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Show 1 IMFLUEHZA Wire News of Epidemic From i Far and Near f By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Oct. . 16 Remarkable Re-markable improvement la shown by today's reports from army camps and can to omenta en tha in-' fluenza epidemic. Army medical officers new confidently believe the peak of the epidemic among the soldiers hae been passed.. By Assoelstsd Press. WASHINGTON, Oct, 11 There-were There-were C122 deaths from Spanish Influ-enx Influ-enx In thirty cities the week ending October 12, aa compared with nineteen nine-teen the week ending September 14, when the disease got Us first foothold In New England. In the aame period there waa 4409 deaths from pneumonia. pneu-monia. These figures, announced by the bureau of the census, do not Include figuree from army camps, and, with reports missing from all other cities and towns and country districts there waa no way of estimating the total number of deaths. . , The heaviest toll from Influence, was 167 In Philadelphia. The New York total wa 979; Boston, 860, and Chl-IslL Chl-IslL By Assoelstsd Press. DENVER, Colo.. Oct, !. An order prohibiting all public gatherings, both Indoor and outdoor, waa lasued last night by the state board of health to check the epidemic of Spanish Influence Influ-ence which la general over Colorado. The order applies to the entire atate. Nineteen additional deaths from Spanish Influence have been recorded In Ienver In the twenty-four .hours period ending last night Two hundred fifty-seven new cases were reported , today. WEAR CHIFFON VEILS. " By Associated -Press. H NEW YORK, Oct. !. Wearing of chiffon veils waa advocated by Dr. Royal R Copeland, health commissioner, commis-sioner, aa one means of checking New York's continually spreading epidemic of Spanish Influenca. Dr. Copeland said the veils would serve as an almost absolute preventive and that It may become necessary to order every one In New York to adopt them. Spread of the disease lias seriously affected New York a telephone service and the New York Telephone com, pany sent out an appeal to subscribers to use the telephone only for urgent and necessary calls, asserting that 20 per cent of Its operators have been laid up by Influenca. HITS SOUTH AMERICA. By Assoelstsd Press. y BUENOS AIRES, Oct . Spanish Influenca has made Its appearance In Buenos Aires, Rio Janeiro, ajad Montevideo. Monte-video. " SIOUX CITY ACTS. By Associated Press. SIOUX CITY-' Oct The city council, sitting as a board of health, ordered -the public schools, theatres, moving picture shows, lodges and all public meetings closed as a precautionary precaution-ary measure against the spread of Influenca, In-fluenca, The fc'ioux City Service company com-pany waa directed to prevent overcrowding over-crowding of all streetcars at the noon and evening rush hours. The cars must be fumigated daily. ILLINOIS SUFFERS. By United Press. CHICAGO, Oct. 1. City and state health authorities were to meet here today to give their final decision on the question of closing churches, saloons, sa-loons, schools, poolrooms and Ice cream parlors as the result of Influenca. N. An order closing theatres and moving mov-ing picture houses went Into effect yesterday throughout Illinois. During the last twenty-four hours there were SIT deaths from the epidemic epi-demic in Chloaao. There were 2221 cases reported in the city. According to reports compiled by Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, state health commissioner, com-missioner, the disease has affected 3ft0,ooo persons In Illinois. a i arvtc also wires all federal directors as , follows: " 'The receipt of the German note must not for one minute result in the slowing up of our war activities. WDl you. therefore, there-fore, call the attention of all Individuals , and organisations with whom you are working to the fact that we must speed up our preparations to continue the war? This in order that our enemies may rind peine imperative. ' "In Baker s appeal, you will remember, he swid: 'Whatever the result of the peace proposals, the wsr department must proceed at full speed with men and supplies sup-plies snd the people mast support ths i army until ths boys are back with the ! fruits of victory safe and assured. ' " m In accordance with the request contained con-tained in these telegrams the atHte council coun-cil of defense sent out the following message mes-sage to all county chairmen of defense councils: "linn Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the Interior, apt teals to atnte council not to slow down war activities. We have today wired him thst the people of t'tah will not aiow down until ateiute victory is achieved. Bisgeat problem now is fourth Liberty loan. t'tah must reach quota. Necessary for council to use every effort to help put this over. Every resource re-source and organisation in your county n ho it Id be used to complete work on time, t'tah can't fall, neither can your county. We depend on you." The National Copper bank Is the first bank of Salt Lake to report its quota completed. The quota was I7&0.000, and the bank reports subscriptions of nearly $1 f-''rt ivrfi |