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Show n n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed ! 1 ' I Jacob C. Denton, whose boutd body ivu found in the cellar of his bome at Los Alleles, September -'', "lame to his death by probable strai.gulat ion, homicidal, by person or prisons unknown," un-known," according to the vtrdh-t rendered ren-dered by the jury ai llie inquest. C'urmcla Russo, Italian girl charged with tlie inunler of Tony Matto, who was com icted of manslaughter by a (-i t- -1 1 i t court jury at ( Vnterville, la., has been sentenced to ser'e eight years in the state reformatory. Secret service men raided a pri-nt- in- plant at Philadelphia which is al-I al-I leged to have turned out thousands INTERMOUNTAIN. The body of V. L. Pierce, aged 50, vas found in the washroom of a train when it reached Havre, Mont. His throat was cut and conditions led to llie belief that he had taken his own life. Mrs. George (j. White, Cambridge, Ida., who was injured in the fire which destroyed the hotel at Robiuette, Ore., died at Wei.ser, Ma. Her death brings the total (lead from the fire to five. Pursued by officers who were gaining gain-ing steadily, an alleged bootlegger stopped ami set fire to the county bridge crossing the Milk river at Simp-ton, Simp-ton, Mont., destroying it. The fire will inconvenience farmers greatly in that section. of counterfeit internal revenue stamps to be used on cheap whisky and colored col-ored alcohol in bottles of standard brands. WASHINGTON. Immigration figures at Kills island show that the month uf September came near doubling the total arrivals of all previous months since the war. During tlie month 85.391 immigrants arrived. The commissioner of Indian affairs has announced that his bureau would do all within its power to prevent suffering suf-fering this winter among Indians of the Blaekfoot reservation of Montana, whose livelihood has been curtailed by extreme droughts and severe winters of the past three years. Sale of the government's emergency built fleet of wooden ships to foreign buyers is under consideration by the shipping board, but definite action probably will be deferred, officials said, until President Wilson appoints the new board created by the merchant mer-chant marine act. President Wilson has directed that on Sunday, November 14, Vhe American Ameri-can flag be displayed at half-mast on all public buildings and naval and military posts, "as a token of the nation's na-tion's participation in the memorial services held for the heroic American soldiers, sailors, marines and others who gave their lives to their country in the world war." FOREIGN. Premier Lloyd George, in a speech at Carnarvon, Wales, declared that the government intended to restore order in Ireland by "methods however stern" and proceed with its home-rule bill. More than eighty billion marks in German paper money was in circulation circula-tion at the end of September, according accord-ing to the Reichsbank statement covering cov-ering that period, made public October Octo-ber 9. This announcement closely follows fol-lows an official admission that the current budget shows a deficit of sixty-seven billion marks. The Armenians are declared to be in a state of war against the Turks aad Tartars. The latter are "attacking Delijan, and Nakhitchevan, southeast of Frivan, while the Turks are approaching ap-proaching Kars, northwest of Erivan. To expedite coal movement on Canadian Cana-dian railways the board of railway commissioners has issued an order empowering em-powering fuel administrators to seize contents of cars containing coal and coke not unloaded eight days after arrival. ar-rival. The fuel is to be offered for sale to municipalities or dealers. Now that the rolish, Russian and Lithuanian forces have ended their warfare, peace seems near in Europe. Southern Russia is now the only place where hostilities continue. Great Britain, however, has threatened to take action against soviet Russia if steps are not taken at once for the release re-lease of British prisoners held by the bolsheviki. s A jury at Pendleton, Oregon, found Jack Rat'hie and Elbie Kirby guilty of murder in the first degree, in having participated in the slaying of Sheriff T. Tayftir last July during a jail break. William Travers, division engineer of the Oregon Short Line, and Roy Cornelius, motor car machinist of the same road, both of Pocatello, Ida., were burned to death in a fire that destroyed de-stroyed the hotel at Robinette, Ore. After fifteen months freedom, Jo-soph Jo-soph Martin, serving a life sentence in (ho Utah sttite prison for robbery, the blowing up of the home of Leroy Ec-cles Ec-cles at Ojden, and sending blackmailing blackmail-ing letters, has returned to the state prison for the purpose of completing his sentence. Martin walked away while doing some work around the prison, being n trnstie. " DOMESTIC. Nathan Mathias was rescued from lynching by an infuriated crowd of Brooklyn residents after Rose Weiss, 14, accused the man of attempting to assault iter. When police arrived a noose had been adjusted about his neck and the other end of the rope attached at-tached to a telegraph pole. At a meeting at Eagle, Nebraska, of members of the fanaers' union, it was voted not to sell any wheat for a lower price than $2.25 a bushel. Again thrusting at the foreign policy pol-icy of the Wilson administration, Senator Sen-ator Harding told voters of Democratic Democrat-ic Oklahoma Saturday night that while the American government was beguiling them with idealistic notions of a new social era the other nations had reached out to dominate commerce com-merce and industry through control of the petroleum supply. America, must join the league of nations na-tions or be prepared to "arm to the teeth," Frankly n D. Roosevelt declared de-clared in two addresses at Kansas City. Any other alternative is impossible, impos-sible, he added, because thirty-one nations already in the league will not consent to abandon it and experiment with some untried plan. A high wind that passed through Santa Clara, Calif., tossed J. Bingwall, a 15-year-old boy into-a tree; knocked over George Campra and a horse he was hitching; uprooted fruit trees, demolished de-molished several private garages and caused considerable minor damage. Foliee were unable to unearth any motive other than robbery for the murder mur-der of Miss Florence Barton and the wounding of her fiancee, H. R. 'Winter, 'Win-ter, while the couple were riding in an automobile near Kansas City. Harry S. Mecartney, Chicago attorney, attor-ney, has carried to the supreme court his efforts to compel Secretary Colby to promulgate the joint peace resolution resolu-tion passed by congress last May and vetoed by the president. The California Walnut Growers' association as-sociation has announced that prices for walnuts will be 30 per cent lower for the coming season than last year. Another body blow for the II. C. L. The United States destroyer Semmes crept into port through Ambrose channel chan-nel blindfolded, says a New York dispatch. dis-patch. With the windows of the pilot house shrouded, its navigator steered his course by ear listening to the high pitched hum of a submerged electrically elec-trically charged, channel cable. The Semmes made the blind passage safely, in a test by the navy department of a new "sound guide" for vessels, planned to aid ships in thick weather. A direct issue of ratifying or rejecting re-jecting the league of nations was accepted by Senator Harding in a speech at Des Moines, Iowa, on Octo- her 0, brushing aside the problem of clarifying reservations and declaring he would "favor staying out" of the ; covenant written at Versailles. j An explosion on the steamship Crow j at a Brooklyn dock Thursday killed j five and injured a score or more. J Ohio women voters, when they go to the polls, must tell their ages in j years and months, instead of merely saying they "are over 21," the supreme su-preme court has decided in a recent ruling. Fat'.r bandits entered the bank at : Depew, N. Y held the employees and patrons at bay at the point of revolvers, re-volvers, locked the president of the bank in the vault aua escaped with j $S000 in currency. I Two violent earth tremors were felt in Mantua, northern Italy, at midnight Wednesday, the inhabitants fleeing to the streets in alarm. Although there was some property damage, there was no loss of life. One soldier was killed and three dangerously wounded when civilians bombed a military lorry as it was passing pass-ing through the streets at Cork. Two soldiers on the lorry opened fire on the attackers. Two men and a woman wom-an weiv shot in the legs. Twenty persons were killed and thirty others injured in a collision between be-tween two passengers trains in Italy, three cars being smashed to kindling. The committee on public finance reporting re-porting the international financial congress at Brussels declares that public opinion must be worked upon, attention being drawn to the fact that a reduction in prices and restoration of prosperity is dependent upon increased in-creased production. Navigation on the picturesque Yukon Yu-kon and other streams already is becoming be-coming difficult, owing to large reefs of slush ice, caused by premature winter win-ter weather. Military operations between the Poles and Lithuanians have ceased, it was announced at Polish headquarters at Riga. Twenty-five members of the "vengeance "ven-geance gang," which is declared to be an anti-British society organized to conduct assassinations of political persons, per-sons, have been convicted of conspiracy, conspir-acy, after a trial of several weeks at Cairo. Approximately $55,000,000 to defray expenses of the Philippine government govern-ment during the coming fiscal year will be asked in a budget to be pre-, seated to the next meeting of the Philippine legislature at Manila, October Octo-ber 16. Eight Sardinian families, which have been principals in a vendetta for sixty-five years, have become rer-im-ciled, according to reports to the (lior-nale (lior-nale d'ltalia. Since tiie feud bc'im there have been seveuly-i'iV'' murders I and much properiy damage done by members of the families Involved. |