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Show D History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Dismantling of the Skinner Kddy Shipyard No. 1, at S. ;i t : I , where Hcvi-nl y-f i e ships iviTi: liuill during tin; war, Is tinclcr way. .M.vsicry iif tin; disappearance of Harry I iiiliin.sky, Cor hire automobile driver, at I'url la ml, may In; cleared up liy tin' confession made to Portland police liy George Miioit, II), wlio nays ho mill another young man slew Du-blnsky Du-blnsky ami threw Ills body in the I'fVl'l- I Five u-uiltv. fo i ;:!. s ,( !! and ! -; in i i i ii.-!.... I l.y . h I . . . i- 1 1 - lie. i -a -I.- nf 'hiny o:e i": proa ! iie-n 1 1-: i ! ;:i I...-; Angi-h-. .ti ,-U.,yz - '. viula : i'.n i.C ; he I., v. r a'-: ::ir-i,;.,i ;, Uwil p'i i'l ha ; .a: inn in lie- - i. 'In-. mien'-strike mien'-strike la-i Apr: I. Tie. Ai.icrii-aii l 'i . I 1:1 i-n i.f !.a!" !' aL'aiil e.pi'.--i-i iis i .1. 1'ii Ii I in the leaili-rl,:p ut Saline-l I luiilju-l'.-, iis Veteran I ' I . .: 1 1 . 1 1 ! , when il re-oleeted him mi June 18 f.u- 1 1 1 i h : rt.v-n int h 1 inie. ' A !a nr lot: jig plans f." a v:i":i!:"!i a' I' M-a-'i.'e iv ...r;, S'i imi.ir I larding. Republican Re-publican presidential miininee, has derided de-rided to ri-mahi ill Washington lllllil the middle of July ,whcn he will go I" his Marimi (Ohio) home for the formal for-mal notification ceremonies. WASHINGTON, l're.sident Wilson has received the first "victory medal," an emhlem which will be issued to "all those entitled to it who served in the world war between April (i, 11)17, and armistice day, November No-vember II, 191S." The medal will be given without cost of any kind to 4,7G."i,00d troops. J. Mercer Iiarnelf, member of the Birmingham, Ala., Kiwanis club, was unanimously elected president of the Inlernatlonal Kiwanis clubs at the closing business session of the annual International convention at Portland. One man was killed outright and another was fatally Injured, when several tons of rock gave way without warning in the face of an entryway of a coal mine at Dinmimdvllle, Wyo. Jack Tlllie, 27, was crushed to death at Portland when an elevator on which be was riding at the Montgomery Ward & Co. warehouse fell seven floors. A brakeman was killed, two other man were Injured and forty-eight freight cars were destroyed when a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway rail-way train got beyond control near Boylston tunnel, Washington, and ran wild down grade for seventeen miles. DOMESTIC. Two men were killed and a dozen wounded, two fatally, In a race riot at Chicago, Sunday night. The trouble trou-ble started when a negro agitator and his followers burned an American flag in the street. After a stormy session, the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor indorsed the league of nations without: reservations. The league was bitterly opposed by Irish sympathizers who were supported sup-ported by the progressive wing of the federation. Five army aviators will leave Mine-ola, Mine-ola, N. Y., July 10, on a flight for Nome, Alaska, to reconnolter a proposed commercial com-mercial route, It is announced. The route will cover 4871 miles, including fiOO square miles of unexplored territory. terri-tory. Marry ltepublicans are so confident that the next national convention will be held in Chicago that several hundred hun-dred reservations have been made at local hotels "for the 1024 convention." One hotel has reported more than 200 reservations. An attempt to revive the suffrage fight in the house of the Louisiana legislature failed when a motion to reconsider the resolution ratifying the federal woman suffrage amendment was voted down Gl to IS. A referendum on the act passed by the last legislature granting women the right to vote for presidential electors elec-tors has been ordered by Governor Milliken of Maine in a proclamation. Eighty-five aliens, half of whom are alleged anarchists, arrived at Ellis Island on June 17 from the west for deportation. Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, has accepted the Wichita, Kan., challenge of Georges Carpeutier, European champion, for a fight any time after October 10. One man was killed, another was reported dead, a dozen others had narrow escapes from death and thousands of dollars of damage was done during a terrific electrical wind and rainstorm of almost cloudburst proportions at Cleveland. Immediate investigation will be made by county authorities Into the lynching of three negroes at Duluth, Minn., by a mob of 5000 persons, which battered their way into the police station to secure the negroes. Authorities have no clue to the identity of the young woman whose headless body was found in a lake at St. Joseph, Mo. The body was nude, bound with wire clothes line and weighted with iron bed rails. Health officials of Tampa, Flu., have declared a quarantine against freight billed to or from i'ensacola. where two deaths have occurred within the last five days from a disease pronounced as bubonic plague. Three negroes were lynched at Duluth, Minn., by a mob estimated at .riO Hi persons, which overpowered the police, took possession of police headquarters head-quarters and seized the negroes, who were held in connection with an attack at-tack on a young white girl. 4 The American Federation of Labor's Indorsement of government ownership owner-ship of the railroads at its annual convention at Montreal was declared by labor leaders to have been the first genuine defeat of Samuel Gompers, its veteran president, has suffered in years. Jack Dempsey has been absolutely purged of taint of draft evasion. It look a jury at San Francisco only one minute of actual deliberation to decide de-cide that the heavyweight champion of the world had not unlawfully evaded the draft. The calling of a conference of the leading oil refiners and of representatives representa-tives of the principal fuel oil using industries in-dustries as a means of working out some distribution plan that would in-' in-' sure a reasonable supply of oil has been suggested by Secretary of Commerce Com-merce Alexander in a letter to Senator Sen-ator Phelan of California. The 1010 American wheat crop was produced at an average cost to the ' grower of $2.15 a bushel, the department depart-ment of agriculture announced in making mak-ing public its recent cost of production produc-tion survey. Revision of the present methods of making appropriations' and redistribution redistribu-tion of the work of the various executive exec-utive departments are recommended by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, in a letter to Representative Ireland which was made public Saturday at the navy department. Under a war department order, twenty-three officers holding the emergency rank of major generals are reduced to brigadiers or colonels and sixteen officers now brigadier generals gener-als are reduced to ranks ranging from major to colonel. In an effort to obtain better fitting uniforms for American soldiers, more than 100,000 men in the army have had their measure taken, the war department de-partment has announced. Hope for an early reduction in faxes is held out by Representative Mondell, Wyoming, Republican leader of the house, in a statement prepared for the filial issue Monday of the congressional congres-sional record and made public January Janu-ary 20. FOREIGN A wireless dispatch from Moscow declares that Afghan troops are concentrating con-centrating at the Indian-Afghan frontier fron-tier In order to attack the British in India. Seventeen persons, including the Kolchak governor of that region, two wireless operators amd several American Ameri-can miners of the Anadia district of arctic Siberia, were murdered late in January by a band of outlaws led by one Mikoff, a Russian convict formerly of Seattle, and proclaiming themselves bolsheviki, it has just been learned. The British army council has rendered ren-dered a report completely exonerating Gen. R. E. H. Dyer, former commander of the British forces in Punjab province, pro-vince, India. It was General Dyer who gave the order to a small squad of soldiers to fire into a crowd of 5000 unarmed Indian civilians until the ammunition am-munition was exhausted. Five persons were killed, ten others seriously wounded, several of them probably fatally, and about 100 others were less seriously injured, during a period of desperate rioting in Londonderry, London-derry, Ireland, Saturday night. The policy of friendship toward foreign for-eign nations, especially the United States, together with the obligation of all legally contracted debts of the Mexican republic, is a part of the provisional pro-visional president's program, as announced an-nounced by Adolph De La Huerta at a luncheon given newspaper men at Mexico City. Three hundred and thirty Italian pioneers have been killed by infuriated Albanians at Tirana, according to a telegram from Belgrade quoting reports re-ports reaching that city. It is said the Albanians attributed the assassination of Essad Tasha, former provisional president of Albania, in Paris, early this week, to Italian intrigues. With the opening of headquarters in San Francisco, the National Woman's Wo-man's party campaign to secure suffrage suf-frage action from the Democratic national na-tional convention begins. There are persistent rumors in the village of Doom, Holland, that the former for-mer German emperor has been as-. as-. saulted by a "Belgian, who, showing a forged pass, gained admittance to i Doom castle. It is asserted that the former emperor was wounded in the jaw and that the Belgian was arrested i Three hundred women camp followers fol-lowers attached to the government forces have been killed by the orders of Francisco Villa, the bandit, according accord-ing to El Democrata, quot'tig Jacinto : Trueba, a wealthy merchant of Jim-; Jim-; enez. state of Chihuahua. One of the women shot at Villa, who then ordered the wholesale execution. The house of commons occupied a large part of Thursday's session in discussing the league of nations. The ' burden of A. J. Balfour's speech was I that to overload the league would be to shatter il. |