, 1919-01-30
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o ! G s, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT H WAR

prisoner by the Germans on the west
ern front only one now remains in
Germany. He is at Stuttgart too i'll
TO be removed at present.
Loyal troops continue entering Der
lin in a systematic search for Spar
tacans. Former Spartacan War Min.
lister Schreiner and fifteen other Spar
tacans have been arrested.
The issue of National War Bonds at
5 per cent will be discontinued next
month, by order of the Treasury. 1t
is from this source that the govern.
ment has been deriving most of the
money for carrying on the war.
Teutonic accents will not be inject
ed into The Star %Spangled Banner
If the Third army has anything to say
about it. AS part of the anti-propa-
ganda regulation of the civilian pop
ulation in the area occupied by the
American troops, the playing of the
American national anthem by civilians
Is prohibited.
WESTERN
With an estimated loss of approx
.mately $1,000 900, the Masonic tenn
pie n other property was destroyed
by fire at Sioux City, Iowa.
By unanimous vote the Senate of
the Idaho Legislature passed a bill
which makes it a felony punishable
by Imprisonment up to ten years to
hoist or display the red flag in this
state.
The Montana St~ockgrowers' Asso-
citation, in session at Helena, went on
record against government ownership
n operation of livestock facilities as
proposed by the 'Simms bill now be-
fore Congress.
A plea that the government aid
many Americans and others who, he
says, are practically marooned in the
Hawaiian islands because of lack OF
shipping, is to be made to Congress
by ]. X. Kalanianaole, delegate to that
body from the islands, according to an
announcement by Mr.. Kalanianaole in
San Francisco.
California's gold production for 1918
was ST. 900, her nearest COMPETE
tor being Colorado, whose production
approximated $12, 1853, 500, according
to a communication from the geologi-
cal survey in Washington received by
Charles G. Yale of the local branch
of the survey. Alaska produced &c.
100 800, and no other state produced
more than $1,000, 900. Montana led in
the production of silver, the amount
being $15,341, 1893; Utah produced 3d.
1851, Idaho $10,1S8,056, Nevada
S10,113, 405, Colorado $6,9S2,313, Ari-
zona S6,771,490 and California ST.
555,417. The total production of gold
in 1918 was $68,493 800, and of silver
$67,S79,2 FOG, representing the smallest
output of gold in twenty years and
the smallest output of silver since
1913.
WASHINGTON
The war trade board gave notice
that rice had again beer added to the
list of restricted imports.
Railroads in 1918 under government
control and usual war conditions
earned about Sis, 100000, or $3.50 ,OOO,-
0s0 less than in 1917. S37O,000 900 less
han in the record year of 1916, and
about the same as in 1915.
President Wilson cabled his appro-
val of simultaneous memorial meet
ings throughout the country on Feb,
~ . hOhOA thC hhShiOiS VI lutOuOTt
Roosevelt.
Director General Hines said that
there was no foundation for the re-
ports that the Railroad Administra-
ton is giving consideration to amy
increase in the present basis of rates."
The hog price agreement made dur
ing the war between the Food Admin
%lstration n hog producers will be
continued in the face of the present
large surplus, it was officially an
nounced.
Speaker Champ Clark declared in
the House during debate on the dip
lomatic appropriation bill, in favor of
every American soldier being with
drawn from Russia and the rest of
Europe.
In ~disposipg of test cases. the SUI
preme Court decided that the com.
merce act, as amended in 1910, did
not prohibit the free exchange of util-
ity service between telegraph and tele-
phone companies, and railroad com.
panies. even where service from one
line to points on another was involved.
Preparations for a combined effort
under the Webb act to extend the for.
eign market for American textiles
were completed by the textile alliance
export corporation of New York,
which filed papers of organization
with the Federal Trade Commission
as required by law. The four great
textile associations formed the new
combination.
Dispatches to the State Department
at Washington said all business be-
tween Lima and Callao, Peru, had been
suspended as a result of the dynamit-
ing of q portion of the Central Rail
way during strike disturbances.