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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER- HYKUM, UTAH - Migrating caribou along the Yukon river near the American-Canadiaborder were bo thick last week that the United States government steamboat General Jeff Davis had ' difficulty in navigating among the animals swimming the river. Mill HEWS OF li THE BEE HIVE STATE n " A national RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE,- campaign of education regarding the conservation of coal, to be followed by a system of pledge cards is to be instituted under governmental supervision, according to speakers at a conference at Chicago of manufacturers from Illinois and Wisconsin. Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston financier and independent candidate for United States senator, was Injured when his limousine was overturned on the state road In Northboro, Mass. President Wilson was urged to accept only peace based upon unconditional surrender in a resolution adopt ed at a meeting at New York of the national war council of the Methodist Episcopal church. . WASHINGTON. The war revenue bill will not be reported to the senate until after the November elections, Senator Simmons, chairman of the senate finance committee, which is revising the house' draft of the measure, announced Friday. Fuel Administrator Garfield has refused to grant bituminous coal miners an increase of wages worked out for the anthracite miners. He held that the bituminous situation did not require wage increases. The senate on October 24 passed in record time the $6,000,000,000 military deficiency bill, the last important measure to be considered before the recess begins on Tuesday. The bill now goes to conference. Awards in controversies in the cases often street railway companies and their employees were announced October 24 by the war labor board. Wages were at issue in seven of the cases, and in each increases were granted the men. President Wilson has submitted the German plea for an armistice and peace to the allies, and at the same time has informed Berlin that there can be no armistice except upon terms that would make it impossible for Germany to renew hostilities. Continued improvement in the influenza situation in army camps and in a number of states is shown by reports received by the surgeon general of the army and the public health service. " FOREIGN. , y Arrival in France of Col. E. M. House, President Wilsons personal representative, and Admiral Benson, the highest ranking officer in the American navy, has cleared the way for the beginning of such deliberations by the supreme war council at Versailles as may be, necessary to frame the draft of an armistice to be submitted to Germany. The sudden flare of activity on the Italian front after months of almost complete quiet, attracted attention Friday among military officials here. It was noted, however, that first official reports from Rome carefully refrained from describing the actions as a drive. Further success of the government and the government of the north at Archangel in their efforts to raise armies to oppose the Bolshevikl and German forces is reported in cablegrams received from Petrograd. Field Marshal von Hindenburg in a letter to Prince Max of Baden, the German chancellor, says: The German people have two alternatives honorable peace or a fight to the last man. The German war cabinet considered President at a reply lengthy session Friday, according to the Frankfort Zeitung. It was decided not to answer at the present time, but to wait until it is learned what the einte's armistice conditions may be. A practical agreement has been reached between the Hungarian people-and the Hungarian army to cease fighting on November 1, no matter what Austrias and Germanys attitude may be toward President Wilsons last note, says an Amsterdam dispatch. It is reported at The Hague that the political prisoners held by the Germans at Turnhout, Belgium, northeast of Burgomaster Antwerp, ' including .Adolphe Max of Brussels, have been released. Prince Maximilian of Baden, the German chancellor, has been stricken by influenza, Berlin advices state.. In some quarters the question is raised whether it is the diplomatic brand of influenza that usually precedes the retirement of statesmen. The famous belfry of Bruges was used by the Germans as a garage and workshop during their occupation of the city. The deputies in the Austrian reichstag have formed an assembly for the purpose of conducting the affairs of the Germanic people in Austria and have issued a declaration announcing the creation of the German State of Austria. , Happening That Are Making Hlatory Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Lin. INTERMOUNTAIN. J. W. and W. A. Alexander, brothers, who had left Duchesne, Utah, for Ihe railroad with a shipment of cattle, tvere found dead in a tent after some of the stock had wandered into a hearby town. Both had died from influenza. A call to coffee drinkers in Oregon has been sent out from food adminis-tlo- n headquarters, at Portland, asking that they curtail the size and number of cups of their favorite beverage. Rationing will not be resorted to, it was said, but voluntary abstention was asked. , aliens Holding that cannot be legally drafted into the American army, Federal Judge Bour-qui- n at Butte, Mont., issued a writ of habeas corpus applied for by John a Russian citizen, and ordered his release. Napora had been classed a delinquent by the Minot, N. D., draft board and Inducted into military service under the rule providing for such a procedure. Glad to put up with the discomforts of a quarantine to be near their boys who lie ill with influenza and pneumonia in the base hospital at Camp Lewis, Wash., nearly 100 women are quartered in the Y. W. C. A. hostess house and the Salvation Army rooms. Apparatus suspiciously resembling that used in mooonshine stills' was discovered in Salt Lake City. A quantity of apples and peaches and three barrels of liquor, which officers declared contains nearly 6 per cent alcohol, were found. The liquor tested is in the form of peach cordial. nt Na-por- a, DOMESTIC. Four men and a woman were wounded at McComb, Ills., as the result of r a fight between officers and two-hou- S. T. Danley, a rlfubarb wine maker, who escaped fror-- i Jail a year ago and for some time past, it is alleged, was Belling his product in defiance of local authorities. Three army camps did not report a single new case of influenza on Saturday and only two, Kearny, Cal., and Lewis, Wash., reported more than 100 cases. To work - , at some essential Industry or labor for the city at the work farm will be the only alternative henceforth idle men of Duluth, of the Minn., who are not in military service. Enlargement of Camp Kearny by was authorized by telegraphic instructions' received from Washington. It is estimated that the work In contemplation will entail an expenditure of $1,000,000. able-bodie- d one-thir- d Complete elimination of tuberculosis by the introduction of nitrogen into the pleural cavities is expected from an operation performed at the Metropolitan hospital, New York, by Dr. J. A. De Oliveira Botelho, a noted, surgeon of Brazil. America has turned out its first fabricated steel ship. She is the Agawan, of 5500 deadweight tons, completion of which by the Submarine Boat corporation at Port Newark, N. J., was an nounced Wednesday by Chairman Hurley of the shipping board. The mean allowance of dog meat in famished Holland is two ounces per week for each person, it was declared by a passenger arriving at an Atlantic liner. port on a court criminal in cases against State men indicted in connection with the steamer Eastland disaster of July 24, Holland-Amerlca- 1915, n at Chicago, were cleared from the dockets a few days ago. Albert Steinhauser, publisher of the Post at New Ulm, Minn., was indicted by a federal grand jury at Mankato, Minn., on a charge of violating the espionage act. (Rainbow) diviThe crack the units of the one of sion, American army, left the United States just a year ago on October 18. This American division has fought and taken enemy diprisoners from twenty-siPrussian guard visions, including three divisions and one Austrian division, and also prisoners from nineteen independent German units. Felix Gouled, a contract promotor, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government In the manufacture of army raincoats, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the federal court at New York. Captain Aubrey (Vaughan, who admitted using his former office to help Gouled, was given two-yeterm, Forty-secon- d x ar L pre-electi- . s j German-Austria- n Government weather stations will be established at Moab and Soldier ' Summit shortly, More than 1500 laborers have been sent to the munition factory at Nitro, W. Va., since the campaign was opened in Salt Lake October 3. Three Ogden boys of from 12 to 14, lost in a canyon near Ogden, were found by a searching party after they had passed a night in the open. One hundred Utah women have enrolled for employment in the munitions factories since registration of such workers began a week or so ago. With 284 men Inducted into the collegiate section of the students army training corps at the Utah Agricultural college, the institution has practically filled its quota. One of the busiest seasons in their history is the 1918 record of Utah reports' Walter M. Boyden, state dairy and food commissioner. Several additions will be made to plants. Sergt. Reuben Hawk, son of J. K. Hawk of Provo, has been cited for bravery in action, according to a letter received from him, enclosing an excerpt signed by Brig. Gen. B. B. Buck. Preliminary steps for the organizing into an association of western corporations engaged in the production of salt were taken when their representatives held a conference at Salt Lake last week. A. Earl Taylor, pharmacist mate of the first class in the United States navy, has been awarded the croix de guerre with star by the French government, according to a letter received at Ogden by his father. Complaints that a number of drugin Davis gists and confectioners to the not are regulacounty living up tions adopted by the Davis county council of defense, were made at a special meeting of the council held ' last week. With Fort Douglas as a landing place, Salt Lake is to be made a station on the permanent transcontinental postal railway, if recommendations made by the Pacific Aero club are adopted by Albert S. Burleson, postmaster general. An appropriation of $2500 has been made by the state board of examiners for the preparing of surveys and other data of the Colorado river drainage basin area in connection with the development of the irrigation plan there with federal aid. After being reported on the way, to recovery, Mrs. Donna Anderson Moon, wife of Arthur Morse Moon, the well known Salt Lake actor, who died of pneumonia in Helena, Mont., on October 16, succumbed herself to the same disease on October 24. State road bonds worth $100,000 and per cent interest were carrying 4 purchased last week by the state land board in special session. The sale of the bonds will aid the road commission, whose resources were nearly depleted as a result of contract work. new influenza With only cases and nine deaths reported in Salt Lake on October 23, and general betterment of conditions indicated throughout the entire state, health officials viewed the situation in an optimistic belief the worst is light and expressed ' . past. Vernon Pierce, alleged to have driven an automobile through a funeral procession at Ogden, was fined $1 and costs by Judge S. Barker in municipal court. In delivering judgment, Judge Barker announced that from now on fines would be much heavier "for the same offense. A total of 5444 acres of additional land was put under cultivation last summer by about 2000 students of the Mormon church schools under an experimental plan adopted early this year by the churchs general board of education, and sucessfully executed by Supt. Horace H. Cummings. Auto mechanics will be called to the student army training corps, Utah Agricultural college, Logan, every month, it is predicted. It is also believed there will be monthly calls for chauffeurs, radio operators, telephone electricians, machinists, blacksmiths, horseshoers, surveyors, topographical draftsmen, concrete workers and wagoners. Dr. R. W. Hoggan, state livestock inspector, has returned from Cedar City, where he investigated some dissatisfaction that had arisen when attempt was made to enforce the dipping order of the state board against the sheep tick. Dr. Hoggan says that the matter has been cleared up and that the sheep owners have promised to dip CANADIAN 8TEAMER FOUNDERS DURING NIGHT, ALL ON BOARD BEING LOST. Northerner who Had Left Ice-Bou- Region for the States Meet Death When Vessel Strike Reef Off Skagway. Storm-Battere- d . Seattle, Wash. Three hundred and persons, most of them outbound Alaskans and residents of the Yukon territory, lost their lives when the Canadian Pacific steamship companys passenger steamer Princess Sophia was battered last Thursday by storms, dragged across Vanderbilt reef and dropped to the bottom of Lynn canal, an arnTlSf the Inside passage not far north o Skagway, Alaska. According to latest reports, every one on board was drowned. Shipping men said the loss of the Sophia with atbmboard was the worst marine disaster in the history of the Pacific coast. The vessel, 2320 tons gross, has been plying in western Canadian and southeastern Alaska waters since she was built in 1912. The vessel, It was thought, was carrying a capacity load of passengers, nearly all northerners, who had taken the last steamboat up the Yukon river before the Ice and had boarded the Sophia at Skagway. The passengers were among the hundreds who left Alaska this fallto spend the winter in the states and Canada. They had come as far as White Horse by river boat and there had boarded trains for the Alaska port.' the heavily loaded Wednesday left Sophia Skagway for Vancouver and Victoria. Not many hours out she ran into one of the first snowstorms of the year. Early Thursday, in the dark of the storm, she ran aground on the Vanderbilt reef, Distress calls were sent out and the United States lighthouse tender Cedar, the United States government steamer Peterson and several small boats went to her assistance. When daylight came it was found the boat was restcalm, and it ing easy and Jo remove the passenwas decided ' ' f1gers. The storm sprang up Thursday and the winds whipped down the long, narrow. Lynn canal with hurricane force. The Sophia, in the path of the gale, was pounded against the rocks. On account of the danger of stranding, the near-bships did not dare to go near her. Lifeboats were impossible, although the shore was not many yards away. Thursday night the gale increased in fury and probably while many of the passengers slept, lifted the steamer up, dragged ber across the reef and sent her to the bottom. . forty-thre- e r 5 y -- CAN'T HOLD THEM BACK. American Advance In Spite of Great Odds. The American Washington. sec- ond army, under Major General Bullard, is holding the line in the Woevre. This was disclosed by General Pershing in his communique received Saturday night at the war department. Repulse of heavy German attacks on the front northwest of Verdun by Major General Liggetts first American army also was reported. In its first major operation against the Germans, considering the clearing out of the St. Mihiel salient as a local affair, the American army, in a few days less than a month, has liberated more than forty-fivvillages and advanced to an average depth of ten miles, freeing 165 square miles of territory. In the offensive the Americans have captured more than 20,000 prisoners. e Express Rates Increased. Washington. New express rates involving average increases of about 10 per cent, allied mainly on short hauls, will be initiated shortly by the American Railway Express company with the approval of Director General to raise $24,000,000 added reve- Mc-Ado- o, nue. Japs Shatter Bolshevik Forces; Bolshevik detachments which remained in the region of Blagovest-schensand Pochikalso, on the Amur river, have been shattered by the Japanese troops and are no longer considered a menace, the war office announced Saturday. Tokio. k Complete Daylight Saving Period. Washington. The American public on October 26 completed its first period of satisfied daylight Bavlng, with its results. Beyond the physical turning back of clocks and watches the change scarcely will be noticed by the average American. can-ner- s, . Ni" sausages Sizzling on a plate; I the boarders And then they were WHAT TO havefor he Jy their flocks. That the epidemic of Spanish influenza has reached it apex in Utah was the opinion expressed Saturday by health authorities after a careful check had been made of the reports for the past week. An official announcement from the board of education to the effect that salaries of teachers' will be paid as usual, despite their inability to perform their work during the epidemic, probably will be made during the week. breakfast. first meal 0f should be s,: substautiai J enough to aQit various needs ofea h member of the fara ily , and not too a burden upon V cook. Ham Balls.-- .' oooM a-n- cea cayenne. "tter. two eisTn Melt the butter together until very light. smail flat cakes; dlp ln egg and beau Shape atld and fry brown. Date. Gems. Take one cupful of. dates, seeded and chopped fine two cupfuls of milk, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, two tensponfuls of baking powder, three cupfuls of flour and one egg well beaten ; mix the egg ani milk ; sift the dry Ingredients add the chopped dates and combine mixtures. Beat hard and bake In gem Irons for 20 minutes. Boiled Dinner Hash. The hash made from the vegetables and meat left over from the boiled dinner is often more popular than the original dish. Chop all the vegetables, adding some of the broth which was saved; chop the meat, adding a small portion of meat to a large one of vegetables. Season with salt and pepper if needed, and heat quickly in a hot frying pan. Fried Cormeal Mush. When making mush to eat with milk for a supper dish, prepare a double portion so that it may be sliced and fried, as it makes a most appetizing breakfast dish with a slice or two of bacon. Scrambled Eggs a la Guerre. Make a paste of a cupful of milk and a third of a cupful of flour any kind may be used ; cook until smooth and the starchy flavor is entirely removed. Now add three eggs, stir and cook with butter and seasoning until the eggs are thick. Serve at once. ; d - well-cooke- d A as true friend embraces our objects his. own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying It, reflecting It. It, Insuring A FEW GOOD CHOWDERS. OUR cook, if she ha not in her repertoire a list of chowders, is missing one of the best of dishes for your family. When it Is impossible to get fish or shellfish the following makes a sixty-seve- n - ate Transcript Boston fair substitute: Corn Chowder. Fry brown with a large sliced onion of a pound of salt pork cut Into dice. Cut from the cob enough sweet corn to make a quart and boil one-quart- er the cobs In water to cover 20 minutes. Put the corn into a kettle with the or pork, onion, two cupfuls of diced of sliced raw potatoes, two cupfuls tomatoes, sprinkling each layer with wflour, pepper and salt. Strain the ater from the cobs into the kettle and simmer slowly until the vegetables are done. Add two cupfuls of milk, two serve tablespoonfuls of butter and tomThe boiling hot with crackers. atoes may be omitted if the combination is not liked. two Maryland Fish Chowder. Fryonion, slices of salt pork and one large cut fine. Add four pounds of fish nn(I six large potatoes cut into dice. Cover tn with cold water and simmer until one Add potatoes and fish are cooked. pepp quart of milk, a little salt andbutter of with two tablespoonfuls wli season. Add six milk crackers in hot in soaked haye been split and and minced with parsley Season ' cestershire sauce. a mti Soft Clam Chowder. Tie in and lin bag six allspice, six cloves as with peppercorns. Fry brown onion and a quarter of a poum minced salt pork. Add six sliceha tatoes, a can of tomatoes, thean spices, q pinch of red pepper Simmer cupfuls of cold water. sof of a Add quart four hours. clams, parboiled and chopped, a crackers that have been split hve soaked in milk; simmer foi utes and serve hot. k rovvn I P Creole Chowder-- Fry ve , d. fat four large onions. Add FePbel sweet green toes, four 'fronl corn ded, and two cupfuls of to water the cob. Add boiling sl Season with pepper, salt and d cook until the vegetables are J 1U |