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Show n History of i Past Week 1 The News Happenings of j Seven Days Paragraphed & Cj 'Colonel John B. Villon, one of the lust surviving members of the famous band of Jayhawkers ho left Oalos-burg, Oalos-burg, Ills., in 1 S 4!J for California via Knit Lake City and who nearly perished per-ished in Ilea III valley, died, aged S-S, in a hospital at lirand Island, Neb., hint week of an injure' received on the train while en route to his farm in western Nebraska. Assurance ilmt amount neces sary for the purchase of the site of the birthplace of Theodore Jtoosevelt in New York has been raise I was contained con-tained in an announcement made by the Women's Roosevelt Memorial as-j as-j socia I ion. Acting on orders of Mayor H. L. I)avis, prohibiting importation of strikebreakers, the police escorted out of Cleveland 82 men who were arrested arrest-ed Wednesday. The men said they were brought to Cleveland to work in steel plants. INTER MOUNTAIN. Attributing their aelion o the rise in the price of flour, milk and shortening, short-ening, members of the Portland Master Mas-ter Makers' assocu I ion have announced an-nounced a return to 9 cents fur the pound loaf of bread anil 1.'! cents for .the I 'a poiinil loaf. Three Umatilla farmers who own wheal land lit Lacrosse, Ore., sold HOIK) Hacks hard wheat last week for $'2A ii bushel, a record for hard wheat in Unit section. Senator Miles I'uinilcxler of Washington Wash-ington has made ilircct announcement announce-ment of lijs Intention to seek the lie-publican lie-publican presidential nomination in 1920. The cargo carrier Sundance, named In honor of Wyoming's work in the Liberly loan drives, was launched Saturday Sat-urday at Hog Island. Miss Rosa Ma.ve Kcndrick, daughter of Senator and Mrs. J. It. Kcndrick of Wyoming, was the sponsor. Charging that the Union Pacific . ... railroad company is confiscating commercial com-mercial shipments of coal anil storing this against the threatened coal strike Coventor Carey has telegraphed a protest against such action to Director Ocnernl Ilinos of the railroad admin-is! admin-is! rat ion. Declaring that the system in vogue in most of the penitentiaries of America Amer-ica is wasteful, extravagant, inefli-cient inefli-cient and inhumane, tin organization has been formed at Seattle for the purpose of bringing about necessary changes in these institutions. Monsignor .lames Kauw, vicar general gen-eral of the diocese of Oregon and superintendent su-perintendent of the boys' orphanage at St. Mary's home, near Reaverton, Ore-Kiu, Ore-Kiu, (lied after an extended illness. He wits Co years old. DOMESTIC. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has issued a formal statement, with the approval of the full membership of bis cabinet, declaring declar-ing the projected strike of bituminous bitumin-ous coal miners under present circumstances circum-stances "not only unjustifiable, it is unlawful." "We shall not lack the means of carrying the president's anti-coal strike decision into effect," asserts Attorney General Palmer. "Under both war and peace laws there is ample ground for prosecution of persons striking so terrible ter-rible a blow at public welfare as would be involved in the closing of the coal mi ties." A world-wide swing toward the 8-hour 8-hour day and 48-hour week will be the chief topic of the intenational labor conference at Washington under the terms of the peace treaty. Congress extended to the widow of former President Roosevelt the customary cus-tomary mail franking privileges, the bill having passed the seirate and now going to the president. Exclusion from congress of Victor L. Bergei', Socialist representative-elect representative-elect from Wisconsin, for disloyalty to bis country, was recommended to the house by a vote of 8 to 1 of the special, committee which investigated his right to a seat. A dramatic appeal by Secretary of Labor Wilson, himself a miner, prevented pre-vented temporarily an open break between be-tween miners and operators, almost ready to go home after failing to settle set-tle the strike of 500,000 soft coal miners' min-ers' set for November 1. Disorder, which at times closely approached ap-proached rintlisg, marked the resumption resump-tion of street car service in Knoxville, . Tenn.. Sunday, with non-union men luanning the cars after a tie-up of eight days due to n strike. Several pei-sons were injured, none seriously. Troops jinvo l)! i'.'H called out. The official announcement comes ; from San Diego that Lieutenant Cecil H. Connolly of San Diego and Freder- Lick B. Water-house of Weiser, Idaho, army aviators missing since August gl, were slain in Lower California by two Mexican fishermen. Information has reached Laredo, Texas, that a general strike in the Orizaba district of the Mexican state of Vera Cruz has paralyzed industry. , The entire estate of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who died at his homo in Oyster Bay on January 0, I, 0 10, valued nt the time of his ilea that th-at .$81 0,007, goes to ltU Widow, Mrs. Edith Kerlnit Roosevelt, according to affidavits filed by Ooorge Emlin Roosevelt, one of the executors. The international conference of women wo-men physicians, which for six years has been holding sessions at New York adjourned Friday. The convention went on record as favoring "educational "educa-tional and economic conditions which make early monogamous marriage possible." pos-sible." Another resolution denounced "'"regulation of vice." The last government effort to avert the conl strike set for November 1 failed utterly, and 500.000 miners will quit work on the very eve of winter, with the nation's bins running dangerously danger-ously low. Eric P. Yerrill. a former army officer, offi-cer, who recently pleaded guilty to having defrauded the government out of .S02.090. was sentenced to six years in the Atlanta, penitentiary. Twenty-three mariners, rescued from four ships sunk in storms which swept the Atlantic during the last two weeks, were brought into New York by the vessels which picked them up or to which they bad been transferred. Loans made to cattle growers in the southwest to aiil them during last - ' year's drouth have been called in by the war finance corporation for payment pay-ment November 15. The amount outstanding out-standing October IS was .$".182,340. FOREIGN. A majority of those killed near Krunoyitz, Silesia, when a passenger train collided with a freight train and took fire, were alcohol smugglers, fifty of the smugglers being burned to death. After declaring his belief that suicide sui-cide in a public place would be the best means of calling attention to the fact that the high cost of living means starvation star-vation to army pensioners, Jean Stina, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian war, Ji.urled himself to tleath from the Arc de Trlomplie, at Paris. The Svenska Dagbtadet learns from what it considers an unusually well-informed well-informed source that the Archduke Joseph of Austria will soon be elected king of Hungary. A meeting of business men and Sieainship agents, held at Panama, considered plans for establishing bonded bond-ed warehouses at Panama and Colon to facilitate the movement and selling of supplies. Failure of the municipality of Xeres to pay the municipal doc-tors their salaries sal-aries may precipitate a strike by all the doctors in the province of Seville, Spain. Gen. Francisco Gonzales, commander of the Juarez garrison, until six years ago a laborer, has been appointed governor gov-ernor of the State of Taniaulipas by the Mexican senate at Mexico City. So acute has become the rice situation situa-tion in the Philippine islands during the four weeks that the government has placed an embargo on all stocks of the cereal in the achipelago, and is attempting to import 3000 tons of rice. England is suddenly faced by the possibility of a change of government, or dissolution of parliament, owing to the quite unexpected defeat of the government in the house of commons by a majority of 72. Premier Hughes has told Australians Austra-lians that if they want trade relations with Germany they had better get a new premier. The announcement comes from London Lon-don that Earl Curzon has been appointed ap-pointed foreign secretary in succession to Arthur J. Balfour. Mr. Balfour retires after almost half a century of public service. King Albert of the Belgians and Queen Elizabeth arrived in New York October 2-1. Their arrival completed a journey of S."99 miles across the continent con-tinent and back in 20 days. Although Lieut. B. W. Maynard was the first to complete the transcontinental transcontin-ental air race. ('apt. J. O. Donaldson made the flight in about ten hours less flying time, according to the latest calculation. Thirteen men were badly biirned, two of them dying, when fumes from a tank exploded on the Standard Oil company's tank steamer William H. Til ford in the yards of the Baltimore Dry Docks and Shipbuilding companies. com-panies. James J. Read, deputy collector of revenue at Aberdeen, Wash., was sentenced sen-tenced to two terms totalling five years in the federal penitentiary and fined 1024 after he hud pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement and extortion throughout western Washington in connection con-nection witli liquor traffic, The condition of Hugo Hasse, leader of the independent socialists, who was shot recently as he was entering the reiehstag, has grown worse since a second operation performed at Berlin. A general strike has been declared at Santos, Brazil. As Santos is the world's greatest coffee port, the strike is expected to affect materially the coffee trade. General Founder, former governor of Mauheuge, is to be tried before a special court-martial on a charge of capitulating to the enemy and surrendering surren-dering Maubeuge. Marshal Foch has informed the Belgian Bel-gian government by telegraph that 40.000 Belgian freight cars have been found on the left bank of the Rhine. Another American citizen has been captured by Mexican bandits and is now being held for ransom, the state department announced Wednesday. He is William O. Jenkins, American consular con-sular agent at Puebla, Mexico. |
