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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED' NUN RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Hsppenlngg That Are Making History I Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMO'JNTAIN. Oflicers lit Ciunp Lewis estimated tlmt more than 10.OIH) soldiers will he sent. I'rciin this cuinp either to C'tiiiip Keiirn.v, ( 'ul.. of the I'resiilio, Kan Francisco, for mustering out under orders or-ders reeeiveil I'roni the war department thut. nil ('iilil'oriiinns, Arlzoniiins and Neviidans there he sent lo one of I hose two rumps Instead of being discharged lit Cninii Lewis. Word of the appointment hy General I'orshing of Dr. .lames ('. Craves of . Seattle, n major in the medical corps of the United .States army in France, us one of the ten physicians and sill genus to represent this country at an Inler-allied conference upon the problem prob-lem of the disabled soldier, lias been I received. A complete survey of positions in Utah open to discharged soldiers will be made by the authorities of Camp J.ewis, Wash., the state council of defense de-fense and the local bureau of the federal fed-eral employment bureau. The president, secretary' and assistant assist-ant cashier of the defunct Merchants bank at Salt Lake have been indicted by a grand jury of tlie crime of receiving re-ceiving deposits .In nn Insolvent bank, knowing tlmt the bank was insolvent. Twenty mining companies of Utah are to bring suit against the state for !f1,'.lSl paid as mine occupation taxes, the suit being to test the validity valid-ity of the mine occupation tax law .passed hy the last legislature. John II. Oriidlebnugli, prominent Oregon newspaper man, pioneer miner and frontiersman, who shared the early life in many sections of the west, died at his home at Salem, Ore., December De-cember IT, He was 70 years old. DOMESTIC. Tn? British schooner Pauline Martin, Mar-tin, leaking and rudderress, floundered for weeks in terrific gales in mid-At-lantic before her crew was rescued, according ac-cording to her skipper, Captain Wayte, and his six seamen, who arrived ar-rived at New York aboard the Swedish Swed-ish steamship Elizabeth. In its first report an the part it is playing in restoring war workers' and discharged soldiers to peace time industry, in-dustry, the United States employment service announced that, during the week ending December 7, jobs were found for 81,284 applicants who registered. regis-tered. Francis ("Silk") O'Loughlin,. famous ns an American league umpire, died at his apartment at Boston, December 20, after a short illness of influenza and pneumonia. O'Loughlin had been an umpire liv. the American league since Its organization and he had long been rated as one of the picturesque figures " in the baseball world. f Bernard Xndnl Baker of Baltimore, shipping expert, died at a hospital tit Santa Barbara, Oil., following an illness ill-ness of three days. Mr. Baker canie west on advice of his physicians. He was formerly a member of the shipping ship-ping board and retired at the time of the controversy with -William Deiiman. The United States army transport Henry It. Mallory arrived at New York on Friday with 4-101 American soldiers from Bordeaux. Nine hundred hun-dred and one of the men were sick or wounded. - '.';Mir -"groes, two of them women, accused oi the murder of Dr. E. L. Johnston, were taken from the jail at Shubuta, Miss., and lynched, according to information received at Mobile. Dr. D. M. Tixley. mayor of North Little Hock, and Lieut, l'aul Grabiel were acquitted of charges of arson in circuit court at Little Bock, Ark. The charge grew out of the burning last February of the clubhouse of the Army Athletic association, of which Lieutenant Lieuten-ant (irabiel was manager and in which Mayor l'ixley was alleged to have been Interested. Representatives of agriculture, industry, in-dustry, labor and business from eighteen eight-een states will meet ill Omaha, February Febru-ary 4, 5 and 6 next, when the Trans-Mississippi Trans-Mississippi Readjustment congress convenes there. With a bullet wound through the head, the body of Dr. Louis Alvarez Calderon, consul of Peru in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, was found in his apartment In Sau Francisco. A pistol was found close by the body. The construction division of the army has been ordered by the war department depart-ment t" irliaudoii work on the reclamation reclam-ation I'A Paso, Texas. I Balnbrldge Colby, of the United I States shipping board, In nn address ut Detroit advocated the placing of the millions of tons of shipping built by the government as a war emergency measure Into the bands of prlcate concerns con-cerns for operations either through lease or purchase. Bandits blew open the vault In the Bank at Craiiliy, ut (Irangy, Mo., and escaped with $15,1X10 worth of unregistered unregis-tered Liberty bonds. No m.nry was taken, as the robbers were frightened away before they succeeded in reaching reach-ing the money containers. ' Six unmasked men in a touring ear held up Frank H. Brown, paymaster of the General Kleciric company, robbed linn of !j;i2,."il)i), the weekly pay roll .of the company's steel foundry at Everett, Ever-ett, Mass., and escaped ftom a thickly populated neighborhood after .-booting and seriously wounding the paymaster as he sat helpiess, with bis hands held over his head. WASHINGTON. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican leader, In an address to the senate December 20. advocated postponement of the formation of a leagiitt of nations until after the peace conference. He said the question should be considered separately and later. . Cancellation of all flour-milling regulations, reg-ulations, Including fair price schedules and the price and quantity restrictions on the sale of wheat flour by millers, which officials expect will result lii cheaper flour, was formally announced December 'M by the food administra tion. More than forty new Improvement projects are included in the 11)20 rivers and harbors bill, which was completed by the house committee. The measure meas-ure carries, appropriations totaling ?2G,!XJ5,000. Tll senate has ratified n trade treaty between this country and Guatemala, Guate-mala, designed to aid in the development develop-ment of commerce between the United States ami Guatemala. Bonuses allowed seamen for entering enter-ing the once submarine-infested waters of Europe will be discontinued after December 22, the shipping board has announced. Inauguration of hearings on railroad rail-road legislation January 2 to be conT eluded as soon as possible and distinct from house or joint congressional committee com-mittee inquiries, has been decided upon by the senate interstate commerce committee. Each soldier honorably discharged j is to he furnished with two scarlet ! chevrons, to be worn on the left sleeve. as a recognition of his service to the country, Secretary Baker has nn-. i nounced. I - There will be no general public building next year. The" house buildings build-ings committee so decided on a tie vote. FOREIGN. When the total German casualties are, published, the number of dead will be about two million, according to the i Cologne Gazette of November 25, a copy of wliich has been received here. Up to October 25 the total casualties, reported were G,0GG,7G!), of wuom more than 4,750,001) were Prussians. King George has cancelled arrangements arrange-ments providing that he should go to Saiidringham palace for Christmas, "LHl "ill I'2;U2'n 'n London to welcome I President Wilson. A German mine which had. been j planted in a bridge at Guise has been ! exploded, killing fifteen and wounding twenty-live. The explosion occurred j more than . a month atfer the urni-! urni-! istice. . ' , King Victor Emnianual of Italy, accompanied ac-companied by his son, -the Prince of Piedmont, arrived in Paris Wednesday and was welcomed by the president and other officials. Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary and four of his children are suffering from influenza, nccordlng to a telegram from Vienna. The German government headed by Friederich Ebert has resigned us a result re-sult of events of Tuesday, according to a dispatch received at Zurich from Stuttgart. The German government has decided to convoke a conference of representatives represen-tatives of all the states of the former empire on December 29 to elect a president pres-ident of the German republic, according accord-ing to a Berlin report. The constant worry of the last five weeks. and his virtual imprisonment In Count Bentinck's castle here have changed William Hohenzollern's appearance ap-pearance considerably. IBs face has become ashen, his hair and mu6tache gray and his features deeply lined, according ac-cording to Holland advices. Food conditions in Bulgaria are good, according to late reports, this being especially true of the country districts. In the cities food is available avail-able to all having the means to pay the high prices asked. Clothing, however, how-ever, Is scarce. Damage caused by the burning of the lower house at the Hampton Koads, Vn.. naval base will not exceed $50,000, the navy department announced an-nounced Friday on estimates received from the commandant . |