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Show H History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed m INTERMC JNTAIN. Commemorating the linking of east 'to west, Ogden turned out en masse 'n May 10 celebrating the fiftieth anniversary an-niversary of the driving of the golden Ispike at Promontory Point on May 10, i869. Utah and Idaho have over-subscribed their quotas for the Victory loan, the last day's receipts being the heaviest heavi-est of the campaign. Mine officials at Eureka, Utah, have refused to give hearings to the committee com-mittee named by workmen to present the demand for an increase of 75 cents 'a day In wages and an eight-hour working work-ing day. Mrs. Edna Tuck was shot through the heart at her homo in Portland, dying dy-ing instantly. Eugene Tuck, her husband, hus-band, who is a shipyard foreman, and Mrs. Marie Middleton, who lived upstairs up-stairs in the same house occupied by the Tucks, were held by the police for Investigation. Ruth Garrison, 18-year-old Seattle girl who confessed to the poisoning of Mrs. Grace G. Starrs, her rival for the love of D. M. Stoirs, on March 18 last, was found not guilty because of mental Irresponsibility at the time of the crime. At a mass meeting of miners held at Eureka, Utah, a committee was named to meet with mine owners in an attempt to obtain an eight-hour working work-ing day and an increase in wages from the present $4.60 scale to $5.25 a day, the wage in effect before metal prices dropped. Colorado will produce 15,459,000 bushels of winter wheat, the largest crop in its history, according to forecast fore-cast of the Colorado Co-operative Crop Reporting service, made public May 9. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed a 4000-ton twin screw wood steamer hull in an advanced stage of construction, construc-tion, with adjoining ways, shed and dock, at the Grays Harbor Motor Ship corporation yard at Aberdeen, Wash. DOMESTIC. Fifteen million Americans bought Victory Loberty notes in the campaign wjiich closed May 10, according to estimates es-timates received by the treasury from federal reserve banks. This compares with about 20,000,(K)p purchasers in the fourth loan, lTOOO.OOO in the third, 9,-400,000 9,-400,000 in the second and 4,000,000 ln the first. k Recognition by the federal adm.in.if3-' --tnuion Of the Iriternational Brotherhood Brother-hood of Electrical Workers, is the only on-ly hope of averting a nation-wide strike of the entire membership, July 1, which will affect about, 150,000 employes, according ac-cording to an announcement from Springfield, 111. Two sailors and four negroes are reported re-ported to have been killed and a number num-ber of persons wounded, eight severely, in a race riot at Charleston, S. C. Six persons were killed and one seriously ser-iously injured at Mission, Texas, when a tornado blew down a train shed in which the victims had taken shelter. Victor Berger, Socialist representative-elect from Wisconsin, and under jail sentence for wartime violation of the espionage law, has sent a personal appeal to every member of the house that he be seated, while on bail pending pend-ing appeal to the supreme court. George H. Lawson, recently discharged dis-charged from the Canadian army, in which he was sergeant major in the RoyaJ Engineers, announced at Boston - he was making plans for the formation forma-tion of an ''outlaw" baseball league, to be known as the Allied league. Senators Borah of Idaho and Johnson John-son of California have issued .statements .state-ments criticizing the plan of the war department to recruit 8000 men to serve as replacement troops for the American forces no in Siberia. Prompt withdrawal of the American army of ocupation from Germany has been provided for in the Paris treaty, in the opinion of army officials who scanned the official summary of the ' document. Julius U. Barnes, national wheat administrator, said in an address at Chicago on May 6, to members of the Chicago board of trade, that the act establishing the food administration gave authority to control trading in foodstuffs on exchanges to the extent of prohibiting future trading altogether. alto-gether. The government's deficit in operating operat-ing the railroads for the first three months this year, or the difference betweeifhet earnings and one-fourth of the guaranteed annual compensation, compensa-tion, was about $192,000,000 for all roads under federal management. Tom Kmbrey, a negro, after standing off armed citizens and officers for four hours at Piano, Texas, was shut arid killed. Nine persons were wounded by the negro, one probably fatally. The trouble started when Einbrey attempted to kill bis wife. Paul Frederick Volland, wealthy Ulead "f the art publishing company which bears his name, was shot and instantly killed in bis office al Chicago Chi-cago by a woman. According to clerks in Vollnnd'h office, the woman had ;i hallucination that the publishing com piny VW9i her $5000 In royalties. A National Tenants' union, with a membership of upwards of 5,000,000 Which will become affiliated with" the American Federation of Labor, is be-irtg be-irtg planned as the most effective means of checkmating rent profiteering, profiteer-ing, is announced at New York City. J. D. Newman, prominent sheepman of Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona, was convicted by a jury of manslaughter in connection vith the shooting of Frank Hector, another well-known 1 sheepman, near Hot Springs Junction, January 30 bast.. Fifteen persons were killed Thursday Thurs-day night when one of the worst tornadoes tor-nadoes ever experienced in southwest Texas swept the lower Rio Grande valley, demolishing .'arm houses and doing great damage to growing crops. WASH I NCTON. Demobilization of the war army lias passed the two million mork, General March, chief of staff, announced on May 10, and the number of troops relumed re-lumed from France new exceeds one million. In response to an inquiry from Secretary Sec-retary Tumulty, President Wilson cabled cab-led on May 9 that he had promised France to propose to the senate, in connection with the peace treaty, "a supplement in which we shall agree, subject to the approval of the council of the league of nations, to come immediately im-mediately to the assistance of France in case of unprovoked attack by Germany." Ger-many." Thomas Nelson Page, the American ambassador to Italy, has made known his intention to resign after the conclusion con-clusion of peace, it was stated in high quarters in Paris. Senator Norris of Nebraska has issued is-sued a statement announcing his opposition op-position to the proposed alliance between be-tween the United States, Great Britain and France for the protection of France against attack by Germany. Complete reorganization of army hospital facilities to effect economies made possible by the rapid demobilization demobiliza-tion of the military establishment has been ordered' by Surgeon General Ireland. Ire-land. Government efforts to hasten the return of industry to normal peace time activity by stabilizing prices through the industrial board of the' department de-partment of commerce came to an end on May 9. FOREIGN. Exchange of written notes between the council of four and the German delegates is under way. It began wTith a lengthy document by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, in which he protested pro-tested many of the essential peace terms. The Dutch government has decided to surrender the former German emperor em-peror to the allied and associated powers, pow-ers, according to a dispatch from The Hague to the London National News. The body of Edith Cavell is being taken to England for interment. Edith Cavell, the English nurse, was executed execut-ed summarily by the Germans in 1915, charged with aiding prisoners to cross the frontier into Holland. General Pershing commander in chief of the American expeditionary forces, arrived in Coblenz on May 10 for what may be his last official visit to the American occupation area. He will arrange with Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett for the complete withdrawal of the American forces as decided upon some three weeks ago at general headquarters. head-quarters. The Temps published a' note from the Dutch legation at Paris declaring that the demand for the extradition bf the former German emporor had reached reach-ed Holland. "The comment of Dutch newspapers on the peace treaty is generally unfavorable, unfav-orable, the Handelsblad calling it "a crime against Germany and above all against humanity." The Nieuw Rotter-damsche Rotter-damsche Courant says : "The treaty dues not end the war, it continues it forever." A wireless dispatch from Christania states that the foreign minister has sent a request to the peace conference at BariS seeking an indemnity from Germany for Norwegian vessels sunk by the Germans. Pedro Diaz, minister of Public and a former vice president of the republic re-public of Panama, died May 8. Senor Diaz, in addition to being prominent in politics, was a successful business man. Now the principality of Nakhichevan, Nakhiche-van, at the foot of Mount Ararat, to which Noah is said to have descended when the ark grounded, comes forward to ask the United States of America to become its mandatory. Its prime minister, Jaffer Koolls Khan, a Tartar chieftain, has made such a request. It is generally believed that the Germans Ger-mans will answer the treaty df peace by proposals relative to certain phases of the document A competent commission com-mission will examine the answer, and, if modifications are necessary, the Germans Ger-mans will he notified. Advices from London say the shipowners ship-owners have decided to adhere to their determination not to send ships to Buenos Aires until the labor situation has been cleared. The Chinese delegation has received cabled Instructions from Fekln not to sign the treaty of peace because of the Klao-chow-Shanlung set I lenient . Afghan tribesmen have crossed the Arghan horde with the assistance of Afghan regular troops and have occupied oc-cupied certain positions on the Indian side of the border. Starving refugees In the southern Caucasus arc restoring to cannibal-Ism, cannibal-Ism, a Dumber of cases having been re-portod re-portod of mill hers killing and eating their children, according tc n message received al New ifork. |