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Show D ' History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed B INTERMOJNTAIN. News comes from Seattle that a receiver re-ceiver has been appointed for the Spokane Spo-kane & Inland empire Railroad company. com-pany. The receiver was appointed on petition of attorneys for the First Trust & Savings bank of Chicago, holder of a trust deed as security for a bond issue of $4,030,000 made in 1900. Seattle's port commission has let an initial contract for a pier to cost $2,-300,000, $2,-300,000, said to be larger than any on the Pacific coast and designed to handle han-dle new oriental trade. Seattle Democrats have announced they will urge all Democrat organizations organiza-tions in the country to light welcome bonfires on the night President Wilson returns from France. One-fourth of an inch of land was condemned in the superior court at Tacoma because it was needed as a part of the Camp Lewis military reservation. res-ervation. The appraiser sets its value at 1 cent, and the owner will have to take this, as he did not hire a lawyer to make a contest. Attorney General S. C. Ford has recommended to Governor Stewart of Montana the creation of the office of a state sheriff for enforcement of the prohibition act. An effort will be made during the present session of the legislature to , reinstate boxing as a legal athletic sport in Montana. I John H. Emery, a hotelman of Cas- cade, Idaho, was killed and his brother i . Joseph severely injured at Philadel phia when struck by a hospital automobile auto-mobile ambulance while crossing a street on the way to a railroad station. Hiram C. Gill, former mayor of Seattle, Se-attle, died January 7 of influenza. Mr. Gill, who was 53 years old, had been elected mayor of Seattle three times. He was recalled from that office once, in 1911. DOMESTIC. The marine workers, whose strike had tied up the port of New York for three days, voted Saturday to return to work as soon as possible in compliance compli-ance with the cabled request of President Presi-dent Wilson. Co-operation of the entire nation in spreading to the alien population of the country the spirit and truths of Americanism and in ending illiteracy among the native-born population, was urged by Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior, at an Americanization dinner at New York City. Polish immigrants in America and the Jewish joint distribution committee commit-tee have agreed to expend $2,500,000 for foodstuffs to be shipped from New York City within a few days for the re- lief of the destitute in Poland. A movement to change the name of Yellowstone park, America's greatest public pleasure ground aud. game reserve re-serve to Roosevelt parli as a national memorial to Theodore Roosevelt has been started by Major Harry Davis and leading citizens of Cleveland. Twenty-one persons were killed and three were seriously injured in a rear-end rear-end .collision on the New York Central railroad at South Byron, N. Y. John Mason, one of the best known nctors on the American stage, died Jn a sanitarium at Stamford, Conn. The cause of death was given as Brlght's disease, with complications. Five members of the Miles E. Mc-Knight Mc-Knight family were killed when the automobile in which they were ridhig was struck by a Rock Island passenger train at a crossing) a short distance east of Lincoln, Neb. t The injunction suit brought by the Commercial Cable company and the Commercial Pacinc vable company to restrain Postmaster General Burleson from taking over for the government their respective cable lines and merging merg-ing them with lines controlled by the Western "Union Telegrap company has been dismissed. Restrictions upon the Importation of tanning extracts have been removed by the war trade board. The chief sources of the American supply of these materials mate-rials are South America, the East Indies In-dies and India and the West Indies. Arthur C. Davis, recently arrested iu San Francisco by Mrs. G. Baldwin, Portland policewoman, pleaded guilty to robbery of the East Side bank at Portland of approximately $40,000. The board of supervisors at San Francisco passed an ordinance making compulsory the wearing of gauze masks as a precautionary measure against the spreud of the influenza epidemic. epi-demic. There were 012 new cases in one day. Denunciation of Bolshevism and Insidious In-sidious socialistic doctrines marked numerous nu-merous addresses at Hie meeting of the Republican national committee at Chicago, several speakers declaring that the election of a Republican president pres-ident is all that can save the country ,from evil days In the future. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's will, tnade in 1012, was read to members of the family at Sagamore Hill Thursday. Although the value of tho former presidents' estate was' not made kniwi, It wan understood to amount ito uot more than $500,000. Jacques Lebaudy, known f)s the "Emperor of the Sahara," wfs shot' ' and killed by his wife as he entered her home "Phoenix Lodge" at Wist-bury, Wist-bury, N. Y. The cwuple had been scpa rated. Two thousand pure bred specimens of the best American poultry will be taken to France by Prof. John Kil-patrick Kil-patrick of the Ohio State Agricultural college to re-establish the chicken industry in-dustry in the devastated regions of France and Belgium. Flying Cadet Henry Martin Schleiper of Pearl, 111., was killed at Fort Worth, Texas, when he collided in midair with Cadet Charles T. Carl. Curl was uu-h.urt. uu-h.urt. WASHINGTON. Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory Greg-ory has tendered his resignation to take effect March 4. President Wilson ha accepted the resignation and will announce an-nounce Mr. Gregory's successor soon after his return from abroad. The policies of Walker D. Hines, newly appointed director general of railroads to succeed Wilhum G. McAdoo, Mc-Adoo, will be advocation of a five-year five-year continuation of government control, con-trol, or early relinquishment of the roads to private control unless congress promptly enacts remedial legislation. Memorial services for Theodore Roosevelt were held Sunday in the churches of Washington, ministers, priests and rabbis paying tribute to the memory of the former president. A temporary naval force of 225,000 enlisted men for the year beginning next July was decided on by the house naval subcommittee iu beginning the work of framing the naval appropriation appropria-tion bill. This force is 25,000 less than was recommended by Secretary Daniels. Immediate consideration of the interior inte-rior department's request for $100,000,-000 $100,000,-000 for the reclamation and occupation of 215,000,000 acres of tillable soil in this country by returned soldiers was asked by Secretary Lane at an informal infor-mal meeting of members of congress held in the house chamber on Friday. From eight to ten carloads of mail' for American soldiers are undelivered in France, Second Assistant Postmaster Post-master General Praeger told the senate sen-ate postoffice committee, "and thousands thou-sands and probably millions" of letters addressed to the men overseas will arrive ar-rive in New York soon, to be sent to-the to-the dead letter office, where an attempt at-tempt will be made to return them to the writers. FOREIGN. " A republic has been proclaimed In Luxemburg. Grand Duchess Marie has withdrawn to her chateau near the capital. By the treaty of London of 18G7, Luxemburg was declared neutral neu-tral territory, and its integrity and independence were guaranteed. At the outbreak of the present war, however, the Germans passed through Luxemburg Luxem-burg in their invasion of Belgium, notwithstanding not-withstanding the protests of the grand duchess. The supreme council of the peace congress, consisting of President Wilson Wil-son and the premiers and foreign ministers min-isters of the four great powers, Great Britain, France, the United States and Italy, met at 3 o'clock Sunday after-non after-non at the French foreign 'office for the first formal exchange of views and to make arrangements for the procedure pro-cedure of the conference. A fire, believed to be of incendiary origin, which started in the plant of the Jennings Automobile company at Montreal and spread to the buildings of the Hudson Bay company and the McClary Manufacturing company, caused damage estimated at $1,000,000. Field Marshal von Mackensen of the German army, has been interned at Temesvar, Hungary, according to Budapest Bud-apest dispatches. Ignace Jan Paderewski, the Polish leader, has been slightly wounded by an assassin who entered the room of his hotel at Warsaw and fired one shot at him, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen reporting advices from Vienna. Several Bolsheviki implicated in the plot to kill him have been arrested. The Deutsche Allgeii;ine Zeitung, a copy of which has been received at Basel, Ba-sel, says it is announced that Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies on the western front, has telegraphed tele-graphed the German armistice commission commis-sion that the entente governments have not acceded to the request for a prolongation of the armlsth which ends Junuary 17. The Spartacus revolt in Germany Is foredoomed to defeat, according to best opinion in London. It Is generally agreed It will not be us easy to conjure con-jure up Bolshevism in Germany as It was in Russia. The aljies have notified Turkey that unless the Turkish force at Medio lays down Its arms Immediately the forts at the Dardanelles will be destroyed. de-stroyed. It is reported that there were 150 casualties at Buenos Ayres as a result of a clash between troops and strikers at the Vasena Steel works. The troops opened lire on the strikers, who responded re-sponded with rifles. General Ludendorff, former chief quartermaster general of the German armies, bus applied to the Swedish government for formal permission for himself and his wife to stay a short time in Sweden. The application has been granted for one mouth. President Wilson, it Is said, has virtually vir-tually made up his mind how far he will support Italy's claims ut the peace table and informed Premier Orlando of his decision, but It is probable hlv Ideus will not be made known publicly until the pence delegations have been ud vised of them. |