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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORD BECORO OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hippnlng Tht Are Miklig History Information Gathered from AU Quarter of the Globe no Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. In orili-r to set his 1 '. y r-ilil wife free, Iir. K. 1.. Clock, 57 years old, physician hi the Victor-American mine in Kavcnwood, Colo., killed liiinself by tal. in:; 1 )ois( ; A lisi of mure than 20o nnmM, be-I be-I (! hy police to he n membership directory of northwest Industrial Workers of the World, was seized and three persons alleged to he radicals wore arrested in ll raid in Seattle on n suite of ol'i'ices which police declared declar-ed were northwest headquarters of the 1. . W. A contingent of troops composed of detachments from the First, Twenty-first Twenty-first and Thirty-fifth regiments, infantry, in-fantry, arrived in Unite Thursday night. April 22, prepared for strike duty. Dynamite, nil ro-glyeoriiie, percussion percus-sion caps, fuse, firearms and ammunition ammuni-tion which the local police say was intended to he used to create n reign of terror in Sail Lake In labor troubles, were captured by local detectives detec-tives when George Davis and Hubert Kelley, allowed "reds," were taken into in-to custody. Fourteen men. believed to be I. W. W. strike pickets, and one policeman lire in a Unite hospital suffering from gunshot wounds sustained in n clash on the Anaconda road, near the Never-sweat Never-sweat mine, on Wednesday. DOMESTIC. The bodies of M,r. and Mrs. Way-men Way-men Crews were found buried in stalls in a barn on the W. 1!. Itradley farm, five miles south of Grconsburg. Kansas, Kan-sas, .lunics White, ii neighbor, has been arrested, charged with the double murder. four id' the six communists arrested arrest-ed November S while celebrating in ltrooklyn the second anniversary, of the founding of the soviet government of Kussia, have been sentenced to the penitentiary fur one year each. Several thousand striking railroad workers at a mass meeting at Chicago refused to take action to end the unauthorized un-authorized walkout, now in its fourth week in the Chicago terminal district. dis-trict. One negro was shot and fifteen men arrested in the attempt of a mob of about 2000 men to take William Kay, colored. TS) years old, from the county jail at Indianapolis, where he is held without bond for the murder of 14-year-old Martha Huff, a white girl. Two girls were burned to death in a fire that swept three blocks of frame buildings at Newtown, Texas, in the Uurk I'.urnett oil field. Six oil wells were damaged and a quantity of oil was also burned. l'lenty of fresh air. wholesome food and outdoor exercise was prescribed as the best prevention of tuberculosis by speakers Thursday at the convention conven-tion of the National Tuberculosis association as-sociation at St. Louis. Lieut C. 1 Hell, F. S. A., aviator, was drowned in the Colorado river at Yuma. Ariz., when a government airplane air-plane belonging to the border patrol, in which he was attempting to fly underneath un-derneath the Ocoan-to-Ocoan highway bridge at this point, struck a high tension ten-sion wire suspended below the structure struc-ture and fell into the stream. John Crunait. leader of the outlaw-Chicago outlaw-Chicago Yardmen's association, who was released from jail at Joliet, 111., after his friends had deposited $10,-000 $10,-000 bund, is expected to call a new meeting of striking switchmen to end the walkout. George Daly, a pilot flying for an aviation school at Wilmington, and an unidentified passenger were killed when Daly's airplane fell 1000 feet iu;o the Facitic ocean off the recreation recrea-tion pier at Long Reach. Cal. .lames K. Ferguson, former governor of Texas, has announced his candidacy for president of the United States on the platform of the American party, which was organized at Fort Worth. Texas, las; August hy a faction of the Texas Democratic parry. The sole desire of those who have iaeii up arms against the Carranza government is to establish a miHtary liicttuorship in order that tin. y may oppress the Mexic an people for their own bench.:. Colonel Paulino Fotites. C!re.-:.T general of the National Kail-v. Kail-v. ;:ys of Mexico, dt ci a red in a state-L'.-.iit issued at New York. Lear Admirnl Carlo R. Prittain, .hior of staff f,,r Admirnl Henry IS. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, committed suicide by shooting him-elf while on duty with the fleet in 1 'uban waters. Mrs. Myrtle Dean, who was tried for the murder id' her husband. Fred Dean, with the result that the jury failed to agree, was found insane in a jury trial at San Louis Obispo. Cal. She was ordered committed to a state hospital. Methods employed during the war to speed up production were indorsed as applicable to present conditions by I'hilip C. MoltiT, superintendent of the industrial education department of the National Metal Trades' association, which opened its tw eiity-sceond annual an-nual convention Wednesday at New York. WASHINGTON. The house hill increasing pensions to civil war veterans to $50 monthly and those of the widows of veterans to s::t) monthly was passed Friday by the senate, and now goes to conference. The increases were provided to meet the rising costs of living. Cold imports from England jumped to nearly ,S:is,K)0.lHH during the first ten days in April, according lo figures fig-ures made public by the federal reserve re-serve hoard. Two warships from the 1'acilic fleet have been dispatched to Mexican waters' wa-ters' to protect American citizens and interests at Mazatlan and Topoloham-po. Topoloham-po. They were sent from San Diego on orders from the navy department after : reipicst for' protection bad comes from state department representatives repre-sentatives at those two Mexican l'acitic ports. Suggestion has heen made to the allied al-lied governments by the state department depart-ment that there he granted an extension exten-sion to O.ermany of the agreement which expired April 10, and which permitted per-mitted the presence of limited German forces in the neutral zone. The army reorganization bill has heen passeil hy the senate and now goes to conference. The measure provides pro-vides for a regular army of 297,000 officers and men, a national guard of 425,000 and a voluntary system of military mil-itary training for young men between the ages of 18 ami 21. FOREIGN A note has been despatched to 1'aris by the German government, according to a Uerlin wireless message received at London, stating that the German troops in the liuhr district no longer exceed the number stipulated hy the peace treaty. Argentina's corn crop for the present pres-ent year will be 0,371,000 Spanish tons, equivalent to 25S,S'J7,000 American Ameri-can bushels, according to official figures fig-ures made public April 23. Keports to the government show- S,1S4,000 acres planted to corn this year. Agricultural production in British Columbia during 1919 amounted to $01,719,710, an increase of 24.6 per cent over the previous year. Gov. Gen. Francis Burton Harrison has cabled the United States shipping board urging the allocation of two fast passenger vessels and five cargo ships to the Pacific Coast Philippine direct route, in order to insure adequate tonnage ton-nage for increasing trans-Pacific trade. Three years imprisonment, five years forced residence in. a town to be selected by the minister of the interior and ten years loss of political rights, the latter clause carrying with it inability in-ability to vote or hold office, was the sentence imposed upon former Premier Pre-mier Caillaux. Armenia is to he created an independent inde-pendent state. This decision was reported re-ported by the supreme council of the allies on April 23 because neither the United States nor any other power was willing to accept a mandate over the country. Joseph Caillaux, former premier of France, was acquitted of the charge of high treason hy the senate acting as a high court of justice, but was found guilty of having had correspondence correspon-dence with the enemy. This means a prison sentence and a fine, while Caillaux Cail-laux will have to pay the costs of trial. The breaking out of the Mexican revolution in the Tuxpan district, which is a part of the oil region, has caused the United States and other nations having interests there to view the revolution with concern. A wireless dispatch from Anadir, Siberia, announced the presence there of Koald Amundsen, the explorer. No details were given .other than an indication indi-cation that the explorer reached there i in a vessel. It is reported at Vienna that P.ela Kun. the former communist dictator ; of Hungary, who has been under in- '.eminent in Austria, has been released : and sent to Kussia. Extremist Bolshevik propaganda is being disseminated in Fukien province, China, and the red flag is a common stUht in Chang Chowi'u. General J 'lien ' is reported to be financing the move-j move-j ment. |