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Show n History of Past Week Tj-jnimiuo proa m The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed a INTER MOUNTAIN. ' T. R. Akera, a farmer, and hi.s wife, Were nhot from ambush and instantly Vlllrd near Grant's I'ass, Ore., while driving from their home to attend church. M. D. Bousman, a neighbor, was arrested at his home and is said to have confessed. It is reported that the war department depart-ment is preparing to make Fort Douglas, Doug-las, Utah, one of the largest supply stations of the country for storing and asHerrnhling quartermaster and commissary supplies for distribution to other army posts in the Ttocky Mountain region and the Pacific coast. Oscar Cook was executed at Canon City, Colo., for tho murder of Andrew J. Lloyd and William Mcl'herson in Denver, March 10, 1912. Cook made 110 confession or reference to the crime, according to a witness. The supreme court of Colorado has igrantcd a stay of execution to the week beginning May 21 to James C. Bulger, under sentence to be hanged tho week beginning February 27, for billing Lloyd F. Nicodemus of Denver. The Western Retail Lumbermen's association adopted resolutions at Portland calling upon members of congress to support President Wilson's Wil-son's program for national preparedness, prepared-ness, and pledging the undi.ided support sup-port of the organization for adequate measures of defense. James McCloskey, a watchman, is being held at Iiutte in connection with an investigation into the murder of Miss Josie Leary, 20 years old, who was found shot to death on the Anaconda Ana-conda road. She had been attacked. Two bandits, heavily armed, held up the Northern Pacific's easthound North Coast Limited train near Covington, Cov-ington, twenty-five miles east of Seattle, Seat-tle, Thursday night, taking the registered regis-tered nwil after dynamiting a safe in the mail car. DOMESTIC. Dr. Haakon B. Christensen of Vancouver, Van-couver, B. C, was drowned in the Burf at Venice, Cal., when he attempted at-tempted to rescue his sister, Mrs. R. Tofft, also of Vancouver, who was eeized with cramps while bathing. Two men were killed, and four injured in-jured near Clifton, Ariz., when an automobile in which they were riding rid-ing plunged down an embankment and turned over. ' Florence Anderson, the first woman In many years to be tried on a perjury per-jury charge in the United States district dis-trict court at San Francisco, has before her a sentence of ten months in the county jail. An increasing navy means that America must soon have one of the greatest merchant marines in the world, in the opinion of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, expressed in a letter let-ter to Superintendent King of the 'Charlestown Sailors' Haven, at Boston. Bos-ton. . Jess McCorkle, a negro, was taken from jail at Cartersville, Ga., by half a hundred men and boys, hanged to a tree in front of the city hall and his body riddled with bullets. McCorkle Mc-Corkle ;vas arrested for breaking into the home of A. T. Heath and attacking attack-ing Mrs. Heath, whose husband was away. A Chicago dispatch says a petty of-ficer of-ficer and an apprentice seaman at the naval training station at Lake Bluff were drowned when heavy seas dashed a boatload of the reserves sigainist the breakwater. An attempt by three Mexicans to lasso Miss Gertrude McClelland, a young school teacher, on the border road in Hidalgo county, fifty miles west of Brownsville, Texas, nearly led 4o a lynching. American soldiers arrested ar-rested one of the party before a posse of citizens could reach him. The salaries of 1.700 employees will e increased by 7y2 per cent beginning begin-ning March 1, it was announced at Houghton, Mich., oy the Quincy Mining Min-ing company. Urging economic as well as military mili-tary preparedness. Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois, speaking before the Economic club, at New York, asserted the power of the nation should be directed toward developing the strength of the people, individually and collectively. During a friendly sparring bout between be-tween William Hildebrandt and August Aug-ust Naizel, both 14 years of age, at Cincinnati. Hildebrandt was struck on the jaw. He died a few minutes later. A man answering the description of .7. Grant Lyman, wanted in Xew York for alleged defalcation of more than $300,000, was arrested on a vacht at SL Petersburg, Fla. Judge Dickinson, in the L'nited States court at Philadelphia, upheld the constitutionality of the act of congress con-gress of October 22. 1914, known as the war emergency act. United States Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa has filed affidavit With the secretary of state as a candidate can-didate for the presidency of the United Unit-ed States on the i"lepublici.u ticket. Two men were killed in the Black Diamond mine at Auburn, Lis., when a string of coal cars jumped the track, knocking down many tons of coal. Tn a thrilling rescrje tjy Ray Ellis, an LS-year-old boy, Charles Thomas was taken half frozen and nearly life less from a tree in the flooded and Ice-packed Des Moines river, near Os-kaloosa, Os-kaloosa, Iowa, where he had clung to the branches seven hours after seeing a companion drowned. Steps to relieve the car shortage on wcsic-rn railroads have been taken by the American Railway association, according ac-cording to an announcement by ttat organization. United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, in a speech delivered at. Morrislown, N. J., before the Washington association, paid tribute trib-ute to the popular government which Washington founded, and v.i'U-li, he asserted, has been lost. WASHINGTON. President Wilson told members and guests at a Gridiron club dinner that America ought to keep out of the European war "at the sacrifice of everything except this singh; thing upon which her character and her history are founded, her sense of humanity hu-manity and justice." ' Secretary Lansing indicated in a recent interview that the United States was prepared, under certain circumstances, to discuss with the German government what may properly prop-erly be regarded as defensive armament arma-ment for merchant ships. A call went out Sunday to 100,000 wonten to wear "simple" colors as much as possible during the spring and summer months, to aid American dyemakers and manufacturers. The call was sent by Mrs. James M. Thompson, daughter of Speaker Champ Clark, chairman of the executive execu-tive committee of the Woman's National Na-tional Made in the U. S. A. league, to the members of the league. The senate has confirmed the nomination nom-ination of Henry Prather Fletcher as ambassador to the government of Mexico. The vote was 49 to 16. The country's export trade declined declin-ed during January, though the month's total was far above that for the same month of last year. The value of exports was $335,535,303, cemher. The increase over January, 1915, was nearly $68,000,000. FOREIGN. British lines in Belgium! and France are (being extended to replace French soldiers who are being rushed to the Verdun region to take part in the fighting, "which has settled down to a terrific slaughter," according to advices ad-vices received from the battle front. Charged with recruiting American soldiers for service in the British armfy, W. R. Sellgsen, C. D. Randall and a recently discharged sergeant of the Fourth United States cavalry named Jefferson were arrested (vt Honolulu. General Alexei Kuropatkin has been appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian armies on the northern front. The German government within the next day or so will, through Count von Bernstorff, inform the United States that the German forces in Poland Po-land will not confiscate any articles of food or clothing sent from this country for relief purposes. According to the North German Gazette, all reprts that the German authorities would deviate from their plans with regard to the sinking of armed merchantmen are unfounded. The steamship Maloja, a 12,431-ton vessel 'belonging to the Peninsular & Oriental line, struck a mtine and sank within a half hour two miles off Dover, England. More than forty persons were drowned or killed as a result of the accident. Numerous avalanches have occurred occur-red during the past few days, and several sev-eral Swiss frontier posts have been overwhelmed by the slides. Five soldiers sol-diers in all have been killed, while others buried have been dug out alive. Mrs. Nellie Best, secretary of the Women's Anti-Conscription league, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment impris-onment in the Westminster police court, London, for circulating literature litera-ture urging men not to enlist. The revised official figures of the casualties in the Zeppelin raid of January Jan-uary 31 over England are given as sixty-seven killed and 117 injured. British forces in Mesopotamia made an attack on the Turkish position at Felahio, below Kut-el-Amara, the Turkish war office announces, but were driven back with considerable losses. Reports from Russian sources tell of resumption of the offensive by the Russian army in Galicia and Poland under command of the czar. Before sailing for San Francisco from Nagasaki the captain of the American steamship China lodged a protest with the American consul against the action of the British converted con-verted cruiser Laurentic in holding up his vessel off Shanghai on the last western voyage and removing twenty-eight twenty-eight Germans, eight Austrians and two Turks of military age. Emperor William has established his headquarters at the German positions posi-tions facing Verdun, according to information in-formation received from Berlin by the London Evening News by way of Copenhagen. A dispatch from Fetrograd says that the Russians have taken by storm Kermanshah. the important Persian city in the neighborhod of which serious ser-ious fighting has recently taken place. Mining men and others with interests inter-ests in Mexico have been notified that ihe American c""siuate at Chihuahua City, which has been closed since last autumn, had been reopened. A dispatch from Copenhagen to the ; ITxchange Telegram company asserts ;hat Germany has lost thirty Zeppelin; since the war began and that she new I .as sixty. |