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Show NEWS "OF A WEEK IH CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making Hlatery Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe ana) Given In a Few Llnaa. INTERMOUNTA1N. Chief Louis Mann of the Ahtamim clan of the Yakima Indians will depart de-part for the east within a few days to meet President-elect Harding and explain ex-plain the grievances of the Indian 'water users on the reservation, it was announced at Yakima, Wash. An airmail plane from Cheyenne, Wyo., piloted hy Pilot Cox, crashed into the wireless statino at the landing at Omaha while Cox was attempting to make a landing. The plane was wrecked, but Cox, making' his first trip to Omaha from Cheyenne, escaped injury. Wage reductions of 50 cents to 51 for employes of copper and zinc mines in the Butte district and mill and smeltermen at Anaconda and Great Falls were announced December 1G, following a conference between mining companies and representatives of unions under contract with them. Albert Scurry, a barber, 43, was killed by blows from an ax wielded by his wife, at Tacoma. Mrs. Scurry called the police, who found the husband dead from a blow on the side of the head. John Murphy, of Cheyenne, has ad-. ad-. mitted that he shot Mary Odum, a rooming house keeper at Los Angeles. Sh.e is in a serious condition. Murphy attempted to hang himself in his cell, hut was unsuccessful. DOMESTIC. The area sown to.wiuter wheat this fail is 40,00r,000 acres, which is 2.8 per cent less than the revised area sown last fall. The condition of the crop of December was ST. 9 per cent of a normal, compared with 85.2 a year ago, 08.5 on December 1, 1918, and 8S.4, the ten-year average on that date. Farmers of the Ilollister, Oil., section sec-tion will start a drive on the coyotes, which have been destroying crops lately. Residents are to board and lodge the government poisoner while he is working against the coyotes. Xew York, with a policeman at nearly every corner,, is so beset with murderers', robbers, gunmen anil thugs that wholesale jewelers are planning to organize a vigilance committee. Three men and a girl were killed and one hmn injured when the dredge Beaver of Astoria blew up and was destroyed at the mouth of the North river at South Bend, Ind. Hearings on working conditions and rules affecting more than 2,000,0X railroad employees will be begun before be-fore the United States railroad labor board January 10. William Jennings Bryan, former secretary sec-retary of state under President Wilson, Wil-son, and for many years an earnest advocate of world peace, was called into consultation on December 17 by President-elect Harding regarding the p!an for an association of nations. The Tenants' Protective association lias filed with the city clerk at Los Angeles an initiative petition calling upon the city council to enact an anti-rent anti-rent profiteering ordinance, or call a special election to pass upon it. Discovery of the ruins of a prehistoric pre-historic village and cemetery, in which were many relics of great value, in the Navajo country in New Mexico, Is announced by the Amerlcun Museum of Natural History. According to Eugene C. Grace, president presi-dent of the corporation, the Bethlehem Bethle-hem Stee! corporation will refuse to sell fabricated steel to builders and contractors in New York und Philadelphia Phila-delphia districts to be erected on the closed shop basis. Three hundred nien employed by the Arizona Comuierclul Mining company, com-pany, with properties at Copper Hill, on the outskirts of Globe, Ariz., were thrown out of work when the entire opertaions of the company were suspended sus-pended for an indefinite period following fol-lowing telegraphic Instructions from the officials In the east. Police announced that Edward J. Murray, G5 years old, under arrest at St. Louis on a charge of attempted swindle, admitted that he escaped 'roin the lluntsvllle, Texas, penitentiary peniten-tiary last December. Checks to the amount of $50,000 were found on Murray following his arrest. James Addison, president of the No-cona No-cona Slate bank of Nocona, Texas, which was dosed by a state bunk examiner ex-aminer Monday, was found dead from U bullet wound early Tuesday. Operation of a new automobile ferry system across San Francisco bay between be-tween Oakland and San Francisco will start in a few months, it was announced an-nounced recently. At present one ferry system handles the vehicular traffic between the two points. Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Selzkopp of near Glendale, Ariz., were burned to death and two. others severely burned when their home was destroyed by fire while their parents were visiting a sick neighbor. Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the UnitedXStates Steel corporation, cor-poration, declared in an address at New York, that should Japan and the United States clash, the people of the United States would be more to blame than the people of Japan. He denounced de-nounced what he termed "Japanese baiters." WASHINGTON. The naval court of inquiry which investigated charges of indiscriminate killing of natives by American marines in Haiti has completed its report and It is now' in the hands of the judge advocate general of the navy. American shipbuilders broke the world's prewar record of launchings during the last fiscal year, according to figures given in the annual report of the commissioner of navigation made public December 17. American ships built and documented during the year aggregated 3.SS0.639 gross tone, the report said, adding that British ships under construction June 30, 1920, aggregated 3,S0S,056 tons. Republican members of the senate finance committee are of the opinion i that a poll of former service men should be taken to determine the kind of bonus they desire before any soldier sol-dier legislation is undertaken by congress. con-gress. The system 'of government which Irish republican leaders propose to set up in Ireland was described before the investigating committee at Washington Washing-ton by Laurence Ginnell, former Irish member of the British parliament, as "an ideal co-operative commonwealth." Deportation of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Russian soviet ambassador to the United States, is understood to have been virtually decided de-cided upon by Secretary of Labor Wilson, who has had the case under advisement since the conclusion, a week ago, of the gearings in the deportation de-portation proceedings. FOREIGN. The assembly has adopted the recommendation rec-ommendation of the committee that the special amendments committee study what modifications of the covenant cov-enant were necessary to admit to honorary hon-orary membership states too small for active membership In the league of nations. A general strike has been called in Halle in protest against the expulsion of Dr. Stern, an Austrian editor of a local newspaper, as an undesirable alien, says a dispatch to the London Times from Berlin. Albania was elected a member of the league of nations by the assembly on December 17. Canon Magner, a parish priest, was killed by a policeman, who declares the priest was endeavoring to interfere inter-fere in the arrest of a "rebel." The soldier will face court martial. Charged with the murder last year of her twin girls when they were six weeks old, Amy Adolf, daughter of Tommy Adolf, hereditary chief 'of the Lillooet Indian tribe, was arrested at North Vancouver, B. C, while a search was being made for the bodies. Former King Constantine of Greece, on his way from Switzerland and exile to reoceupy the throne of Greece, was received at Venice with all the honors due the sovereign of a friendly nation by the Italian government. Austria was elected a member of the league of nations by the assembly of the league on December 15. The election of Austria was without opposition. oppo-sition. Thirty-five votes were cast In favor of her admission. Two members mem-bers were absent and four abstained from voting. The telegraphers and station agents on the National Railways In Mexico have ordered a gneral strike Immediately, Immedi-ately, which It Is feared will paralyze all the lines. The Opel automobile works In Kus-selsheim, Kus-selsheim, Germany, have shut down, the management announcing the employees em-ployees had assumed a threatening attitude because their demands for a Christmas gift of 1000 marks for married mar-ried men and 800 marks for single men had not been granted. The members of the German relch-stag relch-stag went on rations of black bread without butter and coffee without sugar or milk on Tuesday when the managers and employes of the rech-stag rech-stag restaurant refused to serve tho forbidden foods In "view of tho government's gov-ernment's apparent Intention to continue con-tinue raiding hotels to compel them to obey the rationing regulations." It is rumored that disturbances have occurred In bolh Prague and Belgrade, the capitals of Czechoslovakia and Jugo-Slavla, after attempts to establish es-tablish communist governments In those countries. |