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Show i A standing reward of $500 to any person for the death of each bandit killed while attempting to rob a member mem-ber bank was voted Friday by the Association As-sociation of Suburban bankers at Kansas Kan-sas City. An appropriation of 5250.000 for the relief of needy unemployed has been voted by the Detroit city council. Applications Ap-plications for relief average about .200 daily. A vote of 1657 to 24 favoring private ownership and operation of street railroad rail-road lines is recorded in a referendum proposition submitted to its members by the United States chamber of c(fn-nierce. c(fn-nierce. Single standard of morals for nen and women, witli punishment alike for both, is the object of a bill drafted by the legislative committee of the Iowa Christian Temperance Union. Efforts will be made to get the bill through at the present session of the legislature. WASHINGTON. n History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed a INTERMOUNTAIN. Seven thousand dollars in gold and $1000 m currency was taken by daylight day-light safe robbers from the vault and strong box of the Western Loan and Jiuilding company at Salt Lake. All records for the number of bills introduced in the Colorado Legislature have been shattered. On January 21, a total of 1100 bills had been introduced. The question of total or partial disarmament dis-armament should not be discussed by the United States with other nations pending a change of administrations, March 4, Elihu Root, who helped to form the international court of arbitration arbi-tration under the league of nations, declared in a letter to Chairman Butler of the house naval committee. Staggering burdens of taxation resulting re-sulting from the world war have caused the people of all nations to favor a world agreement for disarmament, disarma-ment, Henry White, former ambassador ambassa-dor to France, and a hiember of the American peace commission to Paris, declared before the house naval committee com-mittee holding hearings on this subject. sub-ject. Deportation of Gregory Weinstein, chancellor' of the Russian soviet bureau in the United States, has been ordered by Secretary Wilson of the labor department. W. M. Coleman of New York, general gen-eral counsel for the Hudson & ' Manhattan Man-hattan railroad cohipany, committed suicide by jumping from the eleventh story of a hotel at Washington. FOREIGN. A serious outbreak, involving the looting of country markets, has occurred occur-red in the Muzufferpur district, British India. Sympathizers with the non-cooperative fciovement are believed believ-ed to have been principals or instigators. instiga-tors. According to a Belgrade dispatch, the Serbian chief rabbi at Alkalei has left for the United States. It is tinder-stood tinder-stood he has been intrusted with a. special mission by the Serbian government. It will be a misdemeanor for an aviator to alight on a public highway in Oregon, except in an emergency, under the terms of a bill introduced in the state legislature, ' creating a slate, board of aircraft examiners and regulating the licensing of aviators. A stringent anti-alien land bill, modeled after the California law, has li'M-n introduced in the Oregon legis-(ature. legis-(ature. Before being presented, the attorney generat decided that the provisions pro-visions of the measure were fully within the constitutional powers of the legislature. Under (he terms' of the will of Henry D. Watson, of Kearney, Neb., 12r0,000 is bequeathed to the state of , Colorado to be used as a loan fund for struggling Colorado ranchers. Walson, who was a rancher, was actual actu-al ed by a desire to help others who had no financial backing. A complete canvass of the mining , vompanies operating at Butte, Mont., shows' that 7000 persons are employed in the industry in that district. This includes, miners, surface workers and office help. DOMESTIC. The power of taxation in this country coun-try now is being exercised to an extent ex-tent almost of destruction, Governor , Miller told the Bar association of the Mate of New York at its annual meeting meet-ing at New York. Charged witli defrauding the government gov-ernment and hiring a man to set fire to government buildings, Franklin La'mb, former quartermaster at Ft. Wayne, was arrested by federal authorities at Detroit. Recommendation that the Mexican government pay indemnities for damages dam-ages sustained by individuals and companies com-panies during revolutionary periods, in this country will be made to the Mexican Mexi-can congress by President Obregon. Immediate evacuation of Siberia, universal suffrage and insistence upon Japan's rights in the California question ques-tion were demanded in resolutions passed at a general (meeting of the Kenseikai, the opposition party of Japan. Eight men, seven of whom were constables, con-stables, were shot and killed in engagements en-gagements with Sinn Feiners near Dublin, Friday. Six of the constables mot death when their motor car ran into an ambuscade. A loan of $30,000,000 has been negotiated nego-tiated by the Belgian government with the Guaranty Trust co'mpany of New York, and the contract for it was signed sign-ed a few days ago. The loan will be issued in the United States and bears interest at 8 per cent. Gutamala's standing army of 15,01X1 men is to be cut to 5,000, according to news that comes from that country. The next session of the league of nations will be held in Geneva, February Feb-ruary 21. Several commissions will be appointed by (lie council to report at the assembly in September next. America was given a prominent place in Aristide Briand's enunciation of his plans as premier of France. Presenting Pre-senting his cabinet slate to the chamber cham-ber of deputies,' the new premier declared de-clared France respected America's hesitancy at entering the league of nations, lie also expressed his confidence con-fidence in the future relations of the two countries. President Obregon of Mexico, in answering newspaper men's inquiries on reports that he intended to make Mexico dry, ordered drinks for the reporters re-porters and said : "The only vice I recognize is that of excess." More than 100 persons were drowned and more than 200 others were injured In the disaster at Pachuca, Mexico, when two dams above the city broke and torrents of water swept through the lower sections of this big mining center, according to the latest reports. A thousand persons were rendered homeless. The property damage will be enormous. British troops are being withdrawn gradually from Mesopotamia, according accord-ing to an authoritative statement in London official circles. The districts are fast becoming normal and as this occurs the troops are being taken away. The Portuguese nfwspapers have undertaken a campaign to prevent the continued emigration n," Portuguese citizens to the United Slates and Brazil ly pointing out that more than 2.000.000 workers are idle anil hundreds hun-dreds of factories closed in t ho United Stales and that the Port'iguese are not welcome in Brazil. Three persons were drowned ani? seventeen injured when approximately UK) passengers were thrown into the bay at Rio Janeiro by the collapse of a gangplank being used by passengers boarding a steamer. District Attorney Charles F. Clyne has announced a new . blow to knock the yeast out of home brew at Chicago. Hereafter,, according to Mr. Clyne, the landlord of any tenant making home brew will be fined 51000. Investigation of complaints that wholesale poultry dealers have combined com-bined to keep prices high by creating an artificial scarcity has been started at New York by federal and state authorities. au-thorities. , DomA. Stephenson of Sheffield, Ala., prohibition enforcement officer, was killed, two other members of the force were seriously wounded and three are missing as a result of a battle 'with alleged al-leged moonshiners. Four men and a woman, believed to have been responsible for more than thirty fur robberies during the last two months, involving loot between $200,-000 $200,-000 and .$350,000, have been arrested in Chicago. Nearly a year's effort by Ludwig C. A. K. Martens to gain recognition by the United States government as the ambassador to the Russian soviet government gov-ernment ended Saturday with his departure de-parture for Gothenburg, Sweden, on hoard the steamship Stockholm. The first free meals to lie served to unemployed men of Toledo on January 21, were taken advantage of by more than 1200 applicants, it was announced at the Social Service federation, which is giving 15(H) tickets. Wilbur J. Wills, 27, who in the World war passed unscathed through three , great drives, including the Ar-gonne Ar-gonne campaign, was killed at his home in Council Hill, III., when a. tree lie chopped down fell on him. . Virtually alt of the .$185,000 obtained in the theft of thirty-one packages of registered mail at Mount Vernon, 111., a few days ago. has been recovered Jiy postoft'ice inspectors in several raids. Dangling from a thirty-foot rope held by laborers, Dr. Donnelly, of Forham hospital, New York, administered first aid to three loon pinned under an automobile au-tomobile truck that had plunged over a rock embankment on the outskirts of the city. The men were rescued later and will probably recover. G. C. Tompkins has been convicted at Holidaysburg. Pa., of the killing of Mrs. Edmund Humphries, on July 15, 1917. It was the fourth trial for Humphries, who was an automobile racer, and the fourth conviction. Efforts Ef-forts were made to prove that he was insane at the time he killed Mrs. Humphries. Wallace Ringle. a senior in the Pittsburg High school and business manager of the high school paper, killed himself by poisoning at Pitts-burn. Pitts-burn. Kans. He was arrested Thursday, Thurs-day, charged with holding up a store Hork and confessed that and other offenses, of-fenses, the police said. Arthur Cox reported to the police ai MoNico, Mo., that four negroes kidnaped kid-naped ho-n at night, took him in a horse-drawn vehicle a number of miles into the country, and severely heat him. His left wrist was broken and his fare lacerated badly. |