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Show "The child kept me awake at night, so I was taking it Id the canal to 'lroui il." was the ex j da iial ion given lo tin" police by a young man who was foiih'l walking along Hit- !rw at .Montreal uiih liis landlady's IJ-molillis-o!( inf'anl in his Miitcase. He was sent to an asylum. The lower holl-e of ihe Nebraska h-g-i-latiiro has passed a hill wide would deprive aliens inelligildo to ( 'i 1 i Zen si i i p from owning laml in ilie stale of Nebraska. Ne-braska. The measure now goes to the senate, w here it stands a good eham-e of being approved. A. K. Ko'lskier. II years ohl. cashier o History of ?astWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed of the Farmers' bank at Spra:riioville. I Iowa. who recently took a vacation trip I to Now Orleans, has informed bank of-j of-j fieials from that point that be is .SIO.-' .SIO.-' OK'I s 1 1 . .r I in his accounls. and that he is nil his way lo Ceniral America. WASHINGTON. A drastic measure against immigration immigra-tion during Hie next year was adopted Saturday by the seniiie. which by ill to L'. passed Ihe Dillingham inmiigral ion restriction bill after' adding amendments amend-ments lo increase Ms re-ii'iclive features. feat-ures. The bill, il is estimated, would I i m' t immigrants during the next twelve months to slightly over ."'.Vi.OlNl. Food now is LM :." per cent cheaper lo Ihe consumer than six months ago, Klhelbert Slewarl. government price expert announced February HI. '1'rnmotinn of a number of army officers of-ficers having Ihe rank of colonel and lower was approved Friday by the senate, sen-ate, but Republican leaders again refused re-fused lo permit consideration of civilian civi-lian appointments of President Wilson. Formal complaint against Federal Judge Landis of Chicago for his remarks re-marks in the case of an Ottawa, III., bank clerk charged with embezzlement, is made in a letter sent to the department depart-ment of justice by Senator Dial of South Carolina. An attack on Japanese "demagogues and junkers" was delivered in the house Thursday by Representative Miller, Washington, in urging increased increas-ed fortifications for Puget sound and the Pacific coast. After a healed debate the house adopted a resolution calling upon President Wilson for an itemized statement showing disbursements and allotments of the $150,000,000 war funds voted by congress. FOREIGN. The polical strength of Premier Lloyd George went up several points when the returns from the Cardigan byelection showed that Captain Evans, the premier's secretary, had been elected elect-ed to the house of commons. The Swedish engineer, Sven Ber-gieue, Ber-gieue, is reported to have produced a speaking moving picture, which recent- IMrEHMOUNTAIN. Following a sixly-day I'a-! in jail. Ceorge F. V-'csl, alleged i IV murderer. Is dead at Dallas. Ore. V'- came to Dallas ln-1 December Horn Willows. 'al., and v.eiil lo the nearby ranch where his wife, I'toin whom he had been .separated, was working as a housekeeper. A (pntriel ensued ami Wesl Is alleged lo haveshoi ami killed bis wife. P.elucen Sit. (It) ami S'J.'IIMI w a Slolell by masked bandits, who etiiered a pool hall al Dielz. V o.. held up eighlceu men Who were playing pool and ransacked their pockets, the cash register and Ihe sale. An amendment lo the posioffice appropriation ap-propriation bill providing 1 .."iOII.DOU for airplane mail service between New York ami San Francisco via Chicago, Omaha and Salt Luke has been adopted adopt-ed by Ihe senate. Measures providing for submission to Ihe people of bonus legislation were passed by the Oregon senate. The bonus provided Is $15 for each month served In the world war by Oregon soldiers, sailors and marines, with an alternative of farm or home loans. The Washington slate senate has passed a bill providing for licensing real estate brokers. The bill Is Intended In-tended to .strike at the "fly by night ctirbsl one broker." Charges filed at Denver against Joshua Sykes, head of the "Tabernacle of David," that be bad contributed to the delimiuency of children, have been dismissed, and the self-styled "Jehovah" "Je-hovah" is a free man. DOMESTIC. Two men believed to have robbed the mail car of the North Coast Limited Lim-ited on the Northern Pacific of $.i()0,-(HH.) $.i()0,-(HH.) were captured at Little Falls, Minn., after a running revolver fight Willi deputies. Selection of Charles VOvnns Hughes of New York to be secretary of state was definitely announced Saturday at St. Augustine, Fla., by President-elect Harding. Mr. Hughes has accepted. Charges of inhuman treatment of en- listed men have been lodged with congress con-gress against officers of the U. S. S. Michigan by the municipal department of public welfare, it was announced Friday at Philadelphia. Typhus may break out in any part of the United States as the result of vermin infested European immigrants being admitted by federal officials, according ac-cording to Dr. Royal S. Copeland, New York City health commissioner. Newton W. Row-ell, formerly president presi-dent of the privy council of Canada and delegate to the league of nations, declared in the house of commons Friday Fri-day that public opinion will eventually force the United States to (Miter the league. v Henry Starr, notorious Oklahoma bandit, was probably fatally wounded when, witli two other men, he backed officials of the Peoples' Stale bank of Harrison, Ark., into the vault while attempting to rob the institution. One official, who had placed a rifle in the vault, obtained the weapiai and shot Star down. The other two escaped. Farmers of Wisconsin are feeding their potatoes to livestock, wtiile nearly near-ly two-thirds of Wisconsin's spud rop remains unshipped and prices have dropped from l.io a hundredweight hundred-weight to 00 cents. Enrico Caruso is believed to have won his fight against threatened death and lo be on the road to recovery at his home in New York City. The world famous tenor has been near death from pleurisy. An luir Policy, former heavyweight pugilist, d;ed at his home in Ford City. Out., Friday, death being attributed to sleeping sickness. I'elky participated iu a bout with Luther McCarthy in Calgary. Cal-gary. Canada. Map-. 1!U:!. that resulted re-sulted iu McCarthy's death. L'rciosiing Ids innocence lo the very last moment when the trap was sprung j and Ins body dropped to death. Ernest , Nakis was hanged at San (Jam t in. Cal.. It t!:e murder of Edwin Taylor, in Fresno county. An eleventh hour ap- ai to the governor for reprieve was unavailing. Six thousand bales of cotton were lost at lands, Texas, in a lire which destroyed three warehouses. The loss is os: minted at S-HHI.O00. ! Will: three-fifths of the primeval j forests gene, the I'nited Stales must turn lo fae growing and harvesting of timber crops. Colonel W. I'-. Gively, , chief of th Fluted Stales forest -.or-' vice, told the Massachusetts hor.se of representatives in an address. The governor of Texas, in a message to "Ihe people of Texas," asks that every preacher deliver a sermon, every speaker an address and every writer pen an editorial next Sunday' that will "help create a respect for an ohedii-oce to the laws of Texas." Miss Louise Wolf and Miss Mabel Foot, school teachers at the Parma High school, Cleveland, Ohio, were found beaten to death in a road in Parma heights, near Cleveland. They were last seen leaving the school building in the afternoon. A bloody stick was found near the bodies. ly was exhibited before scientists and distinguished persons at Stockholm. Professor Svente Arrhenius, director of the physicio-cheniiea! department of the Nobel institute, says the invention solves the long attempted problem. Indian rebels attacked the special train of Viceroy Lord Chelmsford neat-Allahabad, neat-Allahabad, forcing the viceregal party to abandon its efforts to reach Calcutta, Cal-cutta, according to advices received in London. Count Andrassy, former foreign minister, is reported to be ready to waive in the name of former Emperor Charles the hitter's title to the throne if the claims of Prince Otto,, who was heir apparent, are recognized by all the royalist factions. Is the news that comes from Budapest. There are 10,000,000 cases of malignant malig-nant malaria in Russia, says a Moscow dispatch. The mortality is said to be 3 per ofiit of those stricken. The dispatch dis-patch states there are but 5000 pounds of quinine in the country. The first trainload of bodies of French soldiers killed at the front, the work of disinterring which now is being carried out on u great scale, arrived ar-rived in Paris February IS and were buried in various Paris cemeteries with all military honors. It is officially announced at Cape Town. South Africa, that the imperial government has offered to purchase 100.000 bales of last season's wool, and it is stated that investigations are proceeding pro-ceeding with a view to the disposal of the new crop. The republic of Georgia has been virtually overrun by Russian soviet forces, who are threatening, if thej have not already occupied, the city of Tiflis, capital of the republic, froi; which the Georgian government ha fled. The statement comes from Russia that not less than 2O,0:h.0i!i) peasants are on the verge of starvation in Volga region and in n'.h.v provinces in Russia, Rus-sia, and that popular revolts against bo'.-.-hfvikl rule are takuig place. Premier Lloyd George declared in ihe house of commons on Friday that he stood by his pledge that Germany must pay to the limit of her capacity. U is reported tliar in a speech by Trorxky bel'ore the eighth congress of Soviets, he declared that at present .".(. 00:l miles of Russian railroads are I destroyed, so that only the central part remains intact. Three thousand I bridges and P.i.OIP telephone and telegraph tele-graph lines have also been destroyed. Measures to be taken in the. event that it is deemed necessary to coerce Germany to fulfill allied reparation and disarmament terms were discussed i at a conference between Premier j P.riand. War Minister Raj'thou. Mar-I Mar-I slials Focb and Retain, General Wey '. gand and others held in Paris. The most extensive raids yet car- ried out began in Dublin Friday, lOiX) troops participating, being equipped with motor lorries, machine guns and armored cars. A close search for arms was instituted and many arrests made. |