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SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS MPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMI- SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ' ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings in This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Mrs. Jean Edgerton Hovey, author- ess, died in New York Sunday. Charles M. Schwab has accepted membership in the board of trustees of Cornell university. Canal authorities warn American laborers to remain away, as there is no extra work at Panama. Wireless telephony will soon extend around the world, Secretary of the Navy Daniels told guests at a recent banquet. Uncle Sam now faces a mail sack shortage and business revival causes the government to warn postmasters to keep sacks moving. Great Britain has yielded to the American representations for removal of all restrictions on the shipment of tobacco to neutral consignees in neu- tral countries. Colonel Maitland of the Royal na- val air service, jumped with a pare- chuts Saturday near London from an aeroplane which was 10,000 feet in the air. He landed safely. The French soldier whose confes- sion to the German authorities result- ed in the arrest and execution d i llies Edith Cavell has committed suicide by hanging in the military prison. Fred Trump, after being convicted in common pleas court at Batavia, 0., of setting fire to his barn, went to the office of Lawyer T. T. Breeding, who had defended him throughout the trial, shot Breeding and then killed him- self. The man with the khaki armlet, the new emblem issued under the scheme of the earl of Derby, director of rec- ruiting, to men who are eligible for military duty but who have been ex- cused from service or are waiting to be called up, made his first appear- ance in: the streets of London Monday. RESENT SLURS ON BOY -ED. ,--•1. German Embassy May Request Apoi- Ogy; at Least a Retraction. Washington. -The German embassy, according to information from author- itative sources, resents the accusa- tions which are understood to have been made against Captain Karl Boy - Ed, German naval attache here in the trial in federal court at New York of officials of - the Hamburg -American line. It was said Ambassador von Bernstorff was preparing to file a vig- orous complaint with the state depart- ment at the conclusion of the trial, asking at least for something in the nature of a retraction, and possibly for an apology. NOTED PERSONS DIE London. -Colonel Henry Byrne, lord mayor of the manor of Kelshall. Rio Janeiro. -Orville A. Derby, the widely -known American geologist. Paris. -Jean Marie Ferdinand Sar- rien, who served as premier in 1906. New York. -Gustav C. Langenburg, widely known as a traveler and a painter. New York. -William E. Bemis, sec- ond vice president of the Standard Oil company. Nashville, Tenn. -Dr. Allen Garland Hall, dean of the Vanderbilt university law department. Cambridge, Mass. -Carl A. Robert Lundin, maker of many of the largest telescopes in the world. Bellingham, Wash. -Alfred Kuyken- dall, principal of the high school de- partment of the state normal. New York. -Paul Fuller, the New York attorney who visited Mexico in September of last year as President Wilson's agent. Engine Plunges into River. Quincy, 111. -The engine of a pas- senger train bound from St. Louis to St. Paul plunged through the open draw on the lower Mississippi bay bridge Saturday night. Engineer C. S. Concannon and Fireman Herman Atkins, both of Hannibal, Mo., were instantly killed. The responsibility for the accident has not been fixed. The stern of a dredgeboat. had just cleared the end of the bridge when the engine plunged into the river. Dartmouth President Realm's. Boston. -The retirement - of Dr. Er- nest Fox Nichols from the presidency of Dartmouth college at the close of the present college year is announced. \Do Your Christmas Shopping Early\ IA again doing service as a slogan. MONTANA SQUIBS /- Mrs. Alice Lewis has been appointed postmaster at Quartz, Mont. A plea of not guilty was entered in the district court at Helena Monday by C. A. Sheldon, an expressman, who was charged with mayhem. Guy Leslie, aged 41 years, died re- cently at Butte of pneumonia. He was well known amOIRE the business men of the city. A movement to interest the federal government in the building of an au- tomobile road from Bozemah to the Yellowstone National park is being started. John T. Smith, the pioneer lawyer of Livingston and president of the Eastern Montana Bar association ever since the organization of that body, is seriously ill. J. C. Siedensticker, one of the few remaining large cattlemen of the coun- try, recently shipped from Twin Bridges 10 cars of fat steers and beef cattle to the Omaha market. The treasury department has issued a charter to the First National bank of Geraldine, Mont., of which Leon M, Bolter is president and W. W. Carley cashier. The bank formerly was the Farmers' State bank of Geraldine, and had a capital of $25,000. Tests of the butter fat propensities of the Guernsey cows owned by the Meagher county farm at White Sul- phur Springs have given some surpris- ing results and records which were beaten only by the champion butter fat producing cows of the world. The outlook for an appropriation of $25,000 or more from the federal gov- ernment for the maintenance of the United States fish hatchery near Boze- man is favorable, according to an- nouncement of J. M. Rhoades, secre- tary of the Gallatin Valley Commercial club. Sentences imposing penitentiary terms upon three men have been pass- ed in the district court at Great Falls as a consequence of criminal proceed- ings in the court during the present jury term. James B. Miller got 10 years, Frank Cohn 4 years, and Wher- ley Long 2 years. William B. Thompson of New Yotk, formerly of Butte, and a son of a for- mer mayor of that city, has given $100,000 to the Phillips Exeter acad- emy in New Hampshire. The money is to be devoted to building a gymna- sium and swimming pool. Mr. Thomp- son is an alumnus of the academy. Mrs. I. W. Light of Grass Range en- joyed a privilege recently that she has seldom enjoyed, that of witnessing the performance of her famous daughter, CANADIAN WHEAT SEIZED FOR . WAR ALL HIGH GRADE GRAIN IN ELE- VATORS FROM SUPERIOR TO ATLANTIC COAST. OVER 20,000,000 BUSHELS Taken Under Special War Act -Brit- ain Needs It -Price to Be Adjusted Fairly and Owners Reimbursed -Growers to Benefit. Ottawa, Ont.-The Canadian govern- ment has commandeered all high- grade wheat in elevators from Fort William, on Lake Superior, to the At- lantic coast. The action .wa staken under the special war act by the Canadian grain commission. Revised estimates place the amount at about 20,000,000 bushels. A consid- erable amount is the property of Am- erican grain dealers. Seized in 14 Places. The wheat seized was of grades No. 1 hard and No. 1, 2 and 3 northern. It was the property to grain shippers and millers. That taken is all which on Saturday night was in the public ele- vators at Fort William Port Arthur, Midland, Tifpn, Port McNichol, Col- lingwood, Cod erich, Kingston, Fort Col- borne, Prescott, Quebec, St. John, Mon- treal and Halifax. The grain was taken Saturday night, so that grain exchanges should be af- fected as little as possible. It he offi- cially stated that the price will be fairly adjusted and the grain owners promptly paid by the Canadian gov- ernment. To Take More Later. It is estimated that there still is in Canada, in the hands of farmers and dealers west of Fort Williaf 150,000,- 000 bushels surplus of wheat available for export. It is expected that most of this will be taken in the future for the use of Great Britain, France and Stab% The domestic supply of Russia is more than sufficient to meet the needs of that country. Had the Dardanelles been forced the surplus of Russian wheat would have made the present action unnecessary. While the wheat just taken was commandeered to fill an order from the British government it is under- stood that most of it will be shipped y. Margaret Illington. Mrs. Light occu- The Canadian government will look pted - a tot 'at the - 'Judith theater metrafter the transpmtation of thefl grain to the g Atl seaboard, and from i ai there its shipmi t across the Atlantic will be undertaken by the British gov- ernment in the same way that ship- ments of oats and hay have been han- dled for the last year. was probably the most pleased person, in the great audience that packed the house. George W. Newkirk, one of the party of white men who first camped in Butte, a real founder of the city, died Sunday morning in a Butte hos- pital. His last illness dates from Sep- tember 23 when he contracted'a se- vere cold while in attendance at the annual gathering of the Montana So- ciety of Pioneers at Great Falls. John Simpson, age 25, brother-in- law of District Judge Roy E. Ayers of Lewiston, was shot and mortally in- jured by unknown parties a few miles from Moore last Monday. He had been taking some horses out to pasture a few miles from town and the next seen of him was when his saddle horse came back with Simpson still in the saddle, but practically unconscious. He had been shot through the head, death resulting. W. L. Lawson, manager of the Bil- lings Sugar company, announces that he has purchased the site for the erec- tion of a sugar factory at Lovell, Wyo., and contracts will be signed for the growing of 8000 acres of sugar beets in that territory in 1916. The factory will be operated by the Big Horn Basin Sugar ciimpany, cap- italized for $500,000, and will cost com- pleted about $1,000,000. The capacity will be approxiinately 600 tons per day. It will be owned by the same interests as the Billings Sugar company and the Great Western Sugar company. In a Commercial Way. Charles E. Nelson reported open- ing a general store at Forsyth. Mr. ' Werth of Kalispell ° reported opening a general store at Lasalle. The Northern Montana Wholesale Grocery Co. is erecting a new. store building at Havre. In a $10,000 fire at Plains last week the general store of 0. L. Avery suffered loss of about $5,000. Burglars entered the Peoples Cash store at Plains last week and took a considerable quantity of merchandise. George W. Gilpin and Jay T. Hull, proprietors of the Farmers' store at Kalispell, have dissolved partnership. The United States Rubber Co. has established a branch house at Great Falls under the management of W. F. Enright, formerly of Minneapolis. G. 0. P. May Choose Chicago. ehicago.-Hotel reservations for re- LaLikrau tieie6KC1ULIGI ULLL nine suites have been made here in the anticipa- tion that the 1916 republican national convention will be awarded to Chicago. The University of Washington will offer a short . i.)urse of forestry and lumber, beginning January 3 and to continue until March 28. to Ital Will Pay Market Price. After prolonged consideration and conferences with the representatives of the interests affected it was de- cided that the prices to be applied are those which ruled at the closing of the markets in Winnipeg on Saturday, viz. $1.044 per bushel for No. I northern, $1.03 1 / 2 for No. 2 northern, and 93%c for No. 3 northern. The claims put forward by dealers for extra compensation on the ground that they will be unable to execute contracts with millers and others for a supply of wheat are not to be enter- tained, and on any payment of the prices indicated the liability of the government is to be discharged. SERBIAN ARMY IN MOUNTAINS. Kink Nick's Troops and Supplies Are Rushed to Their Aid. London. -The greater portion of what remains of the Serbian northern gloomy is believed to have crossed into the mountains of Albania and Monte- negro, where the Serbs are continuin, with the aid of King Nicholas' troops and supplies, which are reaching them from the Adriatic, to offer stern resist- ance to the Austro-German and Bul- garian invaders. Like the Bulgarians, the Serbians hold only a fringe of their country, which widens as it reaches the southwestern corner, where Monastir is the center. For some reason, variously explain- ed, the Bulgarians have halted their march on that city. Arkansas Storm Death Roll Higher. Little Rock, Ark. -Belated reports Dom over Arkansas place the death list of the Thanksgiving storm at 20, and the lits of injured at between 75 and 100. Ten of the deaths were in the Hot Springs tornado. The others were noted at scattering points over the state. The damage, which was greatest in Hempstead, Lafayette and Nevada counties, southwest of Hot Springs, is estimated at $500,000. Purchases Savage Arms Company. Sharon, Pa. -The Driggs, Seabury Ordnance corporation of this city has acquired the Savage Arms company of Utica, N. Y. t-nicago manses tne ezuu,uvv. Chicago. -Chicago's $200,000 guar- anty fund for the republican and the democratic national convention has been completed. The average surgical operation is generally successful in removing the patient's bank balance. PACIFIC COAST NEWS At Napa, Cal., Nov. 29, Wm. Stosch shot and killed his 4 -year -old son and then shot himself. Jack Stambo, government __coyote_ poisoner, mistook a man's heaThf a hawk last week and shot and killed Frank Adams, a wealthy farmer of The body ef Cecil J. Booth, a ranch- er who had been missing from his home near Danville, Cal., was found near a ranch house in Alamo, where apparently he was trampled to death by an infuriated bull. The cold weather at Anchorage, the new town in Alaska established by the government as construction headquar- ters for the Alaskan railroad, has caus- ed a water shortage there, with cor- respondingly high price. C. M. Levey, general manager of the Western Pacific railroad, announces that the road will emerge from its re- ceivership with means provided for the construction of branch lines at a cost aggregating approximately $20,- 000,000. \California invites the world -Pana- ma -Pacific exposition, 1915,\ in an electric sign eight feet high on the ridge of the Ferry building has greet- ed millions of persons crossing the bay since it was erected more than a year ago. The substitution of the word \thanks\ for \invites\ has been made. The Panama -Pacific exposition en- tered the last week of its existence Monday, and, according to the official program, it will be one of the busiest weeks in the history of the exposition. It is planned to have for closing day, December 4, celebrated throughout the world by a chain of toasts to be ex- changed by radio, telegraph and cable. Captain Desholmes, three seamen and one passenger of the wrecked Chi- lean bark Careimapu have been pick- ed up and are being cared for in a private home at Calyoquot, according to British Columbia advice& Two bod- ies also have been found. All hands, about 23 men, were believed to have been lost when the bark was battered to pieces on the west coast of Van- couver island last week. More than half the town of Avalon, on Catalina island, was destroyed by fire Monday. The fire started about 2:30 o'clock in the morning and de- stroyed the two principal hotels, a number of business blocks, the bath- house and clubs and damaged the pier and freight houses before it was got under control about 9 o'clock. Esti- mates of loss run as high as $1,000,000. Practically all Avalon was ownaci by the Banning company, which also owns Santa Catalina island. WILSPAI'S WAR PROGRAM_ , IS TOO LIMITED, THEY SAY Security LAgue Committee Wants Preparedness on Big Scale -Short- age in the Navy. Chicago. --The preparedness pro- gram of President Wilson and his cab- inet was indorsed as a step in the right direction in committee reports on the army, navy and the militia read before a conference of the National Security league here Monday. On each aspect of the problem, however, the committee findings were that the ad- ministration had not indicated a de- sire to go far enough to make the country safe from attack. The proposed army increases, it was pointed out, should be broadened to provide for extensive and continuous education of officers and for collection of large reserve stocks of supplies of all kinds. The navy plan was criticized as ex- tending over too long a period for com- pletion and as making no provision for adequate personnel on ships built, building and proposed. The project for a \continental ar my\ was indorsed merely as \a first step\ and the suggestion was made that all men between the ages of 18 and 21 should be enrolled and have military education. Delegates were present from more than 60 cities when the conference opened, the representative of branches of the league including governors, for- mer governors, several city executives, educators, business men and editors. RAILROAD TERMINALS CLOGGED. Lackawanna Road Refuses to Accept More Freight Bound for Europe. New York. -The Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western railroad whose lines are choked as far back as Scran- ton with loaded freight cars it can not move, has instructed its agents to accept no more freight for export un- til further notice. More than 6000 loaded cars from the west, all containing grain, feed, flour, copper and hundreds of other commod- ities, have virtually turned the termin- als and sidings of the road into a stor- age warehouse for weeks. Some of the cars have been here for 80 days. Rubber for Street Paving. Rubber is being experimented with at London as a surfacing material for pavements, and aside from providing a perfectly noiseless, resilient and it possess good wearing qualities. Would Educate Convicts. Oklahoma City. -A resolution fa- voring the compulsory education of all GREECE QUALIFIES - HER AGEEMENT THE BRITISH PRESS AND PUBLIC JUMP TOO QUICK AT CONCLUSIONS. TO INVESTIGATE ALLIED PLAN - - Has Not Abandoned Delaying Tactics Used During Past Few Weeks - Wants to Arbitrate -Allies Want to Cross Greece. London. -London's cheerful view of the Gdeek situation has been succeed- ed by something in the nature of a re- action, and the prevailing opinion at the present time is that the press and public jumped too quickly to the agree- able conclusion that Greece would con- cede readily all the allied demands. More`Delay Seen. Although all the forecasts and speculation regarding Greece's reply to the entente ministers' new note, embodying the detailed demands of their governments that Greece guaran- tee security and liberty of action to the Franco -British troops on Greek soil, continue to be optimistic, the lat- est information from Athens clearly indicating that Greece has not yet def- initely abandoned the dilatory tactics which caused the allies such uneasi- ness. It is now reported from Athens that the Greek government probably will propose that military experts repre- senting the entente powers shall be appointed to discuss with the Greek general staff the demands which it has heretofore been assumed were al- ready satisfactorily answered. MINING NOTES The net earnings of the Slocan Star Mining Co., which owns and operates the Slocan Star mine and mill at San - don, B. C., were $5,000 in September, according to reports. A compressor outfit and two drills have been sent tea the New Crystal Mining Co.'s property on the Colum- bia river northwest of Davenport, Wash., it is announced. A solid face of ore five feet wide has been struck in the Silver Crown mine near Keller, Wash. It is esti- mated that the ore will run $300 to $500 aaer ton in silver, zinc and cop- per. The metal exchange quotes lead of- fered at $5.25; speller, $18.70Q19.10. Copper -Steady; electrolytic, $20. Bar silver, 54 1 / 2 c. Mexican dollars, 41eic. WHOM FAMILY IS MURDERED. Terrible Scene in Farmhouse Down In New Jersey. New Brunswick, N. J. -Six persons were found shot to death in a farm- house on a country road three miles south of here Saturday. Five of them had been murdered, while the sixth apparently committed suicide after shooting the others. A termer and his family were killed, while two men, apparently farm hands, were shot to death. One employe, ac- cording to the authorities, did the bhootingq, while the other was asleep last Tuesday night, and then killed himself. The dead: Samuel Weitzmann, age 60. Sarah Weitzman, his wife. David Kiegner, age 28, son -In-law. Mrs. Beatrice Kiegner, age 24, his wife. Two farm honds, apparently Polish, names unknown. Predict Crowley Case Arrest. Washington. -New disclosures rival- ing in importance those which led to the prosecution of Robert Fay in New York are expected by the department of justice, it became known Monday, as a sequel to the arrest of C. C. Crow- ley in San Francisco yesterday in con- nection witir alleged plots against mu- nitions factories. Officials of the de- partment, however, refused to discuss Crowley's case or to predict to what it might lead. ' The ramifications of his undertakings are expected to be revealed when the trap which the de- partment has set has been sprung. Turk Submarine Rescued Many. New York. -A Turkish submarine stopped the British passenger ship Ba- rulos in the Mediterranean, and, after 25 persons had been drowned, assisted in rescuing many of the 250 passen- gers who had gone overboard in a pan- ic, according to Eleanor F. Egan, an eyewitness, who arrived Monday of this week on the steamship New York. Cotton Fire Loss $1,250,000. Pine Bluff, Ark. -Fifteen thousand bales of long staple cotton, valued at approximately $1,250,000, burned here Sunday In a fire that destroyed the warehouse sheds of the Pine Bluff Compress company. A blanket insur- ance policy covers the loss on the cot- ton. convicts in the penal institutions of When a fellow butts his head against the state was adopted by the Oklaho- a stone wall, there's no question as to ma Education Association. who's the goat SPORTING ITEMS Jess Willard has earned over $100,- 000 from 140 days in various show stunts, since he made Jack Johnson bite the dust. Jim Coffey, the Irish heavyweight, knocked out Gunboat Smith in the 4th round of their 10 -round match at New York Monday. Sixteen died from football injuries in 1915. Meet of the fatalities were among high school, semi-professional and prairie elevens. By winning the Thanksgiving day game at Spokane from Lewis and Clark North Central won permanent possession of the handsome trophy cup. The Army football eleven, showing a better state of preparedness than the Navy team, triumphed over their Annapolis rivals Saturday by a score of 14 to 0. The Washington State college foot- ball team, champions of the north- west conference for 1915, will be the guests of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce at a banquet on the evening of Tuesday, December 21. \Tod\ Sloan, who until his retire- ment from the turf was one of the foremost of American jockeys, is un- der arrest in England as an undesir- able alien, because he han a gambling hall. He will be deported to America, as well as his French actress wife. Big Corn Crop. The nation's corn crop this year was the most valuable ever grown. Based on prices paid farmers Novem- ber 1, it is worth nearly $2,000,000,000 -$1,913,025,000 in exact figures. In size, it is second only to the rec- ord crop in 1912. The production was 3,090,509,000 bushels -or 34,000,000 less than the country's previous big- gest corn crop, according to the esti- mate issued by the department of agriculture, based on a canvass of the country on November 1. Oats, barley, rye, sweet potatoes, hay, tobacco, rice and peaches all have been produced in quantities never uefore harvested in a single year in the history of the nation. Statistics showing the size of the various crops, preliminary estimates In most instances, with figures giving last year's crops, follow (in thou- sands of bushels, 1. e., 000's omitted): Barley Corn Crops. e l 1,517,478 1,141,060 e a y t 1915 Est. 1914 Crop. 3,090,509 2,672,804 1,002,029 891,017 Rye 236,682 1 4 9 2 4,9 77 5 9 3 44,179 Potatoes 3 Sweet potatoes 6569,3 405,291 8 25 5 0 56,574 Hay, tame (tons) 80,983 70,071 Hay, wild (tons) 20,293 18,615 Peaches 64,218 54,109 Apples 76,670 84,400 Acre yield: Crop. Corn 28.3 Wheat 16.9 Oats 37.8 Barley 32.0 PRoyteatoes 17.0 _101.0 Hay, tame (tons)._ 1.59 Hay, wild (tons)._ 1.20 1915 10-Yr.Ave. _26 6 14.8 29.6 25.1 16.4 92.1 1.40 Probe Petroleum Business. The federal trade commission has announced that it had undertaken a careful and complete investigation of nearly every phase of the production, transportation, refining and marketing of crude petroleum and its refined products in this country. The an- nouncement said the inquiry was in response to the Owen and Gore reso- lutions passed by the senate. \Some of the complaints,\ said the announcement, \alege unfair practices by former subsidiary companies of the Standard Oil Co. and others are di- rected against various of the so-called independents. • • • The commis- sion has received complaints from persons engaged in producing oil from wells; from companies engaged in buy- ing and transporting crude oil; from oil refiners; from oil jobbers, from re- tailers and from consumers.\ Protests against alleged price dis- crimination in the sale of gasoline, the commission said, had come from vari- ous localities, particularly Georgia, California, Idaho and Missouri. A spe- cial investigation of gasoline prices is in progress now. General Trade Conditions. Bradstreets's says: Further prog- ress in trade accompanies greater in- dustrial activity, higher prices, better collections, increased demand for money, record bank deposits, sharp re- duction in unemployment, heavier pay- rolls, a big moveme`nt of grain and lower temperatures over a wide area, which latter has given snap to retail trade in seasonable wearing apparel. Rain has helped winter wheat, and cold weather far south has put a pe- riod to cotton growth. Final purveyors, short of goods as they are, and feeling certain of sus- tained growth in business, are buying freely from wholesale houses, as well as from jobbers. While ordering for; future delivery is 'neglected, the ne- cessity of getting goods for near fu- ture use is very marked, and in some sections of the country heavy weight fabrics are positively scarce. Holiday trade is proceeding on a satisfactory basis. Weekly bank clearings, $4,948,842,- 000. The waltz was over and thd partner of the pretty girl, a serious youth with spectacles, said to her: \Let us go and walk in the garden.\ on, no, sue saia, \1 aon't want to go into the garden without a chap- eron.\ The bespectacled youth was mildly shocked. \I assure you,\ he ex- claimed, \that you will not need a chaperon.\ The girl tossed her head. \Then she replied, \I don't want to go into the garden.\
