Show NEWS HISTORY 0 THE PAST mi WEEK A complete history of what has been happening throughout the world WESTERN VESTERN after severely sev arely knifing deputy warden arthur muchow tour four prisoners escaped from the south dakota penitentiary tent iary at sioux falls taking warden george W jamison with them the prisoners fled in a motor car parked toy bir a tourist lust just outside the prison walls nails with numerous forest fires blazing throughout the wooded areas area s of northern minnesota governor J A 0 preus has taken personal charge of 09 the me situation ordering out national guardsmen guardsman guards men at duluth tor for relief duty drought conditions have increased the menace to alarming proportions according to state forestry officials and more than 2000 men were fighting tires fires in various sections six known dead hundreds homeless at least two towns wiped out and a dozen others in imminent danger was nas the apparent toll of forest tires fires which swept northeastern minnesota causing the worst conflagration since 1018 when persons lost their lives three persons were struck by lightning and rendered unconscious when v lit ee n a severe electrical storm visited D denver ivr mrs mr walter falter wright and 11 harry arry II lI olloway were stunned when w lien a bolt shattered a tree in a yard next net door both being a short distance away mrs afra 1 I wagner sa s1 A was seated on her front porch when lightning truck struck in the yard she was ancon clous forty the flye all will re cover in the opinion of physicians who attended them the man who terrorized the bust tess ness section of salt lake ake on the night nip lit of july 15 and the morning of july 10 16 by breaking in a number of sates safes in various business establishments and who through his bis actie activities it ies earned tor for himself the cognomen of the s sledge ledge hammer sato safo bracher ciach er is be ildved to have bae been taken into custody at bakersfield coal by D U B nowell sheriff of that place GENERAL the 1022 area of sugar suar cane not including sorghum cane in the ellit eight principal P rin cipal states producing suga r cane is estimated by the united states die de pa apartment part ment of agriculture to be 0 acres or about 90 per cent of the harvested cane acreage of 1021 this is a preliminary estimate and includes include a me acreage intended to be harvested tor for seed and syrup as well as tor for sugar english women omen athletes ati athletes letes won the first international woman s track meet at paris iaria over competitors from the united states france switzerland and czecho slovakia the american team was second france third czecho cecho slovakia fourth and switzerland Swi terland fifth A tube of rad radium aum ium valued at wa was back in the hands of the surgeon who owns it and mrs martha spohn a patient in whose body the radium was lost loat was reported recovering following an operation to recover the missing metal in a previous opera tion a tube of radium was inserted in the incision when mrs spohn was placed on the operating table for re boval moval of the tube it had disappeared another incision revealed that the radium had burned through tissues to bother another part of the patients body an american merchant marine large arge enough to be a factor in the shipping of the world and which in time of war would insure sufficient subs diary ships tor for fighting opera eions has the indorsement endorsement Indor of the veterans peterana of foreign 1 orean wars ars now in an nual convention at seattle twenty gallons of whisky and the five gallons of blackberry brandy were found by officers in a church near west jefferson N C the ibe liquor had been concealed there by bootleggers it was said apparently in the belief it would he sate safe churchgoers detected the odor and a search revealed rev baled the liquor mrs mir s eugene mara 77 said to have been the first white child to arrive in carson city nev and reputed to have been the sweetheart of samuel 1 L demons clemons mar twain when lie he was in nevada ij dead at carson city before dirring on the pas gas to end his life at cody wyo yo lellam ilard hard ing moved amov ed his canary to another room M stive the bird ivan van 1 L anderson robert hones and freeze l reee all of salt lake who were marooned on the rocky apron which se separator parater the upper tipper and lower yosemite falls 1000 feet from the floor of the valley were rescued by rangers the ln party of four tied themselves thein selves together with a halt half ayach rope and were enabled to t reach the stranded youths only after consid erable perilous per ilmis efforts hundred etched the work of the relief party jea being used to guide them washington It running tinning expenses of the govern ment fell off by more than during july as compared with the same month last lash year while public debt disbursements were reduced by according to the monthly statement of expenditures issued by the treasurer the attention of farmers in all sections of the country to the tree free d astri button of excess war explosives for or farm arm work Is called by the united states department ot of agriculture since last fall the department in cooperation with the various state agricultural colleges has distributed 3 pounds of picric acid a sur our plus plus explosive which Is very efficient easy and sate safe to handle in Min neso ts ta the state agricultural college reports we feel eel that picric add acid has been a great benefit to the state and has done great deal to stimulate land clearing all reports are to the et feet act that Us its use se has been highly sat if trY thi Th pounds allotted to minnesota were distributed to farmers ar erasing 22 9 pounds per farmer we estimate that this will clear ao 30 acres of land and has made a saving baang of over tor for the farmers of the state 11 the absent voter Is wooed with unusual ardor this year by political leaders hundreds of thousands of voters temporary absent from their homen are being urged to register for the november elections and to vote by mall mail it if it Is tor for them to return home in time nearly a score ot of states state have absent voting laws which in detail for or the regis and voting of 0 citizens who are tor for tha time being bein exiles from their home commonwealth haltli the tha government will be inclined to deal 1 intently beatly with alth IN western estern re iama tion homesteaders who because of deflated rop crop prices may find them selves unable to meet obligations due uncle incle 1 sam bi this fall and winter se secretary c ol of the interior fall I 1 all states in a masza a to the reclamation record on the twentieth anniversary of tho the en ea act nent of the federal reclamation act Ilo however wever rail fall sounded the sharp warning gainin that his department intends to be stern in its refusal to deter defer payments from firm persons pers ins who are not true homesteaders and have been caught short by speculation spec illation or liy by their lack of fitness for foi farming it is i only tho the lioni fide sincere public land settlers that the govern innet seeks to enczur IBS age and aid the secretary asserted amendments of oe existing ei stinK laws biti reference terence re to summoning of witnesses witness cf in civil cail cases is urged by attorney general daugherty in letters to chair man nelson of the senate judiciary committee and chairman of the house juddi iary committee askin asking for or additional legislation to enable ti the to government to institute suits stilts tor for the recovery recon cry 0 of money in certain war fraud canes FOREIGN cyrus C K curtis philadelphia publisher returned to the united states after seven weeks in lurose with w ath word from former premier clemenceau that I 1 rench french war wai leaders felt america never finished her job degoti negotiations a bioni tor for a commercial treaty treat between america and germany are ex ev pecked to begin soon arter the return of the german ambassador to wash ington ambassador Amb Aniba asador Weld feldt sails tor for new york lork with instructions to take up the question with the state department in circles close to the german government it Is stated that washington is disposed to grant ger many the most favored nation clause resolutions declaring the hostility to future wars ware of the second trades union congress were passed at it its r recently concluded session in melbourne australia demonstrations against war were approved and all trade unions were directed to hold these demonstrations during the week of the anniversary of 0 the start of the world war chinese colonies in japan are greatly excited over oer the report that 2500 2 00 chinese laborers laboi ers are to be immediately deported under tinder an old regulation prohibiting foreign laborers working outside the foreign settlements although the ata kaga one of the great partially completed battleships to be scrupled under tinder the terms of the washington treaty limiting naval armaments has arrived at tokio ready for or the breakers to commence their work 0 if destruction and her sister ship the tosa losa has been towed to kure for or similar treatment not a rivet will be drawn from rom their hulls until the treaty has been finally ratified by all the powers concerned lord OA N orthe liffe famous british publisher and political power died of acute blood poisoning at london french scientists have found that the death of it many tine fine trees on streeta street where aut automobile mobile traffic is heady li is due to limes from the motors canada I 1 ii experienc ln a building boom figures tor for the tha first six sl months montha of the year show a volume ot of construction st ruction unequaled in any year since 1911 1914 1 sixty carloads of foodstuffs from new jersey on the food ship saugus baugus which sailed from new york on june jun 20 has arrived at the america Amerl ca i orphan city at Alevandro pool where the near east ast relief Is maintaining armenian children I 1 |