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Show NEWS OF A WEEKF CONDENSED FORM FtECORO OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. i. ...1. ...1 i... i.,i..,-,,,,,itiitnlii i-iinllnl mill U uj urn "in 1 business men of si uiidint;, tin' lievils Slide cement plunl at lievils Slide, I'tiili, Is to le converted into one of the liluKest potush niiiiiuftii'turini; e.stiibliKlitnetits in the United States. R. 15. Hale of San Francisco lias hecn named chairman of the eiimmi(rii which the lied Cross will conduct in California, Cali-fornia, Arizona and Nevada during the week of December Hi for new members. A heavy snowfall at Corona, Colo., on the Continental divide, followed by 11 fire in the town, resulted in the stop-pint; stop-pint; of traffic on the Moffat railroad. The seizure of five trunks, contain-iuu contain-iuu heavy shipments of whisky and oilier Intoxicating liquors, last week at linden promises to brlnK to litfht u well organized gang of bootleggers which, since the lirst of the year, is believed to have shipped thousands of dollars' worth of liquors, as baggage, from San Francisco to Salt Lake and Ogdon. Fred W. I'.erger, (id years old, candidate can-didate on the Democratic ticket for slate representative, was shot nt Her-ger, Her-ger, Idaho, by Frank Dolan, ids ten-mit ten-mit ..ml i iii 11 iiroonrious condition. The shooting grew out of a quarrel over the turning of weeds on the Merger Mer-ger farm. J. W. and V. A. Alexander, brothers, broth-ers, who had left Duchesne, Utah, for the railroad with a shipment of cattle, were found dead in a tent after some of the stock had wandered into a nearby town. Both had died from influenza. in-fluenza. DOMESTIC. More than a hundred met death at New York when a live-car train running run-ning at high speed in a tunnel jumped the track on a curve and struck the sidewall with such terrific force that the first car was demolished and the others "buckled" until they were jammed against the roof of the tunnel. Public ownership of street railways as a solution of present "unprecedented conditions" was advocated before the American Klectric Railway association associa-tion meeting at New York by Kicliard McCulloch, president of the United Railways company of St. Louis'. As a result of a controversy between authorities at Lancaster, 1'a., and the acting state health commissioner over the refusal to obey an order keeping the saloons closed because of the influenza in-fluenza epidemic, the commissioner declared de-clared that city to be under quaran- 1 lilt:. Declaring that the action of Fuel Administrator (iarfield in refusing to permit the bituminous coal miners of the country to have an increase in wages is arbitrary, autocratic and unfair, un-fair, the United Mine Workers of America have appealed to President Wilson from the fuel administrator. Claiming that an S-cent fare is necessary to meet the incdeased wages granted their employes by the war labor la-bor board, the Kansas City Railways company has asked the federal court for relief. Total subscriptions iii the army to the fourth Liberty loan was $7.vr40.5r0, the war department announced Friday, complete reports having been received from all forces abroad as well as those in the United States. Elimination of Gorman control over the Hawaiian sugar industry by the liurchi.se by Americans of the powerful power-ful Hackfield company, is announced by A. Mitchell l'almer. alien property custodian. Various aspects of America's foreign trade after the war, including questions ques-tions of "financing our foreign operations," oper-ations," "educating our representatives for foreign trade service." foreign advertising, ad-vertising, patents and trademarks, were discussed at New York at the opening of a two-day "prepare-for-nftor-lhe-wur" convention arranged by the American Manufacturers' Export association and attended by bankers, manufacturers and advertising men from all parts of the country. An engineer training camp with accommodations ac-commodations for 1G.IHM) men is to Inbuilt In-built at Fort Leavenworth. Kami. The war department announces tlc.t work will begin ni once and will represent an estimated cost of HVUm One policeman was killed and six sailors were dangerously wounded at Xorf "!',;. '.a.. In a street riot which re-sti'.ti re-sti'.ti I ,'rsmi efforts of polieei.ien to ar-res: ar-res: a i:::;i!ie of sailors on charges of disorderly i-nuiuct. Demobilization of the American j force in France will require a period , of two years after peace b? declared, according to a statement made at New-York New-York by (ien. T. Coleman Du Font, Just hack from a two months' visit to tin- western front. An average wage increase of SI a day has been grunted anthracite coal miners by Fuel Administrator (iarfield. effective November 1. I" some instances in-stances the increase is below this figure and In others far above it. The .SI average is described as very general. Three hundred and forty-three persons, per-sons, most of them outbound Alaskans ami residents of the Yukon territory, lost their lives when the Canadian Pacific Sleamshij) company's passenger passen-ger steamer Princess Sophia was battered bat-tered by storms, dropped to the bottom bot-tom of Lynn canal, an arm of the Inside In-side Passage not far south of Skag- way, Alaska. WASHINGTON. Three and a half million tons of coal have been saved in the past six months by industrial plants which have adopted the conservation recommendations recommenda-tions of Hie fuel administration. Orders for :!,00.00(UNX) cigarets, enough to provide two smokes for every person In the world, have been placed by the war department to supply sup-ply American soldiers for the balance of the year. Prosecution of the three army officers offi-cers held by Charles E. Hughes in his report on the aircraft investigation to he guilty of dealing with corporations in which they were financially interested inter-ested is to he started without delay. Announcement from London that an armistice with Turkey, which permits passage of allied warships through the Dardanelles, already is in operation led naval officers at Washington to believe that an allied fleet, if it has not already started soon will pass through to the Black sea to attack the Gorman naval forces there. The sugar allowance of two pounds i,Ai,ulirtlilpvs lias nioniin.v a peiiui awi been increased to three pounds monthly by Food Administrator Hoover, effective effec-tive at once. The sugar regulations also are revised to permit the purchase of the entire month's supply for a family at one time. FOREIGN. It is officially admitted in the German Ger-man capital, according to a dispatch from Berlin to the Exchange Telegraph company by way of Amsterdam, that serious damage has been done to the city of Heidelberg, in Baden, by the allied air raid. There were some casualties. cas-ualties. A Tampico, Mex., dispatch says the influenza epidemic there is the worst' scourge that 1ms ever visited the city, nearly 100 death occurring daily. Mexican federal troops were defeated by a superior force of Villa followers forty miles south of the border, according accord-ing to a report brought to Ojinaga by a runner sent out by the federal commander. An armistice between Turkey and the entente powers was signed October Octo-ber 30. It became operative at noon October 31. This means that nearly two million Turks are out of the war, and a new avenue of attack upon Germany is opened up. An Austrian deputation has been permitted to cross tne itgnting nue mr preliminary pourparlers with the Italian Ital-ian commander, according to the official offi-cial announcement at Vienna. The German empress is very ill and weak, according to a Berne dispatch to the Petit Journal. It is said that she is haunted by the memory of the Russian Rus-sian revolution, and insists upon abdication abdi-cation of the emperor. That immediate release of all British prisoners will be insisted on by the government as part of armistice terms is expected at London. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger announces that former Chancellor Dr. von Iiethmann Hollweg will be arraigned before a parliamentary commission acting as a high tribunal to explain why l'resident Wilson's peace mediation offer in 1916 failed. The Bolshevik! have decided to hold a "Bartholomew night" on November 10, when "all members of the upper classes will lie killed," according to i?iwimi advices. An indescribable panic reigns at Petrograd. Some conception of what Australia has done in the war and of the losses sustained by the commonwealth can be gained from figures which have just been issued officially. Out of a population of i.000.000. Australia has sent abroad S:!6.000 men. The total casualties numbered 21X1.101, including ri4.4.'U dead. Recruiting in Australia is now at tile rate of 4'J40 a mouth. As part of the terms of an armistice. I lie London Evening News says it understands un-derstands the allied nations will insist upon the surrender of the German fleet, including all the German suh- marines, and upon the occupation by I allied forces of all the fortified towns on the Rhine. In recognition of his services to the allied cause and as a mark of respect . ! and honor the municipal g-iver::uient i of Lisbon lias voted unanimously to ' : name one of the city's im.st .r miiieni j highways after l'resident Y iN.ui. |