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Show NEWS OF A WEEK 111 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. Mrs. Host- Tozcr, (ill, wife (if Albert i'nzor, retired -ti pt In 1 1st mid liimber- n, (lni)ic(l (lend while testifying at .1 pnt.ver meet Inn lit tlie First ltuptlst ill it it'll lit Tacoiun. Mrs. Tozer liad lust mailt- tlie slnlenient Hint slit- luiil liriiyetl t'imslslently for twenty-three yenrs when she fell. ' Alexander Holmes. bricklayer, aged Oil, was slabbed by two thugs who ntloniptod-to hold lilm up In -Salt Lake. Holmes managed In crawl to li house, hut died while being taken to the emergency hospital. V.. II. 1'eaeoek, alias J. II. Do Front-, Is under arrest at liulte, Mont., for tlie robbery of the Utah Savings & Trust company, at Salt Lake, which was held up by a lone bandit January Janu-ary 8. niroclors of llic Sandpoint, Idaho, chamber of commerce have taken steps ! to bring about croalion of a new state J In Hit- Inland empire. It was voted that a memorial lie sent to the logis- lalure asking that It request congress i to make n new stale to Include the ten j nori liernniost counties of Idaho. Within a few days (he question of whelhcr Mary I'lcklord and Owen Moon- will be forced to prove they secured their divorce In good faith, will be up to a Nevada Judge for decision. de-cision. ltop-'oscnlntlvo John T. Spencer Introduced In-troduced a bill In the Montana legislature legis-lature te prevent aliens not eligible to ciUzoushlp from owning land in the stat. Muring n hearing on the Soulhwick anti-cigarette bill before the senate Judiciary committee of the Utah state scnute, two prominent men cnnie to blows. The measure is pausing nbout us much of u controversy ns the prohibition pro-hibition bill of former sessions. DOMESTIC. Former Governor Whitman, who is conducting an Inquiry Into the administration ad-ministration of Now York City, has sidetracked his Investigation of graft among police officials' to follow clues leading to men "higher up" lu alleged municipal corruption. A new blue sky bill patterned after the California law has been passed In the Texas senate. The bill creates a securities commission. t)t-orge Werner, negro, who shot and dangerously wounded Nuinn Tlercuit, a rice planter, was taken from jail at Port Allen, Lu., by a mob and hanged to a sign post near the scene of the shooting. Tlercuit Is not expected to live. K. M. Stewart, Chicago, pilot in the MlnneiiKlls-Chicago air mall service, was Instantly killed when the plane he wus piloting fell three miles out of Mendotn, Minn. Klopemonts will be a thing of the past In California If State Senntor Victor Cnnepa has his way. Canepn has Introduced a hill In the state senate sen-ate which, requires that seven-day notice no-tice must he given a county clerk before be-fore a marriage license Is issued. Texas railroads will lose S.TM.STm annually If state rail rates are not raised to the level of the Interstate rates, the Interstate commerce commission com-mission was told by J. W. Terry of tialveston, arguing ou the application of Texas carriers for such Increase. A verdict of guilty of murder In the second degree was returned by a jury at Tuscumbla, Ala., against Sid Kirby, who was charged with killing Don Stephenson, n prohibition officer. He was sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years. Tim home of Thomas Ashcraft. banker, bank-er, of I'lne Iiluff, Ark., which he advertised ad-vertised lie woulti rent only to n family" with children, the rent to be reduced In proportion to the number of children, chil-dren, lias been leased to a family with six children. Kugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, now serving a ten-year sentence In the fedcial prison at Atlanta, tin., for violation vio-lation of the espionage law, was not "surprised nor disappointed" over the president's refusal to commute his sentence, sen-tence, according to a statement he issued is-sued through his counsel. Trial of the eight White Sox baseball base-ball players, Indicted ou charges of conspiring to throw the lill'J world series to Cincinnati, will start in two weeks, at Chicago, Assistant State's Attorney George Gorman, lu charge of the prosec-1'iou bin announced. I If ih" bill presented ,v S,n:ii,ir I 'lalldi' I'lll'kil I. to 1 1 1 1 1 i I 1 :l IX I holdings, i beeehies il law. I ':i 1 i 1 1 in 1 i a is gnng In lime Ihe biggest real estate sbakeup in i's history. TH. measure would limil In il , 1 i li us of tillable lands lo Html acres ami of grazing lands in UoiXI acres. One of the nbjecls of Hie bill is to break up large land holdings. Jim C Howies. (10, wealthy land owner, and Jim M. W'rlghl, (!'', prominent promi-nent In civic affairs of his conimiinlly. shot each oilier in a duel In a small country siore at Shallow Water, Tex., during a school hoard meeting. Arthur W. and Floyd L. Carr, cousins, confessed kidnapers of Mrs., Gladys Witherall, of l.os Angeles, wore sentenced to serve sentences of from ten years to life in San Qucnlln penl-tenlia penl-tenlia ry. Tlie recount of ballots In 'he Michigan Michi-gan senatorial election of 11118, just finished by tlie senate elections committee, com-mittee, left Senator Newberry. Hopub-llcan, Hopub-llcan, with a plurality of 4I!;!4 over Henry Ford. WASHINGTON. Itelief for wheat growers of Montana Mon-tana and the Dakotas was proposed in a bill Introduced by ltepresentatlves Young and Sinclair (Rep.), North Dakota. Da-kota. It would authorize the secretary secre-tary of agriculture to contract with the growers in those states for production pro-duction of grain through advances of part of the production cost out of a government fund of !J4,HKMH)0. A complete count of the government's govern-ment's cash has just been made for the first time ill twelve years. The total approximated ifM.fiOO.OOO.OOO and Included all cash and securities held as reserves against currency outstanding. out-standing. The major ship remains the basis of sea power, and those who argue that the airplane and the submarine have supplanted It are asking the country lo "accept hopes for accomplishments," the navy general board says In a report re-port to Secretary Daniels. ( Senator Kobinson, Arkansas, bus offered of-fered an amendment, to the sundry civil 'appropriation bill to provide approximately ap-proximately $:tO,000,X)0 for hospitals for sick and disabled soldiers. ' FOREIGN. Information relative to the differences differ-ences which have developed between Japan and Great Britain relative to Hie administration of former Gorman islands is-lands south of the equator, has been demanded by Kotaro Mocblzukl, a leader of the opposition party, and widely known in the United States ns a publicist and diplomatic expert. Virgil Shelton Furdy, 1!), former member of the United States marine corps, was slain in Mexico. Robbery was the motive, according to the telegram, tele-gram, which was sent from Aniarlllo. Many of Hie poor people of Budapest Buda-pest are being driven to wholesale thievery by the fuel shortage. The recent theft of twenty-five cnrlonds of wood from one train of 100 carloads as it entered the city shows the extent to which the stealing is going on. Efforts to win support of government govern-ment officials and congressmen has brought from each side In the railroad rail-road controversy charges of "sinister motives" against the other. Inquiry by the admiralty into the loss of the British submarine K-5, which sank with nil hands off Land's End a fortnight ago, has failed to clear up the mystery which surrounded surround-ed the cause of the sinking, ns there were no survivors and the wreckage gave no clue. Pierre Guindolat, reputed to be Hie heaviest man In France, tipping the scales at 555 pounds, has just died at Bourses. He was 2$ years old. Quiet warnings were circulated Friday Fri-day that a great coup will be attempted at-tempted in Dublin soon by the republican repub-lican army. The nature of the "big show" was not disclosed. The military mili-tary scoffed at the rumors, hut patrols wore Increased and every lorry sent into the streets, carried a hostage, chained and padlocked to his scat. The date of the conference of experts ex-perts at Brussels over economic questions ques-tions affecting Germany, postponement of which was announced Thursday, has been tentatively fixed ns March 4 or 5. The postponement was on request re-quest of (he Germans. Lieutenant Nungessor, the famous French nvlator, who during Hie war, woo the cross of the legion of lienor by bringing down forty-four German planes, has sailed from France and will visit tlie United States. Six members of a party of several hundred Sinn Felners were killed and j several others wounded In an attack at j night upon fifteen police between ltur- gada and Iiosscarhery, Ireland, j The Now Zealand government in a ! proclamation has ordered that no motion mo-tion picture film depleting thieving, robbery, murder or suicide, shall be permitted to be shown in tin? dominion of Now Zealand after May 1, next. Mustapba Komal, leader of the Turkish mitionallsls, will endeavor to negotiate with the allies for a return of Turkish territory If the present cabinet will resign, it lias boon announced. |