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Show 0 n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E$ m , INTPRMCJNTAIN. A crop of 70,000,000 bushels of wheal in the Pacific northwest is considered by leading dealers of Portland a conservative con-servative estimate as conditions stand nviw. After serving in the United States army thirty-two years., Sergt. Frederick Dahlrendorf, a German alien, steadfastly stead-fastly refuses to abide by the conditions condi-tions of his parole from the internment V camp at Fort Douglas, Utah, and is. still in jail. Yerdia Earl Mooney 13 years old, was acquitted of the charge of murdering murder-ing his aunt, Mrs. Mary Mooney, by a jury in the district court at Buffalo, Wyo. Mrs. Mooney was killed last fall when she appeared at the ranch home of the youthful defendant determined to kill the family as a result of a family fam-ily feud. A raid was made by federal officers on a moonshine still, situated about a mile from the Tualatin river, near Oregon Ore-gon City, Ore. About sixty gallons of 'Isour mash," ready for distilling, was found and destroyed by the officers. Ruth Garrison, 18-year-old Seattle girl, recently acquitted of the charge of murdering Mrs. Grace Glatz Storrs, her rival, has been committed by the superior court to the insane ward of the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. Ralph Grazello, placed on trial at Butte, charged with having written letters let-ters to a man named Lombardi of Anaconda Ana-conda demanding $10,000 on threats of blowing up his place of business, has been acquitted. A big street car ran away on a downtown hill at Seattle and crashed into the rear end of a smaller car, killing kill-ing an unidentified passenger. DOMESTIC. Declaring that the league of nations is the "greatest step toward peace ever taken in 1000 years," William J. Bryan, addressing the 131st general assembty of the Presbyterian church in the Unit-States Unit-States of America, at St. Louis, said he was hopeful "that we are going to see peace unbroken from now on." A verdict of $50,000 was obtained in the district court at San Antonio, Texas, by W. E. Kellar against eleven citizens of Luling, in a suit for dam-. dam-. ages growing out of the tarring and feathering of Kellar in May, 1918, at Luling. Every Bolshevik and radical in the United States should be deported "on a ship of stone, with sails of le.ad, the "wrath of God for a gale and hell for the nearest port," the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, chancellor of Lincoln Memorial Me-morial university, Cumberland Gap, Tenn., declared in an address at New York. The American Red Cross will make an appeal next autumn to the American Ameri-can people for funds to carry on its work. The campaign will last two weeks. Vinson Walsh McLean, aged 9, known as the "million dollar baby," eldest -of the three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ed-ward B. McLean, was struck by an automobile in the road in front of the McLean home near Washington and killed. Gov. Walter E. Edge has resigned as governor of New Jersey to take his seat as the state's junior United States senator. William M. Runyon, president presi-dent of the senate, was sworn in as acting governor. Herman ("Germany") Schaefer, noted not-ed ball player and comedian of tne diamond, dia-mond, died suddenly at Saranac Lake, N. Y. He was on his way to Lake Placid and suffered a hemorrhage while in a New York Central railroad train. Charles Piez, who recently retired as general manager of the emergency fleet corporation in an address at Chicago declared himself "permanently cured" of any embryonic leanings toward gov- eminent ownership he might have en tertained formerly. With the announcement that the legislature leg-islature of the state of Sonora, Mexico, Mex-ico, had voted the state wet, steps ere taken to open the five saloons Allotted Nogales, Sonora, across the border from Nogales, Arizona. Florhain Leader, a two-months-old Guernsey bull calf, was sold at auction at Madison, N. J., for $25,000, ..said to be a new record price for any animal of its breed. Six persons, including the captain's wife and four children and the engi-.eer, engi-.eer, were drowned when the coal-hiden coal-hiden barge Nanticoke, owned by the Potter Transportation company of New York, sank off the Isles of Shoals. Francis Burton Harris in; 45 years old, governor general of the Philippine islands, mid Miss Elizabeth Wrent-more, Wrent-more, 18 years old, a student of the University of California at Berkeley, Cal., were married Thursday at Chicago. Chi-cago. Florida's orange crop for 1918 is estimated at 5,205,000 boxes, or much more than the crop of 1917 and much less than the crop of 1916. The estimated esti-mated crop of California for 1918 is 14,322,000 boxes, or twice the production produc-tion of 1917, but less than the crop of 1910 by IS per cent. Judge Hand, at New York, has denied de-nied motions made on behalf of tbe government asking for dismissal of the Injunction suit brought by the Jacob Hoffman Brewing company for the purpose of rest raining federal officials of-ficials from performing their duties in enforcing tin- prohibition laws of UiC' United States. The. Brooklyn Rapid Transit company com-pany lias discharged eight hundred women employes, declaring that its action was compelled by the enactment enact-ment into law of the I.ockwood-Caul-field bill which prohibits women in that stale from working after 10 p. m. and before ti a. m. WASHINGTON. Benedict Cr.nvell, assistant secretary of Will and a number of military and Civil aviation experts, will leave for Europe this month to study possibilities possibili-ties of developing the science of aviation avia-tion along the lines of civilian usage. Republican members of the house, upon the convening of congress, propose pro-pose to institute "such investigation of administration activities and expenditures expen-ditures since the beginning of the war as will fully inform the people and serve the public interest." Discharges from the army have reached a total of 2,101,029 officers and men, of whom 109,527 were in commissioned grades. The soldiers' settlement bill is believed be-lieved to be certain of passage Marly in the extra session of congre.is as the result of a conference May 15 between be-tween leaders of both parties in the senate and house and officials of the interior department. Prospect of adoption by congress of the Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage resolution has been bettered by receipt of information that Senator-elect Henry Hen-ry W. Keyes of New Hampshire, Republican, Re-publican, would vote for the measure. Revised figures made public by the. war department showed that the total casualties of the American expeditionary expedition-ary forces during the war, was 2SG.044. Battle deaths numbered 4S.909. FOREIGN. Sanguinary encounters have occurred occur-red at Sofia between the garrison and revolutionaries, who demanded the resignation res-ignation of the government and the establishment of a soviet, according to a dispatch from Vienna. All Bulgaria is reported to be in an uproar. General strike of more than three score labor unions in Winnipeg, precipitated precip-itated by the strike of building trades and metal workers' union for recognition recogni-tion from the employers, has resulted in 30,000 men and women leaving their positions, and a suspension of the publication pub-lication of tnewspapers, while the city is earless, phoneless and almost waterless. water-less. The total damage in the north of France, including buildings, agriculture, agricul-ture, furniture and public works, is estimated at 64,500,000,000 francs, or about $13,000,000,000. Rebels, led by General Gabay, who was reported some time ago to have been killed, held up a train on the Al-vardo Al-vardo line twenty miles from Vera Cruz recently and killed 41 persons, including several women and children and the military guard. The Asahi reports that the Japanese government has decided on abolishing the barrier placed against alien subjects sub-jects in Japan by granting foreigners the right of ownership of landed estate and by permitting Chinese laborers to enter the empire for the purpose of engaging in labor in Japan. In the fighting which took place after af-ter the landing of Greek troops at Smyrna on May 15, 300 Turks and 100 Greeks were killed. The all Russian government at Omsk, through M. Zoukine, the acting foreign minister, has requested Maj. Gen. Graves, American commander in Siberia, not to send American troops farther into the interior of Siberia than they are at present. The Japanese appeal court at Pyeng Yank, Korea, ordered Rev. Eli M. Howry How-ry of Mansfield, Ohio, a Presbyterian missionary, to serve four months penal pen-al servitude for sheltering Korean agitators agi-tators and suspended the sentence for two years. Mr. Mowry at once took an appeal to tbe highest court. The Costa Rican revolutionists apparently ap-parently have failed .in their attempt to advance into the interior of Costa Rica, as they have returned to La Cruz on the Nicaraguan frontier. The Stars and Stripes, the official newspaper of the American expeditionary expedition-ary force, will suspend publication on June 13, it was announced last week at Paris. This indic!,ves the rapid evacuation evac-uation of the American army. American and Bru'sh officers in Berlin have been ordered to wear civilian civ-ilian clothing outdoors, lt.;t they incite the population to demonstrations, according ac-cording to a dispatch from tbe German Ger-man capital. Replying to a deputation from the regions threatened under tbe terms of tbe peace treaty, Philipp Schiedemann, the chancellor, said that the cabinet cab-inet was discussing counter-peace terms, based without restriction on president Wilson's principles. Yaqui Indians numbering approximately approxi-mately 100 attacked San Pedro de Suaqui, a Sonora village fifteen leagues south of Montezuma, capital of the Montezuma district, at daylight. The inhabitants, after a battle of several sev-eral hours, drove the raiders off with a loss of seven killed. Three of the townsmen were killed and several wounded. The Chinese cabinet has resigned, but tbe president has refused to accept the resignation, according to a telegram tele-gram from Pekin to the peace conference. |