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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD CF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMO'JNTAIN. Tlio mayor of Denver has refused the poll lion presented him by a delegation Of Jenver m in isl its, asking for Hie Is sunnce of nn order closing nil stores, Churches, places of amusement anil nil Dflier estnlilisliineiirs open to tlio public pub-lic because of tlio Influenza epidemic. Wolfgang Tbiele, enemy alien being transferred from Kurt Itliss to Fort Douglas, Utah, leaped from n moving train at I .os Cerrillos, N. M., and nuido bis escape in the darkness. No coal famine threatens Salt Lake this winter. Though other states are Idvocnting the use of nil kinds of wood for fuel, increased coal car tonnage has prevented a shortage in Utah. The quorum of twelve apostles lias unanimously sustained Heber J. Grant as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Urant announced that he had chosen Anthon II. Lund and Charles V. Penrose Pen-rose as his first and second counselors, respectively. Two Seattle shipyard unions, with ibout 22,00(1 members, it became known Saturday, have voted to strike Deceni-ner Deceni-ner 0 as a protest against tlio execution execu-tion of Thomas J. Mooney, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, convicted of murdering a victim of a bomb explosion. Out of nil the millions spent by the ivnr department in the purchase of army supplies during the war, only a very small sum was--spoiit In the west, "rely more than $12,000,000 in nil, nnd J""" ,j , this total was spent lu two-nilrCts v the state of Washington. DOMESTIC. The representatives Of the UnltC. j States tit the pence cohferences will he: President Wilson, Hubert Lansing, secretary of state; Henry White, forni-?r forni-?r ambassador to France and Italy; K. M. House, and General Tusker II. Illiss, representative of the American tinny with the supreme war council at Versailles. John 15. Gei.lsbeek, consul for Holland Hol-land for the states of Colorado, Utah nnd New Mexico, announced' that lie had mailed his resignation to the Dutch legation at 'Washington because of his itovernmont's action in harboring the former German emperor and because of other nets of the Netherlands government govern-ment during the war. The governor of California has commuted com-muted to life Imprisonment the sentence sen-tence of death imposed, on Thomas J. Mooney for murder growing out of the Preparedness day bomb explosion in San Francisco on July 22, 1910, when rfn persons were killed and forty others Were Injured. Miss Evangeline Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army irf America, has made public a message of appreciation just received from General Pershing. -"The American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces thank you for all the noble work that the Salvation Army has done for them from the beginning." be-ginning." read the message. Harry K. Thaw, who has been in the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane in Philadelphia since March, 1017, was taken to Pittsburgh by his mother over Thanksgiving holiday, having been granted a temporary parole. Army demobilization plans have been changed so us to open the way for immediate return to civil life of officers who wish to resign and who can be spared from their commands. Answering a hurry call to a big bakery in Chicago, detectives found the entrance to the building barred by an armed man. Thinking him a robber, rob-ber, they fired and killed him. Later it developed he was Benjamin Fletcher, Fletch-er, a faithful night watchman, who was awaiting the arrival of the police. Representatives of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, meeting in Chicago Chi-cago and at Atlauta. Ga., voted to call n strike effective December 2, unless their original demands are granted by the railroad administration. Two thousand persons took part in a bear hunt in the heart of New York City on Thanksgiving day. during which one man died from excitement and two were injured before bruin was led to his cage In Central park, from tvhich it had escaped, at the end of a Short rope. ' ' Fourteen enemy-owned seats on the New York- Stock Exchange, the New Orleans Cotton ' Exchange, the New i'ork Cotton Exchange nnd other markets have been seized by A. Mit-rhell Mit-rhell Palmer, t!!en property custodian. A. 0. AVIdber, former city treasurer ut Sun Francisco, who absconded with 107,0)0 of the city's money while holding hold-ing office, died Thursday. He was penniless and death was attributed to alcoholism. Sixteen vessels, totaling 04 ,.'." deadweight dead-weight tons, were completed and delivered deliv-ered to the shipping board by American Ameri-can shipyards during the week ending November 22. All but one of these ships were steel. Chester M. Siniih, nn express messenger mes-senger on the Union Pacific railroad, who report eil that a masked bandit boarded and robbed his train near llcrsliey, Nell., has confessed to special spe-cial agents investigating the case that he committed the theft himself. Secretary Baker expects soon to submit sub-mit to congress a request that an appropriation ap-propriation be made to relieve war workers who will be released wdien reorganization re-organization of the war department to a peace basis begins. WASHINGTON. It cost l?."i,G45,000,(l00 to run the American army during the year ending June 30 last; $1,:8,000,000 for the navy nnd $1,316,000,000 for the civil government proper. The shipping board spent $8G2,000,000 and !?1S1,000,000 was paid out in pensions. Under instructions issued by Postmaster Post-master General Burleson, no letter mall will be accepted by postoffices in the United States for delivery to members of the American expeditionary forces without a return address on the envelope. enve-lope. Tlio program provisionally laid out for (lie coining session of congress indicates in-dicates that in the three mouths between be-tween December 4 and March 4 both senate nnd house will have about the busiest time in their history. President Wilson has definitely 'decided 'de-cided on four of the five envoys who will compose this nation's delegation to the peace conference. They are the president, Secretary of State Lansing, Col. E. M. House nnd Henry White, former ambassador to France. Notice that the country must prepare pre-pare for another intensive war loan campaign, probably in the latter part of April, was given by Secretary Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo in a letter to bankers explaining the treasury's program for floating certificates cer-tificates of indebtedness and bonds' during the next six months. 2;:5r'J Js. Banish, chairman of the war industries board, it was understood, under-stood, has been offered the post of secretary of the treasury to succeed Secretary McAdoo. FOREIGN. The former Empress of Germany arrived ar-rived at Amerongen at the ex-kaiser's place of exile on November 29, with twenty trunks. She seemed to be in high spirits. She was met by the wife of the German minister to Holland. The former emperor did not meet her at the station. It is announced that approximately 200 German submarines were destroyed during the war. The total number of all types built by the Germans is estimated es-timated to have been 300. Former Emperor Charles has been informed in-formed by the government at Vienna that he must leave Austria because of the counter revolutionary movement there, according to a Leipsic dispatch to the Politikin. David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, in a speech at Newcastle, New-castle, said the victory of the entente allies bad been due to ceaseless valor of their men and that it would be a lesson to anybody who, in the future thought they, as the Prussian war lords hoped, "could overlook this little lit-tle island in their reckoning." Austria's war losses total ?4,000,000. Killed alone number 17,000 officers.and S00.000 men. It is authoritatively learned that Great Britain's delegates to the peace conference w ill be : Premier Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law, Foreign Minister Balfour, and Viscount Heading. The Vienna government intends to bring to trial all persons responsible for the war, including Count Bereh-told, Bereh-told, Austro-Hungarian foreign minister minis-ter when the war 1 roUe out, and Count I Czernin, foreign minister at a later j period, according to an Exchange Tele-! Tele-! graph dspatch from Copenhagen. It is understood the question of the extradition of the former German emperor em-peror is being considered by British law officers of the crown, who are working in close co-operation with the French authorities. After an inspection of the German battleships and cruisers held by the entente and final settlement of their ownership by the peace conference, all the vessels probably will be sunk, as apparently there is no disposition on the part of the entente to risk the controversies con-troversies that wiild be likely in cast of an attempted division of them, says a London dispatch. A number of American submarine chasers, accompanied by the parent ship Buckneil, have left Queensto'vn. The Bosphorus having been cleared of mines, allied warships have entered the Black sea and visited various ports from Varna around the southern coast j to Novorossyuk. |