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Show n History of Past Week 1 IB HWMI1M 1HI HI i itt- nini 1 1 inn iwTinr- The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed B LI INTER MOUNTAIN. Harry Gardner, mine superintendent, superintend-ent, and Fred V. Hansen, mine foreman, fore-man, both of Salt Lake City, were caught in a snowslide Saturday, which swept them to Iheir death near Lake Solitude. The bodies were not recovered re-covered until Sunday morning. Thirteen public land states of the west are to be asked to agree in a plan to relinquish future participation in benefits of the United States reclamation recla-mation service revolving fund in return re-turn for cession by the -government of all public domain, a committee from the governors' conference at Denver has decided. Charles Stevens, 19 years old, bank clerk, was found guilty of stealing a money package containing .$40,0111) belonging be-longing to the Union Bank & Trust company of Helena. Kichard Troy, alias "Wisconsin Dick," a notorious safecracker, was' shot and instantly killed at Portland by Ralph Bruno, former pool hall proprietor, pro-prietor, who is said to have confessed following his arrest, declaring Troy had been responsible for Bruno's wife securing a divorce from hi in. Having first made arrangements with the undertaking company for the cremation of his body, for which lie paid $60 and took a receipt a month ago, Henry Sturgeon, machinist, age 70, shot and killed himself in his room at Seattle, Concessions have been made to Colorado Col-orado sugar beet growers by the (.treat Western Sugar company whereby a price in excess of $12 a ton for beets will be paid in the form of a sliding scale bonus, - provided the seaboard price of sugar exceeds $11 a hundred. The barkentine Georghina arrived at Astoria. Ore., from Honolulu with one mast missing. The crew reported Mint the vessel came near destruction on February 4, when a terrific whirlwind whirl-wind caught the ship about "50 miles northwest of Honolulu. DOMESTIC. Members of the Chicago teamsters and eliaufferus' union has voted not to join the strike of "insurgent" railway rail-way express men called in an effort to enforce demands for an increase in wages of $3o a month. The first actual attempt to gather news by wireless from all parts of the United States will be made during the Cleveland electrical show March 10 to 20. Statistics compiled by the Save-a-Life league show- that since the end of the war deaths from suicide have increased in-creased not only in this country but in all parts of the world. R. D. Holdaway, president of the Vassar-Abbott company, who was arrested ar-rested on charges in connection with the recent failure of the Colonial State bank at Newport News, Va., shot and killed himself after be had been released re-leased on bail. The stale of New York will receive 88! 11 as an inheritance tax from the ("State of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Four men convicted at. Hartford, Conn., of selling wood alcohol "whisky" which caused thirteen deaths at Christinas Christ-inas time, have been sentenced to from one to twelve years' imprisonment. Robert F. Strand, convicted of the murder of Andrew Turner, a guard at the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth. Leav-enworth. Kans., March 2(i, 1!)li. has been sentenced to bang on April 23. Antoinette Bonner, who acquired the international sobriquet of "the diamond queen," when she was .brought hack from I'arls in 1!)1 I with .Joseph H. Kis-llnger Kis-llnger to face charges of large jewelry thefts in New York, ended her life dramatically Friday by drinking poison as she was being placed under arrest in Kislinger's office . here, charged with theft of diamonds valued at SUIHIO. Twenty-seven ships, aggregating i.sij.-4.V i.sij.-4.V deadweight tens, were launched for the shipping board during January. The board now controls HS0 vessels, wiih a total tonnage of !.101.:I1. Dressed beeves swinging from I lie roof of a refrigerator car are said to have caused the w reck on the Burlington Burling-ton railroad in the outskirts of Omaha, which tore up the track for a distance of Dearly a half mile, and the demolishing demol-ishing of a dozen freight cars. Douglas Fairbanks, well known screen actor, broke the forefinger of his right hand and sustained painful cuts while roping a horse for a film play in the painted desert, twenty-five miles north of llolbrook. Ariz. The Interchurch World Movement announced Sunday that the IDL'o budget bud-get of thirty American denominations co-operating for world-wide extension of religious effort would amount to $330.777,rV2, of which $220.(XKM K.K) would be expended in America. Manila Wood, IS years old. who was' being taken to a girls' school in Ventura. Ven-tura. Cal.. by a probation officer, jumped from a moving train, clad only in nightgown and slippers, and made her escape. One dead and three injured is the result of a raid by federal and local officers on the saloon of Barney Sekat at Racine. Wis., in search of an illicit still and moonshine whisky. Sekat was killed and his father, a federal prohibition enforcement officer and a policeman were injured. the latter shot in the arm by the saloonkeeper. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has accepted with reservations the proposal of the British Brit-ish and French premiers that Italy and Jugo-Slavia undertake a settlement settle-ment of the Adriatic question. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Roper has called on "all honest citizens" citi-zens" to aid in bringing to justice the tax dodger, the man who deliberately falsifies bis income return or attempts an evasion." Restoration of Armenia's political independence by the allied nations is urged in a resolution introduced by Senator King of Utah, Additional shipping board tonnage may be allocated to Pacific coast operations op-erations as a result of complaints lodged with Chairman Payne of the hoard by Senator I'helan of California. President Wilson's rejoinder to the last note of the French and British premiers of the Adriatic situation was dispatched to Europe on March 4. Its contents were not disclosed by the state department. Wage demands of 2,000,000 railroad workers will be taken up anew early in the week when representatives of the brotherhoods meet officials of the corporations in the first conference on the wage problems. A hot row broke out in the house when the Republicans forced through a resolution aui hnrissing investigation by the judiciary committee of the acts of Attorney General Palmer in connection connec-tion with prices charged for Louisiana sugar. FOREIGN - Large forces of Bolsheviki have opened an offensive against the Poles on both sides of the Pripet region, says a dispatch to the Central News from Berlin. Joseph Williams, an employee of the American Smelting & Refining company plat at Pedricena, Mexico, is a captive in the bands of Francisco Fran-cisco Villa, held for $00,000 ransom. The conviction is gaining in Paris that the danger of a new war in Turkey Tur-key is real and immediate. The situation sit-uation is regarded as extremely serious se-rious by diploiwats here, especially in view, of the conflicting interests of France and Britain. The Belgian. French, Swiss and German Ger-man railway administrations, which have been negotiating at Basle.. Switzerland, Switz-erland, reached an agreement under which freight taken by Germany and France and Germany and Belgium can be resumed. Harrowing details of the "white terror" ter-ror" in Hungary are revealed by correspondents cor-respondents of Paris newspapers. Victims of reactionary resentment are said to have been beaten until blood was drawn, while women have been subjected to special tortures, and the prisons are full to overflowing. The Swedish cabinet has resigned. Premier Eden was asked by the king to form a new ministry. It was expected ex-pected the Socialisls would form a new government, Willi lljalniar Brant-ing, Brant-ing, the Socialist leader, as premier. Announcement that Japan proposes to withdraw her troops from Siberia appears to have been at least premature. prema-ture. In the light of dispatches from Tokio, which indicate that the whole subject is under discussion in the diet. Great uneasiness and restlessness is being maifested in German industrial circles as a result of the general conviction con-viction that England intends to make peaee with soviet Russia at the opportune oppor-tune moment, says a Berlin dispatch. German royalists have organized a parly to "compromise all men and women wo-men who do not approve of the present pres-ent form of government." lis headquarters head-quarters will be at Leipzig. The an-noiim an-noiim ed object of the party will be to co-ordinate and organize the nation's ijtonai'chial elements." A cablegram from Kio de Janeiro, relaies the discovery of a cure for lepny. by virtue of which a number of patient jt rhe Jarge leper asylum at Tocundula. near Pelem. Brazil, have been completed healed. The London Graphic features a Dublin Dub-lin dispaich .saying the Irish situation has changed remarkably. The dispatch dis-patch declares that nothing can avert a crash except the utmost roolnoss on the part of the authorities. |