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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORI 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. Mrs. .lames Walters, wile of a prominent ranehei' near l.ovell, W'.vo., shot and lulled three (it her children, wciunded three others ami, roloadini; the revolver, killed herself. One of (he wounded children died. The other two may live. Officials of the Denver & Itio Orande Railroad company on Friday announced a further layoff of 700 shopmen. The road has laid off more than li7(K) employes since January 1. ' Formal Incorporal ion of the Atlantic- l'acific highways and electrical expositions exposi-tions to he held in Portland ill 11)25, has heen announced hy the newly appointed ap-pointed executive board. The project is incorporated for $0,000,000. Barney MeCium, foreman at the limits canyon ranch, forty miles north of Tonopah, was shot and killed at the ranch and a posse is seeking Itobt. Hughes, a cowhoy under McCunn, in connection with the shooting. The Colorado Fuel & Iron company l.fts announced that owing to improved conditions In the steel industry, 1000 miditional men will he employed at l'ueblo, Colo. Four idle mills will reopen, re-open, running two eight-hour shifts. Four masked men entered the store at the town of Dividend, near Eureka, Utah, shot and killed the superintendent superinten-dent of the mine and the storekeeper, and probably fatally wounded two other employees of the mine, after which they made their escape. Dr. Lemuel I. North of Puyallup, Vash., who says he may be the oldest old-est practicing physician in the nation, na-tion, recently celebrated his one-hundredth one-hundredth birthday. The week he was 100 years old he called on thirty-three patients and he gives medical advice regularly to numerous residents. . DOMESTIC. Fritzi Scheff, light opera singer, in private life Mrs. George Anderson, was granted a divorce in superior court at Waterbury, Conn. She charged intolerable intol-erable cruelty. With his hands tied tightly' together with wire and a sack of cement fastened fasten-ed about his neck, the body of Seth Stanley, a local business man, was found at the bottom of a well in the rear of his place of business at Bethany, Mo. P.y a vote of 51 to 37 the lower house of the Nebraska legislature passed the bill repealing the present non-partisan election law. It restores to the same satus as other elective offices those of justices of the supreme court, district judges, state and county school superintendents super-intendents and regents of the university. univer-sity. The general conference of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Butch-er Workers' union decided, at Omaha, to take a strike vote in every packing center of the United States and Canada. Can-ada. A reprimand by Samuel Gonipers, president of the American Federation of Labor, for what lie termed support of the Russian Soviets by the Detroit Federation of Labor, received at Detroit, De-troit, was followed by a vote that a representative of the local federation be sent to Moscow to attend a soviet labor congress on May 1. John Berg, aged 54, farmer, living near Omaha, was shot and instanUy killed when he walked into a gun trup set in his hen coop, forgetting tlmt Jie had set the trap for chicken thk'ves. The eight-hour day and arbitration agreements on wages of packing hou::e employees are expected to be the principal prin-cipal recommendations drafted by the executive committee of the Amalgamated Amalga-mated Meat Cutters and Butcher "Workers of North America, in session at Omaha. An annual tax of ?10 on bachelors over 25 years of age, to be applied to the general school fund is provided by a bill introduced in the Missouri legislature. legis-lature. The constitutionality of the New-York New-York emergency housing law has been upheld by the court of appeals. A bill to place private and parochial schools of the state under the supervision super-vision of the department of public instruction lias been introduced in the Michigan legislature. Kailroad passenger fares In Michigan Michi-gan will be increased from 3 to 3.G cents a mile, railroad officials have announced. The increase follows re-tent re-tent Uacisions of the federal courts. If any railroad reduces wages without with-out referring the quest ion to the labor board, it will '"act illegally and unadvisedly," unad-visedly," - Senator 'miliums, Iowa, chairman of the senate interstate commerce com-merce cnnimiitet- ami part aulhor of the F.ncIi-( 'uuimilis railroad law. has announced. Clara Smini Ilamon has been placed on trial at Anlmore. Okla.. for the murder of Jake Ilamon. millionaire, and a politician of Hole in that section. sec-tion. Special prosecutors have been engaged to assist at the trial. The Missouri state senate has passed the joint resolution to submit to a popular vole a constitutional amendment amend-ment for a -SI 5,000.000 bond Issue to provide a bonus for Missourians who served in the world war. The proposal that the city of San Francisco purchase ihe Spring Valley Water company properties through authorization of ,a bond issue not exceeding ex-ceeding S.'iS.OOO.OOO was defeated at a special election. WASHINGTON. President Harding shortly will take fiction to establish diplomatic relations with .Mexico. Several informal and purely unofficial exchanges have been made between representatives of President Presi-dent Harding and officials of the Obre-gon Obre-gon government. Colonel George Harvey has been named ambassador to London, it is said, although official announcement of the appointment will not be made until other diplomatic posts are filled. The special session of congress will meet April 4, Chairman Fordney of the house ways and means committee announced following a conference wiMi President Harding. President Harding lias appointed Dr. C. E. Sawyer of Marion, Ohio, the Harding family physician, his personal physician, and expects to nominate him in the near future for the rank of brigadier general in the army medical medi-cal corps. When the new members of the federal fed-eral power commission hold their first meeting they will find before them applications ap-plications for water .power permits proposing to generate about 5,000,000 horsepower, or about five times as much as is generated on the American side of Niagara Falls. FOREIGN. American forces on the Rhine will take no part in the collection of customs, cus-toms, but no objection will be made to such action by the allies within the territory occupied by them, it was learned at the state department. President Porras of Panama will demand de-mand an indemnity of 1,000,000 from Costa Rica, he has announced. The claim will be based on the charge that the recenf invasion of disputed territory was unwarranted. The Monroe doctrine will take precedence pre-cedence in the western hemisphere, dt was stated unofficially at the league of nations headquarters at Geneva, following fol-lowing Panama's appeal to the league to settle its dispute with Costa Rica. Premier Oliver's resolution to memorialize me-morialize the federal government for a provincial monopoly of the right to import liquor was adopted by the Canadian legislature by a vote of 32 to 14. Four Filipinos were killed and eleven elev-en wounded by a band of Filipino mountaineers armed with bolos, who raided a cockpit in Iloilo province, three hundred miles southeast of Manila. A demand for immediate delivery of all the military matter not yet surrendered sur-rendered under the treaty of St. Germain Ger-main 'has been made by the allied representatives at Vienna, and it is understood the cabinet agreed to comply com-ply with the demand unreservedly. A pan-American trade conference is to be held in Mexico for four days, beginning June 12. A Geneva dispatch announces that the republic of Panama, through Foreign For-eign Minister Garay, has appealed to the league of nations against the demand de-mand of the United States that s-he accept the territorial award of Chief Justice White. A naval lieutenant has been arrested arrest-ed at Tokio and handed over to court martial in connection with an alleged attempt to sell Japanese naval secrets to Captain Edward Howe Watson, naval attache at the United States embassy em-bassy at Tokio, who turned the letters let-ters received from the lieutenant over to naval department authorities. Surrender of all German arum in the occupied areas has been demanded by General Gaucher, commanding the allied forces. Strict search of all houses will follow failure to deliver weapons. The White Rtithenians have proclaimed pro-claimed their independence from Russia, Rus-sia, according to a Minsk report received re-ceived at Warsaw. Immigration of Chinese to Salvador has been prohibited by the government under the terms of the alien law. The tenth congress of the Russian Communists party opened at Moscow, March 9, under difficult circumstances it Is announced. |