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Past Week
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INTERMO'JNTAIN.
Two crosses of St. George and pa
pers found In the effects of a ship
yard laborer, who died from influenza
in a hospital at Seattle, identified him,
police said, ns Lieut. Kirill B. Lagldlze,
former commander of the Kussluu sub
marine Kuguar.
Complete military victory over the
Germans was the keynote of the Lib
erty day program at Camp Lewis, Oc
tober 12. In three big athletic fields
more than 40,000 soldiers and civilian
visitors listened to speakers attack the
German militaristic system and laud
the forward moves of the allies.
Though reports received by the state
hoard of health indicate a spread of
Spanish influenza throughout the
state of Utah, no occasion for hysteria
exists, according to statements made
by Itr. T. It. Beatty, state health com
missioner. Twelve hundred cases have
now been rc|>orted in Utah.
The meanest person in Utah and
who should be with the Huns is the
thief who burglarized the Ited Cross
storehouse In Silver City and stole a
lot of clothing which laid been collect
ed for the Belgians. There Is no clue
to itie unpatriotic thief.
A quarantine against the city of Se
nt! le for soldiers In Camp Lewis, was
ordered Thursday. The order was Is
sued at the request of Seattle city
authorities to prevent soldiers con
tracting influenza, which is prevalent
in Seattle, according to military
authorities.
A saving of $800,000 lias been ef
fected to apple growers in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho tills year, ac
cording to K. J. Miller, chairman of
the Oregon Public service commission,
who telegraphed from Washington
that the railroad administration has
granted a reduction from $1.25 to $1.10
jmt loo pounds In the transcontinental
freight rate for apples.
A fight between a negro ar.d a white
man in Ilrooklyn precipitated a riot,
in which two negroes received mortal
Injuries, eighteen policemen were
stabbed or cut, many civilians suf
fered minor hurts, and several sol
diers and sailors who tried to restore
order were injured.
More than 300 of Cleveland's 600
firemen have presented blanket resig
nations to Fire Chief George A. Wal
lace. to take effect October IS. The
men demand that the city enforce the
eight-hour charter amendment, back
pay and an Increase in wages.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson selected
“Allies” and “Consort” as the names
for two ships to he launched at the
yards of the Submarine Koat corpora
tion In Newark on October 14, in the
presence of diplomatic representative!
of tile twenty-three allied nations.
WASHINGTON.
Germany’s reply to President Wil
son's inquiry. Intercepted as it was
being sent by the great wireless tow
ers at Nuuen and forwarded to Wash
ington, Saturday night in i)n official
dispatch from France, declares Ger
many is ready to accept President
Wilson's peace terms, evacuate the
Invaded territory as a prerequisite to
an armistice, and that the bid for
peace represents the German people
as well as the government.
The war risk insurance bureau has
asked congress for $134,000,000 addi
tional to pay family allotments and
allowances of soldiers during the pres
ent fiscal years. Previous appropria
tions have aggregated $141,000,000.
Acceptance in any degree of the
German reply to President Wilson's
note means the loss of the war for
the sillies, Senator Isidge of Massa
chusetts, minority leader and ranking
Republican of the foreign relations
committee of the senate declared
Sunday.
Reports that millions of persons in
the United States are drug addicts
and that many men called in the
draft develop the drug habit to avoid
military service, were denied Satur
day by the military intelligence brunch
of the war department.
With more than 1,900,000 American
troops embarked for the front and an
army of 3,000.000 men in preparation
to make victory certain. General
March, chief of stuff, at his weekly
conference Friday, sounded an urgent
rill for popular support for the fourth
liberty loan In order that the Ameri
Ui armies may have full support.
TiioOPS CONVOYED TO FRONT LINES BY MOTOR
ALLIED NATIONS
Events Leading Up to Break Be
tween Huns and the Powers
of Europe.
King George Sent Appeals for Peace,
but Kaiser Decided That Sword
Had Been Forced Into His Hand,
and Hostilities Began.
On June 28. 1914, Archduke Frank
Ferdinand, heir apparent to Austria
Hungary, was assassinated, with his
consort, the Duchess of Hohenberg,
by Bosnian conspirators at Sarajevo,
the capital of Bosnia, where Pan-Slavic
feeling ran high.
On July 23 the Austro-Hungarian
minister ut Belgrade presented to the
Serbian government a drastic ulti
matum, demanding punishment of the
alleged Serbian instigators of the trag
edy and imposing, along with many
other humiliating demands, the con
dition that Serbia “accept the collab
oration of Austrian officials In the sup
pressipn of the Pan-Serbian move
ment,” and giving her weaker neigh
bor forty-eight hours in which to com
ply.
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MANDALAY BEST IN WINTER
Burmese Capital Known to All Whitaa
in India aa an Ideal Cold
Weather Resort,
British reserve troops being hurriedly convoyed to the front lines by motor
lorries. A detachment of the medical corps Is on foot.
SELECT BACK ROADS
FOR MOST PLEASURE
Advice to Motorists Who Prefer
Not to Eat Dust All Day.
Average Motorist Is Learning That
There Are Two Kinds of Highways
—One Is Main Road Utilized
Mostly by Speeders.
There are at least two distinctive
classes of motor-car drivers. One in
cludes those who desire to Ret from a
Riven point to another Riven point in
the shortest possible time. The other
enjoys motoring because the automo
bile gives one a chance to see the
beauties of nature, to seek out quiet
and primitive spots, and to view the
country at its best. There is a sharp
line between the two. Most of the
casualty lists nre made up of mem
bers of the first. Accidents to the driv
er who is In no particular hurry are
more infrequent.
DOMESTIC.
Walter lllncs Page, retiring Ameri
can ambassador to Croat Britain, ar
rived at New York, October 12, from
England, critically 111. lie Is suffer
ing from heart disease. From a steam
ship lie was brought ashore oil u
stretcher and removed to a hospital.
Theodore Koosevelt declares: “1
earnestly hope that the president will
instantly send hark word that we de
mand an unconditional surrender and
ilmt we refuse to compound a felony
by discussing terms with the felons."
Barricading herself in the tower at
tin* Pennsylvania railroad crossing at
Cist, Pn.. Miss Kmum Vensel, signal
operator, plucklly held her post and
fought a revolver duel with three men
who attempted to wreck an ummunl
tion train by placing ties across ilie
trucks.
Word has Just reached the national
war work council of the Young Wom
en’s Christian association that Eng
land lias requested the American Y.
W. A. to establish “foyers” or club
houses at munition centers in England,
similar to foyers lu France.
Boilermakers in the Oakland nml
Alameda shipyards refused to wuri:
Saturday when they were refused
double pay because of Its being a holi
day. The other employes of the yards
worked the full day.
Cerumu newspapers received at New
York generally attlrhute the success
of the allied offensive to the employ
ment of huge numbers of tanks.
Hurry lUltgllng, youngest of the six
brothers who during the last twenty
five years have beeu prominent in the
circus world, (lied at Buruhuo, WIs., of
heart tilid other inti riiul disorders.
A German submarine was sunk a few
miles from the Atlantic coast Friday
morning by u shell from a Brazilian
steamer. It was reported when the ves
sel arrived at an Atlantic port.
Postmen within a few days will as
sume the task of delivering telegraph
messages classed as night letters tn
cities and towns where jiostiil deliv
eries arc maintained.
A resolution recommending that the
Thomas .1. Mooney case "ill Its labor
aspects'- tie presented to tile war labor
board and tie dealt with as a war Issue,
was adopted unanimously by the Cali
fornia Federation of Labor in ouiveti
lion at San Diego.
Repealed statements by public
oseciiting officials that no woman
could lie convicted of murder in Cook
county (Chicago' were modified on
Thursday when a Jury found Mrs.
Agnes Kowalski, an aged union labor
worker, guilty of iimnshiiightor at her
trial on a charge of beating to death
nisilhcr woman who tiad refused to
h»u a union.
1 i announcing awards In three la
bor •ontroversies, the war labor board
'aid town the rule that no worker shall
draw overtime or extra time pay an
tis. he works forty-eight regular
hours a week, except where illness or
some other Jim cause prevents.
Scores of American sailors were
killed or wounded by shrapnel fired h.v
u Herman submarine tiller It had tor
pedoed i lie steamship Tlcomlerogu,
1 Till) miles off Hi • Atlantic coast, ac
cording to tlie story told by twenty
survivors who arrived at an A tin lit Ic
p /iA aboard a British freighter.
rUntl uli.
The tendency Is remnrked in cer
t a In German circles, says a dispatch
from Geneva to tlie Temps, to repre
sent the eventual fall of Kmperor
William as a concession which tlie
Germans would he disposed to allow
to the allies If they demanded it.
In an extraordinary outspoken ar
ticle, the Kranklische Tagespost, the
Nurenmherg socialist organ, flatly de
mands the uhdlcation of the German
emperor.
The German answer to President
Wilson |s#the first diplomatic message
of its kind In the history of the em
pire to speak of the “German gov
ernment." It Is tlie first note of its
kind to omit tlie word “imperial.”
Ilegret that President Wilson was
not encouraged by Germany in ids
] policy of peace before America’s entry
Into the war Is voiced in an editorial
in the llerllu Tageblntt.
The Finnish government lias asked
Germany to withdraw her troops from
i Finland. The request was recently
delivered to General von der Goltz,
the German ldgh commander on Fin
nish territory.
Spain, according to advices re
ceived ,n Paris from the Spanish fron
tier, has decided to seize German
ships in her ports to the extent of
1.1.500 tons, in Indemnification of
Spanish shipping losses.
Restriction of war marriages In
Germany is demanded by the New
Saxon church paper. The material
advantages which a young woman oh
lalns by the war marriage are so al
luring that only a few resist the lure,
says the paper.
The Frankfort Zeltung states that
among the reforms the German em
peror intends to renounce is the right
n» declare war.
The national restaurant at London,
established to expose the profiteer, is
not only self-supporting, but is making
a good profit, according to Alderman
C. K. Spencer, its director.
(Jen. Michael Alexleff, commander
in-chief of the Russian Imperial armies
in 11(17, died at Yekaterinoinur on Oc
tober 10, according to a report received
here from Kiev.
A Canton dispatch say# the southern
military government has formally de
clared war on the government of Presi
dent Hsu Shin Chang, “because llsu
Shlh ('hang accepted a bogus parlia
ment election, thus recognizing the new
parliament and refusing to respect the
existing provisional constitution.”
The porte has been advised that
llulgarla Is expected to send troops'
against Turkey In an expeditior
planned by the entente .(Hies, accord
ing to a dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company from Amsterdam,
quoting advices from Constantinople.
The social unrest in Japan, which
started with the rice riots, spread to
the mining districts of southern
.lapan. The miners recently requested
nil increase of wages to meet advanc
ing prices. In Yamaguchl prefecture
miners set fire to the house of the
mine owner. Troops were “tiled out.
I Emperor William has sumuoued the
j sovereigns of all the (Jel'inan federal
stales to Merlin for a consultation he
| fore answering President Wilson's
: noto, according to a Cologne dispatch.
! Such a conference is unique in the bin
I torv of (iermanv. I
NEED OF EXPERT
TO FIX BATTERY
4 . -
Starting Mechanism of Car Is
Regarded by Too Many Mo
torists as a Mystery.
TIME FOR MAKING REPAIRS
Should Be Opened for Owner’s Inspec
tion and All Separators Removed
—Reinsulation May Be All
That Is Needed.
“TVspite the educational campaign
enrried on by battery manufacturers, a
groat mnjority of motorists still con
tinue to treat their starting battery as
a mystery, and the same question is
occurring day after day. When should
a battery be repaired and when should
It be thrown away?
The answer to this Is, “Put yourself
in the hands of an expert and at the
same time bear the following points in
mind,” says F. T. Kalas, manager of
a battery depot in Washington.
“Have your battery opened for your
own inspection, and all separators re
moved, so that the entire surface of
the individual plates may be readily
seen.
Expense of Reinsulatlng.
“If the examination shows that the
positive plates (a chocolate brown In
color) and the negative plates (slate
gray) are mechanically Intact It Is sim
ply a case of reinsulatlng the plates
with separators, and this can be done
at an average expense of approximate
ly one-sixth the cost of a new battery.
In some makes of batteries a very
thin wood separator or Insulating ma
terial Is used, and, judging from care
fully kept records, extending over a
period of one year, these very thin
separators break down In approxi
mately eight months’ time, whereas
the thicker type of separators last
twice as long.
“If the positive plates are severely
warped or show excessive loss of ma
terial, a new set of positive plates and
new separators are necessary. The
cost of this repair Is approximately 50
per cent of the cost of a new battery,
nnd such repnlrs would give a battery
life about equal to the life obtained
from the first set of positive plates.
In many cases the life Is longer, as
tne owner of a new car usually abuses
the car and the battery In the early
part of Its life. Repair or renewal of
positive plates is perfectly safe, as the
negative plates are almost equal In life
to two sets of positive plates.
Purchase New Battery.
“If the examination shows that the
negative plates are excessively worn
In uddltion to the positive plates It Is
then advisable to purchase a new bat
tery, us the cost of repairs In a case
of this kind Is excessive by compari
son.
“There mny be some slight varia
tions from the above principles, but
they are exceedingly few and rare.
"Don’t get your knowledge from the
outside of the bnttery box—obtain a
complete Idea of the Inside, learn
what the parts are for and why. It
only takes a few minutes and It will
save more dollars.”
GOOD VALVE GRINDING HINT
Piece of Emery Cloth Can Be Em
ployed Satisfactorily If Direc
tions Are Followed.
In cases where a badly pitted valve
requires grinding there Is a short cut.
Cut a piece of emery cloth In dimen
sions a little hit wider than the valve
seating and twice as long and then
double it over so that both surfaces
are cutting surfaces. Next cut a hole
in the cloth so that the valve stem
may be passed through and the emery
cloth brought close up against the
valve head. The valve Is then placed
In position for grinding under com
paratively high pressure. Both sides
of the emery cloth will conform to
the valve head and the seating, and
if the valve turns and the emery cloth
remains stationary the valve will be
ground on the upper emery, whereas
if the cloth revolves the valve seating
Will be ground ou the lower emery.
A iiiuu wuo lias urivtrii a ear im wv
oral years says that one can tell the
speed of a car without a device that
registers the number of miles an hour.
When the car Is going 20 to 25 miles
an hour there Is plenty of conversa
tion on the back seat. The occupants
point out things of interest nnd com
ment thereon. When the speed gets
up to 35 or 40 miles an hour there Is
less talking, and when a higher mark
is attnlned there is dead silence. Ev
erybody in the car has his eyes glued
on the rood ahead, and is hopeful that
nothing will happen. There Is no time
nnd no Inclination to talk, even If the
rush of air would permit It.
Happily, the average motorist does
not drive at an excessive speed, and
it is the average motorist who is learn
ing that there nre two kinds of high
ways. One kind Is the main road be
tween cities, much utilized by speed
ers—the drivers who watch the
speedometer nnd who brag on what
they have been able to “get out of
her.”
The other kind of driver .» learning
that there usually Is a back rond. At
this season of the year many of these
hnck roads are In better condition than
the main highways. They are smooth
er and there Is less dust. Little traf
fic Is met, and the surrounding coun
try, as a rule, is prettier and more pas
toral. The man who seeks out these
back roads may have to drive a few
miles farther than if he had kept to
the main traveled ways, but the quiet
and beauty of the scene more than pay
for the extra gasoline.
TESTER FOR A LEAKY VALVE
Simple and Certain Method Is to Apply
Small Bottle of Water as Illus
tration Shows.
Leaks at the valve in a tire of a bi
cycle, automobile or other vehicle are
difficult to locate, by ordinary examina
tion of the suspected valve. A sim
ple and certain method is to apply a
■ ■ ■ « ■ ' '■ ” ■"I
Testing Leaky Valve.
small bottle of water to the valve,
as shown, both with nnd without the
valve enps In place. The cap Is often
sufficient to hold the air, hence this
added test. If the valve leaks, re
placing the plunger with a new one Is
the most effective method of overcom
ing the trouble.
HOW BRAKES ARE ADJUSTED
Not Advisable to Remove Slack at
Same Place—First on Rods, Next
on Bands, Etc.
In taking up on the brakes do not
always remove the slack at the sami
place. There usually are two or tlm |
places in the brake assembly where a
“take-up" Is possible, and each time
the brakes ere adjusted a different
place should be used. The first time
take up the rods at the rear, the nex*
time at the brake bands, etc.
it was openly tne aim ot Austria,
“in accord with Germany,-’ not only
to deprive Serbia of its political in
dependence, but also to inflict a check
to Russia. From then on events
moved rapidly. Serbia, on July 25,
gave way to all the Austrian demands,
but denied the right of Austria to ex
ercise judicial authority in Serbia.
Italy, before the expiration of the
ultimatum, made it known that she
was not in sympathy with the Austro
Hungarian note to Serbia.
At once diplomatic exchanges be
gan between the various powers to
avert the war that was impending;
but, on July 27, Austria issued a note
to the powers stating that Serbia’s ac
quiescence to her demands was un
satisfactory and “filled with the spirit
of dishonesty,” and on the following
day, July 28, Austria declared war ou
Serbia.
Russia at once began to mobilize,
and notified the powers that she would
not permit the invasion of Serbia. Thp
next day Sir Edward Grey, British
secretary for foreign affairs, sent
peace proposals for a council of Eu
rope to both the kaiser and the czar.
His action was supported by France
and Italy.
The kaiser's reply was a general or
der of mobilization and an ultimatum
with a twelve-hour limit, to Russia to
stop mobilizing. Of France, Germany
demanded to be informed of her atti
tude in case of a Russo-German war.
This was on July 30, and on the same
day Austria Invaded Serbia.
On July 31 military luw was pro
claimed throughout.Gennany, and Rus
sia ordered a generul mobilization.
Personal messages were exchanged
between the czar and the kaiser, to
both of whom King George sent np
penls for peace, but on August 1 Ger
many suddenly decided that “the
sword hud been forced into her bund”
and declared war ou Russia, while
Austria was still actually negotiating
with the czar.
France at once ordered a general
mobilization and Italy formally de
clared her neutrality. It was plain that
a general war was Inevitable.
The kaiser sent an ultimatum in
German to King Albert of Belgium on
August 2, demanding free passage for
his armies. The same day German
forces crossed the frontiers of Luxem
burg ami France, and on August 3
Germany declared war on France.
On the morning of August 4 the
German army Invaded Belgium, which
had already appealed to England to
preserve her neutrality, and the Brit
ish ambassador in Berlin demanded
the immediate withdrawal of the
kaiser's forces from Belgium, and, un
uble to obtain satisfaction, England de
clared war on Germany the same even
ing, to the unaffected dismay of the
German chancellor, w ho could not be
lieve that “just for a scrap of paper
Englnnd was going to make war."
Does Not Please Lodge.
Washington. — Acceptance In any
degree of the German reply to Presi
dent Wilson’s note means the loss of
the war for the allies. Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, minority leader and
ranking, Republican of the foreign re
lations committee of the senate, de
clared.
No Peace Short of Surrender.
Chicago. — There can ho no peace
short of unconditional surrender, Gov
ernor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois
averred in a speech at the dedication
of tin; Illinois Centennial monument
Sunday.
American Submarine Chaser Sunk.
Washington. — An American sub
marine chaser, designated as the 210,
sank in foreign waters October 0,
after an explosion, with the death of
one enlisted man and the injury of one
officer and eight men.
Hunger Aids Downfall of Bolsheviki.
Stockholm.—Hunger is hastening
the downfall of the Bolsheviki regime
I in Russia far more than the feeble
I and disorganized efforts of the op
I posing political patties, according to
reliable news received here.
Doubtless It will surprise a great
many persons to learn that Mandalay,
famed of song and story, Is little more
than a half century old. It wus built
In 1850 by King Mindon, who made It
the capital of what was then Indepen
dent Burrnah.
Something more than 300 feet ahova
the level of the sea, Mandalay sitfl
tightly upon a stretch of tableland
just In front of the Shan hills. Tha
city proper extends over about live
square miles, but the military district
of Mandalay covers a more extensive
area.
With the British soldier, Mandnlny
has taken on a great deal of the char
acter of a vacation resort. In the tor
rid months of the Burmese summer
the heat becomes very great, some
times making the thermometer rise to
119 degrees In the shade; but relief la
easily found In the adjacent hills. Tha
British sanitary officers have succeed
ed In exterminating all the fevers and
other diseases with which the climate
was once infested.
In winter—or as near to winter as It
gets—Mandalay becomes a semlpnra
dlse, for the temperature stays at
about 60 degrees. Happy the British
soldier who Is assigned to this garri
son.
Like as not he sits of afternoons un
derneath the shadow of the Moulmlen
pagoda gazing dreamily at the flotillas
on the Irrawaddy.
“Can’t you hear their paddles chunk
in' from Rangoon to Mandalay?”
Or perhaps he looks at the distant
mountains, fabled to be so rich in ala
baster and rubles. And very often tha
whole picture as drawn by Kipling Is
complete, even to the temple balls and
the Burmese maiden.
RANG OUT ALARM OF FIRE
As Late as Civil War Days New York
Employed Bells to Warn Citizens
of Danger.
Not longer ago than Civil war days
fire alarms were rung In the city on
great bells hung In towers erected for
the purpose about the town. The bells
Indicated the district In which the Are
was and sometimes a good deal of
ground was covered In looking for a
fire. The First district, for instance.
In Civil war days extended from Twen
ty-second street north to Yorkville and
from the East river to the North.
The bell ringers were constantly on
duty In the towers watching for signs
of a fire. An Inventory of the contents
of the old Marion street bell tower In
18G5 shows the equipment then in use.
It Is as follows: “One bell, weight 11,
000 pounds; one striking apparatus,
one stove, table, clock, one spyglass,
one field glass, one slate and book.”
The fire bells of the old city coul
be heard all over the town unless
gale of wind was blowing. The larges
bell was In the City hall tower. Its
weight was 23,000 pounds.—New York
Times.
Amusing Trick Is Simple.
One of the most amusing tricks la
fireworks Is the serpent’s egg trick,
where a little pellet when lighted turns
Into a horrible snake, many, many
times the size of the pellet. How
awe-inspiring It Is to the youngster I
Most people have no Idea what In the
world causes the snake to appear. The
explanation Is simple. Mercury sul
pho-cynnld burns with a volumlno.
ash. The little pellet Is nothing morn
than some mercury sul pho-cynnld.
The heat causes the ash to move off
so quickly from the burning pellet that
It writhes nnd distorts Itself Into tha
shape of a miniature snake.
The Social Fabric.
To uphold the social system women
submit to uncounted tests of their con
stancy. They endure physical discom
fort, ennui, the peril of cold drafts nnd
damp places, hours of weariness and
moments of acute annoyance lor the
sake of what, to a man, is an unim
portant social mutter. And even
though u! times she feels that it would
matter little If the whole social scheme
of things should perish—and that ln
stnntly with tiro and bloodshed If need
be—rather than require so much of
her, she stands to her colors.