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INTERMOUNTAIN.
A service flug boasting two stars
bangs In the window of a Denver store.
The doors to the shop are locked.
Within the plate glass window is a
plucurd reading. “Store closed for
duration of war. Proprietors enlisted
in United States navy.”
Sixty-three new Alaska fish indus
tries, Including canneries, salteries,
mild cure and fresh cure fish plants,
have been listed since January by the
Alaska bureau of the Seattle chamber
of commerce and Commercial club. The
bureau estimates that the Alaska fish
ing output this year will have a value
of between $55,000,000 and $70,000,000.
J. Harry Humphreys of Huntington,
W. Vn., was re-elected president of the
Gideons, the Christian Commercial
Travelers’ association in sessftm at
Denver.
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 called jointly by
Governor Boyle 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 treat
ment of wounded soldiers- returned
from France when completed will
accommodate a maximum of 2509 men.
Seattle city officials before the 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 overbur
dened by shipbuilding and industrial
transportation requirements due to
war.
* DOMESTIC.
Thomas J. Mooney, In “(lentil row”
at onn Quentin prison under sentence
•o be hanged for murder In connection
with n bomb explosion during a pre
paredness parade in San Francisco in
i!U6, will not be executed August 23
next as decreed by court, Governor
.. illiam D. Stephens having granted a
reprieve until December 13.
For the first time, Yukon king sal
mon, which run in millions up Alaska's
big river, will have to dodge cannery
traps this year If they want to reach
I he upper river spawning ground.
Union labor gathered in 500 great
mass meetings In the lnrger cities of
the country on Sunday to plan further
action in defense of Tom Mooney of
San Francisco, convicted of murder In
he preparedness* day bomb outrage.
America’s great chain of ship manu
factories Is approaching completion,
'/here are now 118 fully equipped
yards in the United States, and 44
others partly complete, of which 23 are
piore than 75 per cent finished and only
nix less than 25 per cent ready to be
gin building tonnage.
Liitin-American diplomat? the guests
if the shipping board 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 prosper
ity to America’s neighbors, us well as
to this country, or the pride of the
United States in the achievement
would be diminished.
Ten special wardens will be sent
to Alaska soon to prevent violations
of the fisheries law. Five will be de
tailed In southeastern Ahrska and the
others to the Copper and Bering rivers,
Tlnce 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
theft of beef consigned to the United
States army.
Fell* Frankfurter, chairman of the
war labor policies board, has telegraph
ed to Governor Stephens of California
a denial that while acting as secretary
of President Wilson’s medium commis
sion he expressd an opinion that
Thomas J. Mooney was guilty of the
San Francisco preparedness day bomb
plot.
George Sylvester Vlereck, publisher
of Vierech’s Weekly of New York, and
formerly editor of the Fatherland,
which was barred from the malls be
cause of its pro-German views, has ad
mitted that he received approximately
$100,000 from Count von Bernstroff,
I)r. Constantin Theodor Dumba and
others for disseminating propaganda in
the form of pamphlets %nd books.
In the face of a threatened strike
of seamen on the Great Lukes, which
would tie up the transportation essen
tial to the war program, the shipping
board lias issued a statement declar
ing that the board “does not feel that
there are any grievances to Justify a
strike at this time.”
Dr. Stephen Wise of the Free Syna
gogue in New York City Is working as
a day laborer at a local marine con
struction plant. Dr. Wise said Friday
that he took up the work because lie
believed It the duty of every man wlio
could not enter military service to con
tribute directly his labor to essential
production for war needs.
In order to curtail th«t» consumption
of fuel oil, newspapers oil the Pacific
const must cut down the number of
their editions and pages sufficiently to
save at least 115 per cent of the print
paper now being used. It is asserted
One policeman was killed, another
badly wounded and sixty other persons
were Injifred In street fights between
whites and negroes In the southern
section of Philadelphia on Sunday.
District Attorney Charles M. Fick
ert of San Francisco, according to the
Sacramento Bee, sent, a letter to Gov
ernor William D. Stephens requesting
him to make public the communica
tion he has received from President
Wilson regarding the Thomas J.
Mooney case.
Inroads upon class 1 of the selec
tive draft registrants in the past two
weeks by the navy, marines and ship
building and other industries were so
great that army officers have predict
ed that men of class 2 will be called to
the colors in September, unless wages
are raised by congress.
WASHINGTON.
Complete governmental supervision
and control of the oil industry from the
well to the consumer is foreshadowed
by Mark L. Requa, head of the oil
division of ihe fuel administration, in
a statement to the Universal Service.
Releases of hotels and public eating
places from the voluntary pledge to
use no wheat until the new harvest
was in, is announced by the food ad
ministration. Homes operated on the
same basis are also released.
The war department announces that
the army is in need of chaplains and
it called for volunteers to take a five
weeks’ course of training at the school
for chaplains at Camp Zachary Taylor,
Kentucky.
The railroad administration has
announced the appointment of three
special investigators to represent the
division of labor in settling wage or
employment disputes throughout the
country.
Professional baseball players are
given until September 1 to seek essen
tial employment or be called to th
colors, in an order issued by Secretary
Baker on July 26.
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 nbout 254 railway
wage appeals which have been heard
by the national war labor board. All
the street car case? will come together.
FOREIGN.
Territorial murket commission com
posed of five members, all “dollar-a
year” men, hns been appointed by Gov
ernor McCarhy to stimulate food pro
duction in the Hawaiian islands and
to endeavor to bring the products to
the consumer at less expense and to
promote the efficient and economic
distribution and marketing of all agri
cultural products.
Hostilities have broken out between
Bulgarian and Turkish troops along
the Dedeagatch-Adrianople railway,
according to Swiss advices reaching
Home. The Turks are claiming this
railway and both towns.
The Italian troops In France have
requested to fee permitted to serve
without rest until the battle of the
Marne has been definitely decided, ac
cording to an official telegram from
Rome. The Italians have been given
credit by the French press for saving
Rhelms.
Switzerland, according to a Berne
dispatch, has received the apologies of
the German government for the sink
ing of the Spanish steamer Sardinor
carrying American supplies for Swit
zerland. Germany In her note of apol
ogy placed the blame on the submarine
captain.
Thirty thousand prisoners nave neen
taken by the allies since July 15, It Is
authoritatively estimated July 27. Of
this total the Americans are alone of
liclally credited with at least one-hnlf.
Premier Lloyd George has 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 In
dependence, according to a Reuter dis
patch from Berlin.
Second Lieutenant Coeffard of the
French army has broken all records
In aerial fighting, according to the
newspapers. He won fifteen aerial vic
tories in fifteen days.
The Rumanian press bureau says
that, according to the Spanish 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, ac
cording to the military service bill
adopted by the house of representa
tives.
From the aged civilians who were
left In Chateuii Thierry, detulls were
learned of the German occupation of
the city und 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 Purls
highway In the rear of the prepared
positions, und capture La Forte, then
Meuux and finally Paris. But he didn’t.
An Investigation by the governmenl
of Argentina develops the fact that
I German endeavors to acquire colonial
lands in southern Chile caused tln=
recent outbreak there, near Lake
Beunos Aires, on the Argentinian fron
tier, which was reported as being caus
ed by bandits.
According to careful estimates war
ranting acceptance, says Reuter’s cor
■ respondent on the French front, the
Germans have employed between 00
and 70 divisions since July 15. and
have lost 180.000 men killed, wounded
und prisoners.
CZECHS IN ITALY
MUST WIN OR DIE
—. - , * ——-~ I
Fighting Against Austria, Their
Capture Means Nothing
but Execution. _
WON’T LEAVE THEIR DEAD
All Fallen Comrades Carried From the
Field—These Valorous Warriors
Select Their Own Officers and
Eliminate Weak and Unfit.
(Special Correspondence of Italian Ameri
can News Bureau.)
Italian Front.—The Slav soldiers in
the Italian army elect their own su
periors by the most rigid tests, and
thus they are representative of the
manhood of their nationalities. The
Italian soldiery and people have taken
kindly to them.
The first of the proofs of valor they
gave nre admirable, although llmltvd
to modest operations in exploring and
raiding. Whether by themselves or
with Italian troops, these Czech-Slo
vaks, arriving from beyond the ocean,
huve kept up the fire of patriotism and
the ardor to fight, and have fought
well.
The repatriates of the Czecho-Slovnk
army have been saluted already with
brotherly love by the population In the
zone of war, especially by the ancient
inhabitants of the Veneto, who have
the most recent and liveliest recollec
tion of oppression and the convulsive
struggle for redemption.
The women of Verona offered them a
battle flag in the Bohemian colors, sur
mounted by a lion. The soldiers recog
nized the snnctity of the gift and
swore an oath thnt they Would die for
that emblem of liberty. The expres
sion was not rhetorical and the oath
superfluous.
Are Killed if Captured.
The fate that awaltr these new war
riors for the Ideals erf a far-off and
oppressed country Is shown by the In
flexible military rules of the Austrian
empire. They are ell subjects of the
Emperor Carl and as such-death Is the
only thing in store for them If cap
tured.
Their word Is for that reason sacred.
Neither alive nor dead must they fall
Into the hands of the enemy. Even the
dead must be snatched from the op
pressor. Each one has sworn to carry
off to the Italian lines the body of a
compatriot killed In acllon.
Recently, during a reconnaissance,
a Bohemian fell close to the enemy
lines. Braving a hot Are. the explorers
hurried to carry him off, fearing that
in a night sortie the Austrians might
get the body.
These “soldiers of death" know that
If an operation falls of success they
must kill themselves. To the Igno
minious death Inflicted by the enemy
they prefer suicide. Whether through
death by the enemy or through their
own hands, they have consecrated their
lives to the distant fatherland, from
which they have come to fight in the ,
greatest cradle of all liberty and all
Ideals—Italy.
Eliminate Weak and Unfit.
Rome, the ancient lighthouse of civ- j
lllty and of liberty, has substituted
these new companions In arms for
those of Russia. These warriors for
the freedom of their country have
found In the ranks of our own combat
ants fraternity .and sturdy faith. This
fraternity, more than common Ideals
for the redemption of their respective
countries, is cemented by the know
ledge and vision of the real difficulties
and the resolution and firmness of
purpose of the new combatants. From
their own ranks on a spontaneous vote
they have eliminated all about whose
military vigor or enthusiasm there
could be any doubt, so that the recruits
represent the flower of the soldiery of
the oppressed nationalities. Drawn
from the same country, speaking the
same tongue, In the daily Intimacy of
their new military life, they have sub
jected each other to voluntary but In
flexible tests. The results are confided
only to their officers.
“Titus does not please me. He would
not make a good corporal. We do not
want him,” they say. Thus, out of the
ancient military system of Austria
springs elements of criticism which ex
clude the weak and unfit. The officers
must heed these verdicts, which, like
nil collective Judgments arise from n
full consensus of the judges.
Elect Own Officers.
The examination of the political
opinion is not less exacting for being
^ carried out by fellow soldiers. A Czech
recruit who spoke his mother tongue
well was challenged by his compat
riots. “He speaks our language well,
hut ills heart Is not Czech,” they said.
It was learned that during protracted
business transactions in Vienna lie had
lost the fierceness and the Intrepid, ty
of the Bohemian character through
dally contact with the Austrian author
ities.
Tills control has been fraught with (
excellent results. Those who linve sur
vived the tests of the assembled judges
have furnished the best war material
and proved themselves dependable in
military and moral affairs.
The officers nre also elected by the
soldiers, who trust their lenders wtth
blind faith, and give them the most ;
rigid obedience and discipline. Such !
discipline the new soldiers of liberty
ore taught, by their remembrance of
Imperial oppression, to hold essential
to the triumph of their cause.
Cheap teaspoons are being made
from compressed cotton fiber. I
THEY LOOK THE FAR I
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It seems peculiarly appropriate that
these German soldiers should look like
the swine they imitate in their meth
ods of warfare, though perhaps the
porkery will object to the comparison.
The type of gus mask used by the ene
my gives them this repulsive swinish
appearance that Is topped off by the
spiked German helmet.
WAR GARDENERS
RESPOND TO CALL
_ ___
Will “Keep the Food Coming” as
General Pershing Has
Asked.
BIG INCREASE THIS YEAR1
—
Central West and Pacific Coast Espe
dally Are Doing Well—National
Commission Offers Prizes for
Best Home-Grown Canned
Vegetables.
Washington.—The war gardeners of
the United States answered Pershing’s
call to "Keep the Food Coming."
There are, according to figures being
tubulated by the national war garden
commission, 4,900,000 war gurdens In
the United States. These figures are
Incomplete and the estimates were
made on reports received up to June
15. This number indicates uu Increase
of 40 per cent over lust year when
there were 3,500,000 garden munition
plants at work. Figuring in the In
creased cost this year over Inst, fur
ther estimates will be made by the
commission both on the number of gnr
dens and the estimated crop vulue.
“Taking these early figures Into
consideration,” said Charles Lathrop
Pack, president of the commission, In
making public the preliminary survey,
‘‘together with the Increased cunning
demonstration work being done by the ;
United States department of ngrlcul- j
turo In cities and towns, we feel safe j
In saying the forecast of 1,500,000,000 ,
quarts In t'n and glass of canned stuff, !
made by the department, will be \
seached.”
Big Prizes Are Offered.
The report points to the early plant
ing season this year, which wus*mude
possible by weather generally favor
able throughout the country. To en
courage saving the garden crop the
national war garden commission, which
planted a 400-acre demonstration war
garden at Camp Dlz, N. J., Is offering
$10,000 In prizes for (he best canned
vegetables grown In war gurdens, with
the slogan "Back up the cannon by
use of the canner."
In nearly every section of the coun
try there has been an appreciable and
encouraging Increase In the number of
war gardens this year, the eoinmission
announced. This 1ms ranged anywhere
from 10 to GO per cent. In the Eastern
portions there was a failure to note
a gain on the early returns.
“The greatest percentage of In
crease,” the commission’s statement
adds, “was made In the Central West
ern states and Puclflc coast, taking
any one section of the country us a
whole. There an awakening 1ms taken
PROTECTING OUR COAST DEFENSES
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An untlnlrcruft gun of the type which protects many of our const
defenses.
place which revealed Itself In an en
thusiastic, widespread drive to help
home food production. Of the total
number of war gardens In the United
States, the preliminary reports show
thut more than 2,000,<K0 of them—
2,270,000, to be exact—were In the
Central Western territory. There wai
u gain of fully GO per cent over the
war garden activity of last year.
Eastern States Lagging.
“The KntOcrn states. Including New
Ungland, New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Delaware, on the
whole showed little Increase over last
year. In certain parts of all this top
rltory there hus been a better show
ing, and particularly hus there been
a greater activity among manufactur
ing concerns In providing laud for
their employees; but these gains have
been counteracted to a certain extent
by less activity In other places; so that
the amount of food home-grown along
the upper Atluntlc coust this year will
be slightly If any greater than last
year. Better cultivation In hundreds
of cases may make up for what Is lack
ing In numbers. In New York the park
department alone reports 2,000 war
gardens 26 by 40. The total number
of war gardens In this territory, as
shown by the reports, Is 848,000, of
which 737,000 are In New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
"The South has made nn excellent
record, certain states In particular
having made notable gnlns. Including
Texns and Oklahoma, there are a total
of 1,246,000 war gardens In the South
ern states this year, one-fourth of the
number In the entire United Htat'S.
California, Washington and Oregon
show a total of 463,000 war gardens.
That the war gardeners Intend to save
a great part of the garden crop Is
shown In the 200 entries received up
to July 1 for the canning contests that
garden cjubs are orgaqlzlng all over
the country.”
REJECTED BY NAVY; DRAFTED
Man It Accepted for Servlet In Army
After Qualifying at
Postman.
Corvallis, Ore.—Ernest Chase, rural
mall carrier, enlisted In the navy.
After his Haul physical examination
he was discharged as being physically
unlit. Then he got a Job ns rural cur
rier and Invested >40 in a rig, horse
and outfit. After working 20 days lie
was called In the military draft, passed
by the local examining hoard, and or
dered to camp.
He doesn't know now whether to
sell his rig and give up his Job, or
whether to take a "lay off" and trust
to being rejected by the army as he
was by the navy.
MAN TOO HEAVY FOR NAVY
Recruiting Officer Says Uncle Sam
Hasn't Suit Big Enough for
Kantan.
Sallna, Kan.—"I want to fight ” de
clared V. C. Kmlck, twenty one. of
Mlltonvnle, at the local naval recruit
ing office. A recruiting officer gave
him the “once over.” put him through
" ”orl**H of [’’"'ps and then said:
‘I here Is nothing tlcdng here. There
Isn't u sailor suit in Cncle Sam's navy
that would tit you.” 1
Einlok walked out of the office n
disappointed man. He weighs ->7-,
pounds an" wa recently registered
under the new draft law.
Find Indian Skeleton*.
Martins Kerry. (). - While stripping
cool at the Beech Kbits Coal company
,,,lnt Bt Il"sh I("". "hove this chy
'■mkinen unearthed the skeletons of
""PP Indians, The skeletons are p, „
sll't,‘ of preservation. The teeth
!,ro I"‘rfPP« «nd white as ivory.
. Kl'' '' of Tasmania fays rln «
hav‘“* lla‘ 'vor:‘*’« richest tin mins
lire Mil HUNS
SEVER MIMS
REPORTED RUPTURE RESULT OF
DIFFERENCES OVER DIVISION
OF RUMANIAN LANDS.
When German* Took Last Large Ship
From Turks, as Compensation for
Loss of Hun Ship, it Was
Too Much for Turks.
London. — The relations between
German and Turkey have been sev
ered, according to direct information
front Constantinople.
Tills announcement Is made by the
Copenhagen correspondent of the Kx
change Telegrapn company.
The excitement against Germany,
the advices further say, has been grow
ing, particularly after last week's
events.
The Germans recently demanded the
cruiser Ilnmidleh, the only large ship
then In possession of Turkey, us com
pensation for the Breslau, the former
German cruiser which was destroyed
In the Dardanelles while under the
Turkish flag. Despite Turkey’s pro
test, the Humldleh lias dejmrted for
Sebastopol with the German flag fly
ing.
Announcement was made In the
relchstng on June 8 that difference*
hud arisen between Bulgaria and Tur
key over tty; division of lands taken
from Rumania under the peace agree
ment with the central powers. The an
nouncement was innde by I)r. von
Kuehlmann, the German foreign sec
retury, who added that the question
was n difference of opinion between
two of Germany's allies to whom Ger
many was bound by exuctly equal ties,
und thnt everything must be avoided
which would cause the Impression to
prevail abroad that Germany’s policy
favored the claims of the one ally a'
the expense of the other.
Announcement was made some time
ago that Germany anil Turkey were in
c hot dispute over the ills|s>sltlon of
Russia’s Bluek sen fleet. Talaat Pasha,
the Turkish grand vizier, replying to
deputations from the Turkish navy
league, pointed out thnt Turkey bad
an Incontestlble claim to the fleet, said
negotiations were proceeding between
Germany and Russia for the handing
ever of the fleet to Germany, but 'hat
the Turkish government had taken en
ergetic action with a view to acquir
ing It.
Turkey’s ambitions In the Black sea
and In (he Caucasus recently were at
tacked by the pan-German Berlin
newspaper Krcuz Zeituug.
“Turkey's Idea," said the newspaper,
“seems to be to get In a dominating
position in the Black sen, making the
pan-Turkish Idea paramount there and
creating in the Caucasus a strong ram
part between Turkey and Russia.
Hence Germany policy is confronted
with difficult tasks "
EXPLAINS SUBMARINE FAILURE
American Transports too Well Guarded
Says German Admiralty Chief
Amsterdam.—The chief of the Ger
man admiralty staff. Admiral von
Holtzendroff, has explained to the
Cologne Gazette, to the best of his
ability, the reason why German U*
boats are not sinking American trans
port*.
He says that, owing to the many
(mints of debarkation that are at the
disposal of the Americans from the
north of Scotland to the Mediter
ranean, tile Irregularity of the coming
of the transports and the strong de
stroyer guards which accompany them.
It Is inexpedient for the U-boats to
lurk off all these harbors on the
chance of getting a shot at them. The
real object of the U-boats, adds the
admiral, Is to reduce enemy cargo
space, for on this depends the ability
of the allies to continue the war.
Marine* Fighting In Santo Domingo.
Washington. Not nil of the activi
ties of the marines are confined to bat
tlefields In France. A dispatch re
ceived from S into Domingo Monday by
Sccre'nrjr Daniels teils of i klrinlt-he*
between murines and a group of ban
dits. The marines accounted for more
than 20 of the desperadoes.
Major Leagues May Close August 20.
Chicago.—Closing the major league
schedules about August 20, and staging
the world's series immediately there
after, Is the plan now favored by
President Han Johnson of the Ameri
can league, to comply with Secretary
linker's work or fight order.
Muat Give Clothes to Soldier*.
Amsterdam.—The Herman govern
ment has given “final notice" to the
public to give up voluntarily at least
one suit of clothes each to the war
workers and the army.
Battle Must Result in Derision.
The Hague.—Krleh Sal/.mann, writ
ing In the VossJshe Zeltung, polnls out
that the present Idg battle In France
must lead to a decision, as, with the
new phase of mobile warfare, a new
and broad perspective Is opened.
German General Punlsned.
Washington.- The Herman general,
Von Francois, lias been put on me
retired list as punishment for In* la
ure In the offensive In he reg'mi <»f
Holssoh*, according to the Fi'eu’tlnricr
Zellung, received here by c.ii b