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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK If! CONDENSED FORI! RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT VENT3 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. HppenlnB That Are Miking Hlstorf Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe ana Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. With Portinnd experiencing a crime wave that probably utiprece 1en!ed for this city, and charges before Mayor Baker Hint some of the police officers offi-cers are In collusion with vice, the city's police bureau is in a turmoil. Immediate Investigation has been ordered or-dered by the mayor. Refusal to permit postponement of the sale of Colorado property of the Denver & Eio Grande railroad, was announced In a decision by the circuit cir-cuit court of appeals at St. Paul, Minn. Hotel men from eleven western states attended the opening meeting at Santa Barbara, Cal., of the Western Hotel Scenic association. Members at the opening session arose and with bowed heads paid a silent tribute to . the late Fisher Harris, of Salt Lake City, who was credited with originating originat-ing the slogan, "See America First." Bandits bent upon robbery of a passenger pas-senger train at Sandow, six miles from Denver, were frustrated by the train crew, who opened fire upon the rob-'fcers. rob-'fcers. Ever since the Carlisle robbery in Wyoming, members of the train crews have gone armed. Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Republican leader of the house, lias announced that he will be back in Washington when congress convenes, December 6, despite a broken leg which' has confined him to his home in Wyoming for nearly two months. DOMESTIC. Mrs. Mary Tierney, who shot and killed Ray Dunlap, aged 27, her son-in-law, on September 24, has been acquitted ac-quitted by a jury at Omaha. Mrs. ' Tierney shot Dunlap when he came to her home to ask forgiveness after eloping with her 18-year-old daughter. daugh-ter. Six men trd one woman, officials ana employees of the Consumers' Packing company, were given heavv fines and prison sentences by Federal Judge Evans at Chicago, as a result of their conviction of conspiracy to u-e the mills to defraud, i The mffking of toys has increased fivefold in the United States since 1913, according to W. A. Coleman, a director of the toy manufacturers of the United States. In 1913 this country coun-try was turning out $20,000,000 worth of toys yearly and today the business has reached the $100,000,000 mark. Evidence showing that more than a quarter million dollars' worth of whisky, brandy and sacramental wines have been illegally withdrawn from bonded warehouses in Los Angeles An-geles has bean developed by government govern-ment officials in close touch with the situation. Albert Sickbofsky, a Russian, who represents himself to be a man of wealth and leisure, and Francisco L. Andrujar, his valet, were arrested at Albuquerque, N. M., at the request of Los Angeles police, who say Sicbhof-sky Sicbhof-sky is wanted there on a charge of grand larceny and embezzlement. District Attorney Mathew lirady of San Francisco is quoted as having ' said that if the courts should order a 1 new trial for Thomas Mooney, now serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary as a result of the preparedness pre-paredness parade bomb explosion in 101G, he probably would move that the case be dismissed and Mooney be freed. Mail bandits boarded a train between be-tween Des Moines and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and rifled two Insured parcel post mail sacks in the "storage" car. ."o estimate of the amount of loot has been obtained. A bill designed to prevent Japanese from owning or leasing land in Texas is now being drawn up by American Legion executives for Introduction at the January session of the state legislature. legis-lature. Robert P. Brindell, president of the New York Building Trades council, lias been Indicted upon a charge of extortion extor-tion and held In $100,000 ball. The Indictment In-dictment was the second voted in connection con-nection with the legislative investigation investiga-tion of the so-called building trust. Sifting each shovelful for traces of bones, d'-puty sheriffs are digging out an old fillcd-ln well on an abandoned farm near Langdon, N. II., In search for Ihe body of Mrs. Blanche Whitney, who disappeared four years ago. Her husband is under arrest, but seems Indifferent In-different to Investigation. Sixteen men were drowned In Ches-uucook Ches-uucook lake, in the heart of the lumbering lum-bering district of Maine, when a motor boat took fire. Many leaped overboard over-board when efforts to subdue the fire failed, nnd were drowned. Dennis Chester, accused of killing Florence Barton, a Kansas City society so-ciety girl, was captured four miles south of Ocouto, Neb., after he had escaped from officers. Chester was alone and unarmed and offered no resistance. re-sistance. Disabled three days at sea, the steamer Kaladna arrived in Hampton Hamp-ton Roads in tow of the steamer Corson. Cor-son. But for the timely arrival of the Corson, it is believed the Makadna would have been driven ashore. John Romanelli, a Brooklyn undertaker, under-taker, has been convicted of grand larceny in connection with the theft of 1000 gallons of alcohol, which was colored col-ored and sold as whisky last Christmas Christ-mas in various New England states, and resulted in deaths of about 100 persons, scores of others being blinded as a result of drinking the concoction. concoc-tion. WASHINGTON. Removal from France of the body of one of the unidentified American soldiers sol-diers killed in the war for burial in a memorial crypt in Victory hall, New York, will be asked of Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels by a committee representing the Victory Hall association. Price studies given out by the department de-partment of labor show marked declines de-clines in October in practically all items entering into the cost of living, except house furnishings. Clothing dropped 18 per cent and farm prod-acts prod-acts 21 per cent. President Wilson, in a message to Paul Hymans, president of the league of nations assembly, on November 17, expressed the "hope that the labors of the assembly will be of immense value to the whole civilized world." J. T. Cremer, Dutch minister to the United States, has tendered his resignation resig-nation to Queen Wilhelmina. in health is given as the reason for the resignation. resig-nation. The supreme court has agreed to advance the arguments of the appeal of Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee Socialist Social-ist leader, from conviction by a lower court on charges of violating the espionage es-pionage act. FOREIGN. Admiral Coundouriotis resigned as Greek regent November 19, and was succeeded by Gueen-Mother Olga. Immediately Im-mediately a message to the Hellenic people was issued by the new regent, announcing she has assumed office in conformity with the constitution "on account of the absence of my beloved son, Constantine." Ia honor of 11,062 employees who fought in France, 1100 of whom were killed in battle or died of wounds, the Canadian Pacific railway will erect a statue of bronze in its stations at Montreal and Winnipeg. TITe town of Balbriggan, Ireland, was virtually destroyed by British "black and tans" because two of their number num-ber were shot in a bar room brawl, John Derham, an official of the town, testified before the unofficial American Ameri-can commission on Ireland. A mob of about 1000, said to be mostly laborers, attacked the city jail in Nogales, Sonora, hurled stones, cursed Mayor A. C. Villasenor, who was a prisoner in the jail, and threat ened to hang him. The crowd did not break into tt.e jail, however. The illness of the former Empress Augusta Victoria, of Germany, has again taken a critical turn, and the former for-mer Crown Prince Frederick William Is said to have made a hurried trip from Wieringen to her bedside. Striking Mexican coal miners who seized the mines in the Montclova district dis-trict of Coahuila have notified all Americans to leave the district. No Americans have been victims of violence, vio-lence, but there is an exodus toward the border. Over thirty Korean women members mem-bers of the Great Korean Women's association have been arrested In con- ! nection with the Korean independence movement. j Alvara Obregon was on November IS. at Mexico City, officially declared president-elect of Mexico, with niili-tary niili-tary honors. Troops paraded, bands played and copies of the decree were posted at street corners. Anuutiin has rejected the ultimatum recently presented by the Turkish nationalists demanding that Armenians establish a soviet government, u 1 ' 1 ' 0 r Turkish protection. Lithuanian troops f I red upon members mem-bers of Ihe league of nations control commission as they were crossing "no man's liind" from General Zcllgouski's lines to those of the Lithuanians, according ac-cording to dispatches received at Warsaw. War-saw. Three men, one an English officer, were draggd from a Cork-Sklblierten train Tuesday night by kidnapers. The officer Is believed to have sat In the courtmiirlial which sentenced Lord Mayor MacSwincy to jail on charge of sedition. i |