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Show NEWS OF A WEEK III" CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are JVIaklng History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN United States Senator Charles Mc-Nary, Mc-Nary, appointed by Governor Withy-combe Withy-combe last winter to complete the unexpired un-expired term of the late Senator Lane, of Oregon, and Oswald West, former governor, were elected candidates in the general primaries for the seven-year seven-year senatorial term beginning next March. McNary is a Republican and West a Democrat. Nearly 200 patients bad a narrow escape from death, and damage estimated esti-mated at many thousands of dollars was caused when fire completely destroyed de-stroyed the engine room containing the beating and lighting system, together to-gether with the laundry, at a Salt ake hospital. Members of the Oregon and Washington Wash-ington Poultry Breeders' association have offered to give free settings of eggs to all people who will promise to set the eggs and raise the chickens for market. The offer is a war measure. meas-ure. . The last of the national army recruits re-cruits received at Camp Lewis, Wash., in the April draft were put through he mustering office of the depot hri-gate hri-gate on May 15, and became either soldiers or were sent back to civilian life as unfit. Assembled in a "Win the war" con- j vention, the League to Enforce Peace j in convention at Philadelphia adopted a platform in which it declared that j "until Germany is overcome the paramount para-mount and pressing duty of the United States and other free nations, with which this country is allied, is to fight with unconquerable determination for a victorious peace." The total of the third Liberty loan is 54.170,019,(150, an over-subscription of 39 per cent above the ts.'i.OOO.OOO minimum mini-mum sought. Alexander F. Kerensky. who became premier of Russia in July, 1917, and was deposed in November by the Bol-sheviki, Bol-sheviki, is expected to arrive in the United States next week, according to a report published in the New York Call, a Socialist organ. The Omaha police have started arresting ar-resting all idlers under u new state law passed trt a special session of the legislature, leg-islature, declaring those able to work, of whatever class and not occupied in any useful occupation, shall be declared de-clared guilty of sedition. WASHINGTON Every effort is being made in the house to defer revenue legislation at this session of congress if possible. For the first time in the history of the world, an aerial mall service conducted con-ducted under a definitely arranged time schedule was placed in operation May 15 between New York, Philadelphia Philadel-phia and Washington by the United States government. President Wilson has declined to veto ihe bill passed by congress changing the basis of army draft quotas from state population to the number of men in class one because of objection to the elimination of the plan for giving credits for volunteers. To stimulate the campaign to obtain pledges for the purchase of outstanding outstand-ing issues of war saving stamps, Secretary Sec-retary MeAdoo, in an announcement May 15, fixed June 2S as national war savings day. President Wilson has summoned Charles E. Hughes to act with Attorney Attor-ney General Gregory in the investigation investiga-tion of criminal charges made in connection con-nection with aircraft production. Mr. Hughes' acceptance of the task is announced. an-nounced. FOREIGN "An enemy monitor shelled Ostend yesterday and inflicted considerable losses upon the population," says a war office statement issued from Berlin Ber-lin on Friday. Austrian newspapers are exhibiting concern at what they, call the effemini-zation effemini-zation of the army. It appears that 30,000 women and girls are now employed em-ployed in the auxiliary services as clerks', servants, etc., and that others are being enlisted at the rate of 150,-000 150,-000 a month. The food shortage in Germany is pictured pic-tured as a veritable nightmare by the Schwaebisch Tagewacht, a socialist newspaper, which says the decrease in weight and loss of strength due to undernourishment un-dernourishment are noticeable everywhere, every-where, especially in the industrial centers. cen-ters. "If the English soldiers were driven from France, Germany would net win, because she must win both on land and at sea. Her position is the same as that of Napoleon," declares General Smuts, the famous Boer leader. A proclamation issued Friday at Dublin, says a German plot in Ireland Ire-land has been discovered. In the proclamation proc-lamation the viceroy calls upon all loyal Irishmen to defeat the conspiracy. conspir-acy. A number of arrests have been made. How Germany is pursuing vigorously vigorous-ly her policy of commercial penetration penetra-tion in Russia Is further described in official dispatches, which say all sorts of financial concerns, banks, corporations corpora-tions and manufacturing enterprises were being brought up. Germany is calling in her nickel coinage, coin-age, the metal cJ which is needed for projectiles, and is substituting zinc for minting coins of this class. Authority has just been given for the minting of 10,000,000 marks' worth of zinc 10 pfennig pieces. The United States has promised to have 1,500,000 fighting men in France by the end of 1918, says l'Homme Libre, Premier Clemenceau's newspaper. news-paper. These troops, it adds, must have their own organization and services, ser-vices, which will mean at least two million, specialist workers, men In the quartermaster's department and others. Russian naval officials blew up their four American .submarines before retreating re-treating from Hango, in southwestern Finland, last April, the British admiralty ad-miralty announces. Two Oregon counties, Union and Wallowa, on May 14 announced themselves them-selves "over the top" in the second national Red Cross drive, which opens officially May 20. The joint quota of the counties, which comprise one district dis-trict lor the coming state Red Cross campaign is $23,000. DOMESTIC The meat .packing industry as at present constituted was denounced as "a vicious system, which stifles livestock live-stock raising, so vital in the prosecution prosecu-tion of the war and in feeding our nation na-tion and our allies," in an address by United States Senator John B. Ken-drick Ken-drick of Wyoming before the convention conven-tion of the National Livestock exchange ex-change at New York. Wooden ships have been launched at the rate of more than one a day i for the past four weeks. German hospital, one of the oldest Institutions in San Francisco, bearing ' that name since 1854, became Franklin Frank-lin hospital Friday by vote of the directors. di-rectors. William H. Carlson, former mayor of San Diego, and several years ago a banker at Los Angeles, has been sentenced sen-tenced to four years' imprisonment for using the mails to defraud in the sale of Imperial valley land. Dr. W. H. Bruce, 83, a retired physician of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., gave his wife a dose of what he thought was quinine in an effort to cure a cold. Mrs. Bruce soon complained of being 111, and in an effort to reassure her, Dr. Bruce himself took a dose of the drug. The wife died shortly afterwards after-wards and Dr. Bruce cannot recover. The New York assay office has shipped to the orient in the last week about $3,000,000 worth of silver bars in accordance with an arrangement effected ef-fected with the British government some time ago to stabilize silver in India, In-dia, where it forms the principal medium me-dium of exchange in trading operations. opera-tions. "A superwheat," containing 14 per cent gluten, has been evolved by Luther Luth-er Burbank, the noted California hor-' hor-' ticulturist, after experiments extend ing over eleven years. The wheat may be grown in any climate. The death rate at national army and national guard camps last week was the lowest since last November, the surgeon-general has reported. Total deaths were 102 against 1G8 the week before. The Sacramento, Cal., city board of (dncatlon voted to close the city schools June 7, approximately three weeks earlier than usual, in order to release children for farm work. Thirty business buildings were destroyed de-stroyed 'at Fulton, S. D., when high winds swept the flames from a blaze in the railroad yards into the business section of the town. California's home kitchens, bakeries and other establishments were called upon May 15 by the federal food administration ad-ministration for the state to contribute .their wheat flour savings to a collection collec-tion of flour to lie taken to ports of the allies by a fleet of ships built In ( 'alil'ornia. Czechs and Jugoslavs taken prisoner by the Russians while fighting with Austro-I lungarian armies have organized organ-ized an army which now is resisting the Teutonic invasion of Russia, it is reported. A German offensive of terror against Ihe civilian population of France and Italy was described Thursday by Henry Hen-ry P. Davison on his return from a 12,0iM)-mile tour of inspection of Red Cross work abroad. G;rt.ut Britain's unshakable determination deter-mination to fight on until a peace that is not a German peace has been secured se-cured was eloquently voiced Thursday by Lord Cinvon in an address before the Foreign Press association. According to 111- Stockholm Tiilnin-gen, Tiilnin-gen, further lighting between the Russians Rus-sians and Finns is' in prospect. Jt reports that the frontier is blocked with masses of troops and predicts a heavy hallle. The government of India has decided t'i recruit at once more than IiOO.OOO men. Plans bad been made in 1911 for a revolution of Germans in the United Stales iii case this country should be druji into the European war, according accord-ing to testimony at the slate attorney general's Investigation at New York of hidden munitions. Stark Starkensen, one of the lieutenants lieu-tenants of Vmiajatmar Sli-fanson, the Arctic e.'plnrer, has set. out at the bead of an expedition of exploration across Hie Arelic ire in search of new lands, according lo loiters received here from it, e north, Willi twelve companions, nine sleds and eighty dogs |