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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed u INTERMOJNTAIN. According to II. II. Smith, ciilomol-oglHt ciilomol-oglHt of the Htnlc university, clover Ileitis around Twin fulls, Idaho, are infested Willi aphis, and he ndvisei grazing to eliminate the post. M. S. J'rownlng, a brother of John M. ltrownlng, Inventor of the machine guns used by I be army, has left Ogden, I'lnli, for llurlford, Conn., for a conference regarding the future orders or-ders for the guns. It was stated that the governmenl Intends p conlinue the manufacture of the machine guns to fill all the orders. A victim of cither murder or suicide, probably suicide, Miss Marlon Kowlcy, L'O years old, a beautiful girl whose bona! Is In l'.oulder, Colo., was found (lead with a bullet bole In her head at a small hotel In I envcr. Secretary Lime announced Saturday that approximately l.llid.OOO acres of land were designated during October for eutry under the stocWruishig homcslcnd law. The lands are located In Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. The tolal area now designated desig-nated as stoeUraislug land amounts to approximately in.GHi.OOO acres. Influenza epidemic conditions remain unchanged In I'tdb. as far as the spread of the disease and the setting of a definite date for the opening of places of public assemblage are concerned. con-cerned. All shipment of troops from Camp Lewis. Wash., have been suspended by orders received there from Washington. Washing-ton. Several hundred men of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth depot brigade, who hail been assigned to other posts, Imt were held because of the Influenza quarantine, are affected. DOMESTIC. The recent epidemic of Influenza in the I'nited States caused more deaths than occurred among the America" expeditionary ex-peditionary forces from nil causes from the time the first unit landed In France until hostilities ceased. 1'red Fulton of Minnesota, one-time claimant for heavyweight ehnmp'on-ship ehnmp'on-ship honors, wag given a decision ever Sailor Willie Median of San Francisco ut the conclusion of a four-round con-te-st. It was one of the fiercest bouts ever witnessed In San Francisco. Colonel Roosevelt has authorized the announcement that he and Mrs. Roosevelt would visit the grave of their son. Lieutenant Quomin Roosevelt, Roose-velt, in France, at the spot where be fell after his airplane had been shot down by the Germans. Railroad telegraphers" wages were advanced by order, of Director General McAdiH) on November 10, 13 cents per hour above the rate prevailing last January with a minimum of 4S cen's per hour, retroactive to October 1. Samuel (iompers, president of tb" American Federation of Labor, in Unclosing Un-closing hours of the 1'un-Aniericnn labor la-bor eiference at Laredo, Tex., served formal warning that no general reduction reduc-tion of wages nor increase in working hours after the war would be accepted without a bitter fight by organized labor, The victory celebration killed the Spanish influenza. That is the opinion of high medical authorities in Washington. Wash-ington. It is admitted that suggestion may have had something to do with It, but it is contended that physiological physiologi-cal rather than psychological reasons should receive the credit for rendering the disease germs Innocuous. Mrs. Mary Simpson, a widow, was killed, and twelve persons were injured in a tornado which swept through Prague, causing property damage estimated es-timated at $00,000. Excessive quantities of trinitrotoluol and other explosives, as well as finished fin-ished shells were stored not .only in magazines, but in freight ears about the plant of the T. A. Gillespie shell loading load-ing plant at Morgan last month when the plant was wrecked by an explosion explo-sion which killed nearly 100 men, according ac-cording to evidence submitted. When the city council of Long Reach, Cal., attempted to make kissing in public a misdemeanor it acted arbitrarily arbi-trarily and In violation of the constitution, consti-tution, according to a decision rendered by Superior Judge Frank!!. Willis. Irving Morgan was convicted of second sec-ond degree murder in Shelby county circuit court at ShclbyvHIe, Ills., for the murder of his wife. Morgan threw his wife from a ear window. Extension to November .'!() of the time in which Christmas parcels will be accepted for mailing to members of the American expeditionary forces in France is announced by the postol'I'ice and war departments. Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping board, announced an-nounced Friday on the eve of his departure de-parture for Europe that the government govern-ment intends to return to this country speedily a large part of American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces. Shipbuilding in this country is to be continued steadily, but the program of the shipping board, based on war needs, will be revised and designs, for ships will be changed with reference to economical cost of operation, Chairman Hurley said, outlining the board's peace time plans. At least live persons lire known to have been killed and probably a score of others Injured, Hcvcral Horloiinly, In a riot at Wesl Salem, N. C, which resulted re-sulted from the efforts of a mob of several thousand men lo Hlorm the city hall and lynch a negro licensed of shooting J. E. ChlldroH.s and Sheriff Fl.vnl and attacking Mrs. Childress. .Minnesota will remain wet, complete official rclurns announced by the Secretary of Slale showing that the proposed dry amendmenl to the slate consl It ill Ion failed by 7o(I voles al the general election November f. American copper Industry through a commltl f producers and refiners have agreed with the war Industries board lo maintain the present rale of ire I uc I loll and preserve existing levels of prices and wages. WASHINGTON. .Movement of American iroups across the Atlantic has Hlnppod entirely and demoblllza I Ion of Iroops In i n nl on-mollis on-mollis and camps at home is under I way. I'rovosl General Crowder has ordered or-dered the discontinuance of all physical phys-ical examinations id' draft registrants and of all wink by district draft boards on the classification of registrants. regis-trants. The suffragiHts still need one vote to pass the Susan I!. Anthony amendment amend-ment through the senate. They have 100 days left In which to secure this vote before the -present congress ends. If favorable action Is not secured by March I, the measure will have to be put through the house again. Arrangements for bringing home the troops In France are being worked out rapidly from a shipping point of view, the shipping board announced Saturday, Satur-day, In issuing a call for olio volunteers to man the ships thai will be used for that purpose. Downward revision of the war revenue reve-nue bill to about the six billion dollar total recommended by Secretary Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo appears to be assured. Regardless of the ending of hostilities hostil-ities Director General McAdoo Intends to continue to unify railroad operations anil poc facilities throughout the period per-iod of government control, which under the law will cad twenty-one months after peace is formally declared. FOREIGN. King Ferdinand III of Saxony, who held (Hit to the last against the nation-wide clamor in Germany for the elimination of all kings and princes, has abdicated. It is officially announced an-nounced from I'.eilin. This makes the fourth of the German "kingdoms king-less,'" king-less,'" I'russia, Ravaria and Wurttem-burg Wurttem-burg having been proclaimed republics repub-lics in the early phase of the revolution. revolu-tion. Emperor Charles has specifically relinquished re-linquished the throne of Hungary, according ac-cording to a dispatch received from I'.udapest. Two hundred cadets and Hl3 other sailors on the German training ship Scblesien were drowned when she was Slinky by two German battleships flying fly-ing the red flag. Count Wilhelm Hohenzollern Is now nearly broke -except for considerable property in the I'nited States and Canada, held in another person's name, the Daily Express is informed by its Amsterdam correspondent. The Rritish government is arranging arrang-ing for the departure to the United States of a number of German vessels for the purpose of bringing to Germany Ger-many foodstuffs which the allies will permit Germany fo receive. It is learned upon the best authority author-ity that former Crown I'rince Frederick Fred-erick William of Germany and twelve officers have been granted safe residence resi-dence by the governor of Limburg at Muastrict, Holland. Dr. Matthias Erzberger, who was the civilian head of the German armistice arm-istice commission, will be Germany's' representative in the preliminary peace negotiations, in conjunction with Dr. W. S. Solf, the foreign minister. "Holland is our Elba." said a German Ger-man in the entourage of the kaiser in conversation with a Dutch official, according ac-cording to the Amsterdam correspondent correspon-dent of the Express. Fearing the wrath of the German people, Grand Admiral von Tirpifz. former German minister of marine, (led from Germany just before the revolution, presumably on advance notification. The Frankfurter Zei-tung Zei-tung says he is now in Switzerland. Developments in Europe, not only military but in international politics, and the tendency of the revolutionary spirit manifested by the demoralized civilian population of the central empires em-pires to spread to neighboring states, have influenced the allied and American Ameri-can governments . to arrange for the meeting at an early date of the great peace congress. The armistice terms imposed upon the Turkish war forces in Mesopotamia, as officially announced 'comprises: Evacuation of the Musel Villayet. Surrender Sur-render of artillery, supplies and ammunition. am-munition. Rrilish control of Mosul. Evacuation of the Chueasus and northwestern north-western l'ersia. Turkish withdrawal from Syria and Galicia and demobilization demobil-ization in a westward direction. Fran-co-I!riiish occupation of Aiexandretta. The demoralization of the German army is increasing hourly. Brussels apparently has been given over to mob rule. Officers are being shot by the scores. I'rince Friedrich ot Waldeck-Pyr-mont has voluntarily relinquished his government, according to a Renter dispatch. dis-patch. Waldeck-I'yrmont is one of the smaller states of the German empire. Mr. Clines, British food controller, speaking in parliament, declared that victory imposed obligations as well as war and that there was ahead the duty of feeding the destitute countries. |