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Show my told A RESUME OF THE WEEKS INGS IN THIS AND OTHER DO- COUNTRIES. Upon complaint of the Wwtern asso- elation of Rolled Steel Consumers that the United States Steel corporation and other steel producers act iu violation of tlie federal trade commission act and the Clayton antitrust act in selling rolled steel on a Pattsburg basis, the federal trade commission Saturday announced that it had undertaken a thorough investigation of the subject, with u view to determining whether a formal complaint should be Issued. In its complaint the Western association urges that Chicago should be made another basing point fixation of steel prices. Appealing to the sent ,e to refuse l atification of the articles of the peace treaty which give Japan possession of Shantung, the Chinese Students alliance in the United States, said to have a membership of 1500, through Its president, Feng Hua Huang, gave out an open statement declaring that the American peace commission does not attempt to justify this spoliation of China. Republicans of the house ways and means committee Tuesday reached a final agreement on tariff rates on magnesite to be recommended to congress. The high cost of living and growing urgent unrest among of America were put directly up to the president in a remarkable way by the advisory board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers They told him that if the governmen could not take steps to reduce the cost of life's necessities, to make it square with the income of the people, they would demand another increase in wages. The first issue of the official victory ribbon bars will be made to the army soon after August 9, the war department announced Wednesday. On that date the first delivery of 400,000 will be made to the New York feupply officer, who will ship to army recruiting stations and posts only for distribution to officers and men in the service. When the victory medal is ready it will be distributed, together with a ribbon bar, to all officers and men who participated in the war. A naval board of inquiry will be appointed by Capt. J. N. Dafrees, U. S. N to investigate the sinking Wedneswhich day of the U. S. submarine went down in Long Island sound, off Pleasure Beach, with the loss of three lives. Attempts of Victor Berger to compare certain speeches of prominent Republicans criticising the administration for its conduct of the war with his own utterances during the conflict drew a. protest Wednesday from Representative Welty, Democrat, Ohio, a member of the special committee which is investigating Bergers right to a seat in the house of representatives because of his conviction of disloyalty charges. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, nations covenant, carried his fight from the legislative forum to the pulpit Sunday night in Washington, declaring to a church congregation that the Shantung settlement will mean ane other war just as the settlement fifty years ago brought on another war. FOREIGN. Trial by a high court of Joseph the former premier, who has been under arrest a year and a half charged with having had treasonable dealings with the . enemy, , is recommended in the conclusions of Theodore Lescouve, attorney general of the republic of France. M. Lescouves report has been filed with the commission of inquiry, which is just closing its long investigation. More than a thousand Americans are threatened with loss of millions of dollars in investments by a new agrarian law enacted by the congress of Sonora, Mexico, at the direct instructions of Governor Calles. The foreign affairs committee of the Belgian chamber of deputies Wednesday passed favorably upon the question of the ratification of the peace treaty with Germany. An attempt to settle the Yorkshire coal strike has proved unsuccessful The conference of mine owners and strikers, held at Leeds, at which it was hoped a solution of the difficulty might be reached, failed. One oclock in the afternoon of Aug. 6, is the time fixed for the termination of the Austrian delegations communications concerning the peace 111 of th important Event Wire by Reported Days Benefit pared for th Fart Sevan and Preof th Buy Reader, INTERMOUNTAIN. Complaints from ranchers in Snoho- mish county Washington, that beavers have Increased In number so rapidly that much valuable land Is being Inun- dated by water overflowing from their that Game Warden 'Leckie took steps to open the dams. A cloudburst at Dubois, on Horse cieek. Fremont county, Wyoming, Thursday night drowned four persons. The bodice of Dr. Welty, 70 years old, and Don Long, aged 13, were recovJohn Shaffer, a piano tuner, ered. and an unidentified farm hand were the other victims. Police investigation Tuesday of the mysterious explosion that wrecked the home of Jake E. Mollnsky, a fruit peddler ,at Denver, disclosed that the Mollnsky family was not in thediouse at the time the explosion occurred. Suffering intensely from their injuries, exposure and lack of nourishdams, ment, E. Harris, his wife, their child and the grandmother were Monday brought to Greenriver, Utah, after they had been subjected for twenty-fou- r hours to the desert heat after their automobile crashed through a broken bridge fifteen miles east of here. They were all severely-I- n jured with the exception of the child. Gardeners Monday In the public market at Twin Falls, Idaho, offered the first green corn of the season. Peaches, pears and apples were plentiful when the market opened. James ONeill, back from France with four service stripes and one wound stripe and only 18 years old, is at Camp Lewis for discharge from the rmy. His papers show he enlisted with his fathers consent when a copy boy in the art department on a Chicago newspaper. DOMESTIC. Into the high tide of Oakland- - har. bor, the Utacarbon, Utahs Liberty loan honor ship, was launched at 5 oclock Thursday afternoon, California wine and Utah mountain water glistening on the bow as the big oil tanker glided down the ways at the Alameda yards of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation. The demand for tobacco is the greatest in the worlds history, according to Benjamin Duke. He declared that America is supplying much of the worlds output and that 1,000,000,000 cigarets are made in the United States every three days to meet the demand. ships have been completed in Seattle shipyards in the past seven months, equalling 62 per cent of tbe 1918 tonnage output, it wag anFifty-thre- e nounced. One hundred steamships built on the Heat lakes during the war have been sold by the shipping board to the Anderson Overseas corporation of New York for approximately $80,000,000. More than $4,000,000 worth of surplus textiles were auctioned off at New York in about three hours by the surplus property division of the army, with representatives of Admiral Kolchaks Siberian government taking re than $1,000,000 of it. Operations of the big packing companies and other concerns dealing in foodstuffs are to be investigated by Attorney Alexander J. Groesbeck, of Michigan, to determine whether prices re controlled in violation of Michigans antitrust law. Ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was voted by the house of representatives of the Montana in special session Tuesday. Among the soldier pupils at Camp lx Rrmy college, was Major General C. Hale, commander of the canton-aenwho will take the course in motor mechanics. legis-athr- e, t, Two whites and a colored man are sported to be dead and approximately ty are said to have been injured, a umber probably fatally, when race loting broke out Sunday in Chicago mong white and negro bathers uth ile beaches, from Twenty-nint- along Street south to Thirty-fiftstreet. WASHINGTON . universal army and nav and or youths between 18 u 20 years and a national registra-o- u system are proposed In a bill in- tioHU.Ce1 ursday by Senator Cham-aidemocrat, of Oregon, rile Cobras a legislature went into peclal session here Tuesday to con-- r ?r the Question of ratifying th fed 01 woman suffrage Amendment. 1 h h voca-raln- n n, wage-earne- rs Weu-nesda- y G-- 2, Alsace-Lorrain- Cail-lau- Decrease in Prices of Horse. Horses under one year of age on farms In Canada averaged $50 a hend in price in 1918 against $57 in 1917; horses one to less thun three years old, $112, against $116 in 1917; and horses three years old and over, $162, against RAIL CHIEFS FOR 0. S. t $167 in 1917. WILL' PRESS ISSUE IN CONGRESS, PLUMB DECLARES. EIGHT MILLION LTtLTiSUPPORTING. Th Buy Cow. cream soda fountain It That doing an enormous business. be terYes. The poor cows must seem ribly overworked this year. It shar to lie up to them to take a big of the thirst responsibilities that used to be met by the breweries." Ice Dont Poison Baby. Propose a Nonpolitical Fight, and Great Strike Will Be Only Last Recourse is Plan of Railroad Workers. MANY will produce tlmBLEEP 1 Bleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO Many are the children who FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. gorio, laud have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by num and morphine, each of which is a narootio product of opium, Draggira at alL or are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to cdren of defimtion The to anybody without labelling them poison. is : A medicine whwh relieves pain and produces sleep, but wMch tnpouoor ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death. toe name smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold undmr not of Drops, Cordials, J Soothing Syrups, etc. You should medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT If it bears the signature , CONTAIN NARCOTICS, . of Chas. H. Fletcher. Genuine Castoria always bear the signature of' Washington. The fight of the rail-- ; road work'ers of the United States to force upon congress the acceptance of government ownership ns a solution of the railwmd problem is to begin at once and will be unrelenting in its intensity. Leaders of the railroad brotherhoods and organized labor generally are convinced that their plan for the government to buy the railroads and nationGreat Lack. alize them on a Foregone Conclusion. basis cat A show is always a success. a Is fisherman? with the workers is the most equitgood Harry No, and he never will he; lie has able proposal that has been advanced, Naturally; a cat show ought to come up to the scratch. and they are girding for a struggle no imagination. with-thcapitalistic issue before congress which pi'omises to be, more sensational than the fight for the Adamson BRINGS-SUR- E law in 1917. The brotherhood leaders who held the watch on congress over the AdamFor 200 years GOLD MEDAL Haar- you need. Take three or four every day. lem Oil has enabled suffering human- The healing oil soaks into the cells ana son law, with a nation-widstrike club ity to withstand attacks of kidney, lining of the kidneys and drives out dangling over its head, are here again, liver, bladder and stomach troubles the poisons. New life and health will and they served notice on the presiand all diseases connected with the surely follow. When your normal vigor urinary organs, and to build up and has been restored continue treatment dent, congress and the general public' restore to health organs weakened by for a while to keep yourself in condi-tio- n introduction of the Saturday, following and prevent a return of the disdisease. These most important organs must be watched, because they filter ease. government ownership bill known as and purify the blood; unless they do the Plumb plan, that tlieir forces ore Incapable of Dont wait until-yotheir work you are doomed. fighting. Start, taking GOLD MEDAL are stronger than ever and can be Weariness, sleeplessness, nervous- Haarlem Oil Capsules today. Your marshaled into action at a word of ness, despondency, backache, stomach druggist will cheerfully refund your tr' command. trouble, pains in the loins and lower money if you are not satisfied with abdomen, gravel, rheumatism, sciatica results. But be sure to get the original The railroad leaders do not want to and lumbago all warn you of trouble imported GOLD MEDAL and accept no threaten a general railroad strike on In three sizes. Sealed with your kidneys. GOLD MEDAL substitutes. this issue, they sa. That is a last At all drug storefc Haarlem Oil Capsules are the remedy packages. resort which they do not believe it His Burden of Care. will be necessary to use. They believe DELICATE HINT FOR AUNTIES I Im about the unluckiest felguess that the merits of their proposal to low alive asserted the long, narrow, Little on Marians sides all settle railroad difficulties Cleverly Conveyed mournful looking individual. will be accepted by the people of the Reproof to Her Altogether Too seems What to be the trouble? inFastidious Relatives. country, who will force congress to his quired sympathetic companion, orbilL pass their The two spinster aunties really did dering something consoling for them Glen E. Plumb, counsel for the a very beautiful house, but they both have Plumb plan league, which is organized Im jest naturally unlucky Fates too particular about it to suit were to push the government ownership bill, it in fer me. Ill leave it to you if has arrived in Washington and will their small niece and nephew, who had agot deserves this kinder luck. A guy careto be become of tired told being appear before the house committee on I gets tired o livin in boardago year in ful this and touch room, dont anyinterstate and foreign commerce on an I ups an gets married. houses in one. thing in that behalf of the measure. A. B. Garret-soNow a fer home an goodby boarding And Marian to decided very tactfully who directed the fight for the them So one house vittels, say I. An before six too. know about let It, presl-aent Adamson bill, and who is vice months was past my wife opened a of the league, is also scheduled day when she and her brother Billy boardin house to support uS. Aint In were of the aunties their presence to appear, but may not be able to do fierce? Why couldnt the woman that subon a conversation the she began so because of illness. some other kind of work to do? of careers. After future their John git ject He brushed Ills hand across his had named Jiis as that of a lawyer, Wounded Soldiers to Get Certificates Marian Announced that she was going eyes lest a briny drop might embitter Washington. A special certificate to be a school teacher like her aunties. his beer. Cleveland Plain Dealer. to be issued to soldiers wounded in the And Billy, since Im going to be an war with Germany has been adopted old maid, I dont spect youd better get Not for Mans Wear. she told him. It by the war department. It will bear at married, either, A new sweater, we see by the the top the legend,,! Columbia Gives would be awful hard on your children fashion is of pale pink silk, to Her Sons the Accolade of the New when they came to my house to be knitted inpage, filet design, with flowers, to so told be careful much." Chivalry of Humanity, and below the and lined with mauve chiffon; but name, rank and unit of the soldier and we can hardly imagine a man wearthe action in which he was wounded. Summer Traveling. ing one home from a fishing jaunt Flatbush Dont you think men with a weeks' growth of whiskers on Drunkenness Less, Crime increasing travel' more in the summer time than his face. Grand Rapids Press. Boston. Records of the Central they do in the winter? Bensonhurst Why, sure ! Just think Municipal court through which pass Talking of Comfort. criminal of the of the number of miles I have to go Value and usefulness, said Uncle approximately cases of the state, show that 764 per- with the lawn mower compared to Eben, dont alius go together. A diasons were arrested for drunkenness those I have to travel with the snow mond stud ain near as much solid comfort as a five-ceduring July, 1919, as compared with shovel Yonkers Statesman. piece of ice. 2996 in July, 1918. The records show, S555E5H555H52525a5E525E525ESH5252S25552525a however, that the number of criminal cases is again increasing. JP? " profit-sharin- g SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY RELIEF e u n, -- one-fift- h ! Plan to Check Bolshevism. Paris. Dr. Karl Renner, the chancellor, and Herr Franzt, the Austrian Conservative leader, have conferred, with a view to establishing between the parties of the left and the Conservatives and Lib erals a coalition intended to check Bolshevism, the Petit Parisien says. Policeman Is Killed. Minneapolis. Paul Gottfried, a St. Paul police detective, was wounded and an unidentified man killed Saturday afternoon when police detectives entered a house in South Minneapolis in search of men who were believed to . be counterfeiters. treaty. ' The following officers and men were named in the list of distinguished service cross awards announced: Ser geant Ernest A. Smith (deceased), tVutcrloo, Iowa; Pharmacists Mate Disgrace Causes Two Royal Suicides Zurich. Herr von Maurig, Austrian consul general here, and his wife. Countess Servy, committed suicide Sunday. They left a letter saying were unable to survive the disthey Vincent A. Nolan, 742 191st avenue, emgrace of the Seattle, Wash-.- ; and Private Mandel pire. Olson, Grand Forks, N. D. Major General Robert Alexander .Zurich In Disorder. presented to President Wilson WedZurich, Switzerland. Zurich Is in nesday the flag which flew over the the of .a strike movement which reviewing stand at Langres, France, has grip so serious as to call for become last Christmas day when the president state council at a special the action by reviewed the American troops. state council decided to The session. Favorable report on a bill providing council to send federal the an additional $17,000,000 for construc- request to Zurich. tion cf .he Alaskan railroad to meet troops iucrcased costs was ordered Thursday by the house territories committee. Austro-Hungaria- n nt Every Year Sees An Increased Demand for Postum, from coffee drinkers who realize a -- change in habit will bring better health. The Original Postum Cereal is rich and satisfying as a table drink for both a young and old. At Grocers. Two sixes, usually sold at 15c end 25c. i |