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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNtR POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All f Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Whether the parents of a child are responsible for Injuries inl'lk-teil by it to another child is in be decided at l'lteblo, Colo. Helen I.iktor, a-ed 3, died August 18, 11)17, from burns received re-ceived while playing at the home of J. Omlensky. The burns were caused by burning; matches in (he liaiuls of 1'anl Omlensky, 4 years old. On the eve of his departure from I'ocatello, Idaho, for Illinois, where he has accepted another position, ,Iudg;e V. (i. Hale of the faculty of the Idaho Technical institute declared that "it Is carrying service too far to expect educators to teach young; people on less salaries than are received by the ordinary street sweeper." A house Joint memorial, memorializing memorializ-ing congress to pass a law compelling; the placing of tags on woolens, stating stat-ing the exact percentage of virgin wool and other materials, has beeu iidopted by the Oregon suite senate. -Mrs. Minnie Cox, who shot and killed Iter husband, Albert Cox, member of the Denver police department, on October Oc-tober DO last, was acquitted by a jury in the criminal court at Denver. She pleaded self-defense. ,T. J. Flannigan, aged 4r. formerly of Kansas City, Mo., was found dead in a snowdrift back of a cafe in Casper, Cas-per, Wyo. There were no murks on his body to indicate violence. Figures submitted by the attorney peneral at the hearing on the soldiers' bonus bill, showed that should every service man in the state of Oregon be paid a cash bonus, the amount would be $S,513,6f0. Acting on a tip received iH an unsigned un-signed letter, the chief of Salt Lake went into the basement of the Western West-ern Loan and Building company building build-ing and found $-1025 in gold, a portion of the $10,200 stolen from the company safe a short .time ago. DOMESTIC. After criticising bank directors who allowed Francis J. Carey, aged 20, receiving re-ceiving teller for the National City bank of Ottawa, 111., a salary of $00 a month, Federal Judge Landis released re-leased Carey on his recognizance after the latter pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling $96,500. Landis said he would have to think fihe matter mat-ter over before sentencing Carey. D. C. Jackling, who is heavily interested in-terested in Alaskan minnig properties, announced at San Francisco that plans were being considered for transformation transforma-tion of some of the Alaskan gold mills in which he has interests into paper pulp mills. Mrs. Marion Peters, wife of J. R. Peters, vice president of the Fairbanks Fair-banks company, scale manufacturers, was killed when she jumped, or fell, from an eighth story window in an apartment house in New York. She liad been suffering from a nervous disease. The American good roads congress, in session at Chicago, adopted a resolution reso-lution urging that the road building program of the nation be started without with-out further delay. Hoy Fridley, prohibition enforcement a;;ent, has been arrested at Phoenix, Ariz., by federal officials, who charge that last October Fridley drove an automobile to Yuma, Ariz., on the California border, secured twelve cases of whisky, transported it to Phoenix and sold ten casus. That more than one billion dollars are available for the building of good roads, was announced by T. II. McDonald, Mc-Donald, chief of the federal bureau of public roads, in the opening address of the American good roads congress at Chicago. After being closed since January 6. the Borden condensed milk plant at Modesto, Cal., employing approximately approximate-ly 300 men, is to open again February Febru-ary 21. M. J. Caneff, an inmate of the state hospital for Insane at I'atton, Cal., was killed by another patient, Caneffs head being severed with an ax. Both men were believed to be harmless and were chopping wood when the tragedy occurred. Mrs. Edith I.undberg, a young wblow, is in a serious condition at l.os Angeles from wounds alleged to have been self-inflicted after she hnd shot and killed her fiance, Linas F. Worden. an employe of an automobile sabs comnanv. I Twenty-six lives were lost and more than forty persons seriously injured when a cyclone struck Oconee. Thursday. Only two of those killed were whites. A total of ll.".H3 passengers flew 3. 13(1. ."."() miles in commercial airplanes during the last twelve months without the loss of a single life, the Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' Aircraft association announced an-nounced at New York. In future instead of offering rewards re-wards fur return of stolen automobiles, insurance companies in New York City will pay rewards only for arrest and conviction of the thieves. The action was taken after it bad been charged that police were working with the thieves, sharing in rewards offered for the recovery of stolen cars. Fred B. Henderson, who for years was identified with theatricals in New-York New-York and San Francisco, was found lying unconscious on the ground at the I'residio golf links, San Francisco, and died after being taken to a hospital. WASHINGTON. It keeps 200,000 men working full time to support the nation's rat population. popu-lation. That assertion is made by the biological survey bureau in figures showing that there are as many "common "com-mon rats" as humans in the United States and each of the 100,000.000 or more destroys $2 worth of foodstuffs a year. The federal railroad labor board has denied the request of the American Ameri-can Association of Kailway Executives for immediate abrogation of the national na-tional wage agreements with the brotherhoods and the establishment of a new basic rate for unskilled laoor predicated on local conditions. A l)ill limiting immigration from any one country to 5 ptr cent of aliens of such country in the United States when the last ceusus was taken has bees approved by the senate immigration immigra-tion committee. Nationals of Japan, as well as many other countries, would be excluded from the operation of a temporary immigration im-migration control bill considered Wednesday by tlie senate immigration committee as a substitute for the house measure. FOREIGN. Fighting in the open as regularly organized troops, Sinn Fein soldiers have invaded Skibbereen, a small town southwest of Cork. The Sinn Feiners raided the town, captured three prisoners pris-oners and withdrew. The official report of tlie prefecture of police states that of 25.027 men and women criminals arrested in Paris in 1020, 4033 were foreigners. The treaty of peace between soviet Russia and Poland was signed at Riga February 10, it is announced in a wireless dispatch from Moscow. The ministry of finance has reached the conclusion that the utmost sum Germany can pay in reparations is 150,000,000,000 marks, this including all she has so far paid in cash and goods, says a Berlin dispah. The news comes from Rome that Italy is ready to participate in a disarmament dis-armament conference. A high, official has declared liis country could be counted on to answer any summons for such a conference which may be sent out by President-elect Harding. A report was received in London on Wednesday that an Irish republican force, several hundred strong, was marching on Skibbereen County Cork. The total 1920 wheat crop of all countries reporting to the International Interna-tional Institute of Agriculture at Rome, was 2.050,000,000 bushels, as compared with 2,550,000,000 bushels in the preceding year. Education for all children in Palestine Pales-tine except those belonging to the nomad tribes or living in outside districts, dis-tricts, is sought in a plan launched by the government. The people of Switzerland last year drank ancoholic drinks valued at 74G,-000.000 74G,-000.000 francs, which sum, the minister of finance says, would be sufficient to pay the expenses of the central an,d local government. Swift punishment can and will be meted out to Germany if any allied nation Is dissatisfied with that country's coun-try's response to the reparations and disarmament demands of the entente, Premier Briand of France declares. Martial law has been declared in Petrograd as a result of invasion of the city by mutinous sailors from Kronstadt, the naval base of the foi-mer foi-mer Russian captial, according to dispatches dis-patches received from llelsingfors. Beet growers and sugar refiners in the Saragossa, Spain, district have reached a secret decision, it is reported, report-ed, not to sow their beet fields or to open their refineries during the year, as a protest against the reduction of tlie import duty on sugar, which, they declare, will ruin the Spanish sugar industry. Great Britin will not undertake a race with the United States for sea power, Sir Philip Gibbs, British war correspondent, declared before the house naval committee. England has not the money, he said, and most Englishmen Eng-lishmen do not regard the American nrtrv "ns a murines" |