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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed & m INTPRMC JNTAIN. Constitutionality of Nevada's prohibition prohi-bition law, i he first and only initiative initi-ative measure enacted by direct vole of the people in this state, was upheld on May 29 in the supreme court. Formal charges, hacked by affidavits, affi-davits, ranging from complaints regarding re-garding improper food and insanitary living conditions lo charges that patients pa-tients at tin' order of hospital physf Cians have been put in straightjackets at the United States 'army general . hospital No. 21. at Aurora, Colo., have been forwarded to Washington. Two persons were killed and five injured near Portland when an automobile auto-mobile bus carrying members of a moving picture company overturned mid threw out the thirteen passengers. An epidemic of mysterious origin has broken out in the Waverly baby home of Portland, and- as a result eleven babies are dead. Twenty-one are afflicted with the malady. Trial of eight men arrested in the "Tag Day" disturbances at Tacoma, in April, began in superior court on Monday, 'Hie defense is being undertaken under-taken by the workers, soldiers and sailors council, which defied the city authorities and sold tags ostensibly to raise a fund for returning soldiers. The city officials declared the organization organi-zation is on the model of the Russian Soviets. Thomas J. Linker and his wife, Maude Linker, are charged with the murder of Joseph Briggs, a wealthy stockman, at Salt Lake, on January 3. DOMESTIC. Capture of forty-nine Germans, single-handed, at Consenvoye, France, last October brought Felix Bird of the 132d infantry, Chicago, a D. S. C, the award of which was announced Sunday Sun-day by the war department. Flood conditions prevailed in parts of Nebraska Sunday night, following a downpour of rain, which in places I exceeded three inches. At Lincoln the fall was slightly more than two and a half inches. Near Ashland the bottom lands are flooded' and railroad tracks washed over. The first sermon from the air, preached by a "sky pilot" of the Methodist Meth-odist church, will be a headliner at the Methodist centennial exposition to be held at Columbus, O., June 20 to July 14, according to tentative plans just announced. Gen. Felipe Angeles, recently proclaimed pro-claimed provisional president of Mexico Mexi-co by the Villistas, plans simultaneous attacks on Torreou, Chihuahua City and Juarez, according to Mexicans who have just arrived from Torreon. In the 50U-mile auto race at Indian-npolis Indian-npolis on May 31, three of the contestants contest-ants were killed and a fourth probably prob-ably fatally injured. Howard Wilcox finished first, averaging S7.12 miles per hour. The food administration grain corporation cor-poration has announced that for the present it would make no further pur- Lieut. Melvin B. Keleher, Franklin, Dad,, and Corp. Joseph Katzman, Brooklyn, army aviators Crom Mlneola, N. Y., were killed al New Haven, ('(am., when their airplane' collided wilh another machine while flying at a height of 1000 feel near the Vale bowl. One soldier was killed and four others Injured when a Baltimore & Ohio train hearing Arizona ami New Mexico troops from overseas, was wrecked four miles west of Greenfield, Ohio. Douglas H. Hiker, president of the Associated Swine Breeders, Inc., of San Francisco, Is under arresl in Kansas Kan-sas City, Mo., on telegraphic warrant to face federal charges of misappropriating misappropri-ating $30,000. WASHINGTON. Congressional Investigation of the war department's vast expenditures during the war will he under way before be-fore the end of the week, according to plans of Republican leaders in the house. To prevent the navy from being left in a crippled condition when the peace treaty is signed, automatically releasing releas-ing 150,000 men from service, the navy department is planning to wage an intensive in-tensive recruiting campaign as soon as congress determines how large a navy will be authorized. Tariff duties of one-half of one cent a pound levied on imported citrus fruit by existing law would be doubled in a bill introduced by Representative Han-deli Han-deli of California. Secretary Daniels likes the work of the S000 yeowomen of the navy so well that he wants to keep some of them in the service indefinitely. The American peace delegation would "be earnestly requested" to secure se-cure a hearing before the peace conference con-ference for leaders in the movement for independence of Ireland, under a resolution introduced by Senator Borah, Republican of Idaho. FOREIGN. Germany, although realizing that she must make sacrifices to obtain peace, is convinced that the execution of the peace treaty is "more than the German people can bear." Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau. head of the German peace delegation thus sums up the at-tude at-tude of the German nation towards the proposed treaty of peace in a note to the allied and associated powers, outlining out-lining various German eounterpropsals. Employees of the Toronto Street Railway company decided Sunday not to join the sympathy walkout, called to aid striking metal workers. In reply to the counter proposals presented by the German delegates, the big four will inform Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau that no ground, has been found for further modification modifica-tion of the original terms. More than eighty persons' were killed and 100 injured in a panic during dur-ing a fire in a moving picture house at Valence - Sur - Rhone, France. Four thousand spectators were in the theatre and when the fire broke out, there was a mad rush for the exits. Many children were trampled on. The Rhine republic was proclaimed on June 1 in various Rhine cities. The population welcomed the event with satisfaction and expressed the hope that it would put an end to the painful uncertainty prevailing in the Rhine provinces regarding the allied nations and Germany. Metal workers in the region of Paris have decided to strike because of differences dif-ferences with employers over the method of applying the new 8-hour law. chases of wheat flour, victory flour or cereal products, but would re-enter the market for flour probably early in the new crop year. Threats lo kill Police Inspectors Fen-ton Fen-ton Thompson and Thomas Wood and to blow up the city hall at Oakland, are made in a letter received by the Inspectors from Los Angeles. The letter let-ter is signed "I. W. W." Germany spent more than 500,000 men in the vain effort to take Verdun, declared Secretary of War Baker in a Memorial day address at Camp Mer-ritt Mer-ritt to 25,000 soldiers. Germany. ad-milted ad-milted this loss, he said-Plans said-Plans for the inauguration of a permit per-mit system to control the movement of this year's mammoth grain crop, announced an-nounced Friday -by the railroad administration, admin-istration, contemplate the appointment of grain control committees at each primary market, comprised of a representative rep-resentative of both the operating and traffic departments of the railroad administration, ad-ministration, and a third party representing repre-senting the transportation division of the United Slates grain corporation. A nationwide campaign for a congressional con-gressional investigation has been inaugurated in-augurated as a result of the mob murder mur-der of .lay Lynch, a white man at Lamar, Mo., the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Peo-ple has announced. The body of Mike Chaponis. a machine operator, was found decapitated decapi-tated and partly sliced into shreds in a fifteen-foot cylindrical churn used in the manufacture of fertilizer ai the Armour Packing company's plain at Sioux City, Iowa. While complete figures are lacking, there is every indication that the Salvation Sal-vation army passed the $13.1)1)0,000 goal in Its home service campaign by approximately ap-proximately $3,000,000. Tribute was paid to the memory of Col. Theodore Roosevelt on May 30. Hundreds of persons visited his grave, at Oyster Bay, bringing flowers and wreaths. Many were children. One ship a week for a year, is the world's ship building record, claimed at the launching of three 5500-ton steel cargo vessels at the Newark bay shipyard ship-yard on May 30. The Temps estimates the strike will affect more than 200,000 workers. It is understood the Turks have called a great council in Constantinople Constantin-ople to consider what action to take with regard to the occupation of Turkish Turk-ish territory along the Aegean by Greeks and Italians. A parading crowd of 200 or more returned soldiers and union men swept through the provincial house of par-liment par-liment at Winnipeg on Saturday, and then marched to the city Kail, where they broke up a council meeting. Three nurses attached to the American Ameri-can expeditionary force were killed Sunday in an automobile accident at Chateau Thierry. Field Marshal von Hindenburg expects ex-pects soon to go to Switzerland, where he will take a long rest, according to a Berlin dispatch. Germany is willing to agree to the proposed stipulations regarding In military, aerial and naval forces contained con-tained in the draft of the peace treaty, provided that she is permitted to enter en-ter the league of nations on an equal footing immediately upon the signing of peace, says a Berlin cablegram. The Bolsbeviki before they retired from Riga, shot thirty persons in the central prison there, according o official of-ficial reports received by the American Ameri-can peace delegates. Information has been received in French circles that Greek troops are advancing from Smyrna toward Magnesia Mag-nesia and Aidin, the Turks retiring before them. The statement is made by the Greeks that their purpose is to restore order and to take a census. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, famous poet and writer, is critically ill in the Church street nursing home in Bath. Little hope is entertained for her recovery. re-covery. England's bill for transporting a mil-lie1 mil-lie1 American soldiers across the Atlantic At-lantic in British ships is approximately $82,000,000. As a result of a fire in a building occupied by American troops in the Coblenz district and the explosion of a munitions dump, Friday, eighty men are missing, according to a Cologne dispatch. |