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Show I BRIEF REVIEW OF A TO EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENING IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Hem and Foreign Newt dithered From All Quarter of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Normal operations hnvo been resumed re-sumed In lluttu mines, It Is announced, following n slight cessation of muxl-imiin muxl-imiin copper production lust week Induced In-duced ly nil attempted I. W. W, strike. I Declaring tlint Utnh has plenty of feed to enro for tlio stock within the borders of the state, the committee on food supply and conservation of tliu ctntc council of 'defenso In Issuing ii warning to formers to hold their stock. How to solve tho problem presented by thousand of men rejected by draft boards or at enmp, or discharged dis-charged from tho nrmy on account of tuberculosis, will bo the chief Question taken up nt tho Northwestern Tuberculoids Tuber-culoids conference to he held In Spokane Spo-kane on September 27 and 28. The supreme court of Nevada lias confirmed the decision of tho district court, and Hen Kuhl must pay tho extreme) ex-treme) penalty for tho premeditated killing of a stngo driver at Jorbldgo, Nov., two years ueo. Wllllo Jack, a l.tyeur-old Indian IDoy who confessed to killing Mre. Clmrles Williams at Kicks Station', Nov., has been sentenced to life Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. Governor Alexander of Idaho arrived ar-rived In Camp Lewis Wednesday and poko to several hundred Jewish soldiers sol-diers nt the Jowlsh Wclfnro building. 'Xluindny he made n tour of the camp end expressed delight at Its develop-pi develop-pi wit during the sixteen months since Ills provlous visit. DOME8TIC. Charged with an attempt to blackmail black-mail tho family of J, 1'. -Morgan to the amount of $20,000 through use of tho tnalls, J. II. Thorn, CO years old, Janitor Jani-tor at a newspaper building, was nr-. nr-. rested by. government authorities nt Lansing, Mich. Iltcstrlctlons preventing men of draft ago being commissioned In the nrmy from civil life have been modified In so far as they apply to tliu staff corps. Two hundred soldiers from Camp Fremont, Cal., were put to work , throughout tho Santa Clarn valley leathering the pruno crop, said to have been damaged badly by recent rain, storms. Tho ninety-fourth session of tho sovereign sov-ereign grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, embracing tho United States and nearly all countries of tho world, opened Monday at St. Louis. Tho pollco strlko called lost week nt Cincinnati was declared off Monday. The men enmo back without obtaining any guarantees from tho city officials relntlvo to their demands. Elimination of KkDO styles of rubber footwear Is called for under a war-tlmo war-tlmo schedule of production announced an-nounced by tho war .Industries board, effective as of September 1 for canvas rubber soled shoes and on January 1 for waterproof footwear. ISiilcldo and famlno wero tho spectral spec-tral passengors abbard a Bristol Hay Tacking company's steamer which arrived ar-rived at Ban Francisco, Frlduy, tho jath, from Alaska waters, faced. Threo men aboard the steamship committed suicide, en route to this port, und tliu Americans aboard had to band together to-gether to light off 850 Italian Usher-men Usher-men to get their sharo of tho Mini provisions pro-visions aboard tho boat. William II. Toft, president Jit the League- to Knforco I'eaco, bus been ' Invited to deliver the prlucipitl ad dress nt the first meeting of tho League of Free Nations associations, to be held in London, October 10. One thousand cases of Inlluenra am reported at Camp Devans, Mass., by ho division surgeon, Lieut. Col. Mo Cornack. Death has occurred In only one case, and In that pneumonia complications com-plications wero present. 1 Shelled by a German subiimrlno In j a fog Sunday morning, 80 miles off H, tho American coast, a British possen- H; gcr steamer escaped by altering her Hl course and outdistancing tho U-boat. 6ho arrived safely In port. Ono man was killed upd six were wounded near Owen, Wis., In n pitched H battlo between members of tho homo guard and farmers on ono side and two alleged draft evaders. Advices received at Sun Francisco B from Honolulu announced the death on August 20 of Mrs. Anna C. Dolo, wlfo of Judge Sunford II. Dole, the first and 1 only president of tho republic of J Hawaii and uftorwnrd governor of tho H territory, j 'Eugeno V. Debs, charged with vlo- lntlons of tho esplonugo net, was sen- 1 fenced to ten years In tho Moundsvllle, j W, Vn., penitentiary on each of threo ' counts of tho Indictment, by Federal , B Judgo Westcnhaver nt Cleveland, 0. The sentences will run concurrently, Full responsibility for tho recent docker raids in Nuw York and ad-Joining ad-Joining cities lias been assumed by , Attorney Ceuoral Gregory, who prom-lscs prom-lscs continuance of tho roundups, hut without uso of soldiers, sailors' and k incmbers of tho American Protective Jcnguu to make arrests. ssBr LIH - Kff- - ff '..L. Growers of tho Santa Clara valley, Cal., lost $5,200,000 as a result of last week's rainstorm, according to a survey sur-vey of conditions. Purchase of $1,000,000 of fourth Liberty Lib-erty loan bonds by the Modern Woodmen Wood-men of America was authorized by tho executlvo council of the order In session ses-sion nt Itock Island, III The society has subscribed a million dollars to previous loans. Eight automobile bandits mode tin unsuccessful attempt to hold up the United States -bonk nt Chicago on Monday. John Jackson, a Janitor, wos shot by tho robbers when he sought to protect Simon Cheek, the president They wero scared nwny before they hail an opportunity to enter the vnult Declaring that they will back up the president olid tho wnr, Nowark machinists ma-chinists haVo reversed their original "decision and will rt'fuso to participate in any sympathetic strike. More than 80C0 machinists there lire employed on government work. WASHINGTON. Tho United Stntcs, as was fully ex. pected, has unconditionally rejected Germany's peace feeler. In .doing so, tho government has spoken for all tho co-belligerents. Federal land banks In August loaned $7,0Sr.,000 to 2207 farmers and brought the total loaned before September Sep-tember 1 up to $124,877,000 distributed among 55,327 farmers, secured by long time first mortgages. Draft calls announced September 10 by Provost Marshal General Crowdcr will send 181,838 men qualified for general military service to army camps before .October 10. All states havo quotas to fill. President Wilson has sent a cablegram cable-gram of congratulations to General Pershing on the achievement of the American troops In wiping out the St. Mlhlel salient. The wnr department has taken over tho Smith tc Wesson company of Springfield, Mass., and will opcrnto tho plant und business to secure continuous con-tinuous production und prevent Indus, trial disturbance. President Wilson has signed the Joint resolution passed by congress, empowering him to establish prohibition prohibi-tion zones around shipyards, munitions muni-tions factories und other wnr Industries. Indus-tries. FOREION. Ilecogiiltlon of tliu Cr-ccho-Slovak forces as an allied and belligerent nrmy against Germany and Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary and of (lie Cxecho-Slovak national na-tional council as tho authority having control over that army has been accorded ac-corded by the Japanese government No peace parleying with the central powers until they unconditionally accept ac-cept tho allies' bnslc demands for tho security of clvlllzutlon. This Is tho attitude of most of tho London evening papers toward tho Austrian proposal. Ilolshovlklsm from Srcteusk, lu Trans-Dulkulla, to tho Volga, In European Europ-ean Itussia, Is dead. Tho Ilolshcvlk leaders In this region havo been hanged or havo hidden themselves, while tho misled red guards, who aro arriving nt Vladivostok, havo renounced re-nounced Ilolshovlklsm forever. In extending an Invitation to all the belligerent governments to enter Into non-blndlng discussions nt somo nou-tral nou-tral meeting place, the Austro-Hun-gnrlan government states that tho object ob-ject of tho conference would bo to secure nn exchange of views which would show "whether thoso prerequisites prerequi-sites exist which would make the speedy Inauguration of peaco negotiations negotia-tions appear promising." When the St. Mlhlel operations bo-gun bo-gun there were from 00,000 to 100,000 Germans liisldo tho salient They escaped es-caped at the rate of 1000 hourly, hut the plncher closed and trapped a hitherto hith-erto unknown number. An cntlro German regiment, with its commander and all the staff, were captured. The British steamer Galway Oostlo of 70S3 tons gross was torpedoed and sunk Thursday morning. The missing miss-ing number 180, Including 120 passengers. passen-gers. From the top of the city hall In Paris tho Stars and Stripes fluttered nil day Sunday, having been hoisted by special order of tho municipal council coun-cil In celebration of tho American St Mlhlel victory, Au official dispatch from Franco says it is reported that Prince Henry Charles of Hesse has accepted tho crown of Finland. Germany's latest peaco feeler, ad-' vanccd through Austria, It was officially offi-cially stilted at Washington, best finds Its answer In President Wilson's Baltimore Bal-timore speech delivered Inst April. "Forco, force to tho utmost, forco without stint or limit, tho righteous and triumphant farce which shall make right tho luw of tho world, and cast every selfish dominion down In tho dust." Twenty-one Important German' towns havo been bombed by tho British Brit-ish Independent air forco during tho 1 month of August, according to Information Infor-mation from mi authoritative source Tho Portuguese government has promptly answered General Pershing's . cull and thousands of workmen aro being be-ing recruited In Portugal for tho : American forces In France. Substantial wago Increases, nn ! eight-hour day and time and n half pay jfur overtime labor wero granted the operators of tie Canadian Pacific Tele-( Tele-( graph company by the labor commit-tea commit-tea of the Canadian Pacific railway war board. About 800 men nro affected. af-fected. It Is learned that Oormnny has made n peaco offer to Ilelgiuui, In wlilch Belgium Is to ho becQino n chat-tlo chat-tlo of Germany, no admission being mndo that Germany has wronged Belgium, Bel-gium, and no promise of Indemnity or reparation belmr made. i |