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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed D y INTERMOUNTAIN. By cutting a large hole In the wire fence which forms Ihe compound, seventeen sev-enteen prisoners at the war prison ramp at Fori Douglas, I'lali, made good their escape Sunday night. Itepresental i ves of Ihe Washington Slates Federation of Labor at Seattle laid before President Wilson labor grievances of the Pacific northwest, and were told by the president Unit Jie was giving the situation his careful care-ful attention. A mob at Pueblo, Colo., took two Mexicans, charged with the murder of a policeman, from the city jail, and banged them In a bridge. After having been Imbedded in the rocky coast near Newport, Ore., for countless centuries, a fossil, said to tie the largest ever found in Oregon, has been unearthed. The skeleton, nearly forty feet long, is evidently a whale, perhaps of Ihe early miocene age. Striking musicians and managers of the moving picture houses at Portland Port-land reached an agreement terminating terminat-ing the strike and adjusting differences differ-ences regarding the number of musicians musi-cians to be employed in picture shows. Delegates to the central labor council coun-cil of Portland and vicinity voted that if the use of the public auditorium Is refused by the city commissioners for a general amnesty meeting ot labor, la-bor, the council shall call for a referendum refer-endum vote on a general strike of protest of twenty-four hours' duration. The Pacific fleet was reviewed at Seattle, September 12, by Secretary Daniels and Admiral Hugh liodman. Several thousand out. of town people journeyed to the city for the ceremonies cere-monies attending the welcoming of the fleet. DOMESTIC. The strike of United States steel employes, set for September 22, will be deferred until after the conference iu Washington called for October 6 by President Wilson, it is reported. One man is missing and fifteen were injured, one probably fatally, in an explosion which partly wrecked the Burlington grain elevators iu North Kansas City. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst has come to America to combat Bolshevism in 11 speaking tour which is to embrace the United States and Canada. Governor Stephens of California has sent an urgent request to Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, saying: "Shortage of cars to carry grapes, fruits and other perishable products to eastern markets has created cre-ated a critical situation. Great losses are threatened.'" New freight cars are being placed in service by the railroad administration administra-tion at the rate of 834 per day. Senator William E. Borah, frankly declaring his wish not merely to amend but to wreck the league of nations covenant, addressed a large audience at Omaha. Connecticut is the first state in the Union to succumb completely to wartime war-time prohibition. The state farm for drunkards at Norwich, which was crowded to the limit up to July 1, has been officially closed by order of slate directors. Deputy Sheriff W. T. Beasley was killed and two unidentified bank robbers rob-bers were mortally wounded at Bed Fork, Okla., when they attempted to rob the Fed Fork stale bank. Declaring refineries were refusing to sell sugar to San Francisco jobbers, 200 bakers have appealed to the sugar equalization board at Washington for relief from a situation which they said would close their plants by the end of the week. General Pershing paid a brief visit to Mrs. Theodore ltoosevelt at Sagamore Saga-more Hill on September 11. He expressed ex-pressed his deep sympathy with Mrs. Koosevelt not only in the loss of her husband, but in the loss of her son (JueiUin during the war. Senators William 10. Borah of Idaho, Hiram W. Johnson of California and Medill McCormiek of Illinois, the latter lat-ter presiding at the meeting, expound (heir views of the peace treaty and league covenant at Chicago on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Senators Borah and Johnson propose lo make speeches in all of the cities in which the president is speaking speak-ing on bis western tour. Fewer cigars and less chewing and smoking tobacco were used in 1019 Uiuii in any of the last seven years, internal in-ternal revenue statistics just issued .si ow. Lack of moisture in southeastern Nebraska in August caused a reduction reduc-tion of 2.12S, 000 bushels in the slate's prospective 1919 corn crop, it is estimated. esti-mated. Kegurdless of the request of President Presi-dent Wilson that they take no action pending the coming industrial conference, confer-ence, representatives of organized workers in the sleel industry have culled a strike, effective September 22, to compel recognition of their unions nod of the principle of collective bar-IjDlning bar-IjDlning by the United States Steel Cor-Ivo Cor-Ivo ration. A national membership drive of the American' Legion to enroll one million . i-t ei-a us of t lie grea t war in forty-eight isl.-t'e hrauelios has Ix-gun. The i 1 1 1 has a membership of -toO.OOii. 'bulling manufacturers in addresses ; before ihe National Association of Ko-I Ko-I tail Clothiers at Chicago, insisted that extra wages for overtime work limited lim-ited production and kept costs high, land declared there was no profiteering in t heir industry. ! Telling officials al the federal huihl-! huihl-! ing that he wanted to go back to Turkey Tur-key id lii o 1 his wife, who was sold into j a Turkish harem live years ago. lsa-j lsa-j (lore Dorr Boglios. an Armenian, ap-; ap-; plied for a passport at Chicago. WASHINGTON. With his headquarters as chief of the American expeditionary forces reestablished re-established in Washington after more than two years in France, General Pershing promptly joined in the Saturday Sat-urday half holiday and went lo a track meet and a baseball game. Increases practically doubling the monthly compensation originally provided pro-vided by the war risk insurance act to disabled soldiers and sailors and members of their families, were passed unanimously by the house. The house judiciary committee has directed Hepresentulivp Dyer of Missouri Mis-souri to introduce a bill making the transportation of a stolen automobile in interstate commerce subject lo .food fine and five years' Imprisonment. The house passed a special resolution resolu-tion setting 2 p. m., September 18, us the time for joint session of congress con-gress to receive General Pershing. The treaty of peace with Germany was reported to the seuate on September Septem-ber 10 by Senator Lodge, chairman 'of the foreign relations committee, with foiir reservations and forty-five amendments amend-ments which the committee asked the senate to adopt. The first of the high cost of living laws asked of congress by President Wilson took form Wednesday when the house agricultural committee ordered favorably reported a bill to control cold storage. Every American casually in the war has been accounted for. A list of missing, at one time 2o,90o, was reduced re-duced to two. It is now presumed that the two soldiers are dead and they have been so listed officially. FOREIGN. Sir James Donville, a young baronet, baro-net, son of the late admiral, was found fatally shot in the United Service club, London. He had left a note apologizing apologiz-ing to the club for his death there. Gov. Esteban Cantu of Lower California Cali-fornia has promulgated an order prohibiting pro-hibiting the importation of Chinese into in-to the northern district of that Mexican Mexi-can territory. Six thousand dollars gold was paid Mexicans for the releas of Dr. J. W. Smith, an American, and E. Monson (Munsen), believed to be a subject of Sweden, who were taken from a train near Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua. Further anti-Sinn Fein raids were made in the south of Ireland Saturday by the military and police. Homes of several policemen were attacked and damaged following raids at Butheor-mac, Butheor-mac, fifteen miles northeast of the city of Cork. During Peace week 1G2 Australian, soldiers married English women. More than 5000 are waiting for free passage for themselves and their English wives to Australia. Six thousand five hundred hun-dred have already gone home. Premier Lloyd George has issued an appeal to the people to help In constructing con-structing a new world in place of the old, "where the toil of myriads has purchased nothing better than squalor, penury and anxiety." Premier Hughes has announced at a meeting of the ministerial parly that the indemnity to be paid to Australia would be something less than $300,-000,000. $300,-000,000. Extension of relief activities in western west-ern llussia and the Baltic provinces lias resulted in the American Bed Cross increasing the appropriation for its commission in that region from $270,000 lo .$500,000. A Montenegrin official communication communica-tion issued at Paris says that lighting continues fiercely throughout Montenegro Monte-negro against the Serbian invaders who have suffered severe losses. The remainder of Admiral Kolchak s southern army in the region of Sktiu-binsk Sktiu-binsk and Orik, has surrendered to j the Bolsbeviki. it is claimed in a Bol- I shevik wireless dispatch from Moscow. Mos-cow. This raises the total of Bolsbeviki Bolsbe-viki captures from the Kolchak forces within a week to 45,01X1 men. An American company having a cap- itul of 100,000.000 is being organized in Poland to extend credits to Polish j cities so they may construct canals, ! water plants and hospitals, according to the Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, j Japan is not planning to withdraw 1 (roups from Siberia, according to an 1 official statement issued at the war office. "Far from considering the; withdrawal of troops from Siberia, the slatemont says, "conditions there j may neccssilale the sending of rein-foreomonls rein-foreomonls to that country." Unconfirmed reports received in u sponsible quarters tell of serious rioting in Fiume between Italian and Jugo-Slav troops. The allies were compelled to intervene. Ten persons were killed and t-'evc n wounded during food riots in Glogau, Silesia. Troops used machine gum) and hand grenades against the rioters, From two to three hundred person.1 are dying daily in Petrograd from cholera, according to advices front that city. Owing lo the lack of medicines med-icines and food muny hospitals have been closed. |