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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IH CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Arc Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMC'JNTAIN. Six women wore on a jury at Seattle, -lilch funnel Alvin Adams, 20-yenr-old H ' 1 1 1 1 i- drafted from Kansas City, guilty if murdering M. It. llaymer, an automobile driver, near Redmond, Wash., last .7une. None Mil! less impressive because Miey were iiiimnineed to be of a private pri-vate nature, funeral sendees for Joseph F. Smilli, late president (if the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were held at Salt Lake City, November 22, during I lie noon hour. .lames I". Kolaney, express messenger, messen-ger, accused of conspiring with John M. Browning of Ogden, Utah; J. It. DeVine and Joseph Eeclos, Ogden attorneys at-torneys and others, to ship large qunn-tilies qunn-tilies of whiskey into Utah, a prohibition prohi-bition slate, pleaded guilty in the United Stales district court at San Francisco. ' According to officials of the Denver Tramway company, that city Is facing a certainty of 7-cent carfare and a possibility pos-sibility of an S-cent fare as the result of the wage awards made by the war labor board ill Washington. Attorney Hiram C. Gill, former Seattle Se-attle mayor, charged with unprofessional unprofes-sional conduct in connection with nc-MviMes nc-MviMes of a collection agency Ilia firm represented, is not to be barred from practicing law, according to a ruling made public by the Washington su-' su-' promo court. Victor J. McCone, former secretary of the Socialist party in Oregon, drove his automobile into the river at Portland Port-land .and was drowned, following his arrest on a statutory charge. Telegrams have been sent by the Seattle Se-attle Metal Trades council to the American Federation of Labor, asking that a general nation-wide strike be called as a protest against the execution execu-tion of Thomas J. Mooney, convicted of murdering one of the victims of a San Francisco bomb explosion. DOMESTIC. A majority of the nation's railroads plan to restore to employees who entered en-tered military and naval service the seniority r'ghts which they sacrificed when they lvft the roads' employment. Henry Ford has announced his retirement re-tirement from active participation in Mie management Of the Ford Motor company,-complete control of the Ford Interest in the company to be taken over by his son, Edsel. The American expeditionary forces will have all sick, wounded and convalescent con-valescent American soldiers back in the United States within two months. The number of hospitals in France has been considerably reduced already by the medical corps. Spread of Bolshevik doctrines in the United States lias been watched carefully care-fully by department of justice agents with a view to undertaking prosecu' Hons if the agitation develops into sedition, se-dition, officials declare. Removal of the war censorship restriction re-striction relating to publication of articles on naval matters was announced an-nounced Thursday by H. J. Chambers, chief press censor for Canada. The cable censorship continues. Close estimates made in official quarters indicate that total casualties in the American army in foreign service ser-vice up to the day hostilities ceased were about 103,000. Spanish influenza is taking a heavy v toll of the natives of Kokiak island, off the southern, coast of Alaska, according ac-cording to officers of a vessel arriving arriv-ing at Seattle from the north. The is-ands' is-ands' side physician left to join the army medical corps. Mexican bandits kidnaped and killed Klias Kayos, a Syrian peddler, according accord-ing to information received by the-sheriff's the-sheriff's office from Jose Guerre, a Syrian merchant of Sierra Bhinca, Tex. It was said liayes was overpowered, over-powered, taken across into Mexico and slain. Fo..d prices will drop, not through the lowering of the co-t of labor so much as by lower markets for raw material. This was agreed upon by siiiho of ihe larg-st food producers in AmiTiest. aiiem'.i.-.g tin- annual convention conven-tion of the Ar.:er;.-:m Siu-.-i.-i liy Mauu-laetiirer Mauu-laetiirer si.M-i;iti..n ft Cleveland. fiitirii il -rsicy. mentivr of a p -s seek. a; i . : : 1 1 : 1 : t s v!,i murdered James McKay. Jr., "f Prince Aiiitrt. S.-s';.. v.- s s'.-'m i'H'1 killed as he wis mi -no :i.g . .-titer :i t !!! in wbt !: 1 . . .1 A es al e bell! ved to lo I Regulations limiting the amount of bituminous coal stored by consumers were lified on November 21 by Fuel Administrator Garfield in conformity with the cancellation by the war industries indus-tries board of its preference list. Any industry or domestic consumer may now siore all the bituminous desired. Resolutions opposing "any extension j of credit by American banks to Germany Ger-many without the depositors' consent" wen? adopted at New York by the boy-coit boy-coit committee of the National Defense society. Rev. David Gerties, pastor of a RreMireii church in Whiteside county, was sentenced to ten years in the federal fed-eral prison by Judge K. M. Landis at Rockford, Ills. Gerdes was accused of preaching opposition to the Liberty loan and the lied Cross. He pleaded guilty. WASHINGTON. William Gibbs McAdoo, secretary of the treasury, director general of railroads rail-roads and often discussed as one of the presidential possibilities of 1020, has resigned his offices to return to private business. President Wilson has accepted his resignation. Mr. McAdoo Mc-Adoo will give up the treasury portfolio port-folio us soon as a successor has been selected. Continuation of the national war labor board until the pence treaty has been signed is highly desirable, Secretary Secre-tary Wilson has' informed joint Chairmen Chair-men William H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh in a letter in answer to their request that the board be discontinued as soon as awards have been made in the labor cases pending. Investigation of the alleged disloyal speech of Senator La Follette of St. Paul more than a year ago was abandoned aban-doned by the senate elections committee commit-tee on a vote of 9 to 2. America's naval strength will be about twice as great by 1920 as it was in 1917, the year the United States entered en-tered the world war, it was brought out before the house naval committee in considering the 1920 naval appropriation appropri-ation bill, The second session of the sixty-fifth, or "war," congress, which began last December 3, ended at 5 p. m. Thursday, November 21, under a resolution which had been adopted earlier in the day by the senate, 41 to 18, and by the house without objection. Congress will reconvene December 2. FOREIGN. From a special investigation in western west-ern Germany, the correspondent of the Daily Mail at The Hague has ascertained ascer-tained there is considerable hostility against the former emperor and his eldest son. The correspondent says after William Hohenzollern entered Holland a thousand German soliders arrived at the frontier and demanded they be allowed to pursue and kill him. They were turned -back by Dutch frontier guards. I An explosion of munitions trains' at the station of Haniont, in Belgium,-! Belgium,-! Thursday, caused casualties estimated to be between 1500 and 2000. One hundred and fifty dead already have been counted. Entente troops are marching on Kiev, according to advices to newspapers in Switzerland. General SkOl'opadski, Ukrainian dictator, has surrendered, and General Denikine, leader of anti-Bolshevist anti-Bolshevist forces, has been named his successor, with the consent of the en-tent en-tent nations, it is said. President Wilson is expected to arrive ar-rive in Paris about December 12, ac-according ac-according to information received Friday Fri-day in Paris. Plans are being made for the .entertainment of the American president, as well as the allied rulers, who will visit Paris in November and December. Germany as a naval power ceased to exist on November 21. The heart of her mighty fleet fourteen ships of line, seven light cruisers and fifty destroyers de-stroyers surrendered to an armada of British, American and French vessels, the greatest fighting force than ever stood out at sea. The German fleet that surrendered to the British on Thursday, as specified in the terms of the armistice, consisted con-sisted of nine hatleships, five battle cruisers, seven light cruisers and fifty destroyers. The fleet was taken to the Scapa Flow, in the middle of the Orkney islands, off the northeast coast of Scotland. Colonel E. M. House, the special representative of the United States government, is confined to his home in Paris with influenza. He has cancelled his engagements. News of the coup at Omsk, by which Admiral Kolchak virtually has become dictator of the ail-Russian forces, is regarded at the stale department as anoilier sign pointing to stabilization of the movement relied upon to regenerate regen-erate Russia. Overthrow of the Bolsheviki regime in the Ukraine and the capture of Kiev by Cossack troops friendly to i':e aii-Kussi;,!! goveramrui, as reported re-ported from Cop-nhagcn. opens the 'wav for important (ic eiopmenls i:; 1 Ra-sin. The i lections in c, rmrny for a con-I .-iMlor.t a eailiiy hive be':: fixed fo i .i-u., ry 2. ucctiing to a i;.rU:i li- i i,iv'i. ' i |