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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenlnns That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOJNTAIN. Two wives tire rluiniiiig the estate HI' Waller Milrhell, 11 Salt Lake hotel man killed In an iiiiiniiiuliili' aeeiilenl In Kelio eaiiyun, April IS, while, returning re-turning frnin a trip lo Kviinstnii, Wye. At Hie time nf Ills ilealll, police anil KlierilT aiillinrities reperleil iniiMlily lo Ineale a .Mrs. Miteliell. fleorge anil Thomas I'.osUos, til-others, were I'minil gullly of murder In the first decree at I'liehlo, Colo., for the killing on April 11 of William 'I'. Hunter, a weailliy farmer, and K. I1. 1'arks, an automobile salesman. Kleellon of officers, adoption of a Mate constitution and passing of u set til' resolutions selling forth the views nf the men who have heeii in service marked the completion of the first Hale- caucus of the American Legion held at Salt Lake on June 5. With die exception of a few men, Ihe IIiiiki workers employed In the Standifer Steel Shipyards al Vancouver, Vancou-ver, Wash., returned to work Wednesday Wednes-day and normal operations were relumed, re-lumed, iiflef a shutdown of a clay and 11 half. .lennie Ariott, 17, and her brother, Willie Ariott, l'J, had a narrow escape from death In a severe windstorm ivliicii swept over Helper, Utah, they Miis buried underneath the walls ivhen their house was blown down. Minnie Owens, said to lie a former resident of IHuiglas, Wyo., killed her 2-nionlhs-old baby at Hastings, Neb., !y slashing Its throat with a butcher knife. The woman is being held, pending pend-ing an investigation as to her sanity. DOMESTIC. President Wilson has sent the following fol-lowing message to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Chap-man Cat t, president of the National i American Woman Suffrage associa tion: "I join with you and all friends nf the suffrage cause in rejoicing over the adoption of the suffrage amendment amend-ment by the congress. Please accept mid convey to your association my wannest congratulations." It took but three hours and thirty minutes for Dr. F-. A. Brewster of Beaver City, Neb., to fly in an airplane air-plane to Oberlin, Kan., sixty-five miles distant, attend a patient and return by the aerial route to Beaver City. Jamaica ginger was declared to be an intoxicant and its sale or possession posses-sion unlawful, in an opinion banded down by the supreme court of Maine. Billy Miske of St. Paul decisively defeated Willie Meehau, the Pacific coast heavy weight, at St. Paul, but seemed unable to put over a knockout. With a view to carrying prohibition to all parts of the world, temperance workers assembled at Washington for the annual national convention of the Anti-saloon League of America organized organ-ized the "World's League Against Alcoholism." Al-coholism." June 11 lias been decided upon as the date for the beginning of the nation-wide strike of telegraphers, according ac-cording to a telegram said to have been received at San Francisco. Employees of the Western Union Telegraph company in Florida. Ala bama. Georgia, South and North Carolina, Caro-lina, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky. Ken-tucky. Tennessee, Mississippi and New-Orleans. New-Orleans. La., who are members of the Commercial Telegrapher's union have been ordered on strike. With the arrest of George Oliver, aged 2S, of Cleveland, police believed they were on the trail of the anarchists anarch-ists responsible for the recent bomb explosions at Pittsburg. Frank A. Vanderlip. former president presi-dent of the National City bank of New York, told the Pan-American conference confer-ence that trading between South America and Kurope could not be resumed re-sumed as formerly for some time to come, as the situation overseas "is more serious than has been grasped on this continent or even by a large proportion pro-portion of the Europeans theselves." The body of Mrs. Sara Satira Co-burn, Co-burn, beaten to death with a stick, was found in the bedroom of her ranch home near Pescadero, Cal. It is believed be-lieved she was murdered by her haTf-wit haTf-wit son. Mme. Galli Curci, the noted opera singer, joined the ranks of oil producers, pro-ducers, when the well she and a number num-ber of her friends are interested in near Okmulgee. Okla., hit the sand at feet and also brought in gas. Two bandits entered the State Bank of Ksisl San Diego, Cal., shortly before the closing hour, took all of the cash in sight, held up and seurched several customers who entered the bank while Ihe robbery was in progress and escaped es-caped Willi approximately STtJOO in an ailliimobile. The .vui m,i ii m i.i m ii) deficit resulting from government control of railroads lasi year was due to measures that had lo be taken lo keep Kurope from starvation and lo win the war, William I. M'-Adoo. former director general of railroads, asserted in a letter to Thomas M. siorke. publisher of the Daily News at Santa Barbara, Cal. (Mange leaf rust, unusually prevalent In Nebraska, may reduce production of the slate's winter wheat crop, according accord-ing to a statement Issued by A. K. Anderson of the United Slates bureau of crop estimates. WASHINGTON. Director General Iliues estimates that the railroad administration incurred incur-red a deficit of approximately .$."iS,-11110,000 .$."iS,-11110,000 in April, making a total deficit of S-.'.'iO.OOO.OOO for the first four months of the year. Kesolutions asking the state department depart-ment for the text of the treaty with Germany and directing Ihe foreign relations re-lations commit tee to investigate how copies ot the unpublished document have readied private hands in New York, were adopted by the senate without with-out a roll call. Postmaster General Burleson, in an order issued June 5, surrendered operation oper-ation of the telegraph and telephone systems to their owners. Armod with the latest figures supplied sup-plied him by the statistical expert, Dr. Harry A. Garfield, federal fuel administrator, admin-istrator, 1ms sounded another warning to "buy coal now." Secretary Daniels has ordered reduction reduc-tion of the naval personnel to 250,000 men or less by July 1. Commandants of all shore stations and districts were directed to discharge immediately every available man who could possibly be spared without impairing the efficiency effi-ciency of the navv. Plans for the construction of more than 1500 airplanes at a cost of $29,-000,000, $29,-000,000, anil the purchase from Great Britain of one of the newest type dirigibles diri-gibles for use as a model for future dirigible construction, are included in the army program for aircraft production produc-tion outlined to the house military committee. com-mittee. FOREIGN. Because the servants employed at the Hotel Des Iteservoires at Versalles, where the German peace delegation is quartered have refused to accept tips from the members of the delegation, the hotel management has announced that it lias been compelled to advance prices 10 per cent in order to increase the employes' wages'. With union lenders admittedly making mak-ing every effort to reach a settlement, the end of the Winnipeg strike seems rapidly approaching. It is understood here that the Berlin Ber-lin government is sending photograplv ically reproduced copies of the peace terms to every United States senator and representative. The Bolsheviki acknowledged defeat by the Siberians and Cossacks on the Ural river, according to a Helsingfors despatch. The Bolsheviki have .been forced to evacuate the town of Uralsk, capital of the territory of Uralsk. American marines have been landed at Ponta Arenas and Port Limon, Costa Kica, because of the revolution against the government headed by General Tinoco, according to dispatches dis-patches printed in newspapers at San Salvador. A proclamation urging Turks to massacre mas-sacre the Greeks in Thrace has been distributed at Adrianopole. The text of the proclamation is published at Saloniki. The Paris subway employes are out on strike. Meanwhile the strike in the mewil trades, which includes the automobile au-tomobile industry, is steadily growing. There also are strikes on at sugar refineries re-fineries and among house painters and j dress makers, and the walkout declared declar-ed in the coal mines of northern France has already brought out 50.000 men. Esthonian and Finnish forces have taken Petrograd, according to an unconfirmed un-confirmed telegram from Vardoe, -received at Copenhagen. The representatives of the vanquished van-quished Austrian nation met the victors vic-tors on June 2 in the fifteenth century cen-tury castle of St. Germain, and were made acquainted with the terms that will be imposed by the victorious allies. The governments of Guatemala, Honduras Hon-duras and Nicaragua have recognized the belligerency of the anti-Tinoco revolutionists rev-olutionists in Costa Hica, according to a dispatch received here from Nicaragua. Nicar-agua. Ileports of disturbed conditions in the Yaqui valley in Sonora have caused the state department through the American embassy in the city of Mexico to request the Mexican authorities author-ities to station enough troops in that section to safeguard American lives and vjrooert v |