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Show E i iistory or Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed -E5 INTERMOJNTAIN. Utah men, -members of the 145th field artillery, who went overseas to help put the kaiser in the scrap can, are in Camp Merritt, N. J, with only grievance the war ended before they had a ci.ance to fire a shot against the Germans. The 'Idaho Irrigation congress will meet at Twin Falls, January 13 to 1G, lo consider changes in Idaho's water code, and to make recommendations to the legislature for changes In existing laws. The discharge of more than 300 men, transferred to Camp Lewis, Wash., J'rom the Atlantic coast during the past week, will be delayed because of measles and scarlet fever, which developed de-veloped among them. The Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers in Montana will ask the coming com-ing legislature to pass a bill compelling compell-ing automobiles to stop at railroad crossings in an effort to reduce the number of accidents in that state. Mrs. Karma Ilayford, a former Ogden, Utah, girl, was found dead in to Pittsburg hotel, the 'body of her slayer, a Greek and formally owner of ' a restaurant in Salt Lake, being found beside her. Both were dead from bullet bul-let wounds. Boyd Tarbett shot himself in the ab- ! ! Captain Emery Hire, born in Boston I forty years ago, who commanded the j Mongolia, the first American .steamship .steam-ship lo sink a Henna!) submarine, and who made forty-one voyages across the Atlantic during the war, died Saturday Satur-day at the .New York navy yard hospital hos-pital of pneumonia, following influenza. influ-enza. i The influenza epidemic, which swept 1 the country during the hitler part of llastear, caused 111,088 deaths in the I forty-six largest cities and increased I the combined death rate for those communities in 1918 to 10. 0 per thousand. thou-sand. Japan will enter the peace conference confer-ence pledged-to a policy of peace and the "open door'' in the far east, in the maintenance of which she will welcome wel-come (he co-operation of the allies, Baron Nobauki Makino, of the Japanese Jap-anese peace commission, declared on his arrival at New York, on his way to the conference. WASHINGTON. With its holiday vacation ended, congress is expected to settle down to the task of clearing an unusually heavy legislative calendar before the session ends early in March. President Wilson has named Herbert C. Hoover, director general of an international in-ternational organization for the relief of liberated countries both neutral and enemy. Norman Davis, formerly on the staff of Oscar L. Crosby, special commissioner com-missioner of finance for the United States in Europe, will act as Mr. Hoover's assistant. Small change required to pay war taxes caused the government mints to produce 307,014,000 1-cent pieces in 191S, a record output, according to a report by Raymond T. Baker, director of the mint. War bills pouring into the treasury made the actual cash outgo in December De-cember .$2,000,000,000, the highest figure fig-ure reached, and for the last six months of the year the total was uomen ami men attempted to kill his wife, said to be suing for divorce, after a quarrel at the home of his wife's ; mother at Salt Lake. ' Two of the Anaconda Copper Min ing company's largest mines' at Butte, the Original and Leonard, were closed down Thursday for repairs, which will require several months. Approximately 1400 men were thrown out of work by the closedown. A convention of representatives of Presbyterian churches in Washington, Montana and Idaho will be held at Spokane, January IS and 19, to plan for the part of those states in the "new era" movement, of the Presbyterian Presby-terian church. DOMESTIC. Six hundred Mexicans refugees of all political factions, formed an organization organ-ization at El Paso, Texas, to. send delegates del-egates to Paris during the peace congress con-gress there. Delegates will be sent to President Carrauza, Francisco Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and other leaders in Mexico, with a view to obtaining a permanent peace in Mexico and the " ' repatriation of all political exiles in the United States and Europe. A republic now exists in Ireland and every force of the Irish people will be used to uphold it, Dr. Patrick McCar- $10,032,000,000, excluding transactions transac-tions in the principal of the public debt. Mexican laborers may be admitted to the United States up to and including includ-ing June 30, solely for employment in sugar beet production, under an order issued by Secretary Wilson. A protest against further shedding of American blood in Russia was made in the senate by Senator Johnson ot California. The senator called to the attention of the foreign relations committee, com-mittee, to press dispatches from Archangel, Arch-angel, telling of the advance of the allied troops in northern Russia. FOREIGN. American troops, fighting desperately near Kadish, have driven back Bolshevik Bolshe-vik troops which made an advance there. The Bolshevists also launched attacks on the Onega sector and bombarded bom-barded the allied front. The Americans Ameri-cans came into battle along the Petro-grad Petro-grad road and in the frozen swamps that border it. One million well-equipped Bolshevik troops are reported moving on Berlin. Drunk with their success in the regions through which they have been tearing, they intend to hoist the red flag over this capital. Violence reigns in Berlin. The wait- tan, known as the "envoy of the provisional pro-visional government of Ireland," declared de-clared in an address at a meeting held In New York. f Native Alaskans at Hydaburg are ' planning to, issue' their own newspaper. The government agent at the village has. purchased a printing plant -and announces thajt the natives will do all the mechanical work. Members of the Nebraska state council of defense have tendered their resignations to Governor Keith Neville, Ne-ville, who announced he would accept them. Signing of the armistice, the council held, made unnecessary further fur-ther work on its part. United States Judge Hollister dismissed dis-missed the case filed, in the federal court at Cincinnati to enjoin Governor James H. Cox from submitting to the Ohio legislature the national prohibition prohibi-tion amendment. Compilations just completed of Hawaii's war stamp subscription show S that on the last day of the year just closed the island's quota of $2,000,000 had been exceeded by $20,000. Short in accounts $55,000 to $60,000, James Grannan, cashier of a grain brokerage firm, of Chicago, and well ers are still on strike. They broke up various establishments in the Berlin Ber-lin suburbs and robbed one place of $75,000. A watchman was murdered in a prominent hotel and the place was robbed of $25,000. Count George F. von Hertling, the former imperial German chancellor, died Saturday night at Ruhpolding, Bavaria. He had been ill for six days. A second invasion of Belgium, this time by American capitalists, is reported report-ed imminent. An American syndicate is said to have been formed for the purpose of erecting mammoth, hotels for tourists who will visit the most sanguinary battlefields. William Hohenzollern, the former German emperor, has undergone a successful suc-cessful operation on one of his ears by Professor Lang of Amsterdam university. uni-versity. In parliament bouse at Rome on January 3, a joint reception was given President Wilson by the members of the senate and the chamber of deputies. depu-ties. The function was an impressive one. The large and distinguished gathering gave the president an ovation. ova-tion. A storm said to be the worst in years has seriously damaged several thous- known in La Salle street as "Jimmle," has surrendered to the police. Chicago led the nation, with 21,171 volunteers for military and naval service ser-vice for the period from January 1 last to August 8, when recruiting privileges were suspended, according to reports of local army and navy officers. It cost the American people about $18,100,000,000 to run its expensive war government and make loans to Hies in the year Ending December 31, according to computations from treasury treas-ury reports. The entire state of Florida became "dry" at midnight December 31, with Jtte taking effect of the recently adopted amendment to the state constitution con-stitution making sale, manufacture or transportation of liquor, wines or beer Illegal and providing heavy penalties for intoxication.. Railroads under federal control re-'' re-'' . ceived advances totaling $089,034,759 j from the railroad administration dur- 7 ing the first year of government operation, oper-ation, ending December 31, says an J announcement by Director General McAdoo. j California's plan to have a state- S-Wide celebration on Saturday, April 5, In honor of the men who went into the l fighting forces, Is lo be presented to the other states of the union for a ( possible national observance on that day, the state council of defense lias mnouneed. I and acres of agricultural land with loss of partly matured crops, in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. News has reached Sydney of the murder of,tvo white traders on one of the outlying islands of the New Britain group. The victims according to reports re-ports by the steamer Melusia. were surrounded sur-rounded by hordes of savages and butchered to death, the bodies being afterwards cooked and eaten. Many German airplanes were damaged dam-aged by the Germans when they evacuated evac-uated Cologne, according to reports from British correspondents in the British area of occupation. Thirty British soldiers were Injured when a locomotive in charge of German Ger-man railroad men ran Into a train of British troops on the Nannir-'Cbarleroi line in Belgium recently. l'osen is completely in the hands of the Poles, according to advices fioni Berlin. The official buildings are guarded by soldiers wearing German uniforms, but with their cockades replaced re-placed by the white eagle of Poland. Prince .Lvoff, the former Russian premier, from whom Foreign Minister PIchon obtained information of the massacre of the Imperial Russian family, fam-ily, as related in the French chamber of deputies last week, informs the Journal that he learned the detail from a judge who made an Investigation, Investiga-tion, of the deaths. |