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infested with aphiS, and he advises
grazing to eliminate the pest.
NJ. S. Browning, brother of John NJ.
Browning, inventor of the machine
guns used by the army, has left
Ogden Utah, for Hartford, Conn, for
a conference regarding the future or
ders for the guns. 1t was stated that
the government intends to continue the
manufacture of the machine guns to
fill all the orders.
A victim of either murder or suicide,
probably suicide, Miss Marion ROwley,
20 years old, beautiful girl whose
home is in Boulder, Colo, was. found
dead with bullet hole in her head at
a small hotel in Denver.
Secretary Lane announced Saturday
that approximately 1,166,000 acres of
land were designated during October
for entry under the stockraising
homestead law. The lands are located
in Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico and
Wyoming. The total area now desig-
mated as stockraising land amounts TO
approximately 10,610,O00 acres.
Influenza epidemic conditions remain
unchanged in Utah, as far as the
spread of the disease and the setting
of definite date for the opening Of
places of public assemblage are con-
cerned.
All shipment of troops from Camp
Lewis, WASH, have been suspended by
orders received there from Washing
ton. Several hundred men of the One
Hundred Sixty-sixth depot brigade,
who had been assigned to other posts,
but were held because of the influenza
quarantine, are affected.
DOMESTIC.
The recent epidemic of influenza in
the United States caused more deaths
than occurred among the American ex-
peditjonary forces from all causes
from the time the first unit landed In
France until hostilities ceased.
Fred Fulton of Minnesota, one-time
claimant for heavyweight champion
ship honors, was given decision over
Sailor Willie Meehan of San Francisco
at the conclusion of n four-rOund con-
test 1t was one of the fiercest bouts
ever witnessed in San Francisco.
! Colonel Roosevelt has authorized
the announcement that no and Mrs.
Roosevelt would visit the grave of
their son, Lieutenant Quentin Roose-
welt, in France, at the spot where he
fell after his airplane had been shot
down by the. Germans,
Railroad telegraphers' wages were
advanced by order of Director General
McAdoo on November 16, l3 cents per
hour above the rate prevailing last
january with Il minimum of AZ cents
per hour, retroactive to October 1.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in TIE
closing hours of the Pan-American Ia
Dor coz ference at Laredo, Tex, served
formal warning that no general redoc-
ton of wages nor increase in working
hours after the war would be accepted
without bitter fight by organized
labor.
The victory celebration killed the
Spanish Influenza. That is the opinion
of high medical authorities in Wash
ingtOn. 1t is admitted that suggestion
may have had something to do with
It. but it is contended that physiology
cal rather than psychological reasons
should receive the credit for rendering
the disease germs innOcuous.
Mrs. Mary Simpson, widow, was
killed, and twelve persons were injured
in n tornado which swept through
Prague, causing property damage es-
timated at 100000.
Excessive quantities of trinitrotoluol
and other explosives, as well as fin
ished shells were stored not only In
magazines, but In freight cars about the
plant Of the Il. A. Gillespie shell load
ing plant at Morgan last month when
the plant was wrecked by an explo'
sion which killed nearly 100 men, ac'
cording to evidence submitted.
When the city council of Long Beach
Cal, attempted to make kissing In
public misdemeanor it acted arbi-
trarily and in violation of the consti'
tuition, according to decision rendered
by Superior Judge FrankR. Willis.
Irving Morgan was convicted of Sec
ond degree murder in Shelby county
circuit court at Shelbyville, Ills, for
the murder of his wife. Morgan threw
his wife from car window.
Extension to November 30 of the
time in which Christmas parcels will
be accepted for mailing to members OF
the American expeditionary forces In
France is announced by the postoffict
and war departments.
Edward n. Hurley, chairman of tn,
United States shipping board, an
nounced Friday on the eve of his de
parture for Europe that the govern
Inent intends to return to this countr,
speedily a large part of American eN
peditionary forces
Shipbuilding in this country is to be
continued steadily, but the program
Of the shipping board, based on wal