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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed O INTERMOU NTAI N. In a plea to meet the situation with sober thought and to be prepared for a. call to arms in defense of American rights upon the high seas, United States Senator-elect William H. King, In a speech at Ogden, Utah, declared that in his opinion war between Germany Ger-many and the United States cannot be averted. C. M. Sutherland, aged 60, dropped dead while dancing a quadrille at a dance in Salida, Colo., his home for many years. Three negroes, Leslie Fahley, Harrison Har-rison Gibson and Henry Hall, were hanged at White Sulphur Springs, Mont. There was but one scaffold, and the men were taken out one at a time. The men were convicted of killing and robbing Michael Freeman, a white farm hand, on a freight train near Judith Gap, October 6 last. Clothed with the authority conferred by the state legislature, Governor Bamberger of Utah has suspended from office W. J. Lynch, secretary of the state land board, and Fred W. A severe .windstorm wrecked three airplanes valued at $13,000 each and demolished a newly built hangar in the camp of the First aero squadron at 'Columbus, N. M. One soldier was seriously Injured toy flying debris. Governor E. C. de Baca died February Feb-ruary 18 at Santa Fe, N. M., of pernicious per-nicious anemia. Governor de Baca was the second governor the state has had. Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Waterman, commanding the Hachita, N. M., district, dis-trict, has sent orders to his troops to maintain night and day patrols along the border, instead of only day patrols, as heretofore. Persistent rumors that a German submarine was sighted in the gulf oi Mexico several days ago are being circulated cir-culated at Guantanamo, Cuba. WASHINGTON. Senator Robinson of Arkansas and Representative Keating of Colorado have introduced identical bills to pro hiblt interstate shipment of goods made in whole or in part by women employed more than eight hours a day or more than six days a week.' Federal reserve banks would be able to increase their gold holdings about $200,000,000 by an amendment to the federal reserve law which the senate banking committee has reported favorably. favor-ably. Applause from both sides of the house on Friday ' greetd a declaration by Republican Leader Mann that the first duty of the United States was to look after affairs on the American continent, con-tinent, and that he hoped this country would not be drawn into the European war. The assay commission, recently appointed ap-pointed by President Wilson to tesl Chambers, state fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, pending the investigation of the records of those departments. A "bone dry" bill prohibiting the Importation or sale of alcoholic liquor, except for sacramental, medicinal or mechanical purposes, which -recently passed the Oregon house, passed the senate February 14 and now goes to the governor for his signature. It will go into effect .Tune 10. A decree of foreclosure has been entered against the Colorado Midland railroad in favor of the Central Trust company of New York, trustee for the bondholders. DOMESTIC. Claude Anderson, an insane man, shot and killed Rev. G. E. Breford at Atlanta, Ga., wounded Mrs. M. Zahn and Mrs. W. J. Zahn and was himself him-self killed by W. J. Zahn. Coincident with the reopening of the American embassy in Mexico, the big army of national guardsmen that was concentrated on the border on account of bandit activities will be in process of dissolution. A steel net deigned to protect the port of New York from hostile submarines sub-marines and other war craft In the event of war, was put in place at the entrance of the harbor last week. Fewer men lost their lives in American Amer-ican coal mines during 1916 than In any year of the past ten, although the year was the most prosperous in the history of mining, with more men employed and greater tonnage taken from the earth than ever before. Mrs. Dagmar Krucker, whose name was brought into the recent McDaniel murder trial, was shot and killed at St. Joseph, Mo., by her husband, John C. E. Krucker, who then shot himself through the head. Physicians say Krucker may recover. The report Is current at El Paso that the cattlemen in the Hachita district dis-trict of New Mexico intend to form a punitive expedition of their own to cross into Mexlc and give chase to the bandits who murdered the three '1Mormon" cowboys on the Corner ranch last week. A robber strolled leisurely- into the First National bank at University place, a Lincoln, Neb., suburb, at ' noon. There was no one in the bank tout the president. The robber secured $2,500 in currency and made his escape. es-cape. The railroads of the United States have informed President Wilson that the resources of their organizations are at the disposal of the government In the event of war. Charged with sending out a false "S. O. S." message, "We are sinking," William F. Eckhoff, a 16-year-old Brooklyn grocer boy, with a wireless apparatus on the roof of his home, was arrested and held in $500 bail. The seamen's law was upheld as valid by Federal District Judge Ervin in a decision announced at Mobile, Ala., which as far as Is known, is the first construing the constitutionality of the act. News print paper manufacturers, facing criminal prosecution in United States courts for alleged combination in restraint of trade, have proposed to the federal trade commission that it fix a reasonable price for the output out-put of the principal plants of the United States and Canada. The South Carolina legislature has passed a bill prohibiting liquor advertisements ad-vertisements In newspapers and periodicals, pe-riodicals, or in any other form, in this state. Official announcement is made that Halifax is to be made an examining port for neutral vessels crossing the Atlantic eastbound. Whether ships coming west also will have to call at Halifax has not been determined. The inquiry ordered by the department depart-ment of justice to ascertain whether there is a combination or conspiracy imong manufacturers of news print paper to limit production and increase prices, in violation of the criminal lections of the Sherman anti-trust law, Segan before a special federal grand lui-y at New York February 15. coinage of the United States, has finished fin-ished its work at the mint at Washington Wash-ington and announced everything "was up to the standard of efficiency." The mint has in its vaults $520,000,000 in gold bullion and coin. The ruthless German submarine campaign and Its effects upon the United States were discussed on Friday Fri-day by President Wilson and the cab inet. The meeting lasted only an hour, and afterward it was said nc new steps had been decided on. FOREIGN. The government of Ecuador, according ac-cording to reports, has proposed tc the Latin-American countries that a meeting be held at Montevideo to de cide on an ans wer to the Mexican note proposing the cessation of shipments of supplies to the European 'belligerents. 'belliger-ents. Despite the fact .that some newspapers newspa-pers take a gloomy view of Austro-American Austro-American relations and the situation brought about by the severance of re lations between the United iStates and Germany, official circles in Vienna are inclined to believe that the situation situa-tion is not entirely hopeless. Permission for the departure of the American refugees from Turkey has been given by the Ottoman government. govern-ment. Casualties in the German army, exclusive ex-clusive of colonial troops, reported in the German casualty lists in the month of January. 1917, totalled 77,-534 77,-534 officers and men killed, wounded, prisoners or missing. A wireless dispatch from Berne, Switzerland, says the Brazilian minister min-ister at Berlin, by order of his government, gov-ernment, has warned Germany that Brazil will hold her responsible for the fate of three Brazilian vessels approaching ap-proaching the war zone. A Petrograd dispatch says the Russian Rus-sian minister of commerce has introduced intro-duced in the duma a bill under the terms of which the government will devote 100,000,000 rubles toward the creation of a Russian mercantile fleet. James W. Gerard, the former American Amer-ican ambassador to Germany, was the guest of honor at a luncheon given by Premier Briand at Paris on Sunday. A distinguished company was present. A report that Villa had gone in disguise dis-guise to the west cast and taken a ship for Japan on a political mission, has been known to Carranza officers fcr several days. Notice of a dangerous area In the North sea because of operations against Germany has been given by the British admiralty. The food situation In Germany can not grow worse, but it scarcely can become better. This is the outstanding outstand-ing feature of Germany's great problem, prob-lem, says a Geneva dispatch. The American liner ' Philadelphia has sailed from Liverpool, according to a dispatch received in New York. She has on board 237 passengers, among whom are thirty-eight American Ameri-can citizens. Brand Whitlock, United States minister min-ister to Belgium, will continue to remain re-main in Brussels in his diplomatic capacity, says a Berlin dispatch. Belgian Bel-gian relief work will still go on under the auspices of the men now in charge of its administration. General Geraldo Machado, a prominent prom-inent Cuban military official and member of the Liberal committee, is reported to have been killed at Las Vallas. Leonidas Yerovi, a Peruvian writer and poet, was shot and killed at Lima. Manuel Jose Sanchez, a Chilean, is charged with the shooting. A severe epidemic of measles has broken out in San Juan, P. R., 1,700 cases having been reported. Several deaths have occurred. Owing to the shortage of coal for heating and the production of electricity, electric-ity, a number of sv -ping measures for the cutting down of the consumption consump-tion of fuel have been adopted by the city and provincial governments, says a Vienna dispatch. |