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Show Thomas E. Watson, United State? J senator-elect from Georgia, announces that at the extra session of the sixiy- seventh congress he will introduce a I bill to make Liberty bonds and other ! government war paper legal tender. Five million dollars is the value of the prune crop of California, according accord-ing to II. M. Butterfiold of the division divi-sion of agricultural education of the University of California. Gas which escaped when a rubber tube was disconnected from a feed H History of Past Week sssaesasisBSBsawKssssssssMswKwssawsrMsn The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed o INTER MOUNTAIN. Liquor seized by state officers from Wyoming citizens may have to be returned re-turned under a decision handed down by the state supreme court at Cheyenne Chey-enne to the effect that liquor acquired legally before July 1, 1919, for use in private homes is not contraband. Final plans for a meeting in Boise, January 10, of carriers and shippers from Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah. Nevada and Montana, when demands for a reduced rate on eastbound wool, apples, prunes, potatoes, lumber and sheep will be made, were formulated at a meeting at Boise. Lying in a clump of brush in a gully about two miles south of Silver City, Utah, and with a bullet wound through his temple, the body of an unidentified un-identified man about 35 years old was found by boys. Joshua Sykes, self-styled king of heaven and earth and leader of the sect of the House of David, was arrested ar-rested at Denver on a charge of operating op-erating a confidence game. A tentative contract calling for a state-wide wheat pool for five years was presented to eleven representatives representa-tives of state farmers' organizations meeting at Portland. They plan to revise re-vise it and present it next month to the state farm bureau federation convention con-vention at Portland, and to the state farmers' union and the grange. DOMESTIC. An attempt to wreck the Union Pacific Pa-cific passenger train running between Manhattan, Kan., and Lincoln, Neb., was partially successful when an obstruction ob-struction on the track a mile and a half south of Beatrice, Neb., derailed the engine. No one was injured. Miss Esther Gamble, aged 20, of Ontario, On-tario, Cal., was fatally injured when an airplane in which she was a passenger, pas-senger, fell into an orange grove. She died while being carried to a hospital. Nearly every bone in her body was broken. The United States make up only one-seventeenth one-seventeenth of the world, but spends as much on education as the rest of the world ' combined, according to United States Commissioner of Education Educa-tion P. P. Claxton, addressing a meeting meet-ing of educators at Chicago. Fiues totaling $3S4,G2T were paid by traffic violators in New York during dur-ing 1920, the annual report of the traffic court disclosed. The next ninety days is expected to bring an upward trend in business, according ac-cording to a statement at St. Paul by Howard Elliott, chairman of the board of directors of the Northern Pacific railroad. Mrs. J. A. Mungo, the wife of a wealthy ship owner, while taking dinner din-ner at a hotel in New York on New Year's eve, lost a rearl necklace valued val-ued at $200,000. The lights in the dirling room were turned out at midnight mid-night signalizing the end of the old year and the advent of the new and it is believed the necklace was stolen during this brief period. The Rev. Charles B. Schrantz, president emeritus of St. Charles college, col-lege, a Catholic institution near Baltimore, Bal-timore, has refused to join in a celebration cele-bration and banquet in his honor, prepared pre-pared by the Sulpician priests on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, because, he said, "I will not join in any celebration as long as 'there are starving people in Europe." Eu-rope." W. C. Sly, president, and George Fanner, vice president, of the W. W. Sly Manufacturing company, were shot and killed by five automobile bandits on the street at Cleveland. The bandits escaped with the company payroll of $4500. Miss Victoria Fournier, deputy county clerk, Issued her own marriage license on Thursday. The party of the second part is Wat-ran Milligan, a local lo-cal newspaper reporter. When the blank was filled she directed Milligan to raise his right hand and swear to the truth of the statement. He obeyed. Iowa's 2-cent railroad passenger fare law on Thursday was held to be unconstitutional un-constitutional by Judge Martin J. Wade of the United States district court. Officials were enjoined from enforcing the law on traffic entirely within the state. After a lone hand daylight robbery Of the People's bank at Springfield, Tenn., which netted $50,000 in Liberty bonds, a man. identified by police as Hobart Austiu. 32. was killed by Sheriff Sher-iff A. L. Jett in a gun duel. The bonds were recovered. Two bombs placed in taxicahs in widely separated parts of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, but timed to explode simultaneously, simultane-ously, demolished the cabs. One, in the heart of the theatre district near the Bedevue Stratford hotel, caused a near panic. A frenzy of jealousy. Inspired by taunts that he was a fool to expect her full affections and a boast that she had two husbands living, impelled Jonathan A. Murphy, 30, to shoot Mary Ethel Odum, 26, whom he had courted for years, according to the story he tuld the police at San Diego. plug in the floor by a cat, caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Weber in their Brooklyn apartment. The dead cat. its paws resting on the tube, lay under the gas stove!1 WASHINGTON. Holdings by federal reserve banks of paper secured by government war obligations declined from nearly $1,-500.000 $1,-500.000 at the opening of the year to $1,141,000,000 on December 31, said the annual review issued by the federal fed-eral reserve board. The Smoot-Iieavis bill providing for the appointment of a congressional commission on reorganization of the government departments became a law December 31 without the signature of President Wilson. The bill extending for six months the time in which 1920 assessment work on mining claims can be done was signed December 31 by President Wilson. A permanent injunction was granted grant-ed in the United States district court restraining the secretary of agriculture agricul-ture from enforcing his order restoring restor-ing the wartime commission rate for handling livestock. - Ratification of the treaty of Versailles Ver-sailles by the senate with the exception excep-tion of the covenant of the league ot nations is to be proposed by Senatoi King, Democrat, Utah. Taxpayers required to make inventories inven-tories for 1920 returns may adopt thfe basis of "cost or market," whichever" is lower, under regulations issued bj the internal revenue bureau. The sundry civil bill, carrying a total to-tal of .$383,011,292, or $420,914,192 less than was asked by the government govern-ment departments, was reported on Wednesday by the house appropriations appropria-tions committee. FOREIGN. "I am ashamed to remain an Italian," Gahriele d'Annunzio declared after his ousting from Fiume, according to his friends in Paris. The poet, it is added, has decided to make his future residence in California, becoming an American citizen. Princess Anastasia, the American born wife of Prince Christopher of Greece, says she remains an American Ameri-can at heart. She denies that her money purchased back the throne of Greece for King Constantine, and also that she is working to restore former Emperor William of Germany. The vital statistics of Madrid show that during the year deaths exceeded births, the mortality being 17,991 as against 17.75S births. The emigration from Ireland during dur-ing the first ten months of this year is about half what it was for the average av-erage of the corresponding ten months of the five years preceding the war. There were altogether 12,752 emigrants of whom 780S were women. There were 436S emigrants from Ulster. ' Eamonn de Valera, "president of the Irish republic," has returned to Ireland, it was announced at New York Friday by his secretary, Harry Boland. Four hundred Italian soldiers were killed in the fighting at Fiume, it was reported at Home. The defending forces were said to have lost eight killed, including two women fighters. Two hundred legionaries were wounded. Charges which have been circulated in some foreign countries that China has become a militaristic nation are denied by Dr. Pnilip Tyau, councilor of the foreign office, in a statement he has just issued at Pekin. Buildings for Brazilian embassies and legations abroad will be acquired by purchase under a legislative resolution reso-lution sanctioned by President Pessoa. The government is authorized to open necessary credits to the extent of approximately ap-proximately $750,000 in each financial period. Formal notification has been sent to Lithuania thut the railway between Vilna and Dvinsk will remain Polish and that the proposed plebiscite will be held only in the territory west of that line. Presentation by the people of the United States of a suitable memorial to Brazil during this country's centennial cen-tennial celebration of independence in 1922 is proposed by North Americans residing in Kio de Janeiro. Cholera has broken out in the Russian Rus-sian camp outside of Constantinople. The allies have taken measures to prevent a spread of the disease. Fighting at Fiume between Italian government troops and Captain Gahriele Gah-riele D'Annunzio's legionaries has been suspended for a time, at least, it is reported. Japan is ready to enter an international inter-national conference on limitation of naval armaments, in the belief of Baron Hayashi, the new Japanese ambassador am-bassador to Great Britain. I I Calls for United Slates, Crent Britain and Japan to curtail naval expense ex-pense by mutual agreement were featured by a number of London news papers on Tuer-day. Twenty-six countries are now represented rep-resented diplomatically at the ho';, see. This is a gain of twelve roim tries since 3914, as shown by officia communications of the Vatican. |