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Show o History of Past Week ews Happenings of I Seven Days Paragraphed a INTtRMOUNTAIN. Governor George Carlson of Colorado Colo-rado Is critically ill ami will be un-aMe un-aMe to act as a deleg.it" ft largo at tho Republican national conventioj at Chicago. Frank Kramer of East Orangeg won llie second national bicycle championship champion-ship race of the season at the New-, ark velodrome Sunday afternoon. Kramer now has a lead of six points lor the national title. I':.-, nearest rival is Hob Spears, wiio lias lour Ijoint-;. Believing thai he was a "fresh iiy" instead of an officer, cowboys mployod in breaking western horses ul. Ogdon, Utah, pounced upon George Covey, motorcycle patrolman, and j;ave him a severe beating. Twenty thousand people took part In the preparedness parade at Salt JUike on Saturday. Fifty spectators were pitched to the ground and three women were injured when a grand stand collapsed Jit the I'niversity of Utah at Salt Lake City. Ted Johnson of Salt Lake, Utah's champion long distance runner aud twice winner of the long run, was forced to lower his colors to Frank Hall of Colorado college in the fourth annual Mountain modified marathon ul Denver. Salle Besin, 30 years of age, an Armenian Ar-menian employed at a mine at Bingham, Bing-ham, Utah, was stabbed to death by li. Zekir, another Armenian, in the mine bunkhouse following a war argument, argu-ment, which developed into a fight. Anticipating a walkout on the part of laborers on jobs declared unfair at a meeting of the Workingmen's uiiiofi' at Butte, the employers turned off fieir laborers, and practically very industrial plant, outside of the mining industry, together with all construction con-struction work, is closed. DOMESTIC. Five thousand tons of freight from the Orient, which were unloaded cn the water front at San Francisco from the Shinyo Maru No. 2, a Japanese Jap-anese freighter, and a pier recently erected by the. state were destroyed In a spectacular blaze of unkno.vn origin early Sunday. A St. Louis dispatch says President Wilson and Vice-President Marshall are to be nominated as the Democratic Demo-cratic party standard-hearers for the presidential campaign some time ear-l ear-l Saturday morning at the final session ses-sion of the Democratic national convention. con-vention. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad company suffered $1,-000. $1,-000. 000 damage by floods north of Mc Gregor. Iowa. Several bridges and depots were washed away and it will be more than a week before trains can be operated. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has signed the army reorganization bill, first of the important prepardness measures passed by congress during the present pres-ent session. Senator Fall. Republican, of New Mexico, assailed the administration's Mexican policy in discussing Senator Kern's resolution directing an inquiry in-quiry into the guarding oi American lives and property in Ireland. The federal trade commission has announced that it would hold hearings June 12 and 13 to give the interests concerned an opportunity to explain the rise in the price of gasoline. The house bill providing for reclamation recla-mation by the government of 2,300,000 acres of Oregon land granted the Oregon Ore-gon & California railroad was passed by the senate. Favorable report has been made by the senate judiciary committee on the bill of Senator George Sutherland of Utah, providing for compensation for accidental injuries to employees of the United States. Amendments to the naval appropriation appropria-tion bill to provide for an $11,000,000 government armor plate plant, for $3,-500,000, $3,-500,000, instead of $2,000,000, worth of aeroplanes, for 2,730 additional sailors and for a bonus system to encourage the speedy private construction of warships have been adopted by the house. FOREIGN. While all the Greek troops in th.6 Caloniki district were attending a te deum mass in celebration of tho king's saint day, French troops, under General Sarrail, assisted by French gendarmes seized the eitv Jacob H. Schiff, wildly cheered as "the greatest Jew alive today," was completely vindicated at the annual Kehillah convention at New York of charges that he had given ammunition to the Russian government by declaring declar-ing the Jews in' Russia and Poland - responsible for their own misfortunes. A. B. Wood, 75 years old, of Mul-liall, Mul-liall, Okla., a contested delegate from the Fifth district, died at a hospital in Chicago while the national committee com-mittee was hearing the contest. Deaia was due to the infirmities of old age. John ClaTlin, former head of the H. 1!. Claflin company, whicn failed in June. 1914, with liabilities or $34,000.-HH1, $34,000.-HH1, now possesses a bank balance of only $L'0O. according to a report filed )y the referee at New York. The report that soldiers whose three-year terms have expired will be held in the army indefinitely under the reserve provisions of their enlistments, enlist-ments, has been confirmed by Gen. :Oeorge Bell at Fort Bliss. Teaching a deaf person to sing, a feat which hitherto generally has leen considered impossible, has been accomplished by Mrs. Christian Born, wife of a Columbus, Ohio, brewer, after weeks of experimenting with .Magdalene Sattler, an , 18-year-old Cleveland student at the state school for i lie deaf. President Wilson unexpectedly made an address to the naval acad-my acad-my graduates at the commencement J xercises at Annapolis, declaring j that great responsibilities rest on naval officers of the United States. j Bouck White, pastor of the Church of the Social Revolution, in New York City, who participated in the burning of the American flag and other national na-tional emblems in the rear of his of special sessions of desecrating the American emblem and was sentenced to thirty days in the penitentiary and I to pay a fine of $1,000. Despite the threatening tone of deneral Carranza's last note, his military mil-itary forces in Cihhuahua state are t'eing disposed in general accord with the plan disclosed by General Obre-gon Obre-gon during his conference at El Paso with Generals Scott and Funston. Francisco Dominguez, notorious JUexican bandit, was killed in an encounter en-counter with two Texas rangers near Fulvo. Texas. A warrant for .Samuel E. Graham of Kansas City, charging embezzlement of $10,000 from the mutual benefit department de-partment of the National Association of Letter Carriers, has been issued. Graham is a letter carrier, treasurer of the department, and lias been in the postoffice service twenty-five years. Frank Moran and Jack Dillon, contenders con-tenders for the heavyweight championship cham-pionship of the world, have been matched to box in Brooklyn on the night of June 29. Senator Smoot, of Utah, who arrived ar-rived in Chicago on June 1, is quoted es saying he saw no chance of Justice Jus-tice Hughes being defeated for the presidential nomination. A report from General Pershing which reached General Fuuston Fri-lay Fri-lay afternoon, described thp conference confer-ence at Casas Grandes as "success-.Cul." The Swedish government has decided de-cided to accept a vote of credit of S,-000,000 S,-000,000 kroner to cover the immediate military needs. Great Britain still holds undisputed supremacy of the seas, in the judgment judg-ment of Winston Spencer Churchill, recently first lord of the admiralty, who now has resumed his parliamentary parliament-ary duties after service wtih his regiment regi-ment at the front. The prefect of Khartkof, who has j been for some time under suspicion ' of enrolling a great number of wealthy merchants and prominent ! manufacturers in the police force, so ! aa to enable them to escape military service, has been arrested, j It has been decided that the west- ern frontier of Egypt is to he turned , into a separate province, under military mili-tary jurisdiction. ! The Dutch Navy league learns, it is announced in Vienna, that the Aus- trian army alone fired 15,000,000,000 infantry cartridges and 12,000,000 shells in the first seventeen months of the war. It was understood in political circles in Tokio that Marquis Katsu-; Katsu-; nosuke Iuouye, Japanese embassador I to Great Britain, will retire, j Lieutenant General Oshima, re-, re-, cently appointed war minister of Japan, Ja-pan, has submitted plans for the increasing in-creasing of the Japanese army. A naval battie has been fought off the coast of Jutland, in the North sea, in which twenty-nine vessels were lost, at least a thousand men met death, the monetary loss being placed at $115,000,000. The Germans claim the victory. Japan will probably decide to change her main railroad system from a narrow to a broad gauge. The pres ent gauge of three feet and six inche.-was inche.-was adopted when the first line wae built in Japan. , Reports received at military headquarters head-quarters at Chihuahua from Torreon told of the capture of Luz Elias de Perz, the last prominent outlaw leader of the section. He was found hiding in a poor quarter of that city. A number of American citizens and British subjects have been killed at Talara, Peru, by striking employees of the London-Pacific Petroleum company. com-pany. The American residents of London have formed a baseball team which is to join a league organized by the Canadian Can-adian military units. Some 2,600 riflemen comprise the force of Ali Dinar, sultan of Darfur defeated by the British on May 22 near ' El Fasher, in the Sudan, according ac-cording to an official statement issued at London. According to an official statement by the chancellor of the exchequer, Reginald McKenna, the deficit for 1916-17 will be made good by borrowing borrow-ing an amount estimated at 323,015,-000. 323,015,-000. This will involve raising by loans on the average more than 3,600,000 daily. The conference between General Gabriel Gavira, commanding northern Chihuahua, and General J. J. Pershing, Persh-ing, in charge of the punitive expedition, expe-dition, ended "very satisfactorily," in the words of General Pershing to th -press correspondents |