WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
U. S. 0. K.'S "STEEL TRUST”
Supreme Court Upholds Combine 4 to
3 Minority Opposes Step.
U. S. ABOUT TO LIFT
SOVIETTRADE BAN
BOATING IN STREETS WHEN THE SEINE OVERFLOWS
Washington, D. C. — In a four-to-
three decision Monday the supreme
court refused to dissolve the United
States Steel corporation and its sub
sidiaries comprising the so-called
"steel trust.”
The government’s long-fought suit
for dissolution of the iron and steel
trade combination for alleged violation
of the Sherman anti trust law was dis
missed, with absolution for the cor
poration from all charges.
Placing the high court’s "O. K.” on
Events o f Noted People, Governments
the steel corporation were Chief Jus Action, However, W ill Not Involve
and Pacific Northwest, and Other.
tice White and Associate Justice Me
Either Recognition o f Soviet or
Kenna, who announced the majority
Things Worth Knowing.
Trade With Administration.
opinion, Holmes and Vandeventer.
Justice Day gave the dissenting opin
ion, joined by Justices Pitney and
Population statistics for 1920 an
Washington, D. C.— Virtual decision
Clarke.
nounced Monday by the census bureau
Justices McReynoIds and Brandels has been reached by the American gov
included Everett, Wash., 27,614, an took no part, the former having been
The Seine nus heeu indulging in ns annual o\erfiow. nrd in the outlying sections of Furls all sorts or boats
ernment, it is said, to permit resump
increase of 2800, or 11.3 per cent.
have been pressed into service, as is shown in this photograph.
attorney-general during the litigation
tion of trade relations with soviet
Several rich strikes of gold quartz and the latter having expressed opin
Russia
as soon as the allied govern
ions
on
it
before
appointment
to
the
have been made lately in Grant county,
tainly would be a new chief of the
ments has outlined a definite policy.
Sioux
When, finally after years of
Oregon, the last being that made by bench.
constant watching, Walsh prevailed on
Primarily the
decree
officially
lialph Curl on Canyon mountain, about
The first step by the allies toward
the Sioux to surrender to the United
brands the corporation as a "good dealing commercially with Russia
three miles east of Canyon City.
States authorities. Sitting Bull gave
combination with its legality estab since the decision on January 17 to
The first chamber of the Dutch par
Walsh his war bonnet in recognition
lished.
permit
trade
with
the
Russian
co
liament Saturday voted, 31 to 2, for
of the “ bravest man he had ever met.”
Further, the court held that pre operative societies was the announce
Even during the rebellion In 1885 the
the adherence of Holland to the league
ponderance in industry of corporate ment last week of the appointment of
great tribes remained true to the po
of nations. The second chamber cast
combinations is not alone sufficient a commission to be sent there to
an affirmative vote on February 19
existed among the Indians against the lice and only a few Joined with the
cause for their dissolution.
study the situation and report to the Northwest Mounted Police Loses color of the uniform worn by the men Metis under Louis Rell. It was the
The third congressional district con
The court also gave a new and far- league of nations council.
Identity as Civilization
of the Rifles, for many Indians said, respect that the Indians had for the
vention of the Non-partisan league reaching judicial Interpretation or ap
‘Who are those soldiers at the Red “ scarlet and gold” that saved western
Whether the United States will act
Lessens Its Need.
meeting at Norfolk, Neb., Monday plication of the Sherman law, anal upon the invitation of the allies to
river wearing dark clothes? Our old Canada at that period from gravest
night, decided not to indorse a candi ogous of its famous "rule of reason' send a representative is uncertain, but
brothers who formerly lived there disaster.
Deeds of Individual Bravery.
date for the April 20 primary election. in the Standard Oil and tobacco “ trust1 in any event, it is believed this govern
(meaning H. M.’s Sixth regiment)
wore red coats,’ adding ‘We know that
It was not alone In keeping the In-
cases by declaring public interest must ment will act as soon as the commis
The secretary of the Interior was
the soldiers of our great mother wear dinns in check tlmt the police showed
be considered in applying the law.
sion has reported, pro.bably early in
red coats nnd are our friends.’ ”
requested in a resolution adopted by
bravery nnd tact. Col. Sam Steele, who
The public interest, it was held, the spring.
Ranged Far Into Arctic Wastes to Pun
the senate to report what steps had would not be served and might be in
And in this way, to Impress the In commanded the Strnthconn Horse in
Action by this government, it is ish Crime, Maintain Order and Ex
dians of the plains, was adopted the South Africa, rose from a sick bed,
been taken to develop traffic and pop jured by dissolving the steel concern.
said, will be limited merely to an of
tend Relief— Won the Confi
uniform that has given distinctive faced nnd arrested the ringleaders of
ulation along the government railway
Dissolution of the corporation and ficial statement of approval of trade
several hundred Infuriated armed rail
identity to this famous corps.
dence
of
the
Indian.
in Alaska.
its principal subsidiaries was urged in with individuals by American firms
From the Red river the new force way strikers in the Rockies.
The British ambassador at Wash the dissenting opinion. The minority and it will not involve either recog
But It was in the long patrol of the
Ottawa.— That famous corps, the made its first long patrol. Through
ington will hereafter receive £20,000 declared that the anti-trust law was nition of the soviet government or Royal Northwest Mounted Police, has what was then known ns the Great terrible North that the best traditions
yearly. His salary will be £2500 and violated; that there has been "open approval of trade directly with the ceased to exist. It is now merged American desert it struggled for 800 of the force have been preserved.
entertainment* allowance
£17,500, notorious and continued violation” of soviet administration.
miles, establishing posts, and finally They plunged into these unknown
with the Canadian mounted police.
Premier Lloyd George announced in its provisions and that approval of
In some quarters it is asserted that
For half a century "the scarlet and wintering at Fort McLeod, in the foot wastes, hundreds of miles, sometimes
the house of lords. Sir Auckland Ged- illegally born combinations “ would the government doubts very serious gold” of the riders of the plains had hills of the Rockies. From there its alone, sometimes In pairs, facing an
practically annul the Sherman law by ly the successful consummation of been the symbol of law unJ order In activities spread, until now on Hud arctic winter to rescue the unfortu
des was recently appointed.
son bay, Coronation gulf, the frozen nate or capture the wrongdoer. Deeds
judicial decree.”
schemes for the exploitation of Rus a territory os vast os the United States
were done that, if In other fields, wop Id
Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall
Agreeing that mere size of a cor sia independently of the soviet gov west of the Mississippi. From Hud Arctic and the desolate Yukon are hnve won the highest decorations.
declared at Phoenix, Ariz., that he
posts from which patrols keep watch.
son
bay
to
the
Rockies,
from
the
Inter
poration, providing its genesis is legal, ernment and that sanction of trade
By horse, canoe and dog train they Many won through, but others sleep
was not to be considered a candidate
Is not inhibited, the minority vigor with individuals in Russia will be ex national ooundary to and beyond tl»3 carry the authority of the law to the in that Northland waste, martyrs to
for the democratic nomination for
arctic circle luey carried security to
ously disapproved the new Sherman tended more as an experiment than
duty.
On the Fort Resolution nnd
president. “ In fact,” he said, “ I in
the law-abiding and terror to tlie law Eskimo of the arctic, the whalers of
law ruling, requiring judicial consider through any confidence that such a breaking. On th.- vast prairies, in Herschell island nnd the gold seeker Dawson patrol. In 19X1, Inspector Fitz
tend to retire from public office when
ation of the public interest. Such a privilege in practice may prove feasi mountains and forest, through the Ice of the Rockies. In the last fifty years gerald and three companions lost their
my present term expires.”
lives. Fitzgerald failing to arrive it
conclusion, they declared, "necessarily ble.
bound reaches of the arctic coast they they have brought the wild Indian into
his destination, Dempster was ordered
“
treaty,”
have
made
the
cattle
rustler
By refusal of the supreme court to results in a practical nullification of
made
“
the
long
patrol,”
protecting
the
Recent reports indicated that Italy
to find Fitzgerald with instructions:
or
whisky
runner
only
a
name,
and
in
review the case, federal court decis the act itself.”
and Great Britain favored plans for settlor, succoring the weak and ad
“ Bear In mind, nothing is to stand in
ions holding that the transportation of
The decision was a complete victory trade with Russia, but that France ministering Justice with a relentless the Klondike rush that seething min your way until you get in touch with
hand to white and red, to British and ing camp of Dawson was ns safe ns
women from one state to another in for the corporation and its 180 sub had not given her approval.
an eastern hamlet. During the regime this party.” Dempster started into
alien.
private automobiles for immoral pur sidiaries, said to compose the world’s
the wilds of the terrible nrctic winter
The march of civilization has of the riders of the plains Canada's nnd, hundreds o f miles from tiie post
poses comes within the provisions of greatest industrial combination, with
western
domain
passed
from
a
country
brought into tl.is vast territory pros
of civilization, found Fitzgerald's com
the white slave act will stand.
assets of more than $2,000,000,000. It
perous settlers, where the Royul North of tribal conflict through the railway panions lying together, with hands
also dismissed proceedings against a
stage,
when
our
first
great
transcon
west Mounted Police found the Indian
The prohibition amendment to the
crossed nnd faces covered. Fitzgerald
score of individual millionaire defend
of the sun dance and scalp knife, the tinental was thrown across the prairie hnd cared for his comrades until they
federal constitution was assailed in
without
provoking
strife
with
the
orig
ants, including Chairman Elbert H.
excitable Metis (the French half-breed
supremo court Monday by Rhode Is
inal owners of the country, to the pe died, nnd even nfter death. Then he
Gary of the steel corporation, Charles
of the plains), and the outlaw who
Washington,
D.
C.—
President
Wilson
land as revolutionary and defended by
riod of peaceful settlement nnd the up pushed on, hut was found with diary
M. Schwab, John D. Rockefeller, the
sought tills “ no man’s land” to escape
tho government as legitimate addition
building of modern cities, and in these nnd mail bag under his body, protect
accepts with reservations the proposal
JustW and continue in crime. The In
late J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie,
vnried stages the famous force adapt ing it to the last. In ills pocket was
to the nation’s basic law over which
Henry C. Frick and others. Against of tho British and French premiers dian and Me tis are now penceful farm ed itself to the conditions without loss found his will, written with n charcoai
the court held no jurisdiction. Throngs
these the government had asked in that Italy and Jugo-Slavia undertake a ers, the ranch hns been replneed by in effectiveness or of the sincere re stick, leaving everything to ids mother
attended the session.
the farm, and railways now cover the
nnd concluding:
“ God bless you all.
junctions against illegal acts.
settlement of the Adriatic question.
gard of the complex population.
country ns thick ns the Indian trails
F. J. Fitzgerald, R. N. W. M. P.”
Wall street was thrown into a state
Won the Indian.
He says that if Italy and Jugo-Slavia of the seventies. Only in the far north
He, like many others of the force,
of demoralization Monday and many
New Jersey for 3.5 Beer,
prefer to abandon the so-called buffer is any of the original work of the po
In dealing with the Indian tribes the had paid the penalty of the nrctic pa
hundreds of thousands of dollars were
lice
left.
Here
In
the.
Great
Barrens,
state
containing
an
overwhelming
Trenton, N. J. — The New Jersey
Royal Northwest Mounted police did trol.
It took Inspector French two
lost and won within a few minutes senate late Monday night passed, 12 majority of Jugo-Slavs and desire to along ;ae desolate shores of Hudson Invaluable service. They won not only years nnd an nrctic pntrol of 5,000
when news agencies which serve the to 9, the compromise beer bill pro limit the proposed free state to the bay and the Arctic ocean, through the the confidence of Indians in Cnnndn, miles to investigate the murder of Red-
district misstated the decision of the viding for manufacturing, selling and corpus separatum of Fiume, placing Rockies to Dawson will “ the scarlet but also of the tierce Sioux who sought ford (American) nnd Street (Cana
United States supreme court in the transporting of beverages containing the sovereignty in the league of na and gold” do the long pntfol. The fa refuge in Canada nfter the Custer dian) by Eskimo within the arctic cir
mous corps hns done its work and has massacre. They made treaties nnd cle.
lie found the Eskimo hnd
stock tax case and declared stock div not more than 3V4 per cent alcohol by tions without either Italian or Jugo
lost its Identity in the new nattonal kept them.
acted In self-defense nnd no ar
idends were taxable.
volume. The bill would not become slav control, the United States is will force. The uniform lias been pre
When Ple-a-Pot, a wnriike Cree rests were mnde. Inspector La Nnuze
ing to leave the determination of the served; l.ie romance and esprit do
Gold valued at $1,250,000 is being effective until after peace has been
chief, came south with his band nnd chnsed the Eskimo murderer of Fa
common frontier to Italy and Jugo corps hnve gone.
held up the construction of the Cana thers Rouvier nnd Le Roux through
shipped from England to this country, officially proclaimed.
The measure went through the sen slavia.
Origin of the Corps.
dian Pacific, a sergeant nnd constable the islnnds of the Arctic ocenn, but
according to announcement made in
The president says he “ cannot pos
For nearly two centuries the Hud of the police arrived, entered the hos finally arrived in Edmonton with his
New York by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. This ate after reference had been made to
They were found guilty,
is the first large shipment in several the state senate in 1863 condemning sibly Join” the premiers’ suggestion son Bay company hud ruled that vnst tile camp, arrested the old chief sur prisoners.
rounded by bis braves, nnd landed him but the sentence was commuted to
months.
Gold coin worth $3,000,000 President Lincoln for his emancipa that the memorandum settlement of territory between ’ Tudson hay and the
Rockies, when in 1870 the Dominion of In jail. He was a good Indian after Imprisonment for life among their own
also has been received from Canada tion of the slaves after it had been December 9 be withdrawn; declares
Canada acquired possession. The great wards, keeping his treaty during the people, which means living under po
that
“Albanian
questions
should
not
stated
New
Jersey
would
become
a
at the sub-treasury. A large amount
lice supervision.
They were in
company had been a guardian to the halfbreed outbreak in 1885.
was received from the same source traitor to a great cause; and after the be included in the proposed joint dis wnriike Blaekfeet, Assinibolnes and
The most famous International case capable of realizing the seriousness
cussions," and reiterates that the
Anti-Saloon
league
had
been
excoria
last week.
Cree Indians an ' kept in a fashion law was that of Sitting Bull, tlie noted of their crime. Leaving Edmonton to
ted for its lobbying in antagonism to United States cannot approve of the
anil order. The hardy Scotch factors Sioux chief, wlio in 187C bad wiped out go back to nrctic solitude they cried
Announcement that they will seek the move to have a beer law in the execution of the terms of the treaty
had in many instances married into the command of the brilliant. Impetu like children on being separated from
a writ of mandate in the state supreme state so that the attorney-general of London.
the tribes and their Inlluence was pow ous Custer. Chiefs White Eagle, Little the big inspector who hnd captured
them nnd brought them to trial. Now
court directing the state railroad com could fight for state rights on the
Finally, he expressed the “ earnest erful ami firm. Then came the chnnge
Knife, Black Moon, nnd finally the no
mission to pass on high apartment and question before the United States su hope that the allied governments will in control. If became “ no man's lend” torious Sitting Hull, crossed the line. a police post on Coronation gulf hns
hotel rates here was made by officials preme court.
not find it necessary to decide on a with the great company without au Including their fnmilles nenrly 4,000 been established, nnd these simple
of the San Francisco Tenants’ Pro
course which the American govern thority nnd the dominion government fierce Sioux were In Canadian terri children of the North are learning re
sponsibility.
tective association. This action was
ment, in accordance with its reiterated without any machinery to enforce its tory, and to see that they did not use
Treaty Fight to Go Into Campaign.
edicts.
Always Did Their Best.
Cnnndn ns a base against the United
to be in addition to actions to be filed
Washington, D. C.— Convinced that statement will be unable to follow.”
Struggling
through the nrctic wilds
It
was
a
dnngerous
period.
The
Unit
States
or
inflame
our
own
Indians
in the superior courts against alleged for the present their labors to break
Tho president's note to the pre
ed States government was seeking to there were In that area only 200 police. a lone policeman has brought a maniac
extortionate acts of certain landlords. the peace treaty deadlock are a waste miers was dispatched Thursday and
curb the fierce Sioux. They, In turn, Inspector Walsh rode alone into Sit strapped on a dog sleigh to civiliza
of time, senate leaders moved Monday is now being considered by the allied were making overtures to the Cana
ting Bull's camp nnd rend the riot act tion. Alone with the madman facing
Reflecting the seriousness of the
Mean dian Indiuns to join them. The whisky to him. Surrounded by his braves the the most terrible storms, he hns won
to get the treaty out of the way of supreme council at London.
fueloil situation, the geological sur
pressing legislation and to let issues time, direct negotiations between Jugo- runner was unchecked In his debauch fierce Sioux threatened the Inspector, through.
vey announced Tuesday that the de
raised by the ratification fight go Intolsiavia and Italy are proceeding,
ery of the Indian. It was at this pe- who placed his revolver at the Chief’s
But all do not win through, as shown
mand for crude oil in January was
the political campaign. Under the j Mr. Wilson begins his communica- rond that the Itoynl Northwest Mount head nnd told him plainly that If there by tills Inst message found on one of
about 4,750,000 barrels greater than in
plan, compromise negotiations on the j tlon by noting “ with satisfaction" the ed rolice came into existence, and was trouble there might be a new in the force caught in a terrible blizzard:
December.
This demand, the an
reservation to article 10 are to be “ unaltered desire” of the premiers to since then have been the most potent spector In the police but there cer- "Lost, horse dead; am trying to push
nouncement said, will require a con
nhend. Hnve done my best.” There
•
dropped, readoption of the republican reach “ an equitable solution in con- Inlluence in preserving order In this
tinued Increase in domestic production
vnst territory. Three companies were
never was a more deserving motto for
reservation programme of last session ! formity alike w ith the principles of
mobilized at Winnipeg, or. ns it was
iny force thnn the last words of this
and in Mexican Imports, together with
Is to be completed as a formality, and the peace conference and of the legit then known, “ Fort Garry.” Three other * Would Close English
lying member of the scarlet nnd gold.
heavy drafts on stocks on hand which
then a final vote is to be taken to put imate, though conflicting, aspirations companies came through the United
Churches Six Months : ‘Have done my best."
now are none too large.
of the Italian and Jugo-Slav peoples.” States and Joined them, nnd in all 500
the treaty into the campaign.
—
*
And so It has been In the arctic
London.— Rev. W. E. IT Mor- * wilderness or on the blizzard-swept
men restored and preserved order in
Immediate and extensive enlarge
rls, vicar of All Snlnts’ church, j prairie, whether serving the empire in
a territory as large as Europe, without
Japan Will Withdraw.
Gompers Voices Protest.
ment of naval docking and basing fa
Southport, thinks that “ It might i the Strathconns in South Africn, or in
duties on the Pacific and legislation
Miami, Fla.—Samuel Gompers, who
Tokio.—The cabinet has approved a railway and peopled with nearly
not be a bad thing for Englnnd | the Garry Horse on Flanders’ fields,
to provide a naval reserve force of at was here Monday with other officials the withdrawal of the Japanese troops 100,000 Indians rent with tribal wars
If the church were to close down i the riders of the plains have always
and embittered against the whites by
least 200,000 were advocated Monday of the executive council of the Amer from Siberia in April, after the
for six months.”
the depletion o f the buffalo herds, the
done their best.
Harvard graduate
before the house naval committee by ican Federation of Labor, said that repatriation of the Cxecho-Slovak con
"This country," he said, "has i or Canadian farmer, Texas cowboy or
almost sole source of their existence.
Secretary Daniels.
The secretary while organised labor was much op tingents Is coinpleted. It Is expected It was then that the famous “ scarlet
been brought up in the lap of ee- t French-Canadlan voyager, the English
asked authority to start construction posed to the railroad bill as drafted the Ciechs will all be on their way and gold” uniform was adopteo. To
Hi « ’¡iMb-a! luxury and is Gos- • aristocrat or the Scotch breed of the
lei-hnnliiinL There are few | prairie, the scarlet and gold held them
of a new naval base on Ban Francisco no further action would be taken In home by March 20. The peace offer the Ir.dlan the ’Ted" ennt symbolised
to n« In this country that are * all. and always they did their best
bay below Mare Island and urged that regard to it.
of the Russian soviet government to the power of “ the great white mother, ’
n.it n\ i-nhurrhed. Religion is * Fifty years they have been the guard
$10,000,000 be made available at once.
“ I speak for them all,” he said, Japan la reported to include as one and Colonel ftobertson-Itoss organiser
vo o!i«..y to l>e obtained that we
ians o f the wilds. The wilds have
He first estimated the cost at $75,000,- when I say that the action of the of Its terms a stipulation to forego of the force, suggested this uniform In
ppreciate It. It la too
J do net : |
disappeared, and so does this grand
000, but later said it might be done president In signing the bill is to be bolshevlki propaganda In the Japanese his report.
*
i
heap."
“During my Inspection In the north
old corps, leaving as a heritage the
for $40.000,000.
empire.
regretted.”
west I ascertained that some prejudice
• beat traditions In service and loyalty.
Brief Resume Most Important
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