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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF 1 11 EVENTS KKCORD OF TH1 IMPORTANT u HAPPENINGS IN ITEM IZED FORM X I Homo and Forslon News aathsr? From All Quarters of ths Worll, and Prepared for Buiy Mm ' INTERMOUNTAIN. Mrs. Anna Klclioy of Fossil, Wyo., n cnttleworann SO yonrs of ago, In suffering suf-fering from u shattered left uriii, tlio result of a shot fired ut her by a masked highwayman. Flro of unknown origin destroyed (he Ryan fruit company warehouse nt Butte, causing u loss of $100,000. The building and large quantities of stored lood wero destroyed. Ten tons of fish, said to havo been stored for so long that they nru bo-ginning bo-ginning to spoil, wero seized nt the Dcnvor lee and Cold Storage Co. plant by the state board of health. Mrs. John Sanger, wealthy and prominent In exclusive Denver society circles, died Monday from Injuries received re-ceived when a motor car loaded en routo to n picnic, was struck by u freight train near Scdnlla, Colo. Klghtccn men are believed dead, bur-fed bur-fed under debris from the explosion tn the Oukvlew mine of the Oukdule coal company neur I.uVetn, Colo. Utah stockmen hove been ussured tho support of the Utah senators In Washington In their fight against the adoption of tho so-called packers' bills now pending before congress. Tho steamer Editor, named by the shipping board In honor of the newspaper news-paper men and women of tho United States and Canada was launched at Senttlo on August 10, In the presence of cheering scores of members of tho National Editorial association, gather-cd gather-cd In Seattle from nil parts of the country to attend tho association' 1011) convention. Citizens of Walseiiburg. Colo., kidnaped kid-naped tlireo I. V. W. agitators scheduled sched-uled to speak ut u mass meeting, and chased them out of town. Nineteen persons wero Injured when n passenger train overturned near Chester, Colo., a defective rail being tii causa. DOMESTIC. After wounding and overpowering two armed deputy sheriffs during u fight Ju which lie, too, was shot, 6. W. iAnglcy, n fanner of Cortland, Nob., piB staggered into a general store nt that place lata Monday and shot Justice of the Poacc Chris Pf elf for through tho Unless onllstmcnts In tho navy are apocded up tho Pacific fleet when flu-ally flu-ally formed will lmvo u complement f, of only CO tier cent according to Ad- talral Hugh. Hodman. M Chin Hoy, a Chinese student, was j killed Instantly, and Chin Chang, a mmm licensed Chinese avlutor, who recently arrived from tho cast, was Injured sor-iLH sor-iLH JT Iwty Hi Cfltln'COtl City, thirty miles -at south, of Ni!"PwuiM0i wlin nn Blr H & n-,y v"oro TP M to the tT.rtu trom a height Of 2000 1 Initial step In tho organization of a national labor party were tukeu at n U conference) of representatives of labor organizations of several states held ut Chicago on August 18. Lieutenants l'aiil II. Duvls and liar-old liar-old (I. Peterson, Amerlcnn army avl-utors, avl-utors, captured by Mexican bandits, have been released upon payment of $15,000 ransom. A. 35 to Kt per cent Incrcaso In wages Is demanded for 117,000 flro-men flro-men and hostlers on railroads In the United States and Caiuuln In u wage U senlo adopted before adjournment Hun- day by 1100 general chairmen of tho U Brotherhood of ljcomotlvo Firemen and lCnglnemen In session at Clove- Two Amerlcnn aviators, Lieutenant I'aul II. Davis and Harold d. I'etcr&ou, U are reported us having been captured by bandits in Mexico and are being held for rnuHoui, The 1200 striking Northern Pacific U shopmen nt Tacoma returned to their places Saturday morning, following U orders Issued by their officials. The Milwaukee shopmen went to work earlier In the week. Tho sugar shortitgo In this country soon will bo relieved, according to the United States sugar equalization board, which announced Saturday that. It hud U more than 100 ships engaged In bring- lug sugar from Culm. Drivers of retail milk wagons In U Now York City huve formulated de- U mauds for $M a week and a six-hour U day to be presented to their employ- crs wheu their present contract ex-plres ex-plres the last of October. 1'otltlons for the recall of Mayor Smith and Flnanco Commissioner Wll-U Wll-U 11am Ure, Street Commissioner Itoy U Towl and I'ollco Commissioner Dean Jllnger, havo been filed ut Omaha, The ninth annual convention of tho National Old Trails' association came - to a' close at Durango, Colo., on August 30, wlthont selection of- tho 1020 con- rventlon city. Tho selection "wus left to tho executive commltteo, U Five persons wero Instantly killed near Lima, O., when an automobile in which thoy wero riding was struck by a Western Ohio traction car. bbbbWJ A conforencs, which tho wine ftrow-ere ftrow-ere ?f California hoped to arrango rYlth Pmldont Wilson on tho occasion of his vlslt to tht coast, has bten abandoned aban-doned since tho receipt of a lottcr from Secretary Tumulty who wroto that it would "hardly bo possible to arrange such nn Interview." "Left wing" Socialists have Issued a cull to radicals throughout tho country to attend a convention In Chicago on September 1 to organize "tho communist com-munist party of America." A third skeleton was dug up nt Maple Hill, Kuusus, Sunday, by tho state officials Investigating tho mysterious mys-terious disappearance of four men there during tho lust eight years. In tho second raid on food supplies stored In the Detroit Itcfrlgerntlng company's plant at Detroit, agents of tho department of Justice seized T.aiO,-000 T.aiO,-000 eggs nml approximately 1100,000 pounds of butter. WASHINGTON. Japan's seizure of Shantung and other uggresslons upon Chinu will bring war In the east within ten years, declared Thomas h Mlllurd, a far eastern expert, In testimony boforo tho sennto foreign relations committee. The houso prohibition enforcement hilt, us redrafted by u subcommittee, has been ordered favorably reported to the senate by the Judiciary committee. com-mittee. Kecords made public August 10 show war contracts uwuitlug liquidation amount to more than ?2,000,K0,(H)0, although 80 per cent of thu emergency commitments of the government huve been settled. President Wilson has vetoed tho bill repealing the daylight saving law. The president snld ho returned the hill without his iipprovul with "the utmost reluctance," becuuse he realized "tho very considerable, and In some respects very serious Inconveniences to which thu daylight saving law subjects the farmers of thu country." Plans for old age pensions for persons per-sons more than 03 years of age were proposed In u bill Introduced by Senator Sen-ator McNnry, Itepubllenn, Oregon. Under Its provisions persons with Incomes In-comes of not morn thnu $0 n week would receive u weekly pension of $1. Heplylng to u senato resolution, Director Di-rector (iciicml of Italtrnads Hlnes Informed In-formed the senate that while thcro had been some car shortage In the bituminous coal districts, he did not "anticipate any shortages In transportation transpor-tation which will be In any sciiho exceptional ex-ceptional or abnormal or which will Justify oppressive prices for conl." FOREIGN. Canndlan camion which fired the last shots nt the Ocnimus on iirmlstlca day, November 11, 1018, wero presented present-ed to tho village of Mens with elaborate elab-orate ceremonies. Thirty-eight officers of tho Italian army and u numbor of civilians are among tho prominent Italians who will bo decorated with tho American Distinguished Scrvlco medal by General Gen-eral Pershing on his forthcoming visit to Ituly. Alexander P. Iswolsky, veteran Russian Rus-sian diplomat und ambassador to Franco at tbo outbreak of tho wart Is dead. Ho was 54 years old. . Tho Italian cublnct, tho Popolo Ito-mU9 Ito-mU9 Wf. !id decided tlo to levy a tax; on Inheritances at thl tim jj. stead governmont will forco wealthy persons to grant loans to the government nt a very low rate of Interest. In-terest. Tho forwarding of mall dotnlncd at l-utuloti during tho war by tho postal censor wilt bo completed August 30, the war office announces. The mall was held hecuiiHu Its transmission would have assisted the German military und naval pluns. A womaji's demonstration nt llerllu for tho speedy return of German prisoners pris-oners of war on Friday ended when tho women were dispersed by tho police. Tho Suez canal has been blocked by the sinking of tho Italian cruiser lias-lllcutu lias-lllcutu after an explosion, according to advices from Port Said. Tho cruiser cruis-er sank near Towflk. The German government has rejected reject-ed tho demand of tho allies for the recall of Gen. von Dcr Goltz, commander com-mander In chief of German forces In tho Ilaltte provinces. French pilots and observers killed and wounded during the war aggregated aggre-gated 00 per cent of tho total flying personnel of slightly less than III.OOO, Tho Japanese government linn Informed In-formed tho government, of Admiral Kolchuk that Japan Is unnblo to accede to Its request" to send several divisions of troojis, to usslst Kolchnk In the war against tho Bolshevlkl. The coal irilners of Yorkshire, where more than 200,000 men havo been on iftrlko since July 21, have decided to resume work. Three Bllver fox skins for which $2500 has liecn refused In London were obtained In Archangel for six bottles of whiskey by a Hrltlnli of fleet, who has just returned from northern ItUBsla. Six submarine chasers, veterans of tho U-boat cnmpalgns In tho North sen und the Adriatic, left Bermuda on August 14 on a race to Now York. Prominent Jnpaneso business men have decided to float u $25,000,000 company for tho purpose of paying a cable lino between the United Statea juuLInpaOa.J . Gubrlol Poulaln, noted French' cyi cllst, has succeeded in perfecting an nerocyclo, which ho Is nblo to ralsq Into tho air and propel for n iKstauce of twelve yards, attaining a speed ol twenty-five miles an hour. |