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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM i RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT . EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happanlngi That Aro Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Llnea. INTER MOUNTAIN. Though reports received by the si 11 1 e board of health indicate a spread of Spanish Influenza I liroughout the Htale of Utah, no occasion for hysierla pxInis, according to statements made li.v 1 r. T. I). Ileatl.v. stale lien 1 1 li commissioner. com-missioner. Twelve hundred cases have now hcen reported in Utah. The meanest person in Utah and who should he with the Huns is the Ihicf who burglarized the lied Cross storehouse In Silver City and stole a lot of clothing which had been collected collect-ed for Ihe Belgians. There is no clue lo Ihe unpatriotic thief. A quarantine against the city of Scuttle Sc-uttle for soldiers in Camp Lewis, was ordered Thursday. The order was issued is-sued at the request of Seattle city authorities to prevent soldiers contracting con-tracting Influenza, which is prevalent In Seattle, according to military authorities. A saving of SMpO.OOO has been effected ef-fected to apple growers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho this year, according ac-cording to V. ,1. Miller, chairman of tin1 Oregon Public service commission, wlio telegraphed from Washington thai the ruilroud administration has granted a reduction from $1.2o to .$1.10 per 1(X) pounds In the trnnscontlueiit.nl freight rate for. apples. The first cases of Spanish influenza noted In Nevada were reported to health officers at He-no, Tuesday, four persons being found infected with the rtiRease within a few hours. 1 Sentence of two years lit McNeil's Island federal penitentiary and n line of $.'".' X) for the acceptance of u bribe, was Imposed on James A. Wood, former for-mer assistant federal food administrator administra-tor for Nevada. DOMESTIC. 11nit.v kingling, youngest of the six brothers who during the last twenty-live twenty-live years have been prominent in the circus world, (lied at Harabao, Wis., of heart and other internal disorders. A German submarine was sunk a few miles from the Atlantic coast Friday morning by a shell from a Brazilian steamer, it was reported when the vessel ves-sel arrived at an Atlantic port. Postmen within a few days will assume as-sume the task of delivering telegraph messages classed as night letters in cities anil towns where postal deliveries deliv-eries are maintained, A resolution recommending that the Thomas .1. Moouey case "in its labor aspects" be presented to the war labor board ami he dealt witlt ns a war issue, was adopted unanimously by the California Cali-fornia Federation of Labor in convention conven-tion at San Diego. Repeated statements by public prosecuting officials that no woman could be convicted of murder in Cook county (Chicago) were modified on Thursday when it .lury found Mrs. Agnes Kowalski. an aged union labor worker, euiitv of manslaughter at her trial on a charge of beating to death another woman who had refused to join a union. In announcing awards in three labor la-bor controversies, the war labor board laid down the rule that no worker shall draw overtime or extra time pay unless un-less he works forty-eight regular hours a week, except where illness or some other just cause prevents. The rice tariff has been suppressed by the Philippines senate, making effective ef-fective a porclanintlon by Governor General Francis Burton Harrison directing di-recting that such a move be taken to lower the cost of living in the islands. is-lands. Five- hundred convicts in the jute mill of the state prison at San Quentin, ('Hi., went on strike following complaints com-plaints against the mill bosses, and all but fifty-one were induced to return re-turn to work by Warden .James A. Johnston. Congressman Julius Kahn of California, Cali-fornia, ranking Republican member of the house military affairs committee, in a speech made before the Association Associa-tion of Commerce at Chicago, declared that by the end of this year America will have more airplanes on the battle-front battle-front than all her allies put together ii ml will have obtained absolute mastery mas-tery of the air. The American steamer West gate of The naval overseas transportation service serv-ice has been sunk at sea with the loss of s; members of her crew, in collision col-lision witlt the steamer American. The Ame.ic. ti picked up the survivors. More than 500 of Cleveland's COO firemen have presented blanket resignations resig-nations to Fire Chief George A. Wallace, Wal-lace, to take effect October 18. The ' men demand that the city enforce the I eight-hour charter amendment, back pay and an Increase in wtiges. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson selected "Allies" and "Consort" as the names for two ships to be launched at the yards of tin? Submarine Boat corporation corpora-tion in Newark on October 14, In the presence of diplomatic representatives of the twenty-three allied nations. This year's wheat crop will be 918.-IrjO.OOO 918.-IrjO.OOO bushels, the department of iig-jrlcullure iig-jrlcullure has announced in Its preliminary pre-liminary estimate id' production. Winter Win-ter wheat production Is rj..i,71"r.0t)0 bushels and spring wheat production l-Mj'l.l'.l.l.OOO. WASHINGTON. With more than J ,(HKJ,tMH American troops embarked for the front and an army of li.OOO.IKXI men in preparation to make victory certain. General March, chief of staff, at his weekly conference Friday, sounded an urgent call for popular support for the fourth Liberty loan in order that the American Ameri-can armies may have full support. Declaring Unit a decided shortage in oil exists and that every effort must be made to conserve present supply, Mark Kcqua. oil administrator, urged the senate finance committee in considering con-sidering the war tax bill, to take no action that would in any way obstruct production. In its tight lo slop the spread of Spanish Influenza the public health service Is invesjigating Ihe causes of the disease, the conditions which promote Its spread and Ihe part played by carriers in epidemics of the malady. In urging the nation to put forth Its maximum effort In the war, par ticularly In Ilminclng it, Acting Secretary Secre-tary of War Crowell said that this would be the worst possible time to slacken the efforts to defeat the central cen-tral powers. The tax on theatre tickets sold at news-stands, hotels and places other than the theatre in which the performance perfor-mance is given was increased from 5 per cent, as fixed by the house, to 10 per cent by the senate finance committee com-mittee in revising the war revenue bill. FOREIGN. lhnperor William lias summoned the sovereigns of all the German federal states to Berlin for a consultation before be-fore answering President Wilson's note, according to a Cologne dispatch. Such a conference is unique in the history his-tory of Germany. A large number of American troops have been lost as the result of the sinking sink-ing of the transport Otranto in the North channel between the Scottish and Irish coasts in a collision with the steamer Kashmir. The Otranto, after the collision, was dashed to pieces -on the rocks off the south Scottish const with a probable loss of 372 American Soldiers. Travelers arriving at Basel, Switzerland, Switzer-land, from Germany assert that they encountered considerable risks because the French and American heavy guns are bombing with considerable effect the railways connecting the southern Rhine cities. Near the Swiss frontier the railway was struck by shells several sev-eral times at different points. The British press describes the torpedoing tor-pedoing of the Irish mail boat Leinster in the St. George channel ns the worst submarine crime since the sinking of the I.usitania. A Canton dispatch says the southern military government has formally declared de-clared war on the government of President Presi-dent Hsu Shin Chang, "hecnuse Hsu Shih Chang accepted a bogus parliament parlia-ment election, thus recognizing the new parliament and refusing to respect the existing provisional constitution." Gen. Michael Alexieff, commander-in-chief of the Russian imperial armies in 1917. died at Yekaterinomar on October Oc-tober 10, according to a report received here from Kiev. The porte has been advised that Bulgaria is expected to send troops against Turkey in an expedition planned by the entente allies, according accord-ing to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Amsterdam, quoting advices from Constantinople. An American bombing expedition consisting of more than 330 machines on October 9 dropped thirty-two tons of explosives on Gentian cantonments in the area between Wavrille and Damvillers, about twelve miles north of Verdun. Australia is about to put into effect the license system for the control of imports, it is announced by W. A. Wait, the treasurer of the commonwealth. common-wealth. The cabinet had approved the principle, he said, and the details were being framed. There are persistent rumors among the working classes in Germany, according ac-cording to advices received at Basel, Switzerland, that Germany's imperial bonds may become valueless. The rumors ru-mors have their basis in the repeated entente victories. The people of numerous nu-merous towns are said to be unload-! unload-! ing their war loans at extraordinarily ' low prices and a panic seems iimni i nent. |