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Show ' HEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM RECORD Of THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happanlngt That Are Making Hlatory - Information Gathered from AU Quartara of tha Glob ana) Given In a Few Llnaa. INTER MOUNTAIN. Pete Cordillo was declared guilty of murder In the second degree by a jury' at Cheyenne. Cordillo was convicted In connection with the death of Frank T Jennings last September. His brother, " John Cordillo, now is serving a sen tence in the penitentiary for his connection con-nection with the same affair. A citizen constabulary is being organized or-ganized at Twin Falls, Idaho, to combat com-bat the growing evil of speeding on paved streets. Organization is being directed by the mayor. San Juan county, Utah, is practically rid of prairie (logs, according to advices ad-vices received at the capitol. More than 10(),(X)0 acres have been gone over. The drive is the second largest ever attempted in the mountain country. coun-try. Because of a shortage of cattle in Montana and Idaho thousands- of these animals are being shipped to those states from eastern Oregon. Heavy liquidation of sheep and lambs from the ranges of the west is feared on account of tightness of money and depression in wool markets. With floekmasters unable to realize on 1020 wool clip, which ought to be bringing a flow of money into the west at l his time, banks aro pressed for funds. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, prohibition lecturer, who gave an eye for the cause In England, hoarded an air liner lin-er at Cranger, Wyo., from a Union Pacific train, bound for Gooding, Ida., where he was scheduled to address the Gooding chamber of commerce. The trip of miles was made in less Mian four hours. OOME8TIC. Lieut. Carl Wanderer, in a new confession which the state's attorney gave on! at Chicago, admitted that he shot and killed his wife to get rid of her and to get possession of her money. mon-ey. He admitted, officers said, that lie planned a "framed up" robbery with the man he killed on the same occasion in the doorway of their hojne. Charges that persons employed through the attorney general's office, ostensibly to aid in reducing cost of living, really were working to have A. Mitchell Palmer nominated for president at the Democratic national convention, were made before the senate committee investigating presidential presi-dential campaign expenditures at St. Louis. George Burgess, a miner, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself at Bisbee, Ariz. Neighbors say the couple had quarreled violently. Esther Miller, a 15-year-old girl, was Kwnrdcd damages for $40,000 against tho Standard Oil company a few days ago. The child was severely burned when a gasoline tank exploded at Hays, Kans., and a number of persons per-sons were killed and injured. Harry Kelley, charged with being one of three men who robbed the Bank of Howe at Howe, Neb., May 21, pleaded plead-ed guilty and was sentenced to serve from three to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Green Hunter, alias James Brown, negro, wns legally hanged at Dallas, Texas, for attacking a white woman at Hale station, Friday, May 28. Forest fires which broke out in five different sections near Nogales, Ariz., caused the termometer to climb to :l,'!0 degrees in the shade, the highest mark ever recorded at Nogales. Mrs. Alice J. Cavanaugh, formerly of (he mayor's committee at New York on rent profiteering and known as Hie "rent angel of the Bronx," has been sentenced to five to ten years in Auburn state prison for women for defrauding tenants of $2107 entrusted to her care pending litigation. All possibility of Louisiana enfranchising enfran-chising the women of tho nation ; through ratification of tho federal niffragr amendment was removed j when the biennial session of the state ; k'gi hit uro adjourned sine die on t July 8. j IVivcting his fire fighting force of I 1.10 picked men from an airplane, Fores i Supervisor Dunston of Red Bluff, Cal., is making a determined elTo'-( to stop tho spread of a forest fire in the Lassen National forest near the settlement of Cussoll In the Hat Creek district. ('-rtruile Kistler, 12-year-old daughter daugh-ter of Sedgewiek Kistler ot Lock lhiveu, Ph., a delegate to the Democratic Demo-cratic national convent ion, was! drowned ill Hie Merced river at Yose- I mite. Cal., and II. .1. Pink of Los ! Angeles, who went to her rescue, ' si pped on a rock as he entered Hie ! stiv-rm and fractuied his skull, death j n'suliing distantly. Dumb for three years a the result ' L of shell shock, Trooper V. Hart Mil- ! , Ji'iily recovered his .speech at Niauara, . in the excitement of a howling With steady hand and nerve, and calmly going about his business as if he were performing rhe simplest of operations. Dr. Orlando P. Scott, a well known surgeon of Chicago, cut si rip a Tier s:r:p of flesh from his own thigh and graiied Iheui onto his wife's foot and ankle as he rested on a portable port-able table at his wife's bedside, hoping to save Ins wife's leg, injured in an auto accident. More than 1000 Polish veterans of Buffalo, N. Y., it Is estimated, will answer the call of President Pilsudski of the Polish republic for volunteers for immediate service against the advancing ad-vancing armies of Bolshevist Russia. Fred Canafex, an escaped negro convict, con-vict, was shot to death by a mob of whites near Centerville, Mo. Canafex is alleg d to have assaulted a daughter daugh-ter of Frank Simmons, a farmer residing re-siding near Ellington. WASHINGTON. Charges that Chester A. Snow, 70-year-old millionaire patent attorney, and two other persons conspired to bring about the death of Mrs. Addis H. Snow, divorced wife of the attorney, attor-ney, were dismissed in federal police court at Washington. Published reports that a huge fund is being raised by big business interests inter-ests to combat union labor under the guise of maintaining the open shop have been corroborated by Frank Morrison, Mor-rison, secretary of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. Assurance of an adequate supply of coal to meet all domestic requirements require-ments during the coming months was given by George II. dishing, managing manag-ing director of the American Wholesale Whole-sale Coal association, who declared in a statement at Washington that reports re-ports of an impending coal shortage were unfounded. A conflict of irreconcilable elements ele-ments that make up the present regime re-gime in Mexico is certain to break out in the near future, Ignacio Bonillas, former Mexican ambassador to the United States, declared in discussirg Mexican affairs and the present revolution. revo-lution. Testifying that by "listening in" on a telephone conversation he heard Chester A. Snow, aged Washington millionaire, give his stamp of approval to a plot to kill his divorced wife, Mrs. Addie II. Snow, Henry E. Davis created cre-ated a sensation at Snow's preliminary prelimin-ary hearing at Washington. FOREIGN Germany, in conformity with the unanimous decision of her cabinet, on July 9 signed the protocol for her speedy disarmament insisted upon by the allies. Chancellor Fehrenbach and Dr. Simons, foreign minister, affixed af-fixed their signatures to the document, docu-ment, which was drawn in the exact form submitted by Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Wilson, the allied military mil-itary chiefs. The departure of the Turkish peace delegation from Paris does not constitute con-stitute a rupture of the peace negotiations, negoti-ations, as some Turkish circles in Constantinople are said to regard it. Two of the principal delegates are remaining in Paris. The government lias decided to reject re-ject the peace proposals of Francisco Villa, Gen. Francisco R. Serrano, under un-der secretary of war and marine, has announced. Only unconditional surrender, sur-render, he declared, would be accepted. accept-ed. Germany has been advised that she must at once accept the Franco-British Franco-British plan of disarmament. The alternative al-ternative is contained in the specific veat that the allies will occupy the Ruhr or other territories if Germany cannot or does not accept. It is said that Francisco Villa and the Mexican federal forces opposing him have signed an armistice, effective effec-tive until July 15. A revolt against General Semenoff, led by Baron Sternberg is reported to the state department in a telegram from Harbin, Manchuria. Sternberg, who was one of Semenoff's generals, is reported to have been dismissed by General Semenoff. Owing to the critical condition of Poland, volunteers for active service in the army are offering themselves from every side. They Include school and university teachers, students, boy scouts, civil servants and ministerial employes whose occupations excuse them from military service. Hundreds of girls are planning to join the army. Hundreds of Armenian families are being reunited monthly through the efforts of the members of the American Ameri-can committee for relief in the near cast, who are scattered throughout the leading cities of Asia Minor with headquarters in Constam.nople. Greek troops have swept the country west of Baloukessar clear of Turks as far north as Adraniit. They also have landed large forces at Chanh k, on the Dardanelles. Consequently they expect to eliminate the Turks from the province of Biglia shortly. Forty housemaids at Buckingham palace, all under o0, have quit their jobs because Queen Mary refused to increase their wages 10 per cent. A measure providing for the immediate im-mediate doubling of the import and consumption tax on alcoholic hover- ages until September, 1022. has been j introduced in the chamber of deputies j at Uio Janeiro, Bra7.il. Foreign influence is being brought to bear on the Spai isli railroad policy and proper development is thus pre- ! vented, it as cli uged by Juan de la j Cierva, former n inister of war in a j speech urging rationalization of rail- i ways, which h is been the sullied of wide comiuen'1 and sharply d:v'deiLj opinion. ' |