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Show E m History of PastWeek 1 he News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed D B Young men of I lie country between (he ages of Hi and 21. not now employed, em-ployed, are called upon by President Wilson lo serve the nation by joining the l.'nited States boys' working reserve. re-serve. Diversion lo gulf and South Allan-tic Allan-tic ports of virtually all movement of foodstuffs destined for export to Europe Eu-rope is planned as a government war measure to relieve congestion of railroads rail-roads anil ports in the east. The woman suffrage party of New York slate is officially opposed to the picketing of tin- White House by members mem-bers of the Congressional union. A resolulion expressing condemnation of these methods and reaffirming the loyally loy-ally of the suffrage party to the government gov-ernment was adopted at the final business busi-ness session of the slate conference at Saratoga Springs. WASHINGTON. Confidential information of a serious seri-ous rupture in the German government govern-ment between the main, bloc of the reichslag and file admiralty authorities authori-ties ove rthe submarine warfare has reached Washington. There is no chance of the United States taxing SO per cent of the huge profits made during this war. By a vole of G2 to 17, the senate rejected such a proposal, made by Hiram Johnson of California. Serious race rioting was only narrowly nar-rowly averted in Washington early Sunday when several hundred marines ma-rines marched into the southwest part of the city seeking negroes who had cut up two soldiers in a light. Two soldiers were slightly injured. The charge that the kaiser not only wanted the war but plotted its immediate imme-diate cause, the assassination of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo Sar-ajevo in July, 1914, was officially mad.; public at Washington on Sunday Sun-day V.irough Dr. Vasile Lucaciu, head of the Roumanian mission to the United Unit-ed States. Congress works this week on thre great war measures, the ,$11,53S,945,-400 ,$11,53S,945,-400 war bond and certificates, the $3,-000,000,000 $3,-000,000,000 revenue and the $170,000,-000 $170,000,-000 soldiers' and sailors' insurance bills. The opening of the next Liberty loan campaign has been set tentatively tentative-ly by the treasury department for October Oc-tober 1. Subscription books will close November 1, unless the pivgram is altered. FOREIGN. The Germans are knocking virtually at the gates of Riga, with the Russians apparently unable to withstand their advance. President Wilson's reply to the pope's peace note was published generally gen-erally by the newspapers of Germany on September 1, and in the editorial comment Mr. Wilson is bitterly denounced de-nounced on the score of the note's tone and tendency. Nicholas Romanoff, the former emperor em-peror of Russia, and his family are now living in a fourteen-room apartment apart-ment on the second floor of a large old-fashioned house at Tobolsk, Siberia, Si-beria, according to reports just reaching reach-ing Petrograd. Seveuty persons, including ten foreigners, for-eigners, were arrested during demonstrations demon-strations at BerneSwitzerland, in protest pro-test against the high cost of living. There were several collisions between the munifestants and the police. About eleven soldiers are killed in action or die of wounds in each 1000 of mobilized strength on the western European front, according to figures compiled by the committee on public information, based on the report of M. Tardieu, French high commissioner. commission-er. Germany's long expected combined land and sea drive on Riga is believed to be near at hand. Forty Teuton airplanes air-planes during Friday descended upon the various islands in the gulf of the big Russian Baltic port, throwing bombs promiscuously. The central powers have decided to put Polish troops in the field against the entente, according to a dispatch from Vienna received here Friday, the move being prompted by the vigorous allied attacks. Workmen in the Swiss cities of Berne, Zurch and Basle went on a half-day strike as a protest against the high cost of living, says a Havas dispatch from Basle. Lidj Jeassu, the deposed emperor of Abyssinia, who escaped from Mag-dala. Mag-dala. has been captured, according to a dispatch to the Daily Mail from Jibuti, French Somaliland. Four thousand Russian soldiers will be shot as deserters by Russian firing squads if Premier Kerensky carries out his threat, voiced at the close of the Moscow conference.. Flight Lieutenant Francis W. S. McLaren, member of the British house of (ominous, was killed while flying at Montrose. He was fully n mile at sea when the airplane fell to the water wa-ter in a nose dive. The American schooner, Laura C Anderson was sunk by bombs from a submarine On Thursday. All the members mem-bers of the crew were picked up and landed at an English port. Italian merchant marine losses for the week ended August 2(3 comprised one large steamer, two small steamers steam-ers and two small sailing vessels. One steamer was unsuccessfully attacked. Three factories in the southeastern portion of Petrograd were burned as a result of an explosion. One hundred hun-dred and twenty persons were killed or injured. President Wilson's reply to the pope's proposals is greeted in England as the most definite and eloquent statement of the entente's cause yet made. INTEHMOUNTAIN. Frank Earl Ki-iii, aged 2(1, of Fort Dodge, la., and .lames Johnson, aged 5:"i, who said his home was in Canada, were smothered to death in a fire which destroyed the city jail at Green River, Wyo. One thousand sheep perished in a forest fire which out them oil' in the mountains at the head of Rock creek, .Mont., according to reports received at the headquarters of the United Stales forest service at Missoula. Soldiers are on duly in Burke canyon, can-yon, northeast of I'.ui'ke, Idaho, because be-cause of an alleged al tempt of a crowd of about, seventy-live miners to force miners in the district to quit their I jobs. Held in bond in the sum of .$1000, whjeh so far he has been unable to furnish, Albert E. Baker is in jail at Denver, accused of Impersonating a United Slates army surgeon and thereby obtaining two weeks' board and lodging for liimsef at a fashionable fashion-able resort near Denver. Afler an all-day conference of representatives rep-resentatives of 210Colorado mines, n committee of mine owners left for Washington, instructed to inform Dr. H. A. Garfield, coal administrator, that the new government prices are confis-cr.tory, confis-cr.tory, and if there is to be any price reduction in this state the government will have to take over the mines. Admissions that, posing as a brother broth-er of Secretary Newton D. Baker of the war department, he had cashed checks in Niagara Falls, N. Y., and in Steamboat Springs, Colo., were obtained ob-tained from Albeit E. Baker, who is under arrest at Denver. DOMESTIC. Fire in the Mexican and Austrian quarters at Jerome. Ariz., destroyed thirty buildings, including several rooming houses. It was estimated by city authorities that 700 people had been made homeless. Philadelphia on September 1 paid a farewell tribute to its departing soldiers. sol-diers. It was estimated that more '.:han one million persons viewed the parade. Raw recruits, still without uniforms and arms, made up a large quota of the 35,000 soldiers who marched for more than live hours in one of the greatest, solemn patriotic spectacles ever witnessed in (lie city. Unless under the food control law authority can he found for abrogating contracts for the delivery of coal which were in force prior to the date of the approval of the act, Utah coal mine owners stand to lose heavily by being obliged to hold prices down to the scale fixed by the president's proclamation, it is reported. The chairman of the Red Cross war council has announced the launching of the junior Red Cross. It is confidently con-fidently hoped that every one of the 21,000,000 school children of America will become a member of the organization. organi-zation. Each child will be asked to ontribute 25 cents. The Rev. Lynn G. J. Kelly has confessed con-fessed the Yillisca, la., ax murders of 1912. His confession is a complete and unqualified admission of killing Joe Moore, his wife, their four children, chil-dren, Herman, Katherine, Boyd and Paul, and Lena and' Ina Slillinger, on the night of June 9. 1912. with an ax. Federal Judge Boyd of the western district of North Carolina has held the Keating-Owen child labor law unconstitutional. un-constitutional. The government will appeal the decision. The food administration grain corporation cor-poration on September 4 will begin to buy and distribute Ihe wheat crop of the United States, at the base price fixed by President Wilson $2.20 a bushel for No. 1 northern at Chicago. Cotton production prospects improved im-proved to the extent of 550,000 bales during August and brought the estimate esti-mate of final cut-turn to 12,4!)9,(MX) equivalent 500-pound bales. William R. Hearst will not be a candidate can-didate for mayor of New York at the coming election. His declination to allow his name to appear on the ballot bal-lot at the coining primaries was filed with the board of elections Friday, the last day under the law for taking this action. Colonel John S. Dennis, commanding tlie western division of the British recruiting re-cruiting station at Chicago, announces that sufficient Canadians and Britons have enlisted since the recruiting of England's subjects in the United States began to make more than six full battalions, and that work now under way was augmenting the number num-ber at the rate of 300 a week. Mrs. Catharine Levering, aged 21. of Sioux City, was shot and killed by Ed Naistetter of Aurelia, la. Xaistet-ter Xaistet-ter then shot himself, but was not seriously ser-iously wounded. When arrested he asserted as-serted Mrs. Levering hail broken up his home and induced him to part Willi all his savings. Four policemen were injured, one man was shot through the arm, a score or more persons received cuts and bruises and windows in half a dozen establishments were smashed in a clash beiv.-eon the police and anli-cm- 8(.Tip:iciii.!l paraders at Moul-i al. t |