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Show ! Ti m .. History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed I NTERMOUNTAI N. One man was killed and eleven injured in-jured when an eastbound Union Pacific Pa-cific freight train crashed into a work car near a curve between Knight and Altamont, Wyo. The negro population of Denver in 1920 was announced last week by the census bureau as 60S3, an increase of 659, or 12.1 per cent. John Schmltt, alleged bandit, was found guilty of murder in the first degree with a recommendation for hanging by the jury which heard his trial in the superior court at Seattle on the charge of killing Police Detective De-tective James O'Brien in a pistol fight. An investigation is being conducted to determine what caused the explosion explo-sion that demolished the Castnjer home at Tacoma, killing Mrs. Cora .Castner, 55, and seriously injuring her son, Mel-, viri, aged 26. The Van de Steeg anti-alien land bill was passed in the lower house of the Idaho legislature after considerable consid-erable debate. The vote was 35 to 15. This measure, the fourth introduced intro-duced In the house, disapproves extension ex-tension of citizenship to Japanese and calls upon congress to, prohibit Japanese Jap-anese immigration except to students, teachers and merchants. Mrs. Frances McEwen Belford, called the "best loved woman in Colorado," and who first suggested the idea of the Lincoln highway, died at Denver, January 27, aged 81 years. DOMESTIC. . Four automobile companies and two automobile body building firms resumed re-sumed production at Detroit Monday with a total working force of 30,000 men. Senator Johnson, California, has issued is-sued a statement criticising the reported re-ported agreement between Japanese Ambassador Shidehara and American Ambassador Morris dealing with the status of Japanese in America. Donald J. O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, has been ordered by Secretary Wilson of the labor department to leave the United States by February 11. He is now in the country as a seaman awaiting an opportunity to reship. Charged with having participated in the robbery of an Indian camp eighteen eigh-teen years ago, and with having stolen a horse, Clarence Simmons, known ahlrV as Jackson J. Smyth, alleged to have been a member of a gang of bandits notorious in the days before Oklahoma became a state, is being tried in Oklahoma Okla-homa city. The marital difficulties of William Vickers, 46, shoe worker of Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, and his divorced wife, Mildred Vickers, 38, were tragically ended when Vickers shot and killed the woman wo-man and then sent a bullet into his own heart. Treasurer Harry C. Forry of Marion County, Ohio, who reported he had been robbed of $14,303 by two bandits, who knocked him unconscious in his office in the courthouse, has been placed under arrest, it being reported he has confessed the theft A bedridden man was burned to death, five persons were injured, including in-cluding two babies who were dropped from a third-story window, and a dozen others were rescued, when fire attacked a boarding house in Chicago. The amount of money allotted to each school district will be doubled and counties will be required to raise amounts twice as great as their present pres-ent apportionments, by a bill introduced intro-duced in the California senate. Value of California's crops in 1920 fell abouf sixty million dollars below 1919. Lower prices for larm products and a lack of rainfall, along with damage to fruits, caused the decrease, asserts E. E. Kaufman, agricultural statistician of the department of agriculture. Railroad executives, after a two-day conference l-ehind closed doors, at Chicago, hail outlined a tentative plan of actiou designed to make such readjustments read-justments as the railroads consider necessary for efficiency and economical economi-cal operation. A new language "more concise and forceful than any spoken, composed of all spoken languages and denominated 'American,' should result in this country," coun-try," says a statement issued by State Librarian John Henry Newman of Columbus, Ohio. Patrick Healey. believed to have been the oldest man in California, died at Ukiah, January 2S, after a week's illness, the first he ever had experienced, experienc-ed, friends said. Healey was born in Ireland, March 17, 1S02. ' WASHINGTON. The house has voted to authorize the secretary of state to accept" the offer of-fer of the residence of J. P. Morgan In London as an American embassy. Trade of the United States with Germany Ger-many in 1929 aggregated nearly $400,-000,000, $400,-000,000, against $-533,000,000 in the biggest . year preceding the war the calendar year 1913. Every man, woman and child in the world would have $13.58 from an equal distribution of all the money on deposit de-posit in mutual, stock and postal savings sav-ings banks of the globe, it is estimated. Framed to provide for a force of 150,000 regulars, the army appropriation appropri-ation bill reported to the house carried car-ried a total of $328,861,193, a reduction reduc-tion of $63,697,242 from current appropriations. ap-propriations. The war department had asked for $692,811,070. Oil production in the United States in 1920 totaled 443,402,000 barrels. Despite De-spite the excess of consumption over j production, the end of the year showed a net increase in petroleum stocks of more than 10,000,000 barrels. The alternative to disarmament is a race among the great nations to develop de-velop new and more terrible engines of naval warfare, Secretary of the Navy Daniels is quoted as saying. FOREIGN. "Impossible" is the word most used in Germany wherever the reparation matter is discussed. "Germany can never agree to such a figure, because she would promise something she could not carry out," declared one of the highest officials of the foreign office. "If the allies dictate that sum without regard to the consequences, then let them see how they can get it." Sinn Fein is planning "governmental sabotage" in Ulster when north Ireland Ire-land adopts home rule. Sinn Feiners numbering 412,000 live in Ulster. They are talking frankly of refusing to pay taxes to be budgeted by the new government. They are talking of a score of plans to hamper the Unionists, Union-ists, who will be in control. Premier Lloyd George, says the London Times, has sent instructipns from Paris for the coalition party machinery to be ready for a general election in May or June, after introduction intro-duction of the budget early in April. That Japan has not abandoned her racial equality proposal was made clear by Viscount Uchida, minister of foreign affairs, who, in answering inquiries in-quiries in the Japanese diet, said it would be introduced in the councils of the league of nations if a suitable opportunity presented ; otherwise it would be withheld. Ignace Jan Paderewski, former premier pre-mier of Poland, has resigned as Polish delegate to the league of nations. He sent his resignation from. Switzerland, and it was accepted by the government. govern-ment. 1 One, constable was killed and Divisional Divi-sional Commissioner Holmes and five constables were wounded in an ambush am-bush near Castle Island, County Kerry, the attacking party using machine ma-chine guns. General Raphael Pimienta, who had been imprisoned for almost three months on charges growing out of the assassination of Vice President Suarez in 1913, has been released on bail," says a Mexico City dispatch. British oragnized labor at the national na-tional conference of the labor party and the trade union congress at London Lon-don demanded immediate action by the government to remedy the plight brought about 'by unemployment. Strict surveillance over Americana In Japan has been decided upon as urgent, the newspaper Ashi declared Friday. The Ashfstatement has been confirmed as substantially correct. Tax exemption for all new dwellings for a period of at least fifteen years as a means of stimulating building is advocated by Lawson Purdy, former president of the New York City board of taxes and exemptions. Harry Dunsman, grocer, of Cleveland, Cleve-land, saved $750 from a gunman with a "flour fog." He hurled a scoopful of flour at the thug and escaped with the money under cover of the haze. Mrs. Lillian Bingham attempted to shoot William Wilson, a negro, in a i. courtroom at Pittsburg, as the negro was being tried for assaulting her, but the pistol failed . fire. Spectators shouted their approval of her attempt to avenge herself. Sons and daughters of financial responsibility re-sponsibility would be marie responsible for the welfare of their parents under a bill introduced in the Indiana legislature. legis-lature. Offsprings who seek to avoid the responsibility may be fined not to exceed $2"0 or imprisoned for not more than six months. F:neis Patrick Suilivaii. a veteran of the world war. was calio from his home near Jacksonville. I'ia.. 1-y a fake I tole!'.,o!ie nns-aL-e and tarr.-l a!,,', feathered !';" a band of five :a--:i. Sullivan Sul-livan later was l:in;ied from an automobile auto-mobile in Che. downtown section. , The Japanese population of Hawaii In 4920 was 100,274, out of the total population of 255,912, and represented an increase for that race of about 83 per cent since 1910, the census bureau has announced. Eamonn de Valera, Irish republican leader, whose arrival in Ireland from the United States was announced on December 31, bt been found "somewhere "some-where in Frain" by a correspondent of the newspaper Oeuvre. The German government, says a dispatch dis-patch to the London Times from Berlin, Ber-lin, refuses to consider, that the conference con-ference of the supreme council In l'aris has any relation to the negotiations in progress with regard to reparations. Women with babes in jftms leaped overboard and were drowned or dashed to death against the rocks, as a result of orders of the captain of the wrecked steamer FelioMa'I. at tie-mouth tie-mouth of tin' .l-iio river. 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