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Show o History of PastWeek The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed m a INTER MOUNTAI N. To discover all the books in the Seattle library that might have pro-Gcriuan pro-Gcriuan leanings, is the task the library stall' has set before it. The latest discovery is a book of toasis every one of which is a toast lo Germany Ger-many and a w ish for her success. Vittori I'.utiis. an Italian newspaper man. under indict mom, by a federal iratid jury for attempting ro discourage enlistment in the I'niied Stales nrmj. was arrested in Pueblo. Colo. Representative Japanese business men of the Pacific coast, from San Francisco, Los Angeles. Portland and Vancouver. P.. '.. iir conference with Seattle Japanese, sent a telegram to President Wilson pledging their loyally and support to the government for the victorious prosecution of the war. iacoma celebrated July 4 with five ship launcliings. a military and industrial indus-trial parade led by' the First infantry, J U. S. A., auto races at the speedway, j evening maneuvers in the stadium by : infantry, concluding wirli fireworks. I Grain raised in Oregon, Washington, j Idaho and western Montana to the ! summit of the Rockies will be routed to the Atlantic seaboard this year via the Pacific coast and the Panama canal. Fire at Bingham Canyon. I'tali. destroyed de-stroyed the school house, two apartment apart-ment houses and three residences, the loss running into thousands of dollars. Two hundred and fifty soldiers of the spruce division have been righting a forest tire near Cochran. Washing- ton county, Oregon, on the Southern j Pacific line to Tillamook. j DOMESTIC. The bodies of Miss Tillie Jackson and it male escort in an automobile ride were found in a marsh at Jackson, ' Mk;h Saturday afternoon. The woman" wom-an" bead was almost severed. It is suspected that a noted convict, named Kushnell. with a lust for murder, killed the pair. Detectives investigating the death off John Kibbin, So years old, a waiter employed at a laborers' camp at Chesterfield, Ches-terfield, Mo., reported that he was beaten at the camp in a fight which began when Kibbin thought lie was being mocked by another man who si uttered. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. John Dewitt. a girl aged S and a boy aged 4. were burned lo death at Snowllake. Ariz., when the Dewitt home, was destroyed de-stroyed by lire. Two other boys, aged j Hi and 10, who tried to rescue their brother and sister, were seriously burned. j The Arkansas cons! it ul ional ennven-1 ennven-1 lion on July 4 voted to incorporate inlo 'the proposed new state constitution a clause , giving women all civil and political rights, including sull'rage am! I serving on juries. ' WASHINGTON. I Moving picture players are classed I as legitimate theatrical performers" j in an order announced by Provost Mar-l Mar-l sital General Crowder, and draft boards are directed to consider such players, musicians and all skilled persons per-sons employed in creation and presen-j presen-j union of moving pieiure productions ; as engaged in productive employment. Formal warning was issued from i the office of the fuel administration mi July 7 that the siock of coal may 'be insiilficieiit to meet the domestic necessities during the coming winter. , Only the strictest economy will see the country through the cold season with out suffering from lack 'if fuel. Kvor.v American soldier who returns from France would be given his choice of a return "To" the lift he led prior to entering the army, or n farm, planned out of the fifteen million acres of land, owned and untouched by the United States goverti-.mcit, if plans of Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, are adopted. The urgent desire of President Wilson Wil-son to have the resolution providing for the seizure of the telegraph and telephone lines passed before congress takes a recess was communicated ..eduesday to members of the house who were called into conference at t he While House. Misunderstanding of the war risk insurance act either on the part of the enlisted man or by his dependents has caused much of the delay in the mailing of monthly checks for allotments allot-ments and allowances, according to the findings of a special committee of inquiry in-quiry appointed by Secretaries Baker and McAdoo. FOREIGN. General Count von Mirbnch, German Ger-man ambassador to Russia, has been assassinated at .Moscow, according lo a Berlin report received by the Havas agency. Two unknown persona were involved in the crime. The American Red Cross flood rcli"f camp at Tientsin, with its 11HU families, fam-ilies, aggregating 4.'iSU persons, sheltered shel-tered there when river Hoods drove them from their homes, is now only a memory, every family having been located in homes provided for them or of their own choice. Exports of foodstuffs to the central powers from Denmark is being curbed by the associated Scandinavian governments. gov-ernments. Germany will send three army corps to the tiid of Austria, according to a Rome dispatch to the Temps. English and Japanese landing parlies patrolled tic streets of Vladivostok and enforced neutrality in the area where the coiisulated are loettod dur-ing dur-ing the fighting between the Czechoslovaks Czecho-slovaks and the Bol.-heviki, according to a dispatch from Vladi vostok. Stockholm advises stale thai Grand Duke Michael, broiler of the funnel czar, is marching on Moscow at the head of a V.echo 'o.-.-.ick army. M. Yolodnr.-ky, Ih.lsheviki commissioner commis-sioner for the press, has been ass i sinnied. Ihe Central News learns, while returning laitn a meeting, Ihe ili li says. Tin- wa r will oonl linn- until ''( ier many is ben i en and her ow er i break i rea i at v, III i s sh.i 1 1 . red.' said Ian Ma 1'b.a -on, under secretary of -tale for war, to an audience o Americans al the Palace fh aire in London. The en'iro population of tic Mur u-ltl co.. s (.,;, ,e Lola m loo-;'!-, ordering or-dering Ihe White s"a and ;. Arctic) has broken wiih Bit. -in and Jo'in-d Hi eiitenie. according lo a ilispn.eli from Vardne, Norway. Conforming to tin' action of the director general of tin- T " 1 1 i I I Status railroad a dmi n i it ra I ion oritcr-ing oritcr-ing ('tilled Stales carriers lo increas" I ra n scon I i nen I a 1 westbound eoi.iiuoili I .v rales from the eastern stales to coast points. Ihe dominion railway board lias authorized a similar increase In Canadian Cana-dian rail's, effective Augn-'l 1. The American transport Covington, homeward hound after binding several thousand soldiers In France, was torpedoed tor-pedoed and sunk in the war zone. Six' members of the crew are missing. The supreme war council 1 1 ' I 1 Its seventh ses ;ioii al Versailles on July .1. It is permitted lo stall- that "im-porlalll "im-porlalll decisions" were taken. Genii Gen-ii a I Per .bitig repi e lent ed t he I'til led So. les al tin' s.'s ion. Several Duleh steamers, under an armed convoy and iiecouipa nied by a collier, sailed July .1 for the Dutch liasl Indie-;, says a (lis patch from The I laginc A German submarine hovering off ! tlii,- Atlantic coast was fired upon by a I British steamer, according to passen- j gers of the ship which arrived Sunday Sun-day at an Atlantic port. j indefinite postponement of the i strike of telegraphers employed by the Western Union Telegraph company, called to begin Monday, was an-ni'Uiieed an-ni'Uiieed Sunday night, " pending the consideration hy congress of the reso- lution authorizing the president to in' e , over during the war all wire and radio systems. Over a hundred people are believe1 . to have been drowned when the excursion ex-cursion steamer Columbia overturned iti the Illinois river, live miles smith i of Peoria. III. j Louigis MoCill, a negro convict. vi,o f-i have been identilied as tin- man who J atempted to attack the wife of a rami- er living near Madid. Okia.. and who later is said to have stabbed in an. indicting probably fatal in.lu li s. i was lynched Friday. ; Governor Buriiipiist has notified i Mayo'' Thomas Van Lear and Chief of! Police Harthill of Minneapolis that, unless rioting and disturbances im-i- j dent to a newsboys' strike are slopped. I.e. would remove them from oi'i'ico. Charles M. Schwab, director gen- I ral ol the emergency fleet corpora I ion. ! I. lunched a big vessel for every letter in the word "liidependeiiie" from his own yards in the San Francisco dis- , trict July 4. directed tin; launching of live more from olln-r yards. ; , i j -1 lln-h said that lie longed for many such U a v s. Willi t lions;. nds of persons cviyi' , i s streets, I.aelede, Mo.. comMm d ihe c-iebra I ion of America's Declaration of Independence- with u day of tribute! to ;!..!; I .ioim J. I'er.-liii.g. who was' born 1 ie-re Sep: eiol.er I .'!. 1 Mill. A muni ! ions plant oo-'ing S'loOlKI.-O'lO S'loOlKI.-O'lO ami employing UO.O'in persons, will j s ioll be CoI:,--l rui'i e'l ill Si. Louis, nc- j cording to an annoiineemeni. Tie- plant i will be tie- only one in the I'niied i Slates to turn out a complete sbeil. i Jack Dempsey knocked out Bob Do- J voro at Jopiin, Mo., July 4. In the first round of a scheduled twelve-round ! ':gkl. Devon apparent ly was not In ; ood condition, while Dempsev was hard and lit. J Six Japanese employed by a fruit i picking contractor were killed early. July 1 when an automobile in which they v.i re riding was struck by a -porth-bouml Southern Pacilie Iraiii nl ' I'omar, ten miles south of San Jose, ' al. Ship production in Ihe I'niied Slates In June amounted lo giXO. Inn dead-v dead-v i -i :.-1 . 1 too , ma I; big I In- total IP IS pro-iPi.iio.'j pro-iPi.iio.'j to ,),, t e I.O-.1 070 Ion-. Th- la '.'.': ei - of .Marl in .burg, W. Vn.. are l.i ing ma r. be ! led for farm work llll'l the loove i- e'-.peel,-, lo I X I i lid lo ' Hi h-r ei: i", in ihe slate. I I i.l philUM-d lh.ll the lav V. I - elo-.e lb-ir , ,1 li' . -I lor ji loon . h during the ;cn on when the '- ei rt . an- i'l'i-o a ud pu I in tin- I i me i"!pi ng bal ". e I the crops. iieiiiiei ion of :' I oh. i :n;.!-i.".i; in the opi raliiig income of of the largest. J r.d Iron, I din ing t he Iir -I li ve monl In under go.i'i iiioeut oonli'ol. compared villi Ihe .aloe period a year ago, was, linnoiiiiooil Toe day by the inter late oiiimi'i r.v commi i aon. I Hundreds of guns have been seize,) ill I la 1 1 ina loe, Kosooiiimnn nn'.l King's county, Ireland, and many nrresl.1 have been 1 1 1 1 1 I . according to a pre-in a '-locla lion di'.pa I eh, Ldwin Samuel Monlai'iio, secretary of I In- shite for India, In a reporl aub-lollled aub-lollled lo the government. July ," recommend ; the adoption of home rule In India. |
