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Show o : n History of Past Week J The News Happenings of f Seven Days Paragraphed IMTERMOUNTAIN I'.ulli', Menu., v;is nii uikIit martial law Marrh IT, TdIIhw in lliccals of ilic IViHTc-Cniiinilly chili Id Imi.l st. 1'at-rick's 1'at-rick's day parade, despite prohibitive orders of the mayor. The club is .said to he composed of I. W. W. and pro-II pro-II eriuaiis. Professor Carllou T. I'arkl'r, a mem-hir mem-hir oil the faculty of the University of Washington, who has been coin net in;,' an invest i Lr:i t ion for the government into the wage conditions of the Pacific Northwest, died at, Seattle, March 17, of acute dilation of the heart. He was 10 years of age. The accidental death of Cadet Flyer Howard W. Holaday, 1!4 years old, of I enver, Colo., whose body was found Thursday fifteen miles east of San Antonio, An-tonio, Wits the fourth Hying fatality at training fields there in six: days. Sergeant Arthur Guy Knipey, formerly former-ly of Ogden, Utah, whose book, "Over the Top," gained him considerable notoriety, no-toriety, has deserted the lecture platform plat-form and will donate his personal services serv-ices to the government. v Every inhabitant of Castle Rock, Ore., who was physically fit to get out of doors saluted the American flag on Thursday. The demonstration was arranged ar-ranged by a committee of citizens, following fol-lowing reports that some residents of the town were disloyal. Annie's Tommy and thrte other Go-shute Go-shute Indians, all four arrested recently re-cently by the United States marshal near Deep Creek, Utah, on charges of obstructing the selective service draft, have been held for trial following preliminary pre-liminary examination. I Believing his wife to be dead from poison which she drank following a family quarrel, John W. Springer of Chicago shot himself, dying instantly. Mrs. Springer was rushed to a hospital, where it is said she will recover. W. 1"). Million, international president presi-dent of the organized street railway employes of the United Slates and Canada and the executive board of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes, has warned organized organ-ized street railway employes against I strikes in a statement issued .March 1.1. ! The name of the German hospital of j Kansas Ciiy has been changed to the ilesearch hospital, it was announced Friday by the board of directors, ten of whom were born in Germany and the remainder of German origin. WASHINGTON How the armed guard of the steani-Gernian steani-Gernian submarine on October "0. last, ship I'.ourinipien sank an attacking was disclosed Sunday when Secretary of the Navy Daniels formally commended com-mended the coolness and precise action ac-tion of Chief Gunner's Mate Thomas .1. lleeriuan, U. S. .V, commander of the armed guard. ! Officials itt Washington admit that now is the time for a new and tempting tempt-ing peace offer from Germany. They believe that such an offer will be only bait to lure the entente and the United IStat.es in a Rrest-Litovsk. Plans are understood to be under consideration by the war department for the establishment of three new training schools for reserve officers. One of these schools, it is stated, may be located at 4''t. Riley, Kan., and one at Ft. Leavenworth. The third site suggested is not decided. All coal jobbers, brokers, selling and purchasing agents and wholesale dealers deal-ers were put under license March 16 by President Wilson on recommendation recommenda-tion of Fuel Administrator Garfield, who issued regulations carefully circumscribing cir-cumscribing the charges to be made for their services. Clocks all over the country will be set ahead one hour, beginning March 31, under the so-called daylight saving bill passed by the house, 252 to 40. As a result of a general nation-wide call issued at the first of the year for clerks to hold positions in the government govern-ment service, more than 35,000 persons applied for admission to examinations in Washington on the three examination examina-tion dates so far announced this year, January 5, February 9 and March 9. FOREIGN Severe rioting occurred Saturday night in the nationalist quarter of Belfast Bel-fast between a mob of Sinn Feiners and the police. Many injured were sent to the hospital, including a number num-ber of policemen. In discussing the decision of the entente en-tente allies regarding Dutch shipping, German newspapers declare it will be followed by intensification of submarine subma-rine warfare. Germany is underfeeding her growing grow-ing youth and her young children.'They are falling off in weight ; their strength is deteriorating alarmingly. Tuberculosis Tubercu-losis has doubled among the children entering school and trebled among those ready for confirmation. "Grotesque lies" is the way the Ticcolo Giornale d'ltalia characterizes the latest brand of German propaganda over the Italian lines by German airplanes. air-planes. President Wilson's message of sympathy sym-pathy to the Russian people was received re-ceived with marked applause when it was read at the opening session of the all-Russian congress of Soviets, says a Moscow dispatch. The congress immediately imme-diately adopted a resolution of appreciation. appre-ciation. Peace between Russia and Germany has been ratified. From Moscow comes official word that the vote was 453 to 30. The all-Russian congress of Soviets was under I.enine's pacifist spell from the moment of its convening. Details are lacking, but Trotzky is said to have fought the ratification. "If the enemy do not want peace, they must fight the most tremendous battle of the war on the west front," Quartermaster General Uudendorff declared de-clared in an interview with the Cologne Co-logne Volks Zeitung. The Japanese government will yot act In Siberia without the United States having previous knowledge of what the Tokio government intends, according to advices from Tokio. Esther Cleveland, daughter of the late Grover Cleveland, president of the United States, was married Thursday in Westminster Abbey, London, to Captain W. S. B. Bpsanquet, D. S. ()., of the Coldstream guards, and son of Sir Albert Bosanquet. .t.niericiin troops in the Luneville sector sec-tor have occupied and are holding en-'emy en-'emy trenches northeast of Badonvill-ers, Badonvill-ers, which they forced the Germans to abandon through recent raids and concentrated con-centrated artillery fire. The admiralty reports the loss by mine or submarine of eighteen British merchantmen in the past week and one fishing vessel. Of these fifteen were 1000 tons or over and three under that tonnage. Japan will intervene in Siberia as soon as the result of President Wilson's Wil-son's appeal to the Russian Soviets becomes be-comes apparent. Preferably Japan will act with the approval of the Soviets. P.ut she will uct, if the emergency le-inands le-inands it, without reference io Russian sentiment or lack of sentiment at the moment. John Dillon, member of parliament for East Mayo, was unanimously elected elect-ed chairman of the Nationalist parly,' succeeding Ihe lale John liedinond. The motion to elect Mr. hilhin was made by Joseph I H'vlin. j DOMESTIC The American Red Cross has formed an organization called "The Service of Home Communication" to take charge of activities which will touch every American camp, every soldier in a hospital, hos-pital, every prisoner taken by the Germans, Ger-mans, every American grave in France and the home of every soldier in America. Three thousand Canadian veterans of the war disembarked Sunday at an Atlantic port, from three ocean liners. Four hundred of these men sailed from Canada with the first contingent in 1914 and many of them have been nearly three years on the battle front. All are married and have been given three months' furlough. John H. Capstick, congressman from the Fifth New Jersey district, died tit his home at Montville, N. J., March 17, following a long illness due to heart trouble. Pie was a Republican. Funeral services for Mrs. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, widow of James A. Garfield, twentieth president of the United States, were held tit her winter win-ter home in South Pasadena, March IT. The body was taken to Cleveland, )., for interment. The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week showed that they hold $34,-315,810 $34,-315,810 reserve in excess of legal requirements. re-quirements. This is a decrease of ?20,-847,480 ?20,-847,480 from last week. Wheat holdings at country mills and elevators on March 1 were estimated by the department of agriculture at 08,972,000 bushels. That is about 20,000,000 bushels less than was held March 1 last year, and SU,OUO,000 bushels bush-els less than in 1910. W. A. Greenwood, notorious character charac-ter in Tulsa county, Oklahoma, for years, has been held on a charge of wife murder. His wife was shot and killed in the Greenwood home. Testimony Testi-mony showed that the bullet which caused death entered the back of her head. By a vote of S4 to 34 the lower house of the Texas legislature passed finally the bill permitting women to vote in Texas primary elections. Fifty horses are dead of poisoning in Covington, Ky., and many more are expected to die out of a government shipment' of 720 horses from Camp Grant, Rock ford, 111., consigned to Newport News, Va. Three automobile bandits held up a jewelry store in the center of the business busi-ness district of Hammond, Intl., and escaped with diamonds valued at $18r 000. So completely successful was the launching at a Pacific port on Thursday Thurs-day of the world's largest reinforced concrete ship that her builders announced an-nounced they immediately would begin be-gin construction of fifty-four similar ships of larger size, and expected that all would be completed within eighteen months. Installation of a whipping post for wife beaters and men who decline to support their families was urged by Judges Prindeville, liarasa and Swan- iu of the municipal courts at Chicago before the council subcommittee on rime. A man was shot to death and a 'woman who sat In the same seat with him on a Chicago & Alton train was wounded, perhaps fatally, by her divorced di-vorced husband, C. V. Harris, who then leaped I'ri iil the moving train and escaped es-caped in II approached a milk station Just souli. ol Whitehall, 111. |