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Show 0 ! History of Past Week ! The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed ! G 3 I NTERHO'J NTAIIt Shipyard workmen at 1'orilitm!, esii-In;:! esii-In;:! m I lo number several thousand, laid clown their ti:i;Is ;l noun Saturday and ' refused V v.urk o.u day. The'' workmen said they were dissatisfied because the saam er Saturday haii'-liciiiday haii'-liciiiday had not been extendi d 1 lirouuli the fall ami winl ei There were only fifty ease.-; (if enm-muidcable enm-muidcable diseases in Cauiii Lewis (luriiisr the past week anions ihe :!.".--'.):', men stationed there during tiial period, llii" weekly heailli report of Maj. I..- 1. Mr! Hassan. eanii sanitary ii;sp;!-; or. shows. There were no dealhs. f'hara;ed wiih desenion. inipersoaal-in-j; an officer of the I'nMed Stall's army and passing laid eaee;:s. l'rivaie H. .1. Simmons, who said hi h.itae is in Omlon. I'tah. was arrc.ied at a fasitional.le ho;el at Denver by a Vuiteil S.aies seerel serdee aaeiit. When a train on tile i':nlali railway leaped from the Iraek at a sharp carve near .Mciiee, Coin., and rolled down the mountainside, in,, conductor. 1'- J. I' i i Apa i rick id' ( 'iiaa-'riai, Colo., was crushed to death and (lie engineer, (leoii.'e Ly.'iann of Kinliaiii, I'tah. was severely injured. Ceorue Mnu.L'ins, a section hand, was killed and denize Kasnnius, section foreman, was seriously injured near Aberdeen, Idaho, in avoiding a collision colli-sion bet w ecu their fast-driven power section car and a school wa'on containing con-taining twelve children. '"Loafers" in I'tah are 'oint; In be rounded up at mice anil placed in (lie shipbuilding department, according to notice issued from tin- federal employment employ-ment office. Karl Iioil-e, 10 years of aj;i. employed em-ployed as a porte r, suffered a f t act tire of the skull when he fell from Ihe mezzanine mez-zanine floor to Ihe lobby of the ljotcl I'tah at Salr Lake. DOMESTIC. Under a new policy of rcporiin:,' casualties cas-ualties of the American expeditionary forces adopted by Ihe war deparl-lueiit. deparl-lueiit. the names of the men wounded will he sent to the Tinted States by courier twice a week and only the nines of ihr dead and missing will be cabled by (leiicral I'ersl.in when ihe system is fully in effect. Ten and seven-tenths per cenl rejections re-jections for air cau-es were figures iven 0111 by the medical examination board at Camp Kearny as indicating Ihe hih phy-dcnl (juali lica I ions of about TiHHI recruits whose examinations examina-tions had been ronipleted. I'lans for roHectiu-4 fruit pits unil nut shells to be used iii making nas masks for ti e army have I ti exiend- ed to the home and all persons are uiv.'ed lo d"pi sit their collections in receptacles re-ceptacles prnvided by hotels and restaur:; res-taur:; n I s. ai-cic-diiiL: to an announcement announce-ment made at .New ork. .Vinety-I hree members of Ihe I. W. V., incluilim; Secretary William I . llrywood. were i!.iced ill rd a sie- cial train on the It-nk Island road at Chicago, l-'riday nirhl. under heavy uanl, lo be taken to l-'ort Li-avcii-worih prison. 1'ersons writing m" I ly. fiel'on and a 1 1 i r t i si - u i c 1 1 1 s are enai'd in e--sen--.ial industries and are nor aftecled by the "work or li-.'hl" rules, accordlinr lo '.nl'orinatain b. the proo.: marshal 'enoral's office to n I'.oston diaft boa i d. One man was killed and forty-three wore injured, several seramsty. when three eon. -In-s of a Kock Island train were dei-ti. led al Comanche. (11,1a. The dead and injuied were members of a party of richly draffd men from (lar-ficld (lar-ficld eiiiinly, (il.lahoii'a. on their way lo Iralnine camp. Niurly a million fallroad employes, Ineiild'ne clerl:s, track laborers ami ma '. lit i-ua ii'-e of way men, are to receive re-ceive ware in.Tea .- of if.'J.i t) inoiilh. Ihe i qaivaleiil of .fl a day of I'J eenls an hour, over the pay they received lasl January 1, under a wa'" order issued by 1 lip dor Ccneral McAoo. Mealh seuleiiccs of leu ncj.'ro soldiers sol-diers who participated In the riol al Houston, Texas, Aimin l .'!, l'JIT, bine been coinmilleil lo life Imprisoniuclil by rrcsldcnl Wilson. I'Vdernl ol'llclals eslliiinled more than -ltl.(IIM) susiecled slackers had been n i-ri-sl ei Tuesday In New York anil n 'by cities. ,Mosl of tile prisoners, pris-oners, was said, came from other parts of the country. The American collon el-op Ibis year Will fall -I, OS! HW.lt I bales below Ihe output out-put predicted earlier In the season, the Hhorlnne belli); due lo extreme drouth and pe.sls, Fourteen states In the union hava abolished the teaching of the German ImiKUUge in the .schools', and in sixteen other states a campaign to eliminate German is under way, aecordiiif; to an announcement made at New York by the American defense society. ' .Titles Jusserand, the French ambassador, ambas-sador, in an address before the banquet ban-quet of the l-'ra nco-Ainerican societies at Xew York, asserted that "Ihe enemy is doomed" and we "shall choose and appoint the day for peace." San I-'rancisco was selected as the place for holding the 11)1(1 national convention of tile I'nited Spanish War Veterans by the delegates of the organization or-ganization n r their annual reunion at Ilaliimore. The lime was nut announced. an-nounced. WASHINGTON. The war department has announced the arrival in France of Secretary I laker, aerompaniod by an official j party, including .John I). Jtyan, assist- j ant secretary in charge of aircraft, and .Major General Gorans, surgeon fren-eral fren-eral of the army. A new priori i ies lisl of industries and plants essential lo the war or civil population was announced Sunday by Chairman llarucli of the war industries indus-tries board. Without evid; nee of political division divi-sion congress on Friday be-all work on Ihe j-'i-oalost revenue measure in ail history, i-oviilin.u for lite raisin; of twenty-four billion dollars S.S 00(1,-0ii;i,oo:i 00(1,-0ii;i,oo:i in taxes and twice as much in bonds to pay America's share of the cost of the war next year, and for loans lo its co-belliereuts. Keleniion of the present sujinr ration ra-tion of two pounds a month for each person was announced by the food administration ad-ministration Friday. The 12,0110.000 emei-f-'ency agricultural agricul-tural appropriation bill with its rider for national prohibition from next July until the American armies tire demobilized de-mobilized after the end of the war, was passed Friday by the senate without with-out a roll call. President Wilson has asked Attorney General Gregory for a complete report of the circumstances surrounding the "slacker roundup" in New Y"ork City this week, ill which upwards of !().-Odd !().-Odd men were taken into custody by agents of the department of justice. FOREIGN. A nephew of ihe kaiser is iiiimi seventy-one prisoners taken by the Americans, iiccordinL' to a front dispatch. dis-patch. His name is nut mentioned in the dispatch. The only detail about him so far known is that l.e wears a monocle. General I'ershing on September " decorated a la rue umber of men be-loiiL'in be-loiiL'in to divisions which had distinguished dis-tinguished themselves during the .summer. .sum-mer. All the men received the distinguished dis-tinguished service cross. The law number of German officials offi-cials in r.ol.rjum have been called for military service, according to the Niettwe Kottcrdani Coiirant. Their places are lo be taken by women. Talaat l'asha. the Turkish grand vizier, in an Interview published In the Vienna None Prcsse. said he firmly firm-ly believed that peace would come before be-fore the winter. Talaat is now in ietina. Thirty-five members of the crew of Ihe American army I ra n-porf .Mount Vernon, formerly the North German Lloyd liner Kroiiprinzes.-in Cecilie, were killed by the explosion of a torpedo tor-pedo which struck the vessel when she was 200 miles from the French coast, homeward hound. Japanese forces have occupied the town of Khabarovsk. Siberia, necord-lui: necord-lui: to advices received from Vladivostok. Vladivo-stok. Concent rat ion of American I roups In the American sectors In France is proceeding pro-ceeding rapidly and General Pershing now has under his direct command re than 00 per cenl of the troops w ho have reached the other side. Lccause of the shortage of working horses in P.erlln, coal Is to be transported trans-ported front the coal yards to the homes of consumers by trolley, according accord-ing lo Ihe llerllu Tageblalt. The coal will be coiiviyed In trailers attached to Ihe st reel ca is. Nikolai Leiiine. Ihe Ilolshevikl premier. pre-mier. Is recovering from the wounds recently inflicted on him, according to a medical bulletin received at London. Lon-don. The Germans are giving ground over the lot) mile front from Ypros to ilhelms. Particularly heavy defeats have been lullleled on them by the French ill the old Noyon salient, and by tlm French and Americans In Ihe region between the Vcsle and Aisne easl of Solssons. 'The French have occupied all their old Ireiiches along Ihe whole of the froiil lo the north of Ihe Alsne river and also have raptured the towns of Ham and Clin liny In the salient soulh-west soulh-west of SI. (tuentln, Coiinl I'', von llei'lling, the Imperial German chancellor, has resigned, giving giv-ing had heallh as Ihe cause for his rcl Iremenl, ticeorillng lo Ihe Geneva correspondent of Ihe London Ihilly F,x-press, F,x-press, (uollug a dispatch received In Geneva from Munich, llavarla. |