Show RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happenings that are making history information gathered from all quarter of the globe and given in few line intermountain methods for stimulating the prodoc alon of gold will be discussed at a conference to be held at keno ev at which utah nevada and other west states will be represented salmon fishing tn alaska waters s over for the season and the pack of the bristol bay canneries is binately the same as last year 1500 cases according to advises advices received at portland the 9 year old son 0 john acooney a bandier ran dier shot and killed airs will mooney and wounded her son archie 17 years of age at his fathers ranch near buffalo wyo changes in the registration law la idaho since the last general election make it necessary for all voters to register again this tall they want to tote whether they voted last time or not municipal ownership 0 the water plant was voted in denver by a heavy majority according to incomplete re auns tuns the proposal was in the form 0 n bond issued for 13 submitted to the taxpayers the colorado supreme court has stopped temporarily the junking of ane colorado midland railway granting au to stay action until the attorney general has had an op ty to present an application for a writ of DOMESTIC charles W morris a pacific who told the court he would not fight the turks sent an anny to america and carried off american women for their hares harems was sentenced by the federal court at roanoke Boa noke va to antnet days in jail george M howard secretary of state of texas has enlisted in ane united navy as an apprentice at rew orleans advertising either through news papers or bi other means to obtain unskilled labor by employers engaged wholly or partly on war work with a maximum force of more alian men Is prohibited by an 01 der issued by the department lepart ment of labor the united states guards organized 0 o a strength of forty battalions Is being filled out by the transfer of men of draft age who after induction into service and training have been found disqualified by minor physical detects for overseas service fire originating fiora the explosion ot a trench mortar shell destroyed five buildings blew up two powder magazines exploded scores of shells and did damage estimated at at the western cartridge company at east alton ill loss of bushels of corn and bushels of wheat from the prospective production of this sears important food crops as andl bated a month ago was shown in the department of agriculture s crop report resulting from a canvass made august 1 mrs carrie sterling divorced wife george sterling committed suicide at the palatial home of her sister mrs 1 rank havens at oakland by swallow ing cyanide of potassium orders for the immediate jon at imp wadsworth spartan burg S of the slavic legion authorized by the army appropriation bill have been announced that the american alenak tons gross was sunk by a german submarine oft cape hatteras on tuesday has been received in airine insurance circles at isea york one small boat containing teen bembera of the crew Is still accounted for sandbars sandbags Sand bags carried to alie seas depths the body of captain master of the japanese steamer cana fla maru who ended hla life at a canadian port because it Is believed he feared bgrace as a result of the stranding of his command july 50 twenty two of the twenty four hangars on aviation field near lake charles ga were blown down and many airplanes destroyed des troed or eitl rely swept away by the tropical storm which struck that region on au 6 one man vaa killed andover a core were seriously injured as a result of an explosion followed by many succeeding explosions on nn american freighter at new lork army and marine corps casualties reported from overseas during the week ending august 4 increased 1430 compared with loo the week before total casualties reported are including the army list of the largest number yet reported la a single day ami marine corps list of two secretary W G mcadoo at chicago of the next liberty loan said i the rate of interest will be 4 per cent it would be redl culous to raise this interest Int it would mean that the american people were bryng to lift up by theli boot sti aps A total of voters registered in california between january 1 anu july 27 last according to frank 0 jordan secretary of state of this number declined to state any party affiliations twenty thousand dollars booty wa secured thurmay afternoon froin the bank at by three bandits the of the daylight robbery disarmed i by the cashier when the entered the bank at the point of the pistol they compelled the delivery of their loot then departed hastily the as the result of the hurricane which struck southeast louisiana tuesday afternoon at eighteen the property loss alu total apples cooking on the trees in the great orchard region of northern mr ginia Is one of the freaks of nature caused by the hot spell washington john W garrett american minister at the hague has been designated to represent the state department and to head the mission of the united states which will meet german delegates at bern switzerland within a month to discuss the treatment and of prisoners of war restrictions on the consumption of beet in public eating places and the voluntary restrictions on householders lave been removed by the food administration new draft regulations under which the government would do the selecting rather than leaving it to the registrant are under consideration by the war department part ment calls for draft qualified for general military service to join the colors before the end of august were issued august 8 by the provost marshal general one hundred thousand white registrants from forti three states are ordered between august 20 and august 30 awen tyone ty one states and the district of columbia are directed to furnish negro registrants to entrain august 22 24 voluntary enlistments in the army and navy were suspended completely on august 8 to prevent disruption of industry pending disposition of the bill proposing to amend draft ages to in elude all men between 18 and 45 years government acquisition and control of all the principal stockyards stock yards cold storage plants and warehouses and both refrigerator and cattle has been recommended to the president by the federal trade commission FOREIGN the brench and british have gone ahead with such rapidity in pardy that the germans retreat must have reached the proportions of a rout in places the whole bottom of the areat salient was flattened out in two days A squadron of italian airplanes commanded by capt gabrilele Gabr lele dannunzio has flown 01 er vienna and manifestoes manifest oes the planes were not molested gen kikuzo one of japans most distinguished soldiers has been chosen to command the japanese set alon and will be the ranking officer of the amerian and allied expedition in siberia A dispatch to the exchange telegraph from copenhagen says the petro grad newspaper pravda organ of the announces that following a stormy meeting of the workmen a and soldiers deputies premier lenane sent nn ultimatum to japan concern ing japans intervention in siberia french peasants found by the american soldiers in a cave near valle saw just south of the vesle had been told by the germans that it the americana discovered them the men would be killed and the women mistreated the russian government his issued a declaration that a state ot war exists between england and russia accord ing to a dispatch to the bokal An ot berlin which prints the news with reservation suarez was inaugurated president of colombia on august 7 with liui ang ceremonies it Is ported that there 1 an increasingly favorable sentiment toward the throughout colombia twenty two american red cross ambulance men have been awarded the italian war cross of merit for their work during the recent fighting on the a dispatch dis pitch from rome announced biot all the ships which german torpedoed and marine collisions send to the bottom of tho sea there in less than three years more than sunken merchant vessels have beca restored to u ice and more than one ship has been raised repaired sent forth on a new career and thou sunk and raised anew for n third lease on life provost marshal general crowder Is urging the immediate enactment ot the administrations man program which was introduced in both houses of congress and suggests september 5 registration day for the men between the agea of IS and 45 whose names are not already on the nations selective service list the belgian government lias conferred the title of honorary citizen and friend of the belgian nation on herbert hoover the american food administrator government circles in moscow are agitating for union with germany according to a letter from the city dated july 20 which Is printed in the frankfort gazette lieutenant I 1 rank foster foss U t A of providence II 11 I 1 was killed and five sailors were injured by a holler explosion on an ship ID u port |