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Show HEWS OF 11 WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hsppenlngs That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Mule evidence nf a Ion;,' forgotten tragedy, probably ennoled in tins days of curly settlement of '1'lie Dalles, Ore., was brought to 1 i j-c 1 1 1 when workmen engaged in t tie oonstruclion of Ihe Columbia Co-lumbia rivet- highway near tin; I.es-eliutes I.es-eliutes river nnearllieil six skeletons, t il i ll with the skuTI eruslieil in. Iteiliietlon of 'M per cent in salaries of officials and employes paid on oilier Hum a daily basis lias been announced an-nounced by the Utah, Kay, Cli.ino and Nevada Copper companies which recently re-cently suspended operations. The decrease de-crease becomes' effective May 1. Heaviest cherry and pear crops in history are predicted in the Hood Kivor valley, in Oregon, on account of the exceptional bloom. The pear crop is estimated at 17.,(X)0 boxes, or 50,- 000 more than last year. Bandit, activities in Denver which resulted in the theft of ff'JIi.OOO from (wo hank messengers and the assault and robbery of U. li. Cole, 81-year-old grocer, who probably will die, have led to the roundup of eighty-two suspects. sus-pects. Frank Lee, 14, died in a hospital at Ixis Angeles of spinal meningitis, which, according to three attending specialists, -was brought on by a whipping whip-ping said to have been administered him eariy in February by a teacher in a Las Vegas, Nev., grammar school for a "minor infraction of the rules." Members Mem-bers of the Las Vegas school board exonerated the teacher. After being buried alive for three minutes while his companions frantically frantic-ally dug to save him, S. F. Halverson, plumbers' assistant, was taken from a trench at Ogden and will probably live. DOMESTIC. Sam Cardinella, brains of the worst gang in Chicago, according to the police, po-lice, was hanged at Chicago, April 15, for the murder of Andrew Bowman, Cardinella collapsed when the time for his execution came, and was tin-conscious tin-conscious when taken from his cell. ! Four bandits held up two messengers messen-gers for the Chicago clearing house on Friday and escaped with !?G3S,000 in cheeks. A series of explosions destroyed twelve buildings of Hie United States Fireworks company at Itandolph, Mass., and caused other heavy prop-tj'ty prop-tj'ty damage. The force of the ex-Hlosion ex-Hlosion was felt more than six miles away. Forty-five aliens for whom deportation deporta-tion warrants are held by federal of-f of-f 1 :ers at Detroit have disappeared, it was announced Friday. The aliens have been at liberty under bond since shortly after their arrest in the department de-partment of justice raids more titan a year ago. Lester Gandy, 24 years old, convicted nf having robbed and murdered his boyhood companion, Cleveland Kow, was hanged at Wainesboro, Miss. Arthur Ihlenfeld, '20, confessed murderer mur-derer of Mabel Foote anil Louise Wol, high school teachers at Cleveland, beaten to death February 16, was found criminally insane by a jury of six men and six women. l'olice guarded the county jail at Chicago, following the nipping of a plot to bomb the jail with nitroglycerine. nitroglycer-ine. Jailer Lee said he believed that i he nitroglycerine was placed in the iail in an attempt to save the neck of Sam Cardinella, leader of the notorious Cardinella gang of robbers and killers. Citizens of Melissa. Texas, set about affording relief to a large number of families made homeless by a tornado and fire which swept the little town, causing the death of eight persons and 1 lie injury of many more. Five of the eight dead are negroes. Major Weidncr Harvey Spent, ST. said to have been the lust surviving member of the escort which accompanied accom-panied General Sheridan on his ride from Winchester to the battle of Cedar Creek, is dead at his home in Council Bluffs. Iowa. Two men and two women were killed mid five others injured when an automobile auto-mobile containing ten persons was struck by a switch engine at Covington, Coving-ton, Ky. Only two out of a group of twenty of the principal electric street and in-terurban in-terurban railroads in California paid dividends in li'-O. while most of them added to existing deficits and three failed to coJjeeJ operating expenses. Both railroad executives and labor leaders have declared the decision of the railroad labor board abrogating the national agreements would materially ma-terially advance the effort to arrive at an agreement satisfactory to all parties. ltecent arrivals at Dawson, V. T from Keno Hill, in the .Mayor district, confirm the report of the discovery of a nine-fool silver vein in the Kico claim here. The strike was made in a tunnel which pierces a 1000-foot bluff. Compulsory voting at national, state and municipal elections under a penally pen-ally of a fine of $5 is provided for in a bill Hie committee on laws has voted to report to the Massachusetts legislature. legis-lature. Thirteen more members of Ihe crew of the ill fated schooner Colonel Bcivte were picked up eight miles off the port of Tanipico. WASHINGTON. I'roliibition against the shipment of arms and munitions to any country where they might be used for revolutionary revolu-tionary purposes lias been asked of congress by t lie state department. Field guns and other war trophies captured by the American army during dur-ing the world war would bo distributed distribut-ed through, senators and representatives representa-tives to the states in" proportion to the number of troops furnished, under a bill introduced in the house. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania has introduced his resolution to end the state of war with Germany. The measure is similar to that waich the last congress passed and President Wilson vetoed. President Harding told a delegu!on which called on him to urge the le-lease le-lease of Eugene V. Debs and all otlie," principals convicted under the wartime war-time espionage act that he contemplated contem-plated no action looking to general amnesty for such prisoners until a state of peace had been declared. The first move in the present congress con-gress looking to disarmament came on April 13 with the introduction by Senator Sen-ator Borah, Republican, Idaho, of his resolutions authorizing the president to open negotiations with Great Britain and Japan looking to a reduction in future navnl building by those countries coun-tries and the United States. Drafts secured by warehouse receipts re-ceipts covering sacramental wine tu storage are made ineligible for rediscount redis-count by federal reserve banks, under a ruling issued Tuesday by the federal reserve board. FOREIGN. British labor leaders have evidently evident-ly split regarding strike, the railway and transportation workers having recalled re-called the .order for a sympathetic strike, and the coal miners standing alone against a settlement of the controversy con-troversy now being waged in England. Eng-land. Grave incidents are reported from northern and central Italy, where the extreme nationalists and the socialists have clashed in a number of cities and towns in the bitter electoral campaign. cam-paign. The proceeds' from the sale of German Ger-man property in Alsace-Lorraine is expected ex-pected to exceed 2,000,000,000 francs, according to La Liberte. The sale, conducted in accordance with the stipulations of the Versailles treaty, is nearing an end. Gambling, which has been conducted on a large scale at Juarez, Mexico, since the first of the year, is to close under a decree issued by the governor of Chihuahua. The Japanese foreign office favors a joint reply by Japan, France and England to the American note on the Yap mandate, but fears that England and France will not support the position posi-tion of Japan, according to the newspaper news-paper Hochi. Sir Edward Vicars, former Ulster king-at-arms, was shot dead at Lis-towel, Lis-towel, Ireland, and his residence was burned. Permits for the exploration and exploitation ex-ploitation of petroleum lands in Mexico will be with held by the department of commerce and industry until article 27 of the constitution governing subsoil rights in this country is given official interpretation, it was declared by Ita-fael Ita-fael Zubaran Captnany, head of that department. The extraordinary commission to combat the counter revolutionary movement in soviet liussia recently refused to permit publication of speeches made by Nikolai Lenin, soviet premier, and also confiscated a pamphlet he wrote in which he is reported re-ported to have said lie had lost all hope for the revolution and that he was tired of it all, says a liiga dispatch. dis-patch. t The union of transport workers and seamen has decided to ask all members in Holland to refuse to handle any goods destined for English ports, in the event of a general strike in Great Britain. Establishment of martial law in Greece was discussed in the chamber of deputies at Athens on Tuesday. Premier Gounaris brought the matter , tothe attention ofthe deputies. |