Show NEWS OF A WEEK III RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happening that are making hottory information gathered from all quarter of the globe nd given in few alln intermountain A tentative contract between the united states and the canal companies and irrigation districts interested in the storage and utilization of the flood and normal low of the snake river in idaho has been approved by secretary lane about acres of public land on the shoshone wo 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 ses slon at spokane of the annual conven alon of the american rational live stock association william handall convicted at taco roa of conspiracy to circulate and pub elsh 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 alne of mayor camplan introduced the ordinance which he said was requested by dancing masters the work of women forest fire 1001 auto in the cascade forest last summer wag so successful that N r me duff supervisor of the forest wants a large number for next bummer s work he declared in an interview at eugene ore the wyoming state senate has ratified the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution the vote was 24 for the resolution and none against three members were absent DOMESTIC one bandit armed with an empty automatic gun robbed the mall car on a union pacific passenger train of all registered mall friday between here and fromont forty miles west of omaha after he had left the train he dropped ats gun and when found it was unloaded women stowaways have become so numerous bance the war ended that am migration officials have cautioned all steamship compan lea 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 candidate chosen at the elec alon to be held next president carranza has proclaimed himself dictator of mexico according to a als patch from mexico city receded by a mexican newspaper published at san antonio walker D limes 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 above a reasonable return in order to protect the public against excess earnings of very prosperous rail roada and to insure a fair return to all roads harry S new convicted at los an gelee of murder in the second degree for shooting miss freda lesser was denied a new trial and sentenced to serve not less than ten bears with a maximum of life at san quentan prison cartridge cloth a new material created by the war Is being transformed by atar department experts into attractive goods for women s wear bar oples of the material made up in comans womans blouses of fetching design are being offered for sale in kew york stores gordon fawcett bamby murderer bank robber and train bandit whose crime record reached from coast to coast and culminated in the murder of two brooklyn bank employees in december went to death in the electric chair thursday night in sing hang prison 1 ormer service men may reinstate their war risk term insurance at any time before july 1 1020 under a new ruling of the bureau of war risk in aurance the bill prohibiting smoking in pub lie places in south carolina passed by the senate was killed in the house without a dissenting vote the crew of the tank steamer alel ero which sank at sea oft the carolina coast has been rescued by the steamer bu crosa a sister ship the men wera picked up 1 alday afternoon atter having been afloat in small boats for five das direct charges that certain railroads were planning to reduce wages as soon as the roads were returned to private ownership were made by timothy shea acting president of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen speaking at eft york an increase of 10 per cent in the wages of day laborers employed by the united states steel corporation lg announced by albert II 11 gao chairman of the board of directors of the corporation the increase Inci ease which la effective saturday will affect men washington Is nothing fundamentally wrong with the government of the united states and there Is no need of change in existing social standards and economic laws representatives of seven national farm organizations hav e declared to congress republican members of the house ways and means committee in conference friday formally agreed to favor legislation authorizing the treasury to ebend additional credits of to certain countries of europe for food relief indication of a widespread spirit 0 unrest and dissatisfaction among the farmers of the country so threatening as to be likely to disturb alie existing economic structure Is considered by government officials to be revealed in more than forty thousand replies to a questionnaire recently sent out by the department president allson has asked secretary glass to make another appeal to congress for authority to loan to poland austria and armenia to relieve their desperate food situation farmers and dairymen demand the right of collective selling to protect themselves from alie middlemen J D miller of york testified before a senate subcommittee considering a bill to amend the antl trust laws sick and wounded soldiers are not receiving the treatment guaranteed them by law representative johnson republican south dakota who served in the A E F declared in telling the house of his recent visits to government hospitals FOREIGN capt karl detzer whose court martial on charges of cruelty to prisoners at le mans france where he was in command of a military police company was completed friday at new york was released by order of major william F kelly judge advocate at governors island the annulment of a marriage has been obtained at milan italy solely on the ground that it was childless this decision Is expected to be followed by numerous applications for annulment on similar grounds for there Is no divorce in italy william marconi the inventor has informed the dally mall that the period tor investigating the sounds caught on various wireless apparatus will in elude april 21 when mars Is nearest the earth claims for 83 mexican representing damages alleged to have been suffered in the mexican revola ion of the last decade have been filed with alie mexican indemnity commas slon according to a report recently rendered by the chairman of the committee A bomb was thrown by a man impersonating a photographer at a motor car in which the minister of public works ismael sarry pasha was driving at cairo egypt the car was shattered but the minister was not hurt the bomb thrower escaped disturbance occurred tn the streets of madrid owing to the shortage of tobacco the police several times were compelled to charge crowds in the del sol where they had assembled in front of the tobacco stores A warning that hard times are ap if lavish spending Is not curbed was sounded at toronto by sir edmond osier dent of the dominion bank and brother of the late sir allam osier the fashionable nobility of franco Is forming a league with the object of banning all extravagant functions and bostl stiles and to reduce french society life to the simplest and most inexpensive form M tel a friend of con stant lne king 0 greece Is visiting I 1 ondon jewel merchants offering for ecale the crown of the king it Is reported the jewels are reported the second meeting of the council of the league of nations which in reality will be the first actual business meeting will be held in london probably february 10 at which time the world court Is to be launched |