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Show N E VVS OF A WEEK IN 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. V II. Hull, HKoc 2G, a furiner of l';iirliiii', Idaho, shot Ed. linmdt in tlie forearm mill seriously injured Deputy Sheriff Torrance when the officer attempted at-tempted to arrest liini. Hall was later iirrested, after n tight with a poxxc, and is in jail. It is believed that the man is insane. Federal njients raided state liead-(tuarters liead-(tuarters at Denver of the American Federation of Labor ami confiscated twenty-one gallons of whisky and arrested ar-rested two members of a committee limned to provide entertainment for the national convention of the order to be held at Denver next summer. Claude V. BlacUman, a logger, walked into the police station at Ta-conia Ta-conia and announced that lie bad killed bis uncle, Bethel F.lackman, in Wood county, Texas, October 22, 1019. He will be taken back for trial. W. It. Callicotte, former state fish and game commissioner and candidate for United States senator, was de-i de-i capitated at Denver when a runaway 1 automobile crashed downhill into a ; street in the business section. Two j other persons were fatally injured. I Indictment against the Utah-Idaho j Sugar company of Salt Lake and the j three South Dakota coal companies j for alleged profiteering under the Lever Le-ver act, have been formally dismissed by the federal court at Sioux Falls, S. D. ! Six hundred employees of the ! Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne will have been laid off within the present month, as the result of instructions just received for an additional cut in the working force of 135 men. Marie Frede, named by Joshua Sykes, head of the Temple of David cult, as his "Queen of Heaven and Karth," was declared mentally incom-. incom-. petent to administer her affairs by a commission report made to the county court at Denver. Dr. John A. Widtsoe, president of the University of Utah, has been selected se-lected and ordained to fill the vacancy va-cancy in the quorum of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made by the appointment ap-pointment bl A. W. Ivins as second counselor in the first presidency. DOMESTIC. Clara Smith Hamon was acquitted by a jury at Ardmore, Oklahoma, of the murder of Jake L. Hamon, millionaire million-aire politician, who was shot by the woman last November. The trial lasted last-ed a week, the jury returning a verdict after being out but forty minutes. Long known as the "richest village in the world," due to its ore values, " Hibbing, Minn., lias a new cause for" pride, its birth record. During the first seventeen days of March, the stork presented twelve boys and five girls to the village. Charles Smith, aged 22, has confessed con-fessed at Los Angeles that he and his father, C. W. Smith, murdered I'ete Schure on October 8 in a rooming house at Akron, Ohio. The state has dropped the cases against all of the former Chicago White Sox baseball players indicted for the alleged throwing of the 1019 world series, except Chick Gandil, who has never appeared in court. The state's attorney lias announced that new evidence will be secured and brought before the grand jury, with the hope of securing conviction of the men. Harry S. Black, New York multimillionaire, multi-millionaire, was placed under arrest at Miami, Flu., following a raid on his private railroad car by police officers, of-ficers, who declare they found fifty-three fifty-three cases of whisky aboard. An income taxpayer whose total tax is 4 cents and who insists on paying in four installments was revealed at Augusta, Ga. The taxpayer is a farmer, farm-er, whose name was not divulged. Kaiiroad workers in the east have decided to reject all proposals of wage reductions and carry their fight to the railroad labor board if the cuts are put into effect. A terrific oil fire was brought under un-der control at Breckenridge, Texas, after doing damage estimated at more than $12,",tKKJ and endangering the immense im-mense flow tanks of the Texas company. com-pany. A state daylight savings bill was defeated de-feated in the lower house of the I'enn-Bylvania I'enn-Bylvania legislature. Carl Wanderer was found guilty by a jury at Chicago of the murder of the "ragged stranger" shot to death in a mock holdup, and tiie penalty was fixed at death. In a previous trial, Wanderer was convicted of the murder of his wife and was sentenced to prison for twenty-five years. Bepresentatives of tiie principal grain growing states will meet at Chicago, Chi-cago, April (i, to consider the American Ameri-can Farm Bureau federation's co-op-eative grain marketing plan. Miss Helen Wilson, died at Rock-ford, Rock-ford, 111., after being f'mt by a jilted suitor, Arthur Buuschur, a wealthy florist of Freeport, III. After shooting shoot-ing Miss ' Wilson, Bausclier turned the weapon upon himself and ended his, life. A fist fight was staged in the Missouri Mis-souri house of representatives, two representatives from St. Louis coming to blows as the result of a disagreement disagree-ment over a measure before the house. WASHINGTON. President Harding has requested Attorney General Dauglierty to submit sub-mit as soon as possible a review of the case of Eugene V. Debs, , Socialist presidential candidate, now serving a sentence under the espionage act in Atlanta penitentiary. Un-American and disloyal propaganda, propa-ganda, most of it of foreign origlo and interest, is being preached in the United States, F. W. Galbraith, Jr., commander of the American Legion, declared at the opening session at Washington of the national conference on Americanization. Experts at the treasury expect the income and excess profits receipts will be at least $000,000,000, and that the receipts will be immediately used to retire short-term government borrowings bor-rowings amounting to $500,000,000. Last year the receipts were $S00,000,-000. $S00,000,-000. , The extra session of the senate, which began March 4, ended shortly before noon on March 15. After confirming con-firming a few additional nominations by President Harding, the senate adjourned ad-journed sine die. The men named by President Harding Har-ding and Secretary of Labor Davis to mediate disputes between packers and workers are satisfactory to the workers' union, leaders have announced. an-nounced. FOREIGN. French officials announce that the letter recently written to President Obregon of Mexico by President Mil-lerand Mil-lerand was not a recognition of the new Mexican government, but simply the acknowledgment of the receipt of' a letter from Obregon announcing his coming into power. Acting contrawise to their compatriots com-patriots at Tokio, the members of the American Association of Yokohama have decided not to admit women to membership. s The capture from the bolsheviki of Mohilev and Jampol, on the Dniester river, by Ukrainian nationalist forces, has been announced by the Ukrainian mission at Berne, Switzerland. A wireless message from Moscow says that "now that the red army has been placed on a peace footing, it has been decided to use the whole of the aviation service for postal requirements." require-ments." It has been learned that three more American citizens have been murdered in Mexico, the murders occurring' March 10, apparently by robbers, in Tampico. Addressing a crowd at a boxing contest con-test in Sunderland, England, Georges Carpentier announced that he will fight Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight championship in New York state on July 2. Andrew Bonar Law, lord of the privy seal, has resigned from the British cabinet. Ill health was given as the reason for the resignation. Great Britain and Russia have signed a trade agreement. The document docu-ment marked the first assumption of commercial arrangements with an allied power upon the part of Russia. The strike of workers on the Mexican Mexi-can railways, which began in the middle mid-dle of February, w; settled on March 1G. Messages have been sent by the strike leaders throughout the republic calling off the strike. Fifty thousand men have been gathered gath-ered at the Russian fortress at Kron-stadt, Kron-stadt, and this number is increasing daily, says a Ilelsingfors dispatch. Victor M. Tchernoff, who was minister of ammunition in the Kerensky cabinet cabi-net in 1017, is the organizer of the counter-revolution, it is declared. Disturbances are reported to be occurring oc-curring hourly in Moscow, and it is asserted that the soviet authorities have massacred several hundred revolutionary revo-lutionary sympathizers with machine guns. The Polish legation at London declares de-clares that there is a considerable concentration of German troops on the entire German-Polish frontier. The troops surpass in number the entire forces allowed to. Germany in the treaty of peace, it is declared, and it is believed the stage is being set for another conflict in Europe. |