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Show 0- : History of Past Week wi'iMwi ' i in ww "i i Mi ij inumi ipwh i BMIH JMMMTIinCa-m.,l,VC'.f ttTTfclffMMEegia The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Two crosses of St. George and papers pa-pers found in the effects of a shipyard ship-yard laborer, who died from influenza in a hospital at Seattle, identified him, police said, as Lieut. Kirill B. Lngidize, former commander of the Russian submarine sub-marine Kuguar. Complete military victory over the Germans was the keynote of the Liberty Lib-erty day program at Camp Lewis. October Oc-tober 12. In three big athletic fields more than 40,000 soldiers and civilian visitors listened to speakers attack the German militaristic system and laud the forward moves of the allies. Though reports received by the state board of health indicate a spread of Spanish influenza throughout the spate of Utah, no occasion for hysteria exists, according to statements made by Dr. T. D. Beatty, state health commissioner. com-missioner. Twelve hundred cases have now been reported in Utah. The meanest person in Utah and who should be with the Huns is the thief who burglarized the Bed Cross storehouse in Silver City and stole a lot of clothing which had been collected collect-ed for the Belgians. There is no clue to the unpatriotic thief. A quarantine against the city of Seattle Se-attle 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 SSOO.OOO has been effected ef-fected to apple growers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho this year, according ac-cording to F. J. Miller, chairman of the Oregon Public service commission, who telegraphed from Washington that the railroad administration has granted a reduction from ?1.25 to 51.10 per 100 pounds in the transcontinental freight rate for apples. DOMESTIC. Walter Hines Page, retiring American Ameri-can ambassador to Great Britain, arrived ar-rived at New York, October 12, from England, critically ill. He is suffering suffer-ing from heart disease. From a. steamship steam-ship he was brought ashore on a stretcher and removed to a hospital. Theodore Roosevelt declares : "I earnestly hope that the president will instantly send back word that we demand de-mand an unconditional surrender and that we refuse to compound a felony by discussing terms with the felons." Barricading herself in tjsj tower at the Pennsylvania railroad crossing at Gist, Pa., Miss Emma Vensel, signal "operator, pluckily held her post and fought a revolver duel with three meu who attempted to wreck an ammunition ammuni-tion train by placing ties across die tracks. Word has just reached the national war work council of the Young Women's Wom-en's Christian association that England Eng-land has requested the American Y. W. C. A. to establish "foyers" or clubhouses club-houses at munition centers in England, similar to foyers in France. Boilermakers in the Oakland and Alameda shipyards refused to work Saturday when they were refused double pay because of its being a holiday. holi-day. The other employes of the yards worked the full day. German newspapers received at New-York New-York generally attirbute the success of the allied offensive to the employment employ-ment of huge numbers of tanks. Harry Ringling, youngest of the six brothers who during the last twenty-five twenty-five years have been prominent in the circus world, died at Barahao, 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 and towns where postal deliveries deliv-eries are maintained. A resolution recommending thai Ihe Thomas .1. Mooney case "in its labor aspects" be presented to the war labor board and be dealt with as a war issue, was adopted unanimously by the California Cali-fornia Federation of Labor in convention conven-tion at San Iu'ego. Repeated statements by public 1- osecut i rig officials Hint no woman could be convicted of murder In Cook county (Chicago) were modified on Thursday when a jury found .Mrs. Agues Kownlskl, an aged union labor vorker, guilty of manslaughter at her ti'al on a charge of beating to death liliother woman who hud refused to Jin a union. I announcing 41 wards In three labor la-bor controversies, the war labor board laid down the rule that no worker shall rtni'.v overtime or extra time pay 1111-eH 1111-eH he works forty-oieht regubir hours a week, except where illness or folne Other j 1 1 V t cause prevents. Scores of Amorlcnn sailors were I illi'd or wounded by shrapnel fired by II German Kiibmarlne nfler il laid lor pedoed the steam hip T i cor 1 1 1 ' Toga , IV'MI mill-" oil Hi- Atlantic ooasl, 11c-ni'lm:' 11c-ni'lm:' to the i.lor.v told by twenty ni" i or v ho iur''.e'l at an Atlantic f, ,rl at id a I'.iil. h 1'i'eUdiier. I A fight between a negro and a white man in Brooklyn precipitated a riot, in which two negroes received mortal injuries, eighteen policemen were stabbed or cut, many civilians suffered suf-fered minor hurts, and several soldiers sol-diers and sailors who tried to restore order were injured. More than :10l) of Cleveland's 000 firemen have presented blanket resignations resig-nations to Fire Chief George A. Wallace, Wal-lace, to take effect October IS. The men demand that the-city enforce the eight-hour charier amendment, back pay and an increase in wages. Mrs. Wood row Wilson selected "Allies" and "Consort'' as the names for two ships to be launched at the yards of the Submarine Bout corporation corpora-tion in Newark on October 14. in the presence of diplomatic representatives of the twenty-three allied nations. WASHINGTON. Germany's reply to President Wilson's Wil-son's inquiry, intercepted as it was being sent by the great wireless towers tow-ers at Nauen and forwarded to Washington. Wash-ington. Saturday night in an official dispatch from France, declares Germany Ger-many is ready to accept President Wilson's peace terms, evacuate the invaded territory as a prerequisite lo an armistice, and that the bid for peace represents the German people as well as the government. The war risk insurance bureau has asked congress for !?134.0(MI,(K)0 additional addi-tional to pay family allotments and allowances of soldiers during the present pres-ent fiscal years. Previous appropriations appropria-tions have aggregated $141,000,000. Acceptance in any degree of the German reply to President Wilson's note means the loss of the war for the allies, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, minority leader and ranking Republican of the foreign relations committee of the senate declared Sunday. Reports that millions of persons in the L'nited States are drug addicts and that many men called in the draft develop the drug habit to avoid military service, were denied Saturday Satur-day by the military intelligence branch of the war department. With more than 1.900.1 HH) American troops embarked for the front and an army of 2,000.0KI 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. FOREIGN. The tendency is remarked in certain cer-tain German circles, says a dispatch from Geneva to the Temps, to represent repre-sent the eventual fall of Emperor William as a concession which the Germans would be disposed to allow-to allow-to the allies If they demanded it. In an extraordinary outspoken article, ar-ticle, the Franklische Tagospost, the Nurenmberg socialist organ, flatly demands de-mands the abdication of the German emperor. The German answer to President Wilson is the first diplomatic message of its kind in the history of the empire em-pire to speak of the "German government." gov-ernment." It is the first note of its kind to omit the word "imperial." Regret that President Wilson was not encouraged by Germany In his policy of pence before America's entry into the war is voiced in an editorial in the Berlin Tageblatt. The Finnish government has asked Germany to withdraw her troops from Finland. The request was recently delivered to General von der Goitz. the German high commander on Finnish Fin-nish territory. Spain, according to advices received re-ceived in Paris from the Spanish frontier, fron-tier, has decided to seize German ships in her ports to the extent of l.-j.oOO tons, in Indemnification of Spanish shipping losses. Restriction of war marriages fii Germany is demanded by the New Saxon church paper. The material advantages which a young woman obtains ob-tains by the war marriage are so alluring al-luring that only a few resist ttie lure, says the paper. The Frankfort Zeining sla.'es that among the reforms the German em peror intends to renounce Is the right Co declare war. The national ros'aurnnl at London, established to expose Hie profiteer, is not only sel f-supiorl iog, but is making a good profit, according to Aidennau C. E. Spencer, Its director. Gen. Michael Alexieff, commander-in-chief of the Russian imperial armies in 1017, died at Veka I eri noma r on October Oc-tober 10. according to a report received here from Kiev. A Canton dipaloh says ihc southern military government has formally declared de-clared war on the government of President Presi-dent llsu SI1I11 Cluing, "because Hsu Shili Chang accepted a bogus parliament parlia-ment (-lection, thus recognizing the new parliament and refusing to respect ihe exislin' provisional consl i t ut ion." The porle has been advised Unit Bulgaria Is expecled lo send troops against Turkey In an cxpcdlllor planned by Ihe entente allies, accord ing to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from A msl erda 111, quoting advices from ( 'otista nt inople. Tlie sociul unrest in Japan, w lileh slarled vvilli the rice riots, spread lo the mining dislriels of soiillieru Japan. The miners reeenlly requesled an increase of wages to meet advancing advanc-ing prlcc-i. In Vaiiiagiichl profeel nre miners set fire to the house of 'he mine owner. Troops were "illed 0111. Emperor William has suuo.ioiied the i-:uv ereiie, of all the German federni sin ten to Berlin for a con ad I a I Ion be-fore be-fore 11 n : '.'. eri 111: I'ri". ideal U'il :on's note, according lo 11 Colo:'iie di pal' li. Sin Ii a conference :; nn'ipie jn tin- lo", I'll v of 1 iei in.'inv . |