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Show o History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed " I NTE RMOUNTAI N. Jeremiah A. O'Loary, a fugitive from juslice since the eve of the dale set ifor his trial on a charge of violating the espionage act by publication of seditious matter in the anti-British periodical Lull and later indicted for conspiracy to commit treason, was arrested ar-rested June 14 at Sara, Wash. Edgar G. Snyder of Seattle, has been appointed a federal employment director direc-tor for Washington, Oregon and Idaho, succeeding Henry M. White, commissioner commis-sioner of immigration and conciliation at Seattle, who has been acting employment em-ployment diroctor. The forest lire situation in Montana, Idaho and eastern Washington has improved im-proved greatly, thanks to cooler weather weath-er and fairly heavy local rains. The restricted district at Reno, New, which has been recognized and licensed 6ince the old territorial days, passed out of existence at midnight Saturday night, under orders from the war department. de-partment. This action is taken as protection pro-tection to the men who are to be quartered quar-tered at the University of Nevada this summer for training in technical work. Maj. Gen. George M. Randall, retired, re-tired, veteran of the civil and Spanish-American Spanish-American wars, died at Denver, June 14, after a short illness, aged 77 years. He retired in October, 1905. E. E. Kelloggr a retired farmer living at Mount Pleasant, Ore., changed with disloyal utterances, was given a coat of ta and feathers by twenty-five men, who went to the place in automobiles. auto-mobiles. DOMESTIC. Over 300 men of draft age were taken to police headquarters at Bayonne, N. J., by federal and police officials in a roundup of possible slackers. slack-ers. All were of foreign birth or descent. de-scent. Seventy were locked up when . unable to produce registration cards. The Norwegian sailing ship Krings-Jaa Krings-Jaa has been sunk by a German submarine sub-marine ninety miles off the Virginia coast. The crew was picked up by an American warship and are being brought to an Atlantic port. Three million Americans will be under un-der arms by next August 1, the senate military committee was told on June 15 by Provost Marshal General Crow-ji Crow-ji ..... Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, speaking speak-ing at the Trinity college at Hartford, Conn., at the Sunday services of the commencement exercises, said the boast that America would have 20,000 airplanes this spring with General Pershing's men had stimulated Germany Ger-many to build and not to brag. Four men were electrocuted at New Washington, Oldo, when they came in contact with a heavily charged electric-feed electric-feed wire which had been blown down during a storm. The men were running run-ning to a fire when the accident hap pened. More than a million men will be In service in France in the near future, declared Secretary of War Baker in an address Wednesday to 137 graduates gradu-ates of the United States Military academy nt West l'oiut. . WASHINGTON. With the end of this fiscal year only two weeks distant, congress plans this week to speed consideration of huge war appropriations needed by July 1. The government's financial program for the next four mouths was disclosed by Secretary McAdoo's announcement of June 15 that, in preparation for the fourth Liberty loan, to be floated probably prob-ably in October, about $0,000,000,00 certificates of indebtedness will be issued. is-sued. They will be offered in blocks of $750,000,000 each every two weeks beginning June 25. A call for 13,030 draft registrants of grammar school education and qualified quali-fied for military service was made on the various states' on June 15 by Provost Pro-vost Marshal General Crowder. The men, of whom 1201 are to be negroes, will be sent to schools and colleges for training. With losses last week numbering 719. total casualties in the American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces abroad since the beginning be-ginning of the war amount to 8039. Messages of congratulation in the anniversary of his arrival in France, addressed to General Pershing, commander com-mander in chief of the American expeditionary ex-peditionary forces, by President Raymond Ray-mond Poincare of France, Premier Georges Clemenceau, General Foch and General Petain were made public Friday Fri-day by General March, chief of sta'ff. FOREIGN. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph from Amsterdam says the Prussian Prus-sian war minister has announced that all German prisoners of war repatriated repatriat-ed from Russia will resume their military mili-tary service after a short furlough. The Berlin Vossische Zeitung says Nikolai Lenine, premier of the Bolshevik Bolshe-vik government in Russia, is planning to visit Berlin and Vienna in order that he may meet prominent personages person-ages from all the states of the central powers. Germany's visible supply of pork has been more than cut in half this past year. The average weight of her cattle cat-tle has fallen from 402 pounds to 299 pounds. It is useless cloaking or minimizing the naked fact that the critical point in the fortunes of war has been reached, reach-ed, declared former Premier Asquith on June 14, at a luncheon at the Aldwich club. Mr. Asquith added that he wished to say decisively that nothing has happened since March that has In the slightest degree weakened the allegiance al-legiance or the great common purpose. Twenty-one German airplanes and a balloon were destroyed and four enemy, machines were driven down out of control con-trol in day and night fighting by British Brit-ish airmen Wednesday and Thursday. It will be necessary to Introduce meatless weeks in Bavaria, owing to a serious shortage of food, the home secretary sec-retary has announced, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. The British casualties reported in the week ending June 14 totaled 34,171 officers and men, of this number 4447 being killed. A dispatch to the Exchange from Moscow says that food riots have occurred oc-curred at Kineshma, in the government govern-ment of Gostroma, where a crowd of 20,000 persons besieged the soviet offices. of-fices. Machine guns were used to disperse dis-perse the crowd, a number of persons being killed or wounded. Fifty' Carranza soldiers were killed by bandits personally led by Francisco Villa, who held up and robbed a train near Santiago Papasqulero, Durango, according to reports. The German admiralty intends to declare the eastern coast of the United Unit-ed States from Mexico to Canadian waters a danger zone and will warn neutral shipping, says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam, Amster-dam, quoting reports received from Berlin. The French military authorities have taken an important step with the object of checkmating the operations of enemy spies. General Pubail, military mili-tary governor of Paris, lias issued orders or-ders forbidding the sending abroad of newspapers and periodicals containing advertisements. An American named Smith was tilled when Villa followers held up a train at Santiago I'apasqularo, lu- rango, June 5, killing the train guard of fifty soldiers, robbing the passen-g'i-s(of all of their possessions, even I th(' clothing they wore, and burning the train. The Ausunia, a British transport, owned by the Canard line, win sunk ' by a U-boat torpedo while or her westward trip, according to private , cable dispatches received at an At- , lantlc port. ; The London Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondeiil says I he iu;.g rango cannon with which the Germans are bombing Paris were invented several years ago. A mode was shown to an I American general early in 191 I by , Fran I'.ci-lha 'k'rupp von Bullion mid I ilalhach (principal owner of the Krupp works) herself. More than 5000 persons turned out t Troy, N. Y., to see Johnny Evers, former big league star, play his last game of base ball in America before leaving for France, where he will direct di-rect athletic work for the Knights of Columbus among the American troops. Eugene V. Debs, three times Socialist Social-ist candidate for the presidency, in addressing the closing meeting of the Ohio session at Canton, denied he had repudiated the party's St. Louis platform, plat-form, which pledges opposition to conscription. con-scription. Use of luxurious private cars has been discontinued by the railroad administration ad-ministration except in a few cases of serious illness, whc,n a patient must be moved with unusual care. In addition, addi-tion, railroad executives have, their office cars for business uses. The steamer F. A. Kilburn was destroyed de-stroyed by fire Friday off Key West, Fla. Captain Wailurd of San Francisco Fran-cisco and all of the crew, numbering thirty-one, were saved. Martin Plunkett, Socialist candidate for governor and secretary in Connecticut Con-necticut of that party, was arrested by department of justice agents ut his place of business in Wallingsford. Conn., Friday afternoon on a charge of violating the espionage act. Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, commandant com-mandant of the first naval district, said -in a statement at Boston that "not one single report of the presence of any enemy submarine In these waters had been confirmed." Former President William Howard Tuft said in an address at Rock Island, Is-land, Ills., the war would be over and won by the time the United States had been in the conflict three years. Elton Mitchell, a farmhand negro, was lynched by a mob near Earle, Term. Mitchell wounded Mrs. W. F. Langston, wife of a prominent Earle planter. Instead of staying at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., to recuperate from his throat trouble, Secretary McAdoo may make a trip through the west in the next few weeks. The lower house of the Arizona legislature leg-islature has passed a bill creating a state council of defense to consist of the governor, chairman and fourteen members, one from each county to be named by the governor and approved by the county supervisors. At loast'one of the German submarines subma-rines operating off the American coast Is camouflaged so as to present at a distance the appearance of an ordinary ordi-nary freighter, according to Captain P.rallaiid, master of the Norwegian steamer Vinlaiid, one of the raider'.-vi'-l lins. The Tale of organized baseball foi the duration of the war will be deter mined within lie- next few days. Ii 1 1 j : 1 1 liin" Provost Marshal Genera ("rowder will render a decision as i whether his "work or light" order wil Lu applicable to the national game. |