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Show HEWS OF A WEEK Ifl CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT 1VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happtnlngt That Are Making History Information Gathered from A 14 Quarters of the Globe n4 Given In Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Liquor seized by stale officers from t.oiiong ciii.eus may ii;n t 10 oe returned re-turned 11 ii Icr a decision handed down by the slate suin'onie court at Cheyenne Chey-enne to the effect that liquor acquired legally hefore July 1, 1919, for use in lirivute homes is not contrahand. Final plans for a meeting in Boise, January 10, of carriers and shippers from Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada and Montana, when demands for n reduced rate on eustbnund wool, tipples, prunes, potatoes, lumber and sheep will he made, were formulated at H meeting at Boise. Lying In a elunip of brush in n gully about two miles south of Silver City, Utah, and with a bullet wound through his temple, the body of an unidentified un-identified man about 35 years old was found by boys. Joshua Sykes, self-styled king of heaven and earth and leader of the sect of the House of David, was arrested ar-rested at Denver on a charge of operating op-erating a confidence game. A tentative contract calling for a state-wide wheat pool for five years was presented to eleven representatives representa-tives of state farmers' organizations meeting at Portland. They plan to re-rise re-rise it and present It next month to. Hie state farm bureau federation convention con-vention at Portland, and to the state fanners' union and the grange. Mrs. Charles Evans has been ac- uuirteu at Craig, Colo., of the charge of murder. Mrs. Evans testified her husband leveled a rifle at the six sleeping children with the remark : "Here's your Christmas present." She seized a shotgun, she told the coroner's Jury, and fired the full charge into her husband's head, killing him instantly. in-stantly. DOMESTIC. W. C. Sly, president, and George Fivnor, vice president, of the W. W. Sly Manufacturing company, were shot and killed by five automobile bandits on the street at Cleveland. The bandits escaped with the company payroll of $4500. Miss Victoria Founder, deputy county clerk, issued her own marriage license on Thursday. The party of thc-seeond thc-seeond part is Warran Mllligan, a local lo-cal newspaper reporter. When the blank was filled she directed Milligan to raise his right hand and swear to Hie truth of the statement. He obeyed. Iowa's 2-cent railroad passenger fare law on Thursday was held to be unconstitutional un-constitutional by Judge Martin J. Wade of the United States district court. Officials were enjoined from enforcing the law on traffic entirely within the state. After a lone hand daylight robbery , of the People's hank at Springfield, Tenn., which netted $50,000 in Liberty bonds, a man, identified by police as Hobart Austin, 32, was killed by Sheriff Sher-iff A. L. Jett in a gun duel. The bonds were recovered. One man was burned to death and several persons are reported missing in a fire which destroyed the Mansion hotel at Fort Worth, Texas. Several adjoining buildings were badly damaged. dam-aged. Two bombs placed in taxicabs in widely separated parts of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, but timed to explode simultaneously, simultane-ously, demolished the cabs. One, in the heart of the theatre district near the Bellevue Stratford hotel, caused a near panic. A frenzy of jealousy, inspired by taunts that he was a foul to expect her full affections and a boast that she had two husbands living, impelled Jonathan A. Murphy, 30, to shoot Mary Ethel Oduin, 20, whom he had courted for years, according to the story he told the police at San Diego. Announcement is made by the Ford i Motor company that its Highland Pari; plant, which closed December 24 for inventory, will not reopen January 3. as planned, but will remain closed in definitely. An entire family of seven was wiped out by a fire r.t Fairfield, Conn. Tl. victims were Felix Yakinmovitcb, 51. his three sous and three daughters. The government will appeal" from the recent decision of federal courts In Connecticut holding that profits re :-eived from the sale of stock by per sons wther than brokers is not taxahh as .11'.. uiie. Following the issuance of a demand by the post of the American legion at Sallna, Kan., that A. C. Tounley, national na-tional Nonpartisan league leader, and his aides cease activities here and leave the county, E. F. Swanson. sheriff, sher-iff, Issued a public statement warning against any violence. Army aviators will make a double attempt to fly across the United Slates from Florida to California in a single day on Washiugtons' birthday, February 112. An indeterminate sentence of from one to fifty years' imprisonment, the maximum penalty, was imposed on Ed-inoml Ed-inoml (Spud) Murphy, pugilist and gangster, for a felonious assault upon Miss Jessie Montgomery of Reno, Nov., at San Francisco Thanksgiving day. The railroads' coal bill for the first nine months of this year was $97,- (?) 1 .1 , . , .u,u untie man uuring ine corresponding corre-sponding period last year, said a statement state-ment Issued by the interstate commerce com-merce commission. WASHINGTON. The Smoot-Heavis bill providing for the appointment of a congressional commission on reorganization of the government departments became a law December 31 without the signature of I'resident Wilson. The bill extending for six months the time in which 1920 assessment work on mining claims can be done was signed December 31 by President Wilson. A permanent injunction was granted grant-ed in the United States district court restraining the secretary of agriculture agricul-ture from enforcing his order restoring restor-ing the wartime commission rate for handling livestock. Ratification of the treaty of Versailles Ver-sailles by the senate with the exception excep-tion of the covenant of the league of nations is to be proposed by Senator King, Democrat, Utah. Taxpayers required to make Inventories Inven-tories for 1920 returns may adopt the basis of "cost or market," whichever is lower, under regulations issued by the internal revenue bureau. The sundry civil bill, carrying a total to-tal of $3S3,G11,292, or $420,914,192 less than was asked by the govern ment departments, was reported on Wednesday by the house appropriations appropria-tions committee. By a vote of 33 to 11 the senate tabled the resolution of Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock to refer the emergency tariff bill to the senate commerce committee Instead In-stead of the finance committee. FOREIGN. The emigration from Ireland during dur-ing the first ten months of this year is about half what it was for the average av-erage of the corresponding ten months of the five years preceding the war. There were altogether 12,752 emigrants of whom 7S0S were women. There were 43GS emigrants from Ulster. Eamonn de Valera, "president of the Irish republic," has returned to Ireland, it was announced at New York Friday by his secretary, Harry Roland. Four hundred Italian soldiers were killed in the fighting at Fiume, it was reported at Rome. The defending forces were said to have lost eight killed, including two women fighters. Two hundred legionaries were wounded. Charges which have been circulated in some foreign countries that China has become a militaristic nation are denied by Dr. Philip Tyau, councilor of the foreign office, in a statement he has just issued at Pekln. Buildings for Brazilian embassies and legations abroad will be acquired by purchase under a legislative resolution reso-lution sanctioned by President Pessoa. The government is authorized to open necessary credits to the extent of approximately ap-proximately $750,000 in each financial period. Formal notification has been sent to Lithuania that the railway between Vilna and Dvinsk will remain Polish and that the proposed plebiscite will be held only in the territory west of that line. Presentation by the people of the United States of a suitable memorial to Brazil during this country's een-lenninl een-lenninl celebration of independence in 1922 is proposed by North Americans residing in Bio de Janeiro. Rumors that France has temporarily dropped the question of recognizing the present government of Mexico, pending the giving of necessary guarantees, guar-antees, were denied in a statement made public at Mexico City by the French charge d'affaires. Addressing preliminary meetings of the diet at Tokio, Viscount Uchida, the foreign minister, expressed the opinion that a new Japanese-American treaty ' ill be concluded leading to nullifica-'.:m nullifica-'.:m of the California land law. Cholera has broken out in the Rus- I i.tn camp outside of Constantinople, iiie allies have taken measures to prevent a spread of the disease. Fighting at Fiume between Italian ;o eminent troops and Captain Gab .'eie D'Annunzio's legionaries has cen suspended for a time, at least, it s reuo'.'ted. |