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Show O -E3 History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed .Q INTER MOUNTAIN E. W. Burton of San Francisco was elected president of the Pacific Coast Metal Trades council at the conclusion of its annual meeting at Tacoma. Portland will be the headquarters of the organization, which represents 125,000 members. Snowstorms in Wyoming during the past week delayed traffic on the Union Pacific railroad. Something new In "bootlegging" has been developed by dealers in contraband contra-band whisky at Hoquiam, Wash. They raided the steamship Willamette when it arrived from California ports, and representing themselves as officers of the law, "confiscated" forty cases of whisky. Coming to Camp Lewis at her own expense, Maude Adams arranged to produce her play, "A Kiss for Cinderella," Cinder-ella," at the Liberty theatre at camp, complimentary to the officers and men. Overtaken at Malad, Ida., with what the police claim was their third stolen automobile, Eric Aarrestad, aged 10 years, and Clyde Carr, 18 years, both of Salt Luke City, were brought buck to Salt Luke, charged with grand larceny. lar-ceny. James A. Wood, deputy food administrator admin-istrator for Nevada, was held to the federal grand jury in bonds of $5000 by the United States commissioner at San Francisco on a charge of accept-hit accept-hit $300 from the South Fork Flour ll'Ms of Klko, Nev. DOMESTIC The proposal that the baseball parks at Philadelphia be thrown open on Sundays for games between the 20,000 soldiers and sailors stationed there is opposed by religious leaders. Mayor Smith approves of the idea, and the government officials are considering the matter. Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, wife fit Colonel ltoosevelt, gave out the following fol-lowing "Mothers' Day" message to the mothers of the defenders of democracy dem-ocracy : "Four sous in the fighting line are my epistle written on my heart known and read by all men." Wages of railroad trainmen, conductors, conduc-tors, baggagemen and switchmen in Canada will be increased proportionately proportion-ately to the increase in wages for the same class of work in the United States, within the next few weeks. Control of the manufacture t-f articles intended for export to the European allies was instituted May 11 by the war trade board, in agreement with the allied missions, the war industries in-dustries board and the food administration. adminis-tration. Organization of the National Association Asso-ciation for Mothers of Defenders of Democracy, intended to unite the women wom-en of America In an effort to shorten the war by their sacrifices in behalf of sons and husbands, Is announced at New York City. After escaping from Bolshevik pursuers, pur-suers, who had been offered a price for her capture, dead or alive, Mme. Leona Batchgareva, who was senior captain of Russia's famous "battalion of death," arrived Sunday at an American Amer-ican port. By defeat of the aircraft program and the selective service act, together with the practice of "sabotage in the trenches in France and the factories at home, it was hoped by the Industrial Indus-trial Workers of the World to crumble America's war plans, according to evidence evi-dence presented by the government in the seditious conspiracy trial at Chicago Chi-cago of the I. W. W. leaders. Four city firemen were killed and one injured at Vancouver, P.. C, when a hose wagon, traveling at a high rate of speed while responding to a fire alarm, struck a street car. Six passengers pas-sengers aboard the street cur were uninjured. Paul Asbury Porter of Mount Pleasant, Pleas-ant, la., was sentenced to life imprisonment impri-sonment for the murder of Detective James Shea of Evanston, February 25. Shea was shot when he nought to arrest ar-rest Porter on a charge of passing a bogus check. The United States Steel Corporation Corpora-tion at the request of the government will enter into the manufacture of heavy artillery and projectiles in great quantities. The government tests will be made within a few days tit Pittsburg laboratories labora-tories of a new substitute for gasoline, which the inventor, Dr. Louis Clement, claims can be manufactured for S cents a gallon. With the object of shipping abroad each day a ton of dried milk, the equivaleirt of K-100 quarts of liquid milk, to relieve suffering caused by scarcity of the product in France, a group of American women have started a countrywide campaign for funds in the name of the committee for France. The average pay of preachers ill the Methodist Episcopal church has passed the $1000 mark for the first time in his-lor.v, his-lor.v, according to the report of I r. J. P.. 1 1 ingcley, secrelary of the board of cinferciio" cliiliriarils, to the annual jjn'Ht'jg at Chicayo. j Minnesota's sixtieth anniversary of I statehood was observed at St Paul, j .May 12, by the dedication of the state's half million dollar historical building and the gathering of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers. Asserting that the Democrats will stand "Firmly and triumphantly on their record not upon promises, but upon monumental things accomplished," accom-plished," Champ Clark, speaker of the house, at Fort Wayne, Inch. Saturday, fired lii s party's opening gun in the coming campaign to re-elect a Democratic Demo-cratic congress. Men and women, boys and girls, through whose efforts more than $12,-000,000 $12,-000,000 worth of war savings stamps have been sold in New York City, took their places joyfully Tuesday in a funeral fun-eral procession which wound its way through the city behind a coffin whose plate announced that. "Kaiser Bill" had "died of W. S. S. 191S." WASHINGTON Railway fare of 1 cents a mile, including in-cluding war tux, may be granted to enlisted en-listed soldiers and sailors by Director General McAdoo within a short time, as the result of petitions filed with him. With the establishment of a regular airplane mail service between Washington Wash-ington and New York, the pos toff ice considers that the project is experimental experi-mental only in the sense that a now familiar means of locomotion is to be put practically to a new use. President Wilson has decided to spend the entire summer in Washington Washing-ton this year, as he did last, so that he can keep in constant touch with the war making machinery. Secretary Baker has approved the proposal that the graduation of the 1910 class at West Point be again advanced, ad-vanced, this time from August 29 tp June 12. The case of a soldier in the American Ameri-can expeditionary forces condemned to death for deserting in the face of the enemy, has been sent to President Wilson for final action. The president recently commuted the death sentences of two soldiers for sleeping at their posts, and of two others who disobeyed orders. FOREIGN- The former czar of Russia, and tho members of his immediate family are impoverished iu their captivity i t Dinbler castle, according to a specia-. correspondent of the Frankfurter Ze tung in the Crimea. The Franco-German agreement for the exchauge of prisoners which has just beeu signed, in addit.n confirming con-firming the arrangement previously made in regard to soldiers, terminates the interment of civilians. Advices from Russia show that Pet-rograd Pet-rograd is afflicted with a desperate food shortage. Social disorder is steadily increasing. Hundreds of "free love" societies and circles are being established in the rich quarters. So confident is the entente of its ability to withstand any drive the Germans can launch that it has been decided not to use the American army until it becomes a complete and powerful pow-erful force, according to a cable summary sum-mary of operations , on the western front, received at Ottawa. In a wireless message to Ambassador Ambassa-dor Joffe at Berlin, the Russian foreign for-eign minister, M. Tchitcherin, instructs the ambassador to "try to obtain from Berlin cessation of every kind of hostility." hos-tility." After a long period of Inactivity, owing to weather conditions, Italian troops on the mountain front executed a brilliant operation Saturday night, capturing the dominating position of Monte Corno, destroying an elaborate system of enemy defenses and taking many prisoners and guns. Italy's contribution to the reserve army General Foch is building up behind be-hind the lines in France for supreme emergency uses numbers nearly a quarter, of a million men, official dispatches dis-patches say, and the force is being strengthened steadily. German submarine operations from the harbor of Ostend, Belgium, have been seriously hampered for a time, if not rendered impossible, by a daring raid upon the harbor by the British Friday morning. As part of the practice of commandeering comman-deering labor, the German military authorities in Belgium have registered all youths above thirteen in the region of Mons and are employing many between be-tween 14 and 17 in digging and grading close to the- trenches north of Verdun and near St. Mihiel, the American sector. sec-tor. The British navy has completed its operations for the bottling up of the German submarine mouths on the Belgian Bel-gian coast by the sinking of the scarred old cruiser Vindictive, stuffed with concrete, at the entrance to Ostend Os-tend harbor. The promptness with which the American Am-erican Red Cross commission in France complied with a request for food for 500,000 refugees gathered at St. timer (luring the recent German drive, has elicited a message of thanks from Premier Clciiienceau. The Lloyd-George ministry won a notable victory in the house of commons com-mons May 9. P.y a vote : 29.'! to KM! the house voted down a motion Introduced Intro-duced by Former Premier Asquilh providing pro-viding for Die appoiiilinenl of special committee to investigate charges made by Major General Frederick P.. Maurice, Mau-rice, recently relieved of his post of chief director of military operations at I lie war office. A large; German patrol attempled to rush the American positions on the Plainly front during T! ursilny night but was driven oft Willi heavy losses |