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WESTERN

Inc House OF the Montana LeglS-
tature has gone on record as favoring
the return of the railroads to private
ownership
Governor Ben w. Olcott has been
sworn into office as the successor of
the late Governor James Withycombe
Of Oregon.
Charged with criminal assault on
young girl, former inmate of chill
drens home of which he was chaplain,
the Rev. Francis c.. Berry, past 60
years old, was sentenced to 80 years
In Dallas, Texas.
More than 10000 licensed drinking
places in the six ''wet" states of the
central West-Illinois, Wisconsin, Min
nesota Missouri, Kentucky and Ohio
are to go out of existence July /, if
America abolishes the liquor traffic
under the Presidents wartime prOhi-
bition order.
City is baffled by one of the most un-
usual cases in the history of medical
science in the middle West A 16-
year-old firl is unconscious-has been
SO for over fifty-five days-and there
Is apparently no signs of when she
will regain consciousness.
approximately $4,000 cases of tech
nical violations of the selective Serv
ice law have been discovered by fed
eral investigators at Olympia, Wash,
States district attorney, announced in
Seattle Mr. Reames said several hun
dred Of the cases would be prosecuted.
The Supreme Court of Montana up
held the constitutionality> of the work
mems compensation act in the suit of
the heirs Of Murty Shea against the
North Butte Mining Company. Shea
was one of the miners killed in the
North Butte disaster 1t is said sixty
five other cases depended upon the
judgment in the Shea case
To assist in making the coming Vic
tory Loan success, squadron of
eleven airplanes, including two cap
tured German Fokkers and command
ed by Maj. Carl Spatz, famous
American aviator, will leave North
island, near San Diego, for tour
among seventeen prins:aal cities of
the West and South, according TO an
nouncement by Col. Harvey Burwell,
commander Of Rockwell field.
Invitations for mass meeting in
Chicago on May 1 have been sent to
various parts of the country from So
cialist headquarters in that city. Ac-
cording to the invitations, the meet
ing is to be convention for amnesty
and free Speech" and it's purported
objects are to bring about the release
of all political prisoners" such as
William d. Haywood and Others of the
Industrial Workers of the World, con-
victed Of disloyalty; cause the repeal
of the espionage act and take such
other steps as shall be found wise to
establish freedom of action and
speech"
WASHINGTON
Naval stations and yards were di-
rected by Secretary Daniels to restore
to his former position upon discharge
every man who left non-combatant
work to enter fighting branch of the
service.
Amendment of the federal reserve
act by the Congress just adjourned
has resulted in increasing from $22,-
$4,000 to $49,468,34O, the combined
surplus of the twelve federal reserve
banks. said reserve board statement
just issued.
Italy has been warned by the Amer
lean government that unless she puts
an end to delays in movements of re-
lief supplies to the newly established
Jugo-Slavic and Czecho-Slavic states,
steps will be taken to cut off the flow
of American foodstuffs to Italy.
Allied railway representatives in ST.
IBERIA, the State Department was in
formed in Washington, held an infor-
NAL conference in VladivOstok to for
mulate plans for restoring lines and
rolling stock of the Siberian roads,
and to extend service into European
Russia as far as possible
The cotton futures rider TO the
guarantee wheat price bill, which was
signed by President Wilson, has be-
come effective. Under it, only thirteen
grades of cotton-from low middling
up-can be delivered on future con-
tracts and all cotton so delivered must
be classified by government graders.
Secretary of War Baker has an
nounced that he has selected Gen. Ed
ward G. Kreger, now in Cuba, to as
sumo the duties of judge advocate dur
ing the absence of General Crowder,
who is going to Cuba to advise it's
government on certain election law re-
FORMS
Among the fifty-three cases of con-
victiOns under the espionage act in
which President Wilson has granted