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Show n - o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOU NTAI N. The withdrawal from entry of 45,000 acres of public land in Colorado and 86,000 acres in Utah, including a part of the Green river formation, which, it is estimated, will yield not less than 1,000,000,000 barrels of fuel oil, has teen recommended to President Wilson Wil-son by Secretary Lane. Coastwise shipping was practically demoralized Saturday and Sunday as the result of a southerly storm, which raged from the Mexican line north to Vancouver, B. C. Mrs. Minnie G. Scanlan, divorced wife of Thomas Scanlan, a miner, filed suit in district court at Cripple Creek, Colorado, to compel her husband hus-band to pay her $45 a month alimony In legal tender. Scanlan for' three months paid the alimony in pennies, a month ago sending 9,000 pennies, one for a month in arrears. Walter Miller still retains the middleweight mid-dleweight championship at wrestling through his defeat at Billings, Mont., of Mike Yokel of Salt Lake. President Wilson's plurality in Colorado Col-orado at the recent election was 76,508, according to the official count of the Btate canvassing board. Bessie Norton and Joseph Bowling were married on top of a 200-foot concrete con-crete smokestack in an oil plant at Florence, Colo. Practically the entire city witnessed the ceremony. An increase of 5 per cent in the wages of 1,250 men went into effect December 1 at the Tacoma Smelting company's plant. The increase affects men working for day wages. Miss Clara Ruth Mozzor, the youngest young-est woman ever admitted to practice , in Colorado courts, has been appointed appoint-ed junior assistant : attorney general V' of the state by Leslie Hubbard, attorney attor-ney general-elect. DOMESTIC. The second attempt of the United States government to obtain the conviction con-viction of six defendants in the so-called so-called Oregon land fraud cases came to an end at San Francisco with the discharge of the jury in the federal court when it reported failure to agree in three cases. An absolute boycott on the use of butter and eggs for a period of two : weeks, effective immediately, was decided de-cided upon Saturday at a conference of representatives of more than forty Louisville organizations. Fifteen persons were Injured by leaping from the windows of a blazing blaz-ing six-story tenement house in New York City. The appointment of a committee of five under the chairmanship of George D. Perkins to investigate the causes of the high cost of living and to recommend rec-ommend such legislation as may result re-sult in lower prices of food through economical distribution, is announced by Governor Whitman of New York. Thousands of school children throughout the United States are enlisting en-listing in an active crusade against the spread of tuberculosis by practicing practic-ing inculcating among the people the principles of clean living, and by the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals to. provide funds for the continuance of the battle. The three-masted schooner Jennie S. Hall, which sailed from Gulfport August 14 for Fort de France, Martinique, Martin-ique, "with lumber and a crew of six, . . 'lias been given up for lost. Chicago clothing workers, heretofore hereto-fore paid on a fifty-hour weekly wage scale, will be paid the same wages for forty-eight hours' work in future. Gaetano Turgrassio, a wealthy manufacturer, man-ufacturer, was shot dead on one of the main thoroughfares of San Francisco's Latin quarter during a pitched battle with three assailants said by the police po-lice to be members of an Italian secret society. Thrift clubs to reduce the cost of living will be organized by the - National Na-tional Housewives league, it is announced an-nounced from headquarters in New York City. After declaring to friends that he preferred death to further service on the border, Earl F. Raymond, mess sergeant of company G. Second Mis-1 Mis-1 souri infantry, committed suicide at Joplin, Mo., by drinking poison. A menu that will cost 30 cents a day will be tried out by the Yv'iliiarus-port Yv'iliiarus-port club, an organization composed of fifteen students of the University of Pennsylvania at PHladeiphia. Baseballs will cost from 10 to 50 per cent more next season than last, depending upon the market price of the materials, Chicago sporting goods dealers have announced. A 20 per cent advance in the prices of food and drink will be put into effect in eating houses in Los Angeles An-geles within a week, according to an agreement reached by the Los Angeles An-geles Restaurant Men's Protective association, as-sociation, representing 941 places. Richard C. Kittle, former Caseton, N. D., banker, was sentenced to seven years and six months in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., in dis-trict dis-trict court at Fargo, N. D., af'er pleading plead-ing guilty to forty-one counts in an Indictment charging falsification of records and reports. Thirty master plumbers, convicted! I of combination in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, were sentenced sen-tenced in the federal district court at Des Moines, the court asessing fines; aggregating $2,525 and costs totaling $1,475. A man who made threats against President Wilson was arrested at a railroad station at Philadelphia and sent to a hospital for observation. The body of Private Stanley D. Bo-gart, Bo-gart, G company, Thirty-second Michigan Michi-gan infantry, was found in the Rio Grande near the bridge at El Paso. Ha had met death by drowning. To afford quick relief to the railroads, rail-roads, which are suffering much from a car shortage, the American Railway Rail-way association has undertaken to force a large number of box cars from other sections of the country to the south and west. WASHINGTON. Information from an authoritative source has reached Washington that General Carranza has indicated his consent to the ratification of the Ara erlcan-Mexican protocol, signed re: cently at Atlantic City. A 2-cent piece is demanded by the country, according to the director of the mint whose annual report made; public recommends passage of a law authorizing coins of that denomination from copper and nickel. Secretary Daniels awarded contracts on November 29 for more than $65,-000,000 $65,-000,000 worth of new fighting ships for the navy. The United States has sent notes to Great Britain and France, requesting request-ing reconsideration by those governments govern-ments of their refusal to issue a safe conduct through their blockade lines to Count Tarnowski, the new Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian ambassador to this country. coun-try. Retail prices of food in the United States as a whole advanced 3 per cent from September 15 to October 15, making a 16 per cent increase for twelve months, as shown in reports compiled by the bureau of labor statistics. sta-tistics. Speaker Champ Clark has announced an-nounced that he believed there was a "criminal conspiracy" to boost prices. Government price control is being proposed pro-posed as an alternative to an embargo. FOREIGN. Negotiations have heen begun by the Brazilian government for the acquisition ac-quisition of the German merchant vessels in Brazilian ports. Thirty-eight Thirty-eight German and four Austrian merchant mer-chant vessels are in Brazilian ports. Lord Sydenham, supporting a project pro-ject to dig a tunnel under the channel chan-nel between France and England, says the estimated capital required will be $40,000,000. A Central News dispatch from Calcutta Cal-cutta says it is estimated 1,000 lives were lost in the recent cyclone in Pon-dicherry, Pon-dicherry, the chief of the French possessions pos-sessions in India. Four hundred bodies have been found. The sinking by a German submarine subma-rine of a 6,000-ton French transport filled with troops is announced by the German admiralty. The political crisis in England has become acute. It is stated in well informed in-formed circles that David Lloyd-George, Lloyd-George, the war secretary, has tendered ten-dered his resignation, which has not yet been accepted. Forty of Chihuahua's beautiful society so-ciety girls, $200,000 in silver bullion, several trainloads of food and other supplies are part of the loot "Pancho" Villa is taking into the mountains with him after the systematic sacking sack-ing of the capital. A Vienna dispatch has announced that Emperor Charles has relieved Baron Burian, Austro-Hungarian foreign for-eign minister, of the portfolio of the ministry of finance, which he held provisionally, pro-visionally, and has appointed Prince Conrad von Hohenlohe in his stead. A strong impression prevails in London Lon-don that Great Britain will grant the request from Washington for a reconsideration recon-sideration of the refusal of a safe conduct con-duct for Count Adam Tarnowski von Tairnow, who was recently appoint Austro-Hungarian ambassador to the United States. Villa bandits were reported on Friday Fri-day to be loading two trains with loot from stores and private residences resi-dences of Chiuhauhau City and preparing pre-paring to follow these trains west on the Mexico Northwestern railroad. Conspicuous success has been gained gain-ed by the British in their campaign against the Germans in German East Africa, the British war office announces. an-nounces. British casualties in the month of November, as reported from all fronts, were 74,650. Of the total casualties 2',351 were among officers and 72,299 men. An entire range of heights south of Kirlibaba have been captured by the Russians during fighting that is progressing along the whole Roumanian Rouman-ian frontier, says the Russian official communication. Notwithstanding the war, Canada's revenue continues to grow, according to figures made public here. For the eight months ended November 30, the revenue of the Dominion totaled $144,S12,570, the largest in history. "We are in a position of unparalleled unparallel-ed gravity," said Admiral Beresford in an address at a meeting at London Lon-don to support a stronger naval policy. "The crisis of the war is now." A Reuter dispatch from Las Cala-mas, Cala-mas, Canary islands, says the Dutch steamship Kediri, 3.77S tons gross, has been sunk. The crew was landed. A semi-official announcement issued from Berlin says the Dutch packet steamer Koningin Regenies, which was taken into Zeebrugge recently by a German submarine, will be released. |