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Show O- History of Past Week TheNews Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Edgar S. Paxson, Montana pioneer, Indian fighter and distinguished as a painter of weslern life, died at his home at Missoula, November 9, afler an extended Illness. He was 07 years old. "Custer's Past Fight" was per-Iiaps per-Iiaps the best known of Paxson's paintings. paint-ings. Forty bear pelts have been brought to a taxidermist, at Slevensville, Mont., Hiis season ami perhaps fifty in all have been slain in this section. While this is believed to be the record, there Is ho apparent diminution in numbers of bruin. George A. Kennedy of Denver, Colo., assistant manager of the Animas mine flt San Javier, Sonora, was shot in u dispute with a Mexican labor leader Wednesday. Paul Wallace, aged Ifi, of Riverside, Utah, accidentally killed himself when the hammer of his shotgun he had rested on the running board of an aulo mo-bile, caught and exploded, the bullet bul-let entering the back of the lad's head, tearing off half his skull. Fairy stories belong to the age of Ignorance, are immoral and lead to laziness, declared Kutherine I.). Blake of New York in addressing t lie Colorado Colo-rado Educational association at Denver. Den-ver. Boxing exhibitions and prize fights are declared illegal in Montana, according ac-cording to decision announced by the supreme court. Approximately 113 teachers are needed to fill vacancies in Oregon schools at present according to the state superintendent of schools. DOMESTIC. Over 200 alleged radicals were arrested ar-rested in different cities on November Novem-ber 7 ami 8, and a number will be deported. de-ported. It is said the raids by the department of justice will continue until every one of these undesirables is exiled from America. A wagonlond of alfalfa seed which was hauled from his farm to Emporia, Kans., by W. B. Stead recently is declared de-clared to be the most valuable load of farm products ever marketed in the Sunflower state. He received $1927.25 for the 102 bushels of seed. A police magistrate at Philadelphia after pondering ten days decided that flying on Sunday does not violate the Pennsylvania blue laws of 1794. A clergyman and a handful of his parishoners, suddenly launching forth into "The Star-Spangled Banner," broke up a meeting at Yonkers, N. Y., of the "Communists' Council of America," Amer-ica," which was being addressed by Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes. President Gorapers and the members of the executive council of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor Sunday night issued a statement endorsing the coal miners' strike and pledging the full support of the federation to the miners' min-ers' cause. One man was killed, a number received re-ceived serious burns, and a loss which will exceed $1,000,000 resulted from an oil fire which swept eighty acres of proven oil territory on the outskirts of Waggoner City, Okla., and destroyed de-stroyed a large part of that town. Hundreds of radicals, including many described as among the most dangerous anarchist agitators in the country, were arrested last week by department of justice agents in sim-tiltaneous sim-tiltaneous raids upon radical headquarters head-quarters in many cities of the United States. Wil.Viaz Z. Foster, secretary of the national committee for organizing iron ind steel workers, did not address a steel strikers' meeting in Labor Temple Tem-ple at Johnstown, Pa., because city detectives, under instructions from Chief of Police Briney, requested him not to do so. Boss barbers of Boston, hoping to break the strike of their helpers, have inaugurated the plan of letting customers cus-tomers who can do so make use of the facilities of the shops to shave themselves. A new record price for a seat on the New York stock exchange was made lust week when a place sold for $110,000. Military honors will be accorded the 111 bodies of soldier dead which are teing brought from .Russia to the United Unit-ed States on the steamship Lake Daraga. Lewis Moulton, a member of the Neodosha, Kans., high school football team, died of a broken neck received in football practice Saturday. ! Forty high school teachers of Kansas Kan-sas City, Kan., have applied for a charter from the American Federation of Teachers, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Four persons were reported missing and two others were injured as the result of a gasoline explosion on the fishing schooner Gleaner, off New York. What is said to be the record price ver paid for a single hog was paid ct Omaha by a local breeder. He purchased pur-chased "Designer," a yearling Poland China boar, for the sum of $30,000. Cancellation of the slrike order, which since midnight of October .'-11 has kept -400.000 union bituminous miners out of the coal pits of the country, was ordered by Jul-:e A. P. Anderson in the federal district, court at Indianapolis Indian-apolis on November 8. The dispute over the fare to be charged by the street car company at Toledo, ()., has resulted in the company com-pany shipping all of its cars out ol the city, and former car users are now compelled to walk or ride in ante busses. ! Tom Gunn. prominent aviator in the Chinese army and forrwriy i citizen flier at San Francisco, has arrived at San Francisco from China to inspect in-spect twelve airplanes at Redwood Cii.v, in which his government was said to have been interested. WASHINGTON. The national motor vehicle law, penalizing pen-alizing persons who transport stolen automobiles from one state to another, has become a law without President Wilson's signature. Copies of the manifesto of the anarchist, an-archist, communists, seized by department depart-ment of justice agents at New York, have been given out by Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer to show the public that the objective of the anarchists is the overthrow of the government. Failure of the liOStb negro infantry regiment to function properly in the Mouse-Argon ne offensive, which led to the famous "Lost Battalion," was due mainly to the fact that the negro unit received 'unauthorized orders to withdraw, according to a special report re-port made to Secretary Baker by aft officer of the inspector general's staff. The La Follette amendment to strike from the peace treaty all the provisions for the internationalization of labor was defeated by the senate, 34 to 47. There were 29 Republicans and 5 Democrats voting for the amendment amend-ment and 34 Democrats and 13 Republicans Repub-licans against it. President Wilson's condition was so much improved Tuesday night that election returns were given him as they canfe in during the early part of the night. The president was especially especial-ly interested in the returns from his home state of New Jersey. FOREIGN. Open rebellion lts broken out in the army of Admiral Kolchak, says a message mes-sage just received at Tokio, direct from Omsk. Kolcbak's soldiers are murdering many of their officers while retreating, the message states. A sure cure for cancer or other organic or-ganic affections by tranfusion of the patient's own blood from the veins of the forearm to the muscles in the back part of the affected area has been discovered by Dr. Ferreyroles, a member mem-ber of the Academy of Medicine at Paris. Pancho Villa has appeared at San Diego, near Rio Conchos, with 1000 men under his command, and is approaching ap-proaching Chihuahua with the intention inten-tion of capturing that city, dispatches from there announce. Mine. Blanche Toutain, an actress, was ordered to pay $4000 damages to Mile. Gabrielle Derziat, another actress, act-ress, for publicly calling her a "bocbe" from the stage of a theatre in Paris. The Austrian, Johann Voss, who shot Hugo Haase, president of the independent inde-pendent socialist party, has been declared de-clared insane, according to the Zei-tung Zei-tung am Mittag, and will be sent to an asylum without trial. The overwhelming majority of members mem-bers of the Paris railroad workers' union have voted in favor of a propaganda propa-ganda campaign for a general strike by which it is hoped the allied governments govern-ments will be forced to call off the blockade of soviet Russia. Two years ago on October 7, Ker-ensky's Ker-ensky's regime in Russia was overthrown over-thrown and Leon Trotsky and Nicolai Lenine inaugurated their soviet system, sys-tem, making Moscow the new capital of Russia. Notice has been served on Germany that the treaty of peace will not go into force until Germany executes to the satisfaction of the allied and associated as-sociated powers obligations assumed under the armistice convention and additional agreements. Owing to the menacing advance oi the bolshevist forces, Admiral Kolchak has ordered a preliminary evacuation of Omsk by the American hospital and such government departments as are not directly necessary there. Insurance on freight shipments on the constitutional railway lines of Mexico, which are operated by the government, and which Include the line from Juarez to the interior, is being be-ing given by the Mexican government. Carranza has disclaimed responsibility responsi-bility for the repayment of $150,000 in gold, the ransom paid to Mexican bandits ban-dits by the American consular agent, William C. Jenkins, to obtain his release re-lease after he bad been abducted. Russian Bolshevists have initiated a powerful propaganda in this country, coun-try, the object of which is the overthrow over-throw of the American government, it is charged in a statement made before be-fore a senate committee. Twenty-two persons, including some high officials and bankers, are under arrest at Carlsbad, the famous Austrian Aus-trian summer resort, in connection with a coal hoarding conspiracy. Count Romanez, the most intimate friend and adviser of King Alfonso, Nmnounces Spain's intention to enter into an alliance with America, Britain and France to guarantee world peace. The bloodiest battle of the great war was the battle of, the Marne. Official Offi-cial figures just completed show the losses were: Dead, 329,000; wounded, 400,000; total, 729,000. |