Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEKS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT happenings IN ITEMIZED FORM horne home and foreign news new gathered from all quarters quarter of the world and prepared for buy busy men intermountain governor lister of washington signed the bo nedry prohibition bill in the presence of officers of the W C T U and other advocates ot of the measure in a plea to meet the situation with sober thought and to be prepared tor for a call to arms in defense of Ameri american rights upon the high seas united states senator elect william H king kin in a speech at ogden utah declared that in his opinion war between germany and the united states cannot be averted C M sutherland aged 60 dropped dead while dancing a quadrille at a dance in calida salida colo his home tor for many years three negroes leslie fahley harrison gibson and henry hall were hanged at white sulphur springs mont there was but one scaffold and the men were taken out oat one at a time the men were convicted of killing and robbing michael freeman a white farm hand on a freight train near judith gap october 6 last clothed with the authority conferred conT erred by the state legislature governor damberger bamberger of utah has suspended from office W J lynch secretary of the state land board and fred W chambers state fish elsh and game commissioner pending the investigation of the records of those departments A bone dry bill prohibiting the importation or sale of alcoholic liquor except tor for sacramental medicinal or mechanical purposes which recently passed the oregon house passed the senate february 14 and now goes to the governor tor for his signature it will go into effect june 10 1 1 DOMESTIC two steamships out of new york under charter to the kerr steamship company one norwegian and the other spanish have been sunk in the submarine zone according to advices advises received by the company agents of the department ot of justice arrested two men in new york charged with violating the federal law against carrying on a military aller prise against a foreign country washington E lindsay republican ot of portales roosevelt county Is now governor of new mexico having been sworn in in the supreme court room february 19 by justice C roberts t to 0 succeed E C de baca democrat whose death occurred on the in the last sixteen years while employed as carpenter at the criminal court building at chicago julius johnson built the scaffolds on which chic h twenty one murderers were hanged ile he died monday ot of heart disease aged 56 mrs airs charles candler ot of st marys 0 one ot of the few women who have qualified as wireless operator has received a government license as a naval operator claude anderson an insane man shot and killed rev G E breford at atlanta ga ca wounded mrs M zahn and mrs airs IV J zahn and was him sell lulled by W J zahn coincident with the reopening of the american embassy in ll mexico exico the big army ot of national guardsmen guardsman guards men that was concentrated on the border on account of bandit activities will be in process ot of dissolution A steel net deigned to protect the port of 0 new york from hostile submarines and other war craft in the event of war was put in place at the entrance of the harbor last week fewer men lost their lives in american coal mines during 1916 than in any year of the past ten although the year was the most prosperous in the history of mining with more men employed and greater tonnage taken from the earth than ever before mrs dagmar krucker whose name was brought into the recent mcdandel murder trial was shot and killed at st joseph mo by her husband john C E krucker alo then snot himself through the head physicians say krucker may recover the railroads of the united states have informed president wilson that the resources of their organizations are at the disposal of the government in the event of war A robber strolled leisurely into the first national bank at university place a lincoln neb suburb at noon there was no one in the bank but tho the president the robber secured 2500 in currency and made his escape the report Is current at el paso that the cattlemen in the If achita district of 0 new mexico intend to form a punitive expedition of their own to cross into mexico and give chase to the bandits who murdered the three mormon cowboys on the corner ranch last week A searching party has bas discovered the bodies ot of andrew C peterson hugh aco d and burton jensen american cowboys last monday when mexican bandits raided the corner ranch sixty miles southwest ot of hachita HA lia Clita N NJ maj gen frederick funston commander of the southern department united states stales army anny since february 1915 1115 died suddenly at a hotel at san antonio texas february 19 a few minutes after he had finished dinner charged with taking pot shots at the utah cavalry stationed at arivaca Arl Ari vaca I 1 francisco garcia was wag arrested and taken to jail at tuscon ariz by deputy sheriff cy broome Bro onie A severe windstorm wrecked airplanes valued at each and demolished a newly built hangar in the camp of the first aero squadron at columbus N M 1 l one soldier was seriously injured iby by flying debris Co governor vernor E C de baca died february 18 at santa fe N M 11 of 0 pernicious anemia governor de baca was the second governor the state has tad bad washington without a roll call the house passed the bill to continue temporarily the present government in the danish west indies and appropriate to pay denmark tor for the islands army and navy bureau chiefs have been instructed to compile immediately an exact appraisement of 0 the condition of the regular fighting forces ot of the country tor for the information ol of president wilson the report will deil deal with questions both of personnel and material senator robinson ot of arkansas and representative keating ot of colorado lave have introduced identical bills to pro hibit interstate shipment ot of goods made in whole or in part by women employed more than eight t hours a day or more than six days a week federal reserve banks would be ba able to increase their gold holdings about by an amendment to the federal reserve law which the senate banking committee has reported favorably applause from both sides ot of the house on friday greeta a declaration by republican leader mann that the first duty duly ot of the united states waa was to look after affairs on the american continent and that he hoped this country would not be drawn into the european war the assay commission recently appointed by president wilson to test coinage ot of the united states has finished its work at the mint at washington and announced everything was up to the standard ot of efficiency the mint has in its vaults in gold bullion and coin FOREIGN the new money subscribed to the new british war loan is at least exclusive ot of contributions from the banks andrew bonar law chancellor of 0 the exchequer stated in the house ot of commons six persons are believed to have perished in a fire which destroyed the iome home ot of fred dase in a lonely district five miles south ot of taber alberta canada the government ot of ecuador according to reports has proposed to I 1 the latin american countries that a meeting ie be held at montevideo to decide on an answer to the Alex mexican ican note proposing the cessation ot of shipments ot of supplies to the european balliger ants I 1 despite the fact that some newspapers take a a gloomy view of 0 austro american Amerl can relations and the situation brought about by the severance of relations between the united states and germany official circles in vienna are inclined to believe that the situation it is not entirely hopeless permission tor for the departure of the american refugees from turkey has been given by the ottoman 9 government casualties in the german arm army ex elusive ot of colonial troops reported in the german casualty lists in the month ot of january 1917 to 77 i officers and men killed wounded prisoners or missing A wireless dispatch from berne switzerland says the brazilian minister at berlin by order ot of his government ern ment has warned germany that brazil will hold her responsible tor for the fate of three brazilian vessels approaching pro aching the mar avar zone A petrograd Petro grad dispatch says the minister ot of commerce has introduced in the duma a bill under the terms ot of which the government will devote rubles toward the creation of a russian mercantile fleet james W gerard the former american ambassador to germany was the guest euest ot of honor at a luncheon given by premier liriand at paris ou sunday A distinguished company was present A report that villa had gone in disguise to the west coast and taken a ship for japan on a political mission has been known to carranza officers tor for several days notice of a dangerous area in the north sea because of 0 operations against germany has been given givan by the british admiralty the american liner Phi philadelphia ladelpha has sailed from liverpool according to a dispatch received in new york she has on board passengers among whom are thirty eight american citizens leonidas yerovi a peruvian writer and poet was shot and killed at lima manuel jose sanchez a chilean Is charged with the shooting A severe epidemic ot of measles has broken out an fn m san juan P R 1700 cases having baving been reported several deaths have occurred owing to the shortage of coal for or heating beating and the pro production luction ot of electricity a number of sweeping measures for the cutting down of the consumption of 0 fuel have been adopted by the city and provincial governments says lays a vienna dispatch |