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Show 'O Q History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 'n n INTERMOUNTAIN Threals that diabolical force was superior su-perior to any efforls that could be Jlnade by officers of the third war prison camp at Fort Douglas, Utah, to keep the prisoners in their charge from escaping were seen to have been more than mere words when n cunningly Contrived bomb, containing a high explosive ex-plosive sufficient to wreck a building, was found Saturday in the civilian quarters by one of the guards. Seattle waitresses have begun watching watch-ing in restaurants and hotels for violations vio-lations of the food conservation laws, the waitresses' local union having instructed in-structed its 500 members to co-operate iwith their employers in enforcing the regulations and reporting violations. The reclamation service has completed complet-ed the necessary work for watering approximately 12,000 acres of public land included in the Grand valley and UncompaUagre irrigation projects in western Colorado, and arrangements are being perfected for their disposal to homeseekers. The Montana house unanimously adopted n resolution providing for impeachment im-peachment proceedings in the senate against District Judge Charles L. Crum of Forsythe, for alleged pro-Germanism. pro-Germanism. Dr. T. C. Iliff, former superintendent superintend-ent of the Utah mission of the Methodist Method-ist Episcopal church, died at Denver, February 22, at the age of 73. Co-operation of the livestock men of the northwest with the government in .winning the war was pledged by the northwest livestock conference in resolutions reso-lutions adopted at Spokane. The Montana legislature signalized Washington's birthday by adopting a resolution asking congress to grant nation-wide suffrage to women. The resolution res-olution put through the house was approved by the senate. ; Chaplain P. K. Howard of the Oregon Ore-gon Episcopal diocese has asked the Oregon diocese to protest against the verdict of an Episcopal church committee com-mittee in which Bishop Paul Jones of the diocese of Utah is found "guilty of issuing propaganda contrary to the ethics of the church." A sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary has been imposed upon Gordon Sprandlin of Montrose county. Colorado, recently convicted by a court martial of evading the draft. DOMESTIC Captain David A. Henkes, Sixteentli infantry, U. S. A., has been sentenced to dismissal from the service and confinement con-finement at hard labor for twenty-five years by a general court-martial held at Governor's Island. Henkes, who is of German descent, endeavored to re-eign re-eign his commission, saying he did not care to fight against relatives and friends. The crack Red Cross liner Florizel, from St. Johns for New York, by way of Halifax, with 140 persons aboard, including in-cluding 78 passengers, piled up on the ledge near Cape Race during a blizzard bliz-zard Sunday and all on board were lost. Felix R. Jones of Albilene, Texas, was found guilty by a jury in the district dis-trict court at El Paso of the murder of Thomas II. Lyons, wealthy Silver Cily (N. II.) cattleman. The jury fixed the penally at twenty-five years' imprisonment iu the penitentiary.' Refusal to accept a consignment of beans because of a drop in the market caused the It. D. Otter company of Louisville, Ky., to lose its food license. The food administration notilieci the concern to close its doors February 25. WASHINGTON A price of $2.20 a bushel the same as for last year's crop was fixed by President Wilson on February 23, for the coining season's wheat yield. The price is for number 1 northern spring wheat at Chicago, with a scale of differentials dif-ferentials for other markets. Secretary Daniels lias recommended to congress -that it abolish the extra pay and allowances for naval aviators and provide instead a reasonable increase in-crease in death or disability compensation compen-sation in government insurance. While war department officials reiterate re-iterate that no date has definitely been fixed for the calling of the second draft of the national army, all available outward out-ward indications would seem to point to some time during the month of April or at the latest early in May. Seven hundred thousand army rifles have been produced in the United States since this country entered the war, according to a statement made public by the ordnance bureau of the war department. The administration bill, providing for the government control of railroads until eighteen months after the war, including many "short lines," and appropriating ap-propriating a revolving fund of $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 for federal operation, was approved ap-proved by the senate February 22. Director General MeAdoo has given assurance "that, so far as transportation transporta-tion is concerned, there is no danger of suffering from a serious food shortage in the eastern part of the country." With the approval of President Wilson, Wil-son, the federal railroad administration administra-tion Is about to interest itself in street railway, light, heat and power companies compa-nies throughout the country whose financial stability may be threatened by mounting costs of operation. FOREIGN There are numerous indications in Germany of a very systematic campaign cam-paign to promote a new general strike, says a Berlin dispatch to the Weser Zeitung, of Bremen. American troops are entering into the larger field of operations. They have passed through the training period pe-riod in the trenches and are now actively ac-tively engaged in large infantry attacks at-tacks and artillery duels almost continuously. con-tinuously. Villa is heading toward the Durango mountains and a column under General Eduardo Hernandez and General Francisco Fran-cisco Gonzalez is in pursuit of him from the direction of Parral and Es-calon, Es-calon, according to reports reaching Juarez. The Turkish forces dislodged by the British by the capture of Jerico, in Palestine, have retired to the north and east, the war office announces. A Russian courier with the peace proposals of the Russian goverument has arrived in Berlin, according to advices ad-vices received at Amsterdam. If the Germans refuse peace to Russia, Rus-sia, "a struggle to the death or victory for us is inevitable," says Ensign Kry-lenko, Kry-lenko, commander-in-chief of the Russian Rus-sian armies, in an official statement issued February 22. "The people's heroism must be opposed to the advancing ad-vancing enemy," It is declared. The bitterest disappointment of the war for the Prussians has been the shattering of the "fatuous belief" that the labor of the United States could be stampeded by "insidious propaganda," propa-ganda," Secretary of the Navy Daniels declared in an address at New Y'ork. The British have captured Jsrlcho, in Palestine, the war office reports. The city was entered by Australian troops February 21. Little opposition was encountered. Subsequently the Australians established themselves on the line of the Jordan and the Wadi-Auja. Wadi-Auja. A complete economic agreement, ir which Great Britain and the other allied nations are in accord, has been reached between the United States and Norway. The terms have not yet been made public. Operations have been resumed on the Russian front. The Germans have crossed the Dvina. This announcement was made by general headquarters at Berlin. Suspension of the mailing list of the Congressional Record outside Ibe District Dis-trict of Columbia, because of a shortage short-age of print paper, was the subject of a debute in the senale Tuesday, during dur-ing which the printing of useless documents doc-uments by various government departments depart-ments was caustically criticised. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, speaking in the house of commons Wednesday, said the average daily expenditure (luring the four weeks ending February 10 was 0,384,-000 0,384,-000 pounds. Any attempt by Argentina to dispose of any considerable quantity of wheat other (lian to allied countries probably prob-ably will meet Willi opposillon by the United Stales anil her co-belligerents. The forward movement, of Ibe German Ger-man troops eastward Into Russia continues, con-tinues, according to un official com. municallon Issued at Berlin. t Fifty-three saloons and twenty-seven wholesale liquor houses closed their doors February 23 in obedience to a federal order prohibiting the sale of liquor within half a mile of of the Rock Island (111.) arsenal. Letters indicating that Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman were cooperating co-operating with liar Dayal, the German spy, and Indian revolution propagandist, propagand-ist, before they were sent to prison for violating the draft law, have been made public. Bunker licenses will be denied to vessels built in the United States and completed after February 1, unless they sail under the American flag or the shipping board waives it, under a ruling by the war trade board. Captain Joseph N. Marx of the United States mounted patrol on the river front, near El Paso, Texas, was fired upon by Mexican snipers Sunday afternoon, one bullet striking him in the left leg. The people of the south will never give In and will do their share in this war until German autocracy is downed forever, Governor- Charles E. Brough of Arkansas declared at Chicago in a speech before the Union League club at Chicago. In a general order designed to clarify the relations between the railroad administration ad-ministration and employes of the roads, Director General MeAdoo emphasized that officials and workmen no longer are serving a prlvnto interest, but the government and the public only and thnt all must work together for the common object of defeating Germany. Mrs. Thomas Preston, Jr., formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, arrived in Chicago Chi-cago Thursday to take charge of the women's activities in connection with the congress of national service. Frank J. Hayes, president of the United Mine Workers of America, has ordered striking coal miners In Ala-.amn Ala-.amn to return to work ponding a set-I set-I lenient of differences Willi then' '.'iri-ployers. '.'iri-ployers. Resources of national banks on December De-cember .'!!, the dale of the last call of 1he comptroller of tlx currency, were $li,07.'i,.':08,(KH), or $-i7!),SS!l,(XKJ less than the high record of last, November, Novem-ber, when settlements connected willi the second Liberty loan swelled deposits depos-its and vosources to unprecedented liclghlw. |