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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. The forest fire that has been burning burn-ing in the Cascades southwest of Hood Hlver, Ore., took a heavy toll of property when the big sawmill plant of the Stanley Smith Lumber company com-pany was destroyed, entailing a loss of approximately $ 120,000. A strike vote of all telegraphers in the service of the Sunset, Central and Southern Pacilic systems from New Orleans to Portland, Ore., and Ogden, Utah, has been ordered. The men demand an increase of 12i2 per cent in wages. President Wilson lias nominated Herbert Goodall of Helena, Mont., for assayer in charge of the United States assay office at Helena. From a score of points throughout the northwest reports came Thursday of forest fires, which in some cases are doing heavy damage. A pall of smoke so dense as to render objects indistinguishable indis-tinguishable at a distance greater than 300 feet hung over Portland. Edward Godat, who is said to have shot and killed his wife, Minnie, at Price, Utah, and afterward escaped to the hills, was captured at Wellington, Welling-ton, seven miles east of Price. Mrs. Minnie Godat was shot and killed Wednesday at the home of Nord King at Price, Utah. She died almost Instantly, the bullet piercing her heart. Her husband Edward L. Godat Is Bought by the officers, who say that after shooting his wife Godat fled to the hills. DOMESTIC. The Panama canal is open to the commerce of the world. Henceforth ships may pass to and fro through the great gateway, which establishes a new ocean highway for trade. A negro chef killed Mrs. Momah Borthwick and five other members of the family at Spring Green, Wis., after setting fire to the house. Two hundred American tourists, who were overtaken in southern Europe by the war, arrived at Boston Bos-ton on the steamer Canopic of the White Star line. Some of them were destitute. Mail to Europe is proceeding expeditiously ex-peditiously notwithstanding the paralysis para-lysis given steamship communication between the United States and the war zones. Harry Forrest, for many years prominent prom-inent in educational, political and legal leg-al circles in the state of Washington, committed suicide by shooting himself at a hotel in Atlantic City, N. J. Three men were killed at Dongala, 111., when the wall of a burning building build-ing fell on them. Building operations in the United States showed an increase of 15 per cent last month as compared with the same month a year ago. Eugene Chassanoil, aged 67 years, former president of the New Orleans stock exchange, shot and killed himself him-self at the exchange. He had been in ill health for some time. That the United States will become the most prosperous among nations as a result of the war in Europe, is the prediction of Frank G. Odell of Omaha, secretary of the American Rural Credit association. Frederick R. Seaton, a character acter and moving picture star, was shot to death at his home at Bogota, N. J., by his wife, Virginia Clay Sea-ton, Sea-ton, an actress who once attracted country-wide attention by her ability as a sharpshooter. The first steamship to pass through the 'Panama canal the Cristobal made the trip from the Atlantic to the West central Minnesota was visited visit-ed by a disastrous cyclonic storm Sunday night One man was killed, another seriously wounded, numerous numer-ous buildings were demolished and considerable damage was done to crops. M. P. Durkee, a farmer, met death near Hancock. The Hamburg-American line has issued is-sued a statement saying that it had under consideration offers to purchase pur-chase some of its steamships in American waters valued at $20.0u0,- ooo. ; The maximum sentence of from twenty-five to fifty years in Sing Sing was imposed on Pasquale Milone, leader of the band that kidnaped eight-year-old Frank Longo from his home in New York and held him captive cap-tive for forty-nine days. -Mrs. Blanche Murphy, :!0 years old, was found not guilty by a jury in the criminal court at Chicago of the murder mur-der of her husband, Patrick Murphy, who was found dead in their home April IS after the two had quarreled. WASHINGTON. "The war offers to the United States the opportunity of freeing itself from any dependence upon foreign countries, coun-tries, not only in the import of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, but also of mineral products." declares Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane. For the first time since the death of Mrs. Wilson, the president and his daughters appeared in public Sunday when they attended services at the Central Presbyterian church. England, Russia and France have intimated to the United States that they do not regard the recent application appli-cation of censorship to the wireless stations as necessarily requiring similar sim-ilar restrictions on cable messages. The United States government has announced itself as opposed to the floating or loans in the country for the benefit of any of the belligerent belliger-ent powers of Europe. The senate has passed a bill to place Lieut. Col. Junius L. Powell, the only remaining officer in the army who served in the confederate army, on the retired list was a brigadier bri-gadier general. FOREIGN. According to a special message from Berlin twenty-three Russian generals and admirals, including the former commander-in-chief of the Black sea fleet, have been interned ay the German authorities. Japan sent an ultimatum to Germany, Ger-many, Saturday night, demanding the withdrawal of German warships from the Orient and the evacuation of Kiao Chau, and giving Germany until Sunday, August 2, to comply with the demand. Otherwise the ultimatum ulti-matum states Japan will take action. Sweden may be the scene of Olympic Olym-pic games in 1916. Germany has been unable to arrange for the holding of the games in Berlin, and the suggestion sugges-tion has been made that Sweden probably prob-ably would undertake the task again, provided the other nations would agree to participate. The Canadian government has announced an-nounced that it will introduce legislation legisla-tion empowering it to proclaim a moratorium mor-atorium at any time it deems such action ac-tion necessary. At present the government gov-ernment lacks the statutory authority to suspend the payment of debts as has been done in England and Franc:. It is reported that Japan has sent an ultimatum to Germany, demanding that she withdraw her warships ana evacuate Kai Chau. The national capital of Mexico is in the hands of constitutionalists. In accordance with a prearranged plan General Obregon marched in with his army and took peaceful possession of the city on Saturday. Fighting began Saturday night at Llano station, twenty-five miles south of Magdalena, Mexico, between the Maytorena and Calles factions in Son-ora. Son-ora. The Brussels correspondent of the London Star says a Belgian officer who escaped from Liege brought details de-tails of the death of General Von Em-mich. Em-mich. The officer declared that Von Emmich committed suicide. Pacific in eleven and one-halt hours. Fire which started in a livery barn practically destroyed two entire business busi-ness blocks of Detroit, Minn. Proposed increases in new freight rates on lumber from Arkansas and other states to the east, ranging from 1 to 3 cents per hundred pounds, have been suspended by the interstate commerce com-merce commission, pending investigation. investi-gation. The International Harvester company com-pany was declared to be a monopoly in restraint of interstate and foreign trade and was ordered dissolved by a majority decision filed by Judges Smith and Hook in the Cnited States court at St. Pti!. Former United States Senator Jo seph W. Bailey will be a candidate for nomination as United Statr-s senator sen-ator in H'16. he announced at the Democratic state convention at El Paso. W. G. Long, Jr.. a brother of Percy V. Long, city attorney of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, and their nephew, Crayton Long, a Stanford undergraduate, together with the laters roommate at Stanford, Stan-ford, were killed in the Big B'ue mine, about thirty miles from liakersfield, Cat., by an explosion. The American liner Philadelphia with the first great crowd of Americans Ameri-cans who rushed from Europe when the various nations declared war. arrived ar-rived iu New York Wednesday. There were 703 persons In the cabin and 309 in the steerage. a Lonacn aispatcn says ureece nas i decided to demand explanations from Constantinople regarding the concentration concen-tration of Turkish troops on the frontier. fron-tier. Unless the reply is satisfactory Greece will mobolize forthwith. Pope Pius has been ordered to bed for a complete rest by his physician. I Dr. Marchiafava. He is suffering j from gouty catarrh and the intense heat which prevails is contributing i to weaken him. I Business of every sort is at a ! standstill throughout Austria and ; Germany. Business men frankly recognize that the war, whether suc-'. suc-'. cessful or not, has delivered a terri- ble blow to German trade for gener-; gener-; ations. ! Owing to cable interruption. Japan : lias not bten able to deliver its ultimatum ulti-matum to Germany, and the United States will undertake to communicate communi-cate it to Berlin. A dispatch from the semi-official news agency at St. Petersburg says German reports that the Russian government gov-ernment has formed on the frontier bands of irregulars who commit atrocities atro-cities are officially denounced as false. Berlin has been celebrating, not only the capture of Liege, but the victory of the German troops in upper up-per Alsace. The Spanish troops in Morocco are being sent to Tangier owing to the outbreak among the Moors in the neutral zone. |