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Show n History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN. Forty and ono-l'ourtM percent of the Dil.OOO nnistfiud voters of Seattle are women, according to the registration registra-tion office. Tlio percentage of women regis! ered hail increased 7 per cent over 19H. Ah Hie result of a .second attempt to explore the unknown regions of Kluck canyon n a small boat on the (UinniHon river, Ellsworth L. Kolb and Ilert I.opor are in a hospital at Montrose, Mont-rose, Colo., suffering injuries received In a 3,200-foot climb over Jagged rocks from the river. The ground blown out from under Iiiin, precipitating him 200 feet to the -bottom of the ravine, Jacob Kuttcrer, 41) years old, was instantly killed in a limestone quarry near Logan, Utah. Earl V. Vorin, 27 years of age, who irewlded with his parents on a farm at Juanita, Wash., was gored to death ly a young bull which became an-flircd an-flircd when Vorls was fixing the leash with which the creature was tied to a post. Captain Louis Hannevlg, a Norwe-Kian Norwe-Kian ship owner, who signed a contract con-tract for construction of two 8,800-ton steamships at Seattle at a cost of more than $1,000,000 each, says submarines sub-marines are sinking Norwegian ves-.'buIk ves-.'buIk faster than Norway can replace ; th(;in. Mrs. U. F. Hibbard, wife of the proprietor pro-prietor of a moving picture theater . at Uepuhlic, Wash., was burned to . tliiiitu and three buildings were de-; de-; tlrvyed in a fire which started in the theater. Thirty patrons escaped. DOMESTIC. 'A counterfeiting plant, which was enid to have produced the notorious spurious $10 federal, reserve Jackson eilvcr certificate, was found iu the studio of H. Russell Wilken at Los -Angeles. VVUkeu is alleged to have . i-oiili'.ssod to passing more than $50,-O00 $50,-O00 spurious paper in seven years. Denial that the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor is supporting any one eet of candidates in the present political poli-tical campaign was made in a speech -at Pittsburg by Frank Morrison, secretary sec-retary of. the organization. What is said to be the second ship tfrom Iceland to reach American nhons since the days of Lief the ilAicky, 1,000 years ago, arrived at New York on Saturday when the little lit-tle steamer Godafoss docked with a -cargo of skins nd herring. St. Paul's chapel In lower Broad-way, Broad-way, in one of the busiest parts of New York, where George Washington Washing-ton worshipped, began its one hundred hun-dred and fiftieth anniversary cele--bratton ou Saturday. O. S. Swanson, warden of the South Dakota state penitentiary, committed suicide at Sioux Falls by shooting himself with a revolver. It is believed be-lieved failing health prompted the deod. A thanksgiving appeal for funds to relieve suffering among the widows and orphans in Germany has been issued is-sued at New York by the American relief committee, backed by the ap-, ap-, proval of James W. Gerard. Tha dispatch of extra scouting details de-tails to border points followed receipts re-ceipts of orders at Columbus, N. M., for military commanders to be on the alert for raids into American territory by Mexican bandits. Fred Fulton of Rochester, Minn., knocked out Andrew Anderson of Chicago Chi-cago in the first round of a scheduled -ten-round bout at Enclaire, -Wis. -Corporal Charles Wood of the machine ma-chine gun company of the Seventh United States infantry, was fatally injured in-jured near Ysleta, Texas, when he was accidentally shot in the left side of the abdomen. -rainless and bloodless surgery by means of a system of nerve block-, ing and pressure on the arteries was one of the many delicate operations -which held the attention of members of the clinical congress of surgeons of North America in annual session at Philadelphia. An invitation of the Japanese to hold the next convention of the World's Sunday School association iu Tokio has been accepted, it was announced an-nounced Thursday by the association's committee, which held a meeting at New York. Another boom week is noted in the Boston wool market with sales aggregating aggre-gating more than 10,000,000 pounds. Charles F. Stielow, three times reprieved re-prieved while under sentence of death for the murder of Charles D. Phelps at West Shelby, N. Y., March 21, 1915, has been resentenced and will be executed December 11. J. A. English loved Irene von Gundy, Gun-dy, divorced wife of E. Van Gundy of iCly, Nev., so much that he forced her to marry him by threatening her with srrest under the Mann act, she told special Judge Humphrey at Kansas City, and was granted annulment. Advices received in New Y'ork by ship brokers and local representatives of Norwegian steamship lines indicate indi-cate that a law prohibiting the placing plac-ing of orders for new tonnage, intended in-tended to fly the Norwegian flag, with foreign shipyards is contemplated by 2f:he Norwegian government. Governor J. A. A. Burnquist announced an-nounced he would sign the bill passed by an extraordinary session of the stale legislature Saturday g'.ving Minnesota guardsmen absent from the state in federal service the right to vote. Joseph Ulevious threw a stick of field, 111., to kill fish. He was buried the next day. Virginia entered the ranks of prohibition pro-hibition states at midnight Tue.'day, swelling the total to eighteen. Reviewing business conditions in an address at the semi-annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel institute insti-tute at St. Louis, Elbert H. Gary, president of the institute, urged exercise exer-cise of caution and preparedness tot any "unfavorable changes." WASHINGTON. Professor Cleveland Abbe, known as "The Father of the Weather Bureau," died at Washington after an illres3 of a year. No German submarines are in the vicinity of the Virginia capes. None lias been seen in the neighborhood of Nantucket lightship, it is authoritatively authorita-tively stated at the navy department. Secretary of War Baker announced on October 25, that the war department depart-ment had received definite information informa-tion that enemies of the government's policy toward Mexico, in co-operation with Villa or other bandits, had arranged ar-ranged for a spectacular attack ou American troops on the border. Cognizance of the allied blockide has been taken by the postoffice department de-partment in recommending to postmasters post-masters throughout the country at offices of-fices where International money orders or-ders are sold to post notices advising patrons to purchase such orders intended in-tended for Christmas presents by December De-cember 1 or as soon after that time as convenient. Bids for the four new battleships, Colorado, Maryland, Washington snd West Virginia, were, opened Wednesday Wednes-day at the navy department. FOREIGN. Further groun-1 has been gained by the French and Serbian force-5 on the Macedonian front in their drive towards to-wards Monastir, the French war office of-fice announces. The German reichstag, after a short discussion, passed the bill for a new war credit of 12,000,000 marks, asked for by Count von Roedern, the imperial imper-ial treasurer. A telegram received in Rome from a German source reports that indications indica-tions point to the beginning of a tremendous tre-mendous Russian offensive in Galicia and Poland. Very drastic measures are being taken by the Russian government In order to keep the population of. Pet-rograd Pet-rograd at a low ebb and thus prevent the ever-threatening dearth of provisions provi-sions in the great city. An attempt was made recently to assassinate William Morris Hughes, the Australian premier, at his home in New Victoria, according to a Reu-ter Reu-ter dispatch from Sydney. A bomb dropped by an aviator of the entente allies, has killed the engineer en-gineer driving the train of Emperor William of Germany, according to information in-formation received at Zurich, Switzerland. Swit-zerland. The German reichstag had it stormiest meeting of the present session ses-sion on Sunday when the question of abrogating the so-called preventive arrest on suspicion came up. Captain Boelke, the famous German aviator, during an air fight on Saturday, Satur-day, came into collision with another aeroplane and was killed, according to a Berlin dispatch. One thousand Rumanians, the first detachment of prisoners taken by the Turkish army in Dobrudja, have arrived ar-rived in Constantinople. Austro-German troops have made further progress in the region south of Kronstadt and in th9 direction of Campulung, according to reports fiom Berlin. At least eleven outpost steamers and two or three torpedo boat destroyers de-stroyers or torpedo boats were sunk or damaged by a German torpedo boat squadron Thursday night in the English channel between Folkstone and Boulogne, according to an official communication issued at Berlin. A new war credit bill for 12,000,-000,000 12,000,-000,000 marks was submitted to the German reichstag Friday by Count von Roedern, secretary of the imperial impe-rial treasury, who also reviewed the successes of the German war finances and compared them with the practices followed by the countries opposed to Germany. The French line steamer Chicago has arrived at Fayal, Azores islands, on fire, according to Lloyd's. The utmost ut-most is being done to extinguish the fire aboard. "The Swedish government has instructed in-structed its minister afPetrograd to protest immediately against the Russian Rus-sian intention to place mines in Swedish Swe-dish territorial waters," says the Overseas Over-seas News agency. German troops on the Transylvania front have reached Campulung, twenty twen-ty miles within the Rumanian border, says a Petrograd dispatch. The unenthusiastic attitude of the government toward the Centrist motion mo-tion to give the budget committee the right to sit during recesses of the reichstag and discuss the foreign and war policy of the nation is generally resented by the liberal press of Germany. Ger-many. The losses to Norwegian shipping caused by the war have reached a total of 26S.000 tons gross register, according to a compilation made by the Ritzau News Agency. The insurance insur-ance carried amounted to 102,000,000 kronen and the loss of life to 149. |