The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-12-20
brief REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM
Meme and Foreign News oathsrss
From All Quarters Of the World,
aHd Prepared for Busy Men
lNTE RMoJNTAIN.


fication. Cabarets and bars were well
filled to the closing hour. Stocks of
liquor ran low in many places before
the law went into effect.
The sentence Of death imposed on
Ben E. Kuhl, murderer of Fred Searcy,
Jarbidge stage driver, was commute:
to life imprisonment by the state board
of parsons at Carcon City, New. Kuhl
was to have been shot at the state
prison ON December 20.
designations of every member of the
fire department at Colorado Springs,
except the chiefs, were accepted by
the city council Thursday. The men,
thirty-five in number, resigned because
their request for increased wages was
refused.
Leigh & Green of Lund, Utah, has
filed application with the state public
utilities commission for permit to
operate motor freight truck service
between Lund and Parowan.
Butte will see unusual building and
real estate activity in the spring Of
1919, Homer Townsend, chief clerk of
the city department of public works,
predicts.
Reconstruction and readjustment pc
RODS will not be characterized by
panics or depression, according to Jere
Sharpe, prominent Minneapolis banker,
who Is visiting in Butte.
Holland is seeking trade in Utah, &C.
cording to letter received by Earl
]. Glade, secretary of the Utah State
from the intelligence office for COM
mercial relations at Amsterdam and re-
quests him to send a catalogue Of
the exhibitors. The letter adds that
all offers and inquiries emanating
from firms in Utah will be welcomed
and laid before importers and expor-
tiers in Holland.
DOMESTIC.
Thirty-six governors or governors
elect, in annual conference at Annapo-
lis, Nd, were told by Secretary Baker
that the war had proven the indispens-
ability Of strong state governments in
peace as well as war times, as the prin-
cipal agencies for mobilizing and de-
armies, finding work for
returning soldiers and developing bet
ter methods of physical training for
young men.
William G. McAdoo, in an address
at New York ON the eve of his retire
ment as secretary of the treasury, pre-
dicted the success of the fifth Liberty
loan and declared that it was for a
majority of the people to decide
the nations railroads should
be privately or government owned.
The largest winter wheat crop ever
grow in the history Of the United
States is promised by the enormous
acreage sown this fall. The acreage
totals 49,O27 900, or 1853 per cent more
than the revised estimated area sown
In the fall of 1917. which was 42,301,-
300 acres.
Claiming that the Oliver Iron Mining
for ten years has been using
an ore washer on the basic principles
Of which he holds the patent, Captain
Alexander McDougall, an inventor and
of the McDougall-D Duluth
company has brought suit
1T Duluth, MIMI, for $4O,0O0,OO0
against the mining company.
Charles A. Lewis, discharged ne
gro solder, who is alleged to have
'eaten Deputy Sheriff AL Thomas when
he latter attempted to arrest him at |
KY, was hanged by mob |
If masked men.
Recruiting in each community of a
rip of ''sea scouts" intended to pre-
pare boys for the mrchant marine, will |
'e one Of the features OF anniversary |
week" of the boys scouts Of America,
February 7 to February 10.
A special rate will DE granted to
.lergymen over the railroads, begin
ling January l, according to a letter
eceived by the Rev. w s. Foreman
rom Director General McAdoo.
Operations of the German propa-
,anda system in the United States,
through which valuable information for
to Berlin was gathered at
he same time that German doctrines
we're spread over the country were
aid bare Friday by Captain G. B.
lester of the army intelligence SER
ice in testimony before the senate
committee investigating beer and Ger
nan propaganda. Most of the evidence
elated to activity of Teutonic agents
'efore the United States entered the
var.
Buffeted by high seas, which carried
way a deckhouse and wrenched
our-inch gun from its mounting, the
American transport Dekalb arrived
lere Friday from France with approx
mately 1850 soldiers, sailors and ma.
ines, nearly 400 Of whom had been
in action. She was preceded
INTO port by the mail boat Oregonian,
arrying a solitary doughboy, Sergeant
leland A. Kaufman of the Second
livision headquarters troop, who
'rought home the favorite charger Of