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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete History of the Past Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMC JNTAIN. Kxtension of tlie Influenza ban to forbid public dunces, nuis.s meetings, c i n mil ni t.y singing, conventions and crowding In theatre lobbies was un-iiounj.eil un-iiounj.eil lit Seattle by the city health officer. Theatres uiul churches will remain open. A self-confessed murder. Merle Kd-lniston, Kd-lniston, J years old, will be taken from Salt I. like 01 1 y to bis borne, Montrose, Colo., to answer for the murder of Vincent Corado, commonly called " "Macaroni Jim." Miss Anne E. Martin, the widely known suffragist of Reno, New, who was defeated at the November election as a candidate for the U. S. senate on an Independent ticket, told members of the Nevada Women's Civic league at u meeting (it Reno, December 4, that nbo plana to seek the same office In 1 110 campaign of 1020. , beginning Monday, uttempt will be uaule to semi men discharged from Camp Lewis, Wash., to their homes, hording to hictljllies, Lieut. A. F. IlogUind, flying officer of Mather field, Cab, ami aerial mail pathfinder, arrived- nt Eugene, Ore., after covering a 415-mile lap of his journey from Sacramento, Cab, to Seattle, Se-attle, Wash., in six hours and fifty-five minutes actual flying time. ! DOMESTIC. More than 5000 American soldiers arriving at New York on Wednesday from England on the transport Lapland Lap-land and Minnekahda shared as a part of their homecoming reception the tremendous tre-mendous ovation given President Wilson Wil-son as he sailed for France on the George Washington to help seal their victory at the peace table. Executives of railroads comprising more than 90 per cent of the rail mileage mile-age of the country, in conference at New York, adopted a resolution favoring favor-ing a return of the roads to private ownership. A wireless appeal for medical aid to check a serious epidemic of influenza in the Society islands, situated in the youth l'acific ocean approximately 3000 miles from San Francisco, has been received. The total vote at the California state election November 5 was 2-17,343 votes less than the total for the gubernatorial gub-ernatorial election in California four years ago. Thirty camps have been designated by the war department as demobilization demobiliza-tion centers to which enlisted men are to be transferred for discharge from the army. The camps include Dodge, la. ; Grant, 111. ; Logan. Tex. ; Funston, Kan. ; Kearny, Cal. ; McArthur, Tex. ; l'ike. Ark. ; Bowie, Tex. ; Travis, Tex. ; IiOwls, Wash. President Wilson, on December 3, began be-gan his trip to Europe to attend the peace conference. The president left Washington on a special train for New York, where he and his party boarded the transport George Washington on which the voyage across the Atlantic will be made. Eleven men comprising the crew of the bow section of the freighter Mineo- la are believed to have been drowned when that section of the boat went down In Lake Ontario, during a terrible blizzard. A. C. Townley, president of the National Na-tional Nonpartisan league, was reelected re-elected at the annual convention of the league, held at St. Paul, Minn. The federal control contract was ratified rat-ified by the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Railroad company on Decem-lier Decem-lier 2. The contract covers the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania railroad and the lines operated oper-ated by it east of Pittsburg. War expenses persisting in peace times, but falling off rapidly, will make the government's outlay in the fiscal year 1920. beginning next July 1. $7,-433.415,S3S, $7,-433.415,S3S, of which $5,212,000,000 will go to the war and navy departments. jfS93.000.000 to pay interest on war debt, and $579,000,000 for continuing the building of a merchant marine, according ac-cording to departmental estimates presented pre-sented to congress. "Oh, you America !" rang from the throats of khaki-clad troops on the decks of the Mauretania as the giant transport, bringing back nearly 4.000 soldiers, the first large contingent fro;,; America's victorious army, arrived ar-rived at quarantine at Ne"v Y'ork, Sun- i Amalgamation of the marine cable system of the Western Union Telegraph Tele-graph company and Commercial Cable 'company under the direction of George G. Ward, vice president of the Commercial Com-mercial company, has been authorized by Postmaster General Burleson. Mrs. Catberln C. Hayden, daughter of Patrick Callan, who lost his life when the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, appeared at the United States district attorney's office in New York on December 2, and asked that a warrant war-rant be issued for William llohenzol- i lern, charging him with murder. I After having been established since February 4, the Pacific coast oil divi- i sion of the United States fuel administration admin-istration has suspended all official activities. ac-tivities. WASHINGTON. (y n. John J. Pershing's account of his stewardship as commander of the American expeditionary forces was given to the public December 4 by Secretary linker. It is in the form of a preliminary report to the secretary, secre-tary, covering operations up to November Novem-ber 20, after the German collapse. It closes with the highest praise for the officers and men. Fuel Administrator Garfield has resigned re-signed and l'resident Wilson has accepted ac-cepted his resignation. This was announced an-nounced Tuesday at the White House. Striking evidence of the preparedness prepared-ness of the American government to enter Into peace negotiations was in an announcement Tuesday that twenty-three members of an advisory ad-visory commission of experts wdio have made a year's study of political and economic conditions In Europe and Asia sailed with President Wilson and his, feilow delegates on the George Washington. Peace time readjustment of wages and bonuses ajfecting more than 10,000 deck, hud engine fOOKj officers, and thousands of seamen and firemen will Be considered at a conference In Washington Wash-ington of officials representing tlie government, the steamship companies and the organizations of officers and men manning the. American merchant marine. The resignation of Frank P. Walsh, as joint chairman of the national war labor board, has been accepted by President Wilson and Basil M. Manly has been appointed to fill the vacancy. A bill prohibiting the display of flags or emblems of organizations which espouse es-pouse principles of government antagonistic antag-onistic to tlie constitution of the United States has been introduced by Representative Osborne of California. FOREIGN. Plans for a great air raid on Berlin by a squadron of American airplanes on the night of November 11 were halted by the signing of the armistice, according to the story told by aviators who have arrived from England. An earthquake has occurred in northern Chile. In the towns of Copia-po Copia-po and Valienar important damages were caused. In other localities damage dam-age of minor importance resulted. The Germans have begun restitution. They have delivered to the allies 300,-000,000 300,-000,000 francs gold, which came from the Russian treasury. The French have recovered a rich collection of art works by Quentin Delatour, stolen from St. Quentin, and paintings taken from the museum at Valenciennes. The closing of sugar refineries in Brazil is reported in dispatches from Rio Janeiro. The owners blame the high cost of raw material for the shutdown. shut-down. Negotiations between Argentina and Great Britain and France for the delivery de-livery of Argentina's great grain crops to those two countries have been about concluded, according to official information. The first surrendered German U-boat to arrive in the Thames, the U-04, passed up the river at noon Tuesday. On her mast the German commercial flag was flying below a white ensign. Crowds watched her progress and cheered. The former German empress has apparently ap-parently almost recovered from her recent re-cent indisposition and is occasionally seen with the former German emperor walking in the grounds of the castle at Amerongen, Holland. Sir Frederick E. Smith, the attorney general, interviewed by the Echo, said that the British war cabinet, including includ-ing the colonial representatives, has unanimously decided to ask Holland to extradite the former German emperor. A dispatch to the Ceneral News from Stockholm says it is reported that negotiations ne-gotiations entered into with the Russian Rus-sian representatives have resulted in the formation of an all-Russiau government govern-ment under the protection of the entente en-tente and supported by a voluntary army. A number of the soldiers' and workmen's work-men's councils in Germany have requested re-quested the German government to have former Emperor William tried by a German tribunal, according to a news agency telegram from Berlin. One of Europe's oldest "Sister i Susies" is Mrs. Gardiner, who cele-: cele-: brateil her 100;h birthday recently j knitlim' socks for sailors. |
