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Show - - ; History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN. Fifteen hundred union carpenters in Denver will present demands to their employers April 1 for a wage scale of $10 for eight hours' work, an Increase of $2 a day over the present scale. Twenty-four hours after he had happily hap-pily received the congratulations of his family upon his arrival at the age of 92, William C. A. Smoot, the last of resident pioneers of 1847, died at his home, in Salt Lake. A tentative contract between the United States and the canal companies' and Irrigation districts interested in the storage and utilization of the rlood and normal flow of the Snake river in Idaho has been approved by Secretary Secre-tary Lane. About 50,000 acres of public land on the Shoshone (W;yo.) irrigation project will be opened to entry March, 13, Secretary Lane announces. Government regulation of the meat packing industry was endorsed in a resolution passed at the closing session ses-sion at Spokane of the annual convention conven-tion of the American National Live Stock association. William Randall, convicted at Taco-ma Taco-ma of conspiracy to circulate and publish pub-lish seditious literature, was sentenced to a three-year term in federal prison. A city ordinance barring the shimmy dance was passed at Sheridan, Wyo. The regulation provides for a fine of $100. Mayor Camplln Introduced the ordinance, which he said was requested request-ed by dancing masters. DOMESTIC. Caught in a trap of flames that spread so rapidly that they were unable un-able to reach the windows of their third floor apartments, seven persons were burned to death Sunday in an apartment house fire in Newark, N. J. Colonel Jack Chinn, 72, one of the most noted turfmen of twenty years ago in America, died in a hospital at Lexington, Ky., after a long illness from heart trouble and complications. Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio has officially of-ficially announced his candidacy for the Democrat presidential nomination. nomina-tion. 1 Workers in the Latin-American republics re-publics are urged in a manifesto issued is-sued by Samuel Gompers, chairman, and other officials of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, to organize national labor associations for affiliation affilia-tion with the Pan-American organization. organiza-tion. One bandit, armed with an empty automatic gun, robbed the mail car on a Union Pacific passenger train of all registered mail Friday between here and Fremont, forty miles west of Omaha. After he had left the train he dropped his gun and when found It was unloaded. ' Women stowaways have become so numerous since the war ended that Immigration Im-migration officials have cautioned all steamship companies in New York to have their vessels carefully searched before departure from Europe. The alms and objects of organized labor and of the American Legion are identical, General Pershing declared in an address at Phoenix, Ariz. "These two organizations should go hand in hand toward progress and a common understanding among the different classes' in America." Declaring that he will not transfer the government of Mexico to the presidential presi-dential candidate chosen at the election elec-tion to be held next July, President Carranza has proclaimed, himself dictator dic-tator of Mexico, according to a dispatch dis-patch from Mexico City received by a Mexican newspaper published at San Antonio. Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, in an address before the Transportation club at Louisville, urged the necessity of a division of excess earnings of railroad corporations corpora-tions above a reasonable return, In order to protect the public against excess ex-cess earnings of very prosperous railroads rail-roads and to insure a fair return to all roads. Harry S. New, convicted at Los Angeles An-geles of murder in the second degree for shooting Miss Freda Lesser, was denied a new trial and sentenced to serve not less than ten years, with a maximum of life Imprisonment at San Quentin prison. Cartridge cloth, a new material created cre-ated by the war, is being transformed by war department experts into attractive attrac-tive goods for women's wear. Samples of the material, made up in woman's blouses of fetching design, are being offered for sole in New York stores. I The United States has a navy equal to that ot any other power, and it may cost a billion dollars a year to maintain main-tain it, said Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, at a meeting of the Brooklyn chamber of commerce. The crew of the tank steamer Miel-ero, Miel-ero, which sank at sea off the Carolina coast, has been rescued by the steamer Sucrosu, a sister ship. The men were picked up Friday afternoon, after having hav-ing been afloat in small boats for five days. An increase of 10 per cent In the wages of day laborers employed by the United States Steel corporation is announced by Elbert H. Gary, chairman chair-man of the board of directors of the corporation. The increase, which is effective Saturday, will affect 275,000 men. WASHINGTON. The last year for the United States has been one "of fiddling and delay," and was characterized as "the tragedy of tragedies" by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, who addressed the opening meeting at New York of the campaign for the near east relief fund. Drastic reduction in the number of national banks designated as government govern-ment depositories is being made by the treasury department, with the result that less than 400 of the 1331 institutions institu-tions holding federal funds on June 30, 1919, are expected to escape the pruning prun-ing knife. The Japanese embassy at Washington Washing-ton has been informed officially that the Japanese government had Invited China to enter upon negotiations foe the return of Germans rights in Shantung. Shan-tung. Operation of the railroads, Pullman lines, express companies and waterways, water-ways, unified under federal control, has cost the nation about $700,000,000 since they were taken over two years ago, according to officials. The deadlock on the oil land leasing leas-ing bill, which has been in conference for three months, was broken Saturday Satur-day when a compromise agreement on the so-called remedial provisions of the oil section was reached by the conferees. con-ferees. In voting Saturday to recommend new government loans of $50,000,000 to European countries for food relief, the house ways and means committee, including its Republican members, went counter to the majority view of the Republican legislative steering committee. FOREIGN One hundred carloads of American war materials purchased from the American army have arrived in Poland. Po-land. The goods are being used to outfit the Polish army. Speaking of the Soviet army in Russia, Rus-sia, the correspondent of a Paris news agency says the world, too confident in the weakness of the Bolsheviki, has made the same mistake that caused suffering for the British in the Boer war and finds itself face to face with the menace of an army of more than 1,500,000 well-fed, perfectly equipped and disciplined men. The Academy of Sciences of Paris evidently considers communication between be-tween the earth and the planets among the possibilities, for it has undertaken to act as judge for a prize of $20,000 to be given for the best means of making mak-ing a sign to a heavenly body and the receipt of a reply. Bolshevist agents entrusted with messages regarding sensational widespread wide-spread red plans have been traveling for a considerable time between Berlin Ber-lin and soviet Russia on false credentials, creden-tials, representing themselves as delegates dele-gates of the American Red Cross Mission Mis-sion in Berlin. Admiral Kolchak and Premier Pep-oliayev Pep-oliayev of the all-Russian government are Imprisoned in Irkutsk and what their fate will be is not known, says a dispatch from Vladivostok. Capt. Karl Detzer, whose court martial mar-tial on charges of cruelty to prisoners at Le Mans, France, where he was in ' command of a military police company, com-pany, was completed Friday at New York, was released by order of Major William F. Kelly, judge, advocate at Governor's island. William Marconi, the inventor, has Informed the Daily Mail that the period per-iod for investigating the sounds caught on various wireless apparatus will include in-clude April 21, when Mars is nearest the earth. A warning that "hard times" are approaching ap-proaching if lavish spending is not curbed immediately, was sounded at Toronto by Sir Edmond Osier, president presi-dent of the Dominion bank and brother of the late Sir William Osier. The fashionable nobility of France is forming a league with the object of banning all extravagant functions and costly styles and to reduce French society life to the simplest and most inexpensive form. M. I'ietri Sienkiutel, a friend of Con-stantine, Con-stantine, former king of Greece, is visiting London jewel merchants, offering offer-ing for sale the crown of the king, it is reported. The jewels are reported 1 worth Sl.-O.iM"). |