| Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happening that are making history information gathered from all quarter of tho globe and given in a few line intermountain news comes from seattle eliat a receiver has been appointed for the apo kane inland empire railroad company the receiver mas appointed on petition of attorneys for the ilist trust savings bank 0 chicago holder of a trust deed as security for a bond issue of made in Se attles port commission has let an initial contract for a pier to cost said to be larger than aiu on the pacific coast and designed to handle new oriental trade seattle democrats have announced they will urge all democrat alons in the country to light welcome bonfires on alie president llon returns from I 1 ranee one fourth of an inch of land was condemned la the superior court at tacoma because it was needed as a part of the camp lewis military res emylon the appraiser sets its value at 1 cent and the owner will have to take this as ho did not hire a lawyer to make a contest attorney general S C ford has to governor stewart of montana alie creation of alie office of t state sheriff for enforcement of the prohibition act an effort will be mide during the present session of the legislature to reinstate boxing as a legal athletic sport in montana john II 11 emera a of cas cade boano loano was killed and his brother joseph severely injured at ahli when struck bv a hospital automobile ambulance while crossing a street on the way to a rall roid station hiram C gill former mayor of seattle died january 7 of influenza sir gill who was 53 ears old had been elected mayor of seattle three times he was recalled from eliat office once in 1911 DOMESTIC denunciation of bolshevism and in socialistic doctrines marked nu berous addresses at alie meeting of alie republican national committee at Clil cago several speakers declaring eliat the election 0 a republican pres ident Is all that cin save the country from evil days in the future alie injunction suit brought by the commercial cable company and the commercial able company to restrain postmaster general borieson Bu from taking over tor the government their cable lines and ing them with lines controlled by the western union company has been dismissed restrictions upon the importation of tanning extracts have been removed by the war trade board alie chief sources 0 the american supply of theae mate are south america the last in dies and india and the est indies arthur C dails recently arrested in ban by mis G baldwin portland policewoman pleaded guilty to robbery of the east bide bank at portland of approximately the board of supervisors at san francisco passed an ordinance making compulsory the wearing of gauze masks ns a precautionary measure against the spread of the influenza cepl demic there were CU new cases lu one day colonel theodore Roosevel ts will made in 1912 was read to members or the family at sagamore hill although the value of the former presidents estate was not emde known it was understood to amount to not more than all restrictions on the importation of corn and alco have been removed b alie war trade board at the same time the board announced that it w con sider dav orally applications tor the ex port of rice and for licenses for the of jute and jute products ex capt arns and nitrate bags to all dis major J franklin bell corn mander of the departs nt of the east died january 8 at alie presbyterian hospital in isea lork his deith was due to disease major belewas ga beirs old five bleiders of the socialist party were found guilty by a jury after 6 hours and CO minutes deliberation in federal judge landals court at chicago of conspiracy to violate tho espionage law motor L barger con gressman elect from aukee was one of the men convicted railroad executives have decided to to congress a system of unified private management of rail lines with strong public control by a secretary ot transportation in the presidents cabinet and a reorganized antt commerce com with regional acting ns a court of last resort in rate disputes between fifteen and twenty persons women and girls were killed and more than a scora injured at pittsburgh when an explosion wrecked a film exchange building flying cadet martin of pearl ill was killed at fort worth lexas when he collided in midair cadet charles T carl carl was un hurt replies to inquiries sent out by the bureau of public roads rev cal that twenty nine states will need re turned soldiers and sailors for road building work this year or this number must be skilled workers industrial corkers of the world had been advised to plant noxious weeds in california fields W dennes formerly a member of the organization koiv manager of a manufacturing plant at berkeley cal testified in the trial at sacramento of I 1 W W members washington A temporary naval force of men tor the year beginning ii at july was decided on by the house naval subcommittee in beginning the framing the naval alon bill thlu force Is less etian was recommended by secretary daniels immediate consideration of the interior department s request for for the reclamation and occupation of of tillable froll in this country by returned soldiers was asked T Secre tui lane at an informal meeting of members of congress held in the house chamber on friday from eight to ten carloads of mall for american soldiers are undelivered in france second assistant postmaster general told the senate committee and thou sands and probably millions of letters addressed to alie men 0 erseal w ar rive in ew lork soon to be sent to the dead letter office where an at tempt will b e made to return them to the writers notice of alie signing by president haon in france of the first 1111 sent to the bite house by congress after the president sailed last month has been cabled to secretary tumult jt was the measure authorizing the pay ment of transportation home of war workers leaving the government son ice establishment of a cemetery in france in which would be burled the bodies of american officers and men who lost their lives in the war Is provided in a bill introduced by senator spencer of missouri operation of american troops in russia was defended and criticized criticised thursday in lie senate halt a dozen senators participating in a vigorous debate continued several hours legislation to prevent president from turning railroads back to private management in the immediate future will be introduced in con greas soon FOREIGN general former chief quartermaster general of the german armies lias applied to the swedish government for formal permission for himself and his wife to stay u short time in sweden the application lias been granted for one month the deutsche el tung a copy of which lias been received at ba acel says it Is announced that marshal foch commander in chief of alie allied armies on the western front lias tele graphed the german armistice cornils slon that the entente governments have not acceded to the request for a prolongation of the armistice which ends january 17 president allson it Is said has virtually made up ills mind how far ho W support italy s claims at the peace table and informed premier orlando of his decision but it Is probable his ideas will not be made known until the peace delegations gulve been advised t them the spartacus revolt in germany la foredoomed fore doomed to defeat according to best opinion in london it Is generall agreed it will not be as easy to con jure up bolshevism in german as it was in russia the allies have notified turkey that unless the turkish force at medina lays down its arms the forts at alie dardanelles Darda nelles will be de strayed vilna lias fallen into the ho id of the several thousand strong drove out the polish mi latla A massacre of civilians began at once partly because the had offered resistance and had or cliot alie members of alie local holsho committees it Is reported that there were casualties at buenos ayres as a result of a clash between troops and strikers at the asena steel works the troops opened fire on the strikers alo responded with rifles at least 2500 men have beer discharged from the mines of the jann nei consolidated copper company di mining company and smaller companies operating in the als brict around cananda cananea Ca bonora mexico within alie last week loyal russian troops operating un dor the authority of the amsk govern ment have defeated a large arav capturing prisoners and large quantities of viar material nc cording to a telegram from the omok licensing statistics for 1917 show a large decrease in convictions for drunkenness in england and in they were and in 1917 40 greater london convictions fell from 05 in 1913 to 16 in 1017 casualties in the french army ex eluding colonial up to isolem 1 were according to official figures made public by the I 1 rench high comess on to correct reports published men killed in action or dead of wounds 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