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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A WEEITS EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Hem and Foreign Newt Qnthr4 Prom All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Buay Men INTERMOUNTAIN. James lJirson, a retired llnptl&t minister, min-ister, vnn shot uiul Instantly killed nt Denver In n room In the renr of Ills grocery store. Ills assailants', two youths who woro gnur.o lnfliienr.ii musks nnd who demanded on entering Ills' Btoro to know tho locntlon of his ensh drawer, escaped. Tlio mnyor of Denver litis refilscd the petition presented him by n delegation If Denver ministers, asking for tho Is-pun Is-pun n co of nn order closing till stores, churches, places of amusement, and all other establishments opch to thu public pub-lic because of the Influenza epidemic. Wolfgnng Thlcle, enemy alien being transferred from Fort Wfss to Fort Douglas. Utah, leaped from n moving train nt Los Cerrlllos, N. M nnd made bis escape In tho darkness. No conl famine threatens Salt Lake this winter. Though other states tiro advocating the use of nil kinds of wood for fuel, Increased coal car tonnage has prevented a sliortaga In Utah. Tho quorum of twelve apostles has unanimously sustained lleb'er J. Urant as president of tho Church of -Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints. President Ornnt announced that lie had chosen Anthon II. Lund nnd Charles W. Ten-rose Ten-rose as his first nnd second counselors, respectively. " DOME8TIC. The federal control contract was rat-Hied rat-Hied by the stockholders of the Tcnii-pylvnnln Tcnii-pylvnnln Itnllroud couipnuy on December Decem-ber 2. The contract covers tho IVnn-nylvnnln IVnn-nylvnnln rnllrond' and tho lines operated oper-ated by It cast of Pittsburg. Vnr expenses persisting In pence times, but falling off rapidly, will make the government's outlay In tho fiscal year 10'JO, beginning next July 1, 4.13.4 1R.K18. of which M.U 12.000,000 will go to tho war and navy departments, $80:1,000,000 to pny Interest on wnr debt, and $.170,000,000 for contThuIng BP) thu building of n merelmnt marine, uc- cording to deiiartineiitul estimates pre-seated pre-seated to congress. "Oil, you America I" rang from tho throats of khakl-clad troops on the M ileeka.of the Munretunln ns tha slant W transport, bringing back nearly 4000 i-oldlers, tho first largo contingent from America's victorious army, nr-rived nr-rived at quarantine ut Now York, Sun-day Sun-day night. Jrtmca Orr, for nearly u quarter of a century u gunrdlaii of thu Liberty Hell. In Independence, hall, Philadelphia, died Sunday morning from pneumonia. Orr was (Ids city's oldest policeman, both In ago nnd length of service. Ho was 80 years old and was a patrolman for forty-nine yeurs. dipt. Joseph Itaphael do Ijimar, financier and inlnu owner, died Sun- M. day In Itmisevelt hospital, New York, of pneumonia, which developed after nn operation. Ho was 75 years old. llrcwlng of beer and other malt bev-('rages bev-('rages was stopped nt midnight No-veuiber No-veuiber DO, throughout tho United States. After lmvLng been established slnco BH February 4, tho Pacific coast oil dlvl- Bfl Man of tho United StnteH fuul admin- BH Istrutlon has suspended nil official nc- Tho representatives of tho United States nt tho pencu conferences will H be: President Wilson, Itobort Lansing, BH secretary of stato; Henry White, form- rr umbnBsudor to Franco and Italy; Bfl 13. M. Hnuso, and Oenoral Tusker II. Illlss, representative of tho American army with tho supremo war council nt Versailles. John I). (Icljsbcek, consul for Hoi- I )nud for tho states of Colorado, Utnh j and New Mexico, announced that ho BH ' had mulled lils resignation to the Dutch 1 Jegutlou nt Washington becauso of his BH t government's action In harboring tho Bfl former tiermnn emperor and because nf other ncls of tho Netherlands govern-ment govern-ment during tho wnr. Tho governor of California has com-BH com-BH muted to life Imprisonment tho sen- tenco of death Imposed on Thomas J. BH Mooncy for murder growing out of tho I'rcpnredness day bomb explosion In Snn Francisco on July !!, 1010, when i tfPn pcreonb' wero killed and forty others were Injured Miss Evungellno IJooth, commander BBj In chief of tho Salvation Amiy In BBj America, has mada public t message BB of niiprcclatlon just received from BB General Pershing. ' "Tho American ex- pcdltlonary forces thunk you for all HJ tho noble work that tho Salvation BB . Army has dono for them from tho be- BB i. ginning," rend tho messago. Answering n hurry call to n big Hi if; bakery lu Chicago, detectives found HJST tho entrance to tho building barred by HJfjf nn armed man. Thinking him n rob- Mt her, they fired nnd killed him. Later K- It developed ho was Ileujumtn Flctcli- Mffl er, n faithful night wntehmnn, who ft ' i. was awaiting tho nrrlvnl of tho police. i Out of nil tho millions spent by tho Mtf war department In the purchase of f army supplies during tho war, only jte very small sum was spent In the west, ft tardy more than $12,000,000 In nil, and 1 two-thirds of this total was spent In g' tho stato of Washington. B!' : f Mrs. Cntherln C. Ilnyden, daughter of Patrick Callan, who lost his llfo when tho Lusltnnln was sunk by a German submarine off tho coast of Ireland, appeared at tho United States district attorney's office In New York on December 2, nnd nsked that a war-rnn't war-rnn't bo Issued for Wlllliini Hohenzol-lorn, Hohenzol-lorn, chnrglng hlni with murder. The shell plant of tho Minneapolis Steel & Machinery company was destroyed de-stroyed by flro Sunday, with u loss estimated nt $500,000, fully cojered by Insurance. One man lost bis life, being be-ing burned to death. Tho iicvy's newest typo seaplane, the giant NC-1, tho largest seaplane In tho world, broke all records for tho number num-ber of passengers carried lu nny nlr-plane nlr-plane when It made n'fllght with fifty men on board Wednesday nt tho nuvut nlr station, Itoejmwny, L. L WASHINGTON. Tho Sixty-fifth congress began Its third nnd final session December 2, with many Important matters boforo It. These Include solution of tho railroad rail-road problem, tho nrmy and navy programs, pro-grams, reconstruction legislation, retrenchment re-trenchment lu government cxpendl-tures, cxpendl-tures, wnr revenue legislation, woninn suffrage and the Colombian treaty. The federal trade commission, In a supplcmentnl report submitted to congress con-gress December 2, chnrged the five big mont-packlug companies of the country with a combination In restraint of trade nnd with controlling tho salo of livestock nnd fresh meats. Kvldenco Is cited nt length to support the charges. Swift & Co., Armour & Co., Morris & Co., Wilson & Co., Inc., nnd the Cudahy Packing company are named. A regular army of approximately halt a million men Is provided for specifically spe-cifically In estimates submitted to congress con-gress for the fiscal year 1020, beginning begin-ning next July 1. Senator Cummins of Iown, Republican, Republi-can, has Introduced n resolution proposing pro-posing thnt n senate committee pf four Democrats and four Republicans be sent to Franco for the peace conference, confer-ence, to keep the senate Informed on questions arising there. Ucrnard M. Ilaruch, chairman of tho wnr Industries board, lias forwarded his resignation to President Wilson, to tnko cITect on January 1. It cost $5,045,000,000 to run tho American army during the yenr ending Juno !t0 Inst; $1,1103,000,000 for tho navy and $1,510,000,000 for tho civil government proper. The shipping hoard spent $S02,000,000 nnd $181,000,000 wtis paid, out In pensions. FOREIQN. Sir Frederick K. Smith, tho attorney general, Interviewed by tho Keho, snld that the IlrlUrJi war cabinet, Including Includ-ing the colonial representatives, has unanimously decided t? ask Holland to extradite tho former (lernwn emperor. A dlspntch to tho General News from Hlockliolm nays' It Is reported thnt negotiations ne-gotiations entered Into with tho Hum-shin Hum-shin representatives have resulted In thu formation of an nll-ltnsslnn government govern-ment under tho protection of tho cu-lento cu-lento and supported by a voluntary nrmy. A number of tho soldiers' nnd workmen's work-men's councils In Germany havo requested re-quested the German government to have former Kmpcror William tried by u German tribunal, according to n news agency telegram from Ilerlln. Tho Chilean army reserves from tho districts of Iqulquc, Scrim, Antofaj:aB-ta, Antofaj:aB-ta, Tacua and Coplapo, who wero released re-leased from service, lu 1017 and 1018, hnvo been recalled to tho colors. The Ilrlttsh peace delegation, which, with tho clerical nnd technical staffs, will Include nearly 600 persons, who will occupy two entire lintels, will bring their own food along from England, Eng-land, except vegetables. They will hnvo their own servants, except chefs, says u Paris dispatch. Four American soldiers dispersed n nlob of thousands at Ksch, after It. bad wrecked twenty-eight shops lu rovengo for the overcharging of Americans. Most of these establishments were conducted con-ducted by Germans. , Three million German troops, n million mil-lion horses nnd great quantities of baggage, withdrawing towards tho river Ithluo from Itelgiuui and northern north-ern Franco, nru conducting thu movement move-ment In nn orderly manner, according to u special telegram from Dusseldorf, lthci)lsh Prussia. Discussing plans for bringing to Jus-ilco Jus-ilco former Kmpcror William of Germany, Ger-many, tiro London Times asserts that "If wo had to hlnglo out ono culprit for punishment ho would bo the person." per-son." The paper adds that tho argument argu-ment that bo cututot, bo punished be-couso be-couso tboro uro others who also lire guilty cannot ho admitted. Ono of Kuropo's oldest "Sister Susies" Is Mrs. Gardiner, who celebrated cele-brated her With birthday recently knitting socks for snllors. David Lloyd George, tho llrltlsh piimu uilulHtcr, In a speech at Newcastle, New-castle, said thu victory of the entente allies hud been duo to ceaseless valor of their men mid that It would bo n lesson to anybody who, In tho future thought they, as the Prussian wnr lords hoped, "could- overlook this llt-tlo llt-tlo Island In their reckoning." A group of Independent socialist Democrats closely Identified with tho Spartncus clement of Dr. Llebnecbt bus seized control of all wireless stations sta-tions In Germany nnd now Is trans-mlttlng trans-mlttlng propaganda and other news, tho Ilerlln Tugeblatt soys It Is Informed. In-formed. It Is understood In Holland thut William Will-iam Hohenzoliern has been nwaltliig the arrival of his wife before going elsewhere. Germans In his sulto believe- ho will return' to German and uro optimistic enough to think ho will resume tho throne. |