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Show A Korean, even though he has served in the United States army, Is not eligible for American citizenship, according ac-cording to a decision of Judge Bledsoe, Bled-soe, filed in the United State supreme court at Los Angeles. Mrs. Mattie Hull, aged S2. known throughout the United States and Canada as the founder of a school of spiritualism, died suddenly at Janes-ville. Janes-ville. Wis. Co-operation between coal operators and miners in six states to force high prices for soft coal by restricting production pro-duction was charged by a federal grand jury indictment at Indianapolis on February 25. The defendants live in Missouri, Illinois. Indiana, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. WASHINGTON. President Wilson has approved the Winslow bill allowing immediate payment pay-ment to railroads of part of the funds due them under the guarantee clause of the Esch-Cummins transportation act. Use of the interest on the $10,000,-000,000, $10,000,-000,000, of American war loans to the allies in financing adjusted compensation compensa-tion for former service men is one of the plans under consideration by congress. con-gress. The army appropriation bill, carrying carry-ing $302,000,000 and providing for an arjny of an average strength of 175,-000 175,-000 men instead of 150,000 voted by the house for the next financial year, was passed by the senate, February 26, and sent to conference. It is announced that the influence of President-elect Harding will be thrown behind the big navy program of the senn,te naval affairs committee majority major-ity and against the stand of the house for decreased appropriations for the naval establishment. Appropriation of $500,000 to provide ocean transportation for American re-! re-! lief supplies to China has been approved ap-proved by the senate appropriations committee and Immediate enactment of the legislation is planned by leaders. The army appropriation bill carrying carry-ing $31,000,694 more than allowed by the house was reported to the senate on February 23 by the military affairs committee. FOREIGN. President Porras of Panama has signed a proclamation declaring war against Costa Rica, but is holding it temporarily in abeyance. The president, presi-dent, assured that the entire country is behind him, contemplates taking over dictatorial powers for the defense de-fense of the republic, relying upon the national assembly to confirm his action. The Irish plan to carry their war for independence into England, it was revealed Saturday. Official documents captured in a recent raid on Irish republican re-publican army headquarters in Dublin were made public by the Irish office, showing widespread preparations for "operations abroad." Foreign Minister Matte 'has confirmed con-firmed reports published at Santiago, Chile, that German interests have acquired ac-quired a thirty years' concession of nearly 300,000 acres of land in Chile. He declared the concession was given to two German engineers. The first attempt to sovietize a large plant in France, when the red flag was raised over a big electrical works under construction at Gennevilliers, ended in dismal failure, according to police and milifhry authorities. Railroads in the Warsaw district are being operated under martial law, folJ lowing a strike of mechanics for higher high-er wages and better food. Russian; soviet prisoners of war are being used as strikebreakers by the Polish army in operating. the lines. The strike which has stopped river and coastal steamship traffic in Argentina Ar-gentina for more than a year through a boycott of the Mihanovich Steamship Steam-ship company, tying up more than 200 vessels, is about to be settled as the result of an agreement reached between be-tween representatives of the company and the workmen. In an order issued at Dublin alluding to the killing of two soldiers at Ran-don Ran-don and three at Woodford, General McReady, the military commander in Ireland, says that there is no doubt that those crimes constituted deliberate delib-erate attempts to exasperate the troops and tempt them to break the bonds of discipline. o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed G I NTERM OUNTAI N. Officials and citizens are searching for an alleged blackmailer who attempted at-tempted to extort $10,000' from G. A. Mottnmn, Olympia, Wash., merchant and former mayor, under threat of dynamiting his department store. Charles J. OTIara, newspaper cir-I cir-I dilation solicitor, has been convicted on a charge of robbing the Littleton (Colo.) State bank on January 14. The penalty is five years to life imprisonment. im-prisonment. The bandit obtained $3000 aiid escaped in an automobile. Following the adoption of the anti-cigarette anti-cigarette bill in the Utah legislature, it is announced that a bill will be presented pre-sented prohibiting the use of tobacco in any form in the state of Utah, and would make the use of tobacco in the state a crime. Discovery of a plot by the bandits who were involved in three bank robberies rob-beries in Utah to escape from the Utah penitentiary has been made by the warden, and as a result the "honor" system at the prison has been temporarily tem-porarily abandoned, the guard has been Increased and all prisoners are kept within the walls. A blue Sunday bill has appeared in the Utah legislature. It provides for the closing of all places of amusement amuse-ment on Sunday, and would bar Sun-day.baseball Sun-day.baseball games. Theatre men declare de-clare that should the measure be approved, ap-proved, it would 'mean the ruin of owners of moving picture and vaudeville vaude-ville theatres as well 'as owners of baseball plants.' DOMESTIC. Warden Fenton of the Nebraska penitentiary said Friday he would notify no-tify all sheriffs of the jstate to send no more men convicted of crimes to the prison lfor the present. Warden Fenton said the penitentiary -' was crowded to the doors with 612 inmates, 200 more than normal capacity. Thomas Martin, said to be the son of a Detroit coffee dealer, was arrested arrest-ed at Chicago in connection with theft of $25,000 from the Moline, 111.,' Commercial Savings bank last July, when seven men were shot in a fight between bank employes and the bandits. ban-dits. Service in the American army during dur-ing the world war does no't entitle Japanese to American citizenship, the district court of appeals ruled at Sacramento, Sac-ramento, Cal., in denying the application applica-tion for citizenship it Ic'hizo Sato, Japanese. Mr. and Mrs'. Roy Creason, parents of Zola Creason, 16-year-old telephone operator who disappeared from Ko-komo, Ko-komo, Ind., are offering a reward of everything they possess for definite news of her. The offer includes a cottage home valued at $1000 and $100 in cash. Cresson is a laborer. One hundred and sixty miles' over a frozen and desolate snow waste George Miller drove a dog sled on which lay his wife, unconscious, suffering suf-fering from a nervous collapse. He has arrived at Dawson, Y. T., from Mayo and has placed her in a hospital following a seven-day journey. Fire partially destroyed the city hospital hos-pital at Riverside, Cal., the eighteen patients on the two floors being carried car-ried to safety. Defective wiring was assigned as "the cause of the blaze. Stefano Varesco, a shoemaker, walked into the police station at Santa Barbara, Cal., and calmly announced that he had just cut off his wife's head. Officers went to the man's home and stumbled over the headless body of the woman. The crime was the result of a family quarrel. A sermon on co-operation, not only between sections and parties, but between be-tween individuals, was preached by President-elect Harding in three speeches delivered at Jacksonville, Fla. .me Hundred Herman emigrants sailed from Hamburg, on February 25, for Brazil. A majority of them are penniless. Their passage money was advanced by the Brazilian government, in view of the fact that they had been waiting for many weeks for transportation. transpor-tation. Saloon interests in Juarez. Mexico, are preparing to send a delegation to Chihuahua City to protest against a proposed law in the legislature there which would make the whole state of Chihuahua dry. The Turkish delegations to the near Fast conference at London have accepted ac-cepted the proffered arbiation of the supreme council as het.veen Turkey Tur-key and Ci-oeeo in detertnining the status of Smyrna and Thrace. In acting on the disarmament question, ques-tion, the council of the league of nations na-tions decided to ask the governments of the various members of the league of nations what their attitude was toward to-ward compliance with the Ceneva recommendations for limitation of military mil-itary expend:! uros. More than looo Jews were victim--of pogroms carried our by the troops 'of Ceneral P.alakovit.-h. former ar.li-bolshevik ar.li-bolshevik leader, in the regions ,,f i Minsk and Ihimel. aocovKng to a stale- j meat issued by the Federation o' J i Ukrainian Jews in Loudon. A congressional investigation of Fox I Hills hospital on Staten Island, a government gov-ernment institution for disabled soldiers, sol-diers, was recommended in the preliminary pre-liminary report of a committee ot the American Legion. Fishing on Sunday would be punishable pun-ishable by a fine of 50, under a bill introduced in the Arkansas legislature. Another bill offered would provide a prison sentence of from two to five years on persons found guilty of bribing brib-ing baseball players to throw a game. Police of Chicago are searching for William Dalton, aged IT. who is charged with having disappeared with nearly a million dollars worth of Liberty bonds belonging to a bank, by which he was employed. Jacob llaussling. four times mayor of Newark, N. J., died of a knife wound self-inflicted, police said, llaussling's body was found in bed by his wife. A soda fountain equipment company, of which he was head, went into bank-' ruptcy recently, costing the former mayor much of his popularity. Fred Williams, who went to war in 1017. will return to his home in Lafayette, (la., in a few days to find that it had been supposed that he was killed in France and his body buried, his war insurance paid, and his b:i,!t Lite wife of another. |