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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEMfllS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Homa and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. The legislative prohibition law can not be referred to the voters, under a decision of the Colorado supreme court. The decision upholds the action ac-tion of John iE. Ranier, secretary of stale, in refusing to receive a referendum referen-dum petition. Street cars were not operating Monday in Butte. The strike of the Worklngmen's union has tied up transportation and miners walked or rode to their work in jitneys. Oregon's water code, regulating irrigation irri-gation projects and other water uses, has been upheld as constitutional by the supreme court. Governor George Carlson of Colorado Colo-rado is critically ill and will be unable un-able to act as a delegate at large at the Republican national convention at Chicago. Frank Kramer of East Orangeg won the second national bicycle championship champion-ship race of the season at the Newark New-ark velodrome Sunday afternoon. Kramer now has a lead of six points for the national title. His neore.-t rival is Bob Spears, who has four points. Believing that he was a "fres'i guy" instead of an officer, cowboys employed in breaking western horses at O'gden, Utah, pounced upon George Covey, motorcycle patrolman, and gave him a severe beating. Twenty thousand people took part in the preparedness parade at Salt Lake on Saturday. Fifty spectators were pitched to the ground and three women were Injured when a grand stand collapse;! at the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. Ted Johnson of Salt Lake, Utah's champion long distance runner and twice winner of the long run, was forced to lower his colors to Frank Hall of Colorado college in the fourth annual Mountain modified marathon at Denver. DOMESTIC. Fifty-nine persons are reported killed and more than a hundred injured in-jured in a series of tornadoes which swept Arkansas, June 5. North Arkansas Ar-kansas appears to have suffered most severely. Reports of damage done and the existence of great numbers of grasshoppers grass-hoppers in northwestern Nebraska has reached state officials. Sheridan county crops are especially menaced, according to reports. Every state in the Union is represented repre-sented among the 1.700 men who have arrived at the first . Plattsburg (N. Y.) camp; of military instruction, which opened June 5. The strike of laborers in the building build-ing trades, which has tied up practically practi-cally all building in Omaha for about three weeks, is ended, most of the men going back to work. It is said-the said-the employers made concessions. The Women's Association of the Congregational church at Lodi, Cal., expects to clear a neat sum from the sale of a carload of old newspapers they have shipped to the paper mills at Antioch. Jacob H. Schiff, wildly cheered as "the greatest Jew alive today," was completely vindicated at the annual Kehillah convention at New York of charges that he had given ammunition to the Russian government by declaring declar-ing the Jews in Russia and Poland responsible for their own misfortunes. A. B. Wood, 75 years old, of Mul-hall, Mul-hall, Okla., a contested delegate from the Fifth district, died at a hospital in Chicago while the national committee com-mittee was hearing the contest. Death was clue to the infirmities of old age. John ClaTlin, former head of the H. B. Claflin company, which failed in June, 1914, with liabilities of $34,000,-000, $34,000,-000, now possesses a bank balance of only $200, according to a report filed by the referee at New York. The report that soldiers whose three-year terms have expired will be held in the army indefinitely under the reserve provisions of their enlistments, enlist-ments, has been confirmed by Gen. George Bell at Fort Bliss. Teaching a deaf person to sing, a feat which hitherto generally has been considered impossible, has been accomplished by Mrs. Christian Born, wife of a Columbus, Ohio, brewer, after weeks of experimenting with Magdalene Sattler, an lS-year-old Cleveland student at the state school for the deaf. President Wilson unexpectedly Bade an address to the naval academy acad-emy graduates at the commencement exercises at Annapolis, declaring that great responsibilities rest on naval officers of the United States. Bouck White, pastor of the Church of the Social Revolution, in New York City, who participated in the burning of the American flag and other national na-tional emblems in the rear of his of special sessions of desecrating the American emblem and was sentenced to thirty days in the penitentiary and I to pay a fine of $1,000. Louis 1). Hrantleis of Iloston on .lime 5 tcok his seat, as an associate .Inntlre of the supreme court, the sixty-second cill.en to rise to I hat high dlsllncllon. Ralph Smiley, driver of a motor car wlileli killed four persons at Kansas City January !l, pleaded guilty to manslaughter man-slaughter In the criminal court anil was sentenced to two years In prison. Five thousand tons of freight from the Orient, which were iinloatb.il ";n the wa'er front at San Franclsc from the Shinyo Muni No. 2, a Jap nneso frelghler, and a pier recenliy erected by I ho state were destroyed In a spectacular blaze of unk'iOA'n origin early Sunday. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. I'aul Railroad company suffered $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 damage by floods north of McGregor, Mc-Gregor, Iowa. Several bridges and depots were washed away and it will lie more than a week before tialnii can he operated. WASHINGTON. The supreme court has interpreted the Harrison federal drug act or 1914, making It unlawful for any person not registered under the law to have opium in his possession, as applying only to those, who deal in the drug and not to those who use it. President Wilson has signed the army reorganization bill, first of the Important prepardness measures passed by congress during the present pres-ent session. Senator Fall, Republican, of New Mexico, assailed the administration's Mexican policy in discussing Senato; Kern's resolution directing an inquiry in-quiry into the guarding of American lives and property in Ireland. The federal trade commission has announced that it would hold hearings June 12 and 13 to give the interests concerned an opportunity to explain the rise in the price of gasoline. The house bill providing for reclamation recla-mation by the government of 2,300,000 acres of Oregon land granted the Oregon Ore-gon & California railroad was passed by the senate. Favorable report has been made by Ihe senate judiciary committee on the bill of Senator George Sutherland of Utah, providing for compensation for accidental injuries to employees of the United States. Amendments to the naval appropriation appropria-tion bill to provide for an $11,000,000 government armor plate plant, for $3,-500.000, $3,-500.000, instead of $2,000,000, worth of aeroplanes, for 2,730 additional sailors and for a bonus system to encourage the speedy private construction of warships have been adopted by the house. FOREIGN. The seventeen loyal provinces in China have agreed to continue their support of President Yuan Shi Kai. A dispatch from The Hague says the Holland-American steamship Noor-dam, Noor-dam, which arrived at Rotterdam on May 28 from New York, was compelled compell-ed by the British authorities to leave her mail at Falmouth. The long expected general offensive of the Russians against the Teutons seemingly has begun. From both Petrograd Pet-rograd and Vienna come reports that the Russians are actively engaged over a front from the Pripst river, east of Brest-Litovsk, to the Roumanian Rouman-ian frontier a distance of about 250 miles. Tungan, twenty miles north of Amoy, China, is reported to have been surrounded by the revolutionists. The Stifts:Tidende of Aalborg, which published a report .Qi.'. the 25,-000-ton German battle cruiser Seydlitz was sighted Thursday off Fano island, pursued by British warships and badly bad-ly damaged, says it. is now believed the Seydlit was sunk. Pablo Lopez, Villa's chief-lieutenant in the raid upon Columbus, N. M., on June 5, paid the penalty for his crimes, facing a firing squad of constitutionalist con-stitutionalist soldiers at Santa Rosa, Chihuahua's place of execution. ., While all the Greek troops in the Caloniki district were attending a le deum mass in celebration of the king's saint day, French troops, under General Sarrail, assisted by French gendarmes, seized the city. The Swedish government, has decided de-cided to accept a vote of credit of S,-000,000 S,-000,000 kroner to cover the immediate military needs. Great Britain still holds undisputed supremacy of the seas, in the judgment judg-ment of Winston Spencer Churchill, recently first lord of the admiralty, who now has resumed his parliamentary parliament-ary duties after service wtih his regimen regi-men l at the front. The prefect of Khartkof, who has been for some time under suspicion of enrolling a great number ot wealthy merchants and prominent manufacturers in the police force, so an to enable them to escape military service, has been arrested. It has been decided that the western west-ern frontier of Egypt is to be turned into a separate province, under military mili-tary jurisdiction. It was understood in political circles in Tokio that Marquis Katsu-nosuke Katsu-nosuke Inouye, Japanese embassadot to Great Britain, will retire. The Dutch Navy league learns, it is announced in Vienna, that the Austrian Aus-trian army alone fired 15,000,000,000 infantry cartridges and 12,000,000 shells in the first seventeen months of the war. Lieutenant General Oshima, recently re-cently appointed war minister of Japan, Ja-pan, has submitted plans for the increasing in-creasing of the Japanese army. A number of American citizens and British subjects have been killed at Talara, Peru, by striking employees of the London-Pacific Petroleum com- I pany. I |