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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTER MOUNTAIN. George Mangios, a section hand, was killed and George Kusonius, section foreman, wns seriously Injured near Aberdeen, Iditlio, In avoiding a collision colli-sion between their fast-driven power section car and a school wagon containing con-taining twelve children. "Loafers" in Utah are going to he rounded up at once and placed in the shipbuilding department, according to notice Issued from the federal employment employ-ment office. Karl Dodge, 16 years of age, employed em-ployed as a porter, suffered a fracture of the skull when he fell from the mezzanine mez-zanine floor to the lobby of the Hotel Utah at Salt Lake. A resolution was adopted at a conference con-ference of bankers at Portland recommending recom-mending to the American Bankers' association as-sociation action to maintain gold production pro-duction of the country at the pre-war volume. James J. Ryan, aged 32, of Salt Lake, gave his seven-year-old son, Jimmy, poison and took a dose himself. him-self. Jimmy is dead and Cyan may not recover. Worry over the suicide of his wife and the fact that he had been drafted was the cause. Incomplete returns on the Nevada primary election indicates the overwhelming over-whelming nomination of Congressman F. E. Roberts over Waiter B. Lamb for senator on the Republican ticket. Roll; t.Tts made no campaign, while Lifnb made his an attack on Roberts' loy-nlty. loy-nlty. Judge Harry S. Glass in district court at Denver, authorized the issuance issu-ance of receiver certificates by the Denver & Salt Lake railroad to the amount of $1,500,000 to cover the loan of that amount which the United States government recently agreed to make to the road. Bondholders acquiesced acqui-esced in the proceedings. DOMESTIC. Ninety-three members of the I. V. W., including' Secretary William D. Haywood, were placed aboard a special spe-cial train on the Rock Island road at Chicago, Friday night, under heavy guard, to be taken to Fort Leavenworth Leaven-worth prison. 1'ersons writing poetry, fiction and advertisements are engaged in essential essen-tial industries and are not affected by the "work or tight" rules, according to information by the provost marshal general's office to a Boston draft hoard. One man was killed and forty-three were injured, several seriously, when three coaches of a Rock Island train were derailed at Comanche, Okla. The dead and injured were members of a party of eighty drafted men from Gar-ield Gar-ield county, Oklahoma, on their way to training camp. Nearly a million railroad employes, including clerks, track laborers aud maintenance of way men, are to receive re-ceive w:fge increases of $25 a month, the equivalent of $1 a day or 12 cents an hour, over the pay they received last January 1, under a wage order issued by Director General McAdoo. A bomb exploding in the entrance of the federal building at Chicago, on Wednesday afternoon, killed four persons per-sons and wounded 75 others. The blast was attributed to the I. W. W. by Philip J. Parry, acting chief of the local federal investigation bureau. Death sentences of ten negro soldiers sol-diers who participated in the riot at Houston. Texas, August 23, 1017, hnve been commuted to life imprisonment by President Wilson. On the ground of German ownership, owner-ship, the American Trans-Atlantic Co., which, until it's ships were commandeered comman-deered by the shipping board last October, Oc-tober, operated a lleet of eleven steamships steam-ships flying the Stars and Stripes, has been taken over by the alien property custodian at New York. Federal officials estimated more than 40,000 suspected' slackers had been arrested Tuesday in. New York and nearby cities. Most of the prisoners, pris-oners, it was said, came from other parts of the country. The American cotton crop this year will fall 4,080.000 bales below the output out-put predicted earlier in the season, the shortage being due to extreme drouth and pesis. Despite labor shortage, which lias haiulisa j'ped the Alaskan engineering commission in constructing the government govern-ment railroad between Resurrection l..iy and jk Inlet, good progress is I.e. j,; m.ide. Jules Jusserand, the French ambas- sador, In an address before the banquet ban-quet of the Franco-American societies at New York, asserted that "the enemy is doomed" and we "shall choose and appoint the day for peace." San Francisco was selected as the place for holding the 1919 national I convention of the United Spanish War Veterans by the delegates of the organization or-ganization at their annual reunion at Baltimore. The time was not announced. an-nounced. Voluntary enlistments for the army, except as authorized by acts of congress con-gress In certain cases, have been ordered discontinued by General March, and all recruiting stations will be closed. WASHINGTON. Without evidence of political division, divi-sion, congress on Friday began work on the greatest revenue measure in all history, providing for the raising ' of twenty-four billion dollars $8,000,-! $8,000,-! 000,000 in taxes and twice as much in bonds to pay America's share o the cost of the war next year, and for loans to its co-belligerents. Retention of the present sugar ration ra-tion of two pounds a month for each person was anuounced by the food administration ad-ministration Friday. The .$12,000,000 emergency agricultural agricul-tural appropriation bill with its rider for national prohibition from next July 1 until the American armies are demobilized de-mobilized after the end of the war, was passed Friday by the senate without with-out a roll call. President Wilson has asked Attorney General Gregory for a complete report of the circumstances surrounding the "slacker roundup" in New York City this week, in which upwards of 40,-000 40,-000 men were taken' into custody by agents of the department of justice. Government expenses in August were at the rate of more than $40,446 a minute, min-ute, reaching the enormous total of $1,S05,513,000 and exceeding more than $200,000,000,000, the highest previous monthly record of expenses since the war began. The average cost of wheat production produc-tion was estimated at $2.25 a bushel by E. H. Thompson, acting chief of the bureau of farm management, testifying testi-fying before the senate agriculture committee. foreign: The Germans are giving ground over fhe 150-mile front from Ypres to Rheims. Particularly heavy defeats have been inflicted on them by the French in the old Noyon salient, and by the French and Americans In the region between the Vesle and Aisne east of Soissons. "Intellectual weapons play In this war as influential and important a role as the battlefield and diplomacy," said Admiral von Hintze, foreign German minister, in a speech in Vienna in which he was emphasizing the importance impor-tance of everything's being done to bring about an honorable peace. The French have occupied all their old trenches along the whole of the front, to the north of the Aisne river and also have captured the towns of Ham and Chauny in the salient southwest south-west of St. Quentin. The American refugees who left Moscow Mos-cow August 26 arrived at Haparanda, Sweden, Thursday, after an uneventful trip through Finland. The Italian military mili-tary mission accompanied the Americans Ameri-cans from Moscow. Count F. von Hertling, the imperial German chancellor, has resigned, giving giv-ing bad health as the cause for his retirement, according to the Geneva correspondent of the London Daily Express, Ex-press, quoting a dispatch received in Geneva from Munich, Bavaria. A spirit of despondency has begun to pervade the German press, and it is indicative of the feeling throughout through-out the empire. In Berlin, something bordering on a panic has been provoked pro-voked by rumors of German disasters in the west. A dispatch has been received at Madrid from London reporting the assassination as-sassination of the former Russian empress and her daughters, but in view of the steps taken by King Alfonso to obtain the transfer to Spain of the family of the deposed and murdered Russian monarch the report was treated treat-ed with all reserve. Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik minister minis-ter of war, has been elected president of the Russian supreme war council at a meeting of the soviet executive committee, according to a Berlin Wolff bureau dispatch from Moscow. German-inspired attacks on America appearing in Danish newspapers threaten the interruption of negotiations negotia-tions now pending between Denmark and the United States for a commercial commer-cial agreement. This became known after receipt of an official report from an American agent in Copenhagen. A decree signed by General von Lin-si Lin-si ngen, commandant of the Brandenburg Branden-burg province, according to the Cologne Co-logne Volks Zeitung, places the city of Berlin and the province of Bran denburg under "the law relating to state of siege, which provides for . fine or imprisonment for persons i:i venting or circulating untrue ruiuorr l ea'culated to disquiet the populace." |