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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete HitoTV of the Pt Week Told in Paragraph Prepared for the Buy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. Seeking proteetlon from tin? liifli wlndg Hint swept SnII I.iike viilley ut fifty miles un hour. Mrs. Mary Miifc'-(lullne Miifc'-(lullne Simon, 78, lost lier life when a hum wns plekeri np lioillly and euti-tuilteil euti-tuilteil twenty feet. AIiIiimikIi the Mnhfi fruit crop generally gen-erally promises to be a record breaker, the peach crop in this slate lias been do badly blighted by lale frosts that the liurvext will be practically nothing, It is reported. An S-cent fare on city lines of the J'ortland Hallway, I.itjht & Power company, effective June 15, bus been ordered by the public .service commission. commis-sion. The order Increases the street cur fare of Portland pn'rons - cents. Alexander Miller, deaf mrtte, was found utility of first decree murder in connection with the killing of Adam Shank, Ids wife nnd four children on the Shank farm near Gilcrest, Colo., last December. Claude Yates was shot nnd Instantly killed on his farm near Mountain Home, Idaho. V. II. Kvtins is charged with having fired the fatul shot In a Quarrel over n dog nnd a cow. The whole force of the National Wholesale Grocers' association in convention con-vention at Colorado Springs will be directed at securing better transportation transpor-tation conditions. It was decided Tuesday Tues-day when the executive committee Indorsed In-dorsed resolutions which were adopted by the board of directors. , POME&TIC four boys ranging In age from 14 to IN years were killed and seve'n others were Injured, one probably fatally when lightning struck n tree under which they had taken shelter nenr Detroit. i XI) e American Federation of Labor In Its annual convention at Montreal, wiped out the "color line" and warned Its affiliated International unions that negro workers must be given full and equal membership with white men. Tentative plans to produce fifty-two fifty-two one or two reel pictures a year In the Interest of Americanization were agreed upon nt tho convention nt Cleveland of the Motion Picture Theatre The-atre Owners of America. Hat lonlug of sugar as In wartime will go into effect in hotels and restaurants res-taurants throughout the country on ' June 111, Armin W. Riley, special as sistant to Attorney General Palmer, announced at New York. Seven persons killed, more than 100 Injured and property losses that will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars were the tolls taken by the terrific wind and electrical storm that swept northwestern . Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Gov. Edward I. Edwards, of New-Jersey, New-Jersey, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has issued a statement demanding liberalization of the Volstead act and calling upon "the people of the United States, lawfully and by the constitutional method prescribed, pre-scribed, to pass judgment upon the act." Chief blame for tremendous increases in-creases In building costs Is placed on labor's refusal to do "a day's work for a day's pay" in the report of the county grand Jury on Its Investigation of the bousing situation delivered to Judge Kennedy In criminal court at Cleveland. Federal Judge Faris at St. Louis ruled that It was not necessary for prohibition enforcement officers to have search warrants to raid places where it is suspected the prohibition law is being violated. Congressman Floor of Virginia and a half dozen lawyers and witnesses In the famous Portlier will case engaged en-gaged in a free-for-all fight in the Prince William county circuit court at Manassa, Va. Most of the combatants sustained cuts and bruises ubout the face. Eight persons were killed and more than sixty injured when two New York Central passenger trains crashed head-on near Schenectady, Y. The resolution providing for ratification rati-fication of the federal suffrage amendment was defeated in the senate sen-ate of the general assembly of Louisiana Louis-iana by a vote of 22 to 19. Ratification of the peace treaty without reservations that would Injure In-jure the effectiveness of the league of nations covenant was demarjded by the I'nited States senate in resolutions resolu-tions presented by delegates for adoption adop-tion by the American Federation of Labor convention. The first sale fo he madp hy the shipping hoard under lie- pi-wers coii-fi-rred upon it by iIh- .lours shipping bill probably will be thai of the great slehlner I.eviitt h:t li, the Ueen of llie great former German p:isMnger fleet and next to the Imperator, the largest vessel afloat. l-'ourteeu persons are dead as a result re-sult of a rear-end collision on the New York Central railroad, three miles' west of Schenectady, N. Y. Ylgomus opposition to the proposals of Irish sympathizers that the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, In convention conven-tion at Montreal, indorse llie "Irish Republic," Re-public," and demand the withdrawal of I'.rltlsh troops from ' Ireland, is forecast. fore-cast. WASHINGTON. Attorney General Palmer lias made an Informal ruling, which has been communicated to President Wilson, that the chief executive has ten days after the adjournment of congress lr which to sign bills and resolutions. Itrecken ridge Long, third assistant secretary of stale, has resigned and his resignation has been accepted by President Wilson. Mr. Long retires to make the race for the nomination for United States senator from his home slate, Missouri. It Is rumored in Washington that Col. E. M. House has applied for passports pass-ports and that be contemplated leaving leav-ing for Europe at an early dale. The prohibition amendment and the enforcement act were held constitutional constitu-tional by the supreme court on Juno 7 in a unanimous decision. General Pershing will retire from active service within n few months. He nnnounced his Intention on June 7 In a letter to Secretary linker. The Sixty-sixth congress ended its second session on June o, adjourning sine die at 4 p.m. Unless a grave emergency arises which makes necessary neces-sary a special session, it will not meet again until December D. FOREIGN The Hungarian cabinet, headed by Alexander Slmonyl Senieden, premier and minister of the interior, has resigned, re-signed, according to advices from Budapest. The resignation, advices said, was caused by Its inability to cope with the terrorist situation. Poland will send a peace note to the Russian soviet government within n few 'days, according to the newspapers at Moscow. The proposal will ' be handled by Premier Skulskl, who is empowered by diet leaders to act In behalf of the government, which framed Its new note on June 4. Abolition of the death penalty and guarantee of the liberty to strike were features of the temporary constitution constitu-tion adopted by the Lithuanian assembly as-sembly nt Its recent session in Kovno. Fifteen thousand Albanian insurgents insur-gents attacked the Dunkati bridge on the Voysua river nnd captured a party of Italian carablueers, according to a dispatch from Rome. A pitched battle, resulting in numerous num-erous casualties, was fought in the village of Listsellaw, Ireland, when a patrol of Ulster volunteers surprised fifty raiders who evidently were about to burn the courthouse. Details of one or more American naval officers a advisers to the Peruvian Pe-ruvian navy has been requested' by Ambassador Tezet of that country and selection of the officers will be made soon. An American, notorious as a smuggler, smug-gler, was arrested by Mexican authorities author-ities at Juarez, in connection with the alleged smuggling of ammunition to Francisco Villa, the bandit. He later was released. Sir persons, including the mayor of Avila, Spain, were killed Tuesday, when lightning struck a church. The International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress, meeting at Geneva, has decided that the alliance should be continued to secure suffrage and equal rights with men for the women of all nations. The Gulf of Ismld, easterly arm of the Sea of Marmora, has been closed by the British to all shipping. The order was issued because of the activities ac-tivities of the Turkish nationalists along the shores of the gulf. Three Spanish airplanes have bombarded bom-barded strongholds of rebellious Moroccan Mo-roccan tribesmen at Adouares and Sagara, dropping more than 100 bombs and causing great damage, according to advices received at Madrid. The government lias tendered its resignation to President Ebert, who requested it to remain In office provisionally. pro-visionally. The president also asked Chancellor Mueller to take steps so that the result of Sunday's parliamentary parliamen-tary election in Germany can be established es-tablished as soon as possible in order that tho reichstag may be summoned at the earliest possible date. A gift of o, (KM francs by sportsmen for the training of amateur boxers to represent France in the Olympic games at Antwerp, just announced, has put new spirit into the contestants, contest-ants, it is intimated that oilier gifts will follow. |