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Show fl ECO R D OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN D R I E F EST MANNER POSSIBLE, Happening Tht Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTER MOUNTAIN. Secretary Charles 1 . (ircenflolil of the Montana stale council of defense has reeolveil a oopy of a resolution the national council of defense will miliinil to the coming session of the state legislature leg-islature 'asking that the slate eounell he continued in existence to assist In post-war reconstruction ami In tlo-mohlllitatlon tlo-mohlllitatlon of military forces. CaJtle shipments from the state of Montana for 1!MS will exceed all previous pre-vious records hy ahout 100,000 heads, according to a statement made ut the headquarters of the Itocky Mountain division of tlie Northern l'aclflc railroad rail-road here. It was stated thai the year's record la estimated at approximately 4,0.(HH1 head, a large percentage of which came from western Molilalia markets. Twenty cars from Hamilton, 1-1 from hall and eight from I'hillps-fonrg I'hillps-fonrg were sti-rtcd for Chicago in one day. l.ieut. A. if. Iloghmd, flying officer of Mather field. Oil., and aerial mail pathfinder, arrived at Ktlgene, Ore., after covering a 41."i-niile lap of his lourncv from Sacramento. Oil., to So- YViislilnglun formally hecinne a "bono dry" stale at midnight Wednesday iiIkIi! with tin- Issuance of a proclamation procla-mation Wednesday hy (lo "eruor limest I.lslcr aiuioiiiichig the ptissngi- at tho I N i ' . -i n 1 1 1 -1- election of llic proh ili I Inn rcl'ei eihluin. This hrlugs ilel'lnttc end lo the liquor penult system which was nullified hy Hie stale leg I s 1 ; 1 1 in e. WA5HINCT0N. All llubllllles I'onlucted hy Ihe Itus-slim Itus-slim government, exeepi llni-v maiti! hy the Itol.sliev llil regime, arc recog-nl.'eil recog-nl.'eil hy llic all llusslan goverjiuiciit in Omsk anil will he evecuted hy It, m-cordlii m-cordlii lo a s I a ( i 'i in -ii ( nut hnri.cd HJ the iiilnh.liy ut' foreign allairs and received re-ceived in Washington. Any aelliiii looking to ll demiuiil on Holland for the exl radi I Ion of William nolien.ollerii will he held In ah( yanco until 1'resldenl Wilson leaches I'u-rope, I'u-rope, nccorillng lo liilornialloii at tho ! slate department. The ltrlllsh ami ' French governments already huvo hceli examining Into the legal quea-I quea-I Hons which might he Involved In any 'efforts to hrlng the fornix" kulsec to ' trial. I A petition from clll.ens of Korea requesting the American goveriiinciit ' to act toward enforcement of an old treaty giinraiilec'.iig Korea autonomy, tree from domination hy Japan, was laid on the table hy the senate foreign i relations commit ! ee. Buenos Aires newspapers are lamenting la-menting Argent ilia's posillon, as a result re-sult of her neutrality in the world war. IHiirlo refers to the gnat pence ; celebrations as "a Jordan. In which the public onselcnce has washed itself ot the Infamy caused by Argent ilia's of- j fit-In I policy during the war." The royal Montenegrin goveri.iuei.t has Issued a slalcnienl denying the report re-port that King Nicholas lias been deposed. de-posed. Charles It. 1'i.lge of California has been nominated by President Wilson to succeed himself as a member of the I'nlted States shipping board. little, Wash., in six hours and fifty live minutes actual flying time. - Extension of the Influenza ban to I forbid public dances, mass meetings, community singing, conventions and crowding In theatre lobbies was announced an-nounced at Seattle by the city health . officer. Theatres and churches will emain open. j DOMESTIC. I Mrs. John Luew, wife of the actor ! and herself an actress until her mar- tluge, is dead In New York. Her 1 hcaith had failed a year ago. i James Wickersham, Republican, was elected Alaskan delegate in lOin hy a plurality of 17 votes over Charles A. Sulzer, Democrat, the house elections elec-tions committee formally reported in deciding the election contest. Mr. Sulzer obtained a certificate of elec- tlon after court litigation In 1017 nun since then has occupied the seat. I Railway officials believe that the ' annual Montana excursion to California j may be held this year us usual, nl- ; though federnl orders to this effect have not been received. It is explained ! that the government has authorized some eastern lines to Issue Holiday and excursion rates and it is believed I that after the war burden has been I lifted from the railways, some of the ! restrictions and priority orders may he removed. Arriving on the Jefferson golf links about two miles south of the Seattle business district, Lieut. A. F. Hogland, army aviator, completed the first airplane air-plane flight ever made between Sacramento Sacra-mento and Seattle. His flying time for 'he entire distance, about 090 miles in an air line, was 12 hours nnd 22 minutes. min-utes. Exportation of wheat flour to the West Indies, Mexico and Central and South America will now he permitted under license, Is announced by the war trade board, after consultation l w ith the food administration. Licenses will be granted when npproved by the grain corporation. More than 5000 American soldiers living at New l'ork on Wednesday iroin England on the transport Lapland Lap-land and Minuekahdu shared as a part of their homecoming reception the tremendous tre-mendous ovation given President Wilson Wil-son us he sailed for France on the George Washington to help seal tlieir victory at the peuce table. Executives of railroads comprising more than DO per cent of the rail mileage mile-age of the country, in conference at New York, adopted a resolution favoring favor-ing a return of the roads to private ownership. A wireless appeal for medical aid to check a serious epidemic of influenza ! Ln the Society islands, situated in the ' South Pacific ocean approximately ilOOO miles from Sun Francisco, has been received. The total vote at the California j state election November 5 was 247,,'i-ll! votes less than the total for the guh- ernatorial election in California four years ago. Eleven men comprising the crew of the bow section of the freighter Mineo-la Mineo-la are believed to have been drowned when that section of the boat went down in Lake Ontario, during a terrible blizzard. Because of the influenza epidemic, the annual convention of the Investment Invest-ment Bankers' Association of America, scheduled to be held at St. Louis, has been transferred to Atlantic City, N. J., to be held December 9, 10 and 11, Inclusive. James Orr, for nearly a quarter of a century a guardian of the Liberty Bell in Independence hall, Philadelphia, died Sunday morning from pneumonia. Orr was this city's oldest policeman, both in age and length of service. He was 80 years old nnd was a patrolman for forty-nine years. (leu. John .1. Pershing's account of his stewardship as ooiuuinndi r of the American expeditionary loreis was given to the public December -1 by Seceliiry Baker. It is in the form of a preliminary report to the secretary, secre-tary, covering operations up to Novein- j her 20, alter the German co!lap-e. H closes Willi the highest praise for the officers and men. Fuel Administrator Garfield has resigned re-signed and President Wilson has ac-cepleil ac-cepleil his resignation. This was announced an-nounced Tuesday at the White House. Striking evidence of the preparedness prepared-ness of ihe American government to enter into peace negotiations was given in an announcement Tuesday that twenty-three members of an advisory ad-visory commission of experts who have made a year's study of political and economic conditions in Europe and Asia sailed with President Wilson and his fellow delegates on the George Washington. Peace time readjustment of wages nnd bonuses affecting more than lo.PiiO deck and engine room officers and thousands of seamen and firemen will be considered at u conference in Washington Wash-ington of officials representing the government, the steani'-hip companies and the organizations of officers and men manning the American merchant marine. The resignation of Frank P. Walsh, as Joint chairman of the national war labor hoard, has been accepted by President Wilson and Basil M. Manly has been appointed to fill the vacancy. A bill prohibiting the display of flags or emblems of organizations which espouse es-pouse principles of government antagonistic antag-onistic to the couslituilon of the United Slates has been Introduced by Representative Osborne of California. FOREIGN. The Polish government has sent an ultimatum to Germany asking for the immediate evacuation of polish territory terri-tory by German soldiers, who are said to have been committing atrocities, according ac-cording to (he Geneva Journal. If the German answer is not satisfactory, ills il-ls added, "most energetic measures" will be taken by the Poles. The Berlin government, ncconttiig to the Deutsche Zeitung of Berlin, seriously fears a Bolshevik outhreaic under the leadership of Doctor I.ieli-knecht, I.ieli-knecht, the Radical Socialist. The extremists ex-tremists are said to have a quantity of artillery and munitions concealed. The soldiers and workers council nt Leip.sic lias decided that German general gen-eral headquarters shall be dissolved and Field Marshal Yon Ilindenhurg arrested, ar-rested, according to the Lokal An-zeiger, An-zeiger, of Berlin. The reply of Admiral Beatty, commander com-mander of the British grand fleet, to a request hy Germany for mitigation oi naval terms of the armistice refuses any concession regarding merchant shipping or fishing in the North sea, the Berlin Wolff bureau slates. Madame Catherine Breshvokskaya, "grandmother of the Russian revolution," revolu-tion," is on her way to tlie ; ntteit Stales. Madame Breshkovs;;aya s;.- that on her visit to Washington site desired to meetVrcsid'-nt V 'ilson, :o whom she v'll narrate trie -ondilinna in European Russia and Siteria. Thirty camps have been designated by the war department as demobilization demobiliza-tion centers to which enlisted men are to be transferred for discharge from the army. The camps include Dodge, la..; Grant, 111..; Logan, Tex.; Funsron, Kan.; Kearny, Cal. ; McArthur, Tex.; Pike. Ark.; Bowie, Tex.; Travis, Tex.; Lewis, Wash. The Germans have begun restiution. They have delivered to the allies 300,-000,000 300,-000,000 francs gold, which came from the Russian treasury, according to Paris dispatches. |