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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening! That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOJNTAIN. A sli-lct i in i-ii ii 1 1 1 1 has heeii established estab-lished nt ('amp Lewis. Wash., which fin-Mils soldiers, including officers, en-lisjieil en-lisjieil men nnil civiliiui employes, from leaving the mililiiry reservation mill prohibiting civiliiuis frmii entering. Ueiorls coniiileil Octoher IS by the city lionnl of henlth slioweil 127!) cases of infliieii7.li linil (leveloieil In Suit l.nke since Hie outbreak of the iliseu.se ahout two weeks previous. L'tilll Inis lieen creiliteil officially with lieing the first state to complete classification of 1J0 per cent of September Sep-tember 12 registi-nnis, foi-wiit'd records to district bonrils iiml conduct physical , examination of nt leusl IMI ier cent of ('hiss 1 men in the hist registration. Art lull" Morse Moon, Suit Lake actor and playwright, died in Helena. Mont., a victim of influenza, being strick.Ni wlille playing on the I'antnges circuit. In spite of drastic action on the part of stale and municipal authorities authori-ties the spread of influenza throughout through-out Colorado continues. Tlie high Sierra Nevada mountains west of Keno are white with snow, far down their sides, that fell W'edues- 'lilV lr. (). M. I.anstrum. candidate for United Stales senator from Montana, has abandoned his speaking dates and volunteered his services to the state in XlljilU 'Jbe influenza epidemic. Utah's shortage in sheep (his winter will exceed .1 .000,000. estimates .1. A. Kohinson, rancher of (Ireen Iliver, Utah. Shortage in full feed and high price of sheep is given as the reason for the rush to market. DOMESTIC. "I'ublic gatherings- of all kinds" are prohibited under the Spanish influenza influ-enza iiarantine order issued by the Iowa state board of health, and this Includes football games and other outdoor out-door gatherings, it was explained. Chicago & Alton railroad employes at Hloomington, Ills,, must work or fight. Local exemption boards received re-ceived instructions Kriday to put men failing to return to work in class Al. Unless peace can be restored "upon terms that will change the mental attitude at-titude of the (ieruinn people towards its own master and towards the rest. of the world" the war will have been fought In vain, Henry Morgenthuu, irfvineV ambassador to Turkey, said Friday at the Liberty loan rally at Cooper Union, New York City. Six sailors and soldiers are believed to have drowned in the sinking of the army transport America at her pier at lloboken, N. .1. Charles I'rozat Converse, lawyer, in-entor. in-entor. author and composer of "What a Friend We Have In Jesus" and other famous hymns, died Friday at ids home in Euglewood, N. .1. Declaring "the more coal you produce pro-duce the sooner we shall have peace," General I'ershing through a cablegram to Fuel Administrator Garfield appealed ap-pealed to the coal miners if the country coun-try for increased production. II. llivera. a wealthy wholesale grocer gro-cer of Douglas. Ariz., was arrested in Augua 1'rieta. Mexico, charged with complicity in the robbery on the" night of September 30 of the Mexican stamp tax office, wheu ?.S0AK) in American gold was stolen. A fund of $1,000,000,000. to be used to fiaance the reconstruction of the .Vewry of the world, will be sought by the joint distribution committee of the American funds for Jewish war suf-erers. suf-erers. which, it was announced at New York, will undertake what it describes de-scribes as "the largest purely humanitarian humani-tarian project in history to be attempted at-tempted by individual effort." ( Mrs. A. F. Rogers was arrested at Los Angeles on a charge of conspiracy to defraud through the United States mails in connection with the alleged embezzlement of funds of the National Iefense league of California. Influenza at Camp Kearny is being kept well in band, the few cases that have developed .being of a mild type and no deaths attributed to the disease liaving occurred for the last ten days. Shortly he'.'i'iv the Vinerican u-ans-ori America, formerly the German trans-Atlantic passenger steamship Amorika. was about to sail Tuesday for Kurope witli soldiers and supplies, tlie vessel foundered at her pier at lloboken. N. .7. Tlie "00 soldiers tin board W'.-re rescued. Officers and men at Camp Kearny are being put through a rigorous course of calisthenics daily during the period of quarantine, with the idea of keeping tlie men in the he,st possible physical condition. One hundred German sailors interned in-terned at Camp Devens, Mass., for the duration of tlie war, subscribed $5X) to tlie fourth Liberty loan. In a Liberty loan address at i'rovi-dence i'rovi-dence II. I. Theodore Koosevelt declared de-clared the "United States will get peace wlih a machine gun ami not with a typewrl'er." "We are going to see this war to a finish if it takes three years more, our bedrock dollars ami tlie last ti'ian." declared Colonel Koosevelt. Koose-velt. Congressman Jacob K. Meeker died at St. Louis. October 10. of Spanish Influenza, after his marriage at midnight mid-night the previous night to his private secretary. ' m WASHINGTON. The -fti 000,000,000 military deficiency de-ficiency bill was passed by the house without a dissenting vote and sent to the senate in practically the same form that it caiu2 from the appropriations committee. The senate finance committee in revising re-vising the war revenue bill struck out house provisions taxing tlie salaries of the president, members of the supreme su-preme court and superior courts and state officials. Fuel Administrator Garfield has lifted the request for gasolineless Sundays Sun-days effective at once. In announcing the withdrawal of the requests the fuel administration said through the loyal response of the public 1,000,000 barrels of gasoline was saved for the military forces. Protest against the Americanization of German-owned business concerns, ships ami other property by Alien Property Custodian Palmer, lias been made by the German government to the state department. No further effort will be made hy congress to continue existing daylight saving law and the hands of the clocks will be turned back an hour on October Octo-ber 27 as originally planned. A new section providing for a tax of 2 cents on all bank checks payable on sight or demand was written into tlie revenue bill by the senate finance committee Tuesday. The tax will' apply ap-ply to the checks irrespective of their value. FOREIGN. Allied forces have occupied the town of Kadish in the province of Archangel, Arch-angel, atid have advanced for a distance dis-tance of six miles to the .south of that place along the Archangel-Vologda railway, rail-way, according to an official statement state-ment on operations ill north Itussia. .Independence of the Czecho-Slovak nation was declared formally on October Oc-tober 18 by the Czecho-Slovak national council, recognized by the United States and the entente allies as a belligerent de facto government. Arrangements for feeding tlie civil population ot rseiguun as rapiiny as tlie allies takeover the territory is being be-ing made by tlie Belgian relief commission. com-mission. Karon Kurian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, spoke in the most optimistic manner of the prospects for an early peace in addressing the foreign for-eign affairs committee of the Austrian delegation at its meeting on Wednesday, Wednes-day, says a Vienna dispatch. Tidal waves which followed the earthquake in Porto Hico added to the death toll and devastation. Tlie city of Mayaguez, the third largest in the island, practically was destroyed by the inrush of water, while the town of Agudilla was badly damaged. Austria-Hungary is in tlie throes of a crisis which either will compel Germany Ger-many to accept President Wilson's decision de-cision or make i; Imperative for the dual monarchy to act on its own accord ac-cord for peace. A dispatch from Amsterdam says in Prague the streets from the suburbs to the city proper are occupied by troops armed witli hand grenades nn,d machine guns in consequence of a threat by the Czechs to call a. general strike throughout Bohemia. Kniperor William has issued a decree saying that martial law in Germany can only be administered by an agreement agree-ment between tlie civil and military authorities, according to a report received re-ceived at Amsterdam. With tlie Herlin-Constantinople railroad rail-road cut by the allied occupation of Nish, Germany is relying upon its Klack sea fleet to hold Turkey in line. Information has been received that the Turkish government has been told by Berlin that the fleet will open fire on the Ottoman capital at the first sign of defection. Refugees from northern France am) Belgium, who ai 3 fleeing before the , retreating German armies with the hope of making their way into Holland, may be taken care of in eastern sections sec-tions of Belgium. Tlie Austrian emperor has declined . to accept the resignation of tlie cabinet cabi-net of Premier Wekerle. according to Budapest advices received here. The ! emperor said he Lad full contideiKe in I the cabinet ' j |