Show m OF A WEEK IN OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE happenings that are making hattory information gathered from all quarter of the globe and given in a few line intermountain the body of frank smith who Is supposed Bup posed to have committed suicide august 12 was found on thursday in the river near idaho falls idaho fearing trouble white settlers of southwestern colorado and southeast cm utah are protesting to the commas bloner of indian affairs at washington against the acts of bands of hostile indians reported to be engaged in driving off stock and burning fences in the remote districts of that section out of thirty men believed to have been in the mine of the pacific coast coal company at burnett a small aln ing town thirty miles southeast of tacoma vi hen an explosion occurred wednesday only four were brought put alive and one of these died later utah and washington are the two states of the union whose national guard officers have stood the rigid army requirements tor efficiency delther of these states since the outbreak of the war has lost a single officer out of the national ervice on tha score of inefficiency which Is the highest test that could be applied to the former national guard organizations the appointment of W F ehoff of lincoln neb as acting general manager of the dinver salt lake railroad recently taken boef by the united states railroad administration Is announced A forest fire near laralle peak wyoming burned a ranch house and beveral head of cattle owned by a ranchman the fire started when light nang struck a dead tree one hundred men from wheatland are fighting the fire to prevent its spreading to other ranches DOMESTIC william D uncrowned king of the L W W and 14 of his chief aides in the conspiracy to overturn the american were sentences to 20 years in the federal penitentiary at leavenworth kan by federal judge K M landals ten ear were imposed upon 33 of the organizations leaders five years on 33 one year and one day on 12 and ten day sentences on two the name of the missing collier cyclops has been formally stricken from the navy register secretary dan aels said I 1 alday and orders have been issued for the payment by the treasury of all claims growing out of me loss of er crew caught signalling sign alling to sea with colored flash lights n suspected german spy was challenged by a coast guard at ocean city N J and after a brief struggle was shot and killed by the officers with many persons prominent in the bbate and nation present the fum ral of the late united states senator M james of kentucky was held at marion ky august SO comparison of food prices prevail ing now with those of five years ago chows that the purchasing power of a dollar bill has shrunk to 54 cents in washington and baltimore 75 cents in philadelphia 59 cents in new york and 63 cents in san accord 1 ing to a statement by the depart ment of labor democratic leaders are planning to test in the california supreme court the state primary law under which mayor james dolph of san francisco apparently an easy winner jn the democratic gubernatorial primary would bo de barred from running because of his apparent failure to be nominated on the republican ticket his registered party senator M james of kentucky died at baltimore Bal august 28 long prominent in the democratic party big aa senator james was known by his confidants was a dominant figure in kentucky politics tor years ue was for five terms a mem her of congress from kentucky and was elected to the senate from that otate in 1012 on august 3 he was more than unskilled workers have teen recruited in 19 states and placed in war plants during the last two weeks the labor department has announced fuel administration officials estimate that nearly gallons of gasoline will be saed each bunday through non use of motor vehicles on days as requested by adminis new hat clothing and tent repair shops and an extension of the quarter master truck company garage are to be erected at camp kearny gov james P goodrich of indiana was seriously injured in a collision between his automobile and a street car at indianapolis no new schoolhouses may be built during the war the war industries board has announced except tor replacement the board made this ruling when approval was asked of a plan to expend tor schools in akew york invention of a concrete freight car as a means of solving steel conservation and troop and supply transportation problems Is announced at san francisco bv A C green vank draftsman employed by the state harbor corn mission the crew of the lug triton which reached an atlantic port friday reported having been fired upon hi an enemy submarine in a tog off boone island the tug changed its course and raced liero for safet drunken civilians on the mexican side of the border were held response bit for the shooting which occur at nogales ariz which resulted in the wounding slightly of an american sol adler three fourths of the range cattle of california will be placed on the roar let this fall as the result of bad ange conditions sales will be ne esary to a less extent in southern utah nevada and texas washington one third of all the gasoline pio deuced in the fields in next three months Is t be ivr to the government for war purposes according to an agreement reached at a conference between government of and western re finers and jobbers A treaty providing for the li lifting for military service of greek in america and american in greece similar in general terms to colv between alie united states and other co was signed at the state department friday by bee detary lansing and minister rousos rou sos without a record vote being taken or requested the senate on august 29 adopted the leaders compromise on bone dry prohibition effective july 1 1919 and continuing during the war and until alie american troops are brought home and de mobilized president allson was told thursday bv director general mcadoo eliat successful operation of the railroads demands that deferred classification be given most railroad employed emp loyes and that those actually taken into army service should be conserved for military rail way service in france to lessen the drain on railroad personnel in this country favorable report on the bill intro deuced by senator II enderson of ase vada providing for government production and distribution of minerals la the war has been ordered by the senate mines FOft EIGN mount vesuvius Is in violent eruption tor the first time since Iso vember 25 last bear serious strikes involving workmen leave broken out at bochum n westphalia according to friday from munich three thousand strikers have been sent to the front and deported from the region under escort thousands of anonymous rev ary pamphlets are beginning to make their appearance in many parts of germany according to an official dispatch from france twelve hundred german mutineers muti have joined forces with an armed peas ant body and attacked tha german forces in the region of cymera 24 miles from kiev according to a russian wireless dispatch received from moscow H herman harjes of the banking firm of morgan co and formerly agh commissioner of the american ked cross society for france and belgium was seriously injured in an automobile accident near er salles premier david lloyd george at a luncheon given by the government in honor of samuel gompers president of the federation of labor proposed a toast to the health of the labor leader who lg visiting england the germans continue in retreat everywhere ery where between arras and the sols sons sector unde violent attacks by the allied troops As yet there seems to be no slackening in the offensive that Is steadily reclaiming numerous french towns and villages and territory that long has been in the hands of th en cov A reuters dispatch from tok says the enemy in considerable numbers attacked desperately along the usual front last saturday all the allied forces participated in the fighting except the americans upwards of of the enemy were killed entente allied and czecho giov ak patrols have succeeded in disarming all the russian volunteers who had revolted and had gone over to lieu tenant general horvath alie antl bol military leader in eastern siberia cities and towns south of the rhine district have formed a permanent corn to deal with the increasing num her of allied air raids savas the co logne gazette nicaragua and honduras have av ert ed their threatened armed clash over a long standing boundary dispute by agreeing at the request of the united states to withdraw all troops from their borders and submit the contro verav to the united states through their ministers in washington according tn a french dispatch a german audience of people recently applauded the name of president allson at a public meeting organized by the syndicates of mann helm to the food situation germany has not yet accepted the conditions outlined by spain with ie gard to submarine attacks on spanish vessels according to madrid reports they believe that probably no definite agreement will be reached until after germany attempts to complicate matters in the hope of saving the situation |