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Show i i i A mi::..rivi.l.' survey of ;!.( m.I.U.t , -:i.;-!"y:i.-!:t s;tt:;::i..ii li..v a falling j "if in :llt- iiiiinhi'i- df e-s,-rviee in, a st'.-I;i:,. .. ':. There ha also lv;i a . e(.ITei,,!nl;i;. i,-v;L-C ill the percent- j - f IIIW1 piueed. I'irc ies;:-i.ei the interna: :.nal I fmtfrh!.v at l.ar.-.io. Texas, i-oiiiieet. j ii:g the I'liited Slates and Mexico. All ccmmiinicarieii. including telephone s.-rviee. was ent (iff ;is a resell ,,; tiu, fire. The loss was estimated at s::uu.-IX s::uu.-IX I. I Hear Admiral Carlo R. r.ritiain, ! chief of staff for Admiral Henry I!. 1 Wilson, ci.inmander of the Atlantic j fleet, Cdinniiued suicide I . y shooting j c n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Day3 Paragraphed a INTER MOU NTAI N. It is expected that the street car employes at Salt Lake will strike on May 1 for higher wages and shorter hours. At a joint meeting of the metal trades unions of Hutte, on April 24, delegates unanimously reported that their organizations hy referendums or organization votes had declined to participate par-ticipate in the strike of miners called by metal mine workers union No. 8(X), I. W. W. In order to set his 19-year-old wife free, Dr. K. L. Clock, 57 years old, physician at the Victor-American mine t Ravenwood, Colo., killed himself by taking poisoi. A list of more than 200 names, believed be-lieved by police to be a membership directory of northwest Industrial Workers of the World, was seized and three persons alleged to be radicals were arrested in a raid in Seattle on a suite of offices which police declared declar-ed were northwest headquarters of the I. VV. W. A contingent of troops composed of detachments from the First, Tweuty-flrst Tweuty-flrst and Thirty-fifth regiments, infantry, in-fantry, arrived in Butte Thursday night, April 22, prepared for strike duty! Dynamite, nitro-glycerine, percussion percus-sion caps, fuse, firearms and ammunition ammuni-tion which the local police say was intended to be used to create a reign of tarror In Salt Lake in labor troubles, were captured by local detectives detec-tives when George Davis and Robert Kelley, alleged "reds," were taken into in-to custody. DOMESTIC. Eight Camp Grant, 111., negro soldiers, sol-diers, convicted of criminal assault upon Miss Louise Schneider, a young white woman, at the camp In May, 1918, have been transferred to the federal prison at Atlanta to serve life sentences. More than 2000 New York railroad I himself while on duty with the flee' in Cuban waters. WASHINGTON. Walker D. I lines, director general of railroads, has resigned and his resignation res-ignation lias been accepted hy President Presi-dent Wilson, effective May 13 Profiteers were denounced in the senate on April 24, by Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, who presented statistics, which he said showed that the earnings of many American corporations cor-porations represented profiteering, "open, scandalous and shameless." The house bill increasing pensions to civil war veterans to $50 monthly and those of the widows of. veterans to $30 monthly was passed Friday by th senate, and now goes to conference. The increases were provided to meet the rising costs of living. Gold imports from England jumped to nearly $38,000,000 during the first ten days in April, according to figures fig-ures made public by the federal reserve re-serve board. Two warships from the Pacific fleet have been dispatched to Mexican waters wa-ters to protect American citizens and interests at Mazatlan and Topolobam-po. Topolobam-po. They were sent from San Diego on orders from the navy department after a request for protection had comes from state department representatives repre-sentatives at those two Mexican Pacific ports. FOREIGN The supreme council is sending a formal request to President Wilson-that Wilson-that the United States government take the mandate for Armenia. The council is leaving to President Wilson the arbitration of the differences over the boundaries of Armenia. Baltasar Brum, president of the republic re-public of Uruguay, has challenged Dr. Rodriguez Larreta, director of the newspaper El Pais, to a duel. Dr. Laretta has accepted the challenge. A League of Nations association has workers were expelled Sunday from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Train-men for the part they have taken in the unauthorized strike. Sweeping charges that the present congress has failed the nation "with completeness and abandon" are made by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in the current issue of the American Feder-ationist. Feder-ationist. Several clues have been discovered by authorities investigating the deaths of eight persons, all believed to have been murdered, whose bodies were found on the Wolf farm, near Turtle Lake, N. D. Jacob Wolf, his wife, their five daughters and Jake Hofer, 13-year-old hired boy, were the victims. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Way-men Way-men Crews were found buried in stalls in a barn on the W. B. Bradley farm, five miles south of Greensburg, Kan-gas. Kan-gas. James White, a neighbor, has been arrested, charged with the double murder. Four of the six communists arrested arrest-ed November 8 while celebrating in Brooklyn the second anniversary of the founding of the soviet government of Russia, have been sentenced to the penitentiary for one year each. Several thousand striking railroad workers at a mass meeting at Chicago refused to take action to end the unauthorized un-authorized walkout, now in its fourth week in the Chicago terminal district. dis-trict. One negro was shot and fifteen men arrested in the attempt of a mob of about 2000 men to take William Ray, colored, 79 years old, from the county Jail at Indianapolis, where he is held without bond for the murder of 14-year-old Martha Huff, a white girl. Two girls were burned to death in a fire that swept three blocks of frame buildings at Newtown, Texas, In the Burk Burnett oil field. Six oil wells were damaged and a quantity of oil was also burned. Plenty of fresh air, wholesome food and outdoor exercise w-as prescribed as the best prevention of tuberculosis by speakers Thursday at the convention conven-tion of the National Tuberculosis association as-sociation at St. Louis. Lieut C. F. Bell, U. S. A., aviator, was drowned in the Colorado river at Yuma, Ariz., when a government airplane air-plane belonging to the border patrol, in which he was attempting to fly underneath un-derneath the Ocean-to-Ocean highway bridge at this point, struck a high tension ten-sion wire suspended below the structure struc-ture and fell into the stream. George Daly, a pilot flying for an aviation school at Wilmington, and an unidentified passenger were killed when Daly's airplane fell 1000 feet into the Pacific ocean off the recreation recrea-tion pier at Long Beach, Cal. The "sole desire of those who have taken up arms against the Carranza government is to establish a military dictatorship in order that they may oppress the Mexican people for their own benefit, Colonel Paulino Pontes, director gomH-al of the National Itaii-.vays Itaii-.vays of Mexico, declared in a statement state-ment issued at Now York. Deen organized in xokio to educate the people of Japan in the ideals of tho league. Four thousand Irish residents of London, headed by pipe bands and it Sinn Fein flag, serenaded the Sinn Fein hunger striking prisoners in Womwood Scrubbs, the historic London Lon-don prison Sunday evening. After the serenade the demonstrants bared their heads and solemnly recited the rosary in Gaelic. Three police officers were ambushed at Bandon, County Cork, by unidentified unidenti-fied assailants Sunday night. Two were killed on the spot. The developments of the last two weeks resulting from the Sonora revolutionary revo-lutionary activities show that the central cen-tral government is rjrePnl'inS to t'13' circle the rebellious state with a steel ring, meanwhile crushing sporadic outbreaks in other parts of the republic repub-lic with a strong hand. Five hundred French troops are reported re-ported to have been wiped out in the evacuation of Urfa, in the northwest of Mesopotamia. The mandate of Palestine is to go to Great Britain under a recent decision de-cision of the interallied supreme council. coun-cil. Settlement of the borders of tho Holy Land is to be left to France an. Britain, it was decided. A note has been despatched to Pariti by the German government, according to a Berlin wireless message received at London, stating that the German troops in the Ruhr district no longer exceed the number stipulated by tbe peace treaty. Argentina's corn crop for the prHs-ent prHs-ent year will be 6,571,000 Spanish tons, equivalent to 258,897,000 Ameii-can Ameii-can bushels, according to official figures fig-ures made public April 23. Repot ts to the government show 8,184,000 acres planted to corn this year. Agricultural production in Brit.'sh Columbia during 1019 amounted to $61,749,719, an increase of 24. 0 per cent over the previous year. Gov. Gen. Francis Burton Harriyon has cabled the United States shipping board urging the allocation of two fast passenger vessels and five cargo ships to the Pacific Coast Philippine direct route, in order to Insure adequate tonnage ton-nage for Increasing trans-Pacific trade. The breaking out of the Mexican revolution in the Tuxpan district, which is a part of the oil region, has caused the United States and other nations having interests there to view the revolution with concern. Armenia is to be created an independent inde-pendent state. This decision was reported re-ported by the supreme council of the allies on April 23 because neither the United States nor any other power was willing to accept a mandate over the country. Three years imprisonment, five years forced residence in a town to be selected by the minister of the interior and ten years loss of political rights, the latter clause carrying with it inability in-ability to vote or hold office, was he sentence imposed up"f; former Fi'o-njier Fi'o-njier Caiilaux |