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Show THE GRANTBVILLE NEWS. GRANTSVILLE, UliEER COIL UTAH. ' THE NEW TAILOR THE LATEST PLAN UNCLE 5AM COSTUMER Idaho guardsmen arrest MEMBERS OF ORGANIZATION AT SPOKANE. MAY TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE OUTPUT OF MINE8 AND FIX MAXIMUM PRICES. Action Againat Take Men Who Have Called a General 8trike In Northweet Becauee Alleged Leaders Had Been Jailed. Commission Finds at Prssent Prices Coal Operators, Jobbers and Retailers Ars Reaping Exorbitant Profits From the Public. Spokane. The government took notice of the I. W. W. menace on 19, when a company of Idaho national guardsmen, now In federal memservice, arrested twenty-seve- n bers of the organization, including James Bowen, district secretary, in their headquarters here, on the eve of a threatened strike In four states. The strike call, signed by Bowen, Included all members of the organisation In construction and agricultural work in Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Bowen after his arrest said that the arrests would intensify the strike and cause It to spread. Lumber workers in the four states already are on strike. Reports from all the states named In the strike order were to the effect that federal, state, county and city authorities were prepared for any eventualities. The arrests Sunday were made without specific authorization, Major Clement Wilkins said. I acted under general orders me to take such steps as appeared to be necessary to prevent the destruction of property and the ference with Mr. Blaine, representing hampering of industry, he said. "The e arrests were made after I had a governors." Only a vote of the members can halt the strike, Rowenald, as there Is no one with authority to take such action. The strike was ordered for Monday, unless L W. W. members alleged by leaders of the organization to be illegally held in jail were released by thut time. The government may Washington. commandeer the coal output of the United States. This situation of the coal problem seemed probable when President Wilson on Friday turned his personal attention to the subject and heard the mine operators and miners' Government Au-gn- at con-th- MORE MEN FOR FRANCE. Hundred Thousand Men a Month Can Be Transported. f Washington, The war department is planning to send more than 890,000 infantrymen to France. On the basis of two infantrymen to one artilleryman, the ratio preserved in the organization of the new divisions, this will mean that at the very 'least our overseas forces will number 1,200,000 fighting men. Of the more than a million and a half the United States will soon have under arms, the remainder will be retailed in the United States as depot troops from which the vacancies in the expeditionary forces will be filled. This statement, the first author! ta tlve Indication of the actual number of fighters to go abroad, was contained quite incidentally in' a bulletin from the committee on public information. Officials have hitherto maintained strict silence on the matter and no further information as to the time or jorder of the moving of troops been permitted to be published. LOVETT COAL DICTATOR. Chairman to Control Distribution of Fuel In United States. ' Washington. Judge Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive commit tee of the Union Pacific railway, and one of the foremost members of the council of national defense,- has been selected as coni dictator, according to circumstantial rumor here. Mr. Lovett Is said to be acceptable to the operators because of his long career in business. U. P. Eat Less Bread, Says Hoover. Washington. Declaring the United States and its allies face a wheat deficit of 400,000 bushels unless new economies are introduced, Herbert Hoover has appealed again to the American people to eliminate waste and to conserve wheat by substituting other cereals. isery reigns. AND FRENCH ROCK AS FOE STAND STRIKES IN S bill. among Washington, Conferences The action which the president Is entente on Wednesday crysdiplomats commandeer to to take is expected the output of all coal mines and fix tallized Into convlctfvn the opinion here that Pope Benedicts peace move equitable prices everywhere. Is not likely to change in any substantial degree the attitude either of the Building 8hips. Busy Japan Toklo. Before the year 1917 is over allies or the American government It Is agreed, however, that there the shipyards of Japan expect to launch ninety-seve- n steamships with must be made a response to the popes in aggregate tonnage of 400,000 tons, proposal far more comprehensive than rhlrty-on- e merchantmen, aggregating a mere acnowledgment of receipt To to 108,775 tons and each exceeding 500 Jo this Without opening the field tons, were completed at various ship- argument which might result in develdifferences between the allies to building yards In Japan during the oping ilx months ending June 30 this year. be seized upon by the Germans is to be a difficult and delicate uA ! ' dertaklng. Forest Fires Gain Headway. On some the consideraother hand, Spokane. Fire conditions In the national forests In eastern Oregon and tion is being given to the suggestion northern Idaho are the worst they that the pontiff has given President Wilson a golden opportunity to again have been at any time since 1914 and Impress upon the American people the losses are running high and the In the most convincing and the world mountcost of fighting the flames is fashion the rectitude of his position In at was the said it Friday ing rapidly, to congress the declaoffice of F. K. Ingalsbe, federal for- recommending ration of a state of war with Germany. est supervisor. In anticipation of an outburst of peace talk at the capltol, plans were Sentenced. Revolt Leaders Virginia made during the day by senate leadJ. W. Phipps ers, both Big Stonegap, Va. Democratic and Bepubllcan, and W. V. McAvoy, Virginia mountain- to open discussion of the subprevent eers, were found guilty by a jury in in senate. They propose to the ject a federal court here on an indictment force executive sessions and close the for recruiting men to destroy arms doors the upon beginning by any senand ammunition of the United States ator of an address bearing on peace government." The penalty was fixed negotiations or the general subject of at five years In the federal peniten- peace. tiary at Atlanta. . PICKED MEN 8ENT TO FRANCE. Wheatless and Meatless Meal Daily. Washington. Traveling salesmens The First Organization of New Nationorganizations comprising about 00,000 al Army will Consist of 320,000 Men. members have pledged themselves to a Washington. The first organization wheutess and meatless meal every of the new national army will consist an- of only 320,000 men. These will be day, the food administration nounced Friday. picked men and they will be moved to France quickly. Of the remainder of the 687,000 men G. F. WARDLE who will be called In the first draft thousands will be assigned to fill up the ranks of the national guard and regular army regiments to the new war strength. The others, numbering between 100,000 and 200,000 men, will be held as depot troops and used to fill vacancies in the first 320,000 as men are rejected or as casualties occur. This became known Friday when the assignment of troops to the cantonments and the designation of the regimental commanders was announced. I reads: That from and after thirty days from the date of the approval of this act no foods, fruits, food material or feeds shall be URed in the production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes. The foofl administration has been Informed that distillers were planning to continue manufacture up to the last minute, that Is, to place the grains In vats and allow the process of fermentation to cohtlnue after the limit prescribed by the law. Five Pacific 8hips Lost San Francisco. Five ships, three American, one British and one Japanese, the largest number ever hopelessly overdue at this port at one time, have been practically given up by their agents and owners. DR. PETER SPAHN SENATOR JOHN W. KERN DEAD. Was Majority Floor Leader and Candi- date for Vice-Preside- Asheville, N. C. Former Senator John W. Kern of Indiana, and Demoin cratic nominee for 1008, died here August 17, of uraemic poisoning. Up to the time of his retirement from the senate In March last Mr. vice-preside- nt and forty street car strike breakers, including many, negroes, arrived here Sunday from St Louis and are being housed In the barns of the United Railroads. Striking platform men Bay two more trains of Strike breakers are on their way here from Chicago. -l- LIKE he inpresentation of the situation. terests of the public will be presented by the federal trade commission, which has just completed its investl-- 1 gation of coal production costs. The commissions report will say that at present prices coal operators, jobbers and retailers are reaping exorbitant profits, and that Inequitable distribution is adding to the costs in many parts of the country. Operators and miners who oppose government price fixing in the fear that prices will be pushed down to too low a level put their case before the president through Francis 8. PeaTO body, chairman of the coal production PEACE MOVE NOT LIKELY committee of the council of national CHANGE ATTITUDE OF ALLIES OR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. defense, and John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America. They propose that a voluntary ar- It Is Agreed That Response Muet Be rangement be made between operators, Made to Proposals of the' Pope. mlnribs and the government and that Open Discussion of tho Subject no move be made towards enforcement In Senate Not Allowed. of the drastic provisions of the food Importing 8tr!ke Breakers. San Francisco. Four hundred College Girls Will Drive Trucks. Paris. Six American girls, members of the Smith college relief unit, will drive heavy, motor trucks In the devastated and reconquered regions of northern France, transporting children and old people from the areas when BRITISH PRESIDENT Kern was majority floor leader and chairman of the Democratic conference committee. He was a native of Indiana, having been born In Alto, Howard county, December 20, 1849. i Nine Billions More Needed. Congressional lenders Washington. o have been informed by Secretary for would be it necessary that G. F. Wardle, Seoteh socialist, la- them to authorize at this and the win Dr. Peter 8pahn Is leader of the Cenbor leader and member of parliament, ter sessions of congress an additional ter or Catholic party In Germany and d $9,000,000,000 for war expenditures, in who was Jailed Ifr attempting to has been made Prussian minister of to to loans the allies eluding further the socialist congress In Justice. June 30, 1018. Mc-Ado- at-ten- 0 traps in which countless thousands have lost their lives without a chance of fighting back. The continuous deluge of breaking steel made repair work on the trenches Impossible and as the Germans were gradually pushed back they, of necessity, were forced to Invent another mode of stemming the tide. ever-advanci- 8afety of Hospital 8hips Assured. Madrid. The German military attache has handed to the Spanish government Emperor Williams definite acceptance of conditions under which hospital ships are to be protected from attacks from submarines. Under the arrangements a neutral commissioner will be carried on each hospital ship to guarantee that it transports only sick and wounded. |