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Show T : History of Past Week -r rrfirfinwTMTi wmmu The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed j INTERMCJNTAIN. Lawrence Smith, aged recluse, reported re-ported to the police that some one entered en-tered his cabin mi the lx-:n-li at Port iTownsentf, Wash., and took $65,000 worth of Liberty bonds from his clothes. A. S. Atherton, a custom house inspector, in-spector, was painfully burned and Lee J. Carter, custom house officer, was slightly burned while searching the steamship Javary, jnsi in port at Ta-coma Ta-coma from Shanghai, Cor contraband. The officers charge the Chinese crew, after getting a Cull head of steam in the boilers, opened all the steam cocks In the boiler rooms where the search was in progress. Spreading rails caused a train to leave the track near Casper, Wyo., the engineer being probably fatally injured, injur-ed, many passengers narrowly escaping escap-ing death. Fifteen men arrested as an outcome of tlie Seattle general strike in February Febru-ary were freed of charges of criminal anarchy on motion of the prosecuting attorney. A verdict of guilty was returned by a jury which tried Douglas M. Storrs, charged with the seduction of Miss 'llurh Garrison, 18 years old, who pois; oned Storr's wife. Mrs. Grace Storrs, in Seattle hist spring. Two wives are claiming the estate of Walter Mitchell, a Salt Lake hotel man killed in an automobile accident in Echo canyon. April IS, while returning re-turning from a trip to Evanston, Wyo. At the time of his death, police and sheriff authorities reported inability to locate a Mrs. Mitchell. George and Thomas Boskos, brothers, were found guilty of murder in the first degree at Pueblo, Golo., for the killing on April 11 of William T. Hunter, a wealthy farmer, and E. C. Parks, an automobile salesman. Election of officers, adoption of a state constitution and passing of a set of resolutions setting forth the views of the men who have been in service marked the completion of the first state caucus of the American Legion held at Salt Lake on June 5. DOMESTIC. Four robbers held up the Leeds bank at Leeds, Iowa, locked the bank's cashier cash-ier and clerks in a vault, took nearly $4000 in cash, $10,000 in bonds deposited de-posited for safekeeping, and $12,000 worth of bonds held by the bank, and escaped in a waiting automobile. Street car service in Detroit came to a sudden halt at 10 o'clock Saturday night, when motormen and conductors of the Detroit United Railways company com-pany struck to enforce their demands for increased pay. One of the entomologists at Johns Hopkins university has made the discovery dis-covery that locusts are a delectable food. He says they taste much like shrimp and advises everybody to add them to the menu. It is the easiest way to get rid of the pests, he adds. President Wilson has sent the follow! fol-low! tig message to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Chap-man Catt, president of the National .American Woman Suffrage association associa-tion : "I join with you and all friends of the suffrage cause in rejoicing over the adoption of the suffrage amendment amend-ment by the congress. Please accept and convey to your association my warmest congratulations." It tool; but three hours and thirty minutes for Dr. F. A. P.rewster of Beaver City, N'eb.. to fly in an airplane air-plane lu Oberlin, Kan., sixty-five miles distani. attend a patient and return by the aerial route to Beaver City. Jan lien ginger was declared to be an ii .oxlcant and its sale or possession posses-sion unlawful, in an opinion handed down by the supreme court of Maine. Billy Miske of Si. Paul decisively defeated Willie Median, the Pacific coast heavyweight, at St. Paul, but seemed unable to put over a knockout. June 11 has been decided upon as the date for the beginning or the nation-wide strike of telegraphers, according ac-cording to a telegram said to have been received sit San Francisco. With tin? arrest of George Oliver, aged 28, of Cleveland, police believed they were cat the trail of the anarchists anarch-ists responsible for the recent bomb explosions at Pittsburg. With ii view to carrying prohibition to till parts of the world, temperance workers assembled at Washington for the annual national convention of the Antl-Salooit League of America organized organ-ized the "World's League Against Alcoholism." Al-coholism." Eighty-three men dead and fifty others burned and maimed, many of whom will die. Is the toll of a disaster D ;, i, line at Wllkes-Barro, Pa., on June Seven kegs Of black powder, 800 pound In all, were detonated, and the dead and the maimed were literally roasted by the superheated gas flames following the explosion. Twenty thousand men will be needed to handle the wln-al harvest In Nebraska Nebras-ka this ear and Leon C. Crandall, in charge of the government employment bureau in Lincoln, believes this now b'f v. in in' easily available, With the arrest at Detroit of foul men, one of them an army officer, de partment of justice agents disclosed ax alleged conspiracy to defraud the government gov-ernment in the sale of $30,000,001 worth of army supplies to lie salvage!, tit Detroit. Two bandits entered the State Hani, of Etist San Diego, Cat:, shortly before the closing hour, took all of the cast in sight, held up and searched several customers who entered the bank while the robbery was in progress and es. caped with approximately $7000 in an 1 1 automobile. The $200,000,000 deficit resulting front government control of railroads last year was due to measures that bad to he taken to keep Europe from starvation and to win the war, William G. McAdoo, former director general ol railroads, asserted in a letter to Thomas M. Storke. publisher of the Daily News at Santa Barbara, Cal. WASHINGTON. There, will beno training camps foi civilians and reserve officers during the summer, the war department has advised Charles B. Pike, chairman oi the military training camps association, associa-tion, giving lack of funds as the reason. Director General Hines estimates that the railroad administration incur-j incur-j red a deficit of approximately $5S,-000,000 $5S,-000,000 in April, making a total deficit of $250,000,000 for the first four months of the year. Resolutions asking the state department depart-ment for the text of the treaty with Germany and directing the foreign re-lations re-lations committee to investigate how copies of the unpublished document have readied private hands iu New York, were adopted by the senate without with-out a roll call. Postmaster General Burleson, in an order issued June 5, surrendered operation oper-ation of the telegraph and telephone systems to their owners. Armed with the latest figures supplied sup-plied him by the statistical expert, Dr. Harry A. Garfield, federal fuel administrator, admin-istrator, has sounded another warning to "buy coal now." Secretary Daniels has ordered reduction reduc-tion of the naval personnel to 250,0011 men or less by July 1. Commandants of all shore stations and districts were directed to discbarge immediately every available man who could possibly be spared without impairing the efficiency effi-ciency of the navy. FOREIGN. The Esthonians are reported to have taken Heaswegen, in southern Livonia. They have begun to drive the Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki in the direction of Krentzburg, 70 miles southeast of Riga. The Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki are fleeing in panic from central Livonia to avoid being surrounded. The American delegation to the peace conference apparently is firm in its decision not to authorize the puhli-cation puhli-cation of the German peace treaty until it Is signed and not even to communicate com-municate the official text in its present form to the United States .senate. At least two Americans and thirty Mexicans have been killed by Yaquis and bandits in the La Colorado district dis-trict of Sonora.' Mexico, during the last two weeks. The Mexican treasury department, as a result of numerous references to .Mexico's national debt recently in the United States and Mexico, bus furnished fur-nished a statement to the press showing show-ing that on June 30, the debt will total 529,572,085 pesos. The American peace officials at Paris are convinced that the demand for the ex-kaiser's trial wifl be abandoned aban-doned as long as be lives a simple life in Holland. The peace terms presented to Austria Aus-tria are impossible and mean the death of the country by starvation. President Seitz declared in his address opening the extraordinary session of the national na-tional assembly. Nicaragua has asked the United States to land forces there to cope with a threatened invasion from Cosla Rica. The state department is investigating the situation. A great movement is afoot in the Ruhr district, Germany's richest industrial in-dustrial region, for the organization of wholesale emigration Immediately after peace is signed. Three thousand peasants, including women and children, have been shot or hanged by the Red army as a conse-enquence conse-enquence of revolts in Western Hungary Hun-gary around Oedenburg. Because the servants employed at the Hotel Des Iteservoires at Versalles, where the German peace delegation Is quartered have refused to aceepl tips from tin- members Of the delegation, tin- hotel management has announced that it has been compelled to advance prices 10 per cent in order to Increase the employes' wages. With union lenders admit tedly making mak-ing every effort to reach a settlement, jibe end of the Winnipeg strike seems i rapidly approaching. it is understood here thai the Berlin Ber-lin government is sending photographs Ically reproduced copies of the peace terms to every United States senator and representative. The Bolshevlkl acknowledged defeat by the Siberians and Cossacks on the Ural river, according to a Helslngfors despatch. The Bolshevlkl have been forced to eval uate tin- town of Uralsk, capital of the territory of Uralsk. a proclamation urging Turks to massacre mas-sacre the Greeks hi Thrace has been distributed at Adrlunopolc, Tin- test of tin- proclamation is published ul HaloDlki. Esthonlun and Finnish forces have taken Petrograd, uccordlng in an tin 1 confirmed telegram from Vimloe, re- celved ai lopeiihagen. |