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Show D History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed ' I INTERMOUNTAIN. A quarter of a million pounds of wool were contracted for at Dillon, iftlont., at 30 cents or better by Boston Bos-ton buyers. Thirty cents is the highest high-est price ever paid for wool in Beaverhead Beav-erhead county, the biggest -wool-growing region of the sta'e. Jim Cutler, sheep herder, taken into custody in connection -with the recent a-ohbery of passengers on L nion Pa-jrlll-o train No. 18 near Rock Springs, 'Wye, has been released from custody. The Interstate commerce commission commis-sion has decided that the present rate adjustment of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle and other railways In reaching reach-ing Seattle, Tacoma and Astoria in favor of those cities on Puget sound. Wade Malotte, 25 years old, whose errest was sought by federal officers on suspicion of trafficking in opium, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded wound-ed (by C. W. Shores, chief of .police, t Salt Lake, while resisting arrest. In a pistol duel between Cal Hickel, a bartender, and Clem Morrison, an oil man, in a saloon at Evanston, Wyo., Hickel was instanlly killed and Morrison Mor-rison mortally wounded. , E. G. Peterson, A. M., Ph D., director direc-tor of the extension division of the Utah Agricultural college, at Logan, Titan, will succeed Dr John A. Widtsoe ns president of the college. G. IT. Edmund, wanted in Colorado on a charge of having murdered a national guard officer there during the coal miners' strike, must return to that state and face trial, according to a decision of the supreme court. DOMESTIC. Crazed iby domestic troubles, It is eaid, Mrs. Veronica Polski, aged 35, at Kewanee, Ills., during the absence of her husband and three sons, locked her two daughters, aged 5 and 7, in a room, set fire to their clothing and then touched a match to her own garments. gar-ments. All three burned to death. The Iowa Equal Suffrage association associa-tion and the Iowa Men's League for Equal Suffrage Sunday announced that they will Ibegin imimediately to raise a fund of $25,000 in this state to he used in. the campaign for equal suffrage, Avhlch will tie voted on in Iowa June 5. One man is dead at New York City end another is missing as the result of a compressed air (blowout in a sub-iray sub-iray under construction 100 feet below be-low the surface of the East river. -. Tho production of 35.316 pounds of ibutter in seven days .by a registere'd Holstein cow owned Iby Dr. J. G. Whitney Whit-ney of Montpelier, Vt, was declared by officials of the Vermont state experiment ex-periment station to (be a world's record rec-ord for a one-week test. Dwight B. Stephens, sheriff of Luna county, N. M., was killed and a deputy sheriff, Buck Sevier, seriously wounded wound-ed in a 'battle at Rincon, N. M., with five fugitives who previously had escaped es-caped from the jail at Deming. The new plant of the Federal Dye-stuffs Dye-stuffs & Chemical company at King-port, King-port, Tenn., was destroyed by fire late Friday. The plant was used for the 'manufacture of muntions of war, and was erected at a cost of many millions mil-lions of dollars. Arthur McKenzie, aged 20, was acquitted ac-quitted on arraignment of the charge of murdering his father at Cleveland, O. McKenzie said his father came home intoxicated and struck Mrs. McKenzie, Mc-Kenzie, whereupon the son knocked him down. Physicians found the father dead with a broken neck. Hans Schmidt was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison on February IS for the murder of Anna Aumuller, September Septem-ber 2, 1912. Schmidt went quietly to jthe death chamber. The Rev. Morton Culver Hartzell, widely known as a crusader against ;the old-time tenderloin districts in Chicago, died at Pasadena, Cal. Arthur K. Stearns, attorney and member of the Illinois state senate, and thirteen other relatives, who joined him in a second attack on the will of the late John E. Beale, retired oil man of New York and Chicago, lost ftheir contest in the superior court at ,Santa Barbara, Cal. 1 Information regarding an alleged plot to dynamite the AnUcriean Car & Foundry company's plant at Detroit has resulted in the detention by the police of two men who were formerly employed 'by that company. , David R. Francis, former secretary of the interior and former governor (Of Missouri, is understood to be un-4lvr un-4lvr serious consideration for the appointment ap-pointment as ambassador to Russia to succeed George T. Marye. who has (resigned because of ill health. The government of Greece has been transferring millions of dollars of its funda from London to Now York within with-in a, few mouths, according to New ;Vork bankers, who estimate that $75.-000. $75.-000. 000 of Greek funds are now on deposit de-posit in a large number of banks in New York. i Tho interstate commerce commission commis-sion has no right, to examine correspondence corre-spondence between shippers and r.iil-. r.iil-. .road companies, according to a decision de-cision rendered by Judge William C. 'Van Fleet in the United States dh'-.trict dh'-.trict court at San Francisco. Ignatius T. Lincoln, the self-corw fessed German spy, who escaped from the custody of a federal deputy marshal mar-shal on January 18 and has since been openly defying the United States officials, offi-cials, was recaptured Sunday on the streets of New York. A bill providing for compulsory workingmen's insurance against non-employment non-employment has been introduced in the Massachusetts legislature. The bill specifies that workers, employees and the state be compelled to contribute con-tribute to the insurance. Mystery surrounds the illness of thirty-five persons who were compelled to ask for medical attention after attending at-tending a church supper in Carnegie, near Pittsburg. Tumultuous scenes occurred in Oklahoma Okla-homa house of representatives on Friday Fri-day while the members were voting on a section of an election law designed de-signed to take the place of the famous "grandfather clause." Several fist fights .occurred. WASHINGTON. Postmaster General Burleson has authorized extension, of the postal savings sav-ings system, to Alaska. This completes the installation of the service at all the important outlying possessions of the United States coming within the jurisdiction of the United States postal service. The proposal to amend the income tax laws so as to include smaller incomes in-comes is virtually certain to be abandoned aban-doned in favor of an increased rate on those already taxed, it is declared by Democratic house leaders. The state department has been advised ad-vised that the steamer China of the China Mail Steamship company's line was held up by a British warship in the Pacific and thirty-eight passengers taken off and made prisoners. A $52,757,000 emergency appropriation appropria-tion for immediate necessary repairs of machinery in battleships, torpedo-boat torpedo-boat destroyers and submarines, to increase in-crease the supply of mines and, for the 'first time, to equip ' ibattleships with anti-aircraft guns, is asked of congress 'by Secretary Daniels. The senate has, by a vote of 65 to 18, ratified the long pending and. persistently persist-ently opposed Nicarauguan treaty, whereby the United States would acquire ac-quire a ninety-nine year option on the Nicaraguan canal route and a naval base in the gulf of Fonseca for $3,000,000. FOREIGN. Four German seaplanes on Sunday made a raid over the east and southeast south-east coasts of England. The total casualties cas-ualties are given as two men and one boy killed and one iniarine wounded'. Considerable material damage was done. The Roumanian government, according ac-cording to the Bucharest correspondent correspond-ent of the Times, has asked parliament parlia-ment to pass a law prohibiting tho export ex-port of all cereals in order to make secure se-cure a supply for internal consumption. consump-tion. The proposed plan of aiding Belgium to feed herself by rehabilitating the industries of the country under control of the American commission for relief of Belgium has failed because the Germans Ger-mans thus far have failed to reply to the request for guarantees that raw materials and manufactured goods will not be seized 'by the occupying armies. Patrols of Greeks and Bulgarians fought a sharp engagement near Doi-ran Doi-ran after the Bulgarians crossed the frontier, according to a Reuter Salon-iki Salon-iki dispatch. New votes of credit amounting to approximately 400,000,000 will be asked by Premier Asquith in the house of commons. The new votes will bring up the total of war appropriations appropria-tions to 2,062,000,000. Reuter's Cairo correspondent says that many eastern tribes of Bedouins are seeking protection of the British authorities, owing to a violent dispute betw:een the western and eastern tribes, which are hereditary enemies. It is reported at Havre that Adolph Max, former burgomaster of Brussels, w ho was arrested by . the Germans shortly after the outbreak of the war and later taken to Germany, has been liberated and sent to Switzerland, where he now is. While it is semi-officially estimated in Petrograd that 100,000 Turks and 1,000 guns were taken by the Russians at Erzerum, late advices state that a portion, at least, of the Turkish army has escaped. Young married men who have not enlisted are soon to receive the attention atten-tion of the war office, says a London dispatch. All single men who attested under the Earl of Derby's plan have been called upon. Erzerum, Turkey's chief city in Armenia, Ar-menia, is in the hands of the Russians. Rus-sians. Heavy assaults by the Russians Rus-sians against the long line of detached de-tached forts protecting the city lasted last-ed over a period of five days. The allied powers signatory to the treaty guaranteeing the Independence and neutrality of Belgium have decided decid-ed to renew the agreement not to end hostilities until , the political and economic eco-nomic independence of Belgium is reestablished re-established and the nation is indemnified indemni-fied for the damage suffered. Official figures of the French customs cus-toms service during Janaury, issued Thursday, show total imports of 610,-0?3.0''0 610,-0?3.0''0 francs, an increase of 277,532,-000 277,532,-000 francs over January, 1915. Exports Ex-ports were 201,000.000 francs,, an increase in-crease of 4S.000.000 francs. Wi'h two years' supply on hand, both, for domestic consumption and manufacture for export. British tobacco to-bacco importers are not greatly worried wor-ried over the order prohibiting importations, im-portations, but they are all speculating speculat-ing as to what effect it will have ,r;:on American growers. |