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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete History of the Past Wcck Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Basy Reader L... .,.,. , ,., i.i-.J, m'wr r-r- ammSmommmmmSt INTERMOUNTAIN. Thirty-two wuniu.es of butter and sevon of cheese were submitted to the dairy division of the bureau of animal Industry In Suit Lake for examination and rating In the monthly contest conducted con-ducted for butler and cheese manufacturers manu-facturers of the InttM-mountaln country coun-try ami Northwest. Seven hundred and seventy-three predatory animals, which Included G80 coyotes an 87 Indents, were killed in November by tin hunters of Nevada, working under the direction of the United Stutos biological survey and the state rabies connuislon, according to toe monthly rupert. m The county court Is engaged In considering con-sidering the bids for the sale of the Baker county road bonds. There I one his" for the entire amount of $439,-000 $439,-000 at $100.02 per $100, which la the only one at par Pur the entire amount. Two other bide for pur ore for amounts sufficient to oorw bids for the grading of the bridge section of the Bflker-Coniueopia Bflker-Coniueopia pot road. m m m A petition to the Nevada representatives represen-tatives In congress, asking for the passage of a Joint resolution extending tlie life of present o-U and gns prospecting pros-pecting permits for an additions! year and eliminating oil requirements of work far the hist ytour thereof and to amend the oil leasing law in other respects re-spects is being signed at Fallon.. Tentative plans, for the formation of a cooperative marketing organization of western cattlemen wars launched ivt a pr.eUwiWftry meeting in Salt Lake. At the suggestion of tlvose present, the meeting adjourned to the first week March, prior to which efforts will be made to secure a representative attendance at-tendance of the stochmuu of the moun-statos. moun-statos. An arrowhead shot into a huge fir tree near Raymond, Wash., many years ago was recently discovered in a log cut by a local lumber company. The rings above the arrowhead were counted and tuey Klwiwed 175 years of growth. The arrowhead was of blue Hint and well formed. Historians here believe it made by a member of the Chiucook or Chehalis tribes, who occupied oc-cupied this section st the time it is thought the arrow was sent into the tree. a Timber production in the Northwest Will be greatly stimulated next spring when development of the vast Echo tract located in western Columbia and eastern Clatsop counties, Ore., is begun. be-gun. The tract, containing a heavy stand of timber comprising 2,600,000, 000 feet of Douglas fir, hemlock, spruce and cedar, extends over approximately S00 square miles. It Is said to be one of the heaviest stands of virgin timber in the United States. GENERAL Reduction of the corn acreage in Illinois, Il-linois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas 1ms been voted by the farm bureau federation. The resolution advised that the corn crop be "reasonably "rea-sonably reduced" and asked a proportional propor-tional increase in the acreage of alfalfa, al-falfa, clover, soy bouns and other legume le-gume crop to Improve the soil. An Artie adventurer, R. Dj. Seaman, sailed into Nome, Alaska from the frozen froz-en north this month ajid, not knowing that the war whs over, tried to enlist In the American army so he could fight In France. He left on his trip lie declared, de-clared, In October, 1918, when he first heard the United States had entered the war, and during Tiis journey had received ua uews from the outside world. The Illinois Staats-Zeltnng, a German Ger-man language daily newspaper was made defendant in a $100,000 libel suit Died by Black Hawk post No. 107, American legion. The complaint Charges that In an editorial the paper stales that the lesion was "an instrument instru-ment bought with British gold to suppress sup-press truth, to gag freedom and to betray be-tray American organized labor." It was also alleged that the editorial said many American soldiers were "tramps, vagabonds and bums." A small favor done several years ago for Ernest de Saint-GIes, author, professor pro-fessor and business man, by Archibald Cries, a Chicago tailor, was repaid when Mr. de Saint-Giles' will was "filed, having more than lmlf his $100,000 estate to the tailor. In the Kentucky-TenneBse coal fields between flOOO and 6000 miners are idle and thousands living In humble homos are destitute of the necessities of life as a result of the suspending of mining operations during the last few months. The success which characterized th observance of American Education j Week throughout the country Is being balled in Washington as an evidence of the continued and koen Interest felt In the United States In education itself it-self and particularly In that kind of education which tends to develop In the child a real love for country. Tlio fact t!it he looks more or less like "Babo" Ruth, famous Yankee batsman, led to the arrest of Raymond i Sterling, wanted in connection with twenty-one burglaries committed In Brooklyn. Mm. Lillian Rrool, a baseball base-ball fan, who was the victim of one of the robberies told the police "to look for "Babe Ruth's double." A score of students and laboratory Instructors at West Virginia university were treated to a rattleennko feast while Dr. A. M. Reese, head of the department de-partment of zoology, incidentally attempted at-tempted to prove that much meat goes to waste owinj to common scruples. Those who partook said tha meat was not unlike the breast of a chicken and had the same appearance In color. WASHINGTON. Advisability of raising funds for ;. soldier bonus by a tax oa beer and light wine will be considered by the house ways ami means ecHumitfea, when the committee take up Hi adjusted eom-l eom-l pensntiou duewtlon, particularly the ' phase relating te the raising of revenues rev-enues to finance It. .'- Unqualified apprra4 of the Kenyon Mil designed te offset future cyclical periods of unemployment and depression depres-sion by advance planning of public works was given by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the American Federation of Labor before be-fore a senate committee holding hearings hear-ings on the measure. The United States cannot afford to isolate herself economically, but must continue to enjoy the trade K Europe if she propose to maintain her prosperous pros-perous posit'on, Ouisepps Qentile of the Italian arms delegation declared In an address. Through the erection of customs barrier aad rrado walls, 1m added, the Versailles treaty, instead oi relieving war-tricken Bur ope, hss put it back three csoturies economically. A nattena) luonwrini to soldiers o the world war in the form of a magnificent mag-nificent bridge to span the Potmac from a point near the Lincoln memorial to Arlington Cemetery in Virginia nov seems a crtalnty in the not boo distant I future. The War department hai j made a request of Congress for an appropriation ap-propriation of $25,000 to start fee plans. Charges that importers, through misleading mis-leading propaganda, were attempting to "delay or defeat" tariff legislation, and to accomplish this end were esa tiering an attack on the American valuation val-uation plan, were made in the hous by Chairman Fordtvey of the way am. means committee, who declared that American valuation was the "loglca. solution of the present-day economic conditions:" FOREIGN. ! be the fii-st big task the soviet govern-I govern-I men-t will tackle durhtg tlio near ysar, ! Lev Kameneff, pretdat of the Moscow Mos-cow soviet and rfwu!r of the cslwnei said in an interview with the United Frees. Mary Hac3w:mir, sister of the late Lord Mayor MaCSwiney of Cork, while speaking in DuWin, severely arraigned Prime Minister Lloyd (Joorge in speaking speak-ing against the Anglo-Irish treaty In the Dail Eireanu. 3h characterized the British praiuior as "an unscrupulous unscrup-ulous scoundrel." c Fifteen men were taken from their beds in the Linmvady district of County Coun-ty Dorry near Belfast, by alleged Sinn Feiners and made to tramp fifteen miles through the mountains across the Derry border. They were rescued by p. detachmemnt of the special stabulary after a spirited fight. Marshal Foeh received a typical American welcome when he arrived at St. I.7.ire railroad station, returning to the United States. With him was fornfer Premier Rwie Vivian!. Almost the entire membership of tha Paris post of the American Legion had assoilzied as-soilzied and there were thunderous Cheers of the American variety. B Premier Briand in his conference with Prime Minister Uoyd George in Ixndon has refused firmly to consider any further reduction in the total amount of reparations due from Germ- any, It is understood in official circles. I The French premier, according to the ' Information, has prepared a tax on German exportations, to be collected In the Importing countries. . Although without any intimation of a puriwse by the conference to apply limitations of naval armament to other than the five powers Invited to consider consid-er that matter. Holland's delegates are watching with Interest, the tendency towards regulation of the use of sub' marines. Franco's total army strength will be 073,000 after May 192, according tn a statement made by General de Cns-tlenau, Cns-tlenau, former chief of the goneral staff, to the Associated Press. |