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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Glvsn In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. T'luli is filing to join In the mitinn-wiilc mitinn-wiilc li'ht aru in.st the new Ittirk'sim Hchl'dllll- of long distance telephone lolls. Tin' initiative will lie taken by tin' slate public utilities oiunmissicin. A lone unmasked bandit boarded a noiM hi k 1 11 1 1 I (ireat Northern passenger I ni in at Saiuisli, Wash., and held up :hi fain crew and Hie day coach passengers. pas-sengers. Keprescnlative V. W. t'onier of Scuttle, lias introduced into the 'Washington 'Wash-ington legislature a liill aimed to an- pmpriale .f:iOO,0(R Tor the innnediute reiki' of needy American soldiers and cailors. The act proposes to relieve, not reward, the men, Representative Connor said. I'lans for the organization of a corporation cor-poration with $50,1)00 capital to extend financial aid to returned service men were made at n meeting of business men nt Spokane. Frank Leroy Silvio, a 15-year-old runner employed by the Denver National Na-tional bank, is the object of a search on the part of police and private detectives de-tectives following two escapes from officers, after he had absconded, according to bank officials, with .$150. in cash, checks approximating .$33,000 and several Liberty bonds. AVilliam J. It tiff, while digging a well near Bountiful, Utah, was crushed to death, the walls caving, burying him 'beneath fifteen feet of earth. Henry L. Pitted;, connected with the Oregonian since 1S53, and its publisher for more than sixty years, died at Portland, following an illness of several sev-eral weeks' duration. He was S3 vears old. DOMESTIC. Xat C. Goodwin, the actor, died at a hotel in New York City, January 31, after n brief Illness. Ho came to New York on January- 27 from Baltimore, where he had been playing. Death was due to a general breakdown in health following an operation for the removal Of Ilia ;.,!, f ,...1 ,1 I While postal inspectors were Investigating Investi-gating the accounts of William Sch.uck-niami, Sch.uck-niami, postmaster nt Nogales, Ariz., Schuckninim went into an adjoining room and killed himself by inhaling as. Speakers at the annual meeting of the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers' association at Chicago suggested sug-gested that many thousands of the re-tun re-tun i.ig soldiers and sailors will find pleu.y of work at good pay on the fruit ranches and vegetable farms of the far west and northwest. Capt. Archibald Roosevelt, son of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt, aided a New York policeman in capturing an alleged robber after a street chase in which the patrolman shot and wounded Frank Marcello the man pursued. Because of the prevalence of influenza influ-enza and pneumonia in virulent form at Camp McClelland, Ala., Surgeon General Ireland has recommended that no more troops be sent there for demobilization de-mobilization until conditions improve. Fifteen persons were injured, four seriously, when the rear coach of passenger pas-senger train No. 100 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad jumped the track and crashed on its side near Burbauk, S. D. Thirteen railway express messengers, messen-gers, employed on runs between New York and Boston, pleaded guilty to the larceny of goods in transit. Twelve were sentenced to terms of from four months to one year. Philadelphia on January 30 extended extend-ed a hearty welcome to 12197 men of the American expeditionary force, first of the overseas contingent to arrive at that port. They came on the liner Haverford, which sailed from Brest on January 15. I Three 10-year-old boys who boasted of their liking for whiskey, beer and cigarets, confessed to the police at Chicago Chi-cago that they had killed Wadisla YVi-delkis, YVi-delkis, 10 years old. by clubbing bin. over the head with an empty beer hot-lie hot-lie while he was asleep in a shed. The release of 113 conscientious objectors, ob-jectors, honorably discharged from the service by war department orders, was begun at the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth on January 27. Two. however, refused to leave, saying it was against their religious scruples. File of undetermined origin virtually virtual-ly destroyed ilie federal disciplinary barracks at Lca enw orth. Kan., with a resultant loss estimated at .lOO.OtiU. Gordon Read Patterson, serving a five-year term in the disciplinary barracks bar-racks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., has been notified that he had fallen heir to $5,xni,000 through, the death of an uncle at St Paul. The Pennsylvania ruilroud, with scientific; accuracy, has found that since women have begun wearing tight skirts the average stopping time of a train at a station is now seventeen seconds longer than it was when the skirts were short and roomy around the bottom. Paul K. SkjerKclh. former vice president presi-dent of the lTint National hank of Saoo, Mont, was arrested at Kansas City on a federal iudictment charging embezzlement of some of the bank's funds. The indictment contained ten counts and was Issued by a grand jury In Great Falls. Mont., hist fall. WASHINGTON. Washington police are engaged in an attempt to solve the mystery of the killing of Dr. T. T. Wong, chief of the Chinese educational mission to the United States, and C H. Hsie and Ben Sen Wu, students at George Washington Washing-ton university, whose bodies were found in their homes' in the fashionable Mount Pleasant section. An army of 500,000 men was uuan-iinou.ly uuan-iinou.ly decided on by the house military mili-tary committee as the basis for de- iei mining cue apprcipriauci.u icu army pay for the year beginning next July. Committee members said the number was expected to be the average force during the year. To meet further rate reductions proposed pro-posed for British vessels, the shipping board's division of operations nas announced an-nounced cuts in freight tariffs on ear-go ear-go carried in American bottoms from north Atlantic ports of the United States to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the far east. With the announcement that 10,000 disabled soldiers are now being given educational work in forty-three army hospitals, Surgeon-General Ireland has sent out a call for additional instructors instruc-tors and supervisors. A plan to demobilize soldiers through local draft boards instead of discharging discharg-ing them direct from camps is being considered by the war department. Maximum wholesale and retail margins mar-gins on oleomargarine, butter substitutes, substi-tutes, ham bacon and sugar were withdrawn with-drawn by the food administration January Jan-uary 2G. Ratification of the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution, effective January 10, 1920, was proclaimed pro-claimed in a proclamation signed at 11 :30 a. in. on January 29 at the state department by Acting Secretary Polk. FOREIGN. Serious conflicts between the police and strikers developed at Glasgow, Scotland in which at least forty per sons were more or less inutiy injureu. The number of American, French and British troops to be maintained In the occupied regions along the Rhine will be limited to 1.000,000 men, according ac-cording to the Echo de Paris. Two British soldiers were killed and several injured at Mons, Belgium, by the explosion of bombs hidden tinder coal abandoned by the Germans. The soldiers were engaged in removing the coal when the explosion occurred. Unofficial returns from elections to the Prussian assembly, without taking tak-ing I'osen's twenty-one delegates into consideration, show' the selection of 142 Socialists, twenty-four independent independ-ent Socialists, eight-seven Christian People's party, forty-one German Nationalists, Na-tionalists, eighteen German People's party, sixty-one Democrats, six Guelphs and one Democrat-Peasant. Dr. Franz Mehring, independent Socialist member of the Prussian diet, is dead. Advices say that death was due to pneumonia. President Wilson has won half of his battle for his policy of internationalization international-ization of the former German colonies. Contests are still on over demands that the president show his plans can be worked out on a practical basis. Major General Sir -Sam Steele, of the permanent staff of the Canadian army, died at Putney, England, January Jan-uary 30. He had been ill for about two months, but the end came rather suddenly. Twenty-five were killed and thirty injured when a freight and a passenger passen-ger train collided near Laguna, Mexico. Mex-ico. 100 miles south of the border. Lord Robert Cecil, British authority on a league of nations, praised the Monroe doctrine in an interview regarding re-garding the interest of neutral countries, coun-tries, especially Latin-America, in a league of nations. Dr. Alejandro Cesar has been appointed ap-pointed the representative of Nicaragua Nicara-gua at the peace conference. Dr. Cesar is a prominent surgeon. Drastic import regulations covering a wide range of commodities and effective ef-fective March 1, have been promulgated promulgat-ed by the British government for the protection of its industries during the period of reconstruction. Representatives in Paris of the various vari-ous governments in Russia which are opposing the Bolsheviki regime have issued a manifesto declaring the fundamental funda-mental principles of Russian interior and foreign policies. |