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Show o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed Q INTERMOUNTAIN. Four men are dead and one seriously seri-ously injured as a result of a snow-slide snow-slide at the Pete and Joe mine, 15 miles northeast of Twin Bridges, Mont. The men, who were in a sorting shed of the mine, are believed to have been installed killed when the building was demolished. Announcement is made at Seattle by the West Coast Lumbermen's association associa-tion of a 40 per cent reduction in the price of Douglas fir lumber. Builders generally see in the reduction a promise prom-ise of the resumption of much build- Mount Lassen, California's live volcano, vol-cano, was in eruption Saturday for the second time during the week. The eruption, which started near daybreak, day-break, continued through the morning. morn-ing. Before noon there was a large column of black smoke reaching high in the air over the crater. Miss Alice M. Hogue, principal of a Chicago school, may be called upon to defend her recent action of refereeing a fist fight between two of her pupils. Miss Hogge said the fist fight was a good way of deciding quarrels among the boys of the twenty-two nationalities nationali-ties attending her school. Industrial homes and gardens are to be one of the major elements of the many factors that make for success in future manufacturing, in the opinion of the special committee which submitted sub-mitted a report to the Associated Industries In-dustries of Massachusetts at its annual an-nual meeting at Boston. WASHINGTON. Opportunity to obtain college educations edu-cations soon will be open to men of the United States army, the war department de-partment announced, in making public pub-lic a plan whereby it will be possible within the next year for more than TOO n,,ni:Knri .,,.1 .-l : - l.-... r.1 a uniforms and. enroll as students in as many colleges. Resolutions urging that all crops be marketed as the demand requires, and that congress conduct an investigation of interest rates charged by banks were adopted by the farmers' conference confer-ence in session at Washington. Secretary of State Colby has intimated inti-mated that recognition of the Mexican government is near. More than 11,000,000 acres of land, nearly all in Arizona, were reported by Secretary Payne to have been classified clas-sified during September under the law which provides for stockraising- homesteads home-steads of 640 acres or less. The downward trend of exports and the unward trend of imports was halted during September. Figures made public by the department of commerce com-merce showed that exports for the month exceeded those of August by $28,000,000 and that imports were $150,000,000 below those of the month before. FOREIGN. Helsingfors dispatches describe the situation in Moscow as serious, and declare that martial law has been proclaimed. pro-claimed. The peasants revolted in 11 provinces because of the requisition of wheat by the government, the dispatches dis-patches add. A wireless dispatch from Moscow, reports re-ports that General Semenoff, the Cossack Cos-sack anti-Bolsheviki leader in Siberia, has been captured by irregular troops. He was fleeing by airplane from Chita, his headquarters, the dispatch says, and was captured when he landed at Makeevo station. A general strike, called at the instigation in-stigation of dock workers, paralyzed business at Vera Cruz, Mexico, Saturday. Sat-urday. Leaders of the demonstration raced through the streets in automobiles, automo-biles, waving red flags and urging recruits re-cruits in their cause. Mrs. Diana Apeear, American business busi-ness woman residing in Tokio, has become be-come the first woman consul in diplomatic diplo-matic history. She has been appointed appoint-ed Armenian consul in Tokio. At a conference of South Wales coal miners from the Cardiff, Lancashire and Cheshire districts, meeting at Hol-ton, Hol-ton, the miners overwhelmingly voted to recommend the rejection of the proposed pro-posed terms of the settlement of the strike. Plans for the opening of trade between be-tween soviet Russia and the United States with the international clearing house in Copenhagen as the means of insuring payment to American exporters, export-ers, are under consideration by the department of commerce. A campaign has been started in Chile to collect by popular subscription subscrip-tion funds with which to purchase airplanes air-planes and aviation material for the army and navy. When the body of the late Lord Mayor MacSw.ney arrived at Queens-town, Queens-town, the local civil und church authorities au-thorities declined to accept the coffin, and the railroad men refused to transport trans-port the body to Cork, with a military escort. The admirality requisitioned a tug upon which the body was taken to Cork. Henri Landru, known as the modern "Bluebeard." who has been sentenced ing activity. Arthur Collins, of Denver, was hanged hang-ed at San Quentin, Cal., prison on Friday, Fri-day, for the murder of Robert Hathaway, Hatha-way, a member of the Los Angeles police force. Hathaway was killed when he drove a patrol wagon toward Collins, who was in the act of holding hold-ing up two men. Two hundred Colorado rangers under un-der Colonel Patrick J. Hamrock were ordered to take charge in the northern Colorado coal fields, when a strike of miners was called effective at midnight mid-night Thursday. AlU'g'ng profittering in sugar, indict-meni.- were returned in federal court at Portland against Mason, Ehrman & Co., wholesale grocers, William H. Ehrman, president ; Parrott & Co., San Francisco, brokers, and Richard Adams, local agent of Parrott & Co. Search is being made for two men who held up Charles Capra, Rockvale, Colo., merchant, and robbed him of $3000 cash. Capra was in a motor truck en route to Pueblo to buy supplies. sup-plies. The two men stepped from the side of the road, covered Capra with a rifle and searched him and the truck. DOMESTIC. Six were killed and 15 injured in the wreck of a passenger train near Yermo, Cal. Spreading rails caused the wreck. With the unusually large salmon catc'h, and the enormous catches of furs this year, and the high prices received, re-ceived, the Alaskan Indians are richer now than they ever dreamed of being. A 'modern Noah's ark docked at New York Friday when the Australian and United States liner Bellebuckle arrived arriv-ed with 400 specimens of animals, birds and reptiles, recruited for the Bronx zoo during the last two years by Dr. Ellis Stanley Josephs in the central and northern parts of Australia. Aus-tralia. Two indictments charging thirteen persons with operating a confidence game and conspiracy were returned by the grand jury at Chicago investigating investigat-ing the baseball scandal. Seven members mem-bers of the White Sox, yiree former baseball players, a boxer and two gamblers were named in the true bills voted recently. Charging that she had been kidnaped and unlawfully held in an insane asylum by her former chauffeur, Thomas Davis, Mrs. Augusta J. Glen-denning Glen-denning filed suit in circuit court at Chicago to have Davis removed as trustee for her husband's estate, valued at more than $2,000,000. The sixty-second birtlulny of Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt was commemorated at Oyster Bay on October 28, by representatives repre-sentatives of various societies and organizations, or-ganizations, who planted a white oak tree near his grave. The governor of New York has signed sign-ed extradition papers for Miss Betty Braierd, magazine and newspaper writer, wanted in Tacoma, Wash., oil a charge of kidnaping the baby of Geo. T. Stagg, local newspaperman. Women members of the Georgin Association As-sociation Opposed to Equal Suffrage voted not to register as a step in their battle against the national suffrage amendment. Tl.ey adopted a resolution resolu-tion call'ng on teachers and preachers to explain to the public "why we so bitterly oppose woman suffrage." Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpen-tier Carpen-tier were mulched at New York, on October 26. for a fight for the world's championship. The pugilists will meet some time between February 1 and June 1 of next year. The conditions stipulate a bout of between ten and fifteen rounds. The republican national committee's campaign to elect Senator Warren G. Harding will cost $$:U42.?02.32, Fred W. Upham, national treasurer of the party, notified the senate committee appointed to investigate campaign expenditures, ex-penditures, in a report filed with the committee at Chicago. The next general assembly of the Colorado legislature will be asked to make a law providing for the censorship censor-ship of all motion pictures shown in the state. Policeman John Whalen, of Watson-ville, Watson-ville, Cal.. was found shot to death near the city jail. It is believed he was slain by a prisoner whom he was takina to the jail. Five bandits forced the cashier of the bank' at Alvordion. O.. to get out of bed. unlock the safe and turn over ! to them .S.V'i 0 in cash and several j thousand in Liberty bond". j at Paris to four years imprisonment for swindling, may face trial on the charge of having murdered eleveu women to whom he is said to have promised marriage. It has been learned that a sister of The Avanti, the radical Italian organ, says the horrors inflicted by the Serbians Ser-bians on the .Montenegrins "surpass the most ferocious baruunsm." The newspaper u;tc,h: Italians to start a ca. :paign to prt vent the Itaran government gov-ernment from ommitting ". jexpiable crimes." by allowing in the Italian-Jugo-Siav negotiations definite occupation occupa-tion ol Montenegro by the Serbians while the Montenegrins wisli to form a free and independent republic, the late Lord Mayer MacS.nev of Cork is living in Tokio. retired from the world, devoting her life as a nun to teaching young Japanese. A secret fraternity composed exclusively ex-clusively of Korean Christians has been disbanded and the majority of its members have been arrested, according accord-ing to an official police statement at Seoul. Keren. Two American. Arthur L. Mos'.ey and (iustav K. Sailer, are reported to have been murdered by Mexicans at Vega de n.ate. Mexico. 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