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Show lis of a Week iij" CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. 'Happening That Are Mklig History Information Gathered frem All Quarter of the Globe nd Given In Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. x Tho Mountain Suites Telephone & Telegraph company lias made application applica-tion to The public utilities commission to continue the, rates charged for service ser-vice inaugurated by Postmaster General Gen-eral liurleson, .which have been in force since the lines were returned to the company. Members of the Ameircan Legion at Spokane are being sworn In as special jjoHcemun to meet what was declared to be an invasion of 1000 to 2000 members mem-bers of the Industrial Workers of the World, due to arrive from Montana and other parts of the northwest. A flag of the Irish republic was removed re-moved from the automobile of Eamonn de Valera, president of the Irish republic, re-public, at Portland, by request of a party of former service men headed by Ensign A. T. Kurtz. A combined celebration of Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day ami Armistice day, both nationally and internationally, was suggested, in resolutions adopted by tin- A 11 1 1-ri -:i n l-'arni Bureau federation, which adjourned its Chicago session to March :, 1 Tj JO. when a permanent organization will be perfected. For the first time since July 1, when wartime prohibition went into effec-. whiskey openly was sold in Louisville, Ky., on Thursday, without interference! interfer-ence! by the federal authorities. Camp Mills, on Long Island, where the famous Rainbow division trained, has been sold to the Chicago Wrecking company for $281,000. Work will begin be-gin immediately on the dismantling of the cantonment. Two Gorman submarines cut the cable between this country anil England Eng-land just outside New York harbor in the spring of 1918, hut the break was spliced by experts within twelve hours, it has just been announced. WASHINGTON. A maximum wholesale price of 10 cents a pound for all beet sugars at all points in the United States has been established by the department of justice. jus-tice. Despite the high price charged, butter but-ter consumers are in many cases getting get-ting large percentages of water, salt and coloring materials, officials of the bureau of chemistry, agricultural department, de-partment, announce. The design for the "Victory Medal" to be given to every American who took part in the world war, has been approved by Secretary Baker. James E. Frazier, a New York sculptor, designed de-signed the medal, which will be bronze about the size of a silver dollar. Railway workers scored a complete victory in the house on Friday through incorporation of their plan for voluntary volun-tary conciliation of labor dispiites in the Esch bill. The reservation to article X of the league of nations covenant was adopted adopt-ed Thursday by the senate, with a majority ma-jority of thirteen votes. The roll call showed forty-six senators voting on the reservation and thirty-three against it, all the negative votes being cast by Democrats. - The war department has received 40,000 requests from relatives for return re-turn of the bodies of soldier dead in France, Col. E. W. Anderson, assistant city attorney of Richmond, Va., told the house foreign affairs committee. FOREIGN. A bureau to promote tourist travel from Europe to America will be opened in Paris shortly, according to an announcement an-nouncement made at the annual meeting of the superintendents of national na-tional parks at Denver. Countess Leo Toltsoi, idow of the famous Russian novelist, died at Yas-naya Yas-naya Poliana, November 4, according to a dispatch from Helsingfors. Pan-German students refused to permit per-mit Field Marshal von Hindenburg tv enter the Reichstag building to testify before the subcommittee which is investigating in-vestigating war responsibilities, and foced the field marshal's chauffeur to return with the former commander in chief to his home. The delay in ratifying the peace treaty is keeping 1600 soldiers of the American army of .occupation from marrying German girls to whom they are engaged, says a Paris dispatch. The frozen bodies of several Austrian Aus-trian artillerymen perfectly preserved, have been discovered by St. Bernard dogs in an alpine trench near the summit sum-mit of Stelvio pass, about 10,000 feet above sea level. Monopolies oa tobacco, mining and forest concessions are being sought in Ecuador by Italy, according to a cable-em cable-em m received from Ecuador. The Spokane railroad machinists' union, with a membership said to number num-ber 300, have voted to strike unless recent wage demands of 80 cents an hour are granted in the present conference of railroad craftsmen with Director General Hines. Fifty alleged I. W. W. members were arrested at Seattle on November 12. The arrests at Seattle brought the total for the state of Washington on that date to 107. It is believed a number num-ber of those arrested will be deported. Four returned soldiers were killed and six others wounded when a volley of shots was poured from the I. W. W. headquarters building as the returned soldiers were marching through the streets at Centralia, Wash., on Armis-' Armis-' tice day. Sixteen suspects have been caught. DOMESTIC. Machinery for industrial justice which would prevent the interruption of services ser-vices essential to the community was advocated by Charles E. Hughes in an address at Pittsburg on "the antidote for Bolshevism," at the World's Christian Christ-ian Citizenship conference. An average increase of 40 per cent In the salaries of Methodist ministers throughout the country to meet the mounting cost of living and establishment establish-ment of "minimum salaries" is announced an-nounced by the centenary conservation committee of the Methodist Episcopal church. Guided by an opinion rendered recently re-cently by State Attorney General U. S. Webb, the ctate board of education has rejected a plan submitted by Aumond C. David of Brawley, Imperial county, California, for teaching of Bible lessons les-sons in the public schools of California. An unmasked bandit entered the Trinity County bank at Weaverville, Cal., locked the cashier in a vault and departed with between $12,000 and $15,000. Following the entry of a decree in the United States court enjoining federal fed-eral officers from enforcing the war prohibition law, saloons in Providence, K. I., began at once the sale of 4 per cent beer. The bakers of Havre have decided to close their stores as a protest against the new price officially fixed for the sale of bread. Arrangements have been made to supply the population with bread from army bakeries. A plot has been discovered at Tul-can, Tul-can, Ecuador, to overthrow the government. govern-ment. A store of arms and ammunition ammuni-tion has been captured by the authorities. author-ities. The headquarters of the conspiracy con-spiracy is believed to be in Colombia. Authoritative advices on the Russian Rus-sian military situation show that the anti-Bolshevist forces have been compelled, com-pelled, nearly everywhere, to assume the defensive, owing to the increase in the Bolshevist forces. The former German emperor assumed as-sumed formal possession of the house at Doom, Holland, which he purchased some time ago, when the keys were handed over to him Friday of last week. The fall of I.snnee Paderwski as premier of Poland is rendered imminent. immi-nent. The peace conference has been notified that he will be replaced at conference meetings by Stanlius Patek, illness being given ns t lie cause. The disappoaranee of young white children who are believed to have been carried off by negroes and sacrificed in Voodoo rites has greatly excited public pub-lic opinion in Cuba, and for the first time since the cessation of Spanish rule cases of lynching have occurred. Open rebellion has broken out in the army of Admiral Kolchak, says a message mes-sage just received at Tokio, direct from Omsk. Kolchak's soldiers are murdering many of their officers while retreating, the message states. The British government has no intention in-tention of opening negotiations with the Russian soviet government "until the house of commons has been consulted," con-sulted," Andrew I'.onar Law told that body in answer to queries aho.it Premier Pre-mier Lloyd George's evident reversal of his "hitter end" policy toward 'ho Bolsheviki. Judge Arthur L. Brown in the federal fed-eral district court at Providence, R. I., issued a temporary injunction agninst Harvey, A. Baker, United States attorney, at-torney, and George A. Shaunessy, collector col-lector of internal revenue, restraining theiu from enforcing the provisions of the wartime prohibition act. Senator Thomas S. Martin, the Democratic Dem-ocratic leader in the senate, died at Charlottesville, Ya., November 12, after an illness of several months. He was 72 years old. Dissolution of the American junior naval and marine scouts is announced by the directors as the result of a controversy with the secretary of the navy. A national labor ticket for the coming com-ing presidential election will be nominated nom-inated in Chicago by a convention that will meet November 22, John Fitz-patrick, Fitz-patrick, president of the Chicago Federation Fed-eration of Labor, has announced. F. C. Harley, chairman of the Western West-ern States Agricultural Development committee, in an address before the National Drainage congress, at St. Louis, advocated utilization of Chinese labor to solve the labor problem and reduce the living cost. Mrs. F. W. Woolworth, widow of the late head of the chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, will receive an income of !44.",000 a year from her husband's estate. Plans for saving the lives of 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 American babies in the next six years were outlined in the child welfare wel-fare report adopted at the convention of the National Council of Women at New York. Bettor educational facilities facili-ties were recommended in the report " on education. Judge J. L. Jackson of the Phillips counly circuit court sentenced to electrocution elec-trocution at Little Rock eleven negroes ne-groes recently convicted of murder in ithe first degree in connection with the insurrection at Helena, Ark., of October Oc-tober last. |