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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORI RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Governor Alexander of Idaho arrived ar-rived in (Jump Lewis Wednesday and spoke lo .several hundred Jewish soldiers sol-diers at I lie Jewish Welfare building. Thursday he made a tour of the eamp and expressed delight at its development develop-ment (luring the sixteen months since bis previous visit. A few miners, mostly Finns, quit work Friday at P.ufte, following circulation circu-lation of handbills, threatening to shut down Butte district mines, by persons alleged to be connected with the Industrial In-dustrial Workers of the World. Miss Jeanette Rankin, defeated in the August primary ' for the Republican Republi-can nomination by Dr. O. M. Lunstrum, will make the race for United States senator from Montana as candidate of the National parly. Thomas N. Tynan, warden of the Colorado slate penitentiary will be the Democratic candidate for governor this fall. Keports coming in from the recent primaries increased Tynan's lead over (low Julius C. Hunter, incumbent, in-cumbent, and confirmed las nomination. nomina-tion. In an effort to stamp out speeding on the part of minors, a ruling has been made by Judge' Nielsen of the Juvenile court at Salt Lake, that parents pa-rents of youths under 1G years of age who are arrested for automobile speeding will be brought before the court to answer on a charge of contributing con-tributing to the delinquency of a fin' nor. Forest fires in Emigration Canyon, near Salt Lake, have destroyed a number of summer cottages and csnsed considerable damage. DOMESTIC. Striking machinists and other war plant workmen at Bridgeport, Conn., have been informed in a letter addressed ad-dressed directly to them by the president, presi-dent, that they must return to their work and abide by the decision of the .var labor board, or be barred for a year from all employment over which the government exercises control, and lose all claims for draft exemption on occupational grounds. General improvement in the health . conditions at training camps and cantonments can-tonments is .shown in Surgeon General Gen-eral Gorgas' health report for the week ending September 0. There was p marked decrease in the number of cases of pneumonia and measles, men ingitis, malaria and dysentery ana there were ninety-five deaths compared com-pared with 117 the week before. Karl Cooper established a new world's record in the automobile races at the state fair at Milwaukee, when In the wheel-changing contest be lowered low-ered Louis Disbrow's mark of 14 seconds sec-onds to 12 seconds, after he had raced a mile with DisluW, made a complete wheel change and then raced another mile. Surgeon General Gorgas announced Thursday that 447 sick and wounded soldiers from the American expeditionary expedi-tionary forces were returned to the United States during the week ending September 6. The Boston lied Sox are the 1918 champions of the world. They captured cap-tured the crowu at Fenway park, Boston, Bos-ton, September 11, by defeating the Cubs in the sixth game of the series, 2 to 1. Of the six contests played, the American league pennant winner captured four, the National league representatives being' returned victors twice. Spanish influenza, which recently ravaged the German army and later spread into France and England, with such discomfiting effects on the civil population, has been brought to some of the American Atlantic coast cities, officials fear, but they are awaiting furlher investigation and developments develop-ments before forming definite opinions'. opin-ions'. Full responsibility for the recent slacker raids in New York and adjoining ad-joining cities has been assumed by Attorney General Gregory, who promises prom-ises continuance of the roundups, but without use of soldiers, sailors and members of the American Protective league to make arrests. Dependents of soldiers reported "missing in action" will continue to receive government remittances for allotments and allowances, but until the men are officially reported dead. o pavilion's of voluntary insurance . government compensation will be U," ' Willie Median, loeal pugilist, now a seaman in Ihe navy, outpointed Jack I'empsey, claimant to the world's heavyweight championship, in three of lie four rounds of their bout at a palriolie boxing exhibition at San Francisco. A special grand jury, which for some time lias been Investigating violations vio-lations of tin.' selective service law in Philadelphia, has returned fhirty-Ihree fhirty-Ihree indictments against twenty-eight persons. Mrs. Chester N. Franklin, better known as Ituih Darling, movie actress, ac-tress, was instantly killed at Sau Francisco tn a collision of automobiles. automo-biles. She was standing on the sidewalk side-walk waiting for a car when two automobiles au-tomobiles collided in the street opposite oppo-site her, pinning her beneath the wreckage. WASHINGTON. The administration measure designed de-signed to stimulate the sale of Liberty bonds by making a larger amount of them held by individuals and corporations corpora-tions fvee from federal taxation, was passed Friday by the house without a dissenting vote. The war department has taken over the Smith & Wesson company of Springfield, Mass.. and will operate the plant and business to secure continuous con-tinuous production and prevent industrial indus-trial disturbance. President Wilson has signed the joint resolution passed by congress, empowering him to establish prohibition prohibi-tion zones around shipyards, munitions muni-tions factories and other war industries. indus-tries. Joseph C. S. Blackburn, former senator sen-ator from Kentucky, and in recent years resident commissioner of the Lincoln memorial commission, died September 12 at bis home in Washington. Wash-ington. Youths of 19 and 20 years and men between the ages of 32 and 36, inclusive, inclu-sive, who registered Thursday will first be called to the colors, Provost Marshal General Crowtter announced, and until the supply of available fighting material in their ranks has been exhausted older men will not be inducted into service. Questionnaires will go to these registrants first, and boards have been ordered to proceed, so that some may be called in October. Oc-tober. FOREIGN. The Germans are reported to be evacuating Lille and to be preparing for a large scale retreat in the northern north-ern area of the western front. Fugitives Fugi-tives from Lille are reaching Malines and Antwerp. German auxiliary forces' are building bridges across the upper Meuse. Reiterating that Germany, "as the innocent and attacked party" in the war, had a right to demand indemnification, indemni-fication, Friedrich von Payer, the German Ger-man imperial vice chancellor, in his speech at Stuttgart, said that "we prefer, on calm reflection and even with our own favorable military situation, situ-ation, to abandon this idea." The St. Mihiel salient, created by the Germans at great cost to secure an adequate frontage to ground of much Value to them, and which no efforts ef-forts of the French had been able to wrest from them, has been eliminated by the combined American and French forces. "Despite the refusal of our peace offer and the violent criticism of the enemy press, i am coiiviiiceo ma,, peace is nearer than both sides suppose." sup-pose." Count von Ilertling, the German Ger-man chancellor, made this statement in an address before a delegation of trades union leaders, according to Berlin dispatches Friday. He asserted assert-ed that both the government and the army leaders desired a peace by understanding un-derstanding and were opposed to all idea of conquest. The Portuguese government has promptly answered General PersTiing'r call and thousands of workmen are being be-ing recruited in Portugal for the American forces in France. An Ail-American drive on Thursday resulted in throwing the German line back over five miles and the capture of 10,000 Huns. A hundred tanks manned by Americans led the charge. All indications on the British front point to the intention of the Germans to defend their positions in the highly organized battle zone of the Germans' old positions and the Hindenburg line, inundating the country where that is possible. Russian peasants who revolted against the Bolshevik government a few days ago are reported to have entered en-tered Petrograd and to have been j joined by a large part of the popula-i popula-i tion, says n dispatch from Copenhagen ' to the Central News agency. The British have made further ini-; ini-; portant progress towards Cambrai, having captured the towns of Havrin-i Havrin-i court, Trescault and Moeuv.es. pene-I pene-I ti-ated into the old British defense line ! at several places and crossed the Canal du Nord, north of Havrincourt. ! British and French consular and ! other officials throughout Bolshevik-' Bolshevik-' controlled Russia are under arrest pending the outcome of negotiations now going on between the allied gov-'ernments gov-'ernments and the Soviet authorities. |