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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK 111 CONDENSED F01 HICORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making Hlatory Information Gathered from All Quarters ef the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. The ( 'olorndo Slulo Federation of Labor lins expelled I. C Morrell, vice-president vice-president mill member nl' tin' executive board fur alleged activity in the ranks of t lie I. W. W. George Osborne, manager of a ranch owned hy Governor Carey of Wyoming, was shot and dangerously wounded on the streets of Douglas, Wyo., by David k'nighlen, wealthy stockgrower. A bill aimed at the exclusion of Japanese Jap-anese from Oregon will lie introduced at the special session of Hie state legislature. It Is announced hy Barge K. Leonard, a representative of the American Legion. Matlinnihah Thomas, former Democrat Demo-crat state chairman of Utah, has been appointed prohibition commissioner for Utah. George Thomas shot and probably fatally wounded William Schneffer and shot Joe Koucliar in the leu, dining an altercation at Bingham, Utah. The affray occurred in a poolroom. Legislation before congress affecting the meat packing industry will be dis-cupssed dis-cupssed at the twenty-third annual convention of the American National Livestock association at Spokane January Jan-uary 27, liS and 29. liolse, Idaho, became a clty of 30,-000 30,-000 Inhabitants when the council unanimously unan-imously passed an ordinance taking in suburbs with a combined population estimated at 5000. Loot consisting of 11 quarts of whiskey, sixty-one quarts of wine and seven quarts of miscellaneous liquors have been stolen from the police station sta-tion at Ogden. Utah. The liquor had been taken from bootleggers and stored at the police station. DOMESTIC. A record sale of thoroughbred hogs was made when thirty-six Poland Cliina sows were auctioned for ?55,975, an average of $15o-1.84 each, at the farm near Lake Geneva, Wis., of William Wil-liam Wrielev. Jr.. who took "OS stock- raisers as his guests on a special train from Chicago. Miss Lucy Page Gaston has opened headquarters at Chicago to campaign for the Republican nomination for president on an anti-tobacco platform. Jack Dempsey was charged with having "apparently skulked in hiding from the draft boards," during the lute war. and Georges Cnrpentier was made a life honorary member of the post, at a meeting of the El Paso post of the American Legion. Protest against the decision of Attorney At-torney General Palmer on December 4 In turning over 100,000 acres of oil lands iu California, estimated to be worth fr.lHl.OOO.OOO, to the Southern Pacific Pa-cific company, without an appeal from the adverse judgment of a lower court, has been made by Gifford Plnchot, president of the National Conservation Conserva-tion association, in a letter to the attorney at-torney general. John Thomas. 2:? years old, is dead, and bis brothers, Michael and George, und bis father-in-law, .Michael Pintar, all of Coalton, 111., are seriously ill, the result, it is said, of drinking home-Tnade home-Tnade raisin wine. The strike in the steel mills and furnaces, called September 22, and which at its inception involved oOT.OOO men, was oflicially called off on January Jan-uary S by the national committee, after an all-day meeting. San Francisco has been chosen at the meeting place of the Democrat national na-tional convention on June 2S. O. W. Koot. cashier of the State bank of Browusilale. Minn., has con-fes.M'd con-fes.M'd to forgery of notes amounting to approximately $.".0.tXHl. The San Francisco criminal courts were cleared on January T of all the murder cases growing out of the preparedness pre-paredness day bomb explosion of July 22, 1910, against Thomas J! Mooney and one against Warren K. Billings. A budget of more than S5O0.000.0OO will be necessary to evangelize the world, according to leaders of the survey sur-vey conference of the Interchurch "World Movement of North America, launched at Atlantic City, N. J. More than 1000 delegates, representing twenty-eight denominations, responded to the roll call. A Plumb plan for all American industry, in-dustry, modeled after the plan if the same name for the railroads, lias been prepared and is expected to be publicly pub-licly announced soon. One thousand American soldiers, constituting the last contingent of the A. 10. F. to return from Siberia where their places are being taken by troops of the regular army, have arrived at San Francisco. Organization of two regiments of volunteers, known as the Nebraska rifles, to maintain law and order in case they are called upon to act In any emergency, is practically complete says a Lincoln, Neb., dispatch. Air mail service between Omaha and the east was established January 8 when Walter J. Smith arrived at Omaha from Chicago, with an airplane loaded with lirst-clnss mail. Smilh established es-tablished a record of three hours :.ud lil't.y-six minutes flying time, and arrived ar-rived in Omaha one hour, ahead of schedule. The federal woman suffrage amendment amend-ment was ratltied by the Rhode Island legislature on January 0. The measure meas-ure passed the house by a vote of 8 to 8, and a few minutes later was adopted by the senate with one dissenting dis-senting vote. WASHINGTON. L. C. A. K. Martens, self-styled Rtis-sian Rtis-sian soviet ambassador to the United States, and his secretary and spokesman, spokes-man, S. Nuorteva,. must appear before the senate foreign relations subcommittee, subcommit-tee, charged with the dissemination of Russian propaganda in the United States. A story of how American capitalists spent vast sums without expectation of return or profit to aid the government gov-ernment in its efforts to supply explosives explo-sives for the war, was told to members mem-bers of the house committee on expenditures ex-penditures iu the war department. President Wilson's Industrial conference con-ference has been asked to take up the housing crisis in the United States and to consider methods to bring relief. re-lief. President Wilson, in his message read to the diners at the Jackson day dinner at Washington, assembled in two separate halls, declared that the "dear and single way out" was to submit sub-mit the league of nations question to the voters as "a great and solemn referendum." Herbert Hoover will be called to testify tes-tify before the house ways and means committee before any action is taken on the recommendation of Secretary Glass that the United States extend further credits to Bankrupt European countries. More was accomplished through the government's settlement of its antitrust anti-trust proceedings against the five big Chicago meat packers than could have resulted from a court decision adverse to t lie packers, Attorney General Palmer Pal-mer told the senate agriculture committee. FOREIGN. The first chamber of the Dutch parliament par-liament has drafted and presented to the cabinet a memorandum suggesting that it is now desirable that Holland request former Emperor William of Germany to return to his own country. The situation in Kussiu is about as bad as could be from anti-Bolshevik point of view, according to British war oflice reports, and there are few signs indicating any likely improvement. Twenty persons lost their lives when the ocean-going tug Le Pluvier went down with all on board between Toulon Tou-lon and Marseilles, France. Twice within the past week Francisco Fran-cisco Villa has attempted to attack trains on the railrour. south of Chihuahua Chi-huahua City, Mexico, apparently to reliable re-liable information. He also had two small encounters with federal troops during the same period, it was said. Nikolai Lenine, Russian Bolshevik premier, has made a new peace offer to the allies, which is being taken to London by Colonel Tallenfs, British representatives In the Baltic states. Among other conditions included in the offer is a promise to abolish terrorism ter-rorism and the activity of revolutionary revolution-ary tribunals, according to an Esthon-ian Esthon-ian newspaper. The German army, which numbered 280,000 men on January 1, will be reduced re-duced monthly so that by April the strength laid down by the peace treaty will be attained, it is announced. Allied demands for the extradition of former Emperor William of Germany, Ger-many, in which it is kiown America will not participate, are expected at The Hague about January 15. The Russian newspaper Prisyne contains con-tains a report of the execution of Admiral Ad-miral Bakhiroit', who fought brilliantly against the German fleet in 1017. The admiral, says the newspaper, was accused ac-cused of plotting against the soviet government. Only two bouses are left standing in the village of Coutzlan. state of Vera : Cruz, where no estimate has yet been i ; placed on the number of dead anil in- I in red resulting from Saturday night's earthquake, according to reports re- I ceived at Mexico City. The Bolivian congress lias passed a j I bill legalizing the circulation of gold j as a medium of exchange. The gov- ! eminent will issue a decree fixing the equivalances between American gold j , standards and Bolivian money. I |