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Show I. REVIEW OF ft WEEJTC EVENTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINQ8 IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Hem and Foreign Newt Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Normal operations havo been resumed re-sumed In Butte mines, It Is announced, following n slight cessation of maximum maxi-mum copper production ltiHt week Induced In-duced by nil attempted I. W. W, strike. Declaring that Utnh lias plenty of feed to caro for tlio stock within the liordcrs of the state, the committee on food supply and conservation of the tate council of 'defense Ih Issuing u warning to farmers to hold their stock. How to solve the problem presented by thousands of men rejected by Inrnrt uoariis or nt camp, or uis-clmrgcd uis-clmrgcd from tlio nrmy on account of tuberculosis, will be the chief question taken up nt the Northwestern Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis conference to be held In Spokane Spo-kane on September 27 and 28. The supreme court of Nevada lias confirmed the decision of the district court, and lieu Kuhl must pay tlio ex-tremo ex-tremo penalty for tlio premeditated killing of n ntngo driver nt Jurbldge, Nov., two years ago. WIIIlo Jack, a 1.1-yciir-Ald' Indian boy who confessed to killing Mrs. Charles Williams nt Hicks Station', Nuv has been sentenced to life Imprisonment. Im-prisonment. Governor Alexander of Idaho arrived ar-rived In Camp Lewis Wednesday and spoko to several hundred Jewish soldiers sol-diers nt the Jewish Welfare building. Thursday ho made n tour of the camp and expressed delight nt Its development develop-ment during the sixteen months since tils provlous vIMr. DOME8TIC. Charged with nn attempt to blackmail black-mail the family of J, 1'. Morgan to the amount of $20,000 through uso of the walls, J. II. Thorn, CO years old, Janitor Jani-tor at n newspnper building, was itr-. itr-. rested by government authorities lit Lansing, Mich. Itcstrlctlons preventing men of draft ego being commissioned In the army from civil Ufa have been modified In so far as they apply to the staff corps. Two hundred soldiers from Camp Fremont, Cnl were put to work throughout tho Santa Clarn volley fathering the prune crop, said to Imvo been damaged bndly by recent rainstorms. rain-storms. The 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 the world, opened Monday at St. Louis. I The police strlko called last week nt Cincinnati was declared off Monday. The men enmo bnck without obtaining any guarantees from the city officials relatlvo to their demands, elimination of 5500 styles of rubber footwear Is called for under n wartime! war-time! schedulo of production announced an-nounced by tho war Industries board, effectlvo as of September 1 for canvas rubber soled shoes and on January 1 for waterproof footwear. Sulchlo und famine were tho spectral spec-tral pastcngars nbbnrd a Bristol liny Packing company's steamer which or-rived or-rived at San Francisco, Friday, the 33th, from Alaska waters, faced. Three men aboard tho steamihlp committed suicide en route to this port, and tlio Americans aboard had to band together to-gether to light off 830 Itallnn Usher-men Usher-men to got their shnro of the Mini provisions pro-visions aboard tho boat. I William II. Taft. president M the Leaguo to Enforce Peace, has been Invited to deliver the principal address ad-dress nt the first meotJng of tho Xeaguo of Free Nations associations, to be held In London, October 10. Ono thousund cases of Influenza are reported at Camp Devans, Mass.. by tho division surgeon, Lieut. Col. Mc-Cornnck. Mc-Cornnck. Death has occurred In only ono ense, and In that pneumonia complications com-plications wcro present.. Shelled by a German suhmnrlno In n fog Sunday morning, 80 miles off tho American coast, a llrltlsli passenger passen-ger stenmcr escaped by nlterlng her course and outdistancing the U-boat. She arrived safely In port. Ono man was killed and six were wounded near Owen, Wis., In n pitched battlo between members of tho homo guard and farmers on ono side und two ulleged draft evaders. Advices received at San Francisco from Honolulu announced thu death on August 20 of Mrs. Anna 0. Dole, wlfo of Judge Sunford II. Dole, thu first and only president of tho republic of Huwall and nftorward governor of the territory. Eugene- V. Debs, charged with vlo. Intlons of tho espionage act, was sen-tenced sen-tenced to ten yearn In tho Muundsvllle, W, Vn., penitentiary on each of three rountn of tho indictment, by Federal H Judge Wcstenhaver nt Cleveland, 0. The sentences will run concurrently, Full responsibility for tho recent slacker raids In New York and ad-Joining ad-Joining cities has been assumed by Attorney (ienornl Gregory, who prom-Jses prom-Jses continuance of the roundups, but without uso of soldiers, sailors and k members of the American I'rotectlvo jlcnguu to make arrests. Growers of tho Santa Clarn valley, Cal., lost $5,200,000 as n result of last week's rainstorm, nccordlng to a survey sur-vey of conditions. I'urchnso of $1,000,000 of fourth Liberty Lib-erty loan bonds by the Modern Woodmen Wood-men of America was authorized by tho exccutlvo council of the order lu session ses-sion nt Itock Island, III The society has subscribed a million dollars to previous loans. Eight automobile bandits mado an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the United States -bank at Chicago on Monday. John Jackson, a Janitor, was shot by tho robbers when ho sought to firotect Simon Check, the president They were scared away before they had an opportunity to enter tho vault. Declaring Hint they wilt back up the president and tho war, Newark machinists ma-chinists havo reversed their original decision and will refuse to participate In any sympathetic strike. Moro than 8000 machinists there arc employed on government work. WASHINGTON. Tho United Stntes, as was fully ex. pected, has unconditionally rejected Germany's pence feeler. In .doing so, tho government lias spoken for all tho co-belligerents. Federal land banks In August loaned $7,085,000 to 2207 farmers nnd brought the total loaned before Sep tember 1 up to $124,877,000 distributed nmong 55,327 farmers, secured by long time first mortgages, Drnft calls announced September 10 by Provost Marshal General Crowder will send 181,808 men qualified for general military service to army camps before (Octobcr 10, All stntes havo quotas to fill. President Wilson hns sent a cablegram cable-gram of congratulations to General Pershing on tho achievement of tho American troops lu wiping out the St. Mlhlel salient. The war department hns taken over tho Smith tc Wesson compnny of Springfield, Mass., and wilt opcrato tho plant und business to secure continuous con-tinuous production and prevent Indus, trial disturbance. President Wilson hns signed tho Joint resolution passed by congress, empowering him to establish prohibition prohibi-tion zones around shipyards, munitions muni-tions factories and other wnr Industries. Indus-tries. FOREIQN. Itecognltlon of thu Czccho-.SIovnk forces as an allied nnd belligerent nrmy against Germany nnd Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary und of tlio Cxecho-Slovok national na-tional council us tho authority having control over that army has been accorded ac-corded by the Japanese government. No peace parleying with tho central powers until they unconditionally accept ac-cept tho allies' basic demands for tho security of civilization. This Is tlio attitude of most of tho London evening papers toward tho Austrian proposal. Ilolshcvlklsm from Srctcnsk, lu Trans-Itulknlla, to tho Volga, In European Europ-ean Itussln, Is dead. Tho Bolshevik leaders In this region have been hanged or havo hidden themselves, while tho misled red guards, who aro arriving nt Vladivostok, havo renounced re-nounced llolshovlklsm forever. In extending nn invitation to nil the belligerent governments to enter Into non-binding discussions nt some nou-trnl nou-trnl meeting place, tho Austro-IIun-garlau government states that tho object ob-ject of tho confcrcnco would bo to secure an exchange of views which would .how "whether thoso prerequisites prerequi-sites exist which would mnko thu speed Inauguration of peaco negotiations negotia-tions appear promising." When tho St. Mlhlel operations' began be-gan thero were from 00,000 to 100,000 Germans liislde tho salient. They escaped es-caped nt thu rata of 1000 hourly, but tho plncher closed und trapped a hitherto hith-erto unknown number. An cntlro aennan regiment, with Its commander and all tho staff, were captured. Tho llrltlsli steamer Galway Onstlo of 70SS tons gross was torpedoed nnd sunk Thursday morning. The missing miss-ing number 180, Including 120 passengers. From the top of the city hall In Paris tho Stars and Stripes fluttered all day Sunday, having been hoisted by special order of the municipal council coun-cil lu celebration of tho American St. Mlhlel victory, An official dispatch from Franco says It Is reported that Prlnco Henry Charles of Hesse has accepted tho crown of Finland. Germany's latest peace feeler, advanced ad-vanced through Austria, It was officially offi-cially stilted nt Washington, best finds Its unswer In President Wilson's Bal-tlmoro Bal-tlmoro speech delivered last April. "Forco, force to tho utmost, forco without stint or limit, tho righteous and triumphant forco which shall mako right tho luw of tho world, and cast every selfish dominion down In tho dust." Twcnty-ono Important German' towns havu been bombed by tho llrltlsli llrlt-lsli Independent air forco during tho month of August, according to Information Infor-mation from an authoritative, source Tho Portuguese Government has ! promptly answered General Pershing's cull nnd thousands of workmen nrn be- I lug recruited In Portugal for tho : American forces In Franco, Substantial wago Increases, an I eight-hour duy and time and it half pay 1 I for overtime labor woro granted tho operators of tie Canadian Pacific Telo- graph compnny by tho labor committee, commit-tee, of the Canadian Pacific railway war board. About 800 men nro affected. af-fected. It U learned that Germany has made u peneo offer to Belgium, In wlilch Belgium Is to bo beeomo n chat-tlo chat-tlo of Germany, no admission being made that Germany has wrouged Belgium, Bel-gium, and no premise of Indemnity or reparation being made. I |