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Show NEWS OF II WEEK IfJ CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT KVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making Hleterjf Information Gathered from All Quarters of tha Glob an (liven In a Few Line. IN TER MOUNTAIN. Fire Chief Tom Cunningham lost his life in a fire at Centralia, Wash., being overcome by smoke after his gas musk had been torn. Finally giving way under six hours of grilling, Ole Brown, colored, has admitted that he shot and killed Otis Mayes, O. W. R. & N. brakeman, Wednesday night, near Chatfleld, Ore., and threw his body from the train. The Nonpartisan league convention nt Great Falls, Mont., decided to support sup-port the ticket selected in the Democratic Demo-cratic primaries for state and county officers. The suggestion of organization organiza-tion of a third party was voted down. Mr. Bryan would like to see adopted adopt-ed at San Francisco a "platform just as unlike the Republican platform as possible," the Nebraskan told his audience, au-dience, speaking from the rear platform plat-form of the train at Helena. Esten A. Fletcher of Damascus temple. Rochester, N. Y., was elected to be imperial outer guard of the ehrine at the annual imperial session of the Shriners at Portland. C. C. Campbell, president of Anderson Ander-son Brothers bank and one of the old-time old-time business men of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was found dead in bed. Death was due to a gun shot, which was evidently evi-dently inflicted by himself. DOMESTIC. Sixteen to one still sticks to William Wil-liam J. Bryan, for today those odds are quoted against him in Wall street as a presidential possibility. Hundreds of letters from investors in oil stocks who asserted they had been the victims of fraud have been received at the office of the United States district attorney at New York. The population of continental United States is estimated at 105,-000,000 105,-000,000 by J. A. Hill, chief statistician of the census bureau. His calculation calcula-tion is based on the combined populations popula-tions of 1400 cities and towns for which statistics have been announced. Throe marine corps aviators, Capt. Gustave Karow of Savannah and Lieutenants Lieu-tenants Frederick Molthcn of Butte, Mont., and S. E. St. George of Qunii-tico, Qunii-tico, Va.r were killed at Savannah, Ga., in the fall of an airplane at the marine corps station. A decision on the demands of railroad rail-road employes .for wage increase will be made on or before July 20 by the railway labor board, Judge R. M. Barton, chairman, said in a statement issued Friday at Chicago. Freedom for Ireland, to bo made conditional on the part of England, before be-fore the United States enters the league of nations, is the international plank which James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, and candidate candi-date for the presidential nomination advocated for insertion in the Demd-cratic Demd-cratic platform. Charges of murder were placed against five negroes in connection with ihe riot in Chicago Sunday night In which two white men, one an American Ameri-can sailor, lost their lives and several persons were injured. Senator Hiram W. Johnson, upon his arrival at San Francisco June 23, broke his long silence respecting the action of the Chicago convention, which rejected his claim for the presidential presi-dential nomination. The senator's statement conveyed no impression that he will not support the Republican Repub-lican ticket. Preliminary steps for the inauguration inaugura-tion of his campaign having been taken, tak-en, Senator Harding, the Republican presidential candidate, has turned his ailcctioii to his speech of acceptance, which is expected to sound the campaign cam-paign keynote for the party. A six-day period of quarantine has b.?en made effective at Sabine, Texas, en vessels coming from points in Mexico reporting bubonic plague cases. In splto of the nervous tension following fol-lowing the riot at Waterbury, Conn., In which one striker was killed and two police lieutenants were seriously wounded, the city is quiet, there being be-ing no renewed outbursts precipitated by Mie strike. New Hampshire won first prize in tl;e American Legion's nationwide membership "push," held May 17 to 2'J. ft was announced at national headquarters head-quarters at Indianapolis. The contest con-test was to enroll the largest percentage per-centage of former service men. Indictment of Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, and five others on charges of conspiracy to defraud de-fraud the United States by falsifying Income tax returns and attempted Intimidation of Louis N. Hartog, a wealthy manufacturer, through criminal crim-inal prosecution, was announced at New York, June 23. Nino members of t he Chicago school ';oard und their attorneys have been found guilty of contempt of court and fined. The case grew out of the removal re-moval of Former Superintendent of Schools Charles B. Chadsey. Joseph A. Hack of Milwaukee, vaudeville nctor, appearing at a Chicago Chi-cago theatre, was accidentally shot by Miss Kitty Gordon, headline!- on the bill. Hack is in a serious condition. Conservation of cloth at the expense of unmanly modesty will not be indorsed in-dorsed by the government, representatives represen-tatives of the National Garment Retailers' Re-tailers' association were told by Howard Flgg, assistant to the attor ney general, in charge of the campaign cam-paign to reduce prices. The population of Juneau, the capital capi-tal of Alaska, according to the 1920 census, as announced by the United States bureau of education, is 3126. This is the largest city in Alaska, according ac-cording to the census figures so far announced. Ketchikan, with Charcoal Point, has a population of 2S54. WASHINGTON. Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary secre-tary of war, has resigned, effective July 1. He plans to enter private business. The resignation has beeu accepted by President Wilson. Assurances that the railroad labor board would expedite its award in the railroad wage controversy were received re-ceived on Thursday by President Wilson. Wil-son. Should the proposed fisheries treaty between the United States and Great Britain be ratified, "it is beyond per-adventure per-adventure that within five years thereafter there-after neither upon the North Atlantic nor Pacific will there be a vessel In the sea fisheries under the American flag," Chairman Jones of the senate merchant marine committee declared In a letter to Secretary Colby, made public by the senator. Secretaries Daniels and Payne will go to Alaska next month to study conditions con-ditions there relating to their respective respec-tive departments. It is understood that the cabinet officers will spend at least a month in the territory. The United States may have an observer ob-server at the interallied conference, to be held at Brussels, July 2, it has beeu stated at the state department, but a final decision has not yet been made. Circulars calling on American workers work-ers to refrain from participation in the coming presidential election and instead in-stead join in a general strike have come into the hands of the department depart-ment of justice officials. FOREIGN Three notes dealing principally with the question of German disarmament have been received by the president of the German peace delegation. The allies insist upon immediate disarmament. disarma-ment. The minister of the interior has been informed that several cases of suspected bubonic plague have been reported in a jail in the La Pampa territory, Argentina. The national department de-partment of hygiene has been instructed instruct-ed to take charge of the cases. The Turkish peace delegation in Paris lias been instructed from Constantinople Con-stantinople that the Turkish government govern-ment will uncompromisingly refuse to sign any peace treaty which deprives Turkey of the Smyrna district, Adri-anople, Adri-anople, or eastern Thrace. The Turk legation at London has received official information that the Greeks campaign against the Turkish nationalists in the Smyrna Mstrict surrounded a Turkish army corps in Philadelphia Ala Slier, eighty-three miles east of Smyrna, takinj 8000 prisoners with guns and other booty. "In the first days of its operation the league of nations has tot responded re-sponded to the great hopes entertained entertain-ed for it," declared Jan Christian Smuts, premier of the Union of South Africa, in the course of an assembly debate on the league at Capetown. "But," he continued, "rather "ban rejoice re-joice over its failure, every oris should bend his energies to make tt an Instrument In-strument of reality and pownr in the affairs of the world." All the political parties liava agreed on the presidential candidacy of Gen. Alvaro Obregon, according to El Democrata of Mexico City. Women of all classes in Merida, Spain, organized a demonstration against the prevailing high prices of necessaries of life. When ths procession proces-sion arrived at the town ball a delegation dele-gation of the women entered the building build-ing and demanded that the mayor join them. This he did, leading the procession pro-cession through the streets. Bolshevist forces are continuing to drive back the Poles along the Zhmer-dinka-Proskuroff railway, southwest of Kiev. The news comes from Beirut of the arrest by the prefect of police of Aleppo, Syria, of Emir Ahmed Mukh-tar, Mukh-tar, grandson of Abd-El-Kader, the noted Arab chief who led the Arabs in the war against the French in Algiers in the first half of the nineteenth century and who died in ISS.'i at Damascus. Military authorities had gained control con-trol and were holding the city in an iron grip, according to latest reports from Londonderry. A rigorous campaign cam-paign to round up rnipjrs has been begun. Recent statistics published iu Germany Ger-many cu that country's war losses stnte that 1.350,000 men were killed. There are today 520,000 war widows, according to the statistics, 1,130,000 war orphans and 500,000 maimed or consumptives supported mostly by charity. Four members of the Buenos Aires chamber of deputies have announced their intention to introduce a bill to prohibit the importation, manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors. If accepted, ac-cepted, the law would become effective effec-tive one year after Its enactment. |