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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF 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. INTERMCJNTAIN. Resignations of every member of the lire department lit Colorado Springs, except the chiefs, were accepted by Ihe city council Thursday. The men, lhirry-live In .number, resigned because llielr request for ilk-reused wages was refused. Leigh & Green of Lund, Utah, has filed applicallon with the stale public utilities commission for a permit to operate; a motor freight truck service between Lund and I'arowan. Untie will see unusual building and real estate activity in the spring of liM!), Homer Townsend, chief clerk of the city department of public works, predicts. Jiecotist ruction and readjustment pe-'riods pe-'riods will not be characterized by panics or depression, according to Jere Shurpe, prominent Minneapolis bunker, ttiio Is visiting in Butte. Au attack upon the Washington stale mothers' pension law of 1015, brought by Airs. Itose Snyder of Seattle, Se-attle, who alleged it was unconstitutional unconstitu-tional in providing pensions for widows and not for deserted mothers, ivns dismissed Monday by the supreme tourt. Washington court decrees upholding up-holding the law's validity were affirmed. af-firmed. A. E. Spriggs, chairman of the Montana Mon-tana slate Industrial accident board, has indorsed a suggestion that an effort ef-fort be nuue to have the government urn over Fort Harrison for a school for the rehabilitation of industrial cripples. Holland Is seeking trade in Utah, according ac-cording to a letter received by Earl I. Glade, secretary of the Utah1 State Fair association. The letter comes from the intelligence office for commercial com-mercial relations at Amsterdam and requests re-quests him to send a catalogue of the exhibitors. The letter adds that 11 offers and inquiries emanating from firms in Utah will be welcomed and laid before importers and exporters expor-ters In Holland. A penchant for writing letters, the character of which precluded them from admission to the malls, has landed land-ed O. J. Langford of Carbon county, Utah, in the Insane asylum at Provo. Efforts will be made to have James J. Ryan, railroad brakeman, charged with first degree murder at Salt Lake City, for the alleged poisoning of his 7-year-old "son, James Leroy Ryan, who died September 4, released on bail. Delirious from au attack of influenza, influ-enza, Armedio Novario, au Italian who had been employed in the Daly mine ata Park City, Utah, since last July, broke away from his wdfe, a nurse and a man who were caring for him. Later he was found dead in a creek flowiug back of his house. DOMESTIC. Operations of the German propaganda propa-ganda system in the United States, through which valuable information for transmission to Berlin was gathered at the same time that German doctrines ivere spread over the country were laid bare Friday by Captain G. B. Lester of. the army intelligence service ser-vice in testimony before the senate committee investigating beer and German Ger-man propaganda. Most of the evidence related to activity of Teutonic agents before the United States entered the war. Heads of the Salvation Army in middle mid-dle west and western states were called into session Friday by Commander Com-mander Thomas Estill, head of the Salvation Army in the west, to work out a solution to aid the soldiers. A resolution approving the recommendation recom-mendation of the commission of international inter-national justice and good will in favor of a league of nations, was adopted Thursday by the executive committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, representing thirty denominations, in session at Atlantic At-lantic City, N. J. Buffeted by high seas, which carried away a deckhouse and wrenched a four-inch gun from its mounting, the American transport Dekalb arrived here Friday from France with approximately approx-imately 1150 soldiers, sailor's aud murines, mu-rines, nearly 400 of whom had been wounded in action. She was preceded into port by the mail boat Oregonian, carrying a solitary doughboy. Sergeant Leland A. Kuuffman of the Second division headquarters troop. who brought home the favorite charger of his commander Major General Omar Bundy. |