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Show NEWS OF A WEEK 1M CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. The Midwest Jicfining company, principal purchaser of crude? oil in 1li Suit Crock fluid, in Wyoming, lias announced Unit acceptances' of oil would 1)0 increased from (") to 7 per rent on the fields' production as the result of the completion of additional .storage at the Casper tank farm. A prune shipment, believed to he the biggest fruit shipment ever sent from the Northwest, will leave l'ort-Innd l'ort-Innd this month for Germany, according accord-ing to announcement at Salem, Ore. It comprises 1,450,000 pounds of Italian prunes grown in Oregon and Washington. Washing-ton. The body of .lack Lindermood, aged i'l, night marshal nt Fontaine, Colo., was found there early Friday. He had been shot through the heart. It is believed be-lieved Lindermood was killed while attempting to frustrate a robbery in a grocery store. The hip pocket sandwich, will soon replace the hip pocket flask, according accord-ing to backers of the discovery of V. II. Cranlear of Burlington, Colo., who announced he can convert a water- melon into a still that needs no watching watch-ing while it makes a fine grade of liquor. Longmont, Coin., will have no Sunday Sun-day baseball games. By a vote of !U4 to 722 advocates of no Sunday baseball . won at the city election. Members of the American legion and practically all young people were in favor of Sunday baseball. The churches opposed it vigorously. "Hooch fruit" as a substitute for home brewed liquor will result If the erperiment of V. N. Chanlear, prominent promi-nent watermelon grower at Burlington, Burling-ton, Colo., proves a success. Chanlear, Chan-lear, who has made hundreds of experiments, ex-periments, declares he has found a way whereby every watermelon can be made into a natural still. DOMESTIC. An attempt to poison Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the board of directors of the Union Pacific system, sys-tem, was revealed at Omaha when a maid employed at the Fontenelle ho-1el ho-1el told Captain of Detectives Candu-sen Candu-sen she lead been offered $000 by a foreigner to slip poison into a glass of water and serve it to Lovett. A jury in the circuit court has returned re-turned a verdict holding invalid the will of Mrs. Mattie Marble, under which the girls' industrial home of Bloomington, 111., would have received 125,000. The verdict is in favor of Mrs. Mamie Marble, and she and her lour children of Seattle, Wash., are to receive $87,000. Miss Gussie Learner, IS years old, stenographer, admitted, police said, that the "holdup" at the Hayman Brothers' jewelry manufacturing establishment es-tablishment in New York, was staged by Harry Heyman, with her assistance, after it had been thoroughly rehearsed by them for the past two weeks. Wedding guests of Mrs. Karl Cop-pinger Cop-pinger of Belvidere, 111., tried to kidnap kid-nap the bride following the ceremony. In the tussle that followed she was thrown to the sidewalk and her skull injured. Removal of the prohibition on beer and light wines will be one of the purposes of the anti-blue law league of America granted a charter in Dela-wa Dela-wa re. ldeveji persons were injured, two of them probably fatally, when a motor Mage operating between Bakersfield anil Tuft, Cat., was struck by a train. Carl llendrickson, 17, of Newark, X. J., has been sentenced to finish his present school year and serve his vacation va-cation next summer in the reforma-:ory, reforma-:ory, after a conviction for manslaughter man-slaughter in killing a small boy in an automobile accident. Ihivld J. Grauinan, veteran theatrical theatri-cal man of the Pacific coast, died at Los Angeles, aged US. He and his son established the first 10-cent vaudeville vau-deville theatre in America in San Francisco eighteen years ago. The soldiers' bonus bill, the most important state-wide issue of Monday's Mon-day's election in Michigan, carried the Mate by a 3 to 1 majority. The bonus question vote approves an amendment to the state constltuion which will authorize the issuance of $30,000,000 of bonds with which to pay ex-soldiers and nurses a rewurd amounting to $15 each. A bill legalizing the practice of Christian Science was passed by the Nebraska house by a vote of 5o to 3S. The bill subjects Christian Science practice to slate quarantine laws. The 1 l-montlis-old son of Knton Hon.olak was drowned in a bucket of water at Dihvorth, Texas, while bis mother was outside feeding chickens. He fell head foremost into I he bucket. The first Indictment at St. Louis charging a woman with voting illegally illegal-ly hits been returned by the grand jury in its investigation of alleged election elec-tion frauds. Damage approximated at a quarter million dollars was done at Clarendon. Claren-don. Tex., when a cyclone struck the main street of the city, smashing plale glass windows, wrenching awnings awn-ings and signs out of place and leaving leav-ing debris in its wake. Fire broke out, destroying three business buildings. WASHINGTON. llepresentatives of the owners of ,$12, 000,000,000 worth of railroad securities se-curities have asked President Harding Har-ding to arrange a conference between employes and railroad managers and at the same time to take up the question ques-tion of effecting economies in railroad rail-road operation. Wages of common labor on the railroads rail-roads of the country must not be arbitrarily slashed, the United States railroad labor board lias ruled. Both sides of a wage controversy must come before the board and present their cases and a ruling of the board given before a wage cut can become effective, it was declared. Forecast of a winter wheat crop of about G21,000,000 bushels was made April 7 by the department of agriculture, agri-culture, basing its estimate on the condition of the crop April 1, which was 91.0 per cent of a normal. The doom of the treaty of Versailles so far as the United States is concerned, con-cerned, was pronounced definitely by President Harding on April 5. In unmistakable un-mistakable words, the president, speaking speak-ing to newspaper men, made it clear that he was convinced there is no practical way in which the United States can consider ratifying the treaty. Shortage of funds in the appropriation appropria-tion for transportation of personnel caused the war department to issue an order restricting the movements of enlisted en-listed men in foreign service until after July 1. FOREIGN. Fifty pistols find 30,000 rounds of ammunition, all American made, were seized in Juarez by customs men under un-der command of Rafael Davila, when a house on a main street ivas raided. The ammunition, packed as if for shipment, was intended for bandits in southern Chihuahua. Investigation of the attempted return re-turn of former Emperor Charles, to the Hungarian throne has been demanded de-manded at a meeting of agrarian members of the Hungarian national assembly. Contracts for the lease of oil lands in the state of Tabasco will not be recognized .by the Mexican government govern-ment unless they receive the sanction of the department of commerce and industry, says an official announcement announce-ment issued nt Mexico City. Consideration of the British mandate man-date over Mesopotamia will be begun at the next meeting of the league of nations, which will be held June 6, Mr. Lloyd George has written to Sir J. D. Bees, member of the house of commons, who inquired regarding the subject. Such degrees as "doctor of cheese making" and "bachelor of butter churning" may be conferred upon graduates of the University of Alberta, Canada. A professorship in butter and cheese making has been added to the faculty. The National Union of Raihvaymen of England have unanimously decided to support the coal miners in their strike. The executive body of the railwaymen's union decided to consult con-sult immediately with the transport workers' organization for the purpose of taking the most effective and immediate im-mediate steps to assist the miners. Fire which swept the Asakusa district dis-trict of Tokio, destroyed 1000 buildings build-ings and rendered a total of 5000 homeless, a survey of the fire zone showed. The fire was the biggest in Japan since 1012. Germany will submit to the allied supreme council specific proposals for the reconstruction of the devastated regions of northern France in a note which is now being prepared and which will be dispatched before May 1. it was announced officially at Berlin. Ber-lin. Owners of the gambling concession in Juarez have received a telegram from Governor Ignaclo Enriquez of Chihuahua, ordering them to close their gambling places within thirty days. Nine survivors of the famous hunger hun-ger strike conducted in the Cork jail by Sinn Fein prisoners last autuuin have been removed from the jail to the detention barracks connected wl'h military headquarters. |