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Show n History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTER MOUNTAIN. Damage estimated sit $250,000 was caused by fire which almost completely com-pletely destroyed the Babcock-Selvide office and store building in the business busi-ness district at Billings, Mont. It is estimated that SO per cent of the loss is covered by insurance. Indictment of .1. J. Brown, a telegraph tele-graph operator employed jointly by the Western Union Company and tlie Oregon Railroad and Navigation company com-pany at Arlington, Ore., for the al- leged violation of a congressional act and presidential proclamation in obstructing ob-structing telegraph traffic, was reported re-ported by the federal grand jury. Fires started in Parley's canyon, east of Salt Lake City, it is believed by an incendiary bent upon crippling the city's water supply, caused considerable consid-erable damage. More than one hundred homes and millions of dollars worth of crops narrowly nar-rowly escaped destruction when an attempt was made to dynamite three big reservoirs in the Burch creek district, dis-trict, near Ogden. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men ifhd Enginemen, in triennial convention con-vention at Denver, voted to increase the insurance policy limit of the order from $4000 to $4500. Eliza Spalding Wrarren, one of the few who survived the Whitman massacre mas-sacre of 1S47, died last week at the Jiome of a daughter in Coeur d'Alene, ida. Riding a horse in a spectacular dash up the capitol steps, a cowgirl delivered deliver-ed a protest to the governor of the state against the employment of beauties beau-ties from the east as models for a poster pos-ter of frontier days to be used in the "rountf-up'' celebration at Cheyenne. DOMESTIC. Dr. Walter Keene Wilkins, just con-icted con-icted of wife murder and awaiting the death sentence, committed suicide in the jail at Mineola, L. I., Sunday. The league of nations was denounced as "a gigantic war trust," by United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California, Cali-fornia, in an address before a mass meeting at New York, called by the League for the Preservation of American Ameri-can Independence. The superior blockade council has been instructed to be prepared to raise the economic blockade of Germany immediately im-mediately upon ratification by the German Ger-man national assembly of the peace treaty. Sixteen striking telegraph operators of the Western Union Telegraph company com-pany were arrested at Oklahoma City iy federal agents on charges of conspiracy con-spiracy to obstruct federal business. From a height of 300, feet above an immense crowd at the Methodist Centenary Cen-tenary celebration at Columbus, O., Dr. Edward Sopor delivered a sermon through a megaphone from the decks of a big army dirigible. Congress has been advised that the Alaska government railroad ps-oject will be completed in 921 at a total cost of $50,436,971 or about $73,200 a mile. Ihe Kansas winter wheat crop, now being harvested, is estimated at 229,-27,000 229,-27,000 bushels. William A. English, and John II. O'Brien, members of the wool firm of English & O'Brien, were fined $10,000 each and sentenced to serve eighteen months in prison in federal court at Boston for conspiring to defraud the government in connection with income tax returns. A yellow substance, believed by chemists to he sulphur, probably carried car-ried from some distant volcano, fell with the rain at Dawson and streaked sidewalks and roofs. Telegrams have been sent by Governor Gov-ernor Pleasant of Louisiana to the governors gov-ernors of all southern states, asking that they oppose raitfication of the federal woman suffrage amendment by the legislatures of their states. American casualties during the forty-seven-day Metise-Argonne offensive offen-sive aggregated 120.000 men, or 10 percent per-cent of the total of 1,200.000 engaged, according to a "statistical summary of the war with Germany," prepared by Colonel Leonard P. Avers, chief of the statistical branch of the general staff tind published by the war department. A verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree was found by a jury at Redwood City, Cal., in the case of Dr. Ephriam Northcott, San Francisco physician, accused of the murder of Miss Inez E. Reed, army nurse. Four persons, one a woman of 20. were burned to death in a cabin fire in the Kelso valley, fifty miles northeast north-east of I'akorsfield, Cal. An international aerial race, which will start simultaneously from Toronto Tor-onto and New York, will be Ihekl August 25. with the Prince of Wales as starter. The recently created Pacific fleet, now being organized from vessels heretofore forming a part of the Atlantic At-lantic forces, will sail from Hampton Roads for the wt coast between July 15 and 20. Resources of national banks reported report-ed under the call of May 12 were announced an-nounced June 2S, as $20.825. 000, 1100, an increase of .SNIiT.IMMI.OliO since March 4. and nearly $1O.lHi0,(Ki(l,nul in the last six years. A downpour of rain, .at times reaching reach-ing proportions of a cloudburst, Saturday Sat-urday night, caused damage estimated at a hundred thousand dollars or more in Ravenna, Neb., and vicinity. Five robbers held up the offices of the Middle Fork mine, two miles east of Benton, III., and after wounding three employes of the company, escaped es-caped with $41,000. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has decided he could not legally lift the war-time prohibition pro-hibition ban before the country went dry, but he expects to do so as soon thereafter as his power lias been mad clear by the completion of demobilization. demobili-zation. The sundry civil appropriation bill, the last of the regular supply measures, meas-ures, was passed by the senate at midnight, June 2S, at the end of a fourteen-hour session. On his arrival in the United States President Wilson will go straight to Washington to lay before congress the results of the peace conference. He will leave soon afterward for an extended ex-tended tour of the country for the purpose pur-pose of explaining directly to the people peo-ple all questions relating to the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant. cove-nant. A bill authorizing the incorporation of the "American Legion" composed of veterans of the world war has been introduced by Representative Johnson, Republican, South Dakota. Repeal of the postal zone system for newspapers and periodicals is proposed pro-posed in a bill by Representative Mon dell of Aiyoming, the Republican leader. lead-er. Limer the measure second-class man would be at the flat rate in force before the war revenue of 1917 was passed. Army ariplanes in commission or available for immediate service number num-ber 3400, it is officially announced. FOREIGN. . World peace was signed and sealed in the historic hall of mirrors at Versailles, Ver-sailles, Saturday, June 2S. China refused re-fused to sign. President Wilson was the first to sign for the allies. On July ZS. 1914, one month after the death of Francis Ferdinand, Austria j declared war on Serbia, marking the beginning of hostilities. On August 1 Germany declared war on Russia and invaded Luxemburg. Germany sent her ultimatum to Belgium August 2, and declared war on France August 3. The next day Great Britain declared war on Germany. The Berlin Tageblatt says: "The German people reject the treaty which its delegates are signing today and it does not believe for a single moment that it will endure. Despite the fact that it is written on parchment, it remains re-mains a scrap of paper, because it is a mockery of all the laws of reason and morals and the most disgraceful exhibit in the museum of civilization." China's refusal to sign the peace treaty came after repeated efforts of the Chinese delegation to get permission permis-sion to sign with reservations on the Shantung settlement. With the departure from France of President Wilson, Secretary Lansing becomes head of the American peace delegation, which will carry on nego. tiations on the Austrian and other treaties under consideration. The allied and associated powers will not ask for the extradition of the former German emperor, the Paris correspondent of the Telegraf says he learns, but will ask the Dutch government govern-ment in the name of the league of nations to see that Herr Ilohenzollern does not escape the moral consequences. conse-quences. Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Holl-weg, former German chancellor, has formally asked the allied and associated associ-ated powers to place him on trial instead in-stead of the former emperor. The former chancellor says that he assumes as-sumes responsibility for the acts of Germany during his period of office and places himself at the disposal of the allies. The British flag was burned in Dublin Dub-lin Saturday night. Outside of Trinity college a number of Union jacks were seized and the torch applied. Cheers were given for De Yalera, "president of the Irish republic," and revolutionary revolution-ary songs were sung. Movements of the Germans against the western Polish boundary at three points are giving great uneasiness in conference circles, and Ignace Jan Paderewski. Polish premier, is making earnest efforts to obtain ammunition from the allies before the Germans cut the principal railways. The German peace delegation has been informed in a note from Premier Clemenceau that the German government govern-ment will be held strictly responsible for unofficial support of any movement move-ment against Polish authority. It is reported from Pragins, where former Emperor Charles of Austria is staying, that the health of the ex-ruler is causing anxiety. He lias not left the house for a week and is being attended at-tended by a Swiss doctor. The Chinese delegation has announced an-nounced that China would not sign the peace treaty with Get many, because be-cause China would not be allowed to make reservations concerning the province pro-vince cf Shantung, and also had been refused the privilege of making a declaration de-claration at the time of the signing of the treaty. |