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Show NEWS OF A WEEK III CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT VENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happening That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Qlvan In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTA1N. After having been imbedded in the rooky coast near New port. Ore., for count less centuries, a t'ussil, said to be the largest evt.'t' founil in Oregon, has been unearthed. The skeleton, nearly forty l'eet long. Is evidently a whale, perhaps of the early miocone ago. Striking nnisieians iind managers of the moving picture houses ul Portland Port-land reaelied an agreement terminating terminat-ing the strike and adjusting differences differ-ences regarding the nuntber of nnisieians nnisi-eians to be employed in picture shows. Delegates to the- central labor council coun-cil of Portland ami vicinity voted that if the use of the public auditorium Is refused by the city commissioners for a general amnesty meeting 01 labor, la-bor, the council shall call for n referendum refer-endum vote mi a general strike of protest of twenty-four hours' duration. The Pacific fleet was reviewed at Seattle, September 12. by Secretary Daniels and Admiral Hugh Kodmnn. journeyed to the ci'y for (he ceremonies cere-monies attending the welcoming of the rieet. President Wilson in the course of his speech at Helena said this of the situation in Boston : M want to say Ibis, that a strike of the policemen of a great city, leaving that city at the mercy of an army of thugs, is a (rime against civilization," flip Jfpyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen pf Pprthind, Ore., have nsked to be allowed to ond a representative repre-sentative to the capital and ltipot' conference- t'iVl'ed 1' President Wilson for Ooluher Q, Heal tie was gusless Monday. Approximately Ap-proximately 95 per cent of t lie employes em-ployes of the city gas company went on strike Sunday. Most of the restaurants res-taurants wore obliged to close. DOMESTIC. Governor Stephens of California has sent an urgent reiiuest to Walker D. llines, director general of railroads, saying: "Shortage of cars to carry crapes, fruits and other perishable products to eastern markets has created cre-ated a critical situation. Great losses are threatened.'" New freight cars are being placed in service by the railroad administration administra-tion at the rate of 834 per day. Senator William E. P.orah, frankly leclaring his wish not merely to amend but to wreck the league of nations covenant, addressed a large audience at Omaha. Connecticut is the first state in the l"nion to succumb completely to war-lime war-lime prohibition. The state farm for drunkards at Norwich. which was crowded to the limit up to July 1, lias been officially closed by order of state directors. j lepmy Sheriff W. T. I'.easley was' killed and two unidentified hank robbers rob-bers were mortally wounded at Red Fork. Okla.. when they attempted to rob the Fed Fork state bank. Declaring refineries were refusing to sell sugar to San Francisco jobbers, -'Hi bakers have appealed to the sugar equalisation board at Washington for relief from a situation which they said would close their plants by the end of the week. General Pershing paid a brief visit to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at Saga-i Saga-i Hill on September 11. lie expressed ex-pressed his deep sympathy with Mrs. Koosevelt not only in the loss of her husband, but in the loss of her sou j Quontin during the war. Senators William 10. l'.orah of Idaho, lliram .lohnson of California and Medill McCormick of Illinois, the latter lat-ter presiding at the meeting, expound their views of the peace treaty and league covenant at Chicago on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Senators Borah and Johnson propose to make speeches in all of the cities in which the president is speaking speak-ing on his western tour. Lower Florida was paralyzed Wednesday Wed-nesday us a result of the violent hurricane hur-ricane that passed over that section. Not a house in Key West escaped damage. Three hundred twenty frame buildings practically were razed, two church edifices were wrecked and five retail stores tipped over. Fewer cigars and less chewing and smoking tobacco were used in 1019 than in any of the last seven years, internal in-ternal revenue statistics just issued show. Clothing manufacturers In nddrpsse before the National Association of Re-tall Re-tall Clothiers' at Chicago, insisted that extra wagi-s for overtime work limited lim-ited production and kept costs high, and declared there was no profiteering In their industry. Telling officials at the federal building build-ing that he wanted to go back to Turkey Tur-key to lind his wife, who was sold into a Turkish harem five years ago, Isa-dore Isa-dore Derr Roghos, an Armenian, plieil for a passport at Chicago. Hurial of the dead at Mobile, Ala on Sunday is punishable by a fine of $100 under a city ordinance Just adopted. adopt-ed. Passage of the ordinance was the result of a petition to the city commission com-mission by ministers, undertakers and grave diggers. Obe Cox, negro, alleged murdered of the wife of an Oglethorpe county farmer, was captured by a posse at Athens, Ga., taken to the scene of the crime, his body riddled with bullets and burned at the stake. WASHINGTON. The house judiciary committee has directed Kepresentat ive Dyer of Missouri Mis-souri to introduce a bill making the transportation of a stolen automobile in interstate commerce subject to $500 line and live years' imprisonment. The house passed a special resolution resolu-tion setting 2 p. m., September 18, as the time tor joint session of congress con-gress to receive General Pershing. The treaty of peace with Germany was reported to the senate on September Septem-ber 10 by Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee, with four reservations and forty-five amend ments which the committee asked the senate to adopt. The first of the high cost of living laws asked of congress by President Wilson took form Wednesday when the house agricultural committee ordered favorably reported a bill to control cold storage. Every American casualty in the war has been accounted for. A list of missing, at one time 20.905, was reduced re-duced to two. It is now prpsunied that the two soldiers are dead and they have been so listed officially. A regular army of 225,000 to 350,000 coupled with a system of universal military training that would provide an organized leserve Is ample for the present needs of the country, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, commander of the central cen-tral department, declared before the senate military committee. FOREIGN. I'remier Hughes has announced at a meeting of the ministerial party that the indemnity to be paid to Australia would be something less than $300,-000,000. $300,-000,000. Extension of relief activities in western west-ern Russia and the Baltic provinces has resulted in the American lied Cross increasing the appropriation for its commission in that region from $270,000 to $500,000, A Montenegrin official communica-tion communica-tion issued at Paris says that lighting continues fiercely throughout Montenegro Monte-negro against the Serbian invaders who have suffered severe losses. The remainder of Admiral Kolchak's southern army in the region of Sktiu-hlnsk Sktiu-hlnsk and Orik, has surrendered to the I'.olsheviki, it is claimed in a Bolshevik Bol-shevik wireless dispatch from Moscow. Mos-cow. This raises the total of Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki captures from the Kolchak forces .ithiu a week to 45,01X1 men. An American company having a capital cap-ital of 100.000.000 is being organized in Poland to extent! credits to Polish j cities so tliey may construct canals. ! water plants and hospitals, according to the Vossische Zeittmg of Berlin. A munition magazine exploded in the neighborhood of Neuwied, says a Cologne dispatch. Two hundred, persons per-sons were injured and it is believed many wore killed. Unconfirmed reports received in re-sponsible re-sponsible quarters tell of serious rioting in l-'iunie between Italian and .lugo-Slav troops. The allies were compelled to intervene. Ten persons were killed and eleven wounded during food riots in Glogau. Silesia. Troops used machine guns and hand grenades against the rioters. From two to three hundred persons j are dying daily in Petrograd from cholera, according to advices from that city. Owing to the lack of medicines med-icines and food many hospitals have been closed. Japan is not planning to withdraw troops from Siberia, according to un official statement issued at the war office. "Far from considering the withdrawal of troops from Siberia." the statement says, "conditions there may necessitate the sending of reinforcements rein-forcements to that country." The ITsterites have decided to send a group of speakers from Ireland to America to combat the home rule movement and in addition much literature litera-ture is being prepared for circulation in the United States. Soldiers returning from the Methodist Method-ist church at Dublin were attacked by twenty men firing point blank. One soldier was killed and four were wounded. Eighteen of the soldiers' rifles were captured by the assailants. |