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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE PASI WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WE8TERM Red pepper was the substance used by two men who gained entrance to the room of V. L. White, recently elected el-ected comamnder of the Disabled Veterans Vet-erans of America at Butte, and after knocking White unconscious, totally blinded him. All citizens of Denver must be vaccinated vac-cinated Immediately If they have not been Inoculated against smallpox within with-in the last few years. Dr. William IL Sharpley. manager of health and safety for the city, ordored. The order was Issued In the form of an emergency proclamation In an effort to stamp out the disease which has cost 200 lives in the last fifteen months. Relatives of Walter J. Schmauss are Investigating the report that he had committed suicide by leaping from a train near Wilcox, Ariz. The opinion that the compact worked out by the Colorado river commission com-mission for the apportionment of the water of the river among the basin states Is such as to protect Arizona's rights Is expressed In a telegram received re-ceived by Governor-elect George W. P. Hunt from Herbert Hoover, chairman chair-man of the commission, which is now In session at Santa Fe, N. M. WASHINGTON Representative Johnson of South iMikota, reintroduced In Che house the soldiers' bonus measure vetoed by President Harding at the last session of congress. An offer of the Mexican government to cooperate witli American prohibition prohibi-tion enforcement agencies in guarding the long border was reported to Commissioner Com-missioner Haynes. Investigation by the senate public lands committee of alleged oil monopolies monop-olies in Wyoming and Montana was proposed In a resolution by Senator Walsh of Montana, lie said reports showed that the Midwest Oil company controlled from 03 to 97 per cent of private Wyoming oil lands and that excessive prices were charged for pipe line construction. Woman's brief dominion in the sen-nte sen-nte ended with a dramatic speech by Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgia, the first woman senator, followed by her retirement retire-ment from the public stage. Every wish of the feminine political pathfinder path-finder to be sworn in and placed legally leg-ally on the senate rolls, to answer a senate roll call and to make a brief address had been gratified before she left the capitol. Encouraged by the recommendation of President Harding in Tuesday's message that the nation's credit systems sys-tems be broadenea to provide reVef for '1 e farmers, members of congress from the agricultural states inaugurated inaugurat-ed steps to bring about enactment of rural credit legislation before the end of tae present congress next March. A movement is under way in congress con-gress to force federal action against activities ac-tivities of masked raiders, who are charged with taking the law in their own hands in various sections of the country. Favorable weather during the week has enabled Utah fanners to resume the vigorous prosecution of sugar beet harvesting and other outdoor work, Including alfalfa seed threshing, and work of this description is now fast nearlng completion throughout the state, according to the weekly weather weath-er bureau report made public. A great memorial athletic stadium, already named the "den'' of the Golden Gol-den Bear, is soon to rise in Strawberry Straw-berry canyon, in tho Berkeley hills, on the university of California campus. The stadium is to cost $1,000,000 and will seat 72,000. Following the precedent set in Detroit De-troit last week, Municipal Judge William Wil-liam F. Wappich of Omaha sentenced auto speeders to visit speed victims in hospitals. Yoncilln. Oregon, which two years ago elected a city government composed com-posed entirely of women, lias selected men to serve in the various city offices of-fices for the coming two years and pnly two women remain in office, those serving on the council. GENE. MAIL New York. Anthony Cassese, described de-scribed by the authorities as "the bootleg boot-leg king'' was convicted by a jury in federal court on a charge of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and Judge Knox sentenced him to two years in the Atlantic peniteniary. The judge also al-so imposed a fine of $10,000. Ada, Ohio. Governor J. B. A. Robertson Rob-ertson of Oklahoma scored another court victory here in his defense against a charge lodged in Okmulgee county that he accepted a bribe, and the way was opened for an attempt by the executive's attorneys to have the indictment against him dismissed. Birmingham, Ala. Eighty miners were killed and sixty injured, some of them seriously, in a dust explosion in Dolomite mine No. 3 of the Woodward Iron company, nine miles from this city, which trapped 4S0 workers beneath be-neath the surface, according to an official offi-cial statement issued here by D. E. Wilson, president of the company. Greens-burg, Pa. After Mrs. Razella Spinolli, on trial in circuit court for the murder of Mrs. .Tovina Sposatu, announced that she had decided to ple.td guilty To murder in the second A soldiers' Ibonus to be pa;d in cash from taxation of 2.75 beer, and cider was proposed In a bill reintroduced reintro-duced in the House by Representative Hill, Republican of Maryland. The measure modifies one introduced by Md. Bill during the last session of Congress, whicTi provided for 4 per cent beer and 12 per cent wine. The new bill provides settlement of a bonus bon-us in three equal cash payments on July 1. 1923, 1924 and 1925, and Mr. Hill declared the beer and cider tax would take care of the outlay, which he estimated at one and a half billion bil-lion dollars. In a telegram sent to President Harding, Governor Mabey called the attention of the president to the urgent ur-gent need for consideration by congress con-gress of measures looking to reclamation reclama-tion work, particularly from the Utah point of view, in the arid land states. FOREIGN Paris. The French senate avoided a direct vote on the woman suffrage bill by technical use of the senate regulation. regula-tion. It first voted urgently for the measure. Then the senators voted 153 to 134 that they would not discuss the articles. Manila. President Harding and congress will be petitioned to allow the Philippine legislature to call a constitutional con-stitutional convention to frame a future fu-ture independent republic in the Philippines. Phil-ippines. Seoul. Foreigners in Korea are organizing or-ganizing relief for the Russian refugees ref-ugees at Gensan, in the northern part of the territory. Food and clothing have been sent the?; The local American Amer-ican Red Cross has devoted all its funds to the cause. Constantinople. Lieutenant General Harington, commander of the allied forces has issued a stern warning to the Kemalists that any further en-croachments en-croachments upon Constantinople will be at their peril. Mexico City. The Fr.scisti movement, move-ment, which was started last week at .Talapa, state of Vera Cruz, has spread to Chihuahua City, according to El Universal Grafted. A dispatch to the nwespaper says a meeting of ranchers ranch-ers and miners was held there at which a program of action was outlined to combat Bolshevism. formed the court that so far as he was concerned, the plea was not acceptable. accept-able. M.Alester, OUla. Fifty-nine sleeping passengers were catapulted from their berths when six Pullman cars of the first Missouri, Kansas & Texas train No. 3, St. Louis to Galveston, left the rails and overturned into n ditch nine miles north of here. The existence of a medical association associa-tion for the protection of constitutional constitution-al rights, founded Ivy 100 of the leading physicians in N'ew York became known when the association filed in federal court a suit to test the constitutionality constitution-ality of the Volstead act nd to annul the section of the supplementary act which limits the prescribing of alcohol alco-hol for patients. Five armed bandits swooped down on the C.reen Mills Gardens, we'l known Chicago dining palace, locked James Chamelos, one or the owners in an Icebox, dynamited a s-.ife and escaped with about $5,000. A father's plea that his 2-day-old deformed baby girl he scientifically pi;t to death was overruled by physicians. phy-sicians. The child, normal mentally, has neither arms nor legs. The fath-r, fath-r, James C. I.ehnisca, of Chicago, begged that she "lie allowed not to live," according to surgeons. With auxiliary power out of commission, com-mission, anchors lost, sails torn and foremast loose, the liritish three-masted schooner Porin was towed into Halifax by the Red Cross liner Rosalind Rosa-lind from New York. The schooner was 120 days out from Penarth, Wales from which port she cleared for Vera Cruz. Many of the crew had flowing beards. The police of Mexican and of Cal-exlco, Cal-exlco, Cal., just across the International Interna-tional line, united in the search for two men, said to he Mexicans, who inveigkxi Richard Newton and Dan McKinnon of Williams, near Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Cal., into taking an automobile ride into the country below Mexican, robbed them nt the point of revolvers, shot McKinnon find, believing him dead, threw him out of the car. Arguments are being heard by the interstate commerce commission on the proposed reduction in freight rates on sugar from points in Utah and Colorado and other western states to Mississippi river crossings and to St. Vaul-Duluth territory. Notices that unscrupulous persons were making efforts to induce owners of 1918 war savings stamps to part with them for unstable securities or for less than cash value, are 'being sent J out by the treasury department through ! the federal reserve banks. |