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NO COAST MEN
IN HARDING CABINET,
Seajttta, Feby. 7—Ashmun Brown,!
Washington commpamlent of the Sent- j
tie Post Intelligencer, wired his paper'
Sunday to the effect that the P&cifle
Coast will not be represented in Hard - i
loir’s cabinet.
Brown aserts that former United
State* Senator Henry F. Lipplneott
of Rhode Island 4a a sure shot for the
poet at Secretary of Commerce In the
new administration.
WILSON VETOES ARMY
REDUCTION BILL
Washington. Feby. 5—President
Widson today vetoed the congressional
resolution fixing the national army at
175,000 men. In returning the meas
ure, the president said conditions in
the United States and the world it
large did not justify a reduction in the
nation's armed strength.
Enlistments Stopped Over Wilson Veto
Washington, Feby. 5—The joint
resolution passed by Congress direct
ing the stoppage of army enlistments
until the regular army is reduced to
175,000 mon, was passed Saturday
night by the House of Representatives
over IVeJddent Wilson's veto.
The Senate is expected to take like
SENATE WAKES CHANGES
IN SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
Washington, Feby. 5—The Senate
Appropriations Cam|mittee, in report
ing the Sundry Civil Rill, recommended
seveml changes in the measure as
passed by the lower house.
Tho more important alterations in
clude a raise in the appropriations for
the care of Alaska insane from $120,630
to $127,000.
The Senate changes also include au
thorization of tho Bureau o<f Educa
tion authorities to use funds from its
general appropriation for refitting its
Alaska service vessel, the Boxer, in
stead of the special appropriation ask
ed fon- that purpose.
RADICALS START BOMBING
IN MEXICO CITY
Mexico City. Feby. 7—Since the
arrival here Saturday of a number of
radicals to attend a radical meeting on
February It, there have been two bomb
explosions in this city. The explosions
are thought to be a part of an attempt
to intimidate the city and the authori
ties fear the inaugural of a reign of
WILSON REFUSES
INVESTIGATION REQUEST
OF RAILROAO UNIONS
Washington. Fetajr. 7—President
Wilson today refused a request of the
railroad labor unions representatives
that he Investigate the cinfana of the
railroad executives regarding labor,
through the Railroad Labor Board.
The president also declined to sub
mit the matter to oongw
KLAMATH PASSENGERS
SAFELY LANOeO
San Francisco, Fetoy. S—The pass
engers and crow of the steamer Klam
ath, which was driven ashore on Fish
Rook, near Point Arenas Saturday,
have been safely landed, according to
advices received here laite today.
U S. WONT AGREE TO
CANCELLATION WAR DEBTS
Birmingham. England. Feby. 6—
“The British government has proposed
a general canccMation of >the inter-Al
lied debts, but the proposal was un
acceptable to the American govern
ment,” said CMancelTor of the Exche
quer. In an address here today.
HEARST PAILS IN SEATTLE
P. I. PURCHASE EFFORTS
Seattle. F«*jy. 7—Negotiations tor
the purchase by Wiliam Randolph
Hearat of the Seattle Post IntilHgencer
bare been declared off. according to
authoritative inhomiatton given out to
day.
CYCLONE PLAYS HAVOC IN
NORTHWEST WASHINGTON
Seattle. JVby. 7—(Hundreds ot fam
ine* were left without Shelter or pro
visions, hum* were stripped of their
buildings and live stock and hundreds
of ndlllon of feet of timber was up
rooted in the terrific cyclone which
swept over that section of ithia state
The first news ct the disaster was
brought to Port Townsend today by
Road Supervisor Leroy, who returned
from a trip through the devastated
GEORGE WARNS GERMANY
TO PAY AND DISARM
Birmingham, England. Fdby. 5—
Premier Uoyd George, in a speech here
today . .warned Germany that she must
pay her war 1ndx*nn'ities and disarm.
“I advise her to pay the fifty live
billions tin war reparations,** he said,
"and not allow herself to be misled
by passion and repeat the folly of 1914.
Germany.” he continued, "has not yet
taxed herself to the level of Great
Britain and Prance. It is intolerable
that: the purity who escaped damage
should bear a lighter burden of tura
tion than the victims.
"Germainy." the premier declared,
"still has too many armed men and
too much war material."
LOS ANGELES MURDERESS
GETS LIFE TERM
law Angeles. IViby. 5—'Mrs I-ouise
L. TVcte was today found guilty of
murder in slaying Jacobdhal Benton,
whose body was found secreted in the
basement of ills fortmer ham*;.
The trial jury fixed the penalty at
life imprisonment.
BUSINESS RETURNING TO
SOUND BASIS
New York, Feby. 6—Governor
Harding of the Federal Reserve Rank
Board, in Jin «iddress here today dis
cussed credit expansion and said busi
ness is rapidly reaching a new level
and spproatehlng a sound sane o.vsls
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U S REJECTS
DEBT CANCELLATION
PROPOSALS OF ALLIES
Washington. Feby. 7—The Allied
governments* proposal *o the United
States that this country cancel their
indebtedness cannot be considered.
Secretary of the Treasury Houston
told the Senate committee investigat
ing conditions in foreign lands today.
Secretary Houston said such a jiropos
fil was "nnthinlcablfc" and that all such
requests had bjen refused.
GERMANS GIVING ALLIES
USELESS AIRPLANES
Tiondon. Feiby. 7—Antwerp dia
l>atches received here assent that the
aeroplanes which the Hermans are sur
rendering to -the Allies in conformity
Bo the peace treaty raqviirranents are
reaching there wlflh. many essential
parts missing and that some of the
surrendered air craft have been pur
posely damaged fn order to temp con
struction secreMi.
PERSHING PATRIOT TO HANG
Philadelphia. Fntey. T—At the r®
tfunst of th« War Departmewt and
France. the Knights of Columbus wUl
have a *|>«oiat portrait pointed iof
General T’erahing to be hirtif In the In
valided de Paris, it was announced to
day by Supreme. Kni*hr T'lafcerty.
NOTED FEENCH LA SORITES
ACCUSED OF RECEIVING
SOVIET MONEY
Paris. Peby. 7—Pol law ins an ex
INloaion and Che arrest and imprison
ment of a number of Russia Commun
ists and M. T>unois, editor of the news
paper. 1/Humanifie, M. (Iriljuehles,
former Secretory General of the French
Federation of Labor, and the latter
wwb today asked to explain how they
came into possession of checks for
ten thousand francs each, signed by
Dr. ZalenSki, who Is known as "the
eye of Moscow," her*.
VICE PRESIDENT TO
VISIT EUROPE
Washington. Feby- 7—Vice presi
dent Thomas Marshall wttll visit Eur
ope during the coming summer it was
stated by him today.
HOUSE VOTES FOR
HOSPITALS FOR VETERANS
Washington. Feby. 7—The House
of Rdtresentatlven late today unani
mously passed a WU authorialng con
struction «tf five hospitals for disabled
war veteran®.
The hill carries appropriations;
amounting to $17«SOO,MO.
SEATTLE SCHOOL KIDS TAKE
TURN AT SANOITRV |
•Seattle. Feby. 7—A boy and girl,
| apparently of school age. last night
held up three men In a Standard Oil
Co. gasoline station on Fourth Avenue
and obtained fill. The youthful rob
bers -told their victims that they con
demned bandit. Schmitt, who was re
cently sentenced to be hung tor Killing
three Seattle policemen. :
GOMPERS 8AYS MEXICO HAS
PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT
Washington. Foby. 7—"The Mexi
can government oomes as near to being
a government at and for the working
people as any on earth.” President
Soon Gompers of the American Fed
eration of Labor. declared today in a
staitofm-nt issued by him commenting
on the Panama-.Vmerican Federation
of Labor convention held recently in
Mexico City.
ENLISTMENTS STOPPED
OVER WILSON’S VETO
W;uihingtou, Feby 7—The House
resolution directing that army enlist
ments toe stopped until the army is
reduced to 175.000 became a law late
today over prejddent Wilson’s veto,
the Senate passing the resolution with
but one dissenting vote.
GERMANY BANS WEARING OF
MONACLES BY POLICE
Berlin, Feby. 7—Tho German gov
ernment has banned the wearing of
monacle.s by tho security police, the
order observing tJhnt "this is no time
for Germany to be gay."
WAR COST WORLD 348 BILLIONS
Baltimore. Md. Feby. 8—The total
of tho world war w;u* $3i8,000,000,000,
Professor Dr. It. P. Strong, of Har
vard declared in a financial estimate
of the financial losses induced by the
titan tic struggle.
ALASKA R. R. SUPPLY
SHIPMENTS TO DECREASE
'Seattle, Fdby 7—-Engineer Mean,
head of the Alaska Engineering Coni
mlission. engaged in the construction
of the government railroad in Alaska,
stated in aji interview today that, as
tlie» rood is nearing completion, the
material shipments bo Alaska this year
will *l>e only about thirty per cent of
bust year’s movement.
Mrvirs stated that he is now assem -
bling a lot of coal washing machinery
for shipment to Matanuskn where the
government will erect a Large coal
wlushing plant for naval use.
“GERMANY MUST PAY OR SUFFER
DISMEMBERMENT”—BRIAND
Paris. Feby. 7—Dismemberment of
tho German nation if she does not ac
cept her punishinen*. was threaten'd I
by Franc* today, when Premier Brfand j
declared that Germany must pay for
her war inflictions on France.
“I will not move one millimeter from
my position,” Hriand declared. “Ger
many is guilty and Germany most
BRITTON DEFENDS WELTER
TITLE AGAINST
BRITISH CHAMP.
New York. V'abjr. 7—Jack Brittoo.
world*!* welter weight champion. suc
cessfully defended Ms title against Ted
Iaswis the Rrtttsh chatnpfeo. in a fif
teen round hout In tfadieon Square
Garden tonight.
The Judges agreed that Britton ess,
the winner.
ANCIENT MARINER
DIES IN VICTORIA
Victoria, B. C. Fnb.v. 7—Captain
Henry Smith, an early, navigator of
Puget Sound and British Columbia
waters, died here today at the ad vane
; ed age of (4.
GOV. EDWARDS SJGNS
BOOZE REPEAL BILL
Trenton. N. J. FVtoy. S—Governor
Fid wards has signed the bill recently
passed hy thie Legislature repealing the
3.20 per cent beer bill yhich he him
self initiated.
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SLEEPING SICKNESS POST
INFLUENZA DISEASE
N«nr York. Fdby. t—Twenty ai*
deaths oat of a total of 131 cases of
sleeping sickness developing here, were
announced today by the New York
Health Conunlfwaioner.
The strange malady Is a poat-dnfl i
en*a disease, the comani as loner said.
HOUSE CUTS ALASKA
ROAD APPROPRIATIONt
Washington. fVtoy. t—The appro
prtations for Alaska road and trail
construction have been cut by the
House to $350,000 from the W5S.Pl
originally asked. Thfre are prospect!
however, that the amount wiH be In
creased by the Senate when the ap
propriation bill is taken up in .the up
per house.
SEATTLE WOMAN CONFESSES
SCORE OF BURGLARIES
Beattie, Feby. 9—Ms Alien Riley,
aged 23. confessed to the police today
that she comfrnittfd a .score of burg
laries In residences during recent
WITNESS CONFESSES
IDENTIFICATION OF
MOONEY FALSE
N'erw York. Feby. 9—John McDon
ald, Who. on a witness for the prosecu
tion, Identified Torn VT>oney as th<*
perpetrator of the I*repn redness Day
dynamiting in Han Francisco in May
1916, has confessed that his testimony
was false. Attorney Frank P. Walsh
announced today.
McDonald’s affidavit retracting his
testlimony was today telegraphed to
San Francisco, where a special Grand
Jury is investigating the Mooney case.
NEW GREEK WAR
MINISTER NAMED
Athens, Feby. 8—M.flounanis has
been made Creek Minister of War.
WILSON PLANNING LONG
REST AFTER RETIREMENT
Washington. Feby. s—-President
Wilson is planning to devote six
months to absolute «rest and recrea
tion following his retirement from of
fice. it wiis stated by White House of
SCHOOL TEACHER AND
6 PUPILS KILLED BY
NITRO EXPLOSION
fiuwrenuevlllp. 111. Foby. 7—Em
mett Runyan. teacher. and t*.x hoy
puplle were killed today by an explo
nrar here. A can filled with nitro
glvcorfno picked up by one of the
hoys was responsible for the tragedy.
DEMOCRAT LEADERS
WANT CONFERENCE
of the total lOti members of the nano
cratic Nation; tl Commit toe have re
quested Chsumuui White to call a
meeting of fflio committee, at St Iiouis
on March 1, it was disclosed today.
FORMER COMEDY FAVORITE
BURNED TO DEATH
San Francisco. Feby. S— Mrs filial
beth Thompson. a former musical from -
edy favorite once widely known as
Bettie Darling1, was burned to death
here today in a Fire Which destroyed
her home
TWO KILLED IN SALT
LAKE POLICE RAID
■Suit l<a.ke. Feby. 8—Detective
George P. Hamby was Shot dead by
Tom Burns at a local hotel today dur
ing the course of b. police raid. Chief
at Police Joseph R. Burbridge. who
headed die raid of police officers oa the
man's room, shot Rural* a moment or
two after he bad killed Hamfey. Ru ran
Bums' Accsmpbcee Thrratuiid With
Lynching
Salt UiJce. Feby. »—Three accom
plices of Burns, the slayer cf Detective
Hamby. were removed to the peniten
tiary tonight to prevent lynching.
Prior to the shooting of Hamby, the
outlaws had disarmed and bound De
tective C. W. Rosencrants. who sur
prised them breaking Inti a store.
ALABAMA CONGRESSMAN
GONE WEST
Washington, Feby. f—Congressman]
Fred I.. Blackmon, of Alabama, is,
dead at Barrow. Florida, advices re-,
ceived here announced.
Congressman Blackfcnon was aged
47 years and represented the Fourth
Alabama. Congressional <listrict In the,
62nd. 63rd. 644h 65th and 66th eon
NOTED EDUCATOR PASSES ON
Boston. Feby. 8—Barrett Wendell.
Prof(«gor Hmeritus of Harvard, where
he taught English literature for thirty
seven years, died here today.
COAL MINERS RESENT
PROSECUTION HOWATT
Pittsburg. Feiby. 8—The miners In
two southwestern Kansas coal mines
have walked out In protest against
the action of the state against How i tt
president of the coal miners union.
COAL STRIKE LEADERS
PACINO GRAVE CHARGE
I*itis8rurK. Feby. 8—Howatt. presi
dent of the coal miners union and five
mmnbers of the district executive board
were brought before federal Judge
Curran today and charged with vio
lation of the Injunction issued prior
to the recent coal strike forbidding
.them to^ceU-^etrlke.
TRADES COUNCIL HEAD GETS
FIVE YEAR PRISON TERM
York. Keby. 8 —«'Robert I’.
BrindeU, president at the Saw York
Building Trades Coundil, who was re
cently convicted of extortion front
builders, was sentenced today to serve
front five to tern years.
GERMANY TO PARTICIPATE
IN ALLIED CONFERENCE
Victoria, Fefoy. 8—Germany haa
given notice that she wtH semi dele
ff'-teo to the Allied conference to be
held in London on March first, accord
ing to reports received here.
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SENATE COMMITTEE
REJECTS IMMIGRATION
RESTRICTION BILL
Washington. Feby. 9—The Senate
committee on immigration today voted
an unfavorable report on the bill in
troduced by Senator Johnson suspend
ing all foreign immigration into the
CONGRESS RATIFIES
ELECTION HARDING I
SEATTLE POLICE CAPTURE |
SHOP LIFTER GANG i
Seattle. Feby. 9—The police say
that In the arrest «.r Michael Krljy.
leader of a gang of five men an<l five
women, all of wham are now imprison
ed, th«y' have the perpetrators of rob
beries of a hundred thousand dollars
worth of goods by shop.lifting from
SMUT’S PARTY WINS
SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS
Cape Town. Feby. 9- The party of
wnieh Genera I Smuts, former Roer
leader, is head, has decisively defeated
the labor!tes and nationalists in the
G. O P INSURGENTS
AFTER GILLETTE'S SCALP
Washington. Feby. 9- -The repub
lican insurgents are working ha.nl t
bring about the defeat of Represent a -
tlve Gillette for Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
WIDOW SLAYS MAN WHO
REFUSED TO MARRY HER
lays Angeles, Feby. 9—Lea Warden,
sflwd Zi. an automobile (Orleanian. was
shot •‘vnd SUllsd here today by Mrs.
Kditb f,undh«r*c. a widow of the same
agv. Whom he had refused to ms-rry.
Aftea* shooting Worden, the slayer
attempted to take her own life but is
now recovering.
RUSSIAN LABOR UNIONS
FIGHTING SOVIETS
Copenhagen. Denmark. Feby. 9—
The Petrograd Pravda, a lending So
viet newspaper of the former Russian
capital, prints an article today by
Uenine declaring that "the fight be.
tween the labor unions and Soviets for
supremacy will break up the whole
Bolshevik! state system unless a set
tlement is soon reached."
Worn Nerves
Nervous troubles. with backache
dissy spells,. queer pains and irregular
kidneys, give reason to suspect kidney
weakness and to try the remedy that
has helper! thousands of people in this
country.
Mrs. May Bailey, Si*-’ Broad way
Santa Cruz. Cal., says: ‘'Doan’s Kid
ney Pills are an old-atand by with ms <
They have donrs me a world of good, j
My kidneys were In bad shape and I
suffered a great deal with my back.
( couldn’t sleep nights and was ■&
diasy l could hardly stand on my feat.
Headaches almost drove me wild and
f was sn nervous that the least noise
caueed me to tremble. My kidneys
setsd irregularly, too. I used Doan’s
as directed and they soon stopped th*
backaches and regulated ray kidneys.
( could sleep nights and was free from
the nervous, ditty spells.*
Pries (0 cants, at all dealers. Don’t
simply aaik for s' kidney remedy—gei
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs Bailey had. Koster-Mllburn Co..
Mfrs., Buffalo. N.
U S MARINES
RESENT NICARAGUAN
NEWSPAPER ATTACK
Managin' Nicaragua, Fhby. 10 —
Thirty American Marines today raided
the offices of the Tnbune. a local
newspaper, destroy' d the presses and
wrecked things generally, because the
TrlbtatR had published defamatory
statements about some of the ma
| Admiral Bryan Ordered To Managua
With Fleet
Washington. Feby. 10—-Secretary
Daniels today ordered Flear AdmdraJ
Bryan* commander of the central
squadron, to proceed immediately to
Nicaragua to take charge of the situa
tion brought ;ibout by the marines
wrecking a newspaper plant at Sfan
STORM DESTROYES FIVE
MILLIONS IN LUMBER
Port Angeles. Feby. 9—The govern
ment forest supervisors, after an in
ClaHan and Jefferson counties felled
timber in the Olympic timber reserve
district valued at approximately five
million dollars.
WILL BAN FOREIGN LIQUOR
SHIPMENTS THRU U S
Washington, Febv. 9—The. govern
ment has decided to i»revent the trans
shipment of liquor from one foreign
country to another, through the United
CANADIAN LIFE TERMER
LOCATED IN SEATTLE
Seattle, Feby. 9—Confessing that
serving sentence of life imprisonment
for murder. Fr.uik Forsythe was ar
has been conducting here since last
BOLSHEVIKI ATTEMPT LIFE
OF JAP COMMANDER IN
EASTERN SIBERIA
Tokio. Feby. 9—Russian HoWhevikt
recently attempted t« assassinate fJen
eral Koychero Tachfhona. the new
Japanese cam»>uu7dler in Eastern Si
beria. ar-coriWftg \o advices received
by the government.
NEW ARMY BILL PASSES HOUSE
Washington. Feby. 9--The Army
Bill, carrying 329,090.000 and provid
ing for a military force of 150.000 men
in 1922, was passed today by the House
and sent to the Senate.
The measure passed fbe House vir.
tuaJly as it came from thp corotwltteo
on appropriations.
MUTINOUS SAILORS RAISE
TROUBLE IN PETROCRAD
Berlin. Frthy. tO—Martial law has
bees declared in Petrograd as a rrtult
of :iin Invasion of die city by mutinous
sailors frcair the naval base at Kron
stadt. according to dispatch** from
HetaSngfors. FlnhnJ. received here to
GEORGE SAYS WORLD
REELING FROM WAR
London. Feby. i—Addressing the
Welsh Liberals Just evening. Premie
Lloyd, Ckiorpe said the world is still
reeling from the most terrible blow
it has ever received and is still rest
less and demoralized.
GERMANS MIX WITH BELGIAN
PATROLS—SERIOUS FIGHTING
fyrndon. fc’eby. >0—Serious flgh* -
inpr between the German population
and Belgian patrolmen in ‘.he AJx Lu
Ohapelle district is reported in a dis
patch from Amsterdam today.
BOLSHEVIST RAILWAYS STOPPED
BY COAL FAMINE
Washington, Feby. 10-—Be ports to
the State Department say thirty one
Jtustrian railways have been forced to
suspend operation because of ft fuel
Back Ache
For pime Back. Sideache, Shoul
der Pain. Stiff Neck, etc., use Ham
lin’s Wizard Oil. It penetrate*
quickly, eases the pain and drive*
out the soreness. Keep it in the
Wizard Oil is a good dependable
preparation to have in the medicine
chest for first aid when the doctor
may be far away. You have no
idea how useful it will be found in
cases of every day ailment or mis
hap, when there is need of an im
mediate healing, antiseptic applica
tion. as in cases of sprains, bruises,
cuts, bums, b’tes and stings.
If r*u tr»uM#4 vitk 'cMaUMiloa
•r dck hnOtClii try Haarila'a Vtaard .
Uw WMp* Juat ptaaaaat llttla plak
pllla at druMtaia far lac.