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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. INTERMOUNTAIN, TVage Increases estimated, at about 10 per cent on an average over those formerly in effect have been awarded employes ot lumber and logging camps throughout eastern Washington, central cen-tral and eastern Oregon and Idaho. Miss Anne Martin, former president of the National Woman's party, filed her petition us an Independent candidate candi-date for United States senator from Nevada with the secretary of state on August 1. Representatives of the Oregon Land Settlement commission and the Washington Wash-ington State Land Settlement association associa-tion conferred Wednesday at Portland In an effort to formulate a general plan upon which hinds may be apportioned appor-tioned for settlement after the end of the war. The Knight Woolen Mills at I'rovo, Utah, were destroyed by fire July 30, the loss being probably $500,000. Two hundred and fifty people are thrown out of employment. Farmers of Utah and Idaho are to re-reive' re-reive' 2 cents a bushel more for western west-ern wheat, according to advices received re-ceived from United States grain corporation cor-poration officials. A service flag boasting two stars hangs in the window of a Denver store. The doors to the shop are locked. Within the plate glass window is a placard reading. ".Store closed for duration of war. Proprietors enlisted in United States navy." DOMESTIC. A new flag made its appearance Friday at an Atlantic port, and tooK Its place among the colors llown from vessels of American, allied and neutral neu-tral nations. The flag is that of the Republic of Finland and it was Hying from a sailing ship formerly under the emblem of Kussia. In the week ending July 20, 32,003 more cars of coal were loaded at me mines than in the same period last year, the railroad administration reported. re-ported. Three masked men held up three persons in the Westlahe branch of the Home Savings bank, in a busy Los Angeles An-geles suburban district, and escaped with about $2000 in an automobile through the crowded streets. Fifty thousand street railway employes em-ployes were awarded salary increases August 1 by the national war labor board. The action affects 22 electric railway corporations. The wage increases in-creases range from 35 to 40 per cent in the larger cities, while the high water mark is Co per cent. Employes of the Dayton Wright airplane air-plane company, the largest manufacturer manufac-turer of De Havlland battle planes for the United States army, on August 1 held a huge celebration at Dayton, O., completing and dedicating to the service serv-ice the one thousandth plane built by the company. Twice closed by fire, the Cliff house, one of San Francisco's show places overhanging the sea, is out of business busi-ness for the third time, following an order placing it in n prohibition zone. It is near a fort. Two hundred and thirty-nine wounded wound-ed soldiers from the American expeditionary expedi-tionary forces were brought to the United States during the week ending July 20. and sent to army hospitals for physical rehabilitation. Edward H. Gohi, adopted Onondaga Indian and adviser of the tribe, announced an-nounced Wednesday at Syracuse, X. Y., that he had been delegated by the Onondagas to draft a declaration of war against Germany for the imprisonment imprison-ment of seventeen members of the tribe at the outbreak of the war In 1014. John G. Bousing, missing cashier of the Peoria, Ills., postoffice and said to be a relative of Count von Bernstorfr, is sought on a charge of absconding with a postoffice payroll of $0000 and an additional $5000 lost from the war savings stamp fund. The national war labor board has grunted increases in each of the twenty-five street car cases before it involving Chicago, Newark, X. J., Albany, Al-bany, N. Y. ; Cleveland, Derolt and a long list of smaller cities from te Atlantic to the Pacific. Thirty-seven railroads in July found it necessary to call on the railroad administration for advances as outright out-right loans, as partial payments of government compensation or to help them nay back wages due employes. In lieu of a Jail senlence for alleged disloyal utterances, Charles I'.aunian, 17 years old, was told by United States Commissioner Francis Krull at Ran Francisco, to read Edward Everett Hale's book, "The Man Without a Country." He was ordered to return to court on August 10 and tell tne story to (he commissioner. Clarence II. Mackay, former head of Ihe Postal Telegraph company, has addressed ad-dressed a "valedictory" letter to tne staff, urging officers and men to give to the government, their new employer, their "unqualified support." A ship loaded with ammuntlon, machine ma-chine guns and mountain artillery unloaded un-loaded Its cargo at a Mexican west coast port for the Sonora revolutlon-isis, revolutlon-isis, according to a report received Wednesday at El Paso by federal agents. WASHINGTON. President Wilson hopes to find time to visit California and other states of the Pacific coast this fall. Tentative plans now under consideration may make it possible for him to make the tour in connection with the next Liberty Lib-erty loan campaign. Enactment of the Suzan B. Anthony sullrage amendment to the federal constitution con-stitution is characterized as a "great and now critical reform" In a letter written by President Wilson to David liaird, the new senator from New Jersey, Jer-sey, asking the senator to vote for the amendment. Heavy increases in the present war tax on tobacco, cigars and cigarettes were agreed to by the house ways and means committee as part of the new $S,000,000,000 revenue bill. The tax imposes three times the existing rates on some items of the schedule. President Wilson lias sent to the president of Switzerland a message of greetings on the occasion of the Swiss national holiday, and to the president of Honduras a message expressing the gratilication of the people of the United States that Honduras has joined the war against Germany. War department recommendations for enlarging the army and for the extension ex-tension of draft age limitations in order to provide new reservoirs of man power to back up the forces already at the front will be laid before congress during the week. Imports in the fiscal year ending last June 30 were .f2,04G,050,402, an increase in-crease of $2S7,000,000 over the previous previ-ous year, figures issued by the department depart-ment of commerce show. FOREIGN. Soissons fell into the hands of the allied forces on August 2, Yilla-en-Tar-denois also being taken. The collapse of the German defensive defen-sive positions just north of the Ourcq, forced by the dash of American troops in the center and the brilliant French and British flank operations is sweeping sweep-ing the enemy out of the Alsne-Marne Alsne-Marne salient. Incensed at the German control of Finland, the inhabitants of the Aland islands, in the Baltic sea, have dynamited dyna-mited the fortifications on the Islands to prevent their becoming a menace to Sweden through German control, according ac-cording to advices received through official channels. Intervention of the allied forces In Siberia now seems assured, Japan hav-agreet hav-agreet to join America in the enterprise. enter-prise. The American forces in France have reached such high proficiency in the new methods of warfare that they are to furnish instructions for ttie new units being organized in the United States. No additional instructors from the allied armies will be asked except possibly in special technical cases. More than 250,000 Christian Greeks have been deported by the Turks from their homes in the flourishing regions of Turkey bordering on the coast, notably from Samsoun, Aivuli, Treblz-ond Treblz-ond and Smyrna. The Manila city board has voted to erect a monument and memorial tablet to the memory of Tonias Claudio, the first soldier of Philippine nativity with American forces to die in France. Sixty-one German airplanes and a captive balloon were brought down by the British in bombing raids over and behind the fighting zone and in seaplane sea-plane attacks on the German submarine subma-rine bases on the Belgian const. The flour ration in Germany again will be raised to 200 grammes on August Aug-ust 10. according to a dispatch from I Berlin. The first meatless week also will beg in August 19. The Portuguese bark Porto was sunk by a German submarine 550 miles off the Atlantic coast July 27. The navy department announced that the crew of IS men had been landed at an American port by a British steamer. On the last day of the fourth year of the war, America's troops, fighting at the apex of the Aisne-Oureq battle field, registered fresh progress locally and held their own wherever the Germans Ger-mans launched irew powerful and des-perate des-perate coiinterthrusts. A new strike has broken out at Kalk, in Prussia, near Cologne, according to the Echo Beige. Machine guns were used to suppress the movement, and the leaders were arrested. |