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Show IJEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings Thai Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Following the adoption oC the anti-c-iKiirctle lilll In the Uruli lKnisliiture, It is announced that a bill will be presented pre-sented prohibiting the. use of tobacco in any form In the state of Utah, and would make the u.;e of tobacco In the slate a crime. Discovery of a plot by the bandits who were involved in three bank robberies rob-beries in Utah to escape from the Utah penitentiary lias been made by the warden, find as a result the "honor" system at the prison lias been temporarily tem-porarily abandoned, the fcuard . has 'been increased and all prisoners are kept within the walls. Fishing on Sunday would be punishable pun-ishable by a fine of IpO, under a bill Introduced in the Arkansas legislature. Another bill offered would provide a prison sentence of from two to five years on persons found guilty of bribing brib-ing baseball players to throw a game. A blue Sunday bill has appeared In the Utah legislature. It provides for the closing of all places of amusement amuse-ment on Sunday, and would bar Sunday Sun-day baseball games. Theatre man declare de-clare that should the measure be approved, ap-proved, it would mean the ruin of owners of moving picture and vaudeville vaude-ville theatres as well as owners of baseball plants. The railroads of Utah have been ordered or-dered by the Interstate commerce commission to increase their passenger passen-ger fare rates In the state to the level of Interstate rates, effective April 1. DOMESTIC. Police of Chicago are searching for William Dalton, aged 17, who . is charged with having disappeared with nearly a million dollars worth of Liberty bonds belonging to a bank, by which be was employed. Jacob Haussling, four times mayor of Newark, N. J., died of a knife wound self-inflicted, police said. Haussling's body was found in bed by his wife.- A soda fountain equipment company, of which he was head, went into bankruptcy bank-ruptcy recently, costing the former mayor much of his popularity. Speaking at Rochester, N. T., Miss Alice Itobertson, representative in congress con-gress from Oklahoma, expressed opposition op-position to the League of Women Voters or any other organization of women which, she said, "tries to influence in-fluence legislation, as dangerous and liable to give rise to class distinction." The last hope for the lives of seven men who were trapped in the Kathleen Kath-leen mine, at Dowell, 111., has been abandoned and the mine sealed in an effort to extinguish the flames. Fred Williams, who went to war in 1017, will return to his home in Lafayette, Ga., in a few days to find that it had been supposed that he was killed In France and his body buried, his war insurance paid, and his bride the wife of another. A grain warehouse bill, permitting farmers to store their grain, receive warehouse receipts and then market it I by telegraph as they desire, has been passed by the Kansas state senate. A memorial has been introduced in the lower house of the Arizona legislature legis-lature asking congress to appropriate a sum sufficient for transportation to Mexico of Mexicans stranded in Arizona. Ari-zona. A clerical error in the drafting of the Missouri corporation franchise has been made the basis of an attack on rhat legislation by the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad. Itobbers rifled forty safety deposit boxes at the bank of Howe at .Howe, Neb., and escaped with an unestimated amount of Liberty bonds. Imperial valley, in California, will ship to eastern markets this season around 1403 carloads of lettuce, estimated esti-mated by growers. The "iceberg" crop Is rapidly moving east and the entire crop will be completed and in the eastern markets by March 1, valley val-ley growers declare. Creation of a trust fund of $75,000 by Edward Hatch, a New York merchant, mer-chant, to be used in financing graft inquiries in the city administration, only in the event of his death as a result of corruption exposures by former Governor Whitman, was announced an-nounced Monday: The first car of corn donated by American farmers for the starving peoples peo-ples of Europe and Asia was oaded at Eureka, 111., on February 22. Starting in a bedroom over a gasoline gaso-line filling station at Breckenridge. Texas, lire destroyed 37 business houses, libels and apartments, causing a loss estimated at half a million dollars. dol-lars. . . J. 10. Graft, night operator at the Santa Fe passenger station at Lubbock, Texas, was shot to deatli by masked bandits when he denied knowing the combination to the station safe which they demanded he open. A block of business buildings in the heart of Ranger, Texas, tin oil town, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $rix,0o). The fire started In a filling fill-ing station and was stopped by firemen who dynamited buildings in its path. Following a thrilling chase, through the business section of Long Beach, Cal., Robert Smith, aged 15, was arrested, ar-rested, accused of stealing a taxicab, in which he endeavored to make his escape, finally abandoning the car and being captured. WASHINGTON. Appropriation of $500,000 to provide ocean transportation for American relief re-lief supplies to China has been approved ap-proved by the senate appropriations committee and immediate enactment of the legislation is planned by leaders. The army appropriation bill carrying carry-ing $31,006,G94 more than allowed by the house was reported to the senate on February 23 by the military affairs committee. Representatives of the 109 national and International unions affiliated in the American Federation of Labor gathered at Washington, February 23, in an extraordinary conference for the purpose of organizing to meet attacks on the union labor movement. Federal Judge Landis, Chicago, will not be impeached by the house of representatives rep-resentatives for holding down the dual jobs of judge at $7500 a year and of professional baseball arbiter at $42,500 a year. However, Judge Landis may be censured by the house judiciary committee for holding both positions. Prospects of the passage of a soldier's sol-dier's bonus bill at the present session of congress have gone glimmering now, in spite of the assurance given to the American. Legion by senate leaders. FOREIGN. The strike which has stopped river and coastal steamship traffic in Argentina Ar-gentina for more than a year through a boycott of the Mlhanovich Steamship Steam-ship company, tying up more than 200 vessels, is about to be settled as the result of an agreement reached between be-tween representatives of the company and the workmen. In an order issued at Dublin alluding to the killing of two soldiers at Ran-don Ran-don and three at Woodford, General McReady, the military commander in Ireland, says that there is no doubt that these crimes constituted deliberate delib-erate attempts to exasperate the troops and tempt them to break the bonds of discipline. Nine hundred German emigrants sailed from Hamburg, on February 25, for Brazil. A majority of them are penniless. Their passage money was advanced by the Brazilian government, in view of the fact that they had been waiting for many weeks for transportation. transpor-tation. Saloon interests in Juarez, Mexico, are preparing to send a delegation to Chihuahua City to protest against a proposed law in the legislature there which would make the whole state of Chihuahua dry. In acting on the disarmament question, ques-tion, the council of the league of nations na-tions decided to ask the governments of the various members of the league of nations what their attitude was toward to-ward compliance with the Geneva recommendations for limitation of military mil-itary expenditures. More than 1000 Jews were victims of pogroms carried out by the troops of General Balakovitch, former anti-bolshevik anti-bolshevik leader, in the regions of Minsk and Hamel, according to a statement state-ment issued by the Federation of Ukrainian Jews in London. The Turkish delegations to the near East conference at London have accepted ac-cepted the proffered arbiation of the supreme council as between Turkey Tur-key and Greece in determining the status of Smyrna and Thrace. Trial of seventy-seven Filipino constabulary con-stabulary soldiers on charges of murder mur-der in connection with riots with the Manila police December l' in which eleven persons were killed, was closed at Manila. February 24, and the case taken under advisement by the court. Reports that widespread rebellions have broken our in eastern Russia and that the soviet government has dispatched dis-patched large forces to attempt to subdue sub-due the rebellion. A daring robbery was committed at Toronto, in the head office of the Bank of Montreal, when nearly $20,000 in cash and $11,000 worth of securities were stolen from a box in the paying teller's cage. Military operations by the Russian bolsheviki against Japanese forces in Siberia are believed to be foreshadowed fore-shadowed by concentration of soviet troops in the eastern end of the country. |