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Show o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed m n INTERMOUNTAIN. Another Indian "war" like the ticklish tick-lish chase for Tse-Na-Gat last winter Is in prospect at Bluff, Utah, the lonely lone-ly settlement on the San Juan, in the 'Four Coj-ners" country, according to reports brought by packers and range riders. Word was received in Salt Lake of the death at Nogales, Ariz., of Leon Radmall, 20 years of age, of Pleasant Grove, a member of the Utah battery. I He was kicked in the head by a horse. A freight train was derailed near Lund, Wash., and one man killed. Resolutions condemning the state industrial commission, and demanding the repeal of the law by which it was created were passed without a dissenting dissent-ing vote by the Colorado federation of labor in session at Colorado Springs. Ned Frost, a guide, and Ed Jones, a cook, were brought to Cody, Wyo., suffering from serious injuries received re-ceived in a battle with a large female fe-male grizzly bear near the Lake hotel ho-tel in Yellowstone National park. O. B. Trumbo, constable, while at- Another substantial decrease In ths number of deaths at New York City from Infantile paralysis and in the number of new cases has strengthened strength-ened the belief of the health authorities authori-ties that the epidemic is on the wane. Three deaths due to heat prostrations, prostra-tions, one by drowning and a number of prostrations was the toll of the torrid tor-rid weather in Milwaukee on Sunday. On the charge of sending a threatening threat-ening post card to President Wilson, Theodore E. Jones. 65 years ola, u tobacco salesman who also claims t.o be a marine draughtsman, was arrested arrest-ed at his home in Baltimore. WASHINGTON. President Wilson's wee'.; of conferences confer-ences with ranking officials of the railroads rail-roads and leaders of their employees threatening a nation-wide strike are believed by all parties to the controversy contro-versy to have brought the situation to a point where decisive developments develop-ments may be expected within a few days. The army appropriation bill was vetoed ve-toed by President Wilson because he would not accept certain provisions in the revision of the articles of war, forced into the bill by the house conferees con-ferees and commonly said in army circles cir-cles to be in the interest of certain retired officers "at outs with the army." Without debate or record vote, the child labor bill was. accepted by the house with the senate amendments. A bond issue of $130,000,000 to meet extraordinary government expenditures ex-penditures due to the Mexican situation situa-tion was unexpectedly recommended to congress on August 17 by majority members of the senate finance committee, com-mittee, with the concurrence of the treasury department. tempting to serve a summons on an unwilling witness at Grand Junction, Colo., fell sixty feet, breaking both legs and suffering internal injuries. Trumbo had climbed to a roof of the Union station to serve papers on a painter. DOMESTIC. The loss of life from the tropical storm which struck Corpus Christi and ten adjacent south Texas counties on Friday night, is placed at thirteen, including in-cluding nine members of the crew of the small freighter Pilot Boy, which foundered off the Arkansas pass jetties Mrs. Morse Davis, widow of the Vancouver, B. C, mining man who died of poisoning at a Chicago hotel ten days ago, tried to jump from a window of St. Mary's Mission house, , attendants said. Four drownings, seven deaths and a number of heat prostrations were reported At Chicago, as a result of the heat on Sunday, the second of the present heat wave. The maximum temperature reached in the afternoon was 91 degrees. A serum to combat infantile paralysis paraly-sis is being made from the blood of those who have survived the disease. While the -method is a kind of forlorn hope, it is to be given a trial at New York. Dr. Clarence J. Lockhart, aged 26, a prominent physician, was shot and killed at Freedom, Pa., by Stephen Hesler, aged 48, one of his .patients. The wind that accompanied a severe se-vere rain and electrical storm Sunday .evening blew over a large wooden hall in the camp of the Thirty-second Michigan infantry, bruising several men, and made the night uncomfortable uncomfort-able in all the military camps in the neighborhood of El Paso. Preliminary investigation in Chica-,-go of the recent rise in wheat and flour prices, and threatened rise in price of bread, by Chairman Hurley of the federa! trade commission, is understood to have disclosed no evidence evi-dence of illegal manipulations. United States soldiers and national nation-al guardsmen stationed at Fort Brown, Texas, were driven from their quarters and have taken refuge in the city hall and other public buildings build-ings at Brownsville, on account of the gulf coast storm. One soldier was killed and thousands thous-ands of others encamped in and near El Paso suffered great discomfort as a result of heavy rains, preceded by an electrical storm. Koy Pettit, 35, was shot and killed by his wife on a downtown street at Mount Clemens, Mich. Dozens of persons per-sons saw the tragedy. Pettit was night clerk at a hotel. Mrs. Pettit declared she killed her husband because be-cause 'he sought the company of others too much." By a unanimous vote the convention at Baltimore of the International Typographical union selected Colorado Springs, Colo., as the place of the 1917 convention. Abraham I. Elkus, recently appointed appoint-ed American ambassador to Turkey, sailed August 17 aboard the Danish steamship Oscar II. He will go to his post by way of Berlin, Vienna and Sofia. Judge Edward T. Wade, who, as former judge of the speeders' court of Chicago, has fined thousands of violators of automobile speed laws, was himself found guilty Thursday on charges of speeding. He was fined $10. The government's Alaskan railroad now is carrying coal from the Matan-uska Matan-uska fields to the harbor at Anchorage. Anchor-age. The New York Central railway has announced the perfection of a process pro-cess for the elimination of the hidden flaws in steel rails, one of the chief causes of train wrecks. The biggest practice stunt of the national guard mobilization is being planned by General Funston and his staff, a divisional "hike" of all the 12,000 guardsmen encamped at San Antonio, Republican members of the senate finance committee, in a minority report re-port on the administration revenue bill, denounced the principle of the bill as wrong and declared it overlooks over-looks entirely the "serious international interna-tional crisis" which the country will have to face. FOREIGN. Berlin reports the capture by German Ger-man troops of the Kreta heights, south of Zabie, on the foothills of the Carpathians, and the repulse of Russian Rus-sian counter attacks at Magura height to the southeast. The principal improvement in the larger Zeppelins, in addition to their great carrying capacity, is their Increased In-creased proof against anti-aircraft shell'fire, according to a naval officer who commanded a super-Zeppelin in a recent attack on points in England. A statement from the office of Adolph von Botochi, president of the food regulation hoard of Germany, says that information now at hand gives assurance that this year's crops will be much in excess of those of the last peace years. It declares Germany Ger-many is assured of supplies of all food supplies for another year. General Sir Sam Hughes, the Canadian Cana-dian war minister, arrived in Paris on Sunday from a week's inspection of the Britsh front of the Somme. One man was killed and several were wounded at Cienfuegos in a political po-litical riot between partisans of Santiago San-tiago Ray and Juan Florencio, rival candidates for mayor. Fifteen starving Yaqui Indians on a food raid, swooped down on a settlement set-tlement eight miles inland from Guay-mas Guay-mas and killed a man named Wilson. The Peruvian government has submitted sub-mitted to congress a bill for the immediate im-mediate imposition of export duties of 10 per cent on crude petroleum and 20 per cent on benzine, gasoline and kerosene. The Spanish steamer Legazpi, at Manila from Barcelona, reports that its cargo was not tampered with by the British authorities, but that mail from Manila was removed for thirty hours. The international institute of agriculture agri-culture reports that, with harvesting virtually nearly completed in most European countries, indications are that the 1916 world's wheat supply will be almost 25 per cent less than last year's. Assaults by British and French forces against German positions north of the Somme in France have resulted result-ed in the gaining of additional ground by the attackers, according to the British and French war offices. Sixty revolutionists held up a passenger pas-senger train on the Mexican National railway near Aguas Calientes, Dur-ango, Dur-ango, taking prisoner the twenty-five Carranzista soldiers comprising the escort, it is announced. The eighty-sixth birthday of Emperor Em-peror Francis Joseph of Austro-Hun-gary was celebrated at Berlin on August Au-gust 18 on a large scale in military and diplomatic circles. Miss Eileen Lee, who swam 364 miles in the Thames river in 10 hours and 17 minutes, is said to have established estab-lished a new world's record in long distance swimming for women. In the recent operations around Katia, east of the Suez canal, the losses sustained by the Turkish force were estimated at about 9,000 men, including prisoners, or virtually one-half one-half the force. A private telegram received at Geneva from Berlin says that the German Ger-man submarine Deutschland arrived safely at Bremen from the United States. The steamer Pilot Boy, sunk in the gulf of Mexico outside of Corpus Christi bay, probably carried ten men to their death. An official statement issued at Berlin Ber-lin says that during July seventy-four merchantmen belonging to the entente en-tente allies were sunk by GermaD and Austrian submarines and mines The ships had a tonnase of 103,000. |
