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Show NEWS OF A WEEK If! CONDENSED M 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. INTERMC'JNTAIN. News comes from Seattle Unit a re-'-elver has been appointed f()p tin? Spokane Spo-kane A; Inland r.inpire Unilroad company. com-pany. The receiver was appointed on petition of attorneys for the First Trust & Savings hunk of Chicago, holder of a trust deed as security for a bond Issue of ,f l,0:i(i,UOO made in I'.XMi. .r- . ... Seaill'e's port commission lias let an Initial conlract for a pier to cost !?-,-300,000, said to be larger than any on the Pacific coast and designed to handle han-dle new oriental trade. Seattle Democrats have announced they will urge idl Democrat organizations organiza-tions In the country to light welcome bonfires on the night President Wilson returns from France. One-fourth of an inch of land was condemned In the superior court at Tacoma because it was needed as a part of the Camp Lewis military reservation. res-ervation. The appraiser sets its' value at 1 cent, and the owner will have to take til i s, as he did not hire a lawyer to make a contest. Attorney General S. C. Ford has recommended to Governor Stewart of Montana the creation of the office of a state sheriff for enforcement of Uie prohibition act. Aa effort will be made during the present session of the legislature to reinstate boxing as a legal athletic sport In Montana. John II. Emery, a hotelman of Cascade, Cas-cade, Idaho, was killed and his brother Joseph, severely Injured at Philadelphia Philadel-phia when struck by a hospital automobile auto-mobile ambulance while crossing a street on the way to u railroad station. Hiram C. Gill, former mayor of Seattle, Se-attle, died January 7 of influenza. Mr. Gill, who was 53 years old, had been tlected mayor of Seattle three times. He was recalled from that office once, in 1011. DOMESTIC. Denunciation of Bolshevism and insidious in-sidious socialistic doctrines marked numerous nu-merous addresses at the meeting of the Republican national committee at Chicago, several speakers declaring that the election of a Republican president pres-ident is all that can save the country from evil days in the future. The injunction suit brought by the Commercial Cable company and the Commercial Paciiic viable company to restrain Postmaster General Burleson from taking over for the government their respective cable lines and merging merg-ing them with lines controlled by the Western Union Telegrap - company has been dismissed. Restrictions upon the importation of tanning extracts have been removed by the war trade board. The chief sources of the American supply of these materials mate-rials are South America, the Kast Indies In-dies and India and the West Indies. Arthur C. Davis, recently arrested in San Francisco by Mrs. G. Baldwin, Portland policewoman, pleaded guilty to robbery of the East Side bank at Portland of approximately .flO.OOO. The board of supervisors at San Francisco passed an ordinance making compulsory the wearing of gauze masks as a precautionary measure against the spread of the intlueuza epidemic. epi-demic. There were 012 jiew cases' in one day. Colonel Theodore Koosevelt's will, made in 1911!, was read to members of the family at Sagamore Hill Thursday. Although the value of the former presidents' estate was not made known, it was understood to amount to not more than $500,000. All restrictions ou the importation of corn and rice have been removed by the war trade board. At the same time the board announced that It would consider con-sider favorably applications for the export ex-port of rice and for licenses for the shipment of jute and jute products except ex-cept yarns and nitrate bags to all destinations. des-tinations. Major general J. Franklin Bell, commander com-mander of the department of the east, died January S at the Presbyterian hospital in New York. His deatli was due to heart disease. Major Bell was Co years old. Five leaders of the Socialist party were found guilty by a jury after o hours and .".0 minutes deliberation in Federal Judge i.andis' court at Chicago Chi-cago of conspiracy to violate the esp:nn;;:v law. Victor L. Bcrger, con-g:'''sn;:!i-elect from Milwaukee, was one if liie uii'ii convicted. Flying Cadet nenry Martin Schlelper of Pearl, III., was killed at Fort Worth, Texas, when he collided in midair with Cadet Charles T. Carl. Carl was unhurt. un-hurt. Iteplies to inquiries sent out by the bureau of public roads reveal that twenty-nine states will need 10:1,341 returned re-turned soldiers and sailors for road building work this year. ' Of this number num-ber 11. (." must he skilled workers. Industrial Workers of the World had been advised to plant noxious weeds In California fields. W. Dennis, formerly form-erly it member of the organization, nowmanager of a manufacturing plant at Berkeley, Cal., testified ill the trial at Sacramento of I. W. W. members. WASHINGTON.' A temporary naval force of 225,000 enlisted men for the year beginning next July was decided on by the house naval subcommittee ill beginning the work of framing the naval appropria- lion bill. This force is 23,000 less ttian was recommended by Secretary I Daniels. I Immediate consideration of the inte-I inte-I rior department's request for $100,000,-001) $100,000,-001) for the reclamation and occupation of 213,000,000 acres of tillable soil in this country by returned soldiers was asked by Secretary Fane at an informal infor-mal meeting of members of congress held in the house chamber on Friday. From eight to ten carloads of mail for American soldiers are undelivered in France, Second Assistant Postmaster Post-master General Praeger told the sen-ale sen-ale postoffice committee, "and thousands thou-sands and probably millions" of letters addressed to the men overseas will arrive ar-rive in New York soon, to be sent to the dead letter office, where an attempt at-tempt will be made to return them to the writers. Notice of the signing hy President Wilson in France of the first bill sent to the White House by congress after the president sailed last month has been cabled to Secretary Tumulty. It was the measure authorizing the payment pay-ment of transportation home of war workers leaving the government service. Establishment of a cemetery in France in which would be buried the bodies of American officers and men who lost their lives in the war is provided pro-vided in a bill introduced by Senator Spencer of Missouri. Operation of American troops in Russia was defended and criticised Thursday in the senate, half a dozen senators participating in a vigorous debate de-bate which continued several hours. Legislation to prevent President Wilson from turning railroads back to private management in the immediate imme-diate future will be introduced in congress con-gress soon. FOREIGN. General LudendorfC, former chief quartermaster general of the German armies, has applied to the Swedish government for formal permission for himself and his wife to stay a short time in Sweden. The application lias been granted for one month. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a copy of which lias been received at Basel, Ba-sel, says it is announced that Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies on the western front, has telegraphed tele-graphed the German' armistice commission commis-sion that the entente governments have not acceded' to the request for a prolongation of the armistice, which ends January 17. President Wilson, it is said, has virtually, vir-tually, made up his mind how far he will support Italy's claims at the peace table and informed Premier Orlando of his decision, but it is probable his ideas will not be made known publicly until the peace delegations have been advised of thein. The Spartacus revolt in Germany is foredoomed to defeat, according to best opinion in London. It is generally agreed it will not be as easy to conjure con-jure up Bolshevism in Germany as it was in Russia. The allies have notified Turkey that unless the Turkish force at Medina lays down its arms immediately the forts at the Dardanelles will be destroyed. de-stroyed. Yilna has fallen into the hands of the Bolsheviki army, several thousand strong, which drove out the Folish militia. mi-litia. A massacre of civilians began at once, partly because the Poles had offered resistance and had arrested or shot the members of the lowil Bolsheviki Bolshe-viki committees. It is reported that there were 150 casualties at Buenos Ayres as a result of a clash between troops and strikers at the Vasena Steel works. The troops opened fire on the strikers, who responded re-sponded with ritles. At least 2500 men have been discharged dis-charged from the mines of the Cana-nea Cana-nea Consolidated Copper company, Demokrata Mining company and smaller companies operating in the dis- I trict around Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, within the last week. Loyal. Russian troops operating under un-der the authority of the Omsk government govern-ment have defeated a large Bolshviki army, capturing 31,01.10 prisoners and large quantities of war materia!, according ac-cording to a telegram from the Omsk" |