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Show 9 ; History of Past Week I The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed be n INTERMOUNTAIN. At the closing session of the annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held at Salt Lake City, April 5 to 7. the members mem-bers were urged to he frugal and economical and to show in a substantial substan-tial manner their loyalty as American citizens. Senator F. K. Warren of Wyoming has announced that he will not he a candidate to succeed himself when his present term expires in March, 1919. Senator Warren is serving his fifth term. Tie resides in Cheyenne. TI)1rty-tvo hundred persons marched march-ed in a patriotic parade at Boise, Idaho, Ida-ho, after which a patriotic meting was held at the capitol. - The demonstration demonstra-tion was said to he the greatest of the sort in the history of the state. Announcing that he would vote for the war resolution, Senator Borah of Idaho said it would not commit this country to a war of aggression, "but to a war for the defense of American rights and the American people." Utah will go dry August 1, 1917. If the sheriffs of the several counties of the state cannot or will not enforce the law, Governor Bamberger will take a hand. Tins was announced in no uncertain words by Governor Bamberger Bam-berger in an address at Salt Lake. The Pacific coast baseball league opened the 1917 season on April 3, games being played at San Francisco, Los Angeles and Salt Lake. Twenty-five thousand citizens of Pueblo turned out in a patriotic parade, mass meeting and flag raising Sunday afternoon. Ten thousand persons per-sons marched in the parade, while 15,-000 15,-000 witnessed the procession and joined the throng at the courthouse, - where patriotic addresses were made. DOMESTIC. A gift of $100,000 has been contributed contrib-uted hy the Rockefeller Foundation to the commission for relief in Bel-glum, Bel-glum, it is announced. The money will be used to furnish supplemental noonday meals to Belgian children. Herbert C. Hoover wiii be asked by the council of national defense to head a national committee on food supply and prices, to stimulate production pro-duction and to prevent speculative prices. An attempt to 'blow up the Maine Central railroad bridge over the Kennebec Ken-nebec river was reported by a guard at Waterville, Me. He said he found two sticks of dynamite with a burning fuse attached and hurled them as far as he could. WASHINGTON. No strikes or labor disputes of any kind during the war is the program of the labor committee of the council of national defense's advisory commission, commis-sion, headed by Samuel Gompers. The growing importance of American Amer-ican trade with Japan has resulted in the appointment of Frank R. Rutter, assistant chief of the bureau of foreign for-eign and domestic commerce, as commercial com-mercial attache to the American embassy em-bassy at Tokio. Improvement in methods of combating com-bating German submarines has been undertaken at conferences between Secretary Daniels and other representatives repre-sentatives of the navy department and naval officers representing France and Great Britain. To relieve the economic needs of the entente government a huge loan, of dimensions yet undetermined but not less than $2,000,000,000, will be forthcoming from this country as speedily as congress can pass the necessary legislation. Consul George N. Ifft, formerly stationed sta-tioned at Stuttgart, Germany, has reached Washington and probably will be assigned to duty in the state department during the continuance of the war. The war department has cancelled the schedule under which civilian training camps were to be established establish-ed this summer throughout the country. coun-try. Postmaster General Burleson has suspended mail service to Germany during the war and also instructed all postoffices to refuse as well any mail destined for Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Turkey, as it cannot be dispatched at present without passing through Germany. FOREIGN. Five men were drowned and another anoth-er is believed to be dying as the result re-sult of the capsizing of a boat in the flood waters of the Missouri river at Bismarck, N. D. Five. Germans, who formerly represented rep-resented the German imperial government govern-ment at the big radio station at Tuck-ertown, Tuck-ertown, N. J., until the federal authorities au-thorities assumed charge of it a month ago, were arrested Saturday. Philip -Madino, a Mexican, was sentenced sen-tenced to six months in the work house hy a police justice at Trenton, N. J., for spitting on the American flag. Great Britain is understood to have under consideration the withdrawal of its commercial blacklist in so far as it refers to firms and individuals in this country. It will now be the duty of the American government to see that nobody in the United States gives aid to Germany. Six Germans convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to destroy steamships steam-ships carrying food and munitions from New York for the entente allies with incendiary bombs manufactured in Hoboken, N. J., were sentenced to serve prison terms varying from two years to six months in addition to paying pay-ing fines of from $5,000 to $500. As in the days of the American revolution revo-lution when something momentous occurred, oc-curred, the city of Philadelphia on April 6 notified its citizens of the signing sign-ing by the president of the war resolution reso-lution by ringing the bell at Independence Independ-ence hall. Five German steamships, which have been in refuge at Boston, were ordered seized and their crews dispossessed dispos-sessed on Friday, while at Baltimore three German steamships were seized. Michael Borzatovsky, commercial messenger for the Russian government, govern-ment, who was found in his room at the Baltimore Country club with a bullet wound in his stomach, shot himself him-self accidentally, the police announced after an investigation. German Chancellor J. von Bethmaim-Hollweg Bethmaim-Hollweg has sold part of the property he has owned in Waco, Texas, for many years to A. Coivin, a cotton man. The consideration was $7,700. A report that a white man is attempting at-tempting to stir up negroes in this country to a revolt, is being investigated investi-gated by the authorities at Marshall, Texas. The negroes are said to have been promised that if the United States and Germany go to war, Germany Ger-many will give them Texas in which to form a "black republic." The United States Steel corporation has announced an increase of "about 10 per cent in wage rates and salaries up to $2,500" of the employees of the corporation's various subsidiaries, to take effect May 1 next, subject to equitable adjustment. Officers and enlisted men in the United States army stationed at El Paso gave a remarkable demonstration following the news of President Wilson's Wil-son's speech to the war congress when they paraded the streets singing patri-tic patri-tic songs and cheering the war policy. Harry Lang, in jail at Shennandoah City, Va., for obtaining goods under false pretenses, killed his wife outside with a pistol shot through the walls and then committed suicide. Tho tragi'dy is believed to have been planned by the couplo when Lang was arrested. British aeroplanes sank a German destroyer and crippled a second boat of the same class off Zeebrugge Saturday Satur-day night, the admiralty announced. Nine persons were killed Sunday at the automobile races at Mexico City when a car belonging to Jose Santa Maria, the Cuban charge d'affaires, and driven by Vlncente Rodriquez, left the track at a turn and plunged into a crowd on the outside of the course. Early entrance of several of the South and Central American nations into the war against Germany is regarded re-garded as practically certain. The Peruvian press is of the opinion that the entrance of the United States and Cuba into the war, together with the sinking of the Brazilian Bra-zilian steamship Parana, make it imperative im-perative for the nations of South America to formulate a common policy. pol-icy. The Chemnitz Socialist paper Volkstimme frankly admits that if the unrestricted submarine war should provo a failure Germany is lost. "We all knew this on the day unrestricted submarine war was announced," adds the paper. A Vienna telegram says it is officially offi-cially announced that 6,324,610,000 kronen have been raised as the result re-sult of the fifth Austrian war loan. The Norwegian steamer Camilla, with a cargo of corn for the Belgian relief commission, according to a Reuter dispatch from Copenhagen, has been sunk without warning, with the loss of two lives. Captain Lyons of the American ship Missourian, destroyed by a submarine, subma-rine, stated in his report to the American Amer-ican consul at Genoa that the Missourian Mis-sourian could have been saved had she been armed. Minister of Justice Kerensky said in an interview at Petrograd that if the German people would follow the Russian example and dethrone their emperor "we offer the possibility of preliminary negotiations." The interned German gunboat Cor-moran Cor-moran at Guam has been blown up. The Cormoran refused to surrender to the American forces which went to take possession of her and was destroyed de-stroyed by her crew. British efforts to reach the Camhrai-St. Camhrai-St. Quentin road and to drive a salient sal-ient into the German lines Detween these two important points, outflanking outflank-ing both, continue successfully. Towns on the coast of Kent were bombarded again April 6 by a German airplane. There were no casualties, it is announced officially. Cuba, not yet out of her 'teens as a republic, is at war with Germany the first of the Latin-American countries coun-tries to range herself alongside the United States, her liberator and protector, pro-tector, having on April 7, declared that a state of war exists between Cuba and Germany. Pro-American sentiment is spreading spread-ing in Mexico and General Carranza is reported to he considering routing all Germans out of the Mexican army, according ac-cording to Information sent to Washington Wash-ington 'by United States Consul Johnson John-son at Malanioros just across the river. |