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Show p - a I History of I PastWeek The Newt Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed jo- INTERMOUNTAIN. Redmond, Ore, Five American Le-fBion Le-fBion posts In central Oregon took ac-tion ac-tion emphatloally to appose the coi-j coi-j onlraOon )ctt Japanese on ta-rigited I farm lands in the Deschutes valley. I Opposition is to be exerted through ja central organization, , consisting of jtwo representatives from each local j organization. Tacoma, Wash. Due to weather con-!ditions con-!ditions throughout the district, lum-jber lum-jber mills are beginning to feel a log , shortage, it was reported. All Tacoma Ta-coma mills were running at capacity, I but with other lines of industry running run-ning short the mills were unable to j absorb all the labor avainable. i Boise, -Bids on two staite-ald roafl j projects In north Idaho were received (at Lewiston by director of highways. jOn State-aid project No. 29 in the Cottonwood highway district of Idaho County the estimated cost is S-2.-1 063.46. State-aid project No. 30 is lin the " Central highway district of i Lewis County and the cost is to be ,544,541.97. The propect is 5.11 miles In length. Nevada. During the year the total 'number of deaths reported was but 965, while the births numbered 1393 during the twelve months ending December. De-cember. One of the most remarkable j things about the report is shown in the low infant mortality, and the report re-port also brings out the fact that the greatest number of deaths was for those who had reached from sixty to Seventy years of age, (there being 1 13S deaths for persons between those ' ages. ' Spokane. A quantity of merchandise merchan-dise declared to be valued at several ;thousand dollars, found in the possession pos-session of two men arrested at Great 'Falls, Mont., was stolen from local stores, it was stated by police here. ' Nyssa, Ore. Probably the largest funeral ever held in this city was observed when crowds of Oregon and Idaho friends gathered to pay last honors to James S. Pinkston. aged 77 years, pioneer of Owyhee since 18S4i and an active member of the commun-'lty. commun-'lty. GENERAL I ; Ga-Be-Nah YVonce, which means "Wrinkled Meat" also known as John SmiCb, a Chippewa Indian, reputed to be 137 years old, died near Cass Lake, Minn., after a week's illness with pneumonia. pneu-monia. He had been married eight times He had no children, and the only survivor survi-vor is Tom Smith, an adopted son, with whom he lived ' I ' The United States transport, North-ren North-ren Pacific, was reported burning off the entrance to Delaware bay in a wirless dispatch received in New York. The message Indicated the ship had been abandoned by her crew, which had been picked up by vessels that hurried to the scene in response to radio calls for assistance. ' Six known dead, thirty reported ls-Bing ls-Bing or unacounted for and twenty-eight twenty-eight known injured was the toll of a lire which started from an undetermined undeter-mined cause In the buseraent of the Lexington hotel, Itiulimond, Va spread through the four Btorieg of the bulld-ture bulld-ture and then BpreacI to other buildings build-ings sweeping half a city block before It was checked. The property loss Is estimated ut from 27M,W) to M)fM). "The high wind reported to be blowing blow-ing In central and western Kansas Is the worst thing that could Impoeri to the wheat crop." said S. I). Flora, meteorologist for Kansas. "It Is what has been feared might come before the arrival of sufficient moisture to bind the soil. The winter has been, especially In I lie central and western Colin lies, where the largest wheat, arre-ge arre-ge lies, one of the driest In tin: stale's ilslory. The steamer Transportation with twenty-two survivors of t'he stamer Norheni I'aellle, which burned forty miles off Cape May a few days ago. arrived at Newport News the following morning. The captain of the Northern l'ae;ie( who was aboard I'he Transportation, Transpor-tation, rcfiiHcd to make any statement us to the origin of he lire on his ves-"1, ves-"1, and members of his crew said he bad Issued oideri forbidding t'liem to tunku any. WASHINGTON. An increase of 118 per cent ta lumber lum-ber traffic through the Panama canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast of North America and Europe, In 1921 was cited in the Panama canal record, as the most conspicuous feautre of the canal's traffic history for the year. The stimulation was largely attributed to increased rail rates on lumber. A legislative program, contemplating ratification of the treaties growing oul of the arms conference and passage of the tariff, soldier bonus, farm credit and merchant marine bills, with adjournment ad-journment of congress about June 1, was said to have been agreed upon at a White House dinner confeenee, with President Harding, attended by mem bers of the senate and house steering committees.. Preparation of a deficiency appropriation appro-priation bill will be begun shortly bj a subcommittee of the house appropriations appropria-tions committee, Chairman Madden announced. an-nounced. The measure, be said, will be ready for the house In a few weeks and passage will be expedited to relieve re-lieve urgent deficiences which hav. arisen in various government departments. depart-ments. The largest offering of farm loan bonds ever made was announced bv Secretary Mellon. The 12 federal land banks will make a combined offering of $75,000,000,000 of 5 per cent federal loan bonds at 102 and accrued interest at which price the; to fhe callable dale and 5 per cent will yitld approximately 4.70 per cent thereafter. Authority for the navy department to accept without cost to the govern ment the sites offered it in San Pedro, Cal., for a sumarine base ; at Alame da, Cal., for a naval base, nad at Sand point. Wash., for a heavler-than-ah naval aviation station, was requested of congress by Secretary Denby. Belief that the results achieved bj the arms conference "cannot fall tc have effect in other countries" wai expressed by Secretary Hughes, chair man of the American delegation, II replying to an address by Ambassador Mathleu of Chile at a meeting of thi board of governors of the Pan-Ameri can union. Secretary Weeks, as the first wit ness in the hearing before the house committee on military afTalrs Into the offer of Henry Kord to purchase and operate the Muscle Shoals, Alabama nitrate project and announced that he expected to forward "two other offer for Muscle Shoals" to congress before many days. Construction work on fourteen capital cap-ital ships has been suspended by ordet of Secretary Den by under direction ol President Harding. The step was ta" en in anticipation of ratification of the naval limitation treaty which resulted from the Washington conference and under which only three of the vessels Involved will be compeleted as war-craft. war-craft. The other eleven will be scrap ped or converted to merchant ships under the treaty. FOREIQN. A crisis In the Cork rail war strike Is exacted to be reached soon Hie strikers having announced their intention in-tention of taking charge of the lines and running them themselves. An autoatic p'stol in each hand, I'.at-tl.s-ta Pestalacci, suddenly cra.ed, terrorized ter-rorized the picturesque Swiss town of Belllnzona ne'ar Luke Maggiore, killing kill-ing three persons, wounding 10 others, and then committing suicide. Two Belgian women who bought several pairs of sliocs In Cologne, (let-many, (let-many, were arrested and sentenced in three months' Imprisonment each. Their conviction was based on regulations forbidding foreigners to buy ceitalp articles In the occupied areas. I Prime Minister I.lyod fleorge, speaking speak-ing at too o)cnlng session of the hoioJe of commons, termed the Washington conference one of 1he greatest aehlevc-mets aehlevc-mets ever registered In the history Of the world. j The permanent International court of Justice elected Judge Charles Andre Weiss of France as vice ,olilciil. Judge IS. T. C. JiiIcr of Holland uas eleetel president last week. Judge Weiss Is a professor of Inlernational law In the I'niverslly of Pans and Is legal adviser to the Freeh foreign cf-liee. cf-liee. Mxeculive departments of thn government gov-ernment took s'eps toward carrying out the edlef.s of t'he arinaiimcnt. eon. fereneo without a wa itlng rn I Ideal Ion by the senate of the several treaties, w Idle the American delegallon worked on tho'r report to be submit ted n rrcsl-dent rrcsl-dent Harding and senate lenders began be-gan marshaling their forees lor the light ' M mention of the treaties. |