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Show n History of Past Week The News Happenings of J Seven Days Paragraphed " INTER MOUNTAIN. The governor of Utah has issued a -all for volunteers to the national guard. The main business block of Green River, VVyo., was almost entirely wiped out by fire on March 25. The fire is believed to have been caused by the explosion of a defective furnace. Orders have heen issued for the mobilization of national guard infantry in-fantry regiments, one each in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, and three in California, immediately and at full war strength. Resolutions pledging supoprt to President Wilson in the present international inter-national crisis were adopted at a mass meeting of 5,000 Spokane citizens on Sunday, and at an overflow meeting of 3,000 more. Idaho is preparing for war. Double Dou-ble guards have been placed at the great Arrowrock dam, twenty-two miles above the city, upon information informa-tion that a full set .of plans to the dam had been secured by German federal reservists. Word is received from St. Anthony and Idaho Falls, Idaho, that cattle are dying in several localities along the Oregon Short Line railroad running through points in eastern Idaho, because be-cause of the pronounced shortage of hay. "Hurrah for our new allies!" says L. Marcelin, a wel known political writer, in La Liberte. This Is the note taken generally by the French press toward the United States. DOMESTIC. y A national advertising advisory board, headed by Herbert S. Houston, president of the Associated Advertising Advertis-ing Clubs, has heen formed at New York City to formulate definite plans for mobilizing men and money for the suport of the nation through paid advertising. Two persons were drSwned, one fatally injured and one probably fatally fatal-ly hurt, when an ice gorge swept out a bridge over the Keya Paha river at Brocksburg, Neb. Restoration of prehistoric cliff dwellings, comprising the Navajo national na-tional monument and supposed to be the homes of Snake Indians whose descendants de-scendants live in the Hopi villages in " northeastern Arizona, has been order- ed by the Smithsonian institution. Four workmen were killed and1 eleven seriously injured by a prema' ture blast of dynamite in a new subway sub-way being constructed under the East river, near Blackwell'e island, New York. Dr. John Hibben, president of Princeton university, announced at a students' mass meeting at Prhiceton, N. J., that if this country became involved in-volved in war, military training at Princeton would take precedence over all academic work. Manuel Chao, a former Villa general, gen-eral, was taken into custody at El Paso by the police and held for investigation in-vestigation in connection with reports that recruiting for Villa has been carried car-ried on there. WASHINGTON. The president has issued orders to place the country on a war footing. The army, navy and national guard will be recruited to full strength at once. A statement urging that as a pa triotic duty city residents transform their yards into gardens and farmers so diversify their crops as to make each section self-sustaining, has been issued by Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary sec-retary of agriculture. The supreme court's final mandate sustaining penitentiary sentences given F. Drew Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs of Sacramento, Cal., for violating violat-ing the Mann white slave law, was issued is-sued March 25. Division of the United States into six instead of the existing four military mili-tary departments is announced by the war department. The two new departments depart-ments are the Northeastern, comprising compris-ing the New England states, and the Southeastern, comprising the slates in the old south. The' American government has decided de-cided upon sweeping measures to be put into effect following the expected declaration by congress soon after it meets April 2 that a state of war exists ex-ists between the United States and Germany. FOREIGN. It is announced that when the Mexican Mex-ican congress convenes a resolution will be introduced providing for the assumption and payment by the government gov-ernment of foreign debts. These dehts include about $30,000,000 back interest in Mexican National railway bonds and about $40,000,000 arrears in interest on Mexico foreign loans. A deputation of Lithuanians who waited on Foreign Secretary Zimmer-mann Zimmer-mann a few days ago was assured that the German government desired to grant Lithuania self-government at. the conclusion of peace, according to a Berlin dispatch to Reuter's. American relief workers in Belgium and American Minister Brand Whit-lock Whit-lock have been formally withdrawn from Belgium. Negoiations for the release of fifteen fif-teen Belgian relief steamers now at English ports have failed, but a new-effort new-effort mav be made, according to the The death of Colonel C. Chaille Long, who forty years ago as a pasha in the army of the khedive of Egypt led an expedition into unexplored central cen-tral Africa, is announced at Baltimore. Balti-more. He was 77 years old. Theodore Roosevelt in an address at Jacksonville, Fla., said he would have a division of American soldiers in the trenches of 'France within four or five months if given permission by the government. Shipping men at Newport News, Va., say fifty American muleteers were aboard the British steamer Esmaldas, reported sunk hy the German raider Moewe. The agents believe the men were among the prisoners taken to Germany by the raider. Between 45 and 50 persons were killed and probably 100 more were injured in-jured by a storm which swept over New Albany, Ind., demolishing scores of residences and several industrial plants. A German, said to have been armed with two incendiary bombs, was apprehended ap-prehended in the hold of the British steamer Rhydem in port at Galveston, Galves-ton, Texas, by private detectives. One man was killed and fifteen persons per-sons injured when a tornado devastated devas-tated a thickly populated farming district dis-trict south of Carlisle, Ind., on March 24. The storm swept a district of eight miles long and one-half mile wide. Dr. Charles S. Braddock, Jr., widely known as an expert on cholera and Bmallpox, died at his home Friday from the effects of tropical fever contracted in Siam years ago at Haddonfield, N. J. Resolutions pledging loyalty to "our oath, our flag, our country" in the present international crisis were passed pass-ed at a mass meting of 3,000 Polish-American Polish-American citizens at Milwaukee. Food exports from the United States In February were reduced about one-third one-third by Germany's submarine campaign. cam-paign. Private John Poor of the Third company, com-pany, coast artillery corps, died at Portland, Me., from a bullet wound received when he tried to halt two strangers detected near the 12-inch gun batteries at Fort Williams. Samuel Rae, president of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania railroad, told the Interstate commerce commission on March 22 that the rising cost of all commodities had affected the railroads to such an exteru that the situation was "tense," and that immed'ate relief should be given the roads by higher freight rates. Henry Morgenthau of the Americau Jewish relief committee, announces that $10,000,000 must be raised in the United Slates by June 1 if the 3,000,-000 3,000,-000 Jews in the eastern war zone are to be saved from starvation. German naval authorities. The Bulgarian prime minister, Radoslavoff, in a talk with a number of newspaper men, predicted that the world war would end by August, if not earlier. Monsignor Louis Le Graive, vicar general to Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and deported to Germany for sheltering a discharged discharg-ed French soldier for one night, according ac-cording to a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. That the Germans are ready to begin be-gin a gigantic offensive in the Riga region with Petrograd as their objective objec-tive is the fear which has put the provisional pro-visional government at the Russian capital almost in a state of panic. There now is indisputable evidence that the Germans are massing great numhers of troops along the northern front ready for an effort against Russia's Rus-sia's capital. Relying on assurances of the ability of the Cubans to maintain order, the American commander withdrew from Santiago De Cuba on March 25, the last men of the force landed two weeks previous. Reports received by Japanese ship-.ping ship-.ping companies from Singapore indicate indi-cate that a German raider has passed from the Indian ocean into the China sea. Reuter's Corfu correspondent says the Serbian press bureau has Issued a statement that the inhabitants of eastern east-ern Serbia are revolting against the Bulgarians and are organizing bands which are operating in the mountains and forests. The French battleship Danton was torpedoed in the Mediterranean sea on March 19, it was announced officially by the admiralty F'riday night. Two hundred and ninety-six men were lost and 606 were saved by the destroyer Massau and patrol boats. Announcement is made at Berlin that an airplane piloted by Prince Freidrich Jjfarl, a cousin of Emperor William, has not returned from a raid over the lines between Arras and Pe-ronne. Pe-ronne. On his arrival at Tsarskoe-Selo in the custody of four members of the duma, Nicholas Romanoff, the deposed depos-ed emperor, was turned over immediately imme-diately to the Tsarskoe-Selo commander comman-der and taken to the Alexandrovsky palace, where the former Empress Alexadra already was interned. Seventeen thousand criminals in the prison at Kherson overwhelmed the guards on the first day of the revolt re-volt and set free 500 other prisoners held In another wing. Theso men are still at large. No serious trouble has been reported, however. |