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Show NEWS STORY OF IHEMSI WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World. WESTERN Under an act passed by the 1021 Utah legislature, providing a revolving revolv-ing fund of $."0,000 for the survey of public binds In L'tahj the state to be reimbursed later by tho federal government gov-ernment actual work of surveying will start about April 20t it was announced an-nounced from the oflce of Governor Mnbey. Sales of prize fat stock at the fifth annual lntermountaln Livestock show at the Union stockyards set a new record for Utah, both In number and quality of animals, and in the average prices, ai compared with the quotations quota-tions of Uie eastern markets for the same day. All stockmen wore pleased with their returns, and expressed their aimreclatlon for the consideration given their offerings by the visiting and local buyers. The grand champion Individual Shorthorn steer, exhibited by the Clayton & Murnan Livestock Commission company of Denver, brought $10.50 a 100 pounds and wns purchased 'by John I'. Gorman of the Cudalhy Tucking company for a Salt Lake restaurant. Tho grand champion carload of fat steers, exhibited by S. D. Kalston of Cozad, Nob., brought $11.70, the figure being $,'! over the top Chicago quotation. Tho second prize carload in the fat cattle section brought $10.70. Utah stockgrowers have nsted for a reduction in livestock taxation values. After hiding all night, following the hooting Saturday night of George Lane Shoshone, Idaho, merchant, Max Welton, 19 was arrested by a sheriff's posse at the home of bin father, A. W. Welton, residing about nine miles from Shoshone. According to County Assessor Frank Millsaps, an eyewitness to the tragedy', the shooting of Lane grew out of suspicions of the hardware man that a check for $140.70 given him by Welton, was not valid. The youth escaped afoot after shooting Lane in the back of the head. Preparations are going forward for the staging at Caldwell, Ida., May 6 of the southern Idaho district track meet. The events will be run off on the atheletic field of the College of Idaho, which Is to be put Into prime condition for the meet. GENERAL Lieutenant Commandant Taul W. Beek of the post field the aviation section of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, was shot to death at Oklahoma City in the fashionable residence of Jean r. Day, widely known oil operator. Day Claims the killing was in defense of his wife. "Shoot on sight,' was the order issued is-sued by Tolice Chief Fitzmorris of Chicago, concerning the slayers of Policemen Ernest Oasidy and Philip J. Summers, treasurer of the Itoyal Building and Loan association. The two were shot by five bandits who snatched a satchel containing $7000 ami escaped. Snuggle puppers, boulevard vamps and Jazz queens will not turn Chicago's Chica-go's yacht regatto Into a petting party If Comodore Weaver has his way. Weaver ruled girls off the boats. What was described by railroad officials of-ficials as the first concert to be given for pasengers on n railroad train was heard by approximately 400 passengers passeng-ers aboard a special Deleware, Lackawanna Lack-awanna & Western train which has been equipped with radio apparatus The concert was given at Binghamp-ton, Binghamp-ton, N. Y. With one-fourth of the vote of Wisconsin Wis-consin tabulated. Indications are that Burr Jones, associate justice of the supreme court, has been elected over John Kleist, Socialist, by a majority of 150,000 to 200,000. ' Recognition of the changed statu of women by striking from the Episcopal Epis-copal marriage ceremony the promise to obey and eliminating the compulsory compul-sory giving in marriage, was proposed by the commission on revision of the book of common prayer, In a report made public at New York City. Wool valued at more than $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 was pooled or concentrated, ware housed, handled, financed and marketed mar-keted in 1021 In storage warehouses licensed and bonded under the United Unit-ed States warehouse act administered adminis-tered by the United SLttes department of agriculture. An apartment hotel providing inexpensive inex-pensive homes for working girls and college women will be erected in upper up-per Manhattan, near Columbia uni versity, at a cost of $3,000,000. The Tenant's league of Chicago has devised a plan for combatting rent increases. in-creases. If the city court decides goinst a tenant he will appeal at once to a court of record and it will be two Pail yetirs be'ore his case will come to trM. Meanwhile his rent will rcrmntn unchanged. WASHINGTON Acceptance by the British government govern-ment of the American views pertaining pertain-ing to the maintenance costs of the Army of occupation, as expounded In the recent note of Secretary of Stuts Hughes to the allies, has been informally infor-mally conveyed to the American government, gov-ernment, ulthough a formal note officially of-ficially confirming the acceptance has not yet been dispatched. Resumption of work on the gfgnn-tic gfgnn-tic Wilwui dam at Muscle Soals. Ala., under charge of army engineers was recommended by the senate agriculture agricul-ture committee, which voted unanimously unani-mously to press an amendment to the army supply bill providing an appropriation appro-priation of $7,500,000 to finance work on the dam for one year beginning next July 1. Civil war veterans have started a movement for the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, with another great reunion re-union here In July, 1023. Secretory Denby served blunt warning warn-ing on officers and men of the navy to guard themselves "ashore and afloat from the preachings of soviet-ism, soviet-ism, communism and anarchy," through a special order to the entire service, which declared that no len. lency would be shown to men who "committed acts of disloyalty." After a bitter "wet and dry" contest, con-test, the house passed and sent to the senate a bill providing deportation deporta-tion of aliens convicted of violation of narcotic and prohibition enforcement enforce-ment acts. Employment conditions throughout the country continues to improve, according ac-cording to reports received during the past ten days by the president's conference con-ference on unemployment. Evidence of the desire of former service men to go back to the farm is constantly raching the interior department, depart-ment, Secretary Fall anounces, adding ad-ding that more than 100,000 such applications ap-plications have been received for em ployment in developing land. .In addition, ad-dition, Inquiries concerning available land are coming in by the hundreds of thousands, the secretary stated. Congressional action to give industry indust-ry and business generally the same exemption from the antitrust laws as congress recently afforded to farmers, was urged by Senator Edge of New Jersey when he introduced a resolution resolu-tion for a congressional committee to investigate the business situation and report to congress on legislative methods meth-ods of restoring domestic and foreign trade. The need for greater governmental activity in the field of aeronautics, "in order that this country may not be completely outdistanced," was emphasized em-phasized in a resolution Introduced by Senator Walsh (Dera.) of Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. The resolution would have th6 senate direct Secretaries Weeks and Denby to report to congress the a v-lsabllity of establishing a federal aeronautical academy, similar in type and function to the naval and military academies, or of utilizing facilities of the present academies for, separate instruction in-struction In flying. It would ask also regarding the practicability of using arsenal or navy yard plants for the construction of air and seaplanes. FOREIGN Armand .Teannes was condemned to death In the court at Mous, Belgium, for treason and espionage against Belgium Bel-gium and the allies during the war. He had boasted that he was instrumental instru-mental in bringing about the arrest and execution by Germany of Edith Cavell, the British war nurse, but this charge was not mentioned In the Indictment In-dictment against him. The Turkish nationalist government :it Angora has accepted with reservations reser-vations the armistice propositions recently re-cently made by the allies, the allied rowers' representatives here havo 'een Informed. Wholesale repatriation of Mexicans Jrom the United States and elxewher' mist cease, according to Secretary of he Interior Calles, who declares the government Is spending too much noney for such purposes. Former Emporer Charles of Austria is dead of pneumonia. Hungary is saddened by the ex-emporer's death 'out Yleifha, his former capital, seems unimpressed. The remarks of Alanson B. ITough-on, ITough-on, American ambassador to Ger-nany, Ger-nany, on the occasion of the farewell iinner tendered him last week prior o his departure for Berlin, are given musual prominence by the German newspapers. Some of the newspapers iail Mr. Houghton as a "peace ambassador" am-bassador" whose sentiments assure dm a "hearty welcome" Numbers of small boys of Mexico City, Mexico have been Injured, one totally, in the last few days, while trying to emulate a "human fly" who ias thrilled the crowds by scaling mblic buildings. Shortly after the irofessional climber arrived from the !"nlted States and began his exhlbl-Ions exhlbl-Ions an epidemic of wall climbing iroke out among the boys, and the po-ice po-ice and firemen have respondod to nimerous calls to rascrre lada from ,irecarlous percbaa. |