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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD Or THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Maklig History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Glvsn in a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. The Mountain Slates Telephone & Telegraph company has made application applica-tion to Ihe public utilities coininission to continue the rates charged for service ser-vice inaugurated by l'ostniasler General Gen-eral Iturleson, which have been in force since the lines were returned to 1he company. Members of the Anieircun Legion at Spokane are being sworn in as special policeman lo meet what was declared to be an Invasion of KHIO to 2000 members mem-bers of the Industrial Workers of the World, due to arrive from Montana ami other parts of Ihe northwest. A flag of the Irish republic was removed re-moved from the automobile of Kumonn de Yalcra, president of the Irish republic, re-public, at I'ortland, by request of a parly of former service men beaded by Knsign A. T. Kurtz. The Spokane railroad machinists' union, with a membership .said to number num-ber 300, have voted to strike unless recent wage demands of -SO , cents an hoar are granted In the present conference of railroad craftsmen with Director General Hines. Fifty alleged I. W. W. members were arrested at Seattle on November 12. The arrests at Seattle brought the total for the state of Washington on that date to 107. It is believed n lTttln-Ki' lTttln-Ki' of I hi o arrested will be deported. Four returned soldiers were killed li nil six others wounded when it volley of shots was poured from the I. V. W. iieadtiuarters building as the returned soldiers were marching through the streets at Centralia, Wash., Armistice Armis-tice day. Sixteen suspects have been en tight, DOMESTIC. Machinery for industrial justice wblch would prevent the interruption of services ser-vices essential to the community was advocated by Charles 10. Hughes in an address at I'ittsburg on "the antidote for l'.olshevisni," at the World's Christ-:in Christ-:in Cili.enship conference. An average increase of 40 per cent in the salaries of Methodist ministers throughout the country to meet the mounting cost of living and establishment establish-ment (if "minimum salaries" is announced an-nounced by i In.' centenary conservation committee of the Methodist Episcopal church. tinkled by an opinion rendered recently re-cently by Slate Attorney General U. S. Webb, the state board of education has rejected a plan submitted by Aumond V. David of l'.rawley, Imperial county, California, for teaching of l'.ible lessons les-sons in ihe public schools of California. An unmasked bandit entered the Trinity County bank at Weaverville, Cal.. locked the cashier in a vault and ileparted with between $12,000 and. fio.uoo. Following the entry of a decree in the United States court enjoining federal fed-eral officers from enforcing the war prohibition law, saloons in Providence. K. I., began at once the sale of 4 per cent beer. Judge Arthur L. Brown in the federal fed-eral district court at Providence, R. I., issued a temporary injunction against Harvey A. linker. United States attorney, at-torney, and George A. Shuunessy, collector col-lector of internal revenue, restraining them from enforcing the provisions of the wartime prohibition act. Senator Thomas S. Martin, the Democratic Dem-ocratic leader in the senate, died ;Tt Charlottesville, Va., November 12, after an illness of several months. He was 72 years old. Dissolution of the American junior naval and marine scouts is announced by ihe directors as the result of a controversy with the secretary of the nvy. A national labor ticket for the coming com-ing presidential election will be nominated nom-inated in Chicago by a convention that will meet November 22, John Fitz-putriok, Fitz-putriok, president of the Chicago Federation Fed-eration of Labor, has announced. 1'. C. llarlcy, chairman of the Western West-ern States Agricultural Development committee, in an address before the National Drainage congress, at St. Louis, advocated utilization of Chinese labor to solve the labor problem and reduce the living cost. Mis. F. W. Woohvorth, widow of the late head of the chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, will receive an income of S I n.000 a year from her husband's estate. A combined celebration of Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day and Armistice day, both nationally and internationally, was suggested In resolutions adopted by the American Farm Bureau federation, which adjourned Its Chicago session to March U, 1020, when a permanent organization will be perfected. For the first time since July 1, when wartime prohibition went into effect, whiskey openly was sold In Louisville, Ky on Thursday, without interference interfer-ence by the federal authorities. Camp Mills, on Long Island, where the famous Itainbow division trained, lias been sold to the Chicago Wrecking company for $281,000. Work will begin be-gin Immediately on the dismantling of Ihe cantonment. Two Cerman submarines cut the cable between this country and England Eng-land just outside New York harbor in tile spring of 1018, but the break was spliced by experts within twelve hours, it lias just been announced. WASHINGTON. A maximum wholesale price of 10 cents a pound for all beet sugars at all points in the United States has been established by the department of justice. jus-tice. Despite the high price charged, butter but-ter consumers are in many cases getting get-ting large percentages of water, salt and coloring materials, officials of the bureau of chemistry, agricultural department, de-partment, announce. The design for the "Victory Medal" to be given to every American who took part in the world war, has been approved by Secretary Baker. James E. Frazier, a New York sculptor, designed de-signed the medal, which will be bronze about the size of a silver dollar. Kailwny workers scored a complete victory in the house on Friday through incorporation of their plan for voluntary volun-tary conciliation of labor disputes in the Esch bill. The reservation to article X of tie league of nations covenant was adopted adopt-ed Thursday by the senate, with a majority ma-jority of thirteen votes. The roll call showed forty-six senators voting on the reservation and thirty-three against it, all the negative votes being cast by Democrats. The uTi'r department has received 40,000 requests from relatives for return re-turn of the bodies of soldier dend in France, Col. E. W. Anderson, assistant city attorney of Richmond, Va., told the house foreign affairs committee. FOREIGN. A bureau to promote tourist travel from Europe to America will be opened in Taris shortly, according to an announcement an-nouncement made at the annual meeting of the superintendents of national na-tional parks at Denver. Countess Leo Toltsol, widow of the famous Russian novelist, died at Yas-naya Yas-naya I'oliana, November 4, according to a dispatch from Helsingfors. Pan-Gorman students refused to permit per-mit Field Marshal von Hindenburg to enter the Reichstag building to testify before the subcommittee which is investigating in-vestigating war responsibilities, and forced the field marshal's chauffeur to return Willi the former commander in chief to his home. The delay in ratifying the peace treaty is keeping 1000 soldiers of the American army of occupation from marrying German girls to whom they are engaged, says a Paris dispatch. The frozen bodies of several Austrian Aus-trian artillerymen perfectly preserved, have been discovered by St. Bernard dogs in an alpine trench near the summit sum-mit of Stelvio pass, about 10,000 feet above sea level. Monopolies on tobacco, mining and forest concessions are being sought in Ecuador by Italy, according to a cablegram cable-gram received from Ecuador. The linkers of Havre have decided to close their stores as a protest against the new price officially fixed for the sale of bread. Arrangements have been made to supply the population with bread from army bakeries. A plot has been discovered at Tul-can, Tul-can, Ecuador, to overthrow the government, govern-ment, A store of arms and ammunition ammuni-tion has been captured by the authorities. author-ities. The headquarters of the conspiracy con-spiracy is believed to be in Colombia. Authoritative advices on the Russian Rus-sian military situation show that the anti-Bolshevist forces have been compelled, com-pelled, nearly everywhere, to assume the defensive, owing to the Increase in the Bolshevist forces. The former German emperor assumed as-sumed formal possession of the house at Doom, Holland, which he purchased some time ago, when the keys were handed over to him Friday of last week. The fall of Ignace Paderwski as premier of Poland is rendered imminent. immi-nent. The peace conference has been notilivd that he will be replaced at conference meetings by Stanlius I'atek, illness being given as the cause. The disappearance of young white children who are believed to have been carried off by negroes and sacrificed in Voodoo rites has greatly excited public pub-lic opinion in Cuba, and for the first time since the cessation of Spanish rule 'uses of lynching have occurred. |