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Show HEWS OF A WEEK If CONDENSED FORM RECORD Or THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening! That Are Making Hlitory Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. More Hum oik; hundred homes and millions of dollars worth of crops narrowly nar-rowly escaped destruction when an iitlcinpt was Hindu to dynamite three lilt! reservoirs 111 (he linrch creek dis-trlrt, dis-trlrt, near Ogdoti. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Fire-men and F.nginemcii, In Irlennhil convention con-vention at Denver, voted to increase the insurance policy limit of the order from $ 10(H) to if-loOO. Kllza Spalding Warren, one of the few who survived the Whitman massacre mas-sacre of 1S47, died last week at the lionie of u daughter In Coeur d'Alene, Ida. Hiding n horse In a spectacular dash up the capitol steps, u cowgirl delivered deliver-ed u protest to the governor of t lie state against the employment of beauties beau-ties from the east as models for a poster pos-ter of frontier days to be used In the "round-up" celebration at Cheyenne. Electricians employed by the Mountain Moun-tain States Telephone & Telegraph company ut Denver, who had been on strike since June 1(3, returned to their places on the IMth. W. (.'. Iloinbree, 91 years old, took a fifteen minute ride at McMinnville, Ore., In' an airplane. "I came to Yamhill Yam-hill county by ox tenm in 1S47," said the pioneer as he was being strapped In his sent,,"nnd I have been looking forward for something like this ever since." DOMESTIC. Sixteen striking telegraph operators of the Western Union Telegraph company com-pany were arrested at Oklahoma City by federal agents on charges of conspiracy con-spiracy to obstruct federal business. From a height of H00 feet above an immense crowd at the Methodist Centenary Cen-tenary celebration at Columbus, O., Dr. Kdward Soper delivered a sermon through a megaphone from the decks of a big army dirigible. Congress has been advised that the Alaska government railroad project will be completed in 021 at a totu cost of $50,-130,071 or about $73,200 a mile. The Kansas winter wheat crop, now being harvested, is estimated at 229,-27,000 229,-27,000 bushels. William A. English, and John H. O'Hrlen, members of the wool firm of English & O'Brien, were fined $10,000 each and sentenced to serve eighteen months in prison in federal court at Hoston for conspiring to defraud the government in connection with income tax returns. A yellow substance, believed by chemists to be sulp'hur, probably carried car-ried from some distant volcano, fell with the rain at Dawson and streaked sidewalks and roofs. Telegrams have been sent by Governor Gov-ernor l'leasant of Louisiana to the governors gov-ernors of all southern states, asking that they oppose raitfication of the federal woman suffrage amendment by the legislatures of their states. A in ,t'i ini t i.ocn.ilti.is iliiHin the forty-seven-day Meuse-Argonne offensive offen-sive aggregated 120,000 men, or 10 percent per-cent of the total of 1,200,000 engaged, according to a "statistical summary of the war with Germany." prepared by Colonel Leonard P. Ayers, chief of the statistical branch of the general staff and published by the war department. A verdict ofguilty of murder in the second degree was found by a jury at Kedwood City, Cal., in the case of Dr. Kphriam Northcott, San Francisco physician, accused of the murder of Miss Inez E. Keed, army nurse. Four persons, one a woman of 20, . were burned to death in a cabin fire in the Kelso valley, fifty miles northeast north-east of Bakersfield, Cal. An International aerial race, which will start simultaneously from Toronto Tor-onto and New York, will be Iheld August 2, with the Prince of Wales as starter. The recently created Pacific fleet, now being organized from vessels heretofore forming a part of the Atlantic At-lantic forces, will sail from Hampton itoads for the west coast between July l,"i and 20. With the recovery of six additional bodies, the number of known dead as a result of the tornado that struck Fergus Falls, Minn., was raised to fifty. Five or six other bodies are still unaccounted for. i Five robbers held up the offices of the Middle Fork mine, two miles east of Benton, III., and ufrer wounding three employes of the company, escaped es-caped Willi $41 ,000. Boston saloonkeepers plan to sell per cent beer atrer July 1, Secretary Secre-tary John oalvin of tin; lietail Liquor Dealers' association announeed. His statement explained the eagerness of dealers in applying for licenses recently. re-cently. There is a shortage of 1,000,000 homes in the Culled States, according lo William H. Garland of Los Angeles, president of the National Association of Heal Estate Boards, the twenty-fifth annual convention of which body opened June 2.") at Atlantic City. Gordon Fawcetl Hiimhy, who killed a teller during a holdup of the East Brooklyn Savings hank last December, has been sentenced to die in the electric elec-tric chair at Sing Sing prison during the week of July 28. WASHINGTON. On his arrival in the United States President Wilson will go straight to Washington to lay before congress the results of the peace conference. He will leave soon afterward for an extended ex-tended tour of the country for the purpose pur-pose of explaining directly to the people peo-ple all questions relating to the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant. cove-nant. A hill authorizing the incorporation of the "American Legion" composed of veterans of the world war has been introduced by Itepresentative Johnson, Republican, South Dakota. Kepeal of the postal zone system for newspapers and periodicals is proposed pro-posed in a bill by Kepresentatlve Mon-dell Mon-dell of Yvyonilng, the Republican leader, lead-er, under the measure second-class man would be at the flat rate in force befoe the war revenue of 1917 was passed. Army ariplanes in commission or available for immediate service number num-ber 3400, it Is officially announced. The postofflce department cleared $17,000,000 for the fiscal year 1918. Postmaster General Burleson on June 20 turned over to Secretary Glass a check for $15,000,000, retaining $2,000,-000 $2,000,-000 for a working balance. Provision for vigorous steps by the federal government against bomb throwers and other anarchists and radicals declared by government officials of-ficials to be plotting overthrow of the government and spending $2,000,-000 $2,000,-000 monthly to that end Is made In the sundry civil appropriation bill as reported to the senate. FOREIGN. Movements of the Germans against the western Polish boundary at three points are giving greut uneasiness in conference circles, and Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish premier, is making earnest efforts to obtain ammunition from the allies before the Germans cut the principal railways. It is reported from Pragins, where former Emperor Charles of Austria is staying, that the health of the ex-ruler is causing anxiety. He has not left the house for a week and is being attended at-tended by a Swiss doctor. The Chinese delegation has announced an-nounced that China would not sign the peace treaty with Germany, be-cuuse be-cuuse China would not be allowed to make reservations concerning the province pro-vince of Shantung, and also had been refused the privilege of making a declaration de-claration at the time of the signing of the treaty. The German government headed by Philipp Scheidemann, had planned to refuse to sign the peace treaty and to permit the allied troops to march into Germany as far as the Elbe, where they would be attacked by strong Ger- lll'lll fi-11-fiOC ttia tlilTl'ItT fnri'OOnnii ,1 f of the Tageblatt declares. Kumors of an anarchist plot to assassinate as-sassinate King Alphonso of Spain during dur-ing the procession accompanying the reopening of the cortes Tuesday was responsible for fhe sudden change to the senate house adjoining the palace. More than 2000 employes of the Toledo To-ledo Shipbuilding company, rufusing to submit to an increase in street car fare, ditched two cars and smashed windows in two others. The German peace delegation has been informed in a note from Premier Clemeuceau that the German government govern-ment will be held strictly responsible for unofficial support of any movement move-ment against Polish authority. The allied council has replied to the Turkish memorandum, saying that It could not accept the Turkish claim that its territories be restored undiminished. undi-minished. Serious rioting occurred at Hamburg Ham-burg when mobs attacked food preserving pre-serving factories. it being alleged that the bodies of dogs and cats had been found in them. A state of siege has been declared in the district of Muenster, in Westphalia, West-phalia, northeast of Cologne, because of Spartacan disturbances, according to information reaching American quarters at Cobleuz. |