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Show History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. The trial judge at Ogden, Utah, sentenced sen-tenced Joseph Henry Martin, twice convicted as the letter writer and 'blackmailer, to a life term in the penitent lary. Ligo Wiggins and Joseph Kitter-man, Kitter-man, charged with assisting Dr. R. C. "Wildes in a recent robbery of a bank at Chautauqua, Kan., have been arrested ar-rested In Pueblo, Colo. C. K. Sitler, tax collector of the borough bor-ough of Tamaqua, Pa., was arrested as he stepped from a train at Portland, Port-land, Ore., on the charge of defaulting default-ing for $18,000. Fort George Wrigr.t. Wash., and Fort Douglas, Utah, will be practically the only two army posts In the west somewhat removed Horn the coast lino that wil remain as garrisoned military reservations after the coming army reorganization, it is claimed. After a vigorous fltht to remain in a Colorado prison ranier than face a t-lal for murder in SMt Lake. Robert Burns, thought to have been implicated implicat-ed in the killing of William Sander-cock Sander-cock at Garfield fou.' years ago, has teen returned to Salt Lake. P. S. Wangsgard, aged 57, was burned to death in his cabin in Hunts-ville, Hunts-ville, Utah. Neighbors who assisted in extinguishing the flames did not know that Wangsgard was in the cabin until they found his charred remains near the door. The David Eccles company of Og-den, Og-den, made up of the thirteen Ogden heirs of David Eccles for the purpose of handling the property valued at about $5,000,00 which was left to the Ogden family, has been incorporated. DOMESTIC. R. B. Sims, warden of Florence, Ariz., penitentiary, has been purged of contempt by the state supreme court for having failed to hang William Wil-liam Faltin, a condemned slayer, November No-vember 26. Sims refused to execute Faltin on the ground that the prisoner pris-oner was insane. With oratory and lampoon, backed ty an avalanche of cash, the Chinese quarter in San Francisco went on record rec-ord Sunday as being opposed not only to the reversion of China from a republic re-public to a monarchy, but determined to resist strenuously the proposed change in the government. A package containing six sticks of dynamite, equipped with caps and fuses, was found by an Italian fisherman fisher-man under a bridge over Alhambra creek, a short distance -west of Martinez, Mar-tinez, Cal. Eluding three- watchmen guarding the building, a thief gained entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago and escaped with a collection of rare jewels jew-els valued at between $35,000 aui $50,000. The name of Henry Ford, Detroit manufacturer and peace advocate, has been filed as a presidential candidate can-didate in"-the Nebraska Republican primaries to be held next April. The petition was filed by Omaha Republicans. Republi-cans. ' A recall election for Mayor James G. Woodward and four members of the Atlanta (Ga.) police commission, has been ordered by the city council coun-cil for January 5, 1916. William F. McCombs, chairman of the Democratic national committee, has issued a formal call for the Democratic Dem-ocratic national convention in St. Louis, June 14, 1916. More than 58,000.000 meat animals were slaughtered in establishments tinder federal inspection during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915. The text of the American note to Austria-Hungary regarding the sinking sink-ing of the Italian steamship Ancona, reveals a formal demand by the United States for prompt denouncement denounce-ment of the "illegal and indefensible" act, for punishment of the submarine commander, and for reparation by the payment of indemnity for the killing and injuring of innocent American citizens. In a .comprehensive and forceful article before the Columbus. Ohio, chamber of commerce, President Wilson Wil-son urged American business men to mobilize their resource? so the United states might be prepared to play a more important part in the world's affairs af-fairs and bring about justice after the pesent war. ' Leaders of organized labor unions of f'ne railroads have ga hered in Chicago Chica-go to hold a secret conference to consider con-sider whether a general strike on all the railroads of the country shall be called next spring unless the transportation transpor-tation lines grant increases in wages for overtime and an eight-hour day. Investigation into the death at Chicago Chi-cago of the defective Bollinger baby, on whom Dr. H. J. Haiselden declined to operate, is to be begun by the state board of health next month, according to advices received from Springfield. The supreme court of Texas has held that a city has no power to designate des-ignate a restricted district for houses of ill fame. The decision was in a case from El Paso. The unfilled tonnage of the Uni'ed Klates Steel corporati"n on November 30 totaled 7.1S9.4S9 tors, an increase ei 1.024.037 tiaiR over October. American Christmas mail to Europe, Eu-rope, the last of which was dispatched Sunday, consisted of 8,550 sacks. The sacks carried in addition to ordinary letters, 90.500 registered articles, 34,-) 34,-) parcels post packages, and 284,-457 284,-457 money orders. Colonel James M. Smith, the most extensive land holder on Georgia, died at Smithsonia. Ga., at the age of 70. Colonel Smith was reputed to be worth about $ 1.000, OoO. James Murphy, 107 years o'd. believed believ-ed to be the oldest '.i:'n in Illinois, died at Juliet. He wa; born in County Mayo, Ireland, and came to the Ujit-d Ujit-d States when l'j yens old. Former President Taft, in Chicago to address the Chicago Association of Commerce, denied he was working to get the Republican presidential nomination nom-ination for Elihu Root. -WASHINGTON. "Every time a man wrote a bank check he would have to lick a stamp and curse the Democratic party," declared de-clared Senator Tillman. Democrat, in announcing that he proposed to fight President Wilson's suggestion that a stamp on bank checks be included in the war revenue law. Details of the half billion dollar navy building program under the five-year five-year continuing plan recommended to congress are contained in the annual report of Secretary Daniels. The first week of the Sixty-fourth congress brought practically harmonious harmo-nious organization in both houses and revealed a determination on the part of administration leaders to attempt at-tempt no serious legislative business until the holiday recess is over. More than $41,000 was raised in fifteen minutes at a mass meeting held in Washington by the Congressional Congres-sional Union for Woman Suffrage in connection with its annual convention. conven-tion. The personal Income tax was paid during the last fiscal year by 357,515 individuals, who turned in to the government gov-ernment $41,046,162, more by nearly $13,000,000 than the total paid by the 357,598 making returns the year before, be-fore, according to the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue. reve-nue. Postmaster General Burleson's annual an-nual report says the European war has cost American postal service $21,-000,000, $21,-000,000, but that economies of administration admin-istration have reduced the audited deficit to a little more than $11,000,000 for the fiscal year, which ended in June. Failure to move dyestuffs from Europe Eu-rope to the United States is due to Germany instead of Great Britain, according ac-cording to a statement issued at the state department. FOREIGN. Yuan Shi Kai, president of the Chinese Chi-nese republic, has accepted the throne of China tendered to him by the council of state. He will continue to act as 'president unti a convenient time for the coronation. Henry Ford's peace mission is regarded re-garded by the Swedish press as a novelty, nov-elty, which will have no chance to intervene in-tervene in the cause of peace. No acknowledgment ac-knowledgment of th& mission, it is stated, will be made by the Swedish authorities, and the American legation lega-tion has taken no notice of it. One hundred and ten persons are reported to have been killed in an explosion ex-plosion in the Belgian munitions factory fac-tory at Havre, France. The news has been received that the Turkish transport Bechid Pasha, a vessel of 8,000 tons, has been sunk near Sylivria, in the Sea of Marmora, by a French submarine. Lieutenant-Colonel Claries S. Brom-w'ell, Brom-w'ell, head of the army engineer corps at Honolulu, shot and fatally wounded himself. He died two hours after the shooting. He had suffered a nervous breakdown. Another epidemic of suicides is reported re-ported among the Gorman forces in the vicinity of Dvinsk by prisoners captured in that reg' m, according to the Petrograd newspapers. The allies have retreated completely out of Serbia and the Bulgarians have followed them into Greece. A dispatch to the Fxchange Telegraph Tele-graph company from Copenhagen savs It is reported that a Leace demonstration demonstra-tion of large proportions occurred outside out-side the reichstag in Berlin Thursday evening. In an address in the reichstag, the imperial chancellor declared that Ger many is ready at any time to consider a peace suggestion from the countries with which she is at war, does not wish a continuance of the war and disassociates dis-associates herself, under these circumstances, circum-stances, from any responsibility for its prolongation. The general opinion in London seems to be that the German imperial chancellor's speech has completely dashed any hopes the peace advocate.1 may have held on any early termina tion of the war. Important battles have begun or arc impending in Mesopotamia, where the German field marshal, Baron von der Goltz, has taken command of the Turk ish forces and is about to attack the British at Kut-el-Amara, in southeast ern Serbia. Three hundred Villa soldiers were killed, 100 taken prisoners and the re mainder of the forces under General Jose Rodriguez dispersed five miles north of Fronteras. At a caucus of the fret- conservative conserva-tive members of the German reichstag reich-stag resolutions were adopted "demanding, "de-manding, as the object of peace, a Germany strengthened in its position of power and importantly enlarged and recompensated for its expenditures expendi-tures through the retention to the uttermost ut-termost extent possible of all districts occupied." |