, 1918-01-03
FOREIGN

The Berlin papers dilate on the i'm
portance of the Brest-Litovsk peace
negotiations and declare peace offer is
free from lust"
Cooperation of Japan with her al
lies in the war to the fullest extent
OF her ability was pledged by Emperor
Y%oshihito in the speech from thu
throne at the opening Of parliament.
A Petrograd dispatch to the London
Times said that Ambassador Francis
in his statement denied that he ana
his staff had interfered with Russian
internal affairs or aided any political
faction.
More than 300 members of the Ger
man minority Socialist party were ar.
rested on Christmas eve by the Ger
man military authorities, according to
a Zurich dispatch given out in London
by the Wireless Press.
The ideas of King Ferdinand of BuI.
garia about a~nnexations are very diff
ferent from those expounded by Count
Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister, at Brest-Litovsk. The Nieue
Free Presse (Vienna), quotes him as
saying that Bulgaria would hold what
she had won.
The central powers are ready to
max an immediate general peace
without compulsory annexations and
without contributions. This is their
answer thru Count Czernin, the Aus
tro-Hungarian foreign minister, made
on Christmas day at Brest-Litovsk to
Russian proposals.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki for
eign minister, protested to the Ger
man against the t~ransference of
troops from the eastern front, but
also has ordered Russian factories to
stop the manufacture of munitions.
He did not indicate whether his gov
eminent would take any other step
against German violation of the arm
istice.
SPORTING NEWS
Baseballs r going to cost more
next season thar they have in the
past, according to dealers in sporting
goods.
The annual meeting of the Rocky
Mountain conference will be held in
Denver, Jan. IL, according to word Civ.
en- out by Prof. George c.. Manly of
the University of Denver. president OF
the conference.
George w. Phellis was high man in
the trap shoot at the Lakewood Coun-
try club, with a score of 80 out of 100.
This is the first of a series of trap
shoots which the Lakewood club will
hold every Wednesday afternoon at
the club grounds in Denver
Twenty show horses from James Cox
Brady's stable were auctioned off in
New York for the benefit of the Red
Cross for an aggregate of S22,365, of
which $1S.15O was paid for eight hack
neys. Fifteen of the animals were
prize winners and the highest price
was paid for the imported English
hackney team, Pireon and Hamilton
Regal, purchased by John r. Thomp-
son of Chicago for $4,000.
GENERAL
John E. Williams, fuel administra-
tor of Illinois, was appointed referee
in all labor disputes arising in the
packing house industries of the United
States during the war.
Stocks scared at the opening of the
New York stock market Dec. 81, denot-
ing the satisfaction of the financial
community with the presidents de-
cision to take over the railroads.
Fire believed to have been of in
cendiary origin destroyed the boxmak-
ing plant of Otto Baker & Sons, at
Baltimore, Md, engaged in govern
ment work, with a loss of more than
$780, O0.
This year will be the first time since
"mardi gras' was first held in New
Orleans that the day will not be cele-
brated by street maskers. Mayor
issued an order forbidding
the custom.
The American consulate at Odessa
was the object of a bomb early in the
morning of the 18th, according to a
state department message.
In Nsv York the number of licenses
issued for Christmas marriages
showed an increase of nearly 100 per
cent. over 1916. A total of PIT IL
censes were issued Monday as COM
pared with 167 on Christmas eve last
year.
New regulations issued by the Fed
eral Food Administration automatic
ally reduced the price of flour in ar.
load lots at the mills by establishing
a lower amount of wheat to be used
in the manufacture of a barrel OF
flour.
w. w. Blackwell, a decade ago su.
preme chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias and since recognized as an
on affairs of the order. died