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Show Arthur Collins, v.-fco pl.-.i.h-d guilty to Ihi' charge of I ; j 1 1 - 1 . -1" ill the first d.-gr.-.. fur ,a b.g -1 j . . r and kiM.-l J .1 j 1 1: i ! i 1. r. lb. 'I, away, at l. Al,;vlrs has I 1 1 , -i il -i i - 1 tu l-h l-h ; 1 J i ' i ' 1 . Tin; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1" V. a ( .! ! 1 1 M J ! i ' 1 b-s li;:iti two w.-oi: a'o. Sixiy-six members i the f;u-uli.v of Vali- university Miit tu congress a protect expressing upposiljuu III 'Vijtl- grcssinnal resolutions of Great Britain and Ireland." Tin- signer, : j ii-'-.-.-eil belief tluit this government should nut interfere uitli "tint domestic affairs of any other friendly nation." Samuel ( iiimj.i-i s, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared de-clared In a formal statement that a war between tin; United Stales ainl Mexico would result If the reeom-mi'ii'lat reeom-mi'ii'lat ion of the senate cuininil tee which investigated the Mexicon affairs af-fairs were carried out. WASHINGTON. I'l'e.siilen . Wilson on June veined tie; hill establishing a national budget system and an unsuccessful attempt was made in the house to pass the measure over his veto. After a tempestuous voyage, the bill establishing conditions under which the great government-owned merchant fleet eventually is to be sold to Americans Am-ericans if possible;, to foreigners If not finally was parsed on June 4 by congress. After only a minute consideration the senate udopted wilh minor amendments amend-ments the house joint resolution repealing re-pealing war legislation vlth the ex- NEWS OF A WEEK if CONDENSED FORI! RICORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hppenlng That Are Miking History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe Given In a Few Line. INTER MOUNTAIN. The Slate hank at. Arvada, Wyo., hits been closed. This Is the first incorporated incor-porated hunk in Wyoming to Ik; closed In seventeen years. Wlille Installing a gas meter tit I'ort-land I'ort-land O. (t. lieinhart by mistake took off his pipe cap without first .shutting off the gas. The occupants of the house escaped before the explosion and fire which did damage amounting to 1,000. Although the ear they were driving to Twin Falls, Idaho, carried them over Ihe rlmrock of iJead Man's gulch and throw them to the floor of the canyon, can-yon, 70 feet below, neither Donald MacKay, rancher in the Filer district, his wife nor 8-year-old child received serious Injuries. cepllon of the Lever fooil control act and the trading with the .enemy act. Following a fifteen-hour session, the senate passed the third deficiency bill carrying $58,467,000 and sent it to conference. This was an increase of more than $5,000,000 over the houue bill. Five thousand clerical employes of the war department will be let out by July 1, because of reductions in appropriations. ap-propriations. Since May about 1000 men and women have been dropped from the force, which will stand, after July, at 7000. The house has adopted a resolution repealing all wartime laws except the Lever food control act and the trading. trad-ing. Action of Attorney General Palmer in sanctioning a "fair price" for Louisiana Louis-iana sugar, was defended in a report of minority members of the house sugar su-gar investigating committee. FOREIGN The treaty of peace with Hunjary was signed at Versailles on June 4. "We have signed the hardest of all the treaties," said a member of the Hungarian delegation after the ceremonies, cere-monies, "but we have done so in hope and confidence of its revision." A program of commercial procedure for nationals of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium Bel-gium will be drafted at the initial meeting of the International chamber of commerce in Paris from June 25 to July 1, with the view of suppression of unfair competition, acceleration of transportation of raw materials, reconstruction recon-struction of the war devastated regions, the economic organization of new states and stabilization of exchange. ex-change. Encounters between German and French soldiers at Gleiwitz, Silesia, which resulted in a number of percions on both sides being Injured, are reported re-ported in a wireless dispatch from Berlin. Faced with the alternative of being nationalized or getting married, Lydia Zelinskara, of Moscow, chose the latter lat-ter solution temporarily, she explained in a Geneva divorce court. With twelve army officers in hospitals hos-pitals at Budapest in consequence of having been pricked by poison needles and a number dead, it Is believed that bolshevik! are attempting to create new disorders during the period of uneasiness un-easiness attendant upon the signing of the peace treaty. A deficit of 2,400,000 pesos exists in the Mexican treasury, according to the newspapers. They quote General Sal-vaor Sal-vaor Alvarado, minister of finance in the cabinet of President de la Huerta, as authority for the statement. The Toles have launched a counterattack counter-attack south of Kiev region, while the reds have concentrated in an endeavor to drive to the northwest in order to compel the Poles to evacuate Kiev. That the Anglo-Japanese alliance will be extended automatically for another year is declared by the Daily Mail's political correspondent to be probable. Sixteen years in a French prison was the sentence pronounced by a French military judge at Ludwigs-haven, Ludwigs-haven, in the occupied zone, upon Captain Cap-tain Imhof, a German captain accused of looting French chateaux during the war. Repatriation of Russian prisoners of war in Germany has been arranged by j the Moscow and Berlin government , j says a dispatch. They will be sent to Russia by way of Riga, from which port they will cross Lithuania. Gen. P. Elias Calles, minister of war and marine, under the de facto government, govern-ment, has arrived at Mexico City on his 1000-mile trip from Agua Prieta, i Sonora. He was greeted with typical Mexican embraces by Gen. Alvaro j Obregon, Gen. Benjamiu IL.l and other j notables. i William of Hohenzollern, former emperor of Germany, is . trying his hand as a tailor, according to a Central Cen-tral News dispatch from Amsterdam. He is cutting out patterns for many hew suits with which he is going to stock' his wardrobe. The remuneration received by the library workers Is far from adequate and conditions are seriously affecting the morale of the profession according to Pres. Chalmers Hadley of the American Am-erican Library association, In an address ad-dress at Colorado Springs, opening the mutual convention of the American Ameri-can Library association. The supremo court upheld federal court decrees dismissing habeas corpus cor-pus proceedings brought by Leslie C. Htallings to prevent his extradition from Washington to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he is charged with embezzling government funds. Mrs. Julia I!. Smith, convicted at Tacoma of criminal assault on Prose-culor Prose-culor W. D. Askren, was sentenced to from ten to thirty years In the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. Mrs. Smith shot the county prosecutor April 3. Prosecution and. punishment of approximately ap-proximately 1200 Utah residents, who during the war successfully evaded military service under the selective draft law, is demanded of the government govern-ment through its various agencies in a resolution adopted by the American Legion state convention at Ogden. DOMESTIC. (Jrover Cleveland Bergdoll, wealthy draft evader, who escaped from the custody of two noncommissioned officers of-ficers of the army at his home in Philadelphia May 21, is reported trying try-ing to reach the Mexican border, motoring with a companion and chauffeur, chauf-feur, according to a message received at Phoenix, Ariz. Catherine Dundon of Conshohoken, Pa., has been arrested in connection with the kidnaping of 13-months-old lllakeley Gughlin, who was taken from his crib ftc his parents' home near Norrlstown, Pa. Ruby Karen Mercedes, 5-year-old Holstein cow, was sold for $9100 at the opening of the sale at St. Paul under the management of the Minnesota Holstein Friesian association. Ten head of cattle brought an average price of $3102.50. Property damage to Homer, Neb., and surrounding towns by flood water from Omaha creek Tuesday Is estimated esti-mated at more than $1,000,000. The flood followed a cloudburst near Homer. Judge John M. Cowan, 99, died at his home In Springfield, Mo. He was the first white child bom in Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, Ind., and was the oldest living graduate of Wabash college. Officials were unable to cope with the situation at Elliuwood, Kansas, which culminated in the escorting from town of Walter T. Mills and members of his party who came to discuss the principles of the Nonpartisan league, according to a statement of the mayor. Despite the appeal of President Wilson Wil-son and other national Democratic and Republican leaders for the ratification of the woman's suffrage federal amendment, the Delaware leg'slature adjourned June 2 without ratifyiug. Grasshoppers are seriously damaging damag-ing crops in Hall and Childress counties, coun-ties, Texas, according to reports made public by the .state agricultural department. de-partment. They destroy cotton and corn as fast as the- plants come up, the report said. Madly in love with a married man. according to the police, Mrs. Mary Frances Dunlop, living on a farm near West Grove, Pa., shot and killed J. Le-roy Le-roy Eichelberger, the object of her infatuation, in-fatuation, as he lay asleep in bed with his wife and infant. She then drove to her own home and killed her 11-year-old daughter and herself. The 150 defendants charged . in a "blanket" indictment with the deportation de-portation of strikers and others from Bisbee July 12, 1917, have been granted grant-ed a continuance until November S. At a meeting at Chicago of general chairmen of the Maintenance of Way Brotherhood, Frank G. Grable of Detroit, De-troit, president of the organization, was authorized to present a petition to the railway labor board for a temporary tem-porary increase in wages of IS cents an hour, pending the final decision of the board on the brotherhood's wage 4kumuds. |