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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN GONQENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. The members of Uie 14fUh fild artillery (Utah's own) have arrived at Logan, Ulsth, from France, ami will be Bent to 'their homes from that point. The soldier boys were given an enthusiastic en-thusiastic welcome by the people of the state. The Wyoming legislature on January Janu-ary 10 unanimously ratified the prohibition pro-hibition amendment to the federal con stitution. Plans for the establishment of a soldier sol-dier settlement board, for the purpose of co-operating with the national government gov-ernment in supplying returned soldiers and sailors with homes and employment, employ-ment, have been submitted 10 the governor gov-ernor of Utah, with the request thut the matter be brought before the legislating legis-lating Approximately 500 workers, leaving an open-air meeting and starting a parade through Seattle's business district dis-trict singing I. W. W. songs, were dispersed dis-persed by twenty mounted police officers, of-ficers, supported by five automobiles containing iKillce armed with carbines and behind these a platoon of police with clubs. Alfred J. Smith, who said he formerly for-merly was advertising and circulation representative of the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain at Denver, testified before the senate committee lnvstigating German Ger-man propaganda that the paper made an agreement with Count von Bern-storll' Bern-storll' in 1915-1016 by which it was to be paid $20,000 for publishing articles favorable to the German cause. The state supreme court has upheld the charter amendment to the state constitution giving charter cities the right to regulate public utilities in a decision In n suit brought by the city of Denver to test the right of the state public utilities commission to increase telephone rates. Washington's legislature has passed over Governor Ernest Lister's veto a "criminal syndicalism" bill, often spoken of as a measure aimed agulnst Industrial Workers of the World and organizations and individuals opposing the government. DOMESTIC. A general strike of organized labor designed to paralyze every industry in the country beginning July 4 next was decided upon by the National Labor congress at Chicago as a means of obtaining a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, if federal fed-eral intervention and every other means adopted to procure the desired relief fail. Official figures are now available for the first time showing the full extent to winch American ships transported the American army of approximately 2.070.000 men to Europe. The official figures show that 4G.2o per cent of all the American troops were transported trans-ported exclusively in American ships. Camp Dick, Texas, at which approximately approx-imately nine-tenths of the men in the American aviation service are said to have received their training in military mili-tary discipline, was closed finally by the war department on January 15. More than 10,000 fliers are said to have trained at the camp. Nine persons are known to have been killed and about fifty injured by the explosion of a huge tank of molasses on the water front at Boston. Eight bodies were removed from the wreckage wreck-age ami one man died at the relief j hospital. Most of those injured suffer- ed only bruises. Seven states on January 14 com- pleted ratification of the prohibition j constitutional amendment and brought j the number taking such action to 1 thirty. The number necessary for ratification, rati-fication, is thirty-six. Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and North Carolina were the states that completed ratification. Captain A. Olsen, skipper of the American schooner Encore, and First Officer M. Buckard of the American bark Beluga, both Californians. have readied New York after months of adventure as prisoners on the famous German sea raider Wolff and in German Ger-man prison cniups. The British troopship Empress of Asia passed through the Panama canal AVednesduy on its way from England wiiii 140 discharged soldiers on board. It is understood that it is proposed to semi home all Canadian troops who live west of Winnipeg by wav of the The Merrlman Baptist church of Ranger, Texas, which already has acquired ac-quired an Income of $200,000 a year through oil wells sunk in its church yard has refused .$1,000,000 for the right to develop wells in the graveyard, grave-yard, which adjoins the church. The oiler has been declined. Mrs. Hilda Exlund was found guilty at Chicago of the murder of her husband hus-band and sentenced to fourteen years' in prison, the first woman to be convicted con-victed there of such a crime for a long period. She killed her husband with a butcher knife. All tlie forty-six defendants in the I. W. W. conspiracy case were found guilty by a Jury in the United States district court at Sacramento. WASHINGTON. Fuel administration officials expect a decrease in tlie price of bituminous coal und coke to result from an order discontinuing maximum prices on these commodities and eliminating the zone system of their distribution. Licenses for the exportation of sugiar to all destinations except the United Kingdom, France and Italy, will be considered after February 1, the war. trade board has announced. Itatificution on January 16 of the federal constitutional prohibition amendment made the United" States the first great power to take legislative legisla-tive action to permanently', stop the liquor traffic. Thirty-eight states have declared for a dry nation. By a vote of fifty to twenty-one, the senate adopted a resolution recommended recom-mended b,y a majority of the privileges and elections committee, dismissing disloyalty charges brought against Senator Sen-ator La Follette of Wisconsin by the Minnesota public safety committee because be-cause of his speech on the' war delivered de-livered before the Non-partisan league of St. Paul, Minn., September 20, 1917. Eenomination of John Skelton AVil-liams AVil-liams as comptroller of the currency when his term expires, February 2, will be recommended by Secretary Glass. Tax rates on luxuries, semi-luxuries', amusement admissions and club dues have been agreed upon, by the senate and house conferees on the war revenue reve-nue bill. FOREIGN. The German armistice has been extended ex-tended one month by the commissioners commission-ers who nave concluded their session at Treves. The clauses offered by the allies concerning agricultural implements, imple-ments, Itussian prisoners of war, naval conditions and the restitution of material ma-terial stolen by the Germans from invaded in-vaded countries were signed by the enemy delegates. Germany's "Big Berthas" were not the largest guns in the world, it has. just been learned. The armistice, it develops, prevented the use of a British Brit-ish naval gun made at Sheffield which would throw a shell fifty miles with ease and probably cause damage at ninety miles. When a band of armed mounted Mexicans, supposed to be followers of General Angeles, occupied Guadalupe, Wednesday night, they interrupted a wedding dance, the bridegroom abandoned aband-oned the bride and fled. It is the conviction of Marshal Foch that the Rhine must be made the barrier bar-rier between Germany and France. He expressed this elearly when he received re-ceived American newspaper correspondents cor-respondents at Treves a few days ago. Ignace jan Paderewski, world famous pianist, having reached an agreement with General Pilsudski, has succeeded partly in forming a new Polish cabinet. Maxim Litvinoff, former Bolsheviki ambassador at London, has sent a note to President AVilson declaring that the Bolsheviki government of Russia is prepared to cease its world propaganda if tlie allies will agree to enter into peace negotiations with it, according to a Copenhagen uispatch. Socialists and members of the I. W. W. made an unsuccessful attempt at-tempt to gain control of the national labor congress at Chicago, called by the International Workers' Defense league to decide upon a plan of action to obtain new trials for Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings. Latest advices from Santarem' Portugal, Port-ugal, where the war minister has been investigating the recent rebellion, say that conditions there have improved and the rebel leaders have fled. Dr. Karl Liebknecht has been shot and killed while trying to escape as he was being taken to prison, according to the Frankfort Gazette. It is also reported that Rosa Luxemburg, Mr. Liebknecht's chief lieutenant, was also shot dead after being beaten into un-consciouness un-consciouness by a crowd at Berlin. During the week ended January S, there left France for the United States American troops to the number of 26,-9MI. 26,-9MI. Tlie homeward bound contingents comprised 11S3 officers and 25,797 men. The French steamer Chaprol has struck a floating mine in tlie straits of Messina, sinking in a few minutes. Five hundred passengers. mostly Greeks. Serbians and Russians, have been drowned. |