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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlitory Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. .fames Oakley, 7o years old, was frozen Id di'iilh in liis cabin at I'klnh, Ore., some time Wednesday night or Tbarsday morning. The body was found seated In a chair. The heaviest December snowstorms In the hisiury of the city of ltutte hailed all operations of street cars Thursday. Twelve inches of snow fell In sixieen hours. The mercury fell from Hll decrees above zero to 1- below. be-low. Twenty-live thousand dollars Is tin? value lixod by a jury in I lie district court at Logan, Utah, upon the affections affec-tions of .Mrs. L. F. Smith, in the alien-aton alien-aton damage suit brought by the husband, hus-band, L. K. Smith, against liohert Sheffield. Shef-field. With its heart lying outside the chest wall, a child weighing about nine pounds, born at Willard, was received re-ceived at an Ogdcn, Utah, hospital. It Is being watched by the Ogden physicians, physi-cians, who declare the case to be the first of its kind on record as far as medical works disclose. Volunteer miners worked in two Montana Mon-tana mines Tuesday in the coldest weather In the state this season. The lowest temperature was reported at rollings, .'to below zero. Abe Majors, one of Utah's greatest rrliiTTSftls, paroled on a murder charge and arrested at Los Angeles on two charges of burglary, lias been placed on trial at Los Angeles on one of the charges. DOMESTIC. "Twenty-four dollars and n half is n fair price for a man's suit or overcoat, over-coat, the federal price regulating commission, com-mission, working under direction of District Attorney Clyne, announced at Chicago. l'ancho Villa's troops, who attacked and captured Muzqulz, have been driven driv-en out by Carranza forces, according to !. M. Seguin, Mexican consul, who reached Kagle I'ass on Friday. Regional directors of railroads have J been given uuthVity by Director Gen-' Gen-' oral Mines to remove restrictions on j the use of light, heat and power derived deriv-ed from coal, as soon as the fuel situation sit-uation warrants. Six hundred repatriated Americans, who fought under the British colors in the Holy Land, arrived at New York Friday, in the steerage of a steamer from Liverpool. Rather than be separated from Alexander Alex-ander r.erknian, her companion for years, Kmma Goidnian announced through her attorney that she bad abandoned her fight in the supreme court to prevent her deportation to soviet Russia with l'erkman and some eighty oilier radicals. A charge of murder was entered at Law-ton. Mich., against Joseph C. Virgo, Vir-go, a former South Bend, Ind., undertaker, under-taker, by "nn Buren county authorities authori-ties who are investigating the death of Maude Tabor. Approximately 20,000 of the 60,000 soft coal miners in Illinois have refused re-fused to return to work until their orginal demands for a 31 per cent Increase In-crease in wages have been granted, according to reports. Complete blame for the killing of .lames Wallace, an American citizen, by a Mexican soldier two weeks ago near Tampico. Mexico, Is placed upon Wallace himself by the Mexican government, gov-ernment, in its note replying to the urgent inquiry made by the United States. High waters that have flooded low-lying low-lying sections of Alabama, Georgia and MIssisMppi, generally are beginning begin-ning to recede, but Montgomery. Ala., and Macon, Ga.. are still in the grip of the flood. The coal miners' strike is ended. With but one dissenting vote, the general gen-eral committee of the United Mine Workers of America on December 10 voted to accept President Wilson's proposal for immediate return to work pending final settlement of their wage controversy with operators by n commission com-mission to be appointed by him. Deportation of Kmniu Goldman and Alexander Berkman to "white guard" Russia would be equivalent to pronouncing pro-nouncing deatli sentence upon them, Harry Weinberger, counsel for t lie two' radicals, asserted in a brief filed with the supreme court in a final effort to prevent their removal from the United Btatcs. Fifteen minutes before he was to start to the gallows to die for the murder mur-der of his wife, Arthur Haensel, former for-mer soldier, was granted a reprieve by Judge Bain, of Chicago, who had sentenced him to die. The filial official report on the 1919 wheat yield In Kansas, issued by the stale hoard of agriculture, shows a production pro-duction of 14.1,71)0.-10") bushels of winter win-ter wheat under 31.'i,7;i7 bushels spring wheat. Testimony that Captain Karl W. Detzer had struck military prisoners In France in the face and ordered ins sergeants to "beat them up" in order to force "confessions" was given by three witnesses when he was placed on trial at Governor's Island. Eleven rjoys, ranging In age from 10 to 19 years, were Indicted at Chicago onli charge of robbery with revolvers. The hoys are said to have started their careers with burglary of toe home of a policeman. WASHINGTON. Advocates of freedom for Ireland, headed by Justice Cohahm of the New York supreme court, appeared before the house foreign relations committee on December 12, to urge passage of a bill by Representative Mason, Repub-Iican, Repub-Iican, Illinois, to authorize appointment appoint-ment of diplomatic and consular representatives repre-sentatives to the republic of Ireland. Daylight saving would be reinsti-tuted reinsti-tuted under a bill introduced by Representative Rep-resentative Dallinger, Republican, Massachusetts, providing for annual change in time on the last Sundays in April and September, respectively. The McNary bill under which government gov-ernment control of sugar would be continued another year, has been passed by the senate and sent to the house. Hope of enacting railroad legisation by January 1, the date on which President Wilson has announced the roads would be turned back to private control, virtually has been abandoned by senate leaders. Forty-four states have officially notified no-tified the state department of their ratification of the prohibition constitutional constitu-tional amendment. Fuel Administrator Garfield's resignation resig-nation is in the hands of President Wilson, given becnuse he disagrees on the principle with the coal strike settlement set-tlement proposal arranged by the government gov-ernment and the mine workers' union. Plans to adjust the pay of the American troops stationed in China to meet the depreciation of American gold there, will be taken up by the bouse military committee. FOREIGN. Prince Cyril of Coburg, second son of ex-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, is mentioned in Budapest newspapers just received at Amsterdam as a candidate can-didate for the throne of Hungary, where a big movement for the restoration restor-ation of the kingdom is afoot. Manuel Allende Sahtzar has formed a cabinet to take the place of the ministry min-istry headed by Premier Toca, which resigned, says a Madrid dispatch. Results of the first year of the revolution revo-lution in Germany are summarized by the Socialist Monthly as comprising a decline in the value of the mark, increase in-crease in the cost of living, decreased production of coal and steadily mounting mount-ing public debts. Bolshevik attacks continue along the Estbonian front south of the Gulf of Finland and east of Narva, according to nn official Ksihonian statement. The British government does not purpose to take any special measures in connection with the fall in American Ameri-can exchange beyond continuing its policy of withholding artificial support by borrowing abroad and doing everything every-thing possible to stimulate British export ex-port trade, according to Andrew Bonar Law. Crop failures and a hard winter have added to the war sufferings of the little group of villagers at Obera-nimergau, Obera-nimergau, Bavaria, known to the world as actors in the Passion play portraying portray-ing the crucifixion of Christ, which is presented every ten years. "There Is pressing danger of a counter coun-ter revolution in Germany," said Col. Lambert Ward, SI. P., on his return to London from Germany. "The Royalists Roy-alists are steadily growing In strength, and unless the kaiser is tried and exiled ex-iled he will be back as king of Prussia." Francisco Gomez, a policeman, is being be-ing tried in civil court at Mexican, Mexico, j)ti a charge of killing Eugene Lack, an American last month. Britain and France will take the settlement set-tlement of peace into their own hands, with Italy a subsidiary at least temporarily tem-porarily when Georges Clemenceati, premier of France, arrives at London, says a cablegraam from London. Lieutenant Marloh. the German un-derofficer un-derofficer standing trial, charged with having caused twenty-nine sailors to be put to death in the Spartuonn uprisings up-risings of last March, was acquitted of manslaughter at Berlin. The chief members of the Ymericar peace delegation left Paris, i Vro-nie i 9, on the first stage of their return journey to the United S - "s. |