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T `4111 1 _ I I WORLD'S EVENTS IMPORTANT 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. The Norwegian parliament will not award the Nobel peace prize this year. Ohio's oldest policeman, Michael El - sass, 85, quit his job Monday at Mas- sillon. The Greek government has made all arrangements for demobilization of its army. An unusual demand for iron ore at an advanced price for next year is predicted. Edward Owen, British merchant, re- cently bequeathed $750,000 to the Sal- vation Army. Lember is being evacuated by the Austro-German forces on account of an outbreak of scurvy. Yaqui Indians raided the American settlement in the Yaquai valley the first of the week, according to re- ports. Four men blew open the safe and vault of the State bank of Everest, Kan., Saturday, and escaped with $1500. Montenegrins and Serbians fought a rear guard action, with the Austrians south of the Montenegrin frontier the first of the week. The foar men who held up the Western State bank of St. Paul Sat- urday and escaped with $3000 were arested later in Minneapolis. The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel corporation on November 30 totaled 7,189.489 tons, an increase of 1,024,437 tons over October. W. J. Bryan is planning on making a little peace junket to Europe him- self and has arranged to sail December 28 from New York with Mrs. Bryan. Anti -suffragists announced that they had spent $64,000 in defeating the suf- frage afendment at the last Massachu- setts election. Suffragists spent $87,- 000. The Russians this week are hur- riedly concentrating troops along the QmaIIan kordeL.411b Auitrion forces In Bukowina also are being reenforced heavily. Edward Ball, a former star on Pur- due university football team, was drowned at Storm Lake, Iowa, recent- ly, when ice on which he was skating gave way. Miss Fern Bnedict also drowned at the same time. The state department announce that the stopping and searching of three vessels of the New York and Porto Rico line by the French cruiser Des- cartes would be made the subject of diplomatic representations to France. A SAFE TRIP WANTED FOR GERMAN ATTACHES Secretary Lansing Will Ask Great Britain and France to Let Ger- mans Go Home. Washington.—Secretary Lansing has asked Great Britain and France, through their embassies here, for safe conduct for Captains Boy -Ed and Von .Papen, respectively naval and military attaches of the German embassy here, pursuant to the request of Emperor William, who personally recalled the officers. Withdrawal of the attaches has been requested by the secretary because of their alleged activities which rendered them persona non grata to the American government. SHE LEFT HER MONEY TO A VERY GOOD CAUSE St. Paul, Minn.—The will of Mrs. Martha A. Miller leaves $1,000,000 in real esttae and $100,000 in cash to erect and maintain a free hospital. The estate is valued at, $2,000,000. Justice After War. Columbus, Ohio.—President Wilson expressed the opinion recently that there would be no \patched -up\ peace following the European war. In a com- prehensive and forceful address before the Columbus chamber of commerce he urged American business men to mobilize their resources so the Unit- ed States might be prepared to play a more important part in the world's af- fairs . and to bring about justice after the piesent war. War College's Plan. Washington. — Secretary Garrison made public this week, in connection with his annual report, the special na- tional defense report prepared at his request by the war college division of the general etaff It ihnwp,1 thnt fha army itself considers that, to secure the continental United States from at- tack, it is necessary to have a mo- bile army of 1,500,000 fully or parti- ally trained men. The dogs of war seem to have nits taken poor little Serbia for a burglar. MONTANA SQUIBS The Methodist church of Anaconda celebrated its twenty-fifth annivers- ary Sunday. Walt Mathews, a Salvation Army man, hung himself at Dillon recently. He was despondent. J. Bruce Wremer has been named from this state on the national demo- cratic convention committee. Arthur Phillips, thought to be from Butte or Anaconda, died at Dillon re- cently from injuries received in a fall. Saturday night a large delegation of Knights of Pythias went to the town of Denton and instituted a new lodge. Hans L. p abrie/son. chauffeur, of Butte, was killed Friday when his auto turned over when steering gear broke. The old Alice mine at Walkerville, recently acquired by the Anaconda Copper company, is being put in shape to operate. Earl (Chick) Clark for two years left -end on the Montana football team, has been elected captain of the Uni- versity of Montana football team. Sixty citizens of Butte have united in filing a written protest with the postmaster general against the ap- pointment of Phil C. Goodwin as post- master there. It begins to look very much as though Maiden, one of the oldest camps of the state, had a genuine re- vival ahead of it. Work is to start immediately. • Secretary Lane has agreed to sell to the city of Havre the government jail iin the old Fort Assinniboine reserva- tion for $100. The city use the building as a jail. Frank Roddy, charged with the de- struction by fire of the Powers cement plant, Kalispell, with the intent to defraud the insurance companies, was acquitted Saturday. Vincent Fisher, aged 7, was killed, and Francis Fisher, aged 3, seriously injured at Misosula recently when struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. W. J. McCormick. Judge McClernan at Butte Monday gave judgment in favor of Receiver F. D. Williams of the State Savings bank, and against M. S. Largey, for a total of $116,000 due on 11 notes given the bank. Entries for the Musselshell county poultry show, which will be held on December 21, 22 and 23, are being re- ceived from chicken fanciers of Bill- ings, Forsyth and other eastern Mon- tana points. The jury in the case of the state against George Gronn, the Squaw Creek saloon man, accused of killing Steve Farrel late in August, brought in a verdict of acquittal. The defense was--self-defenes. John Lafontaine, a resident of Flor- ence, 84 years old, fell at Missoula Saturday and was instantly killed when his head struck a rail on the track. He was a pioneer resident in the Bitter Root valley. That 16,500 acres of land within sev- en -forests in western Montana will be segregated as agricultural land and open to settlement under the forest homestead act, is announced at the forest service headquarters in Mis- soula. \Grandma\ Roebuck celebrated her 80th birthday aSturday at Whitefish. She had a party and received cards from old friends far and near, one be- ing from her first beau, who is now 80th birthday Saturday at Whitefish. gratulations. William Nichols, well known at Twin Bridges and in Butte, is on his way home to visit his brothers, fol- lowing service of more than a year in the English army, the major por- tion of which time he was at the front and - saw actual fighting in its most awful form. C. L. Doggett of Harding, Mont., was killed, Fred Duvall was probably fatal- ly injured and a third seriously hurt when an automobile in which the three were riding collided Sunady night with a string of Burlington pas- senger cars being switched about in the yards at Billings. Charles Ordish, big game hunter and guide, living near Kalispell, recently killed one of the largest mountain lions ever seen in the Flathead. It measured seven feet and four inches. This makes a total of 127 lions upon which Ordish has received bounty in the last few years. For the purchase of grain which had been brought across the line from Canada without paying the duty of 10 cents per bushel, Ed Nelson, manager of the elevator of the Montana & Da- kota Grain company at Scobey, in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, is under $1000 bond to appear before Judge Bourquin of the federal court at Great Falls February 15, Judge Bourquin in the federal court Saturday found the Independent Pub- lishing company of Helena and Will A. Campbell, editor of the Independent, guilty of contempt and fined them $617.95 and costs. The Independent published a story purporting to give the past history of a man who was on trial before the federal court sitting in Helena recently which the court in toe decision Saturday held to be con- temptuous. Ford Party Ignored. The Hague.—Neither encourage- ment, recognition nor support in any shape or form will be offered to the Ford peace party by the Netherlands government. THE UNIEll STAB WARNING FRANCE SAY HER WARSHIPS HAVE NO RIGHT TO TAKE PEOPLE FROM OUR SHIPS, REGULAR WORK OF PIRATES International Law with Us—Neutral Ship to Neutral Port Protected by Former Decisions—Were Ger- mans and Austrians. Washington.—A vigorous protest has been prepared by the state depart- ment against the removal by the French cruiser Descartes of Germans and Austrians from the American steamships Carolina, Coamo and San Juan on the high seas. The note will contend that removal of citizens of any nations from an American vessel on the high seas is without legal justifi- cation. It will be asserted in the note, as it was a year ago in a protest to France in the case of August Piependrink, that the men removed were not embodied \in the armed forces of the enemy\ in the sense of that term in established international law. The communica- tion, it was understood, probably will declare also that there is no justifica- tion for the removal of an enemy sub- ject from a neutral vessel on the high seas bound to a neutral port, even if he could properly be regarded as a military person. The Trent case dur- ing the civil war probably will be cited as a precedent. . The state department was not ad- vised whether any of the Austrians or Germans seized had declared their in- tention of becoming American citizens. Information on that point is being sought, and should it develop that such is the case the protest may be even more firm. IDAHO NEWS NOTES I Senator Brady, who has been ailing for several days at the national capi- tal, is reported better this week. It is reported that several girl stu- dents of the University of Idaho will not return after the close of this sera - ester, owing to the action of some cor- orities in having urgently invited them to join, and then rejected the appli- cants, who thereby suffered humilia- tion. \benefactor the University of Ida- ho steer, was declared to be the gtand champion at a recent show at Port- land, defeating the University of Cali- fornia, whose steer had previously won the grand championship at the Panama -Pacific exposition at San Francisco. Henry Bradon, unmarried, was in- stantly killed and Philip Dawson, also unmarried, was seriously injured in a railroad accident at Bronson's logging camps below Santa Saturday. Bradon was the conductor and Dawson the brakeman. The train was descending an eight per cent grade with four loads of logs when the brakes refused to work. Market day at Sandpoint Saturday proved much more of a success than the first market day held several weeks ago and the talk now is that one will be held each Saturday. More farmers were on hand with a greater variety of produce to sell and there was a brisk demand. Arrangements have been made for a permanent building. In a decision handed down by Judge E. C. Steele recently at Moscow, the government homestead of C. W. Miller of Clearwater county was released from an attachment filed on it by the Fidelity State bank of Orofino. The court holds that a government home- stead is exempt from attachments for debts owed prior to the issuing of pat- ent to such homestead under provi- sions of the federal statutes. Attorney General Peterson has ren- dered an opinion relating to the search- ing of private residences and the seiz- ure of liquors after January 1, when this state's stringent dry law goes into effect. The opinion follows numerous inquiries as to the duties of peace of- ficers and prosecutors in enforcing the liquor law. The attorney general declares that no such search can be legally made unless there is advance evidence of violation of the law, and • that any search warrant attempted to be issued under these circumstances would be a nullity and would afford no protection to the officer acting thereunder.\ Ambassador Faces Recall. Washington, D. C.—Simultaneously with the announcement that the Amer- ican Ancona note had been delivered in Vienna, it became known today that that Acting Austrian Ambassador Zwiedeneck is in grave danger of re- call. The most startling evidence against Zwiedeneck is photographed letters bearing his trian Consul General Nuber of New York. These indicated plans for the wholesale misuse of American pass- ports. Congress Adjourned to Jan. 3. Congress probably will recess next Saturday for the holidays and reassem- ble January 3. WASIIIMITOMST GOES ORYJANUARY1 RECENT DECISION OF SUPREME COURT DOWNS LIQUOR TRAFFIC. ENFORCETHELAW-GOVERNOR Any One Who Must Have Booze Can Get it Lawfully, but Saloons and Breweries Must Quit Business —Vote on Question Again. Olympia.—Washington state goes dry January 1, 1916. The people so voted on initiative bill No. 3 at the general election in 1914. The supreme court has sustained the constitutionality of the initiative and referendum amendment to the state constitution in 1912. As a result the 1200 saloons in Washington, or as many of them as are still open, will go out of business, also all breweries, and the 8000 or more men engaged in the liquor busi- ness will seek new employment. The revenues from liquor will fall off $1,- 000,000. The decision of the court handed down December 10 is probably longer —covering 58 typewritten pages—and probably sects more people directly and indirectly, than any other decision by the siiprme Court. The suit to teerWo validity of tile dry law, and attacking the sufficiency of notices in the adoption of the initi- ative and referendum amendment to the state constitution, was started be- fore Thurston county superior court in December. 1914, just before the gov- ernor issued his proclamation declar- ing the bill carried. Points of Court's Decision. Initiative and referendum not two subjects, but one, dealing with joint subject of legislation. Court can go behind official records and take notice of such things as jour- nal entries of the legislature, returns from election, etc. Since all the facts point to the reg- ular „submission and adoption of the seventh amendment, the court must presume it was adopted according to law. Sufficient publicity -was given the measure. • There is no discrimination between persons, but merely a classification of businesses. Property rights not sufficiently in- volved to entitle appellants to an in - function. The court's decision -puts at an end all rumors of a wet decision, and fol- lowing the filing of the opinion Gov- ernor Lister said the enforcement of the law \ought to have the support and assistance of all law-abiding citizens.\ Attorney General Tanner, upon whom falls, in part, the duty of the enforcing of the law, said in part: \I may say that so far as I am concerned every effort will be made for strict enforce- ment.\ The majority opinion was written by Judge Parker, and it was signed by Chief Justice Morris and Judges Mount, Ellis. Main and Holcomb. Judge Chadwick, in a four-page sep- arate opinion, concurs in the result of the majority opinion. Up Again in 1916. In spite of the decision the prohibi- tion question will come before the vot- ers again at the election next Novem- ber, when an initiative bill advocated by the hotelkeepers must be voted upon. This bill, which would permit hotels to serve liquor in their dining rooms, was submitted by initiative pe- tition to the last legislature. The leg- islature took no action, and the bill will go automatically to the voters at the next general election. George D. Conger, superintendent of the anti-saloon league, which drew up the prohibition law, says that the league's organization would be kept intact to see that the law is enforced and to oppose the hotelmen's bill in the coming campaign. Points of New Law. Prohibition leaders all over the country consider the Washington \dry\ law a model document. Richmond P. Hobson, leader of the movement for national prohibition, says that the pro- posed national constitutional amend- ment is the same in all its salient fea- tures as the Washington law. Features that have impressed anti - saloon workers as strong points in the Washington law include these pro- visions: Section 2.—\• • • all liquids whether proprietary, patented or not, which contain any alcohol, which are capable of being used as a beverage.\ Section 4.—\• • • provided, how- ever, that it shall not be unlawful for a person to give away intoxicating liquor, to be drunk on the premises, to a guest in his private dwelling or apartment.\ Section 7.—\Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit a registered druggist or pharmacist from selling intoxicating liquor for medicinal * • 4% 111,11 pur- t.a, kik\- poses, • • • or from selling alcohol for chemical and mechanical purposes only.\ Section 14.—\Any citizen or organi- zation • • • may employ an attorney to assist the prosecuting attorney in any action or proceeding under this act, and such attorney shall be recog- nized by the prosecuting attorney and the court as associate counsel in the case.\ Section 15.—\ • • Any person_ de - string to ship or transport any intoxi- cating liquor shall personally appear before the county auditor and shall furnish him the necessary information to fill in a blank application. '' • Any person desiring to have a permit Issued to him shall pay to the county auditor the sum of 25 cents.\ Section 16. --\It shall be unlawful for any person' to take out more than one permit in any 20 -day period.\ Section 22.—\It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his posses- sion more than one-half gallon or two quarts of any intoxicating liquor oth- er than beer or more than 12 quarts or 24 pints of beer.\ Section 23.—\ • * Such possession and the proof thereof shall be prima facie evidence that said liquor was so held or kept for the purpose of unlaw- ful sale or disposition.\ Question Public's Right to Names. The question of whether the names of those asking for liquor permits will be public property is causing much discussion. ALLIED TROOPS RETREAT. Are Making Thlr Escape Through Greek Territory. London.—The Anglo-French troops who last week began their retirement from their advanced position in south- ern Serbia, approached, if they have not crossed. last Monday, the Greek frontier, and the attitude Greece will adopt becomes more and more import- ant. Dispatches from Athens and news available in London indicate that the matter which was left to the Greek and allied military authorities at Sa- loniki is being amicably arranged, and that the allies will be allowed to re- tire to that city witliont any Interrup- tion on the part of the Greeks, and will be permitted to remain there. N dChamplon Cow. Buffalo, N. Y.—Lady Pontiac Johan. na, a cow valued at $20,000, has just broken the world's record for butter production by yielding 658 pounds of milk in one week, from which were made 51.81 pounds of butter. NOTED PERSONS DIE Honolulu, T. H.—Lieutenant Colone Charles Bromwell shot himself. New Brunswick, N. J.—Paul Meriot, a New York sculptor, committed sui- cide. New York —Professor Edward Van Dyke Dobinson, educator and econo- mist. Gratz, Austria.—Professor Hans Gross, one of the foremost criminolo- gists. • Smithsonia, Ga.—Colonel James M. Smith, the most extensive land owner in Georgia. aged 70. New York.—The Rev. Dr. Henry Samuel Barnum, for many years a missionary in Turkey. New York.—Abraham Gruber, 54, who started life as a newsboy and became a brilliant lawyer. San Jose, Cal.—Stephen Jones, A. M., Ph. D., a prominent educator, for- mer president of the University of Nevada. Duluth, Minn.—Captain Thomas H. Pressnell, United States commissioner and deputy clerk of the federal district court. Denver.—Mrs. W. H. Buchtel, aged 75, a daughter of P. T. Barnum, the showman. She was a sister-in-law of Chancellor Henry A. Buchtel of Den- ver university, ex -Governor of Colo- rado. BETTER CHURCHES IN COUNTRY. President Tells Audience in Columbus, Ohio, How to Improve Services. Columbus, Ohio.—In his address be- fore the closing session of the Na- tional Conference of the Commission on Church and Country Life last week President Wilson emphasized the need of making country churches more use- ful. He spoke before 4000 persons, many of whom were clergymen and agriculturists from all parts of the country. TheD president declared that laws are useless unless they express the moral feeling of the people. There- fore, he said, it is primarily the duty of Christians to better the moral char- acter of all perfons. He declared that Christianity is' the most vitalizing thing in the world. \Nations are judged by what they think rather than by what they pos- sess,\ he said Sen. Tillman Opposes Tax on Checks. Washington.—\Every time a man wrote a bank check he would have to lick a stamp and curse the democratic party.\ declared Senator Tillman, democrat, in announcing that he pro- posed to fight President Wilson's sug- gestion that a stamp on bank checks be included in the war revenue law. \I prefer an increased graduated in- come tax and whenever a man has an income of $1,000,000 I would take all in excess of that for the government,\ Senator Tillman added. Grain Embargo at Minneapolis. .1 Minneapolls.—The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie railroad has notified shippers and receivers that until further notice that - road will de- liver no more incoming grain because in their railroad yards there are ap- proximately 6,000,000 bushels of grain in cars awaiting unloading. COME TAX SHOWS BIG GAIN THIS YEAR OVER 360,000 PERSONS TURN OVER $41,046,162 TO UNCLE SAMUEL. INICREASE OVER $10,000,000 War Reduced Corporation Tax—Oleo- margarine Frauds Reach a Total of 17 Million Dollars—Small Fine Collected. Washington. --The personal income tax was paid during the last fiscal year by 357,515 individuals, who turned into the government $41,046,162, more by nearly $13,000,000 than the total paid by the 357,598 making returns the year before, according to the annual report of the commissioner of inter- nal revenue, made public this week. The greatest increase shown was in the amounts paid by those subject to the normal tax, a jump from about $12,728,000 in 1914 to about $16,559,0l in 1915. Incomes exceeding $500,000 paid th year about $6,439,000, compared wi.,i about $3,437,000 last year. There were 82,754 individuals subject to the nor- mal tax; 127,448 who reported in- comes between $4000 -and $5000 and 174 whose returns were made on a basis of incomes of $500,000 or more. Under the corporation income tax 299,445 returns were made, a decrease of 17,464 from the previous year, as- cribed by the report to various condi- tions, including disturbed business conditions incident to the war in Eu- rope and the trouble in Mexico. The corporations paid $38,986,952, or about $6,627,000 less than in 1914. The re- port says examination showed that but few corporations had purposely falsi- fied their returns or sought to evade the e ta co r m . mendations are made for changes in the income tax law to broaden its scoria and increase the revenue expected under it. Frauds upon the government through the use of artificially colored oleomargarine are said to have reached the total of $17,692,910, of which only $4,611,052 was within the assessable period. During the year $751,000 was collected on account of these frauds and more is expected. The total revenue collected from all sources by the bureau amounted to about $415,681,000. The emergency tax law brought in $52,000,000, the tax on distilled spirits other than those dis- tilled from fruits about $133,803,000, aree - wttlr about a.kr,00(1,1)110' 1914, and the tax of fermented liquors Increased from about $67,000,000 paid in 1914 to about $79,000,000 this last year. SINKING OF ANCONA GETS AUSTRIA IN TROUBLE Shelling of Craft After it Had Stopped Is Branded as Barbarous Action. Washington.—The text of the Amer- ican note to Austria-Hungary regard- ing the sinking of the Italian steam- ship Ancona, made public Monday, re- veals a formal demand by the United States for prompt denouncement of the \illegal and indefensible\ act, for punishment of the submarine com- mander and for reparation by the pay- ment of indemnity for the killing and injuring of innocent American citizens. These demands follow a statement in- forming Austria-Hungary that \the good relations of the two countries must rest upon a common regard for law and humanity.\ The note ar- raigns the shelling and torpedoing of the liner as \inhumane \barbarous\ and a \wanton slaughter\ of \helpless men, women and children.\ In official and diplomatic circles the communication is regarded as being the most emphatic declaration to come from the United States goverment since the beginning of the Einipean war. No attempt is made to conceal the fact that unless the demands are quickly complied with diplomatic rela- tions between the two countries will be in danger of being severed. Teutons Open Turkish Route. Berlin.—The Austrian army head- quarters has issued a statement rela- tive to the railway traffic between Vi- enna and Constantinople, which open- ed a few days ago. Traffic will not be continued by way of Belgrade, as was expected, but via Budapest and reach the Danube at Semendra, where the trains will be ferried across the river. To Open South Dakota Land. Washington.—Opening to settlement of 2,000,000 acres of non -irrigable land in Pennington, Custer and Fall River counties, South Dakota, is announced. The land will be available for entry January 10. Austria Makes Women Work. Zurich.—The Austrian military au- thcriticr., arc, kJ. cpal 1116 'or a system- atic mobilization of a great army of women workers for the munition fac- tories. Economy is the road to wealth, but it's a hard road to travel. The best way to learn how to waste money 18 to make it easy.
