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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. INTERMO JNTAIN. Influenza epidemic conditions remain unchanged in Ulnli, as far as the spread (if the disease and : he setting of a definite date fur the opening of places of public assemblage are concerned. con-cerned. All shipment of troops from Camp Lewis, Wash., have been suspended by orders received there from Washington. Washing-ton. Several hundred men of the One Hundred Sixty-sixth depot brigade, who had been assigned to other posts, but were held because of the influenza quarantine, are affected. Cables received at Seattle said thirly-four white residents and 150 Eskimos of Nome, Alaska, have died as a resillt of the influenza. Nome's mayor said that the epidemic was on the decline. Scores of soldiers stationed at Camp Lewis, Wash., and relatives of soldiers already are trying to obtain the release re-lease of soldiers from the army. The attempts should not continue and are demoralizing to the morale of the army, officers announce. Because it is more valuable as junk than as a railroad, that portion of the Las Vegas & Tonopah "system" lying between Las Vegas and Beatty lias been abandoned and will be sold. Iteturns from twenty-four of the ; thirty-nine counties of the state on the Questionnaire sent out by the federal J" reclamation service through the Washington Wash-ington State Land Settlement association associa-tion show that there are at least 2,-750,000 2,-750,000 acres of eastern Washington irrigable ir-rigable lands and approximately 2,-500,000 2,-500,000 acres of western Washington logged-off lands awaiting reclamation. DOMESTIC. Mrs, Mary Simpson, a widow, was kil'ed, and twelve persons were injured in a tornado which swept through Prague, causing property damage estimated es-timated at StiO.OtiO. Excessive. Quantities of trinitrotoluol and other explosives, as well as finished fin-ished shells were stored not only in magazines, but in freight cars about the plant of the T. A. Gillespie shell loading load-ing plant at Morgan last month when tio plant was wrecked by an explosion explo-sion winch killed nearly 100 men, ac-, cording to evidence submitted. When the city council of Long Beach, Cal., attempted to make kissing in public a misdemeanor it acted arbitrarily arbi-trarily and in violation of the constitution, consti-tution, according to a decision rendered by Superior Judge FrankR. Willis. Edward N. Hurley, chairman of the United States shipping board, announced an-nounced Friday on the eve of his departure de-parture for Europe that the government govern-ment intends to return to this country speedily a large part of American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces. Irving Morgan was convicted of sec-011( sec-011( degree murder ill Shelby county circuit court at Shelbyville, Ills,, for the murder of his wife. Morgan threw his wife from a car window. Extension to November 30 of the time in which Christmas parcels will be accepted for mailing to members of the American expeditionary forces in France is announced by the postoffice and war departments. That women have been doing more than their bit is illustrated by the fact that there are about 100 of the fair sex working in the roundhouses of the Erie and Pennsylvania railroads at Kane, Pa. Shipbuilding in this country is to be continued steadily, but the program of the shipping board, based on war needs, -will be revised and designs for ships will be changed with reference to economical cost of operation, Chairman Hurley said, outlining the board's peace time plans. More than 2532 American prisoners in German camps were released immediately imme-diately by the signing of the German armistice, according to the latest figures fig-ures prepared by the American Red Cross in Switzerland. Two men were killed in several explosions ex-plosions in the plant of the Western Powder Manufacturing company at Edwards. Ed-wards. 111. "Victory" bread soon will disappear from the American table and its place will be taken by bread made from whole wheat four. Victory for American Amer-ican tind allied arms, however, is responsible re-sponsible only in part for the change. It is chiefly due, according to the food administration, to the tremendous wheat crop raised by the American farmers this yea: Minnesota will remain wet, complete official returns announced by the Secretary of State showing that the proposed dry amendment to the state constitution failed by 750 votes at the 1 general election November 5. American copper Industry through a committee of producers and refiners have agreed with the war industries board to maintain the present rate of production and preserve existing levels of prices and wages. Orders were issued November 12 by the war department discontinuing accepting ac-cepting of applicants for the central ; officers' training camps and stopping the organisation of any new classes. There are now approximately 100,000 men In training at these camps operating oper-ating on a monthly class basis. After suffering great pain for the last ten days from an attack of sciatica. Col. Theodore Roosevelt has been removed re-moved to Roosevelt hospital, New York, to lie near his physician. WASHINGTON. Downward revision' of the war revenue reve-nue bill to about the six billion dollar total recommended by Secretary Mc-Aiioo Mc-Aiioo appears to be assured. Regardless of the ending of hostilities hostil-ities Director General McAdoo intends to continue to unify railroad operations ami pool facilities throughout the period per-iod of government control, which under the law will end twenty-one months after peace is formally declared. Revision of the pending revenue bill with a view to yielding $0,000,000,-000 $0,000,000,-000 payable during the calendar year 1010 and not less than $4,000,000,000 the following year, was recommended by Secretary McAdoo in a letter to Chairman Simmons of the senate finance committee, setting forth the treasury's financial program for the reconstruction period. Appeals addressed to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Jane Add:uns of Chicago, Chi-cago, on behalf of the women of Germany, Ger-many, asking that the armistice terms be modified to prevent "unspeakable disaster," have been sent from the German wireless station at Nauen. "The biggest problem of. the world today is the problem of feeding it," Herbert Hoover, the food administrator, administra-tor, told a conference of senators on' November 14. "This statement was made in explanation of the general food situation and the decision to send Mr. Hoover abroad to take command of the food distribution in Europe. President Wilson has sent a reassuring reas-suring message to the people of Germany Ger-many in reply to the appeal from Chancellor Ebert. He promises to aid Germany in the matter of food supplies sup-plies and in relieving . distressing want. FOREIGN, Major General Seyn, formerly governor gov-ernor general of Finland, has been taken from a hospital at Kronstadt and either drowned or shot, according to a Helsingfors dispatch to the Berlingske Tidende. Developments in Europe, not only military but in international politics, and the tendency of the revolutionary spirit manifested by the demoralized civilian population of the central empires em-pires to spread to neighboring states, have influenced the allied and American Ameri-can governments to arrange for the meeting at an early date of the great peace congress. The armistice terms imposed upon the Turkish war forces in Mesopotamia, as officially announced comprises : Evacuation of the Musei Villayet. Surrender Sur-render of artillery, supplies and am munition. British control of Mosul. Evacuation of the 'Chucasus and northwestern north-western Persia. Turkish withdrawal from Syria and Gallcia and demobii-' Izutiou in a westward direction. Fran co-British occupation of Alexalldretta. Field Marshal Von Ililldenburg has issued a proclamation to the German army saying in substance: "The evergrowing ever-growing number of our enemies, the exhaustion of our allies and the urgent crisis in the provisioning of our country coun-try 'have forced us to accept the hard conditions of the armistice. By the terms, of the armistice we are obliged to rapidly return to the fatherland, which is a heavy task." The demoralization of the German army is increasing hourly. Brussels apparently has been given over to mob rule. Officers are being shot by the scores. Prince Friedrich of Waldeck-Pyr-niont has voluntarily relinquished his government, according to a Reuter dispatch. dis-patch. Waldeck-Pyrinont is one of the smaller states of the German empire. Mr. Clines, British food controller, speaking in parliament, declared that victory imposed obligations as well as war and that there was ahead the duty of feeding the destitute countries. A marvelous night scene was witnessed wit-nessed off the Scottish coast when the grand fleet celebrated the armistice. On a thirty-mile line, warships of every description were simultaneously illuminated. Myriads of sirens blew. Hundreds of searchlights played fantastically. fan-tastically. Fireworks and star shells were sent up. The former German crown prince Is with his troops at the front, according to a dispatch from the semi-official Wolff Bureau of Berlin, received at Copenhagen. |