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Show 0 ; History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed n INTERMOUNTAIN. Martini liiw has been practically declared de-clared In Wyoming. Brig. (Ion. Ren-iJamln Ren-iJamln Poore, commandant at Fort D. lA. Rus-scll, where 'AM men of the Fifteenth Fif-teenth cavalry are stationed, issued a proclamation on November 1, assuming assum-ing "military control of the state of (Wyoming." Trainmen employed by the Denver Tramway company voted to strike as isoon as authority to do so can be secured se-cured from nutional union officials in Detroit. .'mrtly after the California state senate hail adopted without a dissenting dissent-ing vote a resolution ratifying the federal fed-eral woman's suffrage amendment, the stale assembly adopted a similar resolution reso-lution by a vote of I'.i to 2. Conferences on the furtherance of co-operation between Protestant churches of all denominations are to be held in every state in the union between be-tween December 1 and 111. it is announced an-nounced by .officials of the interchurch world movement. The Association of Men Teachers and Principals of the city of Now York at a special meeting on Saturday voted to petition the hoard of education for permission to volunteer for service in the coal mines during the strike. WASHINGTON. A volunteer force of officers and men who served in the great war, so organized as to preserve war-time designations des-ignations of units, was proposed to the military committees of congress by General Pershing as the basis for a permanent reserve to be maintained in future by universal service. Declaring that the conditions facing the country are far more serious than during the war. the advisorv board Col. W. F. Tucker, retired, former assistant paymaster general of the United Slates army, died at a hos-ipltal hos-ipltal at Hood Kiver, Ore., of acute 'titoiriach trouble. Arthur Holben, H5, who came to fWilcox, Neb., a week ago from his 'home at Tabernash, Colo., shot and killed his wife and then took his own Jife. 1 With Col. George L. Byram in personal per-sonal command, 100 infantrymen from Fort Douglas were dispatched from Salt Lake to Helper, Utah, to meet any contingencies which might arise in the t-oal camps. James M. Smith, Canadian war veteran, vet-eran, was found guilty of murder in f ' the second degree for the killing at Seattle last February of his girl wife, 'Helen. J. Vance Johnson, prominent farmer of the Thomas district, near Black-!foot, Black-!foot, Idaho, is in jail, accused of liaving shot and killed Leon Iteee iUoward, 19 years of age. DOMESTIC. A dying motorman's last act at Edge-water, Edge-water, N. J., was to apply the brakes (to his car lest it coast a precipitous incline on the Hudson Palisades and kill thirty passengers. The passengers found the motorman dead from heart disease. The California land settlement board pnuiounees it has selected a tract of 8000 acres in Merced county to be devoted de-voted exclusively to ex-service men. The land will furnish homes' and ranches for 300 families. Col. James D. Bell, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, Repub-lic, died November 1 at his home in Brooklyn. He was 74 years old. The Liquor Dealers' Protective association as-sociation voted at a meeting at Newark, New-ark, N. J., to ask brewers to discontinue discon-tinue the manufacture of "near-beer," declaring it "an outrage to ask decent people to drink it." Fourteen members of a Hallowe'en v party, including two women, are dead as a result of a crash between a Pennsylvania' Penn-sylvania' railroad train and a large motor truck which was bringing thirty-six masqueraders back to Philadelphia Philadel-phia from an evening party at Billings-port. Billings-port. More than 200 families have been driven from their homes and property damage estimated at more than $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 has been caused by a flood of Green river in Green county, Kentucky. Paul Jones, a negro, accused of attacking at-tacking a white woman near the site of Camp Harris, Georgia, Sunday afternoon, af-ternoon, was lynched by a mob shortly after midnight. Phillip Kellogg, one of the best known live stock commission men in South Omaha, was instantly killed when the automobile in which he was riding collided with another machine. John T. Hutchings of Alamogordo, N. M., was shot and fatally wounded while piloting an automobile in the El Faso-Phoenix cross-country race near Lanmark, N. M. Four men and four women are being held. Hutchings was shot in the back. Mrs. Russell Sage left an estate with a gross value of $40,051,045, according to a report of the slate appraiser made public at New York. Resolutions requesting that the practice prac-tice of importing "picture brides" from Japan to this country be stopped, have been sent by the Japanese Association of America, representing 15,000 Japanese Jap-anese in California, to the Japanese government. Fifty-one acts of heroism were recognized rec-ognized and rewarded by the Carnegie hero fund commission at a meeting held at Pittsburg. In five cases silver medals were awarded ; in forty-six cases bronze medals. Suit to enjoin the government from enforcing the wartime prohibition act and attacking it as unconstitutional, was filed in the United States district court at Chicago by Levy Mayer, coun-isel coun-isel for the distillers. The middleweight catch-as-catch-can title changed hands Thursday, John Kilonis of Manchester, N. II., winning from Ira Dern of Salt Lake in straight falls at Boston. Five million dollars in stolen automobiles auto-mobiles is the record of San Francisco for tin; first five months of the pres. ent year. These are figures compiled by the automobile organizations. Park employes have begun razing "suicide bridge," the high viaduct in Lincoln park, Chicago, from which come forty persons have leaped to death or injury in recent years. of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer;; En-gineer;; lias issued a statement urging urg-ing the immediate assembling in Washington Wash-ington of an industrial commission to remedy existing turbulent conditions. President Wilson by executive order has fixed maximum prices of soft coal. Dissenting in many important respects re-spects from the program recommended by the war department and the general gen-eral staff, General Pershing told the military committees of congress that 300,000 men, raised entirely by voluntary volun-tary enlistment, should be the outside figure considered for a standing army. King Albert and President Wilson clasped hands on Thursday. The meeting meet-ing at the president's bedside, brief as it was, proved the climax of the American visit of the Belgian monarch,- who left for home immediately after visiting the president. With only the French capital delegate dele-gate opposing the action, the international interna-tional labor conference at Washington decided to admit representatives of Germany and Austria, immediately upon their arrival here, to full membership mem-bership in the world labor organization. organiza-tion. FOREIGN. Returns from the national railways of Mexico for August and September this year exceeded last year's figures 1 by $727, 5S0, according to a statement issued by Paulino Fontes, general manager. Thirty-five pounds of melanite, set off by a detonator, was the method employed em-ployed by Adrien Thumerel and his fiancee to end their lives at Chateau Thierry. A decree has been issued at Rome granting a constitution to Cyrenaica, which is under the government of Italy. Cyrenaica will have its own parliament. parlia-ment. Petrograd has been without bread for the last two weeks, thousands of persons dying daily, according to information in-formation brought to Helsingfors by a Finn who escaped from a prison camp at Moscow. A new influenza epidemic has made its appearance in Paris. The' doctors call it "Italian grip" and say it is entirely en-tirely different from what is known as the "Spanish flu," though not quite as dangerous. Forty-one persons were killed and a large numbered injured in a collision between au express train and another train Saturday night at Vigersley, Denmark. President Wilson intends to decline the presidency of the league of nations., the Geneva correspondent of the Daily .News telegraphs r.e learns on good authority. au-thority. Hugo Ha.ise, who was recently shot by a would-be assassin, is in a critical condition at Berlin. Physicians have virtually given up hope for the recovery recov-ery of the radical leader. The American system of train dispatching dis-patching has just been adopted on the Paris-Lyons-Mediterraneun line, the longest French railway. "Before we go, we shall close the gate behind us and make the whole world tremble," Nicoali Lenine, the Bolshevist premier, is quoted in a Re-val Re-val dispatch as saying in discussing the danger of Petrograd being captured. cap-tured. Heavy pressure is being brought tn bear by Syndicalist leaders on railway men in France to endeavor to induce l hem to join tiie movement for a revolutionary rev-olutionary general strike November 7. The ravages of the hook worm among the gold miners in Colombia are seriously Interfering with the production pro-duction of the precious metal, according accord-ing to Dr. O. T. Rrosius, mine physician. phy-sician. Ratification of the pea.ee treaty will lie completed on November 11, "armistice "armis-tice day," by the deposit of the signed copy of the document iu the foreign office at Paris, it is predicted by British Brit-ish statesmen. Twelve thousand French families have applied for th grant of $."iOii.i from the great fund established b Theodore Cngnacq. the French millionaire million-aire philanthropist, to assist families of nine children or more from the same parents. Airplane bombs are to be used against the tribes of Wa.iris and Mah-suds Mah-suds in Afghanistan unless the tribesmen tribes-men discontinue the continual attacks on British posts and convoys and the raids into British territory, in which they have beeu indulging during and since recent troubles with Afghtaistau. |