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Show n ; -n History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed s I NTERM OUNTAI N. That federal legislation embodying a rigid solution of the Japanese prob-. prob-. lent as it affects the United Slates, was the opinion expressed in letters prepared at Salem. (Ire., by Governor lien W. ulcott and sent to Oregon's representatives in congress. George Thomason. who shot anil killed his brother-in-law. A. I,. Roeeo. after the latter bail boasted be had assaulted as-saulted TboniHson's lo-year-old daughter, daugh-ter, who is a mental defective, was acquitted ac-quitted by a jury at Denver. A jury at Idaho Falls, Idaho, acquitted ac-quitted Dr. J. It. Sbupe of the charge of murder in connection with the death of Miss Florence Nacf, supposed to have died from an illegal operation. . Wage reductions affecting approximately approxi-mately -Odd employees of mines and smellers in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of northern Idaho have been announced. They amounted to 50 cents a day for mine employees and To cents for smellermen. A tin can containing .$12,000 was found in the cabin of Charles Miller, aged recluse, who died at his home near Redcli.ffc, Colo. Miller was a mil way track walker. The money was in Liberty bonds, war savings certificates certifi-cates and currency. Development of power resources of the Pacific Northwest to the greatest extent possible is. the aim of electric power field experts, as a result of action taken at a conference at Portland. Port-land. DOMESTIC. Three armed men early Saturday forced their way into St. James hos- The Marathon Savings bank at Marathon, la., closed Saturday and Is In the hands of the Iowa bank examiner. ex-aminer. Inability to realize on loans Is given as the cause. Deposits amounted to about .$300,000. Jewelry and keepsakes valued by the owner at .$20,000 were obtained by four men Saturday when they overpowered over-powered Kdwin K. l'earce and' his Chinese cook ai the l'earce residence at Los Angeles. The Kansas acreage of winter wheat is estimated at 9,23.'!, 70S. its condition as to April Hi at 80. S per cent normal, in tlw state board of agriculture's first crop report of the season, issued April L'l. Mrs. Mary Potter, oldest Methodist in tin; world, has just celebrated her N)7th birthday at Dwight. III. All but one of her eight children have died from the infirmities of old age. WASHINGTON. The immigration restriction bill has been passed by the house by a record vote, and now goes to the senate. No action toward the impeachment of Judge K. M. Landis, Chicago, because be-cause he Is holding the two offices of federal judge ami national baseball arbitrator, will be taken by the house judiciary sub-committee unless new charges are preferred in the house, Representative Dyer, chairman, has announced. an-nounced. A bill to make the "Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem has been introduced in the house by' Representative Represen-tative Linthicum of Maryland. Farmers from various sections of the country affiliated with the National Na-tional Farmers' union are in Washington Wash-ington for a three days' conference to discuss various problems affecting their welfare. Senators and representatives from eleven Far Western states perfected an organization Wednesday with a view to finding a common ground upon which they can -work to solve the question of Japanese immigration. Reporting the immigration restriction restric-tion bill to the house, Chairman John-sou John-sou of the immigration committee urged its immediate passage, declaring that the causes calling for its enactment enact-ment by the last congress still existed. jurat m t nicago Heights and kidiiapeii Fred Neff, bandit suspect. Nurses and six patients were held at the point of revolvers. Police captured Neff and j.iis three liberators two hours later. Neff was in a helpless condition, having hav-ing been shot through both legs when i garage was robbed in Chicago. With her deckload gone after a hard battle against an eighty-mile gale, the steamship II. B. Lovejoy has 'reached Anchorage, Alaska, according to word received at Seattle. The' lumber cargo hlfted and a large shipment of wooden wood-en pipe carried on deck was lost overboard over-board when the gale was at Its height. A meteoric shower may take place about June 27 If the Pons-WInnecke 'periodic cornet at present approaching the earth has Vneteoric material in its wake, it was announced Saturday at Berkley, Cal., by Professor A. O. Leuschner of the astronomy department depart-ment of the University of California. Positive identification of Tito LIgi, arrested at Scrauton, Pa., on suspicion f complicity In the Wall street explosion ex-plosion last September, has been made by Thomas J. Smith of Brooklyn, employed em-ployed in the legal department of an insurance company having offices in the New York financial district, Poison gas fumes from a leaking tank at the Hemingway Chemical company com-pany plant forced hundreds of people living near Middle Brook, N. J., to flee from their homes Friday. One policeman police-man was overcome by the fumes. Federal officials at Chicago have announced an-nounced that they have requested exhaustive ex-haustive investigations of headquarters of radicals in various sections of the country in an effort to locate William D. Haywood, I. V. W. chief, reported to have" escaped to Russia, it being believed be-lieved that he is in this country aud is planning for a May day demonstration. The highest dam in the world, to join tin? slates of Nevada and .rizona and harness turbulent waters of the Colorado river for extended irrigation in the Southwest, is to be constructed in the near future by the United States reclamation service. It is reported that William Haywood, leader of the Industrial Workers of the AVorld, under sentence of twenty years' imprisonment, is now in Russia. The district attorney at Chicago lias ordered or-dered that a search be made for Haywood. Hay-wood. Legislation directing the secretary of the treasury to turn over .$100,000,000 of the profits of the federal reserve bank to federal land banks, and to be loaned by the latter institutions on soick cattle, for the purpose of assisting assist-ing cattle producers, has been recommended recom-mended by W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board. George I), l.areou was sentenced to life imprisonment, at Dubuque. Iowa, for the murder of Matthew 1). Daly. Lareau killed Daly with a furnace shaker while in his home seeking his wife. F.dna Daly Lareuu. on February Feb-ruary 7. Two persons w ere killed, four women were seriously injured and two are missing as a result of the explosion of a gas tank in j garage in Detroit. Five houses were wrecked. The death sentence of I.innie Eaton, the negro the sheriff of Ouchita parish. Louisiana, forgot to hang hist month, lias been commuted by the state board of pardons to life imprisonment. Hilding Hockinson, 8, was killed when struck by a ball thrown by a playmate while they were playing on a school grounds near Beaver City. Neb, Japan lias decided to assent to a second discussion of the question Hi her mandate to the island of Yap by the supreme council at Paris, it is understood at Tokio. The German government has addressed ad-dressed a note to the conference of ambassadors ex-plaining that a number num-ber of technical reasons, such as the non-arrival of evidence from Italy and other countries, have been the cause of delay in the trial of those accused of war guilt. Bands of armed men rounded up fifty postmen just as they were leaving leav-ing the central postoffice in Cork, Ireland, Ire-land, on April 23, with mail deliveries and took the mails "in the name of the Irish republic." The haul, weighing several tons, was removed in carts to an unknown destination. The diplomatic advisory council has approved the attitude of the Japanese cabinet on the mandate question after A'iscount Uchida, the foreign minister, had given an exposition of the government's govern-ment's viewpoint, according to newspaper news-paper reports. Proclamation of a moratorium in Salvador, which has been requested by banking institutions, was refused by the council of ministers on April 23. Nicaragua has given up its membership member-ship in the league of nations, this step being due to the expense attached to the holding of a place in the organization. organiza-tion. The announcement that the government gov-ernment was considering withdrawing was made some time ago. Several boats carrying the bodies of 1)00 American soldiers who fell at St. Mihiel passed Naniur, Saturday. They were covered with flowers thrown by people llvitfg along the Meuse. The attitude of the British government, govern-ment, as disclosed during the conversations conver-sations of Premiers Briand and Lloyd George, on April 23, is to stand firmly by the decisions of the agreement arrived ar-rived at in Paris in February and require re-quire Germany to fulfill them. Failure Fail-ure by Germany to do so must compel the allies to apply further pressure, the precise nature of which will be the subject of examination. Germany has rejected the allied u1-tiniatuin u1-tiniatuin that the reichsbank metal reserve re-serve be transferred to Coblenz and Cologne branches before May 1. The Germans have made a counter proposal pro-posal that the allies should be given the right to prohibit exportation of German Ger-man gold from May 1 to October 1, thus safeguarding the allies' rights. Foreign Minister von Simons told the reichstag on April 22 that the German Ger-man government is convinced that it must go to the limit of its ability in paying reparations. The German government has formally for-mally asked the president of the United Stales io mediate in the reparations question. The nolo embodying the request re-quest was signed by Chancellor l-'eh-roubaeh ami Dr. waller Simons, lhe foreign minister. The international congress of transport trans-port workers, in session ai Geneva, has passed a resolution calling for the eight-hour day and exhorting workers of all countries to resist by every nxMiis "attempts by capitalists" to exceed ex-ceed this limit or to impose overtime on the men. Seventeen different governments have been upset and supplanted with entire changes of authority in the Ukraine since 1917, says the A'ollia Rossii. a Russian daily paper pub-j pub-j lislied at Prague by socialist-revolu iionists. |