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Show m n History of j Past Week I The News Happenings of ' Seven Days Paragraphed IS- INTEHMOUNTAIN. j Two liuinlrcd miners lust (heir lives ins a i-i sull of a Hit in llie XoiMh P.nlle (mines al Unite, .Muni. Tucnty-eiL-Jji ,())' !he imprisoned miners were rescued ;I lii'Hit-'h llie heroism of one. of Iheir '1 1 11 1 ul if r. No further informal inn has been received re-ceived from llie I'te Indian reservn I inn .in Colorado, where a number of followers fol-lowers of llie ( Mitel's I'nlk and 1'osey were reported to be making threaten-! ling ilemonsl r.'i I ions. The region is re-!ino!e re-!ino!e anil without telephone communi-'i-ii I ion. Montana was the liflli state in the .union lo till her o,uo!a of recnills for tbe regular army. Al the close of recruiting re-cruiting .lune 8, Montana had S.'M war 'volunleers for the regulars against a imla of Tol'. I.ee Caldwell, bucking horse rider, who claims several riding and rope-4 rope-4 browing championships, litis been ichosen captain of troop 1, a cavalry organization formed by eastern Oregon .cowboys as a unit of the Oregon National Na-tional Guard. 'J'wenty-live hundred pounds of wool sold at Cottage Grove, Ore., at bV?. cenfs a pound, said to be the highest price ever paid for wool in Oregon. In previous years wool has ranged from oT to -10 cents a pound. An estimate forwarded to Washing-Ion, Washing-Ion, by V. V. Fit. Gerald, secretary to Governor Simon Bamberger, placed rtnh's total registration at 42,428, and the number of persons claiming exemption exemp-tion from military service at 20,290. Plans for raising the west's share In the $100,000,000 sought by the National Na-tional Bed Cross society were discussed dis-cussed at a conference In Denver participated par-ticipated in by representatives of ten stales. The campaign for raising the fund is to start June 18. DOMESTIC. After one of the six supposed kidnapers kid-napers of little Lloyd Keet had been strung up by the neck, a mob composed com-posed of prominent Springfield, Mo., citizens returned him and five other suspects to tbe custody of the sheriff, convinced that there is grave doubt of the guilt of the suspects. Mike Moore, alleged go-between in tho killing of Mrs. Alice Dunn, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Jury at St. Paul, which deliberated less than an hour. President Wilson's war message, arranged ar-ranged witli foot note references and notations to make it available for detailed de-tailed itudy by schools, has been issued is-sued in pamphlet form by the coin-nil coin-nil 1 tee of public information. A jury in the district court at Sanderson. Sand-erson. Texas, brought in a verdict of guilty in the case of M. Alvarez and Y. Garcia, on trial for participation in Ihe Clen Slni-in. in AThv 1 01 fi pieil-es of loyalty to tbe nation were renewed by officials or the railroad brot herhooils in addresses at their annua'! an-nua'! memorial services Sunday at Philadelphia, at which Theodore Koosevelt was the chief speaker. A storm of cyclonic intensity that swept over central lower .Michigan May 0, caused the deaths of at least three persuris. injuries to nearly tliirly others and did property damage of al least .'?l,OIMI.0OO. Italian ' foal miners at Centei'ville. Appanoose county. Ia., refused to reg-isier, reg-isier, and the arrest of forty-live of jlliem lias bi-eu ordered. j WASHINGTON. i Herbert '. Hoover, outlining his plans for lowering food prices to a delegation of labor represiMitalives and congressmen, said it was vital that I congress pax the ailmi nisi rat ion food control bill immediately. Settlement of the newspaper and magazine tax problem will be undertaken under-taken by the senate finance committee when it resumes its task of revising tho bjmse war tax bill. Senator Charles h, MeN'ary of Oregon, Ore-gon, appointed to succeed the late Senator Sen-ator l.ane, was sworn j June 8. He i.s a Kepnblican and an lie succeeds a Democrat llie majority representation in the Senate i.s decreased 0 53 with the Bepublican increased to 43, Prohibition provisions of the new army law apply to the navy and marine corps as well as the army. An opinion by Attorney General Gregory buhls that the statute covers all th;! military forces of the United Slates whether on land or sea, and not the army exclusively. Boumania is sending an official war mission to the United States. The personnel is not yet known here, but it is understood to lie a formal and a working mission. " In nominating three major generals and eighteen brigadiers, President Wilson disregarded strict seniority and went down iuto-the list for "live wires" for the greater army. The naval collier Jupiter has arrived ar-rived in France, Secretary Daniels announced an-nounced June 7, laden with 10,500 tons of wheat and other supplies. The ship sailed from, an American port without any intimation of her voyage having been given out in advance and is now at anchor in u French port. FOREIGN. A Swiss citizen who arrived at Zurich from Jassy recently, reports that there is much misery in the provisional pro-visional Roumanian capital. The city is crowded with fugitives from -Wal-lachia and the eastern part of Moldavia. Mol-davia. Two of the principal factories of the German gunpowder trust have declared de-clared dividends of 20 per cent and two others of 16 per cent. Three of these factories are paying dividends on capital which was doubled last year. The present political crisis in Spain was characterized as the gravest which has arisen in the last forty years in a statement by Senor Groiz-ard, Groiz-ard, president of the senate. The Swedish sailing vessels Alida and Helene have been sunk by a German Ger-man submarine. A third ship was halted but was permited to proceed with llie crews of the vessels which had been sunk. A semi-official dispatch from Vienna denies a Petrograd report of an Aus- Penally was fixed at live years impris-oupient. impris-oupient. Because he referred to a sailor making a 'recruiting speech in City Hall park, New York, as a "monkey," Abraham Sulvianski, a medical student, stu-dent, was sent to the city prison for two das. William H. Queen, bis wife and his daughter, Miss Eleanor Queen, a school teacher, were murdered near Mount Pleasant, X. .1. The farm buildings were burned. Good progress is being made by the joint committee of four railroad brotherhood broth-erhood leaders and four railway executives execu-tives in settling minor differences growing out of the general agreement for a basic eight-hour day, according to a .statement bysW. N. Doak, vice president of the brotherhood of railway rail-way trainmen. At interstate cereal conference has been called to meet at Kansas City. Mo., June 12 to 14. the department of auriculture has announced, to take up the subject of increased grain production. produc-tion. Similar conferences were held at Berkeley. Oil., in l'Jlo and at St. Paul in 1010. Only about 15.000 men will be tried in the second series of eight officers' raining camps to be held from August Au-gust 27 to September 20. Adjutant General McCain has announced. Forty thousand entered the first series of camps, but the war department has reduced re-duced the number for the fall encampments encamp-ments in the hope of obtaining older and mor-; experienced men.. The four motherless and now fatherless father-less children of R.' L. Wilkerson, a farmer, told Judge Lewis Pauldin, in county court at Durant, Okla., how they planned ffnd executed the murder mur-der of the'ir father as he lay asleep in the Wilkerson farm home near Bennington Ben-nington More than 10,000.000 young Americans Ameri-cans enrolled themselves on June 5 for war service. Registration day, with but a few weeks or preparation, saw be lirst military census ever taken in the United States completed without a single untoward event of consequence. conse-quence. Tornadoes, high wind and heavy rains through portions of Kansas and Missouri Tuesday night caused ten deaths ami injuries to many persons. Much properly and crop damage re-niheil re-niheil and small rivers and creeks Were bruu;:,;i I lo alarming stages. tro-Hungarian army deputation lieiug sent to Petrograd to talk peace conditions con-ditions with the Russians. Capt. Allen Tucker, master of the steamship Orleans, the first American vessel to reach a French port after Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare, was presented with a silver medal by the city of Bordeaux on his last visit to that port. Headed by Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, Per-shing, its commander, the first representatives repre-sentatives of the American army that is to enter the European war disembarked disem-barked June 8 at a British port after an uneventful voyage on board the White Star liner Baltic. San Salvador, San Tecla and neighboring neigh-boring towns and villages were destroyed de-stroyed in an earthquake which began at 7 o'clock Thursday night and continued con-tinued throughout the night, according accord-ing to advices received from the president presi-dent of Nicaragua. Two hundred girl students of the Petrograd Technical institute have entered en-tered their names on the rolls of a female fe-male regiment which is being raised by Ensign Butchkareff. The aim is immediately im-mediately to start to the front and to fight in all respect under the same conditions as men. "Owing to various circumstances," the general meeting of the international interna-tional socialist committee, set for June S in Stockholm, could not be held, says a Router dispatch from the Swedish, Swed-ish, capitol. The Haitien charge d'affaires at Berlin Ber-lin has been handed his passports, according ac-cording to a dispatch from the German Ger-man capital. The Haitieu diplomat had previously presented u note protesting pro-testing against unrestricted submarine warfare and demanding compensation for losses caused to Haitien commerce and life. All the special correspondents at the front in their descriptions of the Messines battle feature tlip tremendous explosion of mines which' preceded the j British advance. The strike movement which existed in Paris during the last three weeks is j practically over. The demands of the j majority of the strikers have beeu met by the employers. . The British army has launched an I attack against the Germans in Belgium, Bel-gium, driving the Germans back o'er a front, of nine miles, tho German i iis-uallies iis-uallies being heavy. |