrns in New York hcame known when the association filed in federal court a s'lit to test the constitutionality constitution-ality of the Volstead p.ct and to annul the B'M-tl n of Hie supplementary act which l'm'ts the proj.-rlbing of alcohol alco-hol for patients. WASHINGTON Representative Johnson of South Dakota, reintroduced In the house the soldiers' bonus measure vetoed by President Harding at the last session of congress. An offer of the Mexican government to cooperate with American prohibition prohibi-tion enforcement agencies in guarding the long border was reported to Commissioner Com-missioner Haynes. Investigation by the senate public lands committee of alleged oil monopolies monop-olies in Wyoming and Montana was proposed In a resolution oy Senator Walsh of Montana. He said reports allowed that the Midwest Oil company controlled from !)3 to 07 per cent of private Wyoming oil lands and that excessive prices were charged for pipe line construction. Woman's brief dominion in the senate sen-ate ended with a dramatic speech by Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgia, the first woman senator, followed by her retirement retire-ment from the public stage. Every wish of the feminine political pathfinder path-finder to be sworn in and placed legally leg-ally on the senate rolls, to answer a senate roll call and to make a brie! address had been gratified before she left the capitol. Encouraged by the recommendation of President Harding in Tuesday's ness.ige that !he nation's redit sys-I sys-I "ins be broadene;i lo provide re'ref for '.1 e farmers, members of congress from I he agriculta-:!l states inaugurated inaugurat-ed steps to bring about enactment ot rural credit legislation before, the end of tue present congress next March. A movement Is under way in con-!rre-s to force federal action against activities ac-tivities of masked raiders, who are charged witli taking the law in their own hands in various sections of the country. A soldiers' Ihonus to t,e pa;d in cash from taxation of 2.75 beer and cider was proposed In a bill reintroduced reintro-duced in the House by Representative Hill, Republican of Maryland. The measure modifies one introduced by Md. Bill during the last session of Congress, which provided for 4 per cci:t beer and 12 per cent wine. The new bill provides settlement of a bonus bon-us la three equal cash payments on July 1. 1023, 1024 and 1025, and Mr. Hill declared the beer and cider tax would take care of the outlay, which he estimated at one and a half billion bil-lion dollars. In a telegram sent to President. Harding, vsovernor Mabey called the attention of the president to the urgent ur-gent need for consideration by eon-g.'ess eon-g.'ess of measures looking to reclamation reclama-tion work, particularly from the Utah point of view, in the arid land states. FOREIGN Paris. The French senate avoided a direct vote on the woman suffrage bill by technical Uhe of the senate regulation. regula-tion. It first voted urgently for the measure. Then the senators voted 153 to 134 that they would not discuss the articles. Manila, President Harding and congress will be petitioned, to allow the Philippine legislature t call a constitutional con-stitutional convention to frame a future fu-ture independent republic in the Philippines. Phil-ippines. Seoul. Foreigners In Korea are or ganizing relief for the Russian ref ugees at Gensan, in the northern pan of the territory. Food and clothing have been sent the?,1- The local American Amer-ican Red Cross has devoted all 't? funds to the cause. Constantinople.- Lieutenant General Harington, commander of the allied forces has Issued a stern warning to the Kemalists that any further encroachments en-croachments upon Constantinople will be at their peril. Mexico City. The Fascisti move-mrnt, move-mrnt, which was started last week a'. Jalapa, state of Vera Cruz, has spread to Chihuahua City, according to El Universal Graficn. A dispatch to the nwespaper says a meeting of ranchers ranch-ers and miners was held there at which a program of action wa3 outlined to combat Bolshevism. With auxiliary rower out of com mission, anchors lost, sa:l3 torn and foremast loose, the British three-masted schooner Dorln was towed Into Halifax by the Red Cross liner Rosa-'lnd Rosa-'lnd from New York. The schooner was 120 days out from Penarth, Wales" from which port she cloared for Vera Cruz. Many of the crew had flowing beards. The police of Mexicali and of Cal-exico, Cal-exico, Cal., just across the international interna-tional line, united In the search for 'wo men, said to bo Mexicans whe nveigl d Richard Newtn and Dan Melvnnon of Williams, near Sacra nonto, Cal., Into taking an automobile ride Into the country below Mexicnli -olilied them at the po:nt of revolvers, shot Mcl-Cinnon and, believinjr bin dead, threw h'm out of the car |