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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed 0 in INTERMOUNTAIN. I J : i v i 1 Peterson was helping roll a 1 100 pound Iron pipe at Porlland when mil! cml slipped front the grasp of another an-other workman, caught Hit; point of Peterson's "boosling slick" ami flipped It through tin; air to Ms jaw. Petor-soit Petor-soit died on tin; way to tin; hospital. When tin! steering gear of an auto-moliilt! auto-moliilt! broke while tin; machine was being drivoii at a rapid rah- near Og-den, Og-den, Utah, five men were Injured, the car turning over and tin; occupants being be-ing pinned uriilenteatli. Married fourteen times In fhre years, a deserter from hoilt the army and Hit; navy, and now serving a term in i In; naval prison at Portsmouth, X. II.. comprises the alleged war record rec-ord of Harold Hammond. a-ed 'Jit. This was revealed in aiitnil.'iieiii proceeding's pro-ceeding's brought hy the l'irt and second sec-ond wives. .lr. liMen Scliuh'r. .71 years old and tinil her of leu children, was found dead al her home in t'lilca-u with bullet wounds inflicted hy her husband, John Schiller, who also shot himself in an atlenipt to commit suicide. As a mark of honor to Ivlwin Itetihy. who is In heroine secretary of the navy, the 1 1 1 )( marines slationed at Vallejo, C.il., asu d a formation on Friday which spelled the name "len-hy." "len-hy." Photographs of the formation will he sent to the new secretary, whc i.s a former sergeant of narines. WASHINGTON. A letter of tribute to l'resident Wilson Wil-son from the former Wilson cabinet' was made public Saturday by the state department. The letter sinned by every member of the former cabinet stated that "history will acclaim" the "groat qualities" of thffornier presi- Violet Mickle, aged ID, announced at the inquest at Greeley, Colo., over the body of William Purvis, aged 51, who had dropped dead, that she was his common law wife, and would claim a portion of his .$150,000 estate for herself and her unborn child. She had been housekeeper for Purvis. The Washington state senate has passed the anti-alien land bill, which prohibits aliens not eligible to citizenship citizen-ship from owning or leasing land in the state, and prohibits all persons from engaging In land deals with such aliens. Kssie Rich, aged 15, was shot and killed by her 8-year-old brother, at Lovell, Wyo., while the hoy was playing play-ing with a rifle, supposedly broken and unloaded. Anthon II. Lund, first counselor to l'resident Heber J. Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints', died at his home in Salt Lake , City, March 2, at the age of 76. He had spent almost his entire life iu the work of the church. DOMESTIC. Five armed robbers in an automobile automo-bile held up a mail truck, kidnaped the driver, drove the truck through crowded crowd-ed streets of Chicago to an outlying section, picked out six pouches of registered mail and escaped, leaving the driver locked in his own truck. Interior Alaska soon will be using, exclusively, home grown and home ground grain, a flour mill having been established at Fairbanks. Wheat from the several farms in the Xanana valley val-ley will be brought to the mill and the flour will be sold at island points. Two clerks in a motorcar transporting transport-ing mail from the Santa Fe depot to the postoffice at Sugar Creek, Mo., were held up by four bandits, who escaped with two bags of mail. A general strike was called on the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic rail- dent. Cessation of hostilities between Costa itica and Panama is demanded in notes which the state department dispatched Saturday to the governments govern-ments of those two countries by diaries E. Hughes, new secretary of state. Former' Senator Henderson of Nevada Ne-vada was shot through the wrist in his office in the senate office building build-ing by Charles A. Grock, a former resident of Nevada. Grock, who is 05 years old and lives in Takoma Park, Md., near Washington, told the police that twenty-five years ago the foi'mer senator was counsel for him in a land case and that the shooting was an ojJtgrowth of that. Senator' Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican senate leader, and Representative Mondell of Wyoming, the Republican house leader, called at the White House in the early Saturday Satur-day afternoon to discuss with President Presi-dent Harding the calling of a special session of congress. The Panama-Costa Rica situation was the first subject taken up by Charles Evans Hughes after he had taken oath as secretary of state. He spent an hour closeted with Undersecretary Undersec-retary Davis and Henry D. Fletcher, who is to be the new undersecretary, and then went to the White House to see President Harding. FOREIGN. Conditions of some 40,000, Greek and Russian refugees quartered in tents and barracks at Saloniki has been called to., the attention of the Greek government by Colonel Robert Olds of the American Red Cross, who described de-scribed the plight of the refugees as pitiable. A very serious anti-bolshevik revolution revo-lution is in progress in Russia, judging from varied reports which continued to accumulate. Cocas del Toro, capital of the Pan-aman Pan-aman province of the same, name and situated a,t the southern end of Columbus Colum-bus island, off the east coast of Panama, has been taken by Costa Rican forces. Many casualties were inflicted upon the Panama troops, and the Costa Ricans took 150 prisoners. Official information that the soviet fortress at Kronstadt had fallen into the hands of revolutionary troops has been received by the Finnish legation. . A regiment of the Bolivian army mutinied, but was soon overpowered, according to an official statement. As a precautionary measure, a state of siege was declared in the departments of LaPaz, Oruro, Coahabamba and Potosi. Russia will attempt to trade with the United States if Great Britain does not accept her revised trade agreement, agree-ment, Leanid Krasin, soviet envoy, declared de-clared in an interview at Berlin. Confidence that in any case which might arise between Switzerland and the league of nations a settlement satisfactory to both sides would be reached, because of the growing closeness close-ness of their relations, was expressed at the closing session of the council of the league by Dr. Alplionse Durant, Swiss minister to France. President Harding and his inaugural address were the subject of congratulations congratu-lations and good will in the English press Saturday. The papers display great interest in the attitude of the United States towards the league of nations. French railroads have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to transport troops to the German frontier, fron-tier, says a Paris dispatch, French forces now on the border are announced an-nounced to be as follows : Three corps of cavalry, 110.000 infantrymen, 1000 guns and 300 airplanes. Notice to Germany that her reparation repara-tion proposal would not be discussed and that the allies were ready to enforce en-force the payment of German obligations obliga-tions are in preparation by the committee com-mittee of the supreme council appointed appoint-ed to frame a reply. road Saturday as a protest against wage reduction. Approximately 2000 are affected. Cash and bonds totaling more than $100,000 were announced by postal officials as part of the loot of bandits who held up and robbed a mail truck in the downtown section of Los Angeles. An-geles. Plans are being considered for a mammoth, continuous, double-span bridge across San Francisco bay, to carry both railroad and vehicular traffic. traf-fic. Liquor ceases to be property when it can be shown that the possessor had it stored in a place which cannot be considered his home, under a ruling made recently by Superior Judge H. D. Gregory, Oroville, Cal., when four boys were brought before him on a charge of stealing 200 gallons of wine from a Hindu resident of Gridley. A bill has been introduced in the Texas legislature providing that any person who may have heretofore held the office of governor of Texas, or may hereafter hold that office, shall be ineligible to hold the office of United States senator from Texas. Indiana coal operators under Indictment Indict-ment on charges of violating the Sherman Sher-man anti-trust law through a conspiracy con-spiracy with miners and retailers to increase soft coal prices, have surrendered sur-rendered to the United States marshal mar-shal at Indianapolis, and each gave bcHid of 510,000 and was released. Vaults of the postoffice at Paris, Ky were blown open by yeggnien who used nitroglycerine, and postage stamps, war savings stamps and cash estimated at $25,000 stolen. The Wisconsin assembly has passed a bill making all marriages contracted outside the state of Wisconsin by residents resi-dents null and void if the parties re-luru re-luru to this state. The bill is de-iigned de-iigned to eliminate elopements undertaken under-taken to evade the state eugenics law. Officers of the law had the tables reversed at Tracy, Minn., when prisoners pris-oners in the jail locked the jailer in a cell and prohibition agents had an automobile filled with evidence against moonshiners slwlon from them. Charges of cruelty to prisoners, mismanagement, carelessness and inefficiency in-efficiency on the part of the management manage-ment of the South Dakota penitentiary at Sioux Falls, under former Warden G. C. Redfield, are contained in the report of the legislative investigating committee submitted to the legislature. legisla-ture. Henry Shearer, general manager of the-operating department of the Michigan Michi-gan Central railroad, has placed the blame of the Porter, Ind., wreck on Engineer Long and Fireman Block of th.o Canadian flier. Not the least of Germany's present financial burdens resulting from her war on the world, is the upkeep of the allied armies of occupation, stationed in the Rhineland. Up to January, 1921, the total bill is upwards of six hundred million dollars. A Madrid newspaper declares that a solution of the political situation In Spain will be reached by Senor Mania's accepting the premiership and forming a party of truce while Premier Dato accompanies King Alfonso Al-fonso to America, the king placing the country under a regency. |