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Show History of Past Week M'C.WIW. ) Mill lAJ !WW,MSaiU.l;JrVI ajra-rraMisririjritgn.msiMH- B M umm The News Happenings of I Seven Days Paragraphed o- m INTERMC'JNTAIN. Acting Governor Louis F. Hart signed a bill passed by the Washington j legislature Intended to restore the death penalty in Washington for first-degree first-degree murder. The bill is subject, to referendum for ninety days. The hist legal execution in Washington was on February 25, 1011. More than 100 natives of Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Holland were forever denied the right to become citizens of the United States by Judge Stapleton at Portland. These men, it was shown, when America was at war withdrew their first papers and churned churn-ed their rights as aliens as an excuse for not going to war. Thirty-eight prominent Colorado Republicans Re-publicans have filed articles of incorporation in-corporation with the secretary of state of the "Leonard Wood Republican cluo of Colorado," the object being to promote pro-mote the candidacy of the commander of the'eentral department of the army for the Republican nomination for president next year. Albert J. Perry, a naval aviator, announced an-nounced at Spokane that he has been ordered to report shortly at Cape May, N. J., to act as chief engineer of a dirigible balloon with which it Is planned plan-ned to attempt a trip across the Atlantic At-lantic ocean under government direction. direc-tion. Sixty per cent of the men of the 10 1st infantry of the Sunset division, national guardsmen, who entered the service as members of the second Washington, were casualities, either killed or wounded in varying degrees. Air gun riveters, silent in the Seattle shipyards for weeks, on March 12 started the prelude to the great industrial indus-trial reopening that will again be heard along Elliott bay here when the yards get into full action again. DOMESTIC. The first organized action to evade the daylight saving law was taken at Torre Haute, Intl., when committees representing 5000 miners of the Indiana In-diana field decided not to recognize the law. Three persons are reported killed and several others injured in a tornado tor-nado in Kingfisher county, Oklahoma. Colonel George Harvey, editor of the North American Review, in an address before a gathering of bankers at Chicago, Chi-cago, declared the league of nations covenant as drawn "is doomed to fail-, fail-, ure," but that "the substance of the plan has not been and will not be abandoned." Roar Admiral William Taylor, chief of the naval bureau of construction and repairs, announced at New York that the navy would be ready to attempt at-tempt the flight by heavier than air craft axross the Atlantic ocean within a month. More than $100,000 worth of property prop-erty was destroyed by the tornado which swept over a portion of Saunders) Saun-ders) County, Nebraska, killing one person per-son and injuring several others. It is reported that five Mormon residents res-idents of Mexico have been made prisoners pris-oners by Francisco Witt and Felipe Angeles at El Valle, Chihuahua, and were last seen in custody of Villa tri ops going toward Namiquipa. A tornado which swept over Malmo and Colon, Neb., caused -the death of one, the probable fatal injury of two others and considerable propery damage dam-age in the limited district through which it swept. Action by the peace conference to eliminate race prejudice, which he termed "a fruitful source of discontent discon-tent and uneasiness among nations in the past," was urged by Viscount Isliji, Japanese ambassador to the United States, speaking before the Japan society at New York. Fear that action of the peace commission com-mission in restricting Germany's army to a small unit of volunteers and abolishing abol-ishing the conscription system may operate against proposed universal military training in the United Slates has been aroused among advocates advo-cates of universal training in this country. Commandeering by the government of a fleet of harbor craft sufficient to restore traffic in New York's strikebound strike-bound harbor to normal conditions, has been decided on by officials of the army, navy and United States shipping board, according to apparently apparent-ly authentic reports. Joe Walker, a negro, charged with having shot a watchman at Greenville, Flit., was seized by a mob and shot to death March 12, while being taken to Madison, Fla., for safe keeping. Restriction of Immigration into Palestine Pal-estine to 50,0(X) a year during the first period of development of the new Jewish Jew-ish commonwealth set up under ltrit-Ish ltrit-Ish trusteeship lias been decided upon by the Interallied Zionist conference In Ixmdon. , "If the present league of nations plan Is adopted, (treat Britain will rule Hie league and I object, to America's In-coining :i;c;iln a subsidiary country to the I'.ritlsb Isles," declared United Sliite.: Senator Fiill of New M-xh-o, in :h!'!t.' -';" t!i- I'liambiT of rom-i rom-i ' ' I : pi-niie. I The fourth state legislature of New Mexico adjourned sine die at 2 o'clock Sunday morning, fourteen hours after the limitation fixed by the constitution. Disagreement over the general appropriation appro-priation bill caused the delay in adjournment. ad-journment. Organization of the Association Opposed Op-posed to National Prohibition is announced an-nounced at New York with the avowed "prime purpose" of making the eighteenth amendment to the constitution consti-tution "forever inoperative." Robert Livingston of Los Angeles, convicted by court martial for desertion deser-tion and evading the selective draft, wiis sentenced to ten years in military prison and his sentence has been approved ap-proved by the proper authorities. Mrs. Mary I. King, was bound over for trial at the June term of the dls-I dls-I trict court at Garnett, Kans., on a charge of killing her husband, N J. King, a well known stockman. WASHINGTON. Maintenance of more employment bureaus than the fifty-six determined upon when the federal employment service was ordered reduced because of lack of funds will he made possible by cooperation of volunteer workers, Director General Densmore announces. Recess appointments announced, at the White house included : Miss Effie A. Frisbee to be register of the land office at Juneau, Alaska, and Mrs. Lulu Hurley of Elko, New, and T. D. Rodriguez of La Mesa, N. M., to be receivers of public moneys. Senator Borah of Idaho, who will be chairman of the committee on labor in the next senate, is quoted as declaring that the government must, without delay, de-lay, formulate a definite labor policy, and, incident to a reorganization of co-relationship co-relationship between capital and labor, labor must be given a direct interest in the industry in which employed. Car and locomotive builders were told by Director General Hines that means would be found to finance the railroads' and contemplated big purchases pur-chases of rolling stock. He emphasized empha-sized that there was no cause foV alarm among industries affected. A brand new political party to be known as the "Liberal party" Is' preparing pre-paring to make its debut in the next presidential campaign according to advance agents who have interviewed members of congress. It will seek to nominate candidates in opposition to both the Republican and Democratic nominees. FOREIGN. The German delegates to the conference con-ference at Brussels regarding the taking tak-ing over by the allies of the -German mercantile fleet and the provisioning of Germany, on March 14 definitely accepted the conditions imposed by the allies. . Thirty persons were killed and forty wounded at Sungehun, Korea, on March 4, according to a translation of an account of the disorders in that country published in a Japanese newspaper news-paper at Seoul and translated by the Reuter's agency. A concurrent resolution introduced into the territorial legislature asks that the president appoint to federal offices in Hawaii only men who have resided there for at least one year. Seven hundred and twenty-nine persons per-sons were killed and 1754 were injured in aerial attacks by allied forces on German territory up to November 6, 1018, according to official figures made public in Berlin, Leo Jogisches, one of the editors of the Red Flag and a prominent communist com-munist leader, has been shot down in Moabit jail while resisting the prison guard. Jogisches was arrested in a street demonstration. Five hundred officers and enlisted men of the American expeditionary forces have taken live first action at Paris towards the formation of an association as-sociation of veterans of the world-war similar to the Grand Army of the Republic. If President Wilson insists that the league of nations be incorporated In the preliminary peace treaty, the British, Brit-ish, it is. understood, will concede the point, although they still believe that the preliminary pact is not the proper place for the inauguration of the league, which, they declare, should be included in the final peace pact. The Finnish government has informed inform-ed the Polish government at Warsaw by wireless, that it recognizes the Independence In-dependence of Poland. Nine sailors are reported drowned in the sinking of the American naval transport Yselhaven, which struck a mine at 1:35 o'clock Friday morning, according to a report-to Lloyd's. The Yselhaven was bound from Baltimore to Copenhagen. The German submarine U-48, while attempting to escape from Ferrol, Spain, on March 14, was chased by a destroyer and sunk, according to a Ilavas' dispatch from Madrid. The Russian soviet government with a view to promoting a plan for a worldwide world-wide communist revolution has appointed ap-pointed a new minister to bo known as "international commissary," according accord-ing to a Helsingfors dispatch to the Mall, quoting advices from Moscow. Germany in consideration of a deposit de-posit of 11,000,000 in gold at Brussels, will receive an Immediate delivery of 270,000 tons of foodstuffs, according to a Berlin version of the agreement colored co-lored into between the German delegates dele-gates and representatives of the allied powers at Brussels. Another attempt has been made ! against the life of Nikolai Lenine, the ' Russian Bolshevist; premier, at Mos-' Mos-' cow, according In reports received hero. Shots were firod ill. Lenine, but In- was not Injured. 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