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Show Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed E2"" 1 03 INTERMOUNTAIN. Turning a deaf ear to the appeals from Washington that they should continue con-tinue their work for the sake of the sailors and soldiers lighting France, every shipyard worker in Seattle on finturday laid down his tools and quit. All hands knocked oil at the noon hour because double pay for Saturday afternoon after-noon was not forthcoming. i'orest fires, driven by high east winds, have swept an area of 25 miles "wide near Shelton, Mason county, AVash., destroyed all bridges on the upper line of the Peninsula railroad, burned out three logging camps of the Simpson Logging Co., and completely surrounding two other camps. James A. Wood, former assistant federal food administrator for Nevada, was convicted of bribery by a jury in the United States district court at San Francisco. Nearly 3000 draft recruits from California, Cali-fornia, Arizona and Utah, sent to Camp Kearny early this month for training, have been transferred from the camp where they have been in quarantine to permanent organizations. Appropriations have been made by the war department amounting to nearly $"0,000 for the construction of the convalescent hospital at Fort Doug-Jast, Doug-Jast, Utah. J. A. Carlson, pattern maker at a shipyard at Seattle, is under arrest on charges of "doctoring" steel placed in government vessels, tampering with rolling stock in an effort to cause wrecks, and participating in destruction destruc-tion of Spaghnum moss prepared by Bed Cross workers for use in ban-daares ban-daares for overseas. Gus Kangas, killed by Police Officer Of-ficer James Larkin at Butte, after he had fired at the patrolman, has been identified as an active leader of the I. AV. AV. The IV mine SuudW-v n V VjV water. There Vvjm 1 tsmtluc 'uid the ship proceeded to port under her own power. Barricaded in a narrow room in the heart of the business district, a man identified as Nash Davis of Killed!. Texas, fought to the death with more than a score of officers at Pallas, Texas. Davis received more than a hundred shots in his body before he fell. A new world's record of 4SS rivets an hour has been established and maintained main-tained for eight hours by "T crews of workmen at the Submarine lioat corporation's cor-poration's Newark yards. Christinas packages for men serving on naval vessels abroad must reach New York not later than November .", Secretary Daniels has announced. WASHINGTON. The German protest against the use of shotguns by American troops has been received at the state department and an answer soon will lie dispatched. Shotguns are used by American troops, it was said recently, only as authorized by the accepted rules of war. All reports coming into the treasury department on the fourth Liberty bond sales indicate that the new loan will be an even greater success than the earlier ones. Creation of a special congressional committee on after-the-war reconstruction reconstruc-tion is proposed in a resolution introduced intro-duced by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. The senator said the end of the war might come sooner than many anticipate, an-ticipate, and that unless the country provides for the future, it will be caught in the same condition of unpre-paredness unpre-paredness for peace as it was unprepared unpre-pared for war. Because of epidemics of Spanish influenza in-fluenza in army camps, Provost Marshal Mar-shal General Crowder recently cancelled can-celled calls for the entrainment between be-tween October 7 and 11 of 142,000 draft registrants. AA" earing of war service and wound chevrons by enlisted men and officers of the navy lias been authorized by Secretary Daniels. Congress has been asked by the war department to appropriate $7800 to reimburse civilians for arms and ammunition seized by the United States troops during the labor troubles in Colorado in 1014. FOREIGN. The battle of Champagne has greatly DOMESTIC. Thirty thousand industrial workers soon will be sent to San Francisco by the government, provided housing facilities facil-ities are provided, according to John H. Saunders, manager of the placement place-ment bureau of the United States bureau bu-reau of housing. Shipbuilding in New Jersey has grown within a few months from an Infant industry to an Infant prodigy. A score of vessels, capable of carrying 85,000 tons of supplies to Americans and their allies overseas, have been launched and two are ready to sail. Others will take the water at the rate or 14 a month, or oftener. All hope has been abandoned of rescuing res-cuing alive 15 miners known to be left in the north mine of the Franklin Frank-lin Coal & Coke Co., Royalton, III., in which 21 men were trapjied in an explosion ex-plosion Sunday. Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the war labor policies, board, in a statement state-ment Issued Sunday, said that while contracts negotiated by the war administration ad-ministration permit the employment of children over 14 years of age in war Industries, it does not follow that the employment of children is favored. In a Liberty loan address at Baltimore, Balti-more, Theodore Roosevelt declared : "Let Germany be so thoroughly licked that no other nation dare to attack us. If we had permitted Germany to win this war, we would have been attacked at-tacked next by the Huns, who would have treated us r:s they have treated the Belgian:." In an address at New York, Friday night, President Wilson made the most comprehensive and stirring war speech of his career. He explained once more the issue of the war and the sacred lhings for which America and all the civilized world are fighting, and he pointed out the purposes which will be accomplished in only one way the utter defeat of the central powers. Investigators of the. bureau of labor statistics, surveying the cost, of living i.'i principal industrial centers, reported that the cost in the New York district is fi2.07 per cent greater than in December, De-cember, 1014, and 17..'i0 per cent greater great-er than In December, 1017. Homes In Juneau. Alaska, are being torn away, a big government hospital lias been temporarily abandoned, power plants are Idle, and all business is suspended sus-pended as a result of torrential rains of unusual warmth, causing a water deluge along the main shore of Gasll-neau Gasll-neau channel. The main street, of .Juneau Is threatened by the floods. The five members of the staff of the Philadelphia Tageblalt on trial In tin-federal tin-federal court at. Philadelphia, wen1 found guilty there this week of conspiracy con-spiracy to violate the espionage act. A motion for a new trial was made and bail was continued. Spanish influenza continued lo spread today in army camps, iS24 new case. having been reportell to the office of-fice of the surgeon general of the army during the 21 hours' period ending at noon Friday. A. S. Embroe, aHing secrelary-Ircasiiror secrelary-Ircasiiror of the Industrial Workers of the World, was arrested al Chicago by federal openi 1 i vi'H 011 a warrant cluirg ing him with violation of the espionage act by writing mailer Intended lo din-coiii din-coiii a;'' the prod ncl ion of food and curtail Ho- production of e.i.ienlhil war producls. Increased in violence with the arrival of fresh German divisions. The enemy Is making, a strong fight to halt the advance of General Gouraud's troops toward A'ouziers. Official figures show that during the month of August. 101S. British troops in France captured 57,328 German prisoners, pris-oners, including 1283 officers. In the same period they captured G57 German guns, including over 150 heavy guns. Machine guns to the number of 5750 have been counted." Emperor William visited Kiel on September Sep-tember 25, according to the Lokal An-zeiger An-zeiger of Berlin. and witnessed maneuvers in which submarines at-tafked at-tafked a supposititious convoy. The American bombardment of the fortress of Metz Is getting on the nerves of the German people. This Is emphasized by a correspondent of the Rhenisch Westphaliar; Gazette of Essen, Es-sen, who visited Metz last week. Bulgaria's cry of "Kauierad" has ripped the much-vaunted "unified front" of the central alliance wide open and has unloosed a long brewing brew-ing storm which threatens to send the whole unnatural edifice crashing to flinders. Since July IS the allies have taken 325,(C0 prisoners and .'iOIXJ guns. Of these totals 247.000 prisoners and 3100 guns have been taken on the west front. The British alone have taken 110,872 prisoners and 1700 guns In the west. The French have taken 100,210 prisoners and 000 guns. The Americans Ameri-cans have captured .'!(;, 000 prisoners and 500 guns. The allied advances on four sectors from the North sea lo the Mouse continue, con-tinue, and Important strategical points are being taken from the Germans by the sledge-hammer blows of tin) French, British, American and Belgian forces. If the I'.olsheviki are compelled to leave Moscow they will allempl lo destroy de-stroy the city and .slaughter the bourgeoisie; bour-geoisie; wholesale, declares flans Vorst In a letter lo the Berlin Tageblall. The German writer says he learns from authentic sources that lhe Bolshevik! have placed in' the upper stories of high buildings every conceivable agency of destruction. General SoukliouillnnlT, minister of war in the Russian Imperial cabinet from 1000 to 1015, who was reported court ma rl in led September (i ami shot the same day, has succeeded in escaping escap-ing from Russia after a most adventurous adven-turous flight. The executions of Frank Sullivan and Phillip Johnson of Winnipeg, convicted con-victed murderers, set for Friday morning, morn-ing, were postponed until Wednesday. A dispatch from Quebec said the dominion do-minion hangman, Arthur Ellis, was dc-laiiied dc-laiiied in the east "by pressure of business." busi-ness." Gabriellc d'AnnunzIo, lhe llallan author-aviator, landed in France Friday from an airplane In which In. 1 1 ; 1 I flown from Italy across lhe A 1 Ills lllghl was iivcr a distance of "00 miles. The American Iteil O-oss at Geneva has received an additional list of the names of 2'J0 American prisop.-s who are Interned, among other places In SI ill I ga rl, Karlsruhe and Mel,. The I'orlo Kicau govern men I has announced an-nounced that' lhe sugar crop for 1 1 1 1 H Is 453. 700 short Ions, as compared with 503.0'. I Ioiih ill 1017, a decrease of hIIIiI ly over .10 per cent. |