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Show All Corners of the Ear th Complete History of the Past Week Told in Paragraph Prepared for the Busy Reader 1 INTERMOUNTAIN. A tannery to cost $25,000 will be located lo-cated In Eugene, Ore., if the citizens will give the promoters a site free. Forty years after their sweetheart days In a little Finnish schoolhouse, John Helnkaman, 52, and Anna Kousa-men, Kousa-men, 52, were married in Aberdeen, Wash,, a few days ago. A friendly suit for the purpose of petting a uniform ruling through court decisions on disposition of forfeited bail money, will be instituted in the 'near future probably in Humboldt coimty. w During the past few years an attempt at-tempt has been made to restock Carson Car-son Valley with quail and the results have been most gratifying. In all parts of the valley large flocks of the game birds were reported during the past Summer. Eric A. Sommers, who says he de-Berted de-Berted the United States navy at Mare Island more than a year ago, surrendered sur-rendered himself to the Roseburg, Ore., police officers recently. He was destitute des-titute and hungry, he said, and asked to be returned to the navy yard. The officers there have telegraphed the navy-yard for Instructions. A happy New Year Is In prospect for Portland, with a building program estimated officially to exceed that of this city's banner 12 months of 1910, when more than $20,000,000 was the figure expended. In homes and other structures. Permission to conduct nn extensive recruiting campaign over the lnter-mountaln lnter-mountaln territory was received by the commandant of the Fifty-first Infantry, Btatloned a,t Fort Douglas, from the Ninth corps area headquarters at San Francisco. Lieutenant T. J. Tulley leaves soon on a recruiting trip which will Include Evanston, Pocatello, Boise, Logan, Brigham Olty and Ogden. Later he will tour the soutrern part of Utah, GENERAL Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves retired ns an active officer of the United States navy. In relinquishing his post as commandant of the Boston navy yard, he ended 48 years of service. Thirty shipping board steamers anchored an-chored In James river are to be made ready for sea at once and placed In the Russian relief service. Shipping board officials understand that the ships are to be used to carry grain to the starving Russians. James Orlmes, a barber of Ottumwa, In., ran himself to death following an altercation with Walter Hadle, also of that city. Grimes and Hadle quarreled nt church and when they met later in the evening Grimes started to run. He did not stop until he fell dead from exhaustion In front of a rooming house. We dont disarm our civil population we Blmply don't arm them. The way for nations to prevent war Is to have no weapons with which to fight. If no nation had a Iwittleshlp "for protection" no other nation would need a battleship. battle-ship. The Idea that we must have battleships to protect us from naval aggression falls flat If there are no battleships to do any aggressing. If 5-5-8, why not 0-0-0? The United States Bureau of Education Educa-tion has been conducting a quiet Investigation In-vestigation Into Chose mushroom educational edu-cational Institutions which spring up overnight and enjoy a short career of commercial success aided by the lavish giving away of "degrees.'.' A legislative legisla-tive campaign to make it illegal for such Institutions to function may bo started by the bureau. "New liquor" put 40 "patients" In the emergency hospital In San Francisco Fran-cisco Christmas Eve. Many were picked Up from the confetti-covered Streets, Most of them wore said to be out of danger the next night. Six were poisoned by wood alcohol, while synthetic gin bowled over others, It was said. More than 000 disabled soldiers at Fox Hills hospital, States Island, adopted a resolution asking President Harding not to sign the senate bill designed to reduce the size of the medical reserve corps of the public health service. A young woman garbed as a man entered en-tered a restaurant In St. I.ouls, leveled a revolver at tlie proprietor and ordered or-dered him to hand ever the contents of the cash drawer or get "plugged." 6he got $27. WASHINGTON. Approval of 372 advances for agricultural agri-cultural and livestock purposes, aggregating aggre-gating $13,058,000, during the weeV ended December 31, was announced by the war finance corporation. The national agricultural conference suggested by President Harding has been called by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to begin in Washington Moa. danl, January 23. f Election campaign expenditures of candidates for the senate would be limited to $25,000 and those of candidates can-didates for the house In no case could exceed $4000 under a corrupt practice bill Introduced by Representative Cable, Republican, Ohio. General Increases In salaries of officials of-ficials of the Philippine islands government govern-ment are provided in a bill Introduced In the senate by Senator New, Republican, Repub-lican, Indiana, under which the governor gover-nor general would get $25,000 Instead og $18,000. Soviet Russian newspapers almost universally regarded the appropriation of $20,000,000 by the American congress to relieve famine conditions in Russia as primarily a political or economic, rather than a humanitarian, movement. While denouncing America as capitalistic capital-istic and bourgeoise, most newspapers express eagerness for recognition of the soviet government. Senator W. H. King of Utah introduced intro-duced bills calling for the reduction of the navy to a 50,000 man basis and the army to 75,000 men, these figures to Include both offi&ars and men. In presenting these bills, the senator Raid our army and navy together on their present basis are costing the government govern-ment nearly $800,000,000 a year, which Is $500,000,000 more than Germany, In her palmiest days eve- spent In one year on her combined army and navy. Secretary Hoover says "The commerce com-merce of the world is obviously dependent de-pendent on international confidence, and I know of no greater demonstration demonstra-tion of the importance of confidence than the recent rise in International exchange rates as the result of the conference in Washington. There was no movement of money or commodities that warranted such a rise. It was simply and solely a movement of confidence." con-fidence." Twenty thousand school children of Washington, D. C, are eligible to take part In an educational contest for prizes totaling more than a thousand dollars, to be given for the best essay upon "The Arms Conference and Its Significance." Washington school children child-ren are urged to devote as mucli time as possible to a study of the developments develop-ments of the conference so they will be able to write Intelligently on the sub-I sub-I Ject FOREIGN. Announcement Is made of the deatt of William Voigt, 71, picturesque shoemaker shoe-maker of Tilsit, who became famous several lears ago under the name of Captain Coepenick, by his impersonation impersona-tion of an officer of the German army. Disorders which have been prevalent for several days spread to Royal avenue, Belfast's busiest thoroughfare, where snipers fired at tram cars. Police replied with machine guns and one man was wounded. Mme. Marie Devos of Bordeaux, France, was sleeping late when the floor of her bed room collapsed and she was deposited plump on the counter coun-ter of the grocer's shop below In her robe de nult. She was exceedingly embarrassed, but was otherwise unhurt, un-hurt, though her bed was wrecked. m m Chilean fruitgrowers are beginning to find a market for their fruit In the United States. Shipments of Chilean I peaches, grapes, melons, cherries, plums, strawberries and chlrlmoyns. n kind of custard apple, bnve been disposed dis-posed of In New York at pood prices, says F. Rojas Huneeus, director of agriculture. ag-riculture. m After a week's Imprisonment at Riga, during which time they were not permitted per-mitted to communicate with outsider?, I Emma Gold-man. Alexander Reri-:?iicn and Alexander Shapiro, the deportees from America who recently came out of soviet Russia, started a second tine for Reval, Esthonla, on their way to Stockholm. ... An Impersonation of Christ has been permitted for the first time on an English Eng-lish stage In the production of StrinH- ! berg's BpUbOliC play "Advent." A 14- j year-old girl appeared as the redeemer. j Dramatic critics are inclined to take the view that the English stage censorship cen-sorship Is broadening In regard to religious plays, probably owing to the , fact that representatives of Christ have appeared often In the films. . . Germany's flag hns re-appeared among those of other nations In New York. It was unfurled from tl. I same j flagpole, atop No. 11 Broadway, from I which It was hauled down In tl, prlnc , of 1017, and marked the location of the reestablished consular offices of the now German republic. ... Extensive military preparations along the frontier between Russia and j Finland are known to be under way by both the Russians and Finns, and diplomatic tension is high. |