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Show NEWS OFAWEEKIN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Llnea. INTERMOUNTAIN. America is facing a war bill of $.'0,000,000, but the manner in which the bulk of it will be liquidated is a question to be determined by the dominant domi-nant political party, in the opinion of tiov. Kmmett Boyle of Nevada, who Is home after a visit to Washington in the interest of the gold mining industry. indus-try. Postoffice inspectors have completed complet-ed their check of the loss of war savings sav-ings stamps stolen from the Greeley, Colo., postoffice and estimate the robbers rob-bers obtained approximately $60,000 a portion of which was in cash. An explosion of gasoline, believed to have been caused by excessive heat from the furnace, resulted in the com-' plete destruction of the Lincoln garage In Rock Springs', Wyo., early Sunday morning, entailing a loss of approximately approxi-mately $75,000. An urgent appeal to employers of Montana not to attempt to reduce wages while the cost of living remains abnormally high, is contained in a letter let-ter mailed by John PI. Mcintosh-, state manager of the Montana Employers' association, to the membership of the organization. IWar savings stamps to the value of !6,000, and some cash, amount un-nown, un-nown, were stolen from the safe in ie Greeley (Colo.) postoffice. Captain F. E. Townsend, who repre-nts repre-nts the United States government in ie munitions plant at Nitro, W. Va., to make a thorough investigation in iontana this week of allegations that fontana labor shipped to Nitro was 1 treated, deceived and ill fed. 1 Soldiers who are with the Ninety-rst Ninety-rst division, which was organized at amp Lewis, are not slated for early oturn home, according to a letter re-eived re-eived last week. Searchers found at the bottom of the 200-foot shaft of ! the Tonopah Buck-ye Buck-ye mine, near Tonopah, the body of ilex. T. McKenzie, chairman of the "ye county, Nevada Republican cen-ral cen-ral committee, who had been missing , or several days. ' ' DOMESTIC. After discussing means of protecting liildren born out of wedlock, the llinois Woman's Legislative congress, vhich opened a two days' session at Jhicago on Friday, went on record as avoring automatic marriage of parents par-ents of such children. Such marriage, according to sponsors of the plan would would be annulled by divorce action. L. H. Hartman, who is looking after the surplus stocks of the government, told Chicago business men at a luncheon lunch-eon that the goods' will not be dumped on the market. They will, instead, be disposed of in a way to leave the geS-eral geS-eral market unimpaired, he said. Fred Fulton was given a decision over Sam Langford, the Boston tar: baby, in their four-rouud go at San Francisco. Fulton kept Langford away from him with his long left and Langford could not get in close to his rangy opponent. Henry Vannes, . trainer with the Sheeley zoo in winter quarters at Baltimore, was shot in the leg by Consul, Con-sul, a big champanzee. Luckily the revolver contained a blank cartridge and th.e wound in Valines' leg is only a flesh wound a burn from the powder. Burglars' attempted to open the safe of the Westetrn Mechanical company at Los Angeles. Failing to dislodge the safe door after burning off the hinges, they broke into the company's garage, took out a truck, hoisted the safe through a skylight with the company's com-pany's tackle, hauled it to a canyon and rifled it of $1500 cash and Liberty bonds, after blowing off the doors. Widespread complaints by homecoming homecom-ing soldiers of exorbitant charges for service in Young Men's Christian association asso-ciation canteens overseas, will be referred re-ferred to the war department for investigation, in-vestigation, says a New York dispatch. dis-patch. Cardinal Gibbons in a statement issued is-sued at Baltimore, December 24, said he had no fear that socialism would become an issue to be dreaded in the period of reconstruction and that the good sense of the American working people would cheeky any social upheaval. up-heaval. The cost of living in New York state has increased 02 per cent since 1914, according to figures made public by the Consumers' League of New York. Dissolution of the American Protective Protec-tive league, with Its membership of 250,000 and branch organizations in nearly every city and town in the country, effective February 1, is announced an-nounced by the league's directors. The Kansas supreme court lias held that Frederick Shumaker of Wetmore, Nemaha county, must go to jail or pay a -fine, as the district court decrees, because he picked out a blacksmith ship in which to make unpatriotic remarks re-marks concerning the flag of the United States. The court held the shop to be a public: place. New York harbor's "whistle choru," ! which has screamed a noisy welcome to every transport returning with sol 1 dlers from overseas, has been ordered suspended as' a menace to navigation by Godfrey L. Garden, cnplain of ttuo port. Suits were begun In the federal j court at Boston on Friday by fifteen copper mining companies to recover ft lofal of !:s 1,000, which it is claimed the government Illegally assessed tT9 income taxes b'etweeu the years 1913 j and 1015. Ten great battleships', the vanguard of America's overseas armada, returning return-ing to home shores after eighteen months' service In European waters, reached New York Christmas evo. Five persons lost their lives and twenty-seven were injured, ten of them seriously, when a St. Louis & Irian Francisco freight train crashed into a passenger train at Norge, Okla. WASHINGTON. Currency and credit expansion during dur-ing the war, although to some extent unavoidable, was greater than necessary, neces-sary, in the opinion of the committee on war finance of the American Economic Eco-nomic association. A new issue of $750,000,000 or more of treasury certificates of indebtedness indebted-ness maturing in six months, was announced an-nounced Friday by Secretary of the Treasury Glass, in preparation for the fifth Liberty loan. Books will be open from January 2 to January 7 at federal fed-eral reserve banks. Legislation to make effective the wheat price guarantee for the 1919 crop and at the same time to safeguard safe-guard the government against losses has been recommended to congress by the department of agriculture and the food administration. Immediate legislation authorizing resumption re-sumption of voluntary enlistment in the army and the repeal of provisions of the selective service act limiting enlistments to the period of the war, is urged by Secretary Baker in a letter to Chairman Dent of the house military mili-tary committee. If congress determines to continue, the national guard as the army reserve of the nation, Secretary Baker has announced, an-nounced, the guard service will have to be reconstituted from the ground up. ' The capital issues committee of the treasury, the government's war agency for the suppression of unessential security se-curity issues, has announced that it would suspend activities' on December 31 and remain inactive until dissolved, dis-solved, unless called back into service by developments'. FOREIGN. Six thousand stockings filled with candy, tobacco and other articles were distributed on Christmas day to American Ameri-can troops stationed in the vicinity of Archangel by the American Red Cross. "" ' A German press report reaching the state department Friday said the manufacture of ammunition in Germany Ger-many will stop December 31. The Russian situation has been the subject of earnest discussion by the representatives at Paris of the associated asso-ciated nations, but so far as has been made known none of the governments has put forward any definite plans. The understanding is that the whole subject will be left to the peace conference. con-ference. Diplomats at London are much interested in-terested in the sudden departure of Ignace Paderewski to Poland and somewhat puzzled by the rumor that a coterie of influential Poles desire the great pianist to accept the national na-tional leadership of his native country. coun-try. President Wilson was given a brilliant bril-liant reception in London on Thursday, Thurs-day, it being estimated two million people crowded the two miles of streets on which the procession was held. That the Germans hope to regain their colonies is indicated. In a dispatch from Berne, received through official channels', announcing that Dr. Self's recent resignation referred only to the foreign office and that he still retains the post of secretary of the colonies. The Belgian cabinet council, at. a sitting Tuesday under the presidency of the king, adopted a scheme of electoral reform intended to establish universal suffrage for the r ext elections. elec-tions. The personnel of the peace congress con-gress gradually is taking form, so that the American delegates express the hope that the various countries' delegates dele-gates will be announced and the delegates dele-gates arrive for the actual commencement commence-ment of the negotiations soon after the opening of the new year. Fourteen carloads of Christmas packages from the United States arrived ar-rived at Coblenz, Christmas. The "Belgian suite," reserved exclusively ex-clusively for royal guests until now, will be occupied by President and Mrs. Wilson during their stay In London. In the years of Its interesting history, it has had within its walls many crowned heads, one of the latest, but the least mentioned at Buckingham Palace, being the former German emperor. em-peror. German representatives have brought to Brussels from Cologne 380,000,000 marks in gold which is being restored by Germany-to Belgium. The armistice armis-tice with Germany provided for the return re-turn of the cash deposit of the National Na-tional Bank of Belgium, which was removed re-moved by the Germans. Russia's war casualties total 9,150,-000 9,150,-000 men, according to a telegram received re-ceived from Petrograd. Of this number num-ber 1,700,000 were killed. The disabled men number 1,450,000, while 3,500,000 otter soldiers were wounded. Tho Russians taken prisoner total 2,500,000. |