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Show e History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o INTERMOJNTAIN. Seattle's shipyards will resume operations oper-ations after having been idle since 25,-000 25,-000 metal trades workers walked out on January 21 on a strike for a higher wage scale. "As lovers of your country and as lovers of mankind, I ask you to use all your influence with our senators to have the treaties embodying the league of nations idea," declared William Wil-liam Howard Taft, former president of the United States, in an address at Helena. Fifty-three alleged radicals, all of Industrial Workers of the World affiliation, affil-iation, have been arrested by city and county authorities as a result of the recent general strike at Seattle. Renunciation of the principles and teachings of the Industrial Workers of the World and a promise to support the constitution of the United States are included in an affidavit filed in superior court at Spokane by James Kevin, convicted last July in police court of violation of the municipal criminal syndicalism ordinance. The president has nominated Hugh C. Wallace of Seattle, ambassador to France, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Graves Sharp. A threatening letter, signed "White Caps" and bearing the drawing of a man's left band, has been received by Mayor W. F. R. Mills of Denver. The letter threatens the life of Mayor Mills if immediate action is not taken to secure se-cure employment for the men of Denver Den-ver now out of work. No clews were found which would lead to the arrest of those guilty of " exploding dynamite under the home of C. H. Nolan, a miner, who had been working at the St. Lawrence mine, at Butte, despite the strike. No one in the Nolan household was injured. DOMESTIC. A general strike of union labor on April 1, the date of the municipal election, elec-tion, for the puii50.se of aiding the new Labor party's ticket, was approved by the Chicago Federation of Labor, which phrased its expression to declare "a day off in making profits for the bosses." Resources of $44,075,273 are shown in the annual report of the general education board, founded by John D. Rockefeller to promote education .in the United States, issued at New York. Sailing as an "argosy of life and hope" to the 4,000,000 destitute people of the Holy Land and other regions of the near east, the steamship Leviathan Le-viathan left New York on SumV.iy for France with the largest contingent of - missionaries, doctors and relief work ers ever sent overseas at one time on such a mission. The American Library association has shipped to soldiers overseas more than 2,000,000 books 650,000 of them since the signing of the armistice it was announced Saturday at New York. G. C. Rankin, 69 years old, well known Republican leader for many years, died in a hospital at Monmouth, 111., after a long illness. Under the administrations of Presidents Roosevelt Roose-velt and Taft he served as general receiver re-ceiver of insolvent banks in the United States. The Union Pacific system will receive re-ceive $"8,052,028 as government compensation com-pensation for rental in 1018, and the Central New England 1,468,12:!, under contracts signed by Director General Hines. The bullet-riddled body of Will Faulkner, a negro, was found hanging to a tree about ten miles north of Shreveport, La. He had been accuse:! of attacking a white woman. Nearly $2,000,000 in counterfeit gold and silver certificates, ranging in denominations de-nominations of from $100 to $1000, was seized by the police Friday in a raid on a richly furnished apartment in New Orleans. Army and naval experts have reported re-ported the device of John Hays Hammond, Ham-mond, Jr., for radio control of surface craft to be sent laden with explosives iigainst enemy ships a success, ami predict similar results with submerged craft showing above water only wire anterinaes. The copper mines of the Jerome, Arizona district closed down February l.'J for a period, the managers said, of from six to eight monlhs, following troubles which started last week, when 1be owners announced a wage cut. of 75 rents a day. Six thousand miners and other workers, with a tributary population estimated at 18,000 more, are affected. Joseph Bollon, a wealthy farmer residing re-siding near Lyons, Kans., shot and Instantly In-stantly killed his wife, and later In the afternoon after a running fight with the sheriffs posse sent, out to apprehend ap-prehend him, committed suicide at the homo of his son, Darwin liolfon, a few miles- away. Horsemen from all parts of the United Slates attended the Park Farm disposal sale held at Springfield, (. Sixly head were sold for .$.'!", 100, many of theni being brood mares and colls, uri'l the properly of the late John inydcr. A call for a "jubilee' convention of suffragists to he held la St. Louis March 24 to 29 has been issued by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage association. i 1 A table showing the number of men I furnished to the srmy by each state during the war has been made public at the war department. New York-led, York-led, with 307,SG4, and Nevada stood last, with 5105 in the total of 8.757,624 men obtained by draft, voluntary enlistment en-listment or through the national guard. Fed by large quantities of rosin am; turpentine, lire of undetermined origin destroyed the plant of the Southern Fertilizer & Chemical company and burned a swath three city blocks at Savannah, Ga. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has cabled a request re-quest to the foreign relations committee commit-tee of congress to defer debate on the proposed league of nations until he had an opportunity to go over it "article "ar-ticle by article" with the members. The sixty-fifth congress has entered upon the final fortnight of its existence with hope of passing all of the almost unprecedented mass of pending legislation legis-lation virtually abandoned by most leaders. Night sessions of the senate and house until March 4 have been ordered, or-dered, but the belief is growing' that an early extra session of the new congress con-gress will be necessary. President Wilson sailed for home on February 15, and expects to reach Bos ton on February 25. Serious unrest, fanned by revolutionary revolu-tionary propaganda, is spreading through the country, while congress refuses to heed the danger and busies itself with "pork barrel" legislation, Senator Thomas of Colorado declared in the senate. With, the vote of. Vice President Marshall . breaking a tie, the senate defeated a motion by Senator Johnson John-son of California, Republican, to proceed pro-ceed with consideration of his resolutions resolu-tions proposing an expression by the senate for withdrawal of American troops from Russia as soon as practicable. prac-ticable. Prevention of unemployment is the purpose of a bill introduced Friday by Senator Kenyon of Iowa providing for the establishment of a federal industrial indus-trial relations commission. FOREIGN. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, German Ger-man foreign secretary, discussing Germany's Ger-many's foreign policy in the national assembly, declared he had resisted and would continue to resist allied attempts at-tempts to make Germany demobilize all her military forces. Figures submitted by the Belgian commission show that nearly 690 miles of railroad track were destroyed completely com-pletely by the Germans, and nearly 260 miles virtually destroyed and rendered useless out of a total mileage of approximately ap-proximately 2600 in Belgium. An urgent appeal to all Germans to unite to prevent former Emperor William Wil-liam from being delivered up for trial was published in the Landes Zoitung Deutschland, a new government organ being issued at Weimar. A sensation was created at Tokio when it became known that Suinako. i who had been regarded as Japan's I greatest actress, committed suicide on the last day of the new year holidays. Sir Wilfrid Latirier, former premier ' of Canada, was stricken with paralysis j at Ottawa on February 16. His con-idilion con-idilion is reported critical. President Wilson was the central j figure of the plenary peace conference jtit Paris on February 14, when he read the covenant establishing a league of nations. There was added interest in the session as it was the last gathering gather-ing of the delegates prior to the presi- dent's departure as well as being the i occasion of presenting Ihe document with which his name was Identified. Troops took possession of the gas works and "lectric power stal'ou in : Belfast on February 14. The mayor. In a proclamation, says it is now assured jtliat military support will Vie given Ihe authorities, and ask.-; for v 'imlcors to ! carry on municipal sen Ices. Lava in the greatest quantity ob-soi-ved in forty years Is flowing from Kilauea, the largest aclivo volcano in the world. The lava is pouring ovei all sides of the central fire-pit walls onto the old crater floor. Scientists said they expected Ihe lake of lava to subside within a monlh. In the Tower of London, where sovereigns sov-ereigns have been beheaded, famous characlers in English history Imprisoned Impris-oned and imperishable Incidents enacted, en-acted, a number of German spies were executed during 1he world war, thus keeping up the tower's reputation for historical narrative and adventure. Dr. R. Bey, a former vail of Dlabekr, accused of complicity In Armenian massacres, who recently escaped frori custody, was run lo earlh by Ihe Turkish Turk-ish police and shot himself through the head to avoid arrest, It, Is reported. The U. S. S. George Washington arrived ar-rived at Brest, on the Rilh, to carry President Wilson hack to Ihe United Stales. Twenty destroyers will Join the George Washington on her relurn trip at, the Azores. The Bourgeois proposlllon for an Interallied In-terallied military force lo enforce pence was defeated by an overwhelming overwhelm-ing vole at the meeting of Ihe society so-ciety of nations commission at. Paris. The French anil Czecho slovaks were the only representatives voting In the afl'irinalive. A trnlnlond of German officers' being brought buck from Palestine arrived at Geneva, Fehruary 1,'t. All of them were Ignorant of recent events In Germany and did not. know of Ilie revolution rev-olution or Ihe former kaiser's Might Inlo Holland |