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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN ! CONDENSED FORM i RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making HlBtory Information Gathered from All Quarter of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Jumps A. Wood, former nsslstunt federal food administrator for Nevada, was convicted of bribery by a jury in the United States district court at San Francisco. Nearly 3000 draft recruits from California, Cali-fornia, Arizona and Utah, sent to Camp Kearny early this month for training, have been transferred from the camp where they have been in quarantine to permanent organizations. Appropriations have been made by the war department amounting to nearly $50,000 for the construction of the convalescent hospital at Fort Doug-last, Doug-last, Utah. 7. A. Carlson, pattern maker at a shipyard at Seattle, is under arrest on charges of "doctoring" steel placed In government vessels, tampering with rolling stock in an effort to cause wrecks, ajd participating In destruction destruc-tion of Spaghnum moss prepared by Red Cross workers for use In bandages ban-dages for overseas. Gus Kangas, killed by Police, Officer Of-ficer James Larkin at Butte, after he had fired at the patrolman, has been Identified as un active lender of the T. W. W.' ! I, NatntaU, representative of the Mitsubishi corporation, a Japanese steamship concern, announced at Seattle that his company intends to establish a direct steamer line between be-tween Japan and Seattle. Appointment of Henry Thurtell of Nevada as chief examiner of the Interstate In-terstate commerce commission and of George M. Crosland of South Carolina Caro-lina as chief of the bureau of tariffs Is announced by the commission. DOMESTIC. In an address at New York, Friday night, President Wilson made the most comprehensive and stirring war speech of his career. He explained once more the issue of the war and the sacred things for which America and all the civilized world are fighting, and he pointed out the purposes which will l.e accomplished in only one way the utter defeat of the central powers. Investigators of the bureau of labor Statistics, surveying the cost of living In principal industrial centers, reported that the cost in the New York district Is 62.07 per cent greater than in December, De-cember, 11)14, and 17.39 per cent greater great-er thau in December, 1917. Spanish influenza continued to spread today in army camps, 6824 new cases having been reported to the office of-fice of the surgeon general of the army during the 24-hours' period ending at noon Friday. Three blankets instead of one hereafter here-after will be issued to each American soldier going overseas, the war department depart-ment has announced. Members of the tank corps will get heavy mackinaws instead of the ordinary army overcoat. A. S. Kmbree, acting secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Workers of the World, was arrested at Chicago by federal operatives on a warrant charging charg-ing him with violation of the espionage act by writing matter intended to discourage dis-courage the production of food and curtail the production of essential war products. More than 300 hotels and apartment house managers at a meeting at San Francisco arranged to adopt a renewal schedule which will increase hotel end apartment rates throughout the city 25 per cent. News has just reached San Diegn that in a terrific hurricane that raged off the Lower California and northwest north-west coast of Mexico, Tuesday, September Sep-tember 17, two United States shipping board vessels on their maiden trips were sunk ; a fleet of other craft was liadly battered : the Lower California town of l.a Paz was partially destroyed de-stroyed and the floating equipment of the United States naval coal depot at Pichilinqne was damaged. Homes in Juneau. Alaska, are being torn away, a big government hospital lias been temporarily abandoned, power plants are idle, and all business is suspended sus-pended as a result of torrential rains of unusual warmth, causing a water delude along the main shore of Gasli-lioau Gasli-lioau channel. The main street of Juneau is threatened by the Iloods. Croat ion of a government commission commis-sion with power to fix rents and prevent pre-vent increases except in accordance with sei.edulos prepared by it. was linr.'d in a letter addressed to President Presi-dent Wilson ::f;er an '"an, i-e:--!i rent" Mce: 'u :d at New York !y the New Y,,.k . :..:us' league. I Barricaded in a narrow room In h heart of the business district, a man identified as Nash Davis of Kllleen, ! Texas, fought to the death with more than a score of officers at Dallas, Texas. Davis received more than a hundred shots In his body before he ' fell. i The five members of the staff of the : Philadelphia Tagehlatt on trial in the federal court at Philadelphia, were found guilty there tlds week of conspiracy con-spiracy to violate the espionage act A motion for a new trial was made and bail was continued. A new world's record of 488 rivets an hour has been established and maintained main-tained for eight hours by 57 crews of workmen at the Submarine Boat corporation's cor-poration's Newark yards. Christmas packages for men serving on naval vessels abroad must reach New York not later than November 15, Secretary Daniels has announced. WASHINGTON. Creation of a special congressional committee on after-the-war reconstruction reconstruc-tion is proposed in a resolution introduced intro-duced by Senator Weeks of Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. The senator said the end of the war might come sooner than many anticipate, an-ticipate, and that unless the country provides for the future, it will be caught )n the same condition of unpre-paredness unpre-paredness for peace as it was unprepared unpre-pared for war. Because of epidemics of Spanish influenza in-fluenza in army camps, Provost Marshal Mar-shal General Crowder recently cancelled can-celled calls for the entrainment between be-tween October 7 and 11 of 142,000 draft registrants. Wearing of war service and wound chevrons by enlisted men and officers of the navy has been authorized by Secretary Daniels. Congress has been asked by the war department to appropriate $7800" j to relnjliurse civilians for arnjs and ammunition seized Tjy the United States troops during the labor troubles in Colorado in 19l ; Secretary McAdoo has instructed heads of bureaus of the treasury, both in Washington and throughout the country, to ask deferred draft classification for employees . "necessary "neces-sary to the adequate and effective operation of the service." Eatfications of the treaty extending for a period of ten years the treaty of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain were exchanged at the state department Tuesday between be-tween Secretary Lansing and Counsellor Coun-sellor Colville Barclay of the British embassy. FOREIGN. The Bulgarian parliament has approved ap-proved of an armistice offer, according to a late dispatch from Berlin. The Bulgarian commander in chief and the minister of finance have gone to the frontier to meet the allied commanders, the dispatch states, Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the Italian author-aviator, landed in France Friday from an airplane in which he had flown from Italy across the Alps. His flight was over a distance of 290 miles. The executions of Frank Sullivan and Phillip Johnson of Winnipeg, convicted con-victed murderers, set for Friday morning, morn-ing, were postponed until Wednesday. A dispatch from Quebec said the dominion do-minion hangman, Arthur Ellis, was detained de-tained in the east "by pressure of business." busi-ness." War diet in Germany has accomplished accom-plished a greater reduction of the corpulecy of the average German thau all the Marienbad cures, Russian Rus-sian baths and drastic courses of exercise. ' The American Red Cross at Geneva has received an additional list of the names of 260 American prisoners who are interned, among other places in Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Metz. Two British aviators, flying low in one machine, brought about the surrender sur-render of sixty-five Germans and without with-out leaving their plane shepherded the party across no man's land, according ac-cording to a tale from the battlefield. The Porto Rican government has announced an-nounced that the sugar crop for 1918 is 453,796 short tons, as compared with 503.0S1 tons in 1917, a decrease of slightly over 10 per cent. In Palestine the Turks are all but absolutely crushed ; iu Macedonia the entente forces are harrying their foes and threatening them with similar disaster; dis-aster; in France the British and French troops slowly, but surely, are eating their way into the vitals of the German defensive positions, the collapse col-lapse of which would result in impor-taut impor-taut changes all along the western battle front, and iu western Siberia the Japanese have made additional strides forward in the process of reclaiming re-claiming that territory for the Rns-I Rns-I sians. That the political crisis in Germany, the intensification of which in the last few weeks has been plainly indicated indi-cated in various ways, is rapidly coming com-ing to a head, appears to be evidenced evi-denced by news from that -country. ; In a cemetery near Limey, Just within the Gorman lines previous to : the attack of September 12. American i troops have discovered German ma-i ma-i chine gun nests beneath the concrete ', pedestal of a large cross-. |