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Show THE GRANTSVILLE HARRIED III STILL UTAH. BUSS TO PURSUE VM IRE SUBJECT TO DRAFT NO CHANGE IN REGULATIONS ANNOUNCES WILL BE MADE, PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL. HEWS, GRANTSVILLE, END II MADE TO PRESIDENT PLEDGE . WILSON THAT NO SEPARATE PEACE WILL BE MADE. rpae 1i I hers, anp. . Statement le leeued In Order to Clear Five Per Cent Up Misunderstanding of White Men From Each Local Area Go to Camps September 5. State Department and Russian Mission Insist That Position of Russian Armies Is at Least No Worse Than It Has Been. The veil of mystery Washington. At the suggestion of Washington. President Wilson, Provost Marshal about the Russian situation has been General Crowder telegraphed to all lifted a little. Word from Ambassador Francis has governors Saturday night a supplemental explanation of regulations gov- encouraged the state department on erning the status of luurried men un- - the success of the provisional govern- i ment and a further loan of $100,000,-KX- ) hus been made through the new - 1 1 riTrlfTlmLl imbassador, Boris Bakhmetleif. Secretary Lansing made a clear-cu- t ind very optimistic statement on the whole situation on Friday. . The state department has made public a letter sent to the Russian ten days ago, in which President Wilson acknowledged receipt of the pledge of the Russian government that It will make no separate peace, but will pursue the war to the end. The completion of the Russian railway line to Koell on the Arctic sea, may be the fact that will save Russia to the entente forces during the coming winter. Tills railroad means that Russia can be supplied freely despite the closing by Ice of the port of Archangel. While no 'authoritative revelations of the military situation have arrived in Washington, both the state department and the Russian mission insist that the position of the Russian armies Is at least no worse than it has been. The great difficulty with the Rus- olanva miles once more Is a shortage of munitions. The ships provided by the shipping board and the opening of the Koell railroad line will, it is ex--. petted, meet this difficulty in time. or 8ENDING MAIL TO 80LDIERS. mainder of the total quota can be absorbed without confusion as they reach the cantonments. The next 40 per cent of the quota will go forward September 1ft when the second SO per cent originally was scheduled to go; a second 40 per cent will go forward October 3 instead of the third 80 per cent and the remainas ing 15 per cent will be called up as soon thereafter practicable. Local hoards are directed to disreto gard order of liability numbers 5 some extent In selecting the first per cent as men of experience, such as cooks and former soldiers, arp desired at that time. Warning is given, however, against getting into this levy man by reason of his experience, any who might not otherwise have been included in the first increment of the district at ulL I i i JUDGE C. C. GOODWIN CALLED. . Noted Editor Answers Summons at Age of 85. Suit Lake City. Judge C. C. Goodone win, noted editor und author, and beloved most and known best of the men in the west, died at his home here 85. August 25, at the age of C. C. Goodwin was born at Riga, near Rochester, in the western part of the state of New York, April 4, 1832. His boyhood duys were spent on his father's farm and he received his education in the schools of Rochester.The Goodwin family counts Its ancestry In this country back to colonial days. In the early 50's Judge Goodjrln came west, where he has labored ever lawyer, since, ns merchant, miner, teacher and writer. In the parly days in Nevuda Judge Goodwin was the friend und compunion of such men as and Dan DeQuille Mark Twain, NeIn was It Goodman. T. Joseph vada that Judge Goodwin really began his literary career, and his later work in describing the making of the state und in depicting the characters of the the making men who accomplished achieved national renown for its literary worth. Infantile Paralysis Under Control. Washington. Infantile imrulysis ns e scourge is a Hs!tiHi;whle or no inngef feared this year by the public health service. In a report of conditions made public Saturday the service states that in no locality is there an outbreak of any size or one that seems likely to develop into a serious epidemic. state-wid- After the Paper Makers. Washington. Chnrges of concerted action to raise book paper prices were made by the federal trade commission Saturday. Informal complaints were manufactfiled against twenty-thre- e bureuu of their of head the urers and statistics. i How Letters for the Boys in the tional Army Camps Should Be Addressed. Na- Washington. Before long several thousand young men will be in the various cantonment camps of tte National, army, and their relatives and other friends will wish to write to them. In order to expedite the delivery of their mail and give the boys the best sendee possible, the postoffice officials Instruct their correspondents, if they know in advance the company and regiment to which the soldier is assigned, to address mail according to this sample: PRIVATE JOHN JONES, A Company, First Infantry, Camp Dodge, Iowa. If the company and regiment are not known, the moll should be ad- dressed thus: PRIVATE JOHN JONES of Minnesota, Camp Dodge, Iowa. When all troops are organized the mail for each man will be distributed direct to his company and regiment Until then it will be delivered through bis state section. t Governor Suspended From Office. Austin, Texas. James' E. Ferguson was suspended from the office of governor of Texas Friday, when the board of nine managers named by the house of representatives presented to articles of imthe senate twenty-on- e misconofficial peachment alleging duct STANLEY. H. ROSE NEERU SOLDIERS JAPAN HILL AID ALLIES IN IH FIRE ON OFFICERS EVERY OUNCE CLASH WITH POLICE LEADS TO RACE WAR, TWELVE WHITES OF HER STRENGTH AND REBEING KILLED. ISHII. DECLARES SOURCES, 18 IN WAR WITH ttf Mikados Special Mission General Battle la Started When Colored Soldiers on Guard at HousPledges Eternal Friendship of Hio Promton, Texas, Fire Upon a Passing America and for Nation ' Ambulance. ises Substantial Aid in War. Head Washington. Standing beside tbd tomb of George Washington, on Sunday, Viscount Ishil, head of the special Japanese mission, pledged the eternal friendship of his people to the United States and voiced a message to the world that Japan Is in the war with every ouipe of her strength and resources and will fight to tbe bitter end for her allies. There is no gnlf between the ann west too cient east and the and the hearts the wide for and deep understandings of her people to cross," declared the Japanese diplomat A minute latsaVonmila eyes raised to the blue vault above, lie said: Japan Is proud to place herself beside her noble allies In this high resolve to fight for Justice and against aggression, and here, in the presence of these deathless ashes, she reaffirms her devotion to the cause and principles for which they waged battle, fully determined to do her whole part in securing for the world the blessings of liberty, Justice and lasting peace. When he ceased speaking, Viscount Ishil stepped into the tomb and reverently laid sn Immense wreath alongside the tributes from France, Great Britain, Belgium and the other nations which have sealed their promises of devotion to the common cause of justice and humanity on the spot where rests the ashes of the immortal Washington. new-bor- Houston, Texas Trouble which began between one of the military police of the Twenty-fourt- h (colored) infantry and a police officer lute Thursday afternoon resulted in a riot in which about 150 negro soldiers mutinied, fired upon their officers, killed twelve Houston policemen and civilians and wounded . twenty-on- e others. Three of tb negroes were wounded. At 1 oclock Friday morning Gov. Ferguson declared martial law in Houston and the affected territory and General Parker placed Brigadier General Hulen In command. At that time most of (he negro soldiers were in camp with a strong guard over them. About seventy of them still were at large and there was reported great unrest in the negro section of the city. Most of those killed were close to the camp of the negro soldiers, but as the mutineers left they went through a negro section and it was there that most of the policemen were Wiled and wounded. Cuptuln J. W. Mattes, A battery, Second Illinois field artillery, was among the dead, being killed when he tried to remonstrate with the negro soldiers, who were running rampant The firing begga when an ambul- ance started through the section occupied by the negro soldiers. They stopped the ambulance and, firing u volley, riddled it. It was this voile j CROCKER LAND A MYTH. white girl that wounded a store. in father's her standing Arctic Explorer Declares Peary .Was Police reserves were sent out and Misled by Mirage. were met by volleys from the negroes Sydney, N. 8. Donald B. MacMi- Civilians went to the assistance of tlu llans Arctic exploration expedition arofficers and firing continued foi rived here Sunday night on' the relief police an hour and a halt steamer Neptune after four years spent In the polar regions. MacMillan, who was one of. Rear Admiral Fearys lieutenants on his successful dash for the north pole, confirmed previous dispatches from him that there was no Crocker Land, such as had been reported by Peary. Fearys mistake was due to a mirage so real that the MacMillan party hud been deceived by it for four days, be said, GARFIELD TO FIX COAL PRICES. Fuel College Head Is Appointed Ad- ministrator. Washington. President Wilson has placed the coal Industry of the United States under the direction of Dr. IL A. Garfield, president of Williams college and chairman of tbe wheat price fixing committee of the food administration. In mnking the announcement,' the president fixed the prices to lie charged for anthracite coni. They range from $4 for white ash grade to $5.30 for I.ykens Valley, stove size. This means lower cost to the consumer. Slayer Freed on Second Trial. Brookvllle, Fa. Ernest Iiaines, a hoy of 1C, convicted and sentenced to the electric chair for the murder of Stanley H. Rose, formerly with an his father, William nalnes, but whost asphalt company in Philadelphia, has was granted a new trinl at the of Governor Brumbaugh a few been placed in charge of the New York branch office of the bureau of days before the sentence was to be Edward N. Hurley of Chicago is the Ho ncecuted, was freed Saturday. After foreign and domestic commerce. new chairman of the shipping board one-hawill pass on many applications for ex- deliberating ninety and hours, and president of the emergency fleet case found of the a in retrial them the licenses without Jury submitting port corporation. Haines not guilty. to the department lf I V Chicago Wheat Pit Cloaed. Chicago. The wheat pit of the ,M"1 of trade closed Satur Tiie action of the directors in clo the pit was due to a of request C. bert Hoover, food adiuinlstn that trading In wheat futures pens least for the jieriud of the wur |
