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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed ' INTER MOU NTAI N The discovory iit S:ill Liiko of prounil ;;Imss in riniuiMl siilnum jmil tupiorii niiiy U-ml ovcntually to t lie un-arlliini; un-arlliini; of i wiilcsproad plot on tho imrt of ciuMiiics of t lie Uuiti'd SUitos to'injuiv tliousiinds of poi'sons. J. SI. Howry, who sovoral days ns;o I'onipli'tod a term of one year In San )iientm prison, Cal., was broufjl't to Salt Lake and sentenced to one year in the federal prison at Leavenworth on a charge of having used the United States mails to defraud. Tote Wofiee, who was arrosled at Kcnilworth, Utah, for seditions remarks, re-marks, will serve a term of thirty days in the war prison at Fort Douglas. Copper mines at Unite which produce pro-duce a third of the world's supply are facing a probable strike. The allied mine unions will probably call meetings meet-ings to ratify the machinists' strike vote, it is said. That the proprietors of billiard, pocket billiard and card rooms in Idaho may prepare 'to meet the edict which the state's chief executive, Governor Gov-ernor Alexander, is soon to announce, closing their establishments during so-called so-called "business hours," is apparent from a statement authorized by that official. Caught examining letters in the censor's cen-sor's office of the military prison at Fort Douglas, Anna Marie Deckman, 22, special student of languages at the University of Utah, was arrested at Salt Lake City as an accomplice of a spy. DOMESTIC The Socialist convention in session at New York adopted a resolution introduced in-troduced by Scott Nearing, former university uni-versity professor, declaring that "no restriction shall be placed upon voluntary volun-tary migration." The largest wooden steamship ever built is to be launched at Orange Texas. This achievement of war necessity nec-essity will have a cargo capacity of 0000 tons. Women section hands employed by the Lehigh Valley railroad are on a strike. They receive ?1.80 for a nine-hour nine-hour day and they are striking for $ A mysterious fire drove over 100 men, women and children into the streets during a storm at Dorchester, Mass. Two buildings were destroyed, one used for the manufacture of gun carriages, the other for electrical goods. The cry of "Long live the Bolshev-iki Bolshev-iki !" was raised in Chicago on Sunday und was not stilled uutil a crowd of 4000 persons which attempted to break up a meeting in honor of Professor George Lomonossoff, president of the Russian mission on ways of communication, communi-cation, had been dispersed by the police. Indiana's state-wide prohibition law was belli to lie unconst i I lit ional and void by Judge F. M. Hosteller of tho Vanderburgh county superior court at M ::usvllle. Janies Horsey, a cattle raiser of Gilberts, Gil-berts, HI., was senleneed lo serve eight years lit Hie federal penilentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., and lined :?;U100 by federal Judge Landis at Chicago fe.r using the mails lo defraud. Horsey was charged with Inning sold tubercular tuber-cular cattle to dealers lliroughoiif Ihe norlliwest on represenlal ion that (hey were free from disease. The National Association of Mann-j faeltirers has dissented to Ihe proposal of a trade boycott on Germany after the war, it was announced at New York. The question was voted upon in a referendum submitted to lis members mem-bers by iho chamber of commerce of the United States. WASHINGTON American labor's indorsement of war aims as slated by President Wilson and recognition that the war against l'rii.ssianisin is a workingniau's war, is recorded in a declaration issued by the executive council of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor at, the close of a seven days.' session at headquarters at Washington. Secretary of Labor Wilson has determined de-termined upon the appointment of a special commission of Ion men to devise de-vise a general labor policy to be pursued pur-sued throughout the war. Urgent war measures Ihe administration admin-istration railroad legislation, the war finance corporation measure and bil-lion-tioilar urgent deliciency appropriation appropria-tion bill have the right of way in cou-gress cou-gress this week. D. H. Bender, general auditor for the emergency lleet corporation, has submitted sub-mitted to the senate commerce committee commit-tee a statement showing total expenditures expendi-tures at the Hog Island shipyard up to January 31 last to be- 23,313,302.08. The United States has proposed to permit .enough gold to be exported to Mexico to satisfy President Carranza's immediate needs as part of the commercial com-mercial agreement now being negotiated. negotiat-ed. Mexico now has the gold to her credit in American banks. All foreign trade of the United States exports and imports was put under license on February 15 by President Pres-ident Wilson as a part of a general program of the American and allied governments for releasing ships to transport supplies to Europe. FOREIGN A dispatch from Vienna to the Ilan-ischbladt Ilan-ischbladt says it has been learned that Rumania intends to enter into negotiations negotia-tions with the central powers, provided they give her previous assurance that they will not assail the sovereignty of Rumania, but will leave a solution of dynastic questions to the Rumanians themselves. Harry Wills, American negro heavyweight heavy-weight pugilist, was awarded a knockout knock-out decision in the fifth round of his bout with Sam McVey at Panama. General Sir William Robertson, chief of the British imperial staff, has resigned, re-signed, it was officially announced Saturday. General Wilson, subchief o" staff, takes the vacated place. The Canadian government announces that it has decided not to conscript enemy aliens to work on farms. The conclusion was reached that aliens could not be utilized in this way except ex-cept where they could work in large numbers under military discipline. The armistice between the Russian and German forces, which has been in existence for several weeks on the Russian front, expired at noon February Febru-ary IS. No estimate has yet been made of the number of fatalities resulting from the severe earthquake which shook the city of Amoy, China, to its foundations founda-tions Saturday. Many buildings were destroyed or damaged. Early resumption and quick settlement settle-ment of the negotiation between the Japanese and American governments regarding the exchange of steel for shipping are foreshadowed in well-informed circles at Tokio as the result of the Washington government's action ac-tion in placing all exports from the United States under obligatory license. The French war office in its daily bulletin on operations in the west has revealed for 'the first time that Ameri-c.m Ameri-c.m artillery is stationed in a frontline front-line sector in the Champagne, one of the vital fronts between the North sea and Switzerland. Germany has resolveO to renew military mili-tary activities against northern Russia. This decision is said to have been reached at a conference at imperial headquarters, special dispatches from Holland say. The Germans opposed to the Americans Amer-icans on Friday made an unsuccessful bombardment with gas shells. German Ger-man airplanes large numbers also were driven off by the American machines ma-chines and antiaircraft batteries. Vienna newspapers report that the Ukrainian rada has removed its sittings sit-tings to Zhitomir (capital of the prov- ince of Kiev) and has established di-I di-I red communication with the central I powers. Vernon Castle, celebrated dancer, hero of 150 flights over German lines, denied the fighter's privilege of death in combat, died the death of a hero at Fort Worth, Texas, on February 15. He sacrificed his life to prevent a collision col-lision in the air . which would have, meant death to two royal flying corps cadets. An explosiou occurred February 15 on the battleship Utah in which an officer of-ficer was killed and several sailors seriously se-riously injured. The officer died shortly after being transferred to the hospital ship Solace. June 15 has been fixed by the food administration as the official beginning begin-ning of the cheese production season of 1918, and the date before which all cheese now in storage must be marketed. mar-keted. Average wholesale prices have increased in-creased 75 per cent since the war began, be-gan, according to a review made public pub-lic by the bureau of labor statistics. Most of the advance has been within the last two years. ! Col. Theodore Roosevelt has so far recovered from his recent operations for abscesses that he will be able to leave the hospital for his hotel within two weeks and return to his home in Oyster Ray ten days later. A demand for the adoption of a firing fir-ing squad policy for present-day cop-, cop-, perheads was made at Syracuse, N. Y., by Poultncy Rigelow, former schoolmate school-mate of the kaiser, in an address delivered de-livered before the Rotary club. Four members of the Church of the Living God were arrested by the police po-lice at Berkeley, Cal., for falling to register as enemy aliens and will he turned over to the United States marshal's mar-shal's office. They declare that they are citizens of Heaven and as such are uparf from the material world and are enemies of no land. |