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Show HEWS OF 11 WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Kistory Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. Four hundred members of the Bonneville Bon-neville club were hotn at Salt Lake on January 29 to Charles W. Fair-hanks, Fair-hanks, former vice president of the United States, at an elaborate dinner in observance of the birth of William McKinley. The state public utilities commission commis-sion will investigate with a view to readjustment, the passenger fares of all railroads in Colorado. St. Mary's hospital, at Walla Walla, Wash., a large frame structure, was burned to the ground. Forty-five patients pa-tients were in the institution, one of them on the operating table, but all were rescued. The fire started on the second floor. The loss is estimated at JjO.OOO. Polce Sergeant R. H. Stahl died at Portland of a pistol wound received Wednesday night while testing the wakefulness of a patrolman, who mistook mis-took Stahl for a burglar. Burglars killed a scrub woman at a restaurant in Salt Lake City when she found them rifling a cash register. regis-ter. The interstate commerce commission commis-sion has further suspended from January Jan-uary 29 to July 29, 1915, the proposed increases in passenger rates from points on the Oregon Short Line via Salt Lake or Ogden, and the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, by the cancellation can-cellation of this route as to traffic moving to Denver and points beyond. DOMESTIC. Howard Snyder, the oil man who killed his wife, Lorena Beresford Snyder, Sny-der, in a sanitarium at Houston, Texas, died from poison he swallowed aftr the crime. William B. Warwick, a private in company G, Sixteenth infantry, was instantly killed by a bullet at El Paso, Texas. The soldier was lying in his tent near the river when the stray bullet struck him. Captain Frank H. Ainsworth, awarded award-ed a medal by congress for planting the first American flag on Cuban soil, after the outbreak of the Spanish-American Spanish-American war, and for five years inspector in-spector of ini'inigration in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, has received notice of dismissal. dis-missal. J. T. Butler and H. W. Legleitner, two of the men convicted in the Indianapolis In-dianapolis dynamiting trial, have been tentatively paroled from Leavenworth Leav-enworth penitentiary by the federal parole 'board. Both men were said to be ill. Agreement to arbitrate the wage controversy which has kept 15.000 coal miners in the Ohio field out of work since April has been arrived at. Three mililon acres of desert land have been made to bloom and produce pro-duce good crops since the government instituted its reclamation department in 1902, C. J. Blanchard, statistician of the reclamation and forest conservation conser-vation service told the Southwestern Lumber Dealers' association in convention con-vention at Kansas City. The New York chamber of commerce com-merce has adopted a resolution recommending recom-mending that the United States government, gov-ernment, to encourage the upbuilding of an American merchant marine, determine de-termine the difference in cost between be-tween operating American ships by American standards and ships flying other flags, and pay the difference in the cost to the owners of American vessels. Formal opening ceremonies at the Panama canal probably will be postponed post-poned from March to July and President Presi-dent Wilson will go to San Francisco by rail in March and to Panama later when the naval review will be held. Harry K. Thaw pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy under which he was brought to New York from New Hampshire. His trial was set for February 23. Meanwhile he is to remain a prisoner in the Tombs, his counsel having agreed not to apply ap-ply for bail. The fleet of German liners tied up at their docks in Hoboken since the beginning of the war blossomed out on January 27, with German and American flags and with red, white and black bunting in observance of Emperor William's birthday. Edward Bright, an American citizen citi-zen arrested at Goetingen, Germany. October 17, charged with being a spy, and held in prison until the early part of January, has arrived at Xew York. Eugene EL Schmitz, who was mayor of San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake and fire, has announced an-nounced his intention of running for the office again next spring. He says he wants to be vindicated, and' also desires to make the coast city a wide open town. Governor Manning in a special message mes-sage to the South Carolina legislature asked appointment of a committee to investigate the disappearance of the records of Governor Blease's administration, adminis-tration, all of which, he said, had been removed from the capitol. Jose Nosasco, former director of public works of Santo Domingo, has settled the fiS.O'M shortage in his accounts ac-counts with the Dominican government govern-ment by paying over $3,000 to the prosecuting attorney and giving his notes for the remainder. The grand jury at New York has returned re-turned two indictments charging murder mur-der in the first degree against .Mrs. Ida Sniffen Rogers, who was the associate asso-ciate of Lorlys Elton Rogers, and alleging al-leging that she poisoned lier two babies. Orders have been issued by the II. G. Frick Coke company to fire immediately imme-diately l.nijij coke ovens that have been idle at Connellsviile. Pa., a year or more. About 1.000 men will be Kiven employment five days a week in twenty plants scattered throughout the region. Six thousand men employed by the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company and the Calumet & Arizona Mining company 41 Arizona will be placed on a sliding wage scale February. Feb-ruary. The present wage scale will be established as a minimum. WASHINGTON. Another confident prediction that the country will enter upon a new era of enterprise and prosperity was voiced by President Wilson in a speech before the convention of the American Electric Railway association. associa-tion. Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Burton of Ohio were named by former Senator Bailey of Texas as 1916 presidential pres-idential possibilities, in an address at Washington. The house immigration committee voted 4 to 3 to report the immigration bill, vetoed by President Wilson, back to the house with the recommendation recommen-dation that it be passed over his veto. In a final appeal in the house for a larger navy, Representative Hobson of Alabama declared it was his firm conviction that the United States has secured peace with Japan only by giving giv-ing assurances of speedy retirement from the Philippines. Formal announcement of the postponement post-ponement of opening ceremonies at the Panama canal from March until some time in July has been made by Secretary Daniels. President Wilson has vetoed the immigration bill because of the literacy lit-eracy test for admission of aliens. FOREIGN. A casualty list issued at London shows that the British armored merchant mer-chant vessel Viknor, which was lost off the coast of Ireland several days ago, carried a crew of 528, all of whom were lost. A dispatch reaching Berlin from Hamburg says that all British colonials colon-ials in that city, with the exception for the time being of the Australians, have been arrested and transported to Ruhleben. The report conies from Geneva, Switzerland, to the effect that General Pau, the noted French army commander, com-mander, had been sent to Russia to take over the command of one of the Russian armies in Poland. The evacuation of Mexico City and redistribution of forces has resulted in no injury to foreigners, according to official reports thus far received. Five hundred children of soldiers from Berlin who fell in battle were made happy on Wednesday of last week by the receipt of their share of the Christmas presents sent to Europe Eu-rope by children of America. The Austrian government has decid ed to organize a grain monopoly on similar lines to that established by Germany. The Austrian minister of agriculture announces that the army has procured supplies of grain sufficient suffi-cient to last until 'he end of August. Fifty Greek villages around Kars in South Transcaucasia, have been laid in ruins by the Turks. The flight of the Greek inhabitants was precipitate and the women and children are said to have suffered intensely from the cold weather. A royal decree has been issued calling call-ing to the cilors the Italian soldiers of the first category born in 188S and belonging to the field artillery, and also the Alpina troops and the soldiers of the third category, born in 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894, belonging to the Alpine troops. Provisional President Garza 4 has evacuated Mexico City and the city has been occupied by Gen. Alvado Obregou, the Carranza leader, at the head of his troops. The orders of the Austro-Hungarian government for the mobilization of the last line of reserves has brought about a serious rising among the southern Slavs, according to uncensored dispatches dis-patches reaching Geneva from Austrian Aus-trian sources. The kaiser's birthday was celebrated celebrat-ed quietiy throughout Germany on January 27. The people apparently adopted as their moto. "Business as usual." The only celebrations allowed allow-ed were religious, at which sermons were preached, urging the importance i of all the people remaining uuued and j predicting that the kaiser would see the war to a successful conclusion. A statement issued by the Turkish army headquarters at Constantinople announces that the Ottoman troops, in a new offensive movement in the Caucasus, Cau-casus, have defeated the Russians near Olti. a town fifty-five miles west of Kars. The Russians, according to the Turkish statement, lost considerao;e war material. Reports from Mexico City that Provisional Pro-visional President Garza had requested request-ed the elimination of the Zapata brothers as heads of the division of the south caused no mild excitement among Villa partisans. |