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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM 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. INTER MOUNTAIN. A conference of gold producers of the western states to consider the gold situation and to work out some plan to stimulate the production of gold in the west has been culled jointly by Governor lioyle of Nevada and the American Mining congress, to be held In Reno on August 12. The army hospital to be established at Fort Douglas, Utah for the treatment treat-ment of wounded soldiers returned from France when completed will accommodate a maximum of 2500 men. Seattle city officials before the Capital Capi-tal Issues committee appealed for authorization to issue $5,500,000 worth of bonds for building extensions to the municipality owned hydro-electric plants which they said were overburdened overbur-dened by shipbuilding and industrial transportation requirements due to war. ' ' Private William H. Edwards of Salt Lake City was sentenced by an army court-martial Camp Lewis, Wash., to serve 25 years at hard labor at Alcatraz island prison on the technical charge of refusing to obey an order to sign the army enlistment and assignment assign-ment curd. The twenty-second annual frontier show, flie real "Wild West" event of the northwest, opened July 24 at Cheyenne Chey-enne with thousands of cowboys and cowgirls from all parts of the west and northwest in attendance. Showers brought slight relief to the tire fighters in the Ten d'Oreille, Kan-Iksu Kan-Iksu and Selway forests, repdrts to the federal forest service at Missoula, Mont., state. DOMESTIC. Latin-American diplomats, the guests of the shipping boar at an inspection of the Hog Island shipyard, were told by Chairman Hurley that the great merchant marine now being built by the United States must bring prosperity prosper-ity to America's neighbors, as well as to this' country, or the pride of the United States in the achievement would be diminished. Ten special wardens wflU be sent to Alaska soon to prevent violations of the fisheries law. Five will be detailed de-tailed in southeastern Alaska and the others to the Copper and Bering rivers. Prince William sound and Cook Inlet. Twenty-one persons were indicted at New York by the federal grand jury on a charge of being implicated in the Unit of beef consigned to the United States army. Felix Frankfurter, chairman of the war labor policies board, has telegraphed telegraph-ed to Governor Stephens of California a denial that while acting as secretary of President Wilson's medium commission commis-sion he cxpressd an opinion that Thomas J. Mooney was guilty of the San Francisco preparedness day bomb plot. George Sylvester Viereck, publisher of Yiereck's Weekly of New York, and formerly editor of the Fatherland, which was barred from the malls because be-cause of its pro-German views, has admitted ad-mitted that he received approximately .$100,000 from Count von Bernstroff, Dr. Constantin Tlieodor Dumba and others for disseminating propaganda in the form of pamphlets and books.' In the face of a threatened strike of seamen on the Great Lakes, which would tie un the transportation essen tial to the war program, the shipping board lias issued a statement declaring declar-ing that the board "does not feel that there are any grievances to justify a strike at this time." A dedication of all Its strength and resources to President Wilson In the conduct of the war and against "Prussian "Prus-sian absolutism" was pledged by the Catholic Educational associations adopted at the closing session of the association's fifteenth annual meeting at San Francisco. Inroads upon class 1 of the selective selec-tive draft registrants in the past two weeks by the navy, marines and shipbuilding ship-building and other industries were so great that army ofticers nave predicted predict-ed that men of class 2 will be called to the colors in September, unless wages are raised by congress. Fifty thousand negro registrants qualified for general military service were called to the colors on July 23, by Provost Marshal General Crowder. They will entrain between August 1 ai:d August 5 and will come from forty-,one forty-,one states and the District of Columbia. Co-lumbia. (v C Dr. Stephen Wise of the Free Syna- i gogqe in New York City Is working aa a day laborer at a local marine construction con-struction plant. Dr. Wise, said Friday that he took up the work because he believed It the duty of every man who could not enter military service to contribute con-tribute directly his labor to essential production for war needs. District Attorney Charles M. Fick-ert Fick-ert of San Francisco, according to the Sacramento Hee, sent a letter to Governor Gov-ernor William D. Stephens requesting him to make public the communication communica-tion he has received from President Wilson regarding the Thomas J. Mooney case. In order to curtail the consumption of fuel oil, newspapers on the Pacific coast must cut down the number of their editions and pages sufficiently to save at least 25 per cent of the print paper now being used, It Is asserted, WASHINGTON. The railroad administration has announced the appointment or three special Investigators to represent tne division of labor in settling wage or employment disputes throughout the country. Professional baseball players are given until September 1 to seek essential essen-tial employment or be called to the colors, in an order issued by Secretary Baker on July 20. The age limit for civilian applicants to the central officers' training schools has been raised from 40 to 4' years, the war department announced July 25. Announcement is expected this week of the decisions in about 254 railway wage appeals which have been heard by the national war labor board. All the street car cases will come together. Motor trucks and passenger cars for use In the army have been standardized, standard-ized, the war department has announced, an-nounced, and orders have been placed for 73,000 of all types. The American public has been asked to go on a sugar ration of two pounds per capita monthly beginning August 1 to meet a world shortage, and to care for the immediate demands of the military forces. Wages of railroad shopmen have been increased to 68 cents an hour by Director General McAdoo, with proportionate pro-portionate advances for assistants and miscellaneous classes in mechanical departments. i FOREIGN. Premier Lloyd George has announced announc-ed in behalf of the government that all men who are wilfully absent from work after Monday will be. deemed to have voluntarily placed themselves outside the munitions Industries. The provisional government at Omsk has assumed supreme authority in Siberia and proclaimed Siberia's independence, in-dependence, according to a Reuter dispatch dis-patch from Berlin. Second Lieutenant Coeffard of the .French army lias broken all records in aerial fighting, according to the newspapers'. He won fifteen aerial victories vic-tories in fifteen days. The Rumanian press bureau says that, according to the Spanish embassy's em-bassy's doctor at Constantinople, 50 per cent of the Rumanian prisoners have died from typhus in Turkish camps. Cuba will send at least one regiment of regulars to France, as well as all the volunteers who offer themselves, according ac-cording to the military service bill adopted by the house of representatives. representa-tives. : An investigation by the government of Argentina develops the fact that German endeavors to acquire colonial lands in southern Chile caused the recent outbreak there, near Lake Beunos Aires, on the Argentinian frontier, fron-tier, which was reported as being caused caus-ed by bandits. The Stars and Stripes, the American soldier newspaper published in France, announces that it will abandon Its sporting page until an allied victory brings peace. Up to the present seventy German divisions have been identified In the present fighting zone, and the battle, therefore, may be regarded as tho biggest of the war. The British war cabinet has decided that if the Munitions strike continues the strikers of military age will be drafted promptly into the army, according ac-cording to an unofficial statement printed in morning newspapers. From the aged civilians who were left in Chateau Thierry, details were learned of the German occupation of the city and of a visit by the kaiser. The latter arrived on the Marne on June 3. He expected to stand on hill 204 and watch his troops debouche from Belleau wood, reach the Paris highway in the rear of the prepared positions, and capture La Forte, then Meaux and finally Taris. But he didn't. The giant White Star liner Jus-ticia Jus-ticia lias been torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland. Eleven lives were lost. According to careful estimates warranting war-ranting acceptance, says Renter's ;r-respondent ;r-respondent on the French front, the Germans have employed between 60 and 70 divisions since July 15, and have lost ISO. 000 men killed, wounded and Drisouers. |