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Show BRIEF BEViEVf OF A WEEK'S EVENTS f.ECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM- ' IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Q'jartert of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. A probe Into prli-i's charged fur food-HI food-HI ni l's by local i-i s! :i ii l a n t pniprhlors has lii'i'ii ordered liy tin: Sail Lake County Farm bureau. Tin- seven iiieiuhcrx uf the -lt Hi supremo court linvi! signed a lelegiam l I'n-KhliMit llariliiiu' peillluiiing li: in Ki li.ioliiL William Howard Tall as n 11 1 1 1 1 1 -1- of tin- I ' 1 1 i 1 1 -i I Stairs supreme court In succeed ilie- lute Chid' Justice Jus-tice White. Fifty thousand pounds of wool was Hold hy 1'arowan, ninh growers Thursday Thurs-day to Tlioiuas Wilstoliolm & Sous Co. of I'hiladclphiu for 17 cents a pound, according to the marketing coinmittee. 'I'he clip averaged e'ght to ten pounds per Heece. .Iiimes Terry of Salt I .like was elected elect-ed Wednesday hy the Knighls of I'liythias as supreme representative, at tlie close of the state convention. Arthur Marsh of 1 lawn I ha was named grand cluincellor. The l'liythian Sisters Sis-ters elected Lucy B. W'alson of Ogden supreme represental ive and Lena Walers of Midvue grand chief. The election followed n two days' sessiot of the grand lodge. J. 0. Jacohson nnd Jason McOar-roil McOar-roil relurnod May 17 from Boise where they attended n hearing hy nn examiner examin-er of the inlerstale commerce commission commis-sion relative to freight rates for Idaho Ida-ho products. K S. Trnsk, who was In ltnlse for the farm bureau meeting, also al-so n I fended the henring ns n representative represent-ative from this section. i For the second time since It was built the Strawberry reservoir near Brovo, Utah wll be filled this spring. The first time was lflH. f- Mrs. Mona iiiy McCnfly, convicted by a jury h district court here of the murder of her son-in-law Leon ltich-urdson, ltich-urdson, and Iter hushnnd. Fred McCnlly who pleaded guilty Wednesday were sentenced by Judge Lenta Thursday to life terms in the state penitentiary. DOMESTIC. The search for Sidney J. Catts, until recently governor of Florida and lie-fore lie-fore that an ordained minister, ended Saturday with his arrest at Albany, fleorghi, on the federal charge of peonage, peon-age, lteleased on bond furnislied by Albany citizens at the solicitation of two local ministers, lie was returning to Jacksonville tonight. With the arrest at Forth Wo;'h, Texas, of C. II. Smith, an alleged I. W. W. organizer the department of justice off kills and city detectives are investigating alleged I. W. YV. activities activi-ties in Fort Worth nnd other Texas cities. ' 'A room papered with canceled United Uni-ted States postage stamps stands as n monument to the Industry of AVill-n. AVill-n. Sawyer of Middleboro, Mass. More than 20.000 stamps of IS-l varieties have been used nnd in denomination they represent issues from 1 to 30 rents. i After hearing testimony hearing on the death of ,T. T. Dolan, who was killed kill-ed in Council Bluffs on the night of May 17. when thrown from an automo-bilee automo-bilee driven by Jacob Tatera. rsll-road rsll-road fireman of Omaha, a coroner's jury hehl the latter criminally responsible respon-sible for Dolan's death through driv-liiff driv-liiff a car recklessly while intoxicated nnd held him to the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter. Ellis island, through which the bulk of the country's immigration passes. Thursday was placed under strict qunrintine because of the death Wednesday Wed-nesday from typhus of Andres Stein-back, Stein-back, a Jugo-Slave boy, f years old. A new Wyoming oil field has been opened up fifteen miles south of Lander, Lan-der, it is reported. The Ango-Pinte! company has drilled in n producing well at 825 feet, according to reports, and further drilling has been ordered stopped until sufficient tankage can be produred. The well will then be shot. F. W. Calbraith. commander of the American Legion, sent letters to all department de-partment commanders of the legion Thursday supporting the appeal of the war department for wide publicity of the "staker its" being Issued by the department. de-partment. The Hebrew Sheltering and Inmii-rrnnts' Inmii-rrnnts' Aid Society of America lias in-rited in-rited the governor of Utah to serve npon the governors' coinmittee at the opening of the new home of the association as-sociation in New York on June 5. Indications of an impending effort to break the will of James A. Murray, millionaire Montana and Idaho land iwner brought to San Francisco Thursday by James K. Murray of Butte. Mont. : Marcus M. Murray of Butte and Miss Mary Murray of Seattle. Seat-tle. According to newspapers. President Dbregon. who was cordially received last fall at Dallas, will repeat his. visit this year, and it is said here that President Harding has expressed a desire de-sire to be present at the same time. I An unidentified man arrested Satur day hi AiKtiu.v is Mip.-oied of con. riei'iion u robbery id' a Union ! I';., ,'lic cur l"-r a een ( 'I i,-.v. -nr. e am! 'In en :;V.T. Wyo.. Wednesday ..tslir, ac-.u-diiig h a vpecinl dispnirh from Alliance uhih says about :!) worth of siamps in a Union I'aobc envelope was found in his po-sessjon. He re-fu--ed to give his name or unswer questions. ques-tions. A heipiest of SM.'.ikwi lo Richard Crane nr. t'nlted Slates minister to Ceeio-Slo akia. is contained in the will of 1'. C. McCilvary. former overseas over-seas tlier v hose bullet riddled body was found recently In nn. alley in the I'.ackbav d'sti-ict. Th" will provides thai after payment of the estate shall go lo los father. F. I'.. McCilvary bead of the department of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. A proposal for the erection at Harvard Har-vard university of a building to b known as "Koosovelt house" is niad& in u report to the Associated Harverd clubs hy a commitlee of alumni. The building would contain a working floor Tor the use of . teoa rtlilen ts of the uni versity nnd particularly for conferences between tutors and students. Unemployment is driving the army of unemployed hack to the farm. The fanner who found it difficult to ob-t ob-t in ii help a year ago, when he offered the record wages of from- 75 to SO cents an hour, can select his hired man this spring front a large number of eager applicants whom the employment employ-ment oflices only promise from 30 to 50 cents an hour. The Siinpson-liriindage bill reorganizing reorgan-izing the state boxing commission is now a l..w in New York Under provisions of the law, wrestling as well as boxing rant dies will he placed under the jurisdiction of an unpaid un-paid commission. The three present commissioners receive $500 a year. Three deputy commissioners nre to serve at annual salaries of .$4,00 each. The Walker boxing law, permits fifteen-round contests to decisions, is EOt changed by the reorganization bill. WASHINGTON. A resolution directing that "The Star-Spa ngled Banner" be sung every day in the house, immediately after the chaplain's prayer, has been introduced in-troduced bv Represettitive Appleby, Be-publican, Be-publican, New Jersey. The Knox resolution probably witl be submitted to the house early in June, Representative Porter, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, chairman of the house foreign affairs commitee 'Saturday. An Informal In-formal discussion of the form of the resolution was held by Republican members of the committee recently but no agreement was reached. The resolution, providing for a congressional con-gressional investigation of charges that a gigantic combine that included J. P. Morgan & Company directed propaganda to plunge the United States into the World war, will be considered by the house rules committee com-mittee next week. Distillers are held exempt from extra taxes on liquor withdrawn from warehouses for non-beverage purposes if devcrted by theft to illegal uses under un-der an opinion by Attorney General Dangherty submitted to Millan and made public recently. Appointment of James M. Beck of New York as solicitor general was announced an-nounced Thursday by Attorney General Gener-al Daugherty. Appointment of William I. Biddle of Leavenworth, Kan., to be warden of the federal penitentiary at the place was announced Thursday by Attorney General Daugherty. Mr. Biddle has been for many years connected with prison work, having served two years as superintendent of the Kansas state' Institution. General Pershing intends to visit a milliner of the citizens' military training train-ing camps to be conducted by the war. department this summer. . FOREIGN. Marid. May 21. Sarah Bernhardt Saturday was decnrled with the Cross if Alfonso XII. at Madrid, Spain. King Alfonso will receive Mme. Bernhardt when she returns to Madrid from Malaga. Mal-aga. Fifteen hundred miles of highways In Mexico will be improved this year, according to the plans of Salvator Medina, Me-dina, chief of the Mexican department of roads and public works. The world's wine drinking record has been broken. At a banquet offered offer-ed at Paris recently to the French minister min-ister of agriculture, 130 varieties of beverage were SPrvml. A dispatch from a German source at Oppein says Polish reinforcements have crossed the frontier into Upper Silesia and that there was severe villages. vill-ages. The outcome of the affray hnls not been reported. According to a dispatch to the Nippu Jiji. Japanese language paper, the Osaka Light and Klectric company-has company-has agreed to recognize the principle of collective bargaining and striking electrical workers are rehiring to work. Advices from counter revolutionary sources are that Omel. Silieria. has been captured and that the counter revolutionary General Billov, with 40,-000 40,-000 men. is marching on Tomsk. Part of the soviet garrison at Omsk joined Billov's forces. It is now generally believed that the Sinn Fein will nominate candidates and contest the election of members of the new parliament for the south of Ireland with the Intention of preventing prevent-ing its constitutions hy refusal 'of the Sinn Feiners elected to attend its organization or-ganization and meetings. |