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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OP THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. . Happening! That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTER MOUNTAIN. ('(Jimtry-wido nriiniziitinn of su;rnr Iiim-1 fnnm-i's to fiht tin; sn-cjilliTi BUKiii' Irust is the object: of a joint convention of fanners' orjinizulions culled to meet in Denver ou Jumiury Iir. S. V. JlcClnre, secretary of the Xalioiial W'oolKi'ouprs' jtssocia t ion, vili headquarters at Salt Lal;e, siieaU-in;r siieaU-in;r before nieinbers of the Idaho Wool-growers' Wool-growers' assoctntion at their annua! cotnention at Itoise. announced he will resign from his secretaryship of the national organization. 11. K. .leter. deputy sheriff of Curry county, lost his life at ISandon, Ore., at the mouth of the Sixes river, when a surf boat in which lie and three others were attempting to reach the wreck of the steamer J. S. Clianselor, capsized, throwing the men into the win or. Ten alleged radicals, arrested by the Seattle police department's ttnti-red squad, have been cnndn,-ting. the of-licers of-licers announced, a C Wol of Bolshevism." Bolshe-vism." The leader ukfii'aclier gave his name when arrestea as Dr. Michael Mi-chael S. Sehoolmag. ltobert S. Martin of Salt Lake City won a modified Marathon of four miles conducted at I'asailena, Oil., by the Los Angeles Express and a l'us.-J demi newspaper. The National Educational association associa-tion will hold its national convention In Salt Lake July 4 to July 10, 1920. I DOMESTIC. Launching a concerted and carefully prepared movement against communist commun-ist and communist labor groups of radicals, ra-dicals, agents of the department of justice on Friday conducted raids in :hirty-three cities, extending from coast to const, nearly -1000 radicals being arrested, The government deficit from nill-'oitd nill-'oitd operation ijuring November will be npifoxilnittely .?04,r00,OOO, a low record for the year, according to figures fig-ures just made public. Thirty former German passenger ships seized when the United States entered the war. including the Leviathan, Levia-than, the largest vessel afloat; the' Agamemnon, George Washington and others which were the pride of the German merchant marine, have been offered for sale by the shipping board. Corp. James Clark lost bis left hand by explosion of a defective bomb while directing a detail of soldiers nrM9?z' ing the site of tli , lrjXiJ"aiiiimiiil-. lrjXiJ"aiiiimiiil-. tioh lire at Douglas, Arizona. The year 191!) recorded the lowest death rate in Chicago's history, the annual an-nual report of the health department disclosed. Statistics compiled by the Railway Age show that the year 1920 begins with the development of the railways of the United States nearer a complete com-plete standstill than at any time since the lirst rail was laid in America. Three billion dollars must be spent by the railroads of the United States "within the next few years, to provide first class passenger and freight facilities," fa-cilities," is the declaration made by Howard Klliott, president of the Northern North-ern l'acitic railroad. William Grant Webster, lawyer of New York City, has filed an individual individ-ual petition as an independent candidate candi-date for the Republican endorsement for vice-president. "The Argonne, the most difficult aud most important sector was chosen by myself, because I knew that no other troops could go through," declared General John J. Torslilng. while speaking speak-ing to veterans of the world war nt 1ncoln, -eb. The war department has ordered Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett to reorganize reorgan-ize the western department on the basis of an army corps ready for service serv-ice in the tield, the new arrangement to be effective January 15. A white woman was shot and killed and a white soldier t was probably fatally wounded in a fight between negroes and soldiers on a street car near Camp Taylor, says a Louisville, Ky.. dispatch. The first case decided against a railroad and the director general of railroads in connection with responsibility responsi-bility for the forest fires In northern Minnesota in the fall of 191S has resulted re-sulted in the awarding of $2102. S.'l damages to Jacob Anderson, a Curl-lon Curl-lon county funner, by a jury in dis- Allowlng for good behavior credits, the penitentiary sentence of Abraham Ituef, political boss, whose conviction was the outstanding feature of the famous San Francisco municipal graft cuses, will expire January 7, 1920, according ac-cording to records that have reached the governor's office at Sacramento. 'Railway employes are becoming very restive In the fact of the government's delay In answering their demands for wtige Increases, it is said by officials at national labor headquarters at Washington. II. II. Bodenstah. fusion candidate for congress in the Fifth district of Wisconsin, special election, will contest con-test the right of Victor Rerger to take bis seat. Notice of the contest has been served on Mr. Herger. . Prizes aggregating more than $2,000.-000 $2,000.-000 will be divided among aviators in competitions being arranged throughout through-out the world in 192(1, under the direction direc-tion of the International Aeronautic Federation. WASHINGTON. Secretary of State Lansing has denied, de-nied, the published, report that Viscount Vis-count Grey, retiring British ambassador ambassa-dor to the United States had left this country-with a pledge from the W ilson administration of a .$ 13,000,000 loan. Jerry, a zebra of royal lineage, died in the National zoo at Washington, January 2, of old age. The late King Menilik of Abyssinia sent Jerry to the late President Roosevelt as a token of the friendship between the two countries. Victor Rerger, Socialist, representative-elect from Wisconsin, not only will be denied a seat in the house when he presents bis credentials of election to the present congress, but will lie prevented from drawing mileage mile-age or any of the several allowances provided for a member, it is announced. an-nounced. Any movement however cloaked or dissembled, designed to undermine the government, will be met with "until "un-til nching, persistent, aggressive warfare," war-fare," Attorney General Palmer an- nouncetl In stating the policy of the department of justice for the forthcoming forth-coming year. General anxiety prevails throughout through-out American business concerning the continued advance in prices and a readjustment re-adjustment appears imminent, the federal fed-eral reserve board reported in its review re-view of December business conditions. Elihu Root, former secretary of state, will be called upon to assist in launching the great international supreme su-preme Court provlded'under the league of nations. FOREIGN. M. Tcliitchei'ln, Boishevik foreign minister, has proposed to Italy a resumption re-sumption of relations between that country and soviet Russia, pointing out that the "imminent capture of the Black sea coast by the Soviets will ojen the Black sea rouuf to Italy," a a Moscow wireless message re-d re-d in London. nater,famine at Montreal result-rom result-rom a strike of engineers at the municipal water-works was relieved after lives of patients in steam-heated hospital? had been endangered by lack "oTTieSit during zero weather. Aa Agreement to arbitrate commercial commer-cial i putes arising between mer-chantsefStjie mer-chantsefStjie United States and Uruguay has just been concluded by the chamber of commerce of the Unit; ed States and the Cayurade Comercio of Montevideo. The fiercest fighting ever experienced experi-enced on the Indian frontier lias been in progress during the past week, in which time the British casualties' have been heavier than those in the entire campaign in the Tiruh district in 1897, while the bill tribesmen suffered as never before. Although the supreme council has fixed January G as the date for signing sign-ing the protocol and exchanging ratifications rati-fications of the German peace treaty, complications are developing which it is thought by some persons in council coun-cil circles may again cause the postponement post-ponement of the ceremony of putting the treaty into effect. Roland, Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary have appealed to Rope Benedict Bene-dict to obtain the reparation of 200,-000 200,-000 of their subjects, who have been prisoners of war in Siberia and still remain there. The men are represented represent-ed as suffering hardships of all kinds. In the Italian senate, Premier Nitti and Foreign Minister Scialoia declared declar-ed ou Tuesday that they would go to London and Paris hopeful of a satisfactory satis-factory solution of the question of Fiume. Fourteen thousand persons were shot by the Rolsheviki of Russia In the first-three months of 1919 by order of the extraordinary committee at Moscow, according to an official note published in the Bolshevist organ, Is-vestia, Is-vestia, of Moscow. Twenty-five persons were wounded at Havana in encounters between the police, persons attending the funeral of a laborer "Killed in Sunday's demonstration demon-stration nga.nst the high cost of living, and spectators gathered along the |