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Show n History of PastWeek " i m -r irv tti i i r rinr rr rr rr nn it The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o INTER MOUNTAIN. The federal charge against W. II. Kaufman of liel I inglia m. coiiviclcil lasi year of .seditious ill I erances, was dismissed dis-missed at Taconm on motion of tin assistant I'liiletl . Stales a 1 1 orney. Kaufman, al'ler being senlenceil to serve five years in a federal prison, appealed. Domestic ill I ercal ions in the home of Tony Kruno ended in the dynamiting of the Standard hotel al Stilt Lake, when four persons were seriously injured in-jured and five olhers wounded. The police are looking for Bruno, believing be placed the dynamite. Due to wet weather and the fruitgrowers fruit-growers being unable to obtain baskets it is estimated that fully 100 cars of peaches will go to waste in Utah county, Utah. I'erniission to shelter the families of drouth-stricken farmers in Fort Assiniboine this winter while the men are away earning a living, or until another crop is harvested, was extended ex-tended to the Hill county farm bureau by the state board of education at its-nrieeting at Helena. Forest lii-es in the Clearwater region, re-gion, which swept through the woods of northern Idaho, directly across the Bitter Koot mountains from Missoula, have been stopped to such an extent that they probably will be prevented from burning valuable timber stands. President Wilson will review the Pacific Pa-cific fleet a I. Keatlle at 4 p. m. September Sep-tember 1,'!, according to telegrams from Secretary Tumulty received by chairmen chair-men of Seattle's presidential and fleet welcome committees. DOMESTIC. President Wilson spent Sunday in Les Moines, Iowa. In the morning he went with Mrs. Wilson to the Central Presbyterian church, where he heard a sermon by the Kev. Frank Chalmers McKeen, one of his students at Princeton, Prince-ton, and in tbe afternoon he took n long motor ride through the Iowan capital. James W. Osborne, who gained great prominence as a prosecutor while assistant district attorney of New York, was found dead in bed at his home in New York. j Mrs. Adelaide F. Timmons, daughter of the late Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president of the United States, has filed suit at Indianapolis asking that tbe will of her father be set aside on the ground that her father was of unsound mind at the time the document was executed and that it was procured through undue influences. in-fluences. The actors' strike, which started nearly four weeks ago in New York and resulted in the closing of nearly 00 theatres in New York and other cities, was called off September 6, under an agreement which was de- clared to be virtually a complete victory vic-tory for the Actors' Equity association. associa-tion. ' The total number of deaths in the recent race riots at Chicago was brought to thirty-eight when Samuel Harnett, colored, died of wounds he received In a riot fight. Application of the principles of the league of nations covenant to the Mexican Mex-ican situation has been indorsed by the American Federation of Labor, through its executive council. Warning Mexicans that intervention by the United Slates is imminent, General Gen-eral Salvador Alvarado, one of the leaders in the errnnz.a . movement throughout its course, has addressed nn open letter to Carranza himself and Generals Ohregon and Gonzales, in which he arraigns conditions in Mexico Mex-ico in scathing fashion. President Wilson has agreed to undertake un-dertake to bring about a conference between be-tween representatives of the steel workers and of the United States Steel corporation, in an effort to avert a threatened strike. One policeman was dangerously wounded, another injured, and three of their alleged assailants were wounded in a downtown street skirmish at Kansas Kan-sas City. The twenty-first annual national convention of the United Spanish War Veterans ended at San Francisco with Mie re-election of William Jones of New York as commander In chief and the selection of St. Louis as the 1020 (onvenlion city. In a declaration of principles adopted adopt-ed at Chicago the national socialist party umiualifiedly endorsed the soviet so-viet republic of Russia anil the international inter-national socialist movement and contemned con-temned the league of nations. Immediate resumption of business relations with Germany and Austria was advocated Thursday by Elbert 11. Gary, cbejrman of the board of directors di-rectors r.f the United States Steel corporation, cor-poration, in an address before the annual an-nual meeting of the American Bar as-sociat as-sociat ion. High tribute was paid to the chem-Isls chem-Isls of America for the important part they played in the war by Newton D. Raker, secretary of war, at the fifty-eiglilh fifty-eiglilh annual convention of the American Chemical society at Phila tleliihia. The first organized movement to re-eslahlish re-eslahlish trade relations between Ameriran iiianiit'ari n rers anil- Swiss importers will lake practieal effect Willi lie- arrival al New York of a Swiss eeuniiiiiie mission. Fanners in Iowa anil i lier ruru belt , stales have been warned by the ile-: ile-: parlmeiii of agriculture to beware of ! speciilaiin-s who have created a land ! lciiilil in those slates. 1 Sie,s for ibe calling of a new inter-; inter-; national Socialisi congress in unite the radical forces of the world were taken al tin' closing session of the national So. -bills! party at Chicago. The plan i is to hold the congress at Ihe earliest dale practicable, in either New York . or t 'hicago. WASHINGTON. Upon his retirement Saturday from ! I lie civil service commission, Charles : M. Gallow ay issued a sta I emeu t decla r-ing r-ing ilial lie and Herman W. (.'raven, the Republican member of rhe commission, com-mission, w ere "ousted." The report of the secret interview on the Irish question which Edward F. Dunne and Frank P. Walsh had with President Wilson in Paris on June 11, has been filed with the foreign relations rela-tions committee by Mr. Walsh. The prohibition enforcement bill was passed by the senate w ithout a record vote, and virtually in Ihe form if came from committee. The measure now goes to conference .for discussion of amendments inserted in the house bill by the senate. The house has passed a senate bill appropriating $7800 to pay claims of Colorado people for firearms taken from them by United States Iroops in 101 i during the labor troubles in that stale. William C. Kedfield. secretary of commerce, has tendered his resignation resigna-tion to President Wilson and it has been accepted, effective November 1. Secretary Baker has promised an investigation of reported abuses inflicted in-flicted upon conscientious objectors imprisoned at Fort Douglas, Utah. Before leaving Washington on his speech-making tour, President Wilson wrote a letter to the presidents of seven national organizations representing represent-ing labor, farming and financial interests in-terests calling upon them to select delegates to tbe capital and labor con-j con-j ference which he hits called to meet in Washington on October 6. j FOREIGN, i Lord Charles Beresford died Satur-' Satur-' day night at the home of the Duke of ! Portland, Berriedale, near Caithness, i Scotland, where he had been staying for some time. Advices from Moscow say M. Tchit-! Tchit-! cherin has sent a note to the Persian government notifying it that the Rus- sian government does not recognize (he Anglo-Persian treaty. The Ulsterites have decided to send a group of speakers from Ireland to America to combat the home rule movement and in addition much literature litera-ture is being prepared for circulation in the United States.. . Soldiers returning from the Methodist Method-ist church at Dublin were attacked by twenty men firing point blank. One soldier was killed and four were wounded. Eighteen of the soldiers' rifles were captured by the assailants. Dispatches from Vienna indicate that the Austrian government will sign the peace treaty in the next week or ten days. The cabinet has voted in favor of acceptance of the treaty by tbe national assembly. Ahmed Mirza, Shah of Persia, arrived ar-rived at Montreaux, Switzerland, traveling trav-eling incognito from Italy. One of his secretaries told the correspondent that the shah would remain in Europe at least six months, visiting Paris and London before going to America. France paid a lasting tribute to America's active entry into the great war by laying the cornerstone of a monument at I'ointe de Grave, commemorating com-memorating the landing of the first: j contingent of American troops in 1017. According to Odessa reports, the ' Bolshevist barbarities there have ex-I ex-I ceeded the record in any olher place, j Several hundred workmen have been j shot for refusing to submit to the ; order for a general mobilization, and I two hundred mercantile seamen have j been shot for protesting against the I order. General Louis Franchet D'Esperey, who commanded the allied forces in (lie near cast, arrived at Saloniki from Constantinople and received an on- ' tiuisiastic reception from the popula- j tion. Delegates representing 110,000 farmers farm-ers in central and western France, in session at Paris, protested against "arbitrary "ar-bitrary measures to reduce the cost of living of which the fanners are alone the victims," denounced all "measures "meas-ures for fixing prices, real or dis- guised." j Marshal Foch, the allied commander-I commander-I In-chief, has decided upon the extent I of the territory in the Khinelnnd to I be held permanently by American j forces. Its area will be twice as large I as that which has been under Ameri- can jurisdiction since the last combat j division left for home. ! Fourleen bundled Polish soldiers i who came to the American area for lie purpose of transporting lo Poland (MOO horses and mules wnicb were purchased pur-chased from the United Slates army are being held up indefinitely near Cob-lenz Cob-lenz by Germany's refusal to undertake under-take supervision of haulinif troops and animals across Germany by rail. A bomb was thrown at Hussein Rushed Pasha, premier of Egypl, at Alexandria. The bomb was concealed in a basket of grapes, but did no injure in-jure the premier. His assailant v.Lit a theological student. |