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Show NEWS OF II WEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT j EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST I MANNER POSSIBLE. I i Happening! That Are Making Hlstorv Information Gathered from AU Qurtsr of the Globe nd Given In a Few Linos. A list of twenty-six states that win co-operate in opposing tin? action ol Rhode Island in seeking to have tlie national prohibition amendment declared de-clared uiiicisutiKiiinal, lias l.tiii announced an-nounced by Governor Millikcn ol .Maim.'. An airplane carrying Maj. It. W. Schroeder, clii,.f test pilot at McCook field, liayton, O., fell over five miles alter reaching an altitude of Uli.U-O feet, said to he r,ir!0 feet higher than the world's record. The major l.s 111 a hospital 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 Waiuo Ketonen, two falls out of three. Thefts of liquors from bonded and distillery warehouses have increased i INTER MOU NTAI N. Eliminating high costs by organized civic effort, citizens of -North Ogden, Utah, will turn out in a body to build a five-block stretch of sidewalk. Whisky smugglers, operating over a regular route from H jtisn rt, Sask., to Havre, Mont., with a number of automobiles auto-mobiles and brinking whisky into Montana Mon-tana have been captured and their automobile au-tomobile confiscated. In spite of a car shortage which is affecting lumber production in the northwest, prices have dropped materially mate-rially In the last few weeks, according accord-ing to latest reports. It is said that work will begin within with-in sixty days upon the government ordnance depot at Ogden, which will cost !?2,XX),000. A reported oil strike in the Iteese Itiver valley, six miles from Austin, I New, has caused great excitement, men and women alike joining in the io .uuiiiiui lute since me luuiiu? went dry. WASHINGTON. Discontinuance of the offices of surveyors sur-veyors general in twelve western states and the territory of Alaska next June 30, was disapproved by the bouse on February 20, which by a vote of 82 to fiO, granted appropriations of $200,000 for the expense of these offices of-fices for the next fiscal year. Daniel C. Hoper, commissioner of Internal In-ternal revenue, has informed governmental govern-mental officials of his intention to resign re-sign shortly. 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 Slates for peace will receive no consideration from the American L'ov- rush to locate claims. Portland physicians, surgeons and dentists may form the first union of professional men to seek affiliation Willi the American Federation of Labor. , Th recent 14 per cent wage increase awarded coal miners will add $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 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 States 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 bueii ordered to Montesano, Wash., where alleged Industrial Workers of the World are on trial on murder charges arising from the Centralia armistice day slayings. DOMESTIC. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion cham-pion of the world, and his manager, Jack Kearns, were indicted by the federal grand jury at Saa Francisco on a charge that they conspired to have Dempsey evade the selective draft. A second indictement against Dempsey charged actual evasion of the draft. Telegraphic advices reaching Douglas, Doug-las, Ariz., from Hermosillo, Sonora state capital, conveyed the information informa-tion that the conference to arrange a tentative peace between the Car-ranza Car-ranza government and the various units of Yaqui Indians warring in the state of Sonora, failed and that Yaqui representatives withdrew. Iione-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 Caminetti, commissioner general gener-al of immigration, announced. During January, 2797 warrants were issued, of which 800 were for normal immigration immi-gration cases, Including the apprehending appre-hending of immigrants who had enter-;d enter-;d the country under false declarations. declara-tions. The record number of warrants war-rants was 30G7 in December. Labor has received its maximum increase in-crease in wpges and could do much better by co-operating in efforts to cut the cost of living, Howard E. Figg, assistant as-sistant attorney general, declared at a conference with Federal Food Administrator Admin-istrator Williams at New York. The amendment to the Lever food control act was declared unconstitutional unconstitu-tional by United States District Judge Faris 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 with asking an unjust profit on sugar. A dispatch from Calexico, Cal., announces an-nounces that the Colorado river broke through the Ockerson levee. Fifty thousand acres of rich land were being Inundated by flood waters, which are heading for a weak point on Volcano lake levee. Former Governor George W. P. flunt, of Arizona, has been chosen by the president as minister to Shim. 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. Greatest emphasis was placed on physical education by speakers addressing ad-dressing the different brandies of the National Education association convention con-vention at Cleveland. Education of fhe mind without training the body and strengthening of health is not true education, it was contended. Joe and Irving Cluck, brothers and Wall street messenger hoys, have confessed con-fessed that they turned over to Nicholas Amstein. alleged head of the $.".000,000 Wall street bond rob-tiery rob-tiery plot, or least SiSOO.UOCI '.u i-lok-n socc.'iL'ies. eminent 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 and Mrs. Marshal1., died at Washington, February 2G, after a short illness. Ha vas suffering from acidosis. FOREIGN The reply of the British and French premiers to President Wilson's latest Adriatic note has 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 Vullemin, pilot, and Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Chalus, 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 "Tiger," arch foe of radicalism, has served notice on France's "reds" that he is no more disposed to countenance 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 British ambassador to 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 obliged oblig-ed "until further notice" to discontinue discon-tinue the publication of advertising matters. They will continue to publish pub-lish news. The bill for Irish home rule, long promised by the government, was presented pre-sented in the British house of commons com-mons on February 25. The bill adheres ad-heres closely to the measure as outlined out-lined by Lloyd-George in the house on December 22 last. The government's project centers on the setting up of two parliaments' in Ireland, one for the south and one for the north. Former Premier Herbert H. As-quith As-quith was elected to British parliament parlia-ment from the Paisley constituency in the recent bye-election. An attempt has been made to assassinate assas-sinate Prince liegont Alexander ot Serbia and Premier Prottieh. Both the prince regent and the premier were wounded the report declares. Cardinal Mercier, in bin Lenten pastoral pas-toral letter, blames society wot en for setting a bad example for working women in what he terms their extravagant extrav-agant and audacious i'i-css, set -atiur-al dances and luxury |