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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEO EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM-IZED ITEM-IZED FORM 1 Horn and Foreign Newt Gather From All Quarter of the World, and Prepared for Duty Mtn INTERMOUNTAIN. Joseph V. Smith, president Of the Church of Jeans Christ of Lnttcr-duy Saints, died nt Halt Lake City, Novem-tier Novem-tier II), following mi Illness of several months, having recently celebrated his eightieth anniversary. St. Peter's mission, located In the llocky mountains on the rod between Grout Kails and llclenn, Mont., was Imrned to the ground enrly Sunday According to It. II. Smith, cntomol-oglst cntomol-oglst of tho statu university, clover fields iirotind Twin Fulls, Idnho, lire Infested with aphis', mid he udvlses grazing to eliminate tho pest. M. S. ltrownlng, n brother of John M. Ilrownlng, Inventor of tho imiclilno pms used by thu nrniy, bus left Ogden, Ulnli. for Hurt ford, Conn., for ii conference regarding the future or-tiers or-tiers for the Rims. It wiih stated thnt tho government intends to continue the manufacture of tiio innchltio guns to fill tho orders. A victim of either murder or sulcldo, probably suicide, Miss Marlon Itowlcy, i!0 years old, n beautiful girl whose lioine Is In Iloulder, Colo., was found dead with n bullet bole In her bend at a small hotel In Denver. Secretary I-nno announced Saturday that approximately 1,100.000 acres of land were designated during October for entry under the stockrnlslng iiomcstead law. Tho lands are located In Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and "Wyoming. Thu total area now dcslg-nated dcslg-nated an stockrnlHlng land amounts to otiproxlmatcly 10,010,000 acres. DOMESTIC. Nineteen distilleries, with their nt-tached nt-tached warehouses' and u lurgo number of widely known brands and trade-jnarks, trade-jnarks, properties of thu Kentucky DIs-tlllerles DIs-tlllerles and WarehotiMo coinimny, with m esllmnted valuation of upwards of $5,000,000 wero sold at public auction ttt Louisville, Ky for"203,000. Supplies of grain held In elevators, which will b available to meet tho needs of this country, as welt ns to nld K, Europe, arc far greater tnanlicy were The government bun. relinquished all Interest In tho big explosive plant nt Nltro, W. Vn., by turning control over to tho Hercules l'owdur company, which had charge of manufacture thcro for several months. The recent epidemic ot Influenza In tho United States caused more deaths . than occurred among tho American ox- ju'dltlonury forces from ull causes from the time thu first unit landed In fl Franco until liostllltles ceased. Fred Fulton of Minnesota, tme-tlnio claimant for heavyweight champion-fihlp champion-fihlp honors, wan given u decision over , Sailor Wllllo Mcehiin ot Snn Francisco ut tho conclusion of a four-round con-test. con-test. H. was one' of tho fiercest bouts ever witnessed In San Francisco. Colonel ltoosovclt has authorized thu announcement tluit ho and Mrs. Jtoosovclt would visit tho grave of their son, IJeutcniint Quentln llooso-velt, llooso-velt, In France, at thu spot where ho fell after Ills nlrplano hud been shot down by tho Oermuns, Itallroad telegraphers' wnges were advanced by order of Director General McAdoo qn November 10, 13 cents per Jiour above tl rate prevailing Inst Junuury with a minimum of 18 cents fl per hour, rctroactivo to October 1. , Samuel (tampers, pre3hjcnt of tho American Federation of Labor, In tho closing hours of tho I'mi-Amerlcan la-tior la-tior conference at I-nredo, Tex., served formal wurnliig thnt no general reduc-tlon reduc-tlon of wages nor Increase In working liours utter tiio war would be accepted i without u bitter fight by organized Tho victory colebratlon killed the -HpiuiIhU Influcpzn. Tliat Is thu opinion tof high medical authorities In Wash-Ington, Wash-Ington, It Is admitted that suggestion may havo hud something to do with It, but It Is contended Unit physlologl-cal physlologl-cal rather than psychological reasons chouhl receive the credit. for rendering tho disease germs Innocuous. When tho city council of Long Bench. Cal., attempted to muko kUslng In public a misdemeanor It acted arhl-trarlly arhl-trarlly and' In violation of tho constl-tutlon, constl-tutlon, according to n decision rendered by Superior Judge Franklt. Willis. Kxten8lon to November SO ot tho time In which Christmas parcels will bu accepted for mailing to membors of tho American expeditionary forces In Franco Is' announced by the postofflcu mid war departments. Kdwnrd N. Hurley, ch'Alriiuin ot tho United 'States shipping board, nil-nmmced nil-nmmced Friday on the We of his dc-purturu. dc-purturu. for Kuropu that the govern-meiit govern-meiit Intends to returito this country speedily a largo part of Ameiicnu ei:-jiedltlonury ei:-jiedltlonury forces. Slilpb'ulldln'g In' this country is to bo continued steadily, but the program of tho shipping hoard, liasijd on war needs,- will bo revised and designs for ships will bo chausc'U with refcrenco to economical cost ot operation .Chairman Hurley said, outlining the gourd's vaco titno ulans. Bt- v All cadet aviators now In training In' tho United States will bo given the option op-tion of Immediate discharge without commissions or of completing their training. Hallway earning' in September were $110,000,000 less than In August, but were slightly greater thou those in the samc iiionth Inst year. At least live persons wc known to have been killed and probably a score of otbers injured, several. seriously, In n riot nt West Salem, N. U, which resulted re-sulted from the efforts of n mob of several, tltqusand men to storm tho city halt and lynch n negro accused of shooting J. K. Childress nnd Sheriff Flynt nnd nttocWng Mrs. Childress. Minnesota will remain vt, complete official returns announced by tho Secretary of State showing that the proposed dry amendment to the stnte constitution failed by TOO votci nt the general election November 5. WASHINGTON. President Wilson will attend the opening sessions of tho imjucc conference- This was announced Monday. Ho will go Immediately after thu convening con-vening of the regular session of congress con-gress on December 2. After n futile protest by Democratic senators, (leorge IL Moses wan sworn In November 18, ns senator from New Hulnpshlru to succeed tho. Into Jacob H. (Julllngcr. The, protest was voiced by Senator Poinereno of Ohio, chairman chair-man of the committee on privileges and elections, with .whom notice of a contest con-test of Moses' election has been filed. The direct cost of the war for all belligerent nations to lust May 1, was reported, at about ?17r),000,000,000 by the federal reserve board bulletin Issued Is-sued November 18, nnd It is estimated the cost will amount to nearly $200,-000,000,000 $200,-000,000,000 before the end ot this' year. Movement of American troops across thu Atlantic has stopped entirely and demobilization of troops In cantonments canton-ments and camps ut home Is under way. I'rovost Ocnornl Crowder has ordered or-dered the discontinuance of all physical phys-ical examinations of draft registrants and of all work by district draft boards on the classification of registrants. regis-trants. Arrangements for bringing home the troops In France are being worked out rapidly from u shipping point of view, thu shipping board announced Saturday, Satur-day, In Issuing a call for COO volunteers to mair the ships that will bu utcd for that purpose. FOREIQN. The American troops participating In the expeditions in llusshi by wuy of Archangel and Vladivostok are equipped equip-ped In thu most complete manner to resist the northern cold. King Ferdlnund HI of Saxony, who held out to thu lust against the uu-tlon-wldu clamor In Genonny for tho elimination of all kings nnd princes, bnt abdicated, it is officially announced an-nounced from Berlin. This makes tho fourth of tho German "kingdoms king-less," king-less," Prussia, Uavnrla and Wurttein-burg Wurttein-burg having been proclaimed republics repub-lics in the early phase of tho revolution. revolu-tion. ICinpcror Charles has specifically relinquished re-linquished tho throuu ot Hungary, according ac-cording to a dispatch received from Budapest. Two hundred cadets nnd 103 otlucr sailors on the German training ship Schleslen were drowned when sho was sunk by two German buttlcshlps flying fly-ing tho red flag. Count Wllhelm Holienzollern Is now nearly broke except or considerable property In tho United States and Canada, held In unother person's name, tho Dally Kxpress Is Informed by Ita Amsterdam correspondent. Tiw Urltish government is arranging arrang-ing for tho departure to the United Suites of a number of German vosscIh for tho purposo of bringing to Germany Ger-many foodstuffs which tho ullles will permit Germany to receive. It Is learned upon the best authority author-ity thnt former Crown Prince Fred-crick Fred-crick William of Germany and twelve officers hnvo been grunted safo residence resi-dence by the governor of Llinburg ut Maastrlctt Holland. Dr. aiatthlas Krzberger, who was the civilian head of tho German armistice arm-istice commission, will be Germany's' representative In tho preliminary pence negotiations, In conjunction with Dr. W. S. Solf, tho foreign minister. "Holland Is our Kllia," said a German Ger-man In tho entourage of tho kaiser In conversation with a Dutch official, according ac-cording to the Amsterdam correspondent correspon-dent of tho Kxpress. Fearing tho wrath of tho Germun people Grand Admlrnl von Tlrpltz, former .German minister ot murine, lied from Germany Just before- the revolution, presumably on advance notification. The Frankfurter Zel-tung Zel-tung says he Is now lu Switzerland. Developments In I'Juropo, not only military but In International politics, and tho tendency of the revolutionary spirit manifested by tho demoralized civilian population of tho central empires em-pires to spread to neighboring states, have Influenced the allied and American Ameri-can governments to nrraiigu for tho meeting nt uu early date of tho great peace congress. The demoralization of the Gorman nriiiy b Increasing hourly. Urussols uiparcntly has been given over to mob rule. Officers are being shot by tho scores. Prince Frledrlch of Waldeck-Pyr-mont has voluntarily relinquished his government, according to n Itouter dispatch. dis-patch. Wuldcck-Pyniumt; Is ouo of tho smaller states of the Germun empire. Mr. Cllnes, llrltlbli food controller, speaking In parliament, declared that victory imposed obligations us well as war and that thoro wAs aliou'l the duty of feeding tho destitute countries. - |