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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings cf Seven Days Paragraphed n INTERMOUNTAIN. Failure on the part of the present Idaho legislature to cut down the general gen-eral appropriation hill now pending may resuli in a call for an extra session ses-sion of that body. Willi evidences of prosperity on every hand, real estate men of Salt Lake City are enthusiastic and practically prac-tically unanimous in predicting a new era of development for Salt Lake and L'tah. W. G Simpson and S. D. Simpson, brothers, president and cashier, respectively, re-spectively, of ihe defunct- American National bank of Caldwell, Idaho, were found guilty of circulating false certificates of deposit to the amount of $2,500. Michael Welch attempted suicide at Ilailey, Idaho, cutting his throat, but he has a chance for recovery. Lie had been ill for some time. A Navajo scout brings word ' to Bluff, Utah, that Old Posey, Ute chief, shot and killed his own brother, OUT Scotty, because the latter advised surrender to the marshal's posse. Despondent because he could not secure se-cure a position, J. D. Marin committed suicide at Park City, Utah, cutting his throat, his body being found by his wife upon her return home from a visit to a neighboring town. Decision has been reached by the county commissioners at Salt Lake to w.'.rk the county prisoners on the public pub-lic highways. DOMESTIC. The American steamer Nebraska, which took a cargo of cotton from Galveston Gal-veston to Bremen, reached New York on Sunday with 1,50'J tons of general merchandise from Germany on board. The British steamer Daventry cleared from Xewpot News, Va., for Rotterdam with food-stuffs for the Belgians. Bel-gians. Her cargo, valued at more than $390,000, was assembled here from various va-rious parts of the country for the Belgian Bel-gian relief commissi )n. Representatives of the Six companies, compan-ies, the powerful Chinese organization which has instituted a boycott against Japanese on the Pa ific coast owing to demands made on China by Japan, say the movement will be in full swing by the end of the weak throughout the west and in parts of Canada and Mexico. Formal announcement was made Sunday at New York, of the formation of an organization of the first reserves, re-serves, to be known 9S the American legion, to be composed of former army, navy and militia men, which will better bet-ter insure the nation's preparedness in case of war. Representative Victor Murdock of Kansas has been chosen chairman of the national committee of the Progressive Progres-sive party. Cells in the county jail at Los Angeles An-geles which held Ortie E. McManigal and the two McNaruara brothers fours years ago, are now occupied by M. A. Schmidt and David Can's 11 n llncrorl f I At a meeting at NVw York of tlt executive chiefs of the National Association Asso-ciation of Improved Order of Reilmt n it was decided to hold the l;-l' convention con-vention of the order in Chicago, beginning be-ginning S pi'-inher 13. More than 0 tons of food of all kinds had Le ri sent into Pelghnu up to K!ruary :i !.y the commission for reiief in Kelgium. according to Its sem:-niru;Vy report, issii'-.l from Nt-.f York City A return to the who'esaie price cf 4 cents a oaf for oread, which reports ' say tiie big baking companies" are con- 1 teuipiating. will. Deputy Accrue j General Becker indicated, result in a j discontinuance of the inuuiry lie s ; conducting at New York into causes ' for the increased price of wheat, flour i and bread. j Governor Ferguson has proclaimed ', quarantine in Texas as against the ! entire United Stales. Dominion of Canada and the republic of Mexio, prohibiting shipments of live stock in'o Texas on account of t lie foot and mouth disease. ! WASHINGTON. The senate has accepted the confer- 1 ciice report en the seamen's bill, already al-ready adopted by the house, thus ending end-ing a two year's fight in congress. The bill now goes to the president. Encouraging reports have been received re-ceived by President Wilson concerning concern-ing the attitude of Germany and Gre.it Britain toward the latest Americi u proposals for the safeguarding of neutral neu-tral commerce from the dangers I' submarines and mines and the unrestricted unre-stricted shipment of foodstuffs to the civilian population of belligerent countries. Secretary Garrison has further banished ban-ished outside influences in promotions and favors for army officers by pin-mulgating pin-mulgating new regulations "to make known the policy of the war department, depart-ment, that official records only constitute con-stitute the basis of all assignments and details." The nomination of Martha J. Wade of Iowa City to be United States judge for the southern district of Iowa has been sent to the senate. Moie than $1 in every $10 expended expend-ed by the government for all agricultural agricul-tural purposes in the next two years will be devoted to extirpating the foot and mouth disease, under the terms of the agricultural appropriation Mil passed by the senaU,, The bill carried car-ried a total of $23,000,000-FOREIGN. $23,000,000-FOREIGN. The Russians v-laim to have successfully suc-cessfully checked the German advance in North Poland, where the Germans are reported to be in retreat, and the re.capUire of Przasnysz after severe fighting has given them an excellent pivotal point from which to carry on their further operations. Seizure of the American steamer Da-cia, Da-cia, formerly a - Hamburg-American liner, by a French cruiser, which took the vessel to Brest, places the entire question of the validity of a transfer of flag after the outbreak q'. hostilities before the prize courts Ot France for adjudication. The Francois Joseph Andiffred prize of 15,000 francs ($3,000) for the "finest "fin-est and greatest devotion of whatever kind" was awarded Saturday by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences to Mayor Langlet of Reims. Dr. Denuce- who is in attendance upon Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, whose right leg was amputated last week, said in his bulletin Sunday the condition condi-tion of the patient continued excellent and hereafter the usual daily bulletin would be omitted. be the last of the five men who actively active-ly participated in the conspiracy ,to dynamite the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. Temperance workers who led the fight in making Arizona a prohibition state last fall have been engaged to manage a similar campagn in Chicago, Chi-cago, it is announced. It is hoped to have the question of voting the saloons sa-loons out of Chicago submitted to a vote of the people in April, 1916. E. H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, in .i address ad-dress at Pittsburg, declared that investigators in-vestigators are often not only incompetent, incom-petent, but are prejudiced. Joseph Leiter, noted wheat operator of fifteen years ago, testified at the state inquiry at New York City into the increased cost of bread, that American Am-erican farmers had long been selling wheat for less than what it cost. The federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against twenty-one directors, former directors and counsel of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad company, charging violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Mrs. Louise Storz Lody, the divorced di-vorced wife of Carl Hans Lody, who is living at Omaha, Neb., denies that she had received $13,000 or any other sum from the German government as compensation for her fromer husband's hus-band's sacrifice of his life. The city council at Aurora. Ills., has offered a reward of $1,000 for the j arrest of the murderer of Miss Emma Peterson, whose body was found on the sidewalk with the skull crushed, she having been beaten to death. A young woman was beaten to death at Aurora, Ills., Thursday night. It is the third case of the sort within with-in a year. Emma Peterson was found unconscious on the sid,c.wa!k shortly before midnight, her skull fractured and her jaw broken. She died in the ambulance while being taken to a hospital. Richard Hartman, former theater ticket broker, convicted at New York of swindling Mrs. Charlotte Mackenzie Macken-zie out of $133,000, has been sentenced sen-tenced to prison for not less than five years. The Russian offensive operations appear at the present time to extend along the whole front, an indication that the Russians have been able to bring very strong reinforcements into the field. The Krupr firm and family have subscribed sub-scribed 30,00.000 marks ($7,500,000) t6 'he new German v-m loan. A big socialist labor demonstration was held in Trafalgar Square, London, to protest again! the prevailing prices of food and coal. A resolution waii adopted expressing indignation and disappointmenr at the government's refusal re-fusal to take "affective measures to deal with lie alarming increase in the cost of food and fuel." A dispatch from Lisbon says that Deputy Henriques Cardoso was assassinated assas-sinated while entering the Democratic club to attend a political meeting. The assassin is believed to be a syndicalist. syn-dicalist. The effect of the war on food prices i are beginning to lie severely felt in j Spain. The government is endeavor-I endeavor-I ing to purchase 30.000 tons of wheat I in America, To meet the budget deficit defi-cit and the expenses of maintaining . neutrality, the government plans to float a lean of $200,000,000. A difpatch from Petrograd says a war tax has been imposed on men immune from military service and who are under 43 years of age. The tax varies from six rubles (about $3) on incomes c: $."00 or less, to $loo on incomes in-comes c' over Jl'i.OOu. Great Britain. France and their allies al-lies have advised neutral countries that they hold themselves at liberty to stop all shipping to and from Ger-. many and the countries of her allies. Twenty-eight warships of the allied fleet entered toe Dardanells at noon Saturday and bombarded the? inner forts, causing a panic in, Constantinople. Constanti-nople. Having been unable to obtain any flour l.'.O baker-f'out of a total of 700 in V;;nra 'have closed their shops indefinitely. in-definitely. France, Rus ia, England, Servia and Belgium are said by English officials offi-cials to he in absolute accord as to reprisals to be made on Germany, Austria and Turkey, in retaliation for the German submarine campaign. |