, 1918-11-14
History Of
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
INTERMEDIARY.

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-
ton show that there are at least .
100000 acres of eastern Washington IT.
| rigable lands aud approximately :
100000 acres of western Washington
logged-off 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 h~eadquar-
tiers 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 Martin, 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 Repubh-
cans and two Democrats, elected In
AlDIllu1u, were lLiuOlStu W ihC W
partisan league.
Considerable indignation was aroused
at the meeting ot the city commission
ers at Ogden, Utah, when it was re-
ported that floral designs placed on
graves in the cemetery were being re-
moved by florists and others and used
over again.
DOMESTIC.
The world wal ended Monday morn
ing, November IL, at 6 O'Clock, Wash
ington time, IL o'clock Paris time. Thu
armistice was signed by the German
representatives at midnight. The
terms of the armistice will include /:
Immediate retirement of the German
military forces from l rance; disarm-
Ing and rehabilitation of the German
otmies occupation b. the allied and
American forces of such strategic
points in Germany as will make inn
possible n renewal OF hoStllities; de
livery of part of the German high seas
fleet and a 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
3 forces of these victorious nations; re-
lease of allied and American soldiers,
sailors and civilians held prisoners in
Germany without such reciprocal ae-
ton by the associated governments.
The first shipment of Alaska coal to
the states is expected soon. 1t will con-
sist of 1000 tens from the mine of the
Alaska Petroleum & Coal company in
the Boring coal fields.
That Charlie Chaplin, the famous
film comedian, had been secretly mar
ried two weeks ago in Los Angeles to
Mildred Harris, a young screen beauty
has just become known.
Offices are now open in fourteen of
the chief cities of the United States to
receive the applications of disabled
soldiers and sailors of the American
army and navy for free education to
equip them for the vocation for which
they are most fitted
All persons known TO have been on
board the American steamer Saetia,
sunk off the Maryland coast nave been
saved.
aye have come back to our country
more thoroughly convinced that our
people and our government stand out
as a $cnderful object lesson to the
peoples of the whole world" declared
Samuel Gompers Friday in his report
20 the American people," on the work
of the labor mission to Europe.
New Mexico elected four women
county school superintendent.
Four steel workers We're plunged
1888 feet TO death inside n huge smoke
stack at Chicago when a scaffold col
lapsed. One still was alive when found,
but died soon afterwards.
1t is planned TO make the Great Lakes
(ulinois) training station larger with
J expectation there will be more han So
900 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
gauized the famous Philippine scouts,
with which he served as major from
1912 until this country entered the war.
A contribution of $5,000,000 to the
united war work campaign, said to be
the largest gift ever made to such n
cause, was announced ut New York
by the United States Steel corporation.
The same corporation gave $2.000,000
to the Red Cross during its last cam
} paign.
The engineer, fireman and front
brakeman of a Missouri. Kansas &
Texas freight train were killed when
the engine boiler exploded at n point
ten miles northeast OF Olothe, Kans.