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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM ACCORD OF THE IMPORTANT VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER P0S8IBLE. Happenings That Are Msklig History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe n Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Tin- State 1 1 1 1 1 1 k nt Arvada, U'vii., has 1 li closed. This Is the firsl Incorporated Incor-porated hank In W'.vi mi i ii k li I"' closed In seventeen years. While Installing a gas meter at I'ort-laml I'ort-laml O. (). Lolnhnrt hy mistake took off Ills pipe call without first shutting nl'f tin' t'lis. Tint occupants of the housi' escaped before the explosion mill fin' which iliil damage amounting In $-l,(KK. Although tin' far tlii'.v were driving In 'J " s" i j Falls, Idaho, carried them iivi'r Ihe riiiirnck nf I lead Mail's gulch li 1 1 1 1 threw thein to Ihe floor of the canyon, can-yon, 70 feet below, neither lionald MacKay, ninclier In the Filer district, bis wile nor li-ycurold child received serious Injuries. The reiuunerat ion received by the library workers Is far from adequate mid conditions lire seriously affecting the morale of the profession according to I'res, Chnl is lladley of the Am- erienn Uhrary iissoclation, In an address ad-dress at Colorado Sprint;, opening the n m i mi I convention of the American Ameri-can Library association. The supreme court upheld federal court decrees dismissing habeas corpus cor-pus proceedings brought by Leslie C. Stnlllugs to prevent his extradition from Washington to Cheyenne, Wyo., where lie Is charged with embezzling government funds. Mrs. Julia li. Slullli, convlcled at Tacoinu of criiulnal assault on l'rose-culor l'rose-culor W. I. Askren, was sentenced to from ten to thirty years In the penitentiary. peni-tentiary. .Mrs. Smith shot the county prosecutor April II. l'rosecution and iiuiilslinient of approximately ap-proximately l'JOO L' lull residents, who during the war successfully evaded military service under the selective draft law, Is demanded of the government govern-ment through lis various agencies in a i resolution adopted by Ihe American I Legion state convention at Ogden. DOMESTIC. , Grnver Cleveland licrgdoll, wealthy draft evader, wiio escaped from the custody of two noncommissioned officers of-ficers of thi! army nt bis home In l'hiladelphia May -I, is reported trying try-ing to reach the Mexican border, motoring witli a companion and chauffeur, chauf-feur, according to a message received at Phoenix, Ariz. Catherine IHindon of Conshnhoken, l'a., lias been arrested in connection with the kidnaping of 13-months-old Llakeley Coughlin, who was taken from his crib at his parents' home near Nnrristown, l'a. liiiby Karen Mercedes, 5-year-old liolstein cow, was sold for $11101) at the opening of the sale ut St. l'aul under the management of the Minnesota liolstein Friesian association. Ten head of cattle brought (in average price of .f.'tlOL'.oO. Property damage to Homer, Neb., and surrounding towns by flood water from Omaha creek Tuesday Is estl-I'jiited estl-I'jiited at more than ?l,0O0,O00. The flood followed a cloudburst near Homer. Judge John M. Cowan, 00, died at bis homo In Springfield, Mo. lie was the first white child born iN Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, Ind., and was the oldest living graduate of Wabash college. Officials were unable to cope with the situation at Kllinwood, Kansas, which culminated in the escorting from town of Waller T. Mills and members of his parly who came to discuss 'the principles of the Nonpartisan league, according to a statement of the mayor. Despite the appeal of President Wilson Wil-son and oilier national 1 icmocratic and Republican leaders for the ratification el' the woman's suffrage federal amendment, the Delaware legislature adjourned June - without ratifying. Grasshoppers are seriously damaging damag-ing crops in 1 lull and Childless counties. coun-ties. Texas, according to reports made public by the state agricultural department. de-partment. They destroy cotton and corn as fast as the plants come up, the report said. Madly in love with a married man. according to the police, Mrs. Mary Frances Dunlop, living on a farm near West Grove, l'a., shot und killed J. Le-roy Le-roy F.ichelbergor, the object of her infatuation, in-fatuation, as he lay asleep in bed with his wife and infant. She then drove to her own home and killed her 11-year-old daughter uud herself. Arthur Collins, who pleaded guilty lo thi: charge of murder in the first degree f,,r having -hoi and killed I -olid-man 1 1. ( '. Hathaway, at Los Angeles, has been sentenced to be hanged. The murder was coinniitled les than two weeks ago. Sixty-six members of Ihe faculty of Vale university sent to congress a protest expressing opposition lo "congressional "con-gressional resolutions of (Ireat I'.ritajn and Ireland." The signers expressed belief that this government should not Interfere with "the domestic affairs of any other friendly nation." Samuel Gonipors, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared de-clared In n formal statement that a war between the I'niled States and Mexico would result if the rocoui-nieiidatiou rocoui-nieiidatiou of the senate committee which Investigated the Mexicon affairs af-fairs were carried out. WASHINGTON. I'resideu. Wilson on June vetoed the bill establishing a national budget system and an unsuccessful attempt was made In the house to pass the measure over his veto. After a tempestuous voyage, the hill establishing conditions under which the great governtnei(t-ow ned merchant fleet eventually is to be sold to Americans Am-ericans if possible, to foreigners if not finally was passed on June 4 by congress.' After only a minute consideration the .senate adopted with minor amend-inenls amend-inenls the house Joint resolution repealing re-pealing war legislation with the exception ex-ception of the Lever food control act and the trading with the enemy act. Following a fifteen-hour session, Ihe senate passed the third deficiency bill carrying $5K,4U7,000 and sent It to conference. This was an Increase of more than $5,000,000 over the house bill. Five thousand clerical employes of the war department will be let out by July 1, because of reductions in appropriations. ap-propriations. Since May about 1000 men and women have been dropped from the force, which will stand, after July, at 7000. The house has adopted a resolution repealing all wartime laws except the Lever food control act and the trading. trad-ing. Action of Attorney General Palmer in sanctioning a "fair price" for Louisiana Louis-iana sugar, was defended In a report of minority members of the house sugar su-gar investigating committee. FOREIGN The treaty of peace with Hungary was signed at Versailles on June 4. "We have signed the hardest of all the treaties," said a member of Ihe Hungarian delegation after the ceremonies, cere-monies, "but we have done so In hope and confidence of its revision." A program of commercial procedure for nationals of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Belgium Bel-gium will be drafted at the initial meeting of the international chamber of commerce in Paris from June 25 to July 1, with the view of suppression of unfair comiietition. nrcolornl ion of transportation of raw materials, reconstruction recon-struction of the war devastated regions, Die economic organization of new states und stabilization of exchange. ex-change. Encounters between German and French soldiers at Glehvitz, Silesia, which resulted in a number of persons on botli sides being injured, are reported re-ported In a wireless dispatch from Berlin. Faced with the alternative of being nationalized or getting married, Lydia Zelinskara, of Moscow, chose the latter lat-ter solution temporarily, she explained in a Geneva divorce court. With twelve army officers in hospitals hos-pitals at Budapest in consequence of having been pricked by poison needles and a number dead, It is believed that bolshevikl are attempting to create new disorders during the period of uneasiness un-easiness attendant upon the signing of the peace treaty. A deficit of 2,400,000 pesos exists in the Mexican treasury, according to the newspapers. They quote General Sal-vaor Sal-vaor Alvarado, minister of finance in the cabinet of President de la Huerta, as authority for the statement. The Poles have launched a counterattack counter-attack south of Kiev region, while the reds have concentrated in an endeavor lo drive to the northwest in order to compel the Polos to evacuate Kiev. That the Anglo-Japanese alliance will be extended automatically for another year is declared by the Daily Mail's political correspondent to be probable. Sixteen years in a French prison was the sentence pronounced by a French military judge at Ludwigs-iiaven, Ludwigs-iiaven, in the occupied zone, upon Captain Cap-tain Indiof, a German captain accused id looting French chateaux during the war. Repatriation of Russian p -isoners of war in Germany lias been arranged by the Moscow and Berlin govern:!!- :it -. says a dispatch. They will be sent to Kussia by way of Kiga, from v-h!i l:orr thev will rrn.-s Liiln;ai |
