The Garland City globe. (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925, 1918-12-21
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT
HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
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Nome and Foreign News oathsreA
From All Quarters Of tho World,
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iNTERmouNTAIN.

When the midnight hour struck De
cember 10, Nevada went dry, and there
appeared to be little mourning or jolli-
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 Il. Kuhl, murderer of Fred Searcy,
Jarbidge stage driver, was commute,
to life Imprisonment by the state board
OF parsons ut Carcon City, New Kuhl
was to have been shot ut the state
prison ON December 20.
designations Of every member Of the
fire department ut 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 4 Green Of Lund, Utah, has
filed application with the state public
utilities commission for q 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 reimbursement pc
RODS will not be characterized by
pnnics or depression. according to Jere
Sharpe. prominent Minneapolis banker,
who is visiting In Butte.
Holland Is seeking trade In Utah. ac-
cording TO letter received by Earl
]. Glade, secretary OF the Utah State
Fair association. The letter comes
from the intelligence office for com
mercial relations at Amsterdam and re-
quests him TO send catalogue OF
the exhibitors. The letter adds that
oil offers and Inquiries emanating
from firms In Utah will be welcomed
and laid before Importers and expor'
tiers In Holland.
DOMESTIC.
Thirty-slx governors or governors
elect, In annual conference at Annapo-
lis, Md. were told by Secretary Baker
that the war had proven the indlspcns-
ability OF strong state governments In
peace us well as war times, as the prln-
cipal agencies for mobilizing and de.
mobilizlng armies, finding work for
returning soldiers and developing bet
ter methods OF physical training for
young men.
william q. 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 II was for n
majority OF the people TO decide
whether the nations railroads should
be privately or government owned.
The largest winter wheat crop ever
grow In the history OF the United
States IL promised by the enormous
acreage sown this fall. The acreage
totals 1902. 900, or 15.9 per cent more
than the revised estimated area sown
In the fall OF 1917, which was 42,30l,-
900 acres.
Claiming that the Oliver Iron Mining
company 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
president OF the McDougall-Duluth
Shipbuilding company has brought suit
at Duluth, MIMI. for S40,O00.000
against the mining company.
Charles A. Lewis, discharged ne
gro solder, who is alleged to have
beaten Deputy Sheriff Al Thomas when
the latter attempted to arrest him nj
Hickman, Ky, was hanged by mob
of masked men.
Recruiting In each community of a
trip of 'sea scouts intended to pre-
pare boys for the mrchant marine, will
be one OF the features of anniversary
week" OF the boys scouts of America,
February 7 TO February ID.
A special rate will be granted TO
clergymen over the railroads, begin |
ming January /. according to letter |
received by the Rev. w IS. Foreman |
from Director General McAdoo.
Operations of the German propa-
ganda system In the United States, |
through which valuable information for |
transmission to Berlin was gathered at |
the same time that German doctrines |
were spread over the country were !
laid bare Friday by Captain q. II.
Lester of the army intelligence SER
vice In testimony before the senate
committee investigating beer and Ger
man propaganda. Most of the evidence
related to activity of Teutonlc agents
before the United States entered the
war.
Buffeted by high seas, which carried
away deckhouse and wrenched
four-inch gun from its mounting, the
American transport Dekalb arrived
here Friday from France with approx
imately 1850 soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, nearly 400 Of whom had been
wounded in action. She was preceded
into port by the mail boat oregonian,
carrying solitary doughboy, Sergeant
Leland A. kaufman of the Second
division headquarters troop, who
brought home the fayorlte charger Of
his commander Major General Omar
Bundy. J