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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH The News. Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Industrial Workers of Ithe World, arrested In their hall at (Seattle following a riot In which a laoldier was shot In the leg, were released by Seattle police Sunday night, land twelve were ordered held for federal investigation as to their registration for conscription. Floodwaters from the Pathfinder Iflam, says a Casper, Wyo., dispatch, caused a number of ranchers to desert their homes. No casualties have toeen reported. The arrest of Clarence D. Vanduzer, former congressman from Nevada, former United States district attorney and former speaker of the Neyada legislature, and of J. Elson Smith of Car-so- n City, Nev., on a charge of conspiracy to defraud in connection with the sale of $25,000 worth of mining stock to residents of Clarion county, is announced at Clarion, Pa. Merwin Stookey, aged , 17, was killed at Tooele, Utah, when a gasoline engine he was using in the digging of a well exploded with terrific I f i i Thirty-seve- n force. Approximately 800 employees of the International Smelting company at Tooele, Utah, went on strike June 14, end the big smelter is at a standstill. The action of the men, who comprise lacommon laborers and borers, came as a surprise. Workers in twenty Seattle laundries truck on June 14 for a general increase in wages. The workers decided on the strike when they learned the proprietors were planning a lockout of the union employees. Officers of the United Mine Workers, representing members of that organization employed oy the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, have telegraphed their national officers asking permission to strike. ' DOMESTIC. Henry Conly, a negro, was lynched by a mob of 1000 men and women near Holdenville, Okla., after, it is said, he bad been positively identified by Mrs. Jesse L. Burford, wife of a semi-skille- i I t ' ,, d well-to-d- o farmer, as the man .who had attacked her. Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, called the two leading anarchists in this country, were held for action by the federal grand jury at New York in $25,000 bail each on charges of conspiracy against the government. They are accused of workfor selecing to prevent registration ' tive draft The engagement of Miss" Marion Cleveland, youngest daughter of Grover Cleveland, to William Stanley Dell ) . i'' St ' ) V of New York City, has been an- nounced. known Saturday. Discovery of the body of Ruth Cruger, the missing high school student, whoj had been murdered and then buried under the cellar of" a shop ld h i t 't i: i l 5 i j ' i t if June 16 passed the preferential shipping bill. This measure allows' the president to give priority over certain the adshipments. It was fostered ministration as a war movement. Secretary McAdoo has announced that no part of the great oversubscription to the Liberty loan would be accepted and that his statement of May 10, in which he declared that the issue would be limited to $2,000,000,000 stood good now as then. Full approval has been given by the war department to the program of the defense councils aircraft board, and President Wilson has been asked to put the administrations support behind the great project for which an appropriation of $600,000,000 is sought. Lawyers flooding the war department with applications for places in the Judge advocate generals department were warned in an official' statement that the places to be filled are not of a silk stocking character. Secretary Daniels has asked congress for $700,000 for warm clothing tor bluejackets on cold duty at sea and for amusements to keep them happy in . training camps ashore. Special appropriation bills were asked. Before a great audience assembled at Washington on June 14 for a Flag day celebration, President Wilson declared' anew the aims and purposes of the United States in entering the world war. FOREIGN. The report' comes from Stockholm that Germany has made an offer of peace to Russia through a member of the Swiss federal council. German airships made a raid on the east and southeast coast of England Sunday morning. One Zeppelin was brought down in flames. The American ambassador, William Graves Sharp, visited the hospital of the Ecosse on Sunday, says a Paris dispatch, and in the presence of the Belgian, Danish and Portuguese ministers and French medical officers distributed military medals and war crosses to the wounded. Two persons were killed and sixteen injured in Sunday nights air raid over London, during which a Zeppelin was brought down. General Chang Hsun now is dicta- tor, President Hung being little more than a figurehead. The insurgents are calling a convention at Tien-Tsifor the purpose of forming a provisional government headed by the dictator. It was announced in the British house of commons on June 15 that the government had decided to release all the prisoners taken in the Irish rebel lion of Easter Sunday, a year ago. Large quantities of condensed or evaporated milk have been bought at retail by German agents and shipped to Germany through neutral ports, the department of commerce was in formed by the war committee of the condensed milk industry. In a fight between the American tanker Moreni and a German sub Li-Yu- All male British subjects between the ages of 18 and 45 years now in the United States are to be compelled to join the British colors if the laws of this country will permit, it was made I The American commission for relief in Belgium has announced that since June 8 eleven of their ships, carrying on aggregate of 50,000 tons of foodstuffs, have arrived at Rotterdam and it is expected an equal number will reach that port in the next two week The vast amount of steel merchant shipping under construction in Amerl can yards probably 2,000,000 tons, will be taken over immediately by the government under power granted in a provision of the war budget bill signed June 15 by President Wilson. Fifty-fiv- e per cent of the w'omen of the United States are flappers," according to Mrs. Raymond Robins of the womans committee of the national council of defense. Mrs. Robinss definition of a flapper" is a woman who does not work women of all kinds who live at home and are supported by their relatives. WASHINGTON. After days of debate the senate on occupied by a bicycle dealer in New York who fled to Italy after she disappeared, cleared a mystery which had baffled the police for months. Three men, were Injured, one so seriously he may die, and a dozen other men and women narrowly escaped death and serious injury early Sunday when four automobiles Crashed together in the Milwaukee road near Niles a suburb of Chicago. "George G. Campbell, 24 years of age, receiving teller in the Des Moines National bank; O. H. Phelps, 23 years of age, press feeder for the Western Newspaper Union, and their wives were drowned in the Des Moines river when their gasoline launch ran out of fuel and upset against submerged piling in the flooded stream. The. American people have responded to the government's call for funds to finance the war with an oversubscription to the $2,000,000,000 liberty loan. Individuals And corporations throughout the country paid an income tax during the fiscal year now closing of Of this total, $170,037,-01- 0 $330,565,028. n marine, over 350 shots being exchanged, the Moreni was sunk and four of her men killed. The German commander congratulated the Ameri can captain upon his game fight. Rumors of a serious revolutionary movement in Spain are given promin enee in a section of the British press. There has been an almost complete absence of news from the peninsula since the appointment of the new min. istry. . Four French ships of more than 1600 tons, one under that size and three fishing boats were sunk by , mines or submarines during the week ended June 14. It has been decided that all the members of the Hellenic royal family except the new king will leave Greece, acwas paid by corporations and companied by the most prominent $100,528,588 by individuals. politicians and military leadOrganized labor has been called lipon er who form part of the entourage of formally by the American Federation former King Constantine, says a Louyof Labor to get behind the campaign don dispatch. , for enactment of the administration Major General Pershing arrived in food legislation by July 1. All unions Paris on June 13. The general reare urged in a letter by President ceived a tumultuous welcome as he Gompers to press their congressmen proceeded through the thronged tor prompt action. pro-Germ- v- - President Wilson Tells of Aims of United States. FORCED TO TAKE ARMS UP Nation Acting In Defense of Our Rights as a Free People and of Our Honor as a Sovereign Government, Is Statement. President Washington, June 15. Wilsons Flag day address, delivered in this city, was substantially as follows : My Fellow Citizens: We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honor and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic silence, above the hosts that execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us speaks to us of the past, of the men and women who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it. We celebrate the day of its birth ; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. We are about to carry it into battle, to lift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be millions of our men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away for what? For some unaccustomed thing? For something for which it has never sought the fire before? American armies were never before sent across the seas. Why are For some new purthey sent now? pose, for which this great flag has never been carried before, or for some old, familiar, heroic purpose for which it has seen men, its own men, die on every battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the Revolution? These are questions which must be answered. We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it. We are accountable at the bar of history fend must pleUl in utter frankness what purpose it Is we seek to serve. Forced to Take Up Arms. It is plain enough how we were forced into thq war. The extraordinary insults and aggressions of the imperial German government left us no choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government. Thev military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral, They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their, allegiance, and some of those agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German government itself here in our own capital. They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her and that, not by indirection, but by direct suggestion from the foreign office in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. And many of our own people were corrupted. Men began to look upon their own neighbors with suspicion and to wonder in their hot resentment and surprise whether there was any community in which hostile intrigue did not lurk. What great nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms? Much as we had desired peace, it was denied us, and not of our own choice. This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand. ' German People Not Enemies. But that is only part of the story. We know now as clearly as we knew before we were ourselves engaged that we are not enemies of the German people and that they are not our enemies. They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it ; and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their caus?, as they will some day see it, as well as our own. They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us. The whole world la in the grip of that power and is trying out the great battle which shall determine whether it is to be brought under its mastery or fling Itself free. The war was begun by the military toasters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of Austria-llungary. These men have never regarded nations as peoples, men, women, and children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom governments existed and in whom governments hac their life. They have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They have, regarded the smaller states, in particular, and the people wno could be overwhelmed by force, as their natural tools and instruments of domination. Their purpose has long been avowed. Attitude Toward German People. Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia ; and was to be as much their tool and pawn as Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey or the ponderous states of the East. The dream had Its heart at Berlin. It could have had a heart nowhere else! It rejected the idea of solidarity of race entirely. The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. They ardently desired to direct their own affairs, would be satisfied only by undisputed independence. They could be kept quiet only by the presence or the constant threat of armed men. The German military statesmen had reckoned with all that and were ready to deal with It in their own way. Policy One of Deceit. Is it not easy to understand the eagerness for peace that has been manifested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung? Peace, peace,, peace has been the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initiative, but upon the initiative of the nations over which she now deems herself to hold the advantage. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me, and in all sorts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which tile German government would be willing to accept. That government still holds a valuable part of France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. It cannot go further; it dare not go back. It wishes to close its bargain before it is too late The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them. If they fall back or are forced back an inch, their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards. If they can secure peace now with the immense advantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have Justified themselves before the German people ; they will htfve gained by force what they promised to gain by it: an immense expansion of German power, an immense enlargement of German industrial and commercial opportunities. If they fail, their people will thrust them aside ; a government accountable to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as it has been in England, in the United States, in France, and in all the great countries of the modern time except Germany. If they succeed they are safe and Germany and the world are undone ; if they fail Germany is saved and the world will be at peace. If they succeed, we and all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will remain, and must make ready for the next step of aggression; if they fail, the world may unite for peace, and Germany may be of the union. Have Sought to Deceive World. The present particular aim of the masters of Germany is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights of peoples and the of nations; for they see what immense strength the forces of justice and of liberalism are gathering out of this war. The sinister intrigue is being no less actively conducted in this country than in Russia and in every country in' Europe to which the agents and dupes of the imperial German government can get access. In War for Freedom and Justice. The great fact that stands out above all the rest is that this is a Peoples war, a war for freedom and justice and amongst all the nations of the world, a war to make the world safe for the peoples who live in it and have made it their own, the German people themselves included; and that with us rests the choice to bi eak through all these hypocrisies and patent cheats and masks of brute force and help set the world free, or else stand aside and let it be dominated a long age through by sheer weight of arms and the arbitrary choices of masters, by the nation which can maintain the biggest armies and the most irresistible armuments a power to which the world has afforded no parallel and in the face, of which political freedom must wither and perish. For us there is but one choice. We have made it. Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way in this day of high resolution when every principle we hold dearest Is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the nations. We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a Hew luster. Austria-Hungar- y ed IeeIoseW III FOREST FI HOMELESS AS RESULT BLAZE IN CALIFORNIA. Only Business Section and Op Few lated Dwellings in One Town Left Standing, Many Country Villas and Winter Homes Burned. . Los Angeles. As the result of the starting of two brush fires in the Santa Barbara National forest, three women are dead, the residence section of one town has been wiped out, crops over a wide area have been destroyed, about 1000 persons have been made homeless and several settlements and resorts were placed in great peril. The dead are Mrs. John Warder Mrs. Frances Marroquin and a Miss Swayer, a nurse, all of whom to shock and prostration duo to the fire. , The greatest damage was done In the Ojai valley, ninety miles northwest of Los Angeles. Only the business section and a few isolated dwellings in the town of Ojai were left standing by a fire which swept through the valley Sunday night. Many large and expensive country villas, the winter homes of eastern business and professional men, were burned to the ground. The second fire, which started near Carpinteria, Cal., on the Santa Barbara coast, and for a time threatened the town, changed its course and swept toward Stanley Park and Sheppards inn, two summer resorts. After burning over fifty sugar mills and causing damage estimated-tbe in excess of $300,000, the flames were reported burning fiercely on the high ridges north of town and still beyond control of the 500 fire fighters. - o HOOVER DIRECTED TO ACT. Will Proceed With Immediate Organ!-zatio- n of New Food Administration. Washington. Congress delay in passing the administrations food bills drew from President Wilson, on June 16, an order directing Herbert Hoover to proceed C. immediately with new food admini- organization of the stration In so far as it contemplates food conservation and elimination of of vowaste through the lunteer forces. While it would in many ways be desirable to await complete legislation establishing the food administration, the president wrote, it appears to me that so far as volunteer effort can be assembled we should wait no longer. v . - Will Stop Food Speculation, London. Invited to make a statement as to his intended policy as food controller, Baron Dhondda, president of the local government board, told the press the government had given him ample powers, even should it be necessary to the extent of taking over the food supplies of the country and the adoption of strong, measures to check all speculation ,in the necessaries of life. - Duma Favors .Quick Offensive. sesPetrograd. The duma in secret sion has passed a resolution for an immediate offensive by the Russian troops. The resolution declares a separate peace with Germany or proto longed Inactivity on the battle front be ignoble treason toward Russias allies. Missing Girl Murdered. New York. Discovery Saturday of Ruth Cruger, the body of the missing Wadlelgn high school stuthen dent, who had been murdered and oca shop, of buried under the cellar fled to cupied by a bicycle dealer who a cleared Italy after she disappeared, police the mystery which had baffled for months. The girls skull had been crushed. ld Boys to Work in Canneries. Washington. Next to agriculture, the canning industry Is making the heaviest demand on the boys working dereserve, organized by the labor have partment. Maryland canners Michasked for 6500 boys, those in New York igan went 1000 and those in tba indicated states have and other soon. they will send In similar calls Cordova Miners on Strike. Alaska. Two hundred Cordova, miners In the Bonanza and Jum mines, the property of the Kenneco y Saturday-TheCopper company, walked out demand wage Increases of 15 50 per cent, depending on the inarke price of copper. Major Bourke Ends Life. Bouike-oWashington. Major James the army medical corps, shot a killed himself at his home here Sunday night. He had beeu suffering froia a mental breakdown-- . f |