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Show Oscar Collins, aged 27. of Alma Mich., arrested willi two nn'i) on a charge of violating I lie prohibition laws, lias boon formally charged with th murder of .Airs. Ellen Crowe. 25, who was found si rankled in a field near her home a weel ago. Twenty-six lives were lost and more than forty persons seriously injured when a cyclone struck Oconee, Ua.. Thursday. Only two of those killed were whites. After belli;; closed since January 6, rhe Borden condensed milk plant at Modesto, Cal., employing approximately approximate-ly 'SOU men, is to open again February Febru-ary 21. WASHINGTON. The house rivers and harbors hill, carrying a lump sum appropriation ol $15,250,001), has been reported favorably favora-bly to the senate by the commerce committee without amendment. Secretary of the Navy Daniels has cabled Admiral Strauss, commanding the Asiatic fleet, for a report on dispatches dis-patches from Tokio that five American Ameri-can sailors had been fired on in Vladivostok. Vladi-vostok. The agricultural appropriation bill as approved by the senate agriculture committee carried nearly $206,000,0011 more than the $33,000,000 house total. It keeps 200,000 men working full-time full-time to support the nation's rat population. popu-lation. That assertion is made by the biological survey bureau in figures showing that there are as many "common "com-mon rats" as humans in the Unitod States and each of the 100,000,000 or more destroys $2 worth of foodstuffs a year. History of Past Week m ii inrraiiTriir tmi min The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o c INTERMOUNTAIN. Moiling snows on the hills of the upper Yakima Valley, lias caused flood conditions throughout the Yakima, Wash., section. Slale aid to settlers on logged off land to assist in clearing their holdings is provided in a bill passed by the Oregon house of. representatives. The bill already has passed the senate. Whether the parents of a child are responsible for injuries inflicted by it to another child is to be decided at I'uebio, Colo. Helen Liktor, -aged 3, died August 18. 1917, from burns received re-ceived while playing at the home of J. Omlensky. The burns were caused by burning matches in the Ihands of r'aul Omlensky, 4 years old. On the eve of his departure from , I'ocarello. Idaho, for Illinois, where he has accepted another position, Judge F. G. Kale of the faculty of the Idaho Technical institute declared that "it is carrying service too far to expect educators to teach young people on less salaries than are received by the ordinary .street sweeper." The federal railroad labor board lias denied the request of the American Ameri-can Association of Railway Executives for immediate abrogation of the national na-tional wage agreements with the brotherhoods and the establishment of a new basic rate for unskilled labor predicated on local conditions. FOREIGN. A dispatch from Budapest says Admiral Ad-miral 'Horthy, the regent, has adjourned adjourn-ed the national assembly indefinitely because of the incessant clashes over the question of restoring the Hapsburg dynasty. He invited the party leaders to a conference at which he personally advocated reconciliation. American opposition to the policing of Vladivostok by Japanese forces0is creating a "serious situation," according accord-ing to unofficial dispatches from Japan. She British government may have to pay 150,000,000 pounds in claims as a result of its control of the railroads during the war, according to estimates submitted by a government committee which investigated the situation. Stringent control of the liquor trade in British Columbia is provided in a bill prepared by Premier Oliver to be introduced in the provincial legislature. The proposed bill would place the liquor business under control of a new nonpartisan board. ' The Hondureaii minister of finance has submitted to the national congress a bill providing for the establishment I of a gold basis for the gold currencj I of Honduras, says a dispatch received at San Salvador. Enactment of a law providing for a referendum relative to fusion by the Austrian republic and Germany is formally demanded of the government at Vienna by the . Grosse Deutsche party. The organization claims that such legislation would be ,in fulfillment fulfill-ment of promises made before the recent re-cent election in Austria. Marriages in Canada performed by duly authorized persons are legal, irrespective ir-respective of the religious belief of the principals, the privy council ' in London, England, has ruled, apparently settling the "mixed marriage" question, which has agitated both Protestants and Catholics in the dominion for many years. Fighting in the open as regularly organized troops, Sinn Fein soldiers have invaded Skibbereen, a small town southwest of Cork. The Sinn Feiners raided the town, captured three prisoners pris-oners and withdrew. The official report of the prefecture of police slates that of 25,027 men and women criminals arrested in Faris in 1920, 4033 were foreigners. The treaty of peace between soviet Russia and Poland was signed at Riga February 10, it is announced in a wireless dispatch from Moscow. The ministry of finance lias reached the conclusion that Che utmost sum Germany can pay in reparations is 1.10,000,000,000 marks, this including ail she has so far paid in cash and goods, says a Berlin dispatch. The news comes from Rome that Italy is ready to participate in a disarmament dis-armament conference. A high official has declared . his country could be counted on to answer any summons for such a conference which may be sent out by President-elect Harding. The total 1020 wheat crop of all countries reporting to the Interna-ional Interna-ional Institute of Agriculture at .Homo, was 2.150.000.000 bushels, as c-impared with 2,550.000.000 bushels in the preceding year. A house joint memorial, memorializing memorializ-ing congress to pass a law compelling Hie placing of tags on woolens, stating stat-ing the exact percentage of virgin wool and other materials, has been adopted by the Oregon state senate. -Mrs. Minnie Cox, who shot and killed her husband, Albert Cox, member of the Denver police department, on October Oc-tober 30 last", was acquitted by a jury in the criminal court at Denver. She pleaded elf-defense. .(. J. Flannigan, aged 45, formerly of Kansas City, Mo., was found dead in a snowdrift back of a cafe in Casper, Cas-per, Wyo. There were no marks on his body to indicate violence. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Charles Bynum, 22 years old, who shot and killed her husband at Ke.v Rocltford, N. D., and then took poison, died Saturday. Her baby, 10 months old, has also been poisoned ' and is not expected to live. Domestic troubles, according to neighbors, is believed be-lieved the cause. Army planes from every station in Texas, New, Mexico and .Arizona left Ft. Bliss at dawn Saturday, February 12, to search for Lieutenant Alexandei Pearson Jr., who had been missing since lie left El Paso Thursday at 10 a. in. Relatives of Henry Gagenton, former soldier, have, it is said, received a citation ci-tation from the war department, signed by the adjutant general and President Wilson, for bravery "in giving his life on the battlefields of France. Magen-ton Magen-ton is working in Walcott, N. D. After criticising bank directors who allowed Francis J. Carey, aged 20, receiving re-ceiving teller for the National City bank of Ottawa, 111., a salary of $90 a month. Federal Judge Landis released re-leased Carey on his recognizance after the latter pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling $06,500. Landis said he wouhf have to think the matter mat-ter over before sentencing Carey. D. C. Jackling, who is heavily interested in-terested in Alaskan minnig properties, announced at San Francisco that plans were being considered for transformation transforma-tion of some of the Alaskan gold mills in which he lias interests into paper pulp mills. Mrs. Marion Peters, wife of J. R. Peters, vice president of the Fairbanks Fair-banks company, scale manufacturers, was killed when she jumped, or fell, from an eighth story window in an apartment house in New York. She had been suffering from a nervous lisea.se. The American good roads congress, in session at Chicago, adopted a resolution reso-lution urging that the road building program of the nation be started without with-out further delay. Roy Fridley, prohibition enforcement agent, has been arrested at Phoenix, Ariz., by federal officials, who charge that hist October Fridley drove an automobile to Yuma, Ariz., on the California border, secured twelve cases of whisky, transported it to Phoenix and sold ten casus. That more than one billion dollars are available for the building of good roads, was announced by T. H. McDonald, Mc-Donald, chief of the federal bureau of '.public roads, in the opening address of the American good roads congress at Chicago. A total Of 115.1G3 passengers flew 3, Kid. 550 miles In commercial airplanes during the last twelve months without the loss of a single life, the Manu-1'acturers' Manu-1'acturers' Aircraft association announced an-nounced at New York A fifteen minute conversation be-ween be-ween Avalon. Santa Catalina island, thirty miles off Los Angeles harbor, and (he steamer Gloucester, off the Cape Cod fishing banks, by wireless and wire telephone was held Wedius-dav. Wedius-dav. The distance was given ar--I2il0 i'les. .1 .M. .1. ("aneff. an inmate of Ihe state! hospi.ai for insane at l'atton. Cal.. ! u.-is killed by another patient. Caneff's j ne-id being severed with an ax. lioth men were believed to be harmless and; were chopping wood when the tragedy wciirri-d. A report was received in London on Wednesday lliat an Irish republican force, several hundred strong, was marching on Skibbereen County Cork. Education for all children in Palestine Pales-tine except those belonging to the nomad tribes or living in outside district.-., is sought in a plan launched by the government. The people of Switzerland last year drank aneoholic drinks valued at 74l.-.N'O.OiMl 74l.-.N'O.OiMl francs, which stun, the minister of f nance says, would be sufficient to pay the expenses of the central and local government. |