The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-03
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS o.
gVEIlTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN lANOo.
w..,.rn Se~spap-r Union sew. SERVE
About the War

Gi4llSH lbItts nave Dt-i ldld'-u At
Riga, according to adyices received at
Copenhagen
over / 100, 900 American soldiers at
home and abroad have been desgnat-
ed for rehabilitation since the armis-
tice was signed
British sailors and Esthonian troops
effected a landing near Narva. Hell
singfors dispatch to the Berlingske
Tidende reported at Berlin.
Gen. Franchet d Esperey, command
er-in-chief OF the allied forces in the
Near East, made his official entry in
to Constantinople Sunday coming
from Saloniki on board the French
cruiser Patrie
Sir Edward Kemp, minister for the
overseas military forces of Canada,
says that by the end OF January 55.-
900 soldiers will have returned to Can
ada These soldiers are made up of
$1,000 in November. 10000 in Decem-
ber and 10000 in January.
Daily telephone conversations be-
tween Berlin and the headquarters OF
the Third American army in Coblenz
have taken place recently The con
NeFSdllOlLS nave Dttl III connection
with the work of the interallied armis-
tice commission and also in arranging
details concerning the war material
which the Germans are assembling in
the region of Coblenz
With the issue of the official fig
ures of the French losses in the war it
is possible to arrive at the approx
mate estimate of the appalling toll of
life. The dead. so far, number 1896
504. The individual national losses in
dead are: British. 7o6.726; French. L..
o7l 800; American, 5s,47s; Russian, l.
roo. 1000; Austrian. 800. 900; German, L.
SOC, 900. The total German casualties
are given by the Berlin Vorwaerts as
6,S30.0O0 and the Austrian. 100000.
Western
Four street car employees were in
jured in an explosion at the Forty
eighth street car barns of the Kansas
City Railways Company
D. o. Mackey, prominent sheep rails
er Of the intermountain section, who
lives in Salt Lake City, guessed with
in four days OF the time the great war
would end. and as a result he has
just deposited pot of $1,000, made
up by sheepmen of that section in
February, 1915.
Arizona mine operators in meeting
at Tucson We're inclined 10 the belief
that Curtailment OF operations would
become necessary in the face of from
500 900 900 to 1000. 900 900 pounds
OF surplus copper. but decided that in
IT,
ticipation in the peace conference, it
tgation of the situation
Washington
Deportation of most of the 5000 or
1000 enemy aliens now interned in
the United States will be recommend
ed 20 Congress shortly by the Depart
ment of Justice.
Concerted price fixing by any in
dustry after the government ceased
to exercise price control. Jan. /. will
be regarded by the Department OF Jus
tice as in restraint of free compet-
ton.
Secretary Baker said that no deci-
sion had been reached as to which Of
the two big powder plants now under
tOHStIuCliOn NoulQ De retained DE the
War Department.
A new issue of 100000 900 or more
of treasury certificates of indebted
ness maturing in six months was an
nounced by Secretary of the Treasury
Glass in preparation for the Fifth Lib
erty loan.
Taxes designed to raise about So
ms nj al k,
council of the peoples delegates, said
an official report received from Berne,
quoting Berlin dispatch from the
Suddeutsche Zeitung
Government supervision over the
copper mining industry in all respects
ends Jan. l. and thereafter 1t is the
intention Of the big producing com
panies to again put into effect the
wage scale based on the market price
OF the metal.
Il have not resigned, but expect to
quit and return to the United States
as soon as l can clean up my affairs
In Paris. as l intended to do before
came to Europe George Creel. hes
OF the committee on public infornM-
tion. said Saturday.
President Wilson will return to the
United States before the present Con-
gress adjourns on March 3. it was an
nounced at the White House e1ecu-
tive offices. 1t was stated that no
matter what the situation abroad
might be at the time. the President
would return before that date in or
der to act upon the last-minuts bills
that will be put through before ad-
journment. II developments war
ranted 1t, the President would then
return to Europe to resume his par