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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. i Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from Ail Ouartsrs of tho Globs and ttlvsn In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Al linM .fJ.I.IKK) was uhhiiucil by u rnlil. it who hound mill gagged a iiimII rin k 1 1 1 nil ousthoiinil Niirihi'rn I'acifir pnsonger train between Scuttle and kiinaskoi. Wash. 'I lie bill nulliorl.ijig ir;uirrr In Hie i-ily nf Moulder, t'nli... of -UK) addi-tii'iiiil addi-tii'iiiil acres ill the I'nhirado naliiilinl fiiri'sl for the city's wulcr ilanl has been approved by congress. '!nsiii2 down of all Clays Harbor salnum canneries is Ihrcnicucd as llic result hi' a strike nl' risliernien at Alienli c:i. Wash., who ileniani more imiiiey fur I'isli. I'ackers declare iiin-ncil iiin-ncil salniiin prices ari' weakening anil that higher prices cannot lie paid. An iiiiliaiive ietltion to make unlawful un-lawful the sale, use or possession of cigarettes in Oregon al'ier .ranuary 1,1 r.i-l. has been filed w ith tile secretary i of state by j). 10. Frost of rortlanil, initiator of the measure. It will he; given a ballot title. -Nearly Kill fire chiefs from various parts of the 1'acific northwest were in I'orllanil on Tuesday for the annual convention. .1. rrnnk Kenfrn, 38 years old, sales manager for a largo Denver realty ciiiupany, was shot and killed near llerkeley I'ark liy nn unknown assailant, assail-ant, who escaped. DOMESTIC. Hundreds of thousands of bushels of wheat are on the (.'round in danger of rotting in western Nebraska because elevators are already filled and because be-cause there is a shortage of railroad cars together with an embargo on wheat shipments to Omaha anil Kansas Kan-sas City. The Anti-saloon League of America will enter national politics inilheiii-atcly. inilheiii-atcly. it was announced at Chicago, io enforce the demand that the political parties next year nominate candidates for president who are openly pledged to unreserved enforcement of the pro-lobiiinn pro-lobiiinn amendment to the federal constitution. five thousand well-to-do British wo-'ncu, wo-'ncu, delermined to obtain American husbands, sunn will arrive in the United Unit-ed States, according to a warning issued is-sued to bachelors by Mrs. S. C. Seymour Sey-mour of Camden. N. J., who litis just returned from Europe. The eating of meat was the target of attacks in addresses delivered before be-fore the international conference at New York of woman physicians. Follow-in!,' addresses at St. l'aul and Minneapolis. Senator Hiram W. Johnson John-son announced that lie had abandoned his proposed trip to the 1'acific coast lo answer rresident Wilson's speeches on the leau'ue of nations. The Auii-Saloon League of America, at a conference of its officers and stale superintendents at Chicago, announced an-nounced a plan to raise a fund of t?."0,-t'lHUKKt t?."0,-t'lHUKKt in tlie next five years, for support sup-port of a campaign for world prohibition, prohi-bition, law enforcement and education, and Americanization. Miss .Julia lleinricli of I'hiladelpliia a Mel ropolitau opera comjinny singer, was instant ly killed by a baggage truck which was knocked from the Illinois Central tracks by a locomotive at Hammond, l.a. -VII foreign passengers leaving No-gales, No-gales, Ari... for Mexico on tlie Southern South-ern 1'acifie de Mexico railroad, whose l-iisiness will lake thetn through territory ter-ritory occupie.l by the Ynqui Indians or Mexican bandits, wvre requested by Mexica Cotis'u! F.inliio Taniez to sign a siatciuent tJiat they relieve tlie Mexican Mex-ican go eminent of responsibility for anything which might liajijien to them while in that part of Mexico. A series of unexjiluitted explosions in underground electric light and power cable conduits In Chicago endangered en-dangered the lives of scores of jioople, threw the city in darkness ami tietl up surface anil elevated car traffic. Bishop l'aul .1. Xussbuuiu of Corpus Cliristi. Texas, reported among the identified storm dead, has been at Corjms Christi since 1913, and was a noted member of the I'aulist order. He served as missionary in Buenos Aires nnil the Argentine republic. Tlie Loston police, by going on strike, have challenged the constitution constitu-tion of the United States, Elihu lioot. former secretary of state, declared In an address at tlie National Security league's constitution day celebration W" New Yt-k. Shooting and killing one man who attempted to give warning, automobile bandits held up a branch of the Grand Rapids. (Mich.) Savings bank and escaped with several thousand dollars. Cnncer is curable If treated In its curlier stages, and is not contagious or hereditary, I)r. L. M. Oftofy of St. I.ouls asserted at Chicago before the ! American Association for .Medico-physical Itesearcli. The steel workers' national committee commit-tee has made public a letter it has dra fled and senl to President Wilson, giving eleven reasons why it could not comply with his request to postpone the steel workers' strike called for September 22. A naiion-wide strike of I'.aptist clergymen unless thev are eranted j higher salaries was advocated in a siatemeni issued at .New York by i Charles A. Mi-Alpine, a member of the J national committee of northern I'.aptist laymen. WASHINGTON. J 'rices of food increased 1 per cent ! in August as compared with July and i reached Hie highest puint in the na-i na-i lion's hisiory despile ihe government's j caiiijiaigu lo reduce the cost of living, j Al a joint session of Hie senate anil : house on Thursday, (iencral Pershing received t lie thanks of a grateful mi llion for his leadership during tlie I world war. .No wage increases will be granted at Ihis time lo navy yard employees or workmen in shipwards engaged on government work, representatives of llie Emergency Fleet corporal ion and the navy department have decided at a conference held at tlie navy department. depart-ment. Opposition of several members, pri-vaicly pri-vaicly exjiresscd, caused house leaders lead-ers lo abandon the proposed approjiri-atiiin approjiri-atiiin of $1(1,000 for the gift of a sword to General Pershing. Consideration of tlie German peace teraty began Monday afternoon in tlie iWnute. It was called up by Chairman Chair-man Lodge of tlie foreign relations committee and became tlie first great document of its kind to be discussed in tlie senate in Ihe full light of ptib-llcily. ptib-llcily. Tlie house lias passed and sent to the senate a bill making transport!!-' lion of a stolen automobile from one state to another subject to live years' imprisonment and $o0U0 fine. FOREIGN. Premier Clemenceau's intervention in tlie debate on the electoral law, which threatened to be prolonged in-I in-I tlel'lhileij', setiied t!.C 5'cussion in d I few minutes, tlie government taking tlie stand that the elections should le held according to the law of July last, providing for projiori ioual representation. represen-tation. Fritz Seidl, the former Sparlacau leader, and five of his associates, who were sentenced to pay the death penally, pen-ally, having been found guilty of the murder of hostages during the soviet regime, were executed at Munich, Sep-tember Sep-tember 19. The Spanish passenger si earner Val-banera, Val-banera, bound from Spain to Havana, and missing since tlie gulf hurricane, sank in forty feet of water after going aground in quicksand ut Half Moon Key, reports received at Key West, Kin., stated. A rumor has again reached Paris by way of Zurich that former Crown Prince Krederick William of Germany has returned to his native country. The Polish forces in llussia have driven tlie Bolsheviki to tlie northern bank of the Dvlna river as far as Dis-na Dis-na and have occupied Korohtenehtop. On the Ukranian front, tlie Bolsheviki have forced General Petlura out of Itadoniysl, but apparently are not attempting at-tempting yet to recapture Kiev itself. Summary of the Bulgarian treaty of jieace, cabled to the state department by the American mission at Paris, shows the pact to follow the same general gen-eral plan as the Austrian treaty. Germany will comply with the demand de-mand of the allied supreme council to declare null and void the objectionable j paragraiili in the German constitution I looking to Austria's union with Ger-j Ger-j many and providing for Austrian rop-j rop-j reseiuation in the German reichstdat, I or council of the realm, which may be comjiared to our senate. The secretary of the Mexican treasury treas-ury lias been ordered to make immediate immedi-ate payment to the United States government gov-ernment of 10,000 pesos representing the sum paid to obtain the ransom of I.ieuts. Harold G. Peterson and Paul f H. Davis, American aviators, who were captured by Mexican bandits in ! August. ! An important conference has been in session at Riga considering not only jieace with the soviet government of Ihissia but the formation of a Baltic federation. The assertion is made by the Yor-waerts Yor-waerts correspondent that the German military movement In the Baltic provinces prov-inces is rapidly growing and that officers offi-cers and men are arrivmg there daily from Germany. Posters displayed at C.uirland, says the correspondent, read : "Fight for tlie kaiser and tlie empire against democracy." |
