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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORI RKCORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN 8RIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. If tht ciiiil situation in ( )(lcri, Chili, becomes more acute, theatres, churches, dance IimIIs miiiI other forms of ainuse-inciit ainuse-inciit will bo closed. 'I'll ice men entered a Jewelry store lit Portland, liounil and gagged the janitor and a clerk, and made away Willi diamonds and jewelry estimated liy t lie police In he worth .f20 0(111. Temporary suspension of the publl-calion publl-calion of the I Suite Iiaily I'ost followed fol-lowed a walkout by printers employed in the composing room of the newspaper. news-paper. The men are demanding !f0 for a 7 hour day. l'x'lief that the beet sugar factories of Utah and Idaho have sufficient coal supplies to continue their runs for six In eight weeks, during which time the sugar heel crop can be utilized and maximum production secured to pre vent a sugar famine, Is expressed at Ogden, Utah. William Carlisle, train bandit, captured cap-tured after being shot in the right lung by Sheriff A. S. Roach of Wheatland, Wheat-land, Wyoming, will recover, unless pneumonia develops or Infection sets in, according to physicians. Mrs. Lester Tabor and A. Walter Tabor were working in Freewafer, Ore., two weeks ago, according to information in-formation received at Walla Walla. It vas-aid when they left they intended going to California. 'Persons of those names are being sought in connection with the death of Miss Maude Tabor at Lawton, Mich. William Carlisle, train bandit, again Is a prisoner, under guard in the Douglas, Wo., hospital, where he is suffering from a bullet hole in his right lung. Tie was shot down by members of a posse near Douglas. ' DOMESTIC. United States Senator Miles roin-dexter roin-dexter of Washington charged In a ' speech at Chicago, that the government govern-ment was encouraging the disastrous coal situation by not exercising its full power. He said back of the present pres-ent labor unrest is an attempt to paralyze par-alyze industry in order to effect the abolition of the wage scale, the elimination elim-ination of private property rights and the abolishment of the constitution. Chairman Payne has announced that strikes have cost the shipping board ::?.( HHUHKi since January 1. The estimates esti-mates included marine and harbor strikes, longshoremen's and shipyard strikes on the Atlantic. Pacific and gulf coasts and did not include the. coal strike. Following a grilling at I.awton. Mich., of Joseph Virgo, South P.end undertaker, who was the sweetheart of Maude Tabor, whose dead body-was body-was found in the basement of the Tabor home after an interment of three years, it was stated that Virgo had married Miss Tabor in February of V.lllj. William O. Jenkins, the American consular agent, imprisoned at Puebla, Mexico, was released Thursday night. Three persons were burned to death, eleven were injured and two are unaccounted un-accounted for in the w reck of a motor bus winch jumped the rails of the Muscatine, Mus-catine, Turlington & Southern railway near Muscatine, Iowa. The Institute of American Meat Packers in a statement issued at Chicago Chi-cago declares that the average weekly wholesale price of dressed beef for the entire country decreased 34.2 per cent between May 3 and November 22 this year. In an attempted hold-up by four masked Mexican bandits of the stage carrying a payroll from Esqueda. Sonera, So-nera, to the El Tigre mines south of Douglas, Ariz., one of the six federal soldier guards was killed and one wounded. Information charging criminal contempt con-tempt of court has been filed in the United States district court at Indianapolis, Indi-anapolis, against eighty-four international interna-tional and district officers of the United Unit-ed Mine Workers, named in the court injunction issued immediately after lhe strike was called and requiring their appearance to answer the charges. Gen. John J. Pershing, accompanied by a staff of ten officers, has left Washington on an inspection tour of army posts in the south, on the Mexican Mexi-can border, the Pacific coast and the middle west. I William C. Redfield, former secretary secre-tary of commerce, has entered the Investment In-vestment security business in New York. Governor Robertson of Oklahoma has Issued a proclamation declaring martial law in Pittsburg, Latimer, Leflore, Le-flore, Coal. Haskell and Okmulgee counties, to take effect immediately. Ratification of the federal woman suffrage resolution was completed by lhe South Dakota legislature when the senate passed the measure on December Decem-ber 4. No appreciable reduction in taxes for the next fiscal year is to be thought of, Secretary Class declared In his annual report sent to congress. Government receipts must be kept at their present figure, he said, in order to bring government borrowing to an end. WASHINGTON. Norman Ilapgood, American minister minis-ter to Denmark, is coming home to make a personal report to the state department on the Russian situation, concerning which he has received much valuable information since going to Copenhagen. Favorable report on a bill providing for the establishment of a separate department de-partment of aeronautics has been ordered or-dered by the senate military committee. commit-tee. The vote was 9 to 2. Republican leaders of the house have decided to ask department heads to help reduce the $5,000,000,000 estimates esti-mates for next year's appropriations. 'income from state and municipal securities se-curities now tax free under the 1918 revenue law, would be declared a part of irross income in computing surtaxes under a bill introduced by Representative Represen-tative Green, Republican, Iowa. Abandonment of governmental attempts at-tempts to control the distribution and sale of sugar has been announced by Attorney General Palmer. A joint resolution declaring the war with Germany "at an end" has been introduced by Representative Tink-ham, Tink-ham, Republican, Massachusetts. Steps to obtain a personal interview with President Wilson before framing a senate policy in the strained relations rela-tions with Mexico were decided on Thursday by the foreign relations committee. com-mittee. President Wilson is getting better and his progress is causing satisfaction, satisfac-tion, Rear Admiral Grayson, the president's physician has announced, adding that from his standpoint everything every-thing was going fine with the president. presi-dent. FOREIGN. The peace treaty between the allied and associated powers and Hungary is ready for signing, the supreme council having adopted economic, financial and reparation clauses. Mexico has twenty-four war type aeroplanes mobilized at Chihuahua City alone, and is obtaining additional planes from Germany, according to war department information given to the house military committee. C. B. Cochrane, promoter of the Carpentier-Beckett fight, announced at London that Georges Carpentier has signed an agreement to fight Jack Deinpsoy. the American heavy-weight j champion, next year. The purse will be 3.1.000 pounds, the winner to take j 00 per cent and the loser 40 per cent. Congress of independent socialists in session at l.eipsic unanimously adopted a program declaring for the soviet system in Germany. Italian regulars will occupy Fiutiie in the territory included in the treaty of London signed in 1913 by representatives repre-sentatives of Italy, France, Great Brit-i Brit-i ... ain and Russia, according to a tumie dispatch. Bolshevik successes against Admiral Kolchak's forces in Siberia have created cre-ated alarm in Japan, iind'a popular movement to strengthen the Japanese forces in Siberia is taking shape. The supreme council has refused the Jugo-Slav request of the coal mines of Pecs, Hungary, leaving their disposition disposi-tion to the reparations commission. Gustave Noske, German minister of defense, addressing a convention of majority socialists at Chemnitz, has provoked both the wealthy and the extreme ex-treme red classes, the former by announcing an-nouncing a new tax which will confiscate confis-cate 75 per cent of the income of the owners of large industrial plants and the latter by declaring against a world revolution. Fighting like mad men to avenge the death of Felipe Angeles, 1000 soldiers under command of Francisco Villa fell upon the Eighth regiment of the federal fed-eral army, GTtj men. at Rancho Espejo, and killed all but two. King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena were given an enthusiastic reception re-ception while proceeding from the Querinal to the parliament buildings to participate in the opening session of the Italian parliament. Two hundred soldiers and several high officers of the Mexican federal army have been killed in recent ambuscades am-buscades by Yaqul Indians at Onavas, south of Tonichi. on the Yaqui river, near the eastern border of Sonora. |