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Show ! NEWS OF ft WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RICORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hppenlngs That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Joseph Foikinan. "0 years of age. and his son, Lee Folkman. 'l.i cars of age, were instantly killed: .losie Folk-man, Folk-man, lo years of age. a daughter, was probably fatally injured, and Gwendolyn Gwendo-lyn Stewart, "J. years of age .and Viola Knight, la years of age, were seriously serious-ly injured, when a I'lah-ldaho Central electric inierurbnn car crashed into the Folkman automobile at the Harrisville road crossing near Ogden. Ftah. five miles north of here, at 4 :o.j o'clock Saturday afternoon. Five persons were instantly killed and a sixth so badly injured that his life is despaired of when an inierurbnn inierur-bnn electric car ran into an automobile automo-bile Sunday evening at (1:10 o'clock at a railroad crossing four miles north of Nainpa. on the I!oise-.aiupa electric elec-tric line. The dead are Mr. and Mrs. .1. F. I'llery of Nampa and their daughters. Lina, aged 10, and May. ageil 12, and Mrs. Charles I. Sellaber-ger Sellaber-ger of Nampa. After having formed a living chain in an effort to rescue Edith McKay, Mrs. George McKay, the mother, and Jeannelle Adams, a chum of the girl, of Missoula, Mont., were drowned in the Clarks Fork river near Albertou, Mont., Thursday. Two men are dead following a triple wreck which blocked the main line of the Union Pacific near Granite canyon, can-yon, seventeen miles west of Cheyenne this morning. One is Fireman J. E. McCarthy of Denver. He was caught beneath an overturned locomotive and suffocated. Peter Jessen, of Cheyenne, engineer of a wrecking crane that overturned while working on the wreck was so badly scalded that he died later. Government agents continued the investigation in-vestigation of circumstances surrounding surround-ing the death of F. A. Dowsey of the federal secret service, whose body was found May 2 in a washroom in a local office building shortly before he was expected to report upon results of an investigation he had been making in Seattle. Persons familiar with the general nature of Dowsey's mission declared de-clared it involved a gigantic fraud against the government. , D. B. Renear of the Nevada state Police left Ogden early Sunday morning morn-ing for Anaconda, Mont., to get Robert Rob-ert Gibson, an escaped convict from Reno, and in custody of the Montana officers. . DOMESTIC. Thomas A. Edison, the electrical wizard, formed a bucket brigade in his laboratory at Orange, N. J., where he was at work Sunday, when fire was discovered by a watchman. Washouts in eastern Arizona have delayed all transcontinental traffic on the Santa Fe. Train No. 10, due here from the west at 7 o'clock Sunday morning was about sixteen hours late. More than 2000 airplanes of the pleasure types could be sold immediately immedi-ately if manufacturers could make deliveries de-liveries and more than uOOO have been purchased or ordered in the United States in the last three months. Attempts to convert to radicalism aliens on Ellis Island were revealed Saturday through discovery of a large quantity of anarchistic literature, litera-ture, said to have been coming to the island for some time past in spite of special agents detailed to watch the mails. Sergt. Barton Gates of Flushing, L. I., was killed late Thursday during an aerial circus being held at Souther field. Sergeant Gates was flying upside up-side down and it is believed his life belt broke. He fell 2000 feet, while his machine crashed down nearly a mile distant. Ail Serbia is under martial law. Train service is suspended throughout the country and Belgrade and other cities are the scenes of continuous demonstrations marked by occasional clashes in which many casualties have occurred. Richard Croker, former Tammany leader in New York City, will return to the United States in two months, having found the Irish climate unsatisfactory. unsat-isfactory. St. Paul was Wednesday selected by the federal government i.s the center of drouth relief activities for Montana and oilier slates which may be affected. WASHINGTON. Housewives are rather fed up with congressional investigations of the high cost of living and would prefer enactment of remedial legislation. Miss Jessie Haver, legislative representative repre-sentative of the National Consumers' league, wrote Saturday to Represenla-i Represenla-i live Tiiikham of .Massachusetts. Mr. , Tiiikham has introduced a bill appro- printing .S.'IO.UOO for a nation-wide in-! in-! quiry into living costs. After several conferences with the j president and state department offi-: offi-: cials. Senator W. 1 1. King of Utah, Saruriiay slated that the -Mexican sanation sa-nation is going to be dealt wiih in a manner thai will fully protect the rights of Americans, b,,ih as io their lives and their property. Prohibition forces voted down in the house Thursday every attempt to elim-; elim-; inale drastic provisions of the general enforcement bill, and while in full and : absolute control slim off debate at llie i word of their leader despite the violent vio-lent protest of the minority. President Wilson Thursday sent to lite sena le nominations of about 500 i postmasters. They included Austin A. Lambert, llaiiev, Idaho, i , ! Representative Lever, Democrat, of South Carolina, was nominated Thursday Thurs-day by President Wilson to be a member mem-ber of I he farm loan board. Amended to provide $14,011(1,(100 in-! in-! stead of $ (-i.000.000 for the rehahilita-j rehahilita-j lion of wounded soldiers, sailors and : marines, the sundry civil appropria- Hon bill, which was vetoed by the pres-j pres-j ident, was passed Thursday by the I house and sent to the senate. President Wilson Thursday sent to the senate the nomination as collector of customs of Thomas H. Tulley, Denver, Den-ver, Colorado. Liberty loan bonds valued at .$100,-000, .$100,-000, which were lost when the armored j cruiser San Diego struck a mine off j tilt! Long Island coast last year, will be redeemed by the treasury department. depart-ment. The senate Thursday confirmed the nomination of H. Pereival Dodge of Massachusetts as minister to the kingdom king-dom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Vast increase in the work of the bureau of internal revenue has brought about reorganization of the entire tax collection service, details of which were announced Thursday by Commissioner Commis-sioner Roper. Secretary of the Interior Lane on Wednesday set aside !);40,vO0 to hire men to fight forest fires on the public domain of Idaho, particularly in the Thunder Mountain district. This allotment allot-ment was based on an urgent telegram from Governor Davis of Idaho and personal appeals made by Representative Representa-tive Addison Smith. Repeal of the soda water tax was decided on Wednesday by Republican leaders of the House. The decision will be referred to the ways and means committee which will draft a repeal measure. Former German dyestuff agents are seeking to reestablish their American markets and defeat proposed government govern-ment control of dye imports, the House ways and means committee was told H ednesday by Francis P. Garvan, alien property custodian. Representatives of the American Electric Railway association told the federal electric railways commission Tuesday that traction systems of this country were in serious condition and that many of the companies must go out of existence because of increasing costs without offsetting revenues, unless un-less the situation was met "in a spirit of fairness" by the public. Ten naval officers have been promoted pro-moted to the permanent rank of rear admiral and seven others to the temporary tem-porary rank upon recommendation of the naval selection board, approved by President Wilson. FOREIGN. Peace riots are reported from various var-ious English towns. At Luton, Bedfordshire, Bed-fordshire, the town ball was burned by rioters. It is reported from Piura, Peru, that yellow fever has broken out there. There have been many victims of (lie disease. Two thousand Czech-Slovak troops ayived at San Diego Sumlay, on the steamer Archer from Vladivostok. They were greeted at the pier with music and cheers from a crowd of several thousand persons. The German coal situation is acute. A nation-wide famine is threatened. The railways have only enough fuel for ten. days left. All the great German Ger-man industries are threatened with tie-up because of the lack of coal. Three thousand German prisoners of war interned in Switzerland will be sent home this week. "The next time England will be in the same position as the last time -she will not be ready and we will have to wait for her." is a statement made by Marshal Foch of France to a correspondent cor-respondent of the Daily Mall ,at London, Lon-don, which prints an interview with the commander in chief of llie allied i armies. |
