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Show n n History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed O : ; & INTER MOUNTAIN. t'api. Walter Pitch of the British mission at Gamp Lewis, veteran of three years' service in Prance, and wearer of the military cross, died of int'hieiivn ai the Camp Lewis base hospital hos-pital Saturday. Backed by iiilornioiint ain capital and business men of standing, the Devils Slide cement plain at Devils Slide, I'tah, is to be converted into one of the biggest potash manufacturing establishments in (he failed Slates. It. B. Halo of San Prancisco has lieen named chairman of (lie campaign which the Ked Gross 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 n fire in the town, resulted in the slopping slop-ping of traffic on the 5Ioffat railroad. The seizure of five trunks, containing contain-ing heavy shipments of whisky and other intoxicating liquors, last week at Ogden promises to bring lo light a well organized gang of bootleggers which, since the first of the year, is believed to have shipped thousands of dollars' worth of liquors, as baggage, from San Prancisco to Salt Lake and Ogden. Prod W. Berger, 00 years old, candidate can-didate on the Democratic ticket for state representative, was shot at Berger, Ber-ger, Idaho, by Frank Dolan, his tenant, ten-ant, and is in a precarious, condition. The shooting grew out of a quarrel over the turning of weeds on the Berger Ber-ger farm. DOMESTIC. The railroad administration has made public a list of twenty-six railroad rail-road companies which apparently are prospering to such an extent that they ure able to turn over surplus earnings to the government administration without with-out asking for a return of part of these -or additional government help. Pour persons chosen from a gathering gather-ing of score or more who attempted to hold a service in the Ninth Church of Christ Scientist at Los Angeles on Sunday Sun-day were placed under arrest by city policemen and charged with violating a health ordinance. A large French trans-Atlantic steamship steam-ship which arrived at an Atlantic port Saturday night came into port with all lights ablaze, the first time in I 'months that this has taken place. 5Iore than a hundred met death at New York when a five-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 ear 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 Electric Railway association associa-tion meeting at New York by Richard MeCulloch, president of the United Railways company of St. Louis. As a result of a controversy between authorities at Lancaster, Pa., 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 quarantine. quaran-tine. Total subscriptions' in the army to the fourth Liberty loan was $75,540,550, the war department announced Friday, complete reports having been received from all forces abroad as well as those in the United States. Elimination of German control over the Hawaiian sugar industry by the purchase by Americans of the powerful power-ful Hackfield company, is announced by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property -custodian. An engineer training camp with accommodations ac-commodations for 16.000 men is to be built at Port Leavenworth, Kami. The war department announces that work will begin at once and will represent an estimated cost of $5,000,000. One policeman was killed and six sailors were dangerously wounded at Norfolk, Va., in a street riot which resulted re-sulted from efforts of policemen to arrest ar-rest a number of sailors on charges of disorderly conduct. 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-after-the-war" convention arranged by the American Manufacturers' Export association and attended by hankers, manufacturers and advertising men from all parts of the country. Emil Moll, under suspcion of being German spy, has been interned at Omaha. Moll was brought from Scott's Bluff, Neb., recently to Omaha, by United States marshals. He was said to have In fii active in German propaganda, propa-ganda, coming from Berlin to assist Bernslorl'f in seditious -.practices throughout the United States in 1010. Pound guilty of saying "President: Wilson ought to be hanged," John1 While, 52 years old, former Justi.-e of the peace at Vickery, O., was sentenced to twenty-one months In the Mounds-ville Mounds-ville penitentiary. Maul, one of (he Hawaiian Islands, Is the first lo report having raised Its quota for the United war work campaign. cam-paign. Immediately following the completion com-pletion and oversubscription of lis Liberty Lib-erty loan quota it started on Its united war work campaign and went over the lop. Demobilization of the American force In Prance will require a period of two years after pence Is declared, according to a statement made at New York by Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont, just back from a two months' visit to the wesiern front. An average wage increase of $1 a day has been granted anthracite coal miners by Fuel Administrator Garfield, effective November 1. In some Instances In-stances the increase' is ,below this figure and in others far above It. The $1 average is described as very general. WASHINGTON. Draft calls for the mobilization of -PO.TTo additional men at army training train-ing camps before November -1 were announced Saturday by Provost 51ar-shal 51ar-shal General Crowder. Congress seems at lasl about to make the Grand Canyon of Arizona a national na-tional park. For years the canyon has been quite generally regarded as a park, but officially it Is a section of two national forests, a game refuge and a national monument. Three and a half million Ions of coal have been saved In the past six months by Industrial plants which have adopted (he conservation recouimeuda-(ions recouimeuda-(ions of the fuel ndiniiiislralion. Orders for ;i,000,000.(HR cigarels, enough lo 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 be guilty of dealing with corporations in which they were financially Interested Inter-ested is to be 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 tin allied fleet, if it has not already started soon will pass through to the Black sea to attack the German naval forces there. FOREIGN. An armistice has been signed with Austria, and thus Germany loses her last supporter. The surrender of Austria Aus-tria leaves the road open from the south, and with the continued successes suc-cesses on the western front, final victory vic-tory over Germany may come soon. There are 17,000 Austrian and German Ger-man prisoners in Siberian camps, says a semiofficial announcement. Besides, many who deserted the concentration camps when the Bolsheviki gained the political control in Russia have not returned. re-turned. Substituting olive oil for lard and sweet condensed milk for sugar, utilizing util-izing an abandoned German kitchen, and in one instance making a bonfire in a field, three American women on the St. 5Iihiel front have been frying 10,000 doughnuts a day. Valenciennes was' captured by the British on November 2, releasing thousands thous-ands of residents who had heen in bondage for four years. Dozens of trunks bearing the royal Hohenzollern monogram have been arriving ar-riving in the past week at the luxurious luxur-ious chateau named "Buchas" on the Lake of Zug. The chateau, which is flying the German flag, is the property of Baron von Kleist, a German. Italian and allied forces in their drive in northern Italy have captured 100,000 Austro-Hungarians, the Italian war office announced Sunday. 5Iore than 2200 guns have been taken. Marked progress by the Belgian army is indicated by the latest report from Belgian headquarters. The Belgians Bel-gians have reached the west bank of the canal which runs between Ghent and Neuzen in a northerly direction, and thereby have redeemed a further large section of that country. Germany's armies are unbeaten, according ac-cording to a German divisional staf officer recently taken prisoner on the French front, and Germany's request for an armistice was the result of the influence which pessimists have gained in the government and over the emperor. em-peror. A Tamplco, Mex., dispatch says the influenza epidemic there is the worst scourge that has 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 a't 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 (o cross the fighting line for preliminary pourparlers with the Italian Ital-ian commander, according to the official offi-cial announcement at Vienna. It is officially admitted in the German Ger-man capital, -according to 1 dispatch from Berlin to the Exchange Telegraph company by way of Amsterdam, that serious damage lias been done to the city of Heidelberg, in Baden, by the allied air raid. There were some casualties. cas-ualties. The Berlin Lokal Anzeiger announces that former Chancellor 'Dr. von Bcthnmnn Holhveg will be arraigned before a parliamentary commission acting as a high tribunal to explain why President Wilson's peace mediation offer in 10.10 failed. The Two. There were two inseparable companions compan-ions By name, Opportunity and Responsibility. Respon-sibility. Almost daily they walked together. One morning Opportunity quickened her pace and outwent her Companion. And always Responsibility followed. But on rare days, Responsibility set the pace And then Opportunity fairly ran to catch up. Savannah News. Harrowing. "Don't you think her voice ought to be cultivated?" 'Ho ; I think it should be harvested." |