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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEn EVENTS RECORD OF THK IMPORTANT HAPPENINQ8 IN ITEM IZED FORM Hem and Foreign New Gather) from All Quarter! of the World, and Prepared for Buey Men INTERMOUNTAIN. ,When the midnight hour struck December De-cember 10, Nevada went dry, mid there appeared lo he llttlo mourning or Jollification. Jolli-fication. Cabarets nud burs were well filled to the closing hour. Stocks of liquor run low In niimy places before the law went Into effect. Th'e sentence of death Imposed on lien F.. Kuhl, murderer of Fred Searcy, Jurbldgc singe driver, wnH commute?? to life Imprisonment hy the state bonrd of parsons nt Corcon Clty.'ev. Kuhl wus to havu been shot at tho statu prison an December 20. Ilcslgnntlous of every member of'tbo fire department at Colorado Springs, except the chiefs, wero accepted by the city council Thursday. Tho men, thirty-five In number, resigned becuuso their request for Increased wages was refused. Leigh A Green, of Lund, Utjlh, has" filed application with the state public utilities commission for n permit to opernto n motor freight truck servlco between Lund and I'arowuu. Unite will sco unusual building nnd real estate activity In the spring of 1010, Homer Townsend, chief clerk of the city department of public works; predicts. Itcconstructlon and readjustment periods pe-riods will not bo characterized by panics or depression, nccordlng to Jere Shnrpc, prominent Minneapolis banker, who Is visiting In Ilutte. Holland Is Necking trade In Utfih, nccordlng nc-cordlng to n letter received by Karl J. Glade, secretary of tho Utah State I'll I r association. Tho letter comes from tho Intelligence office for commercial com-mercial relations at Amsterdam and requests re-quests him to send a catalogue of the exhibitors. Tho letter adds that ull offers and Inquiries emanating from firms In Utah wilt he welcomed nnd laid before lii. porters uml exporters expor-ters In Holland. I DOMESTIC. Thirty-six governors or governors-elect, governors-elect, In annual conference nt Annapolis, Annapo-lis, Md., wero told hy Secretury llakcr , that the war had proven tho Indlspons-nbllltyjuf Indlspons-nbllltyjuf strong state governments In jjMico"a8 well ns'war limes, ns flio principal prin-cipal agencies for mobilizing and demobilizing de-mobilizing armies, finding work for returning soldiers uml deevloplng better bet-ter methods of physical training for young men. William G, McAdoo, In an address nt New' York on tho eve of his' retirement retire-ment ns secretary of the treasury, predicted pre-dicted the success of the fifth Liberty loan and' declared that It was for n majority of tho people to decide whether the nation's rullrouds should be privately or government owned. ""The lurgest winter wheat crop ever grow In tho history of the United States Is promised by the enormous acreage sown this fall. The acreage totals 40,027,000, or 15.0 per cent more than the revised estimated area sown In tho fall of 1017, which wus -12,301,-000 acres. Claiming that tho Oliver Iron Mining company for ten years has been using nn oro washer on tho basic prlwlplcs of, which ho holds the patent, Captain Alexander McDotigall, an Inventor and president of tho McDougult-Uuluth Shipbuilding company has brought suit nt Diiluth, Minn., for $ 10,000,00) agnlnst tho mining company. Charles A. Lowls, a discharged negro ne-gro solder, who Is alleged to hnvo beaten Deputy Sheriff At Thomas when tho latter attempted to nrrest him nt Hickman, Ky was luinged by a mob of masked men. Ilccrultlng In each community or a j trip of "sea scouts,'' Intended to pre- paro boys for the mrchnnt marine, will BBj bo ono of the features of "anniversary JH week" of the boys scouts of America, fl February 7 to February 13. SH A special rate will bo granted to clergymen over tho railroads, begin- JM nlng January 1, according to n letter JM received by tho Iter. W .S. Foreman HHJ from Director General McAdoo. BJ Upcratlons of the Germnu propn- H8J ganda system In tho United States, HJ through which valunhlo Information for transmission to Ilerlln was gathered nt J the sumo time that German doctrines JH were spread over the country wero SI laid baro Friday by Captain G. 11. HY Lester of tho army Intelligence scr- H8f vlco III testimony before the Heirii H8j committee Investigating beer and Oer- H8J Hum propaganda. Most of tho evldenco rchlted to activity of Teutonic ngeiiis fli beforo the United States entered tho ft HI Iluffctcd by high seas, which carried H8J nwny a deckhouse nnd wrenched a HI four-Inch gun from Its. mounting, tho H8j American transport Dekalb arrived -here Friday from Franco with upprnx- SI iuiutcly 1150 soldiers, bailors and mn SI rln ch, nearly -100 of whom had been H8j -wounded In action, She wus preceded HJ Into' porf by tho mall boat Oregonlun, SI ViirryYuc o solitary doughboy, Sergeant HI, " Leland A. Kuaffmnn of tho Second HI -.division headquarters troop, who H8J brought home tho favorite charger Of J Ills commander Major General Omar HI Dundy.' H f WASHINGTON. Carter Glass of Virginia was sworn In December 10, as secretury of tho treasury In the presence of the Virginia Vir-ginia delegation In congress and a group of government officials. The oath was administered by Judge James Hay of Virginia of tho court of claims, for many years u colleague of Mr, Glass In the house. Sweeping reductions In long distance dis-tance nnd toll telephone rates by tho adoption of n bnslc charge of 0 mills n mile, airline mileage, and half the day rato for night service up to midnight, mid-night, and one-fourth the day rato after that hour, are announced by Fostmiisler General llurleson. They become effective next January 21. "Tnps!" to tho volunteer system of raising unities, In war time hy the United StntcK was sounded here by' Major General Knoch H. Crowder, provost marshal general, ja mi(iresn to the retiring members of 180 New York draft boards. Ho earnestly advocated ad-vocated that the selective service system sys-tem should become tho permanent method of raising American armies' In the future. "Abandonment of nil construction work In progress or projected at so-called so-called tent cuiifps." originally laid out for mobilization of the national guard nnd later used for general training purposes was ordered by the War department'. de-partment'. Government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines' was advocated In the bouse by Chairman Moon of the postofflco committee, who Introduced the administration measure contemplating contem-plating government purchase of tho ' utilities. Loading of two moro vessels with cargoes for llussln and completion of arrangements for continued shipments' througliJuuuury nnd February by the United ..Stntcs-Hussluu .bureau", Inc., was nnnounced Saturday by the war trade hoard. The resignation of 172 nddltlonnl officers of-ficers uml -1815 men by General Torching Tor-ching for early return homo was announced an-nounced Saturday by the war department depart-ment The largest unit Ihcluded Is the Flfty-llrst regiment, ' coast artillery, with 70 officers nnd 1770 men. The stnte department was advised Friday that a passenger train between Vera Cruz aud Mexico City was wrecked by Mexican rebels. There were no casualties and the report did not Identify the rebel baud. Damage caused by the burning of tne power House at tne Hampton ltoads, Va naval huso will not exceed .$ri0,000, the navy department nnnounced nn-nounced Friday on estimates received from the commandant . 1'lans for resuming general trade with parts of Itussln and Finland were disclosed Friday hy nn announcement from the war trado board that applications appli-cations jiow will bo considered, for Import Im-port licenses for commodities, the chief of w(ilch arc platinum, various hides and skins nnd fuels, sulphur and various var-ious kinds of seeds. Shipments will bo made to I'aclflc ports on vessels allocated allo-cated to the United States-ltusslnn bureau, bur-eau, Incorporated, of the war trado hoard, under conditions to bo defined by the board. Hy n vote of 103 to 70 the hous.i passed a bill providing salary Increases of $1500 a year for each of tho 131 Judges of the United States district and circuit courts and tho court of claims. Tho measure now goes to the Semite. District and court claim Judges would receive 57500 u your und circuit Judges ?8T)00. Negotiations have been begun by the United States for the purchase of property rights on the Island of Til-bogu, Til-bogu, ut the I'll cl lie entrance of tho I'auama canal In ruunmun tetrrltnry. It Is said that tho plan Is to add to tho canal forttlllcutlnus Mx bntterles of coast artillery nnd a post of 3000 men. The cost of the property rights, It Is wild, wilt aggregate J15.OO0.000. Iow flying nud acrobratlcs by military mili-tary aviators during celebrations In tho vicinity or cities, towns and buildings are forbidden under threatened penalties penal-ties lu an order by tho war department. A department iiiinoiincement said Increase In-crease In tho flying accidents on home training fields since tho armistice had made ncllon necessary. I'oluml has soverel relations with Germany, lu'conllug to u telegram received re-ceived In Ilerlln from Warsaw, Ho-land, Ho-land, as a result of the nipt lire, accuses ac-cuses the. German authorities In occupied oc-cupied provinces of acting contrary to I'oIIhIi Interests und working with the Bolshcvlkl. .' , Seventeen men members of the crew of the llrltlsh steamship Larchgrnve, lost their lives when that ship was sunk In n collision Svlth the American steamer Hawaiian In the latter part of October lu the strait of Gibraltar, it has Just been learned. Charged with complicity In tho murder mur-der of Customs Collector Curios Cntu-regll Cntu-regll and two other Mexican customs officers two weeks ago across the lino from Douglas, Ariz., iu.il the robbery of $125,000 lu customs funds. Dr, Iluertu, Joso Cruz and two 101 I'uso Mexicans named Leyvu ami Sllvu wero hanged In the plaza at Agua I'rleta. Sergeant .Major Ilannliighnm telegraphs tele-graphs to the London Dally Mall from Holtau, Geriliany, where the Australian, Austral-ian, South African nnd Canadian 'war prisoners uro Interned, advising that all tho llrltlsh are fairly weir hut anxiously anx-iously awaiting repatriation. Mnthlas Krzberger, head of tho Germnu Ger-mnu armistice delegation, announces that tho French government bus requested re-quested the German army comn.und to deslgnato plenipotentiaries to confer regarding tho prolongation of, tho ar-mlstlco. ar-mlstlco. , . ' |