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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed a INTER MOUNTAIN. Two million six hundred and fifty thousand dollars is the tfttal amount of ibonds issued agaiwst Klko county ranching properties during the latter part of 1921. On the Tahoe national forest lanns 9100 cattle and horses and 50,300 sheep and goats will be allowed to graze this year, according to notices sent out to stockmen by the forest supervisor. The work on the Pipestone Pass in Montana, has been completed and it is now open for traffic. The grading had not been completedly finished, but us soon as warmer wheather arrives will be placed in- such condition that he engineers may make ar inspection and accept the project as completed. Glacier county, Montana, will Irrigate Irri-gate 20,000 acres of land in the vicinity vi-cinity of Cut Bank, if congress will -only give permission for use of the water of Cut Bank creek, according to States Senator J. W. Coburn of Cut Bank. .Under his plan not a dollar of erpense would be charged against the government. On or before July 4, next, Las Vegas Ve-gas New, will have one of the finest pleasure resorts in the country. There will be a lake, 10 feet deep 1000 feet long and 450 feet wide and this lake will be stocked with black bass; win have row boats and canoes ; will have an island in t!e center covered with umbrella and palm trees and on a peninsula pen-insula at the end wlH have a $5000 club house where meals will be seven. Packages such aa those used for shipping vegetables are being collectel by the commercial truck gardening class under the direction of the professor pro-fessor of vegetable gardening of the Oregon Agricultural College. Each package will be tabled with the dimensions, di-mensions, capacity and the name of the vegetable to be shipped in it and will be used for instructional purposes purpos-es at the college.' A bill appropriating money to combat com-bat the spewd of white pine blister rust has been prepared for introduction introduc-tion in congress by the pine blister rust CominJtteee, which recently held a convention in Portland, Ore. This money is to bo used to prevent the spread of the disease from sections around Puget sound to- nreas of white sugar pine valued at 250,000,000 now threatened. GENERAL A co-operative marketing organization organiza-tion of prune growers is being put under way in the Walla Walla valley. Announcing himself as unqualifiedly unqualified-ly opposed to any form of compulsory unemployment insurance, Samuel ("tampers ("tam-pers branded unemployment conditions as they exist today as "band-made," "premeditated" and "avoidable." The average value per acre of 10 crops, constituting nine-tenths of all crop production dropped from $35.70 to $14.48, or 60 per cent, during the two years 1919-21, the United States depatnnent of agriculture has announced. an-nounced. This decline is unparalleled within the scope of records of the department de-partment dating back to 18GG. The itoliee department of New York asked the board of aldermen for tear gas bombs and gas masks as aids in capturing criminals and breaking up mobs. Inspector General Thor appeared ap-peared before the board and urged the appropriation of .$4200 for the, purchase pur-chase of 500 tear gas bombs for the department and 100 gas masks for the police bombing squads. Fin-ding a stolen mail pouch containing con-taining some $100,000 in registered mail near the ferry postofflce three months ago and turning it In to t ho authorities hasn't helped Frederick Groves get a job, according to his story, even though he was commended puibllc ly al the time for returning Uic pouch. The bandit who stole the IKUich killed a postofflce clerk in t hi-holdup hi-holdup and committed suicide the next day. Applications to various federal and municipal officials, business bouses bous-es and charitable organizations for work have failed to give him more than temporary employment, he said, anil the government told him no reward re-ward was paid for the return of stolon mail. What it is believed will lie the world's "farthest north" university the Alaska Agricultural college and school of mines at Fairbanks, within s hundred miles of the Arctic circle will open its dimrs next September. The Kills Tom farm, a landmark of Charjestown, K. I., was destroyed by fire a few days ago. The buildings were set up in 1740 after the frame work had been brought from England. With relics that it contained, the house was valued tit about $30,(XK WASHINGTON. I The bill authorizing the refunding i of the eleven billion dollars' foreign J debt Into securities maturing in not more than twenty-five years was passed by the senate. The Shantung controversy is setted. The Japanese and Chinese delegates announced that they had reached an agrenient, and they have cabled Tokio and Feking for authority to sign the treaty. Preliminary discussions of the Muscle Shoals question, involving the disposal of government properties in Alabama to private interests, eithei by stile or lease, were held between Secretary Weeks and President Harding. Hard-ing. The Washington negotiations for limitat'on of armament reached their consummation when a plenary sessiot of the arms conference gave definite and public approval to the two treaties trea-ties Limiting navies and restricting use of tie new agencies of warfare. Railroads were in better physical condition at the end of the period of federal control than they had been when taken over during the war.YVil-ltam war.YVil-ltam G. Mc-idoo, former secretary of rhe treaatiry and wartime director genera! of railoads, told the senate interstate commerce committee in giving giv-ing an accounting of his guardianship of the properties during 1918. Light wines and beers would be legalized and taxed to pay the soldiers' sol-diers' bonus tinder measures advocated advo-cated by Representative Brennan of Detroit and Representative Hill of Baltimore before the house ways and means committtee. Mr. Hill estimated that the proposed tax would yield between be-tween $500,000,000 and ,$1,000,000,000 a year, and he is confident the tax would produce a sufficient revenue in four years to pay. off the entire cost of the bonus. "Cheap and faulty construction, and not the heavy snowfall was responsible for the collapse of the Knickerbocker theater," Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho, says "I am now convinced that congress is in part to blame. Congress makes the appropriations for the District of Columbia; it provides meager salaries for building inspectors, inspec-tors, with the result that incompetent incompe-tent men are hired to inspect just such buildings as the Knickerbocker. And to that extent responsibility for incompetent and inefficient inspection can be had at the doors of congress." FOREIGN. It is announced that more than 12,-000 12,-000 troops Qiave evacuated Ireland. Most of the auxiliaries have gone, and the evacuation of 5000 black and tans will begin soon. Durham, Eng., can claim the unenviable unen-viable distinction o having the world's greatest housing problem. An investigation investi-gation revealed seven persons living in one room, eight living in two rooms and 20 living in five rooms Revelation at a recent medical meet ing that there are more than 40 lepers in England caused a public sensation The government has received many letters demanding the removal of all victims. Prance stands ready to restore to China the leased territory of Kw.ang-Chow Kw.ang-Chow Wan, irrespective of what other countries may do with reference to leased areas, M. Sarraut, senior French arms delegate, stated recently. A dispatch to the London Times from Heisingfors, Finland, says: Bolshevik Bol-shevik troops today recrossed the frontier at Soutjaevri and advanced eight kilometers into Finnish territory. Fighting is proceeding between about one hundred bolsheviki and the Finnish Finn-ish frontier guards. Four natives were killed and six wounded by the police, who fired on a crowd winch had declined to disperse, dis-perse, near Pabda, Bengal. The trouble had its origin in the arrest of two nonoooperationlst pickets. A mob estimated at 2000 attacked the local magistrate and the police superintendents. super-intendents. What appears to he a back-to-Japan movement of the .Japanese in southern California is noted in the last six months. There has been no explanation- from any Japanese official of the fact that virtually every liner leaving Los Angeles for the Orient in recent months has been crowded with Japanese, chiefly women and children. I The latest strike In Germany is the most unique of all. It is the strike of the headsman &ad executioner in 1 Baden. This official informs the mln- ' istry of justice of hailen that he can no lunger chop off the heads of criminals crim-inals at the. present rate per bead, it-view it-view of the Increased cost of living The undeveloped industry of drus growing and manufacturing in the State of Utah and the surrounding conn, try is being studied by the students and faculty of the University of Utah pharmacy department. A drug garden will be Cultivated on the University ; grounds this spring for the second time. I It was proved last year that a great number of different kinds of drug plants grow exceedingly well in Utah. ' and they hope to prove the possibility of developing a big drug manufacturing industry In the state. |