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Show n z j History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E INTERMOUNTAIN. Si. Luke's hospital, one (if the larg Put in Scaf.lli', was partly destroyed f)y fire Sunday. Soon after the fire Htjirteil the firemen reported that all of the eighty or ninety patients hail been removed safely from the burning tiuilding. Two wealthy Philadelphia men, Beven train and dining car men and one woman were injured when a special spe-cial Rio Cranrle train on its way to Durango, Colo., overturned on the wigo of a high cliff at Bell's siding, twenty miles above Durango. Salt Lake was chosen for the 1918 meeting place of the American National Na-tional Live Stock association at the Cheyenne meeting. The Utah city won over Kansas City, Mo. A resounding kiss, implanted on the executive lips in full view of a number num-ber of persons assembled to witness the governor's action, was the reward Mrs. John B. Kendrick gave Governor Kendrick for signing the bill submitting submit-ting prohibition to the people of Wyoming. Wyo-ming. Jacob Robinson, aged 20, was killed in a snowslide twenty miles north of Dubuque, Colo. Dolores Alattson, arrested at Denver charged with passing worthless checks, has been returned to her home in Ogden, Utah. Her mother has made good the checks and paid all her daughter's obligations. The Wyoming senate has passed a bill submitting prohibition as a constitutional con-stitutional amendment to the people or the state In 1918. The bill now goes to the house. A joint resolution has been introduced intro-duced in the Utah legislature directing direct-ing and empowering the governor of the state to assume control of the .shipments of coal over all common carriers in Utah and to call upon the military and police powers of the state for aid in this work if necessary. DOMESTIC. More than 25,000 national guardsmen guards-men now on the Mexican border have (been designated by Major General Funston for, return home and muster out of the federal service. Four men were killed outright and one fatally injured when a Michigan Central east-hound train struck an automobile near Jackson, Mich. On account of a blinding snowstorm, the driver of the car did not see the approaching ap-proaching train. Three Americans were members of the crew of the British steamer Yar-rowdale, Yar-rowdale, captured by the German raider raid-er and taken into a German port toy a prize crew, according to the records of the British consulate at New York .City. John P. Brazelton, former wealthy .mining man and widely known in Montana Mon-tana political circles, died in Oak .Park, a suburb of Chicago, from a self-inflicted self-inflicted bullet wound. Earl Henry, chief of the department uf mines, has announced that 375 miners min-ers had been killed in the mines of the state of West Virginia during 1916. A gun fight between two alleged ban robbers and a posse near Oke-juan, Oke-juan, Okla., resulted in the death of a .deputy sheriff, the killing; of one of the men pursued and the capture of the second man after he had been wounded. Dr. W. T. Stell, an American physician physic-ian of Guerrero, who was reported executed ex-ecuted by the Villa troops that entered the town October last, reached the American lines several days ago, according ac-cording to arrivals at Columbus, N. M., from Mexico. Seventy-three lives and fourteen vessels ves-sels were lest on the Great Lakes during dur-ing 1916, according to the annual re-part re-part of the Lake Carriers' association, made public at Detroti. This casualty record is the most serious since 1913. Charles Crawford of Ottumwa., Iowa, charged in court at Omaha with aiding and abetting the passing of raised checks in Omaha, :vas 'ound guilty in the Untied States court and sentenced to ten years in the federal penitentiary peniten-tiary on each of six .counts, the sentence sen-tence to run concurrently. It is announced that the withdrawal of Major General Pershing's troops from Mexico and the sending of Ambassador Am-bassador Fletcher to the Mexican capital can be expected in the near future. , The freight car shortage, which in November was becoming increasingly serious, has decreased nearly 50 per cent since that time, according to figures fig-ures for January 1, 1917, which the American Railway association has just made public. Jack Beaton, I. W. W. organizer, was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail at Phillips, Wis., on being convicted of carrying concealed -weapons. Deer are being killed in such numbers num-bers in the United States that the day is not far off when none will be seen outside of the state estuaries and parks, it is charged. A man known to the police at St. Louis as Charles Dowling shot and wounded Mrs. H. Gerreald, 23 years of age, so seriously physicians -say she will die, and then committed suicide. An anonymous irift of $135,000 to th " Polish relief fund was announced al New York on January 20. It was de dared to be a new record for war ro lief contributions from unidentified donors. Oliver lirower, indicted at New York for conspiracy in connection with the kidnaping charge's against Harry K. Thaw by Fred Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, has been released in $1.0, UO0 bail without opposition from the district attorney. The pangs of hunger drove Law- rence Southall, aged 1-1, a Chicago or ' phan, to murder Charles II. James, a ' car inspector who had b-friended hire at Cleveland, O., the boy confessed - say police. I WASHINGTON. Immediate withdrawal of "a sub stantial number" of national guards : men from the border has been or dered by the war department anc General Funston now is selecting th( . units to be sent home. The interstate commerce commis sion took drastic steps on January 21 to relieve the shortage of coal, refrig erator, heater, ventilated and insulatec cars. It served notice upon the rail roads that unless they should appoini a committee within ten days, vested with plenary powers, to co-operate in relief measures, the commission would act independently. Admiral George Dewey, hero of the battle of Manila tu.y and the world's ranking naval officer, was buried at Arlington National cemetery January 20 after solemn ceremonies, reflecting the nation's final tribute ,of honor and affection. . 'Members of the senate steering committee com-mittee were earnestly urged by President Presi-dent Wilson on Friday to get into lively live-ly action on administration legislative measures so that the entire program of reforms advocated by the president when he entered the White House might be on the statute books by March 4. An omnibus public buildings bill, which President Wilson has given notice no-tice he will veto, was passed 'by the house, 234 to 92. It carries $38,000,-000. $38,000,-000. FOREIGN. An alleged swindle, estimated 'by different newspapers as amounting from 3,000,000 to 10,000,000 francs, was disclosed in the arrest at Paris of Philippe Simeoni, of Italian origin, and Prince Henri de Brogli-Revel. Lieutenant Colonel William Campbell Camp-bell 'MacDonald was killed and a score of others were injured when an engine en-gine backed into a troop train carrying carry-ing '500 soldiers as it was leaving the union station at Toronto. The purchase in the United States of refrigeration equipment to the value of $30,000,000 to conserve and develop along economic lines the fresh beef and dairy industries of Russia has been authorized by the Russian-American Russian-American Conservation & Industrial Stock company. The British ministry of munitions has issued an appeal for 8000 more women to work in munition factories. The need of them is declared to be urgent "for the output of munitions must not toe delayed for a day by any lack of labor." Capture of the town of Nanesti, on the Sereth river, "by Fie!d Marshal von Mackensen's troops Friday is the latest important development on the war fronts. Paul Meunier, deputy for the department depart-ment of the Aube, has introduced in the French chamber of deputies a hill requiring newspaper publishers to limit the size of their editions during the war and unt'l three months after, the cessation of hostilitiies, to a total surface of 186 square nches. To the end of 1916 the direct money cost of the great war totaled, according accord-ing to the most reliable figures available, avail-able, over $61,000,000,000, and expenditures ex-penditures are now at the rate of no less than $105,000,000 a day. More than 428,000 officers and men were taken prisoner by the Russians during the last year and 525 guns captured, cap-tured, according to a Russian service organ, as quoted in a Central News dispatch from Petrograd. Word comes from Ambassador El-kus El-kus at Constantinople that the number num-ber of Americans seeking to leave Syria and Palestine has grown from a few hundred to more than a thousand. thou-sand. After a tramp of eight days across the Sonora desert, Lieutenant Robertson Robert-son and Lieutenant Colonel Bishop, the missing United States army aviators, avia-tors, were found Friday in a starving condition. General Ulrica Wille, commander of the Swiss ,army, wishes to mobilize all Switzerland's military forces, according accord-ing to a Berne dispatch to the Petit Parisien. The federal council is said to regard such a measure as excessive. A wreck on the Vienna-Triest railroad rail-road near the towns of Sagov and Tre-f Tre-f all, is reported in Vienna telegrams received by the Exchange Telegraph company, by way of Copenhagen Seven dead and fourteen injured persons per-sons have been extricated from the debris. The British steamer Yarrowdale was brought into harbor on December 31 as a prize by a prize crew of sixteen six-teen men, says an official statement issued at Berlin. Shortage of sugar in Denmark has forced the government for the first time in its history to adopt a card system sys-tem of purchase to reduce consumption. consump-tion. The advance of the Teutonic allies in Roumania apparently has been brought to a standstill, for the time being at least, by the reinforced Russians Rus-sians and Roumanians. |