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Show All Comers of the Earth Complete History of the Pt Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Buiy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. All records for travel In Yellowstone national park were liroken on July 22, when KSS.'J persons unci 241 private pri-vate automobiles were admi.ttcd. More tlian 2!.iX)u persons liave visited the park tills season, about 20 per cent more than during the same period last 3 ear. Edmund A. Iioek, who resigned as mayor of Salt Lake City after confessing con-fessing that as city nnditor, a position lie formerly held, he had embezzlod In excess of $10,000, gave himself up for arrest and will face a charge of emhczzlomon t. Untie Chinese have organized a police force to stamp out the drug traffic among their countrymen. Fed-1 era! officers say the Chinese police force here is the first of lis kind ever organized In the United States. E. A. Rock, mayor of Salt Lake City, has resigned, admitting a shortage of $10,000 in his accounts while he was city auditor. lie has made restitution of the funds taken. Appeals have been made by several chambers of commerce of Big Horn county lo the Interstate commerce commission com-mission for 1,000 freight cars to move the largest grain crop ever produced In Montana. I'urle.v P. Christensen, Farmer-Labor Farmer-Labor party candidate for president, telegraphed from Denver to Senator J larding, Republican nominee, and Governor Cox, Democratic candidate, suggesting that all join In a demand upon President Wilson to immediately release Eugene V. Debs from prison. Daniel McAllen, merchant, who originated orig-inated the Lewis and Clark exposition held In Portland In 1005, died at Portland, Port-land, July 21, ag 70. I DOMESTIC. Aaron S. Watkins, of Germantown, Ohio, lias been nominated for president presi-dent by the prohibitionists, D. Leigh Colvln, of New York, an author, being chosen for vice president. ( Chairman White of the Democratic halional committee has announced that Saturday, August 7, had been chosen as the date for notification of Governor Gov-ernor Cox of his nominulon as presidential presi-dential candidate. One thousand machinists walked out at Norfolk, Ya., after notice by the Ironmasters' association, a union of employers, that the "open shop" policy would be Inaugurated. The City Bank of Jefferson, la., has closed its door. Fearing a run ou his hank, Jam M. Wiggins, president of the Farmers and Merchants' bank at Jefferson, made a hurried trip to Des Moines via airplane and secured several sev-eral thousand dollars in currency. l.odies of SSI American soldiers who died overseas, arrived at New York, July 21, on the steamship Princess Matoika from Danzig and Antwerp. Twenty-live "war brides" of French and German nativity were among the first cabin passengers and Polish repatriated re-patriated troops composed the majority major-ity of the 2.004 steerage passengers. Whether the spectre of a nationwide nation-wide railway strike has been laid by the $000,000,000 wage Increase granted on July 20 to more than 1,SOO,000 railroad rail-road employees remains undecided. The $000,000,000 award represents a 21 per cent increase In the pay of the raihvaymen. For the first time In history his-tory the roads' payrolls this year will pass the three billion dollar mark. Jack Johnson, negro, former heavyweight heavy-weight champion pugilist, crossed the International boundary line from Mexico Mex-ico near San Diego on Tuesday, and was arrested by the deputy United States marshal. Johnson is under sentence sen-tence in Chicago for violation of the Munn act. On July 20, Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, the Shamrock IV, ran up a tally of two races to none against the American Amer-ican defender Resolute, winning in a neck to neck contest, and needing but one more victory to bear the bottomless bottom-less pewter mug back to England. A number of papers, including a memorandum of the wage award to be announced by the United States railway labor board, were stolen from the offices of the board at Chicago by an intruder who gained an entrance to the offices through a transom. Guy Skidmore of La Guna Beach, Gil., laid his revolver beside him on the seat of his automobile as he hunted squirrels. The sun, shining through the windshield, discharged the weapon. Skidmore was wounded slightlv in both legs. Preferring death tn pttr -'-menf by her futher, II year-old Abgi .ina Scire threw herself from the window of her home at New York into the yard, four stories below. She died in a hospital. An amount necessary to move the wheat crop of the Southwest will be extended by the federal reserve system, sys-tem, J. Z. Miller, governor of the Tenth federal reserve bank, has announced. an-nounced. Mrs. William Sherlock, aged , wife of a prominent pioneer farmer near Alliance, Neb., ended her life by pouring pour-ing kerosene on her clothing and then setting it on fire. State troops are guarding the jail at Graham, N. C, following threats of a mob of white men to take from the prison three negroes who had been arrested in connection with an attack on a white woman at her home. WASHINGTON. Warning has been Issued by the department de-partment of agriculture to shippers of fruit and vegetables that interstate shipments In package form must bear a statement of the quantity of each package. Clothing manufacturers ,who have discontinued the giving of their retail customers discount because of misinterpretation misin-terpretation of department of justice circulars on the subject will be considered con-sidered as profiteers, fair price com missioners nave been advised by Howard Figg, in charge of the department's depart-ment's campaign to lower the cost of living. Victory medals are being Issued by the war department to world war veterans on individual application only and no arrangements have been made with the American legion to distribute the medals, Secretary Baker has announced. an-nounced. In an effort to combat the high cost of living, the war department soon is to place millions of dollars worth of canned meats on the market at prices below even pre-war quotations. Chief Justice McCoy of the district supreme court issued a rule on July 20 requiring Balnbridge Colby, secretary of state, and Henry J. Bryan, editor of laws in the state department, to show cause why they should not be compelled com-pelled to promulgate as law the peace resolution with Germany, passed at the last sesson of congress and vetoed by President Wilson. FOREIGN v - fl 'Juno n cic atiicu u Ll Thursday in a renewal of fighting between be-tween Sinn Feiners and unionists at Belfast, Ireland. The Polish national council of defense de-fense has decided to make overtures to Moscow for an armistice at once on the Russo-Polish battle front, according ac-cording to a Warsaw dispatch. According to the Cork correspondent of t-.e London Evening News, two girls, who, it is said, kept company with soldiers, were seized by four men who clipped their hair. German theatres have been so hard hit by the amusement tax that attendance, attend-ance, according to the managers, has fallen off from 60 to 70 per cent. Scores of Mohammedan Moros are reported assembling at Qamboanga, Island of Mindanao, to make the pilgrimage pil-grimage to the great mosque at Mecca. Many have saved for years to make the trip, which accordine to Mohammedan faith, every believer should undertake at some time during dur-ing his life. William K. Vanderbilt, financier and ardent racing enthusiast and sportsman, sports-man, died at Paris, July 22. A sensation was created at Cork by the issuance of a proclamation by-Major by-Major General Strickland, commander In southern Ireland, prohibiting meetings, meet-ings, assemblies and processions within with-in a three-mile limit of the Cork general gen-eral postofflce. The first commercial aviation school is soon to be established in Lima with an American and Peruvian capital of $50,000. it is announced. Three American Amer-ican pilots and eight planes are already at Lima, and work is under way on an airdome. Precautions against possible attempts to assassinate the ex-kaiser at Doorn have been increased by the Dutch authorities. au-thorities. The burgomaster at Doorn has issued orders that all strange visitors visi-tors at Doorn must register and establish es-tablish their Identity. Francisco Villa, with 250 men, was reported twenty-five miles east of Conchos station on the Mexican Nation Na-tion line Tuesday, according to advices ad-vices reaching Juarez. Upon the urgent advice of French military experts all American relief workers in Poland have been ordered to be ready to leave the country on an hour's notice. There was promiscuous shooting and several buildings were burned, including includ-ing the town hall, in an outbreak resulting, re-sulting, according to the townspeople, from the killing of two policemen near Tuam, Ireland. Andrew Bonar Law, government leader in the house of commons, asserted as-serted Tuesday that the government was "getting the Irish situation better in hand." |