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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM rSECORO 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. Methods for stimulating the production produc-tion of gold will he discussed ut a conference to be held at lleno, New, fit which Utah, Nevada and other western west-ern states will he represented. Salmon fishing In Alaska waters Is over for the season and the pack of the Bristol bay canneries is approximately approxi-mately the same as last year 1,500,-000 1,500,-000 cases according to advices received receiv-ed at Portland. The D-yeur-old son of John Mooney, n rancher, shot and killed Sirs. Will Mooney and wounded her son, Archie, 17 years of ago, ut his father's ranch near Htirfalo, Wyo. Changes In the registration law In Idaho since the last general election make It necessary for all voters to register again this fall If they want to vote, whether they voted last time or not. Municipal ownership of the water plant was voted In Denver by a heavy mil 1,,1-lt nirmivllnff liwiAinnlnta vn I ''J''' ', i VI ni lJ llll.uiiipii:i u tuiis. The proposal was in the form of a bond Issued for $13,970,000 submitted o the taxpayers. I The Colorado supreme court has I stopped teniporarly the junking of the I Colorado Midland railway, granting an I npppiication to stay action until the I attorney general has had an opportunl- I ty to present aif application for a writ I of supersedeas. I I DOMESTIC. 1 Charles W. Morris, a pacifist, who I told the court he would not fight If I the Turks sent an army to Amerlea'aTid I carried oil American women for their I harems, was sentenced by the federal I court at Roanoke, Va, to ninety days I in jail. 1 "'George M. Howard, secretary of I state of Texas, has enlisted In the I United Slates navy as an apprentice 1 seamean at New Orleans. I Advertising, either through news- I papers or by other means, to obtain I unskilled labor by employers engaged I wholly or partly on war work with a I maximum force of more than 100 men I Is prohibited by an order issued by the I department of labor. I The United states guards, organized I to a strength of forty battalions, is I being filled out by the transfer of men I of draft age who, after induction Into I service and training, have been found I disqualified by minor physical defects I for overseas service. I ' Fire, originating from the explosion I of a trench mortar shell, destroyed 1 live buildings, blew up two powder I magazines, exploded scores of shells I and did damage estimated at $200,000 I nt the Western Cartridge company at I Kast Alton, Ills. I Loss of 171,000,000 bushels of corn I and 13,000,000 bushels of wheat from I the prospective production of this I year's Important food crops, as' indi- I rated a month ago, was shown in the I department of agriculture's crop report I resulting from a canvass made August I Mrs. Carrie Sterling, divorced wife I George Sterling, committed suicide at I the palatial home of her sister, Mrs. I Frank Havens at Oakland by swallow-I swallow-I ing cyanide of potassium. I Orders for the Immediate mobiliza-I mobiliza-I tion at Camp Wadsworth, Spartan-I Spartan-I burg, S. C, of the Slavic legion, author-I author-I ized by the army appropriation bill I have been announced. I Information that the American I steamship Merak, 3023 tons, gross, was 1 sunk by a German submarine off Cape iHatteras on Tuesday has been received I In marine Insurance circles at New I York. One small boat containing eigh-Iteeii eigh-Iteeii members of the crew is still un- accounted for. I Sandbags carried to the sea's depths I the body of Captain Y. Yamamoto, Jiiuister of the Japanese steamer Candida Cand-ida Maru, who ended his life at a j' 'anadian Pacific port because, it is jielieved, he feared disgrace as a result If the stranding of his command July .0. I Twenty-two of the twenty-four liaiigiirs on Gerstner aviation field, j ear Lake Charles, Ga., were blown J. own and many airplanes destroyed or Intirely swept away by the tropical l-torm which struck that region on August Au-gust 0. 1 One. man was killed and over a Icore were seriously injured as a result re-sult of an explosion, followed by many luceeeding explosions on an American J:ei;liter at New York. A total of 1,1."1,0;." voters registered in California between January 1 and July 27 last, according to Frank . Jordan, secretary of slate. Of tills number 12H.4N3 declined to stare any party affiliations. Twenty thousand dollars booty was secured Thunlny afternoon from the Soutlislde bank at Indlanopolis by three bandits. The boldness of the daylight day-light robbery disarmed suspici u by the cashier when the bandits entered the bank. At the point of the pistol they compelled the delivery of their loot, then departed hastily. The known dead as the result of the hurricane which struck southeast Louisiana Tuesday afternoon stands at eighteen. The property loss will total $1,000,000. Apples cooking on the trees In the great orchard region of northern Virginia Vir-ginia Is one of the freaks' of nature caused by the hot spell. WASHINGTON. John W. Garrett, American minister at The Hague, has been designated to represent the state department and to head the mission of the United States which will meet German delegates at Iiern, Switzerland, within a month to discuss the treatment and exchange of prisoners of war. Restrictions on the consumption of beef In public eating places, and the voluntary restrictions on householders, have been removed by the food administration. admin-istration. New draft regulations under which the government would do the selecting rather than leaving it to the registrant are under consideration by the war department. de-partment. Calls for 130,207 draft registrants qualified for general military service to join the colors before the end o August were issued Anirnst 8 hv th provost-marshal-general. One hundred thousand white registrants from forty-three forty-three states are ordered entrained between be-tween August 20 and August 30. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia Colum-bia are directed to furnish 30,207 negro registrants, to entrain August 22-24. Voluntary enlistments In the army and navy were suspended completely on August 8, to prevent disruption of Industry pending disposition of the bill proposing-to amend draft ages to include in-clude all men between 18 and 45 years. Government acquisition and control of all the principal stockyards, cold storage plants and warehouses and both refrigerator and cattle cars ha been recommended to the president by the federal trade commission. FOREIGN. The French and British have gone ahead witli such rapidity In Picardy that the Germans retreat must have reached the proportions of a rout in places. The whole bottom of the great Picardy salient was flattened out In two days. A squadron of Italian airplanes, commanded com-manded by Capt. Gabriele d'Annunzio. has flown over Vienna and dropped manifestoes'. The planes were not molested. Gen. Kikuzo Otani, one of Japan's most distinguished soldiers, has been chosen to command the Japanese section sec-tion and will be the ranking officer of the Amercan and allied expedition in Siberia. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph from Copenhagen says the Petro-grad Petro-grad newspaper Pravda, organ of the Bolshevlkl, announces that following a stormy meeting of the workmen's and soldiers' deputies, Premier Lenlne sent an ultimatum to Japan concerning concern-ing Japan's intervention In Siberia. French peasants found by the American Ameri-can soldiers in a cave near Ville Savoy, just south of the Vesle, had been told by the Germans' that if the Americans discovered them the men would be killed kill-ed and the women mistreated. The Russian government has issued a declaration that a state of war exists between England and Russia, according accord-ing to a dispatch to the Lokal Anzelger of Berlin, which prints the news with "reservation." Maroofklel Suarez was inaugurated president of Colombia on August 7, with Imposing ceremonies. It is reported re-ported that there Is an Increasingly i favorable sentiment toward the allies throughout Colombia. Twenty-two American Red Cross ambulance men have been awarded the Italian war cross of merit for their work during the recent fighting on the Piave, a dispatch from Rome announced. announc-ed. Not all the ships which German torpedoed tor-pedoed and marine collisions send to the bottom of the sea stay there. In less than three years more than 400 sunken merchant vessels have been restored to service. And more than one ship has been raised, repaired, sent forth on a new career and then sunk and raised anew for a third lease on life. Provost Marshal General Crowder ' is urging the immediate enactment of the administration's man power program pro-gram which was introduced in both houses of congress, and suggests September Sep-tember 5 as registration day for the 13.000.000 men between the ages of IS and 4."i whose names are not already on the nat'on's selective service list. |