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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 has
been abandoned and will be sold.
Returns from twenty-four of the
thirty-nine counties of the state on the
QUESTIONABLE sent out by the federal
reclamation service through the Wash
ington State Land Settlement associa-
tion show that there are at least p
100000 acres of eastern Washington ir-
rigable lands and approximately p
| 100000 acres of western Washington
logged-Olf lands awaiting reclamation.
The rapid growth of the Rocky Noun
| tain division of the American Red
| Cross has made necessary the building
| of a $4,000 addition to the headquar-
| ters building at Denver.
| Women candidates for political of
Ices in Nevada did not fare very well,
except in one or two isolated instances.
| Miss Annie NJ irtin, Independent whose
| aides were confident finished third in
the senatorial race, beating the So
cialist candidate by only Il few votes.
| Five states senators, three Republi-
| cans and two Democrats elected in
Montana, We're indorsed by the non
| partisan league.
Considerable Indignation was aroused
at the meeting OF the city commission
ers at Ogden, Utah, when it was re-
ported that floral designs placed on
graves in the cemetery We're being re-
moved by florists and others and used
over again. !
DOMESTIC.
The world war ended Monday morn
ing, November II, at o'clock, Wash
ington time, II O'Clock Paris time. The
armistice was signed by the German
representatives ut midnight. The
terms of the armistice will include :
Immediate retirement of the German
military forces from rance; disarm-
ing and rehabilitation of the German
ocmies; occupation b. the allied and
American forces of such strategic
points in Germany as will make i'm
possible Il renewal o. hOstilties de-
livery of part of the German high seas
fleet and IL certain number of sub
| marines to the allied and American
naval forces disarmament of all other
German warships under supervision of
the allied and American navieS, which
will guard them; occupation of the
principal German naval bases by sea
forces of these victorious nations; re-
lease of allied and American soldiers
sailors and civilians held prisoners in
Germany without such reciprocal ac
ton by the associated governments.
The first Shipment of Alaska coal tC
the states is expected soon. 1t viii con
sist of 1000 tens from the mine of the
Alaska Petroleum & Cuall company il
the Bering coal fields.
That Charlie Chaptln, the famou:
film comedian, had been secretly mar
ried two weeks ago i,i Los Angeles t.
Mildrel Harris, a yoYng screen beaut,
has Just become known.
Offices are now open in fourteen o
the cslief CITIES of the United States tt
| receive the applications 8t disabled
soldiers and sailors of the American
arnIy ana navy FIR free education t.
equip them for the vocation for whicl
they are most fitF,d.
All persons known to lsive been OF
| board the American steamer Saeta
sunk OFF the Maryland coast have been
sawed.
I'VE lave come back 10 our country
more thoroughly convinced that our
people and our government stand out
as II >>rnderfuA object lesson to the
! peoples of the whole world" declared
| Samuel Gompers Friday in his report
| TO the American people," on the work
Of the labor mission to Europe.
| New Mexico elected four women
| county school superintendents.
! -Four steel workers were plunged
| lSS feet to death inside huge smoke
! stack at Chicago when Il scaffold col
! lapsed. One still was alive when found,
but died soon afterwards.
1t is planned 10 mike the Great Lakes
| QllinOis) training station larger with
expectation there will be more than 5O,-
| 700 men here the coming winter.
Lieut. Col William Parker of New
York, listed as killed in action, was
one of the cavalry officers who or
ganized the famous Philippine scouts,
with which he served as major from
1912 until this country entered the war.
A contribution of $5,O0O,O0O to the
united war work campaign, said to be
the largest gift ever made to such
cause, was announced ut New York
by the United States Steel corporation.
The same corporation gave $2,0O0,OOO
to the Red Cross during its last cam
pa,gn.
The engineer, fireman and front
brakeman of Missouri, Kansas &
Texas freight train were killed when
the engine boiler exploded ut point
ten miles northeast Of olothe, Kans.