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Show ; History of Past Week ww mmjiBDOT in Him uaq nwi The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed m INTERMOJNTAIN. Giiven the impetus placed behind it by the unanimous ami co-operative approval ap-proval of seven western states, the movement initiated by Secretary Franklin K. Lane of the federal interior in-terior department for settlement of soldiers, sailors and marines on public lauds, by associated offort of the states and the United States was fairly launched at the big reclamation conference con-ference held at Salt Lake on January Janu-ary IS. ' ; Colorado Italians have protested to Gov. Oliver II. Slump the acceptance by the state of an oil painting of former governor Julius C. Hunter, his predecessor, because the flag of Italy was omitted from a group of allied Hags on the governor's desk. The members of the 145th field artillery (Utah's own) have arrived at Logan, Utah, from France, and will be sent to their homes from that point. The soldier boys were given an enthusiastic en-thusiastic welcome by the people of the state. The Wyoming legislature on January Janu-ary 1C unanimously ratified the prohibition pro-hibition amendment to the federal constitution. con-stitution. Plans for the establishment of a soldier sol-dier settlement board, for the purpose of co-operating with the national gov- eminent in supplying returned soldiers and sailors with homes and employ-, employ-, ment, have been submitted to the governor gov-ernor of Utah, with the request that the matter be brought before the legis-lauue. legis-lauue. Approximately 500 workers, leaving an open-air meeting and starting a parade through Seattle's business district dis-trict singing I. W. W. songs, were dispersed dis-persed by twenty mounted police officers, of-ficers, supported by five automobiles containing police armed with carbines and behind these a platoon of police with clubs. DOMESTIC. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' union with a membership of 35,000 in New York City, has authorized author-ized calling of a strike, unless in the meantime -the employers grant demands de-mands for a 15 per cent wage increase and a foity-four-hour working week. Charged with murder of Frank Rooney, member of the Omaha, Neb., police department, John M. Appleby, 29 years old, has been arrested at Gordon, Wis. Ten major generals, thirteen brigadier briga-dier generals and one colonel have been selected by General Pershing for-distinguished for-distinguished service medals for their work in connection with the creation of the American army in France and its successful assault of the German lines. A general strike of organized labor designed .to paralyze every industry in the country beginning July 4 next was decided upon by the National Labor congress at Chicago as a means of obtaining a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, if federal fed-eral intervention and every other means adopted to procure the desired relief fail. Official figures are now available for the first time showing the full extent to which American ships transported the American army of approximated 2,079,000 men to Europe. The official figures show that 46.25 per cent of all the American troops were transported- exclusively In American ships. Camp Dick, Texas, at which approximately approx-imately nine-tenths of the men in the American aviation service are said, to have received their training in military mili-tary discipline, was closed finally by the war department on January 15. More than 10,000 fliers are said to have trained at the camp. Nine persons are known to have been killed and about fifty injured by the explosion of a huge tank of molasses on the water front at Boston. Eight bodies were removed from the wreckage wreck-age and one man died at the relief hospital. Most of those injured suffered suffer-ed only bruises. Seven states on January 14 completed com-pleted ratification of the prohibition constitutional amendment and brought the number taking such action to thirty. The number necessary for ratification rati-fication is thirty-six. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Norlb Carolina were the states that completed ratification. Mrs. Hilda Exlund was found guiily at Chicago of the murder of her husband hus-band and sentenced to font teen years In prison, the first woman to be convicted con-victed there of. such a crime for a long period. She killed her husband with a butcher knife. Refusal of northwestern railroads to furnish cars of less limn 2100 cubic feet capacity for lumber-carrying was declared unreasonable by the inler-slale inler-slale commerce commission in sustaining sustain-ing complaints of manufacturers in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. Mon-tana. A mov,-ii,i-liL to change the ,-i.m.e of Yellowstone park, America's grealest. public pleasure ground anil game ro- serve to Roosevelt park as a national memorial lo Theodore Roosevelt has been started by Major Harry Davis Bud leading citizens of Cleveland. The Merriman Baptist church of Ranger. rlxas, which already has acquired ac-quired an income of $200,000 a year through oil wells sunk in its church yard has refused $1,01)0.000 for the right to develop wells in the graveyard, grave-yard, which adjoins the church. The offer has been declined. Alfred J. Smith, who said he formerly for-merly was advertising and circulation representative of the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain at Denver, testified before the senate committee invstigating German Ger-man propaganda that the paper made an agreement with Count von Bern-storl'f Bern-storl'f in 1015-V..MG by which it was to be paid $211,000 for publishing articles favorable to the German cause. WASHINGTON. Only one more big war loan drive is planned by the treasury department, according to Secretary Glass. This will be the Victory-Liberty loan, to be floated probably the last three weeks in April. The amount will not be more than $0,000,000,000, and may be $5,000,000,000. Fuel administration officials expect a decrease in the price of bituminous coal and coke to result from an order discontinuing maximum prices on these commodities and eliminating the" zone system of their distribution. Licenses for the exportation of sugar to all destinations except the United Kingdom, France and Italy, will be considered sifter February lthe war (fade board has announced. Ratification oir January 16 of the federal constitutional prohibition amendment made the United States the first great power to take legislative' legisla-tive' action to permanently stop the liquor traffic. Thirty-eight states have declared for a dry nation. By a vote of fifty to twenty-one, the senate adopted a resolution recommended recom-mended by a majority of the privileges and elections committee, dismissing disloyalty charges brought against Senator Sen-ator La Follette of Wisconsin by the Minnesota public safety committee because be-cause of his speech on the war delivered de-livered before the Non-partisan league of St. Paul, Minn., September 20, 1917. Renomination of John Skelton Williams Wil-liams as comptroller of the currency when his term expires, February 2, will " be recommended by Secretary Glass. FOREIGN. The peace conference formally opened open-ed at Paris on .January 16, Premier Clemenceau of France being nominated nomin-ated by President Wilson as permanent perman-ent chairman, his selection being by acclamation. President Wilson, Premier Pre-mier Lloyd George and Baron Sonnio addressed the conference. President Poincare of France, in addressing ad-dressing the peace conference, thanked the allied nations for having chosen Paris for their important work and praised the valor of the allied armies which had preserved the capital of France from the enemy. A -dispatch from Coblenz says the greatest reason for believing that When the German national assembly gets into in-to operation it will turn out a safe and sane product is the fact that elements opposing the Socialists are showing increasing in-creasing signs of co-operation without any expectation of- reviving the monarchy. mon-archy. Germany lost forty-eight Zeppelins during the war, the total including, those destroyed by accident in Germany. Ger-many. The Zeps dropped approximately approxi-mately 5000 bombs in England, thus the net cost to Germany was something like $115,000,000 for her Zeppelin campaign. cam-paign. American forces in France and in the occupied territory of Germany are to be reduced to the minium strength "consistent with our national obligations," obliga-tions," General March announces. He added that General Foch had been informed in-formed of this policy by General Pershing. Persh-ing. Mitau, the capital of Courland, has been occupied by the Bolsheviki, according ac-cording to a wireless dispatch received ait London. The Germans were obliged, to leave behind numerous guns and supplies of ammunition. . During the last quarter of 1918 there were begun in Great Britain 424 ships having a tonnage of 1,979,952 compared to 395 ships, with a tonnage of 1.806,-591 1.806,-591 during the same quarter in 1917, according to authorative figures. Prince John, the youngest son of King George, died at Sandringham Saturday night. He had been ill for some time. The prince was born nt Sandringham, July 12, 1905. Grave election riots are taking place in Germany, where the people are voting vot-ing to choose members of the national assembly. . A general strike has been declared at Leipsic, which is without gas and water, according to Copenhagen Copen-hagen advices to the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph company. Tgnace jan Paderewski, world famous pianist, having reached an agreement with General Pilsudski, hits succeeded partly in forming a new Polish cabinet. It is the conviction of Marshal Foch that the Rhine must be made the barrier bar-rier between Germany and France. He expressed this clearly when lie received re-ceived American newspaper correspondents cor-respondents at Treves a few days ago. Many Krifish soldiers homeward bound from German prison camps are fright fully emaciated from Hie bad trealmeiif they have received, and many will never sec; Iheir homes, according ac-cording to a dispatch received from ( 'openhagen. The American expedil ionary salvage department litis saved during the past six months over $.'!,. 500,000 worth of war material by tvcoverlng, repairing and collecting the previously rejected equipment of the soldiers, according to officers of I he quart ci-masters' department depart-ment at Tours, France. |