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Show 3 a f . I THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAH Prolonged Demonstration From Gal lerlea, Participated In by Bryan, Follows Announcement of Result of Ballot. Washington. The houst 0f repro. sentntives on December 17 parsed t h, national prohibition amendment bv vote of 2S2 to 128. advocates of the measure eight votes more than were needtsl pi give the necessary majority of those present and voting. The measure, which was adopted by the senate at the last session, now goes to conference. A prolonged demonstration from the galleries, participated In by William Jennings Bryan, followed the nouncement of the vote. The next move of the drys Is to secure the concurrence of the senate In all amendments approved by the house. The principal one Is that the s proposal must be approved by The two-third- s f i three-fourth- of the states in six instead of BRITISH PREMIER .DECLARES NEW PACT BETWEEN GERMANY seven years. HALF WAY WAR STAND AND RUSSIA WILL END IS TREACHERY. Forty more members attended MonIMMEDIATELY. day's session than attended to hear the presidents message. Allies and America Must Take Up Remains In Force Until The result was foreshadowed when January 14, Struggle Where Russia Left Off and and in Meantime It Is Hoped by a proposed amendment by RepresentaFight on to Victory. Steady Teutons to Induce Russians tive Lea of California to exempt light to Keep Out of the War, Progress Being Made. wines and beers from the act was HOS-TILITI- beaten, 232 to 107. Chairman Webb of the judiciary committee closed debate with Lloyd We are fighting George's quotation : Germany, Austria and the liquor traffic and so far as I can see the most dangerous enemy Is the liquor traffic UTAHN TORTURED BY YAQUIS, Resident of Richfield One of Party of Americans Foully Murdered. Salt Lake City. It has been learned that Lee Rasmussen, 22 years of age, of Richfield, Utah, was one of the partv of five Americans captured and tortured to death by YaquI Indians at Esperanza, seventy miles south of Guaymas, Sonora, on Thursday, December 6. According to the most recent and dependable reports of the massacre, which included five Americans, one German and three Chinese known to be killed, and forty Germans missing, Rasmussen put up a determined fight to the lasL The attack, however, wrns a surprise, the Indians creeping slowly upon their victims under cover of darkness. CANADA UPHOLDS BORDEN. Unionist Victorious and Conscription Confirmed at Polls. Ottawa. The Union government has won a decisive victory and conscription has been confirmed at the polls. Virtually complete returns from the eastern provinces, and results not quite so Complete from west of the great lakes, Indicate that, apart from the soldiers jvote to be counted In January, the government will have a majority In excess of forty. Sir Wilfrid Laurler was returned In Quebec, east, by 0000 majority. DR. G. L SWIGGETT Especially gratifying to Chrhtlans nnd Jews alike, outside the central powers, was the news that Jerusalem had been captured by the British forces commanded by General AUenhy. In tin foreground of the photograph is ono of the hoi) jMwds. Tho Mosque of Otnur, or the I mine of the Rock, on Mount Moriah where the old altar stood Temple and w here the sacrifices were made to God In ltibtlcul du ys can he aeon In the center of the photograph. The view shown is from the southern end of the old wall, ' I 1 GETHNIG LU M BE R FOR TH E WOODEN SHIPS OF AMERICA t. V London. That steady progress towards the desired goal Is being made by the allies, despite some untoward occurrence, Is the firm conviction of Premier Lloyd George, he declared on Friday. It Is because of this fact, the premier said, that he would regard peace overtures to Prussia at the moment when her military spirit-wa- s drunk with boastfulness nsa betrayal of the trust of himself and his colleagues. The premier's words were: It Is because I am firmly convinced that despite some untoward events, despite discouraging appearances, we are making steady progress toward the goal .that I would regard peace overtures to Prussia at the very moment the Prussian military spirit is drunk with boastfulness as a betrayal of the great trust with which my colbeen and myself have leagues charged. If Russia persists In her present policy, the premier pointed out, the withdrawal by the enemy from the east of a third of his troops must release hundreds of thousands of men and masses of material to attack Great Britain, France and Italy. It would be folly, he added, to underrate the danger, equal folly to exaggerate It, and the greatest folly of all not to face It. If the Russian democracy has decided to abandon the struggle against military autocracy the American democracy Is taking It up. Germany's victories were emblazoned to the world, the premier said, but her troubles did not appear In bulletins. Something was known of them, however. The deadly grip of the British navy was having its effect, and the valor of the troops was mahing an Impression which would tell lu the end. He said those who during the past fortnight were organizing a nervous breakdown In the nation were the same as those who recently were organizing a hyterical shout over the Flanders victories, Berlin. An armistice agreement between the BolsheUkl government In Russia and the Teutonic aUIes was signed at Saturday, December 1(1, according to ai' official communication issued here. The became effective at noon Monday and Is to remain In force until Brest-Litovs- k ce Jifcn&jR. I sfi ipo , " ' the war can I not k the armistice. Announcement was made at letro-gra-d lhui timbers ships cannot t on Sunday by the Bolshevlkl official news agency that Russia and Germany had agreed upon the terms of an armistice. Looks The agreement Is to this effect: J Both sides signing this agreement 5 Of an axe, eve, ol bind themselves until December 30, as heavily XWf.J 1917 (January 12, 1918, new style) not to carry on operative military transfers on the front from the Baltic to the Black sea, except such transfers as w ere already begun up to the moment of signing this agreement. The executive committee of the A workmen and soldiers delegates, by a vote of 150 to 101, says a Petrograd disthe timber regions of the United States and especially In the Southern pine regions strenuous efforts patch, approved a decree declaring the are Throughout to get out the timber needed for the construction of wooden ships to help combat the sabmartna forth being put constitutional democrats enemies of the people, , The peasants' congress, by tlockade. The photograph was taken at one of the pine camps. At the left Is one of the posters that have been put ip everywhere to urge the lumber men to do their best. a vote of 3G0 to 321, denounced the arrest of members of the constituent SURFACE CAR CONDUCTOR assembly and called upon the council WHERE HALIFAX CHILDREN PERISHED and the army and navy to defend 'the delegates with all their forces. M. Trotzky, the Bolshevlkl foreign minister, In an address to his opponents, said : i You are pereturbed by the mild terror we are applying to our enemies. But you know that within a month this terror will take the terrible form of ISSM i i the French revolutionary terror not the fortress, but the guillotine." jjmiiir l5 'ToKLJi.. a$J p 40 (r W .. Tars Health Good. Washington. The annual report of Surgeon General Bralsted of the navy shows an encouraging degree of progress against disease in all forms. COMMANDER MMUNN GERMANS RAID NORTH SEA. Fourteen J the support of our ioklim ; j we the Government mi jl January II. . A'provlsion In the armistice agreement Is that peace negotiations are to begin immediately after the signing of Ships Sent to Bottom by " Kaisers Submarines. London. A small German mosquito flotilla has once more ventured Into the open and fatally bitten an convoy fleet. In a dash carried them as far dawn that before as the mouth of the Tyne, on the English east .coast wane 380 miles from Helgoland four of the kaisers Anglo-Scandlnavl- an 'hool liv l Ihilfux w here 4iyrhlldmrwereknteiTbyHie slon of the French ammunition ship In the harbor. seut-t- o the bottom fourteen ships, as follows: Eight merchantmen seven neutral, one British. Five armed trawlers British. One destroyer British. One British armed trawler was damaged, but escaped. A second British had a hole blown In her hull, Dr. Glen Ltvin Swiggett, formerly destroyer also but got away. The only casualties of th University of Tennessee snd reknown are four British seadefinitely cently assistant secretary general f men killed and twelve wounded. Sur- scientific the second Ivors from the destroyed vessels were congress, has been appointed specialist In commercial education In the bureau picked up, both by the German warcf education, department of the inte- ships and British destroyers that hasrior. In this new work the bureau pro- tened to the scene. poses to investigate local, state ar.d Jury Frees Miss Varney! national educational opportunities for Dedhamlass. Miss Harriet A. business training, toT recommend courses of study and to Varney, a nurse of Wed Upton, was This Is one of several score of pretty girls who are now acting us conductors of surface cars for the Interborough system in New York city. Their costume consists of khaki coat and trousers, leggings anil a cap trimmed.. with gold braid. Walt Over Night. How many of the quarrels which trange friends would never begin If those who felt their anger rising would resolve to wait overnight before saying a Word! Temptations succeed better m by by a sudden attack-HuWhen you are urged to take a step of Pan-Americ- an , Citizens Close Saloons. Y. N. Every saloon ew Rochelle, in New Rochelle was closed Friday home defense night Members of the paother organizations and' league trolled the streets to see that there was no evasion of the edict. 4 if ' .S' which you Eastern Educator Asphyxiated." Plainfield, N. J. Dr. Martin G. Benedict, CD years old, well known educator, was found dead in his garage today. He bad suffered asphyxiation In a manner similar to Nat Wills,- wbo met death a week previous. are in doubt, wait over , A u. O' ' U C: rr. more than half of the wrong and foolish things we do are done impulsively. How much sorrow and humiliation and harm would, be averted if. Instead of acting on the spur of the moment, we should wait overn'ght! Girls Comi panion. lea Plant for Panama. In carrying out Its plans to make the as far as canal zone Woman Murdered by Robbers. possible, the commissary division of Mount Vernon, HL Adam Monzle the Panama canal finds it necessary and William Paris of East St. Louis to have some larger buildings. Woik and Layman Flanagan of this city are has Just been begun on a large Ice and said to have confessed to the murder cold storage plant la Qrls total. Just of Mrs Stella Boyle w hen they robbed g&tdAa ths city of Colon. - self-supporti- Some Weather at Casper. Machado Sent Into Exile. ' 6 a. m. Friday the Former President Casper, Wyo. At Washington. Uacbado of Portugal, deposed by the thermometer here recorded 4 degrees Tecent revolution, has been escorted below zero. At noon it was thawing. to the frontier by armed guards and At 4 oclock the mercury again was night rent on bis way to Madrid and Paris, nearing the zero mark. fi Friday Jrref 3gl CT ttitl Ottn f -- l 77 TZ iege. - Mexicans. Americans Target E! Pao. Mexican federal soldiers fired on an American cavalry patrol which accidentally crossed the border on the inland near Fahens. Texas; late Sunday, killing one cavalry horse and wounding another. FIRST UNIT IN U. S.'TO GET STEEL HELMETS e-- throughadvice.and couneelip.the.efc. ten months tabUshment cf the proper relations beCommander of the fleet of fast boats tween opportunity for training and the bride of George II. Keyes, a Boston that kept the ora moving on tho Great needs of business. real estate man, by a jury on Monday. Lake. - expTce J e mac The Sixth field artillery, tnemlers of which are here shown in a prt:Vs t. charge over a barricade. Is the first unit of the American army in ing camps to be equipped with the steel helmets. The men carry auto'uitirx instead of rifles, and one of them Is shown, at the right praeticlrg with LLi pistoL hce , ? |