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WORLD'S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMI
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR QUICK READING
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.
Outbound travel from Alaska and
the Yukon territory this fall will be
the heaviest in 10 years.
The territory over which Ameri
can troops are storming is the most
difficult for such an advance of any
battle line in France.
The Germans are setting fire fo
more French towns behind the Ger
man lines In the region of Marie,
Vervins, Rethel and Neuchâtel.
The entire art collection of Thomas
II. Walker, valued at several million
dollars, was recently presented to the
city of Minneapolis by Mr. Walker.
Cambrai citizens were forced to
leave homes before the Huns were
driven from the city. Fires smoulder
and explosions occur, shops and hous
es were looted for souvenirs.
The French cabinet has decided as
a necessary national defense measure
to introduce a bill providing govern
ment control of all French rail
roads, during hostilities and one year
after peace.
Since the beginning of the present
operations, the Americans have cap
tured 46 officers and 1900 men, and
since joining the British fighting for
ces they have secured 3000 prisoners
and more than 60 cannon.
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PRINCE MAX OF BADEN.
Prince Maximilian succeeds Von
Hertling as chief adviser to the kaiser.
Rumor at one time had Prince Mux
slated as choice of the moderates tor
successor to Wilhelm on the throne
of Germany.
ALLIES TAKE 21,567 PRISONERS.
French Reoccupy Much Territory, and
Free Many Civilians.
Paris.—The battle begun in Cham
pagne on September 26 has ended in
the complete defeat of tlie enemy.
The fourth army completed the lib
eration of the bend of the Aisne by re
occupying Saturday 36 localities, free
ing several thousand civilians.
This army alone has taken 21.637
prisoners and 600 guns since the open
ing of the Champagne ofenslve.
RED CROSS BOOK TELLS
SOLDIERS OF THEIR RIGHTS
Every man entering the army or
navy under the new draft will receive
from the Red Cross a handbook con
taining in synopsis the war risk In
surance act, tlie civil rights bill and
other laws passed for his and his fam
ily's protection while lie is serving his
country. "Before You Go" is the title
of the book.
WOOL CONSUMED IN AUGUST
WAS 63,900,000 POUNDS
Manufacturers used a million and a
half pounds of wool in August more
than in July, 1918. The figures for
August were 63.900.000 pounds, grease
equivalent, compared to 63,300,000 in
July. Monthly consumption has aver
aged about 67,000,000 pounds, grease
equivalent, since January 1, 1918.
"Gasoiineless" Sunday Big Saving.
M. L. Roqua, director of the Oil Di
vision of the United States Fuel Ad
ministration, is authority for the state
ment that "gasoiineless" Sundays have
saved up to Sept. 29 enough gasoline
to supply cargoes of 50,000 barrels
each to ten ships which have sailed to
France.
Aeroplane 143 Miles an Hour.
In a flight from McCook Field, Day
ton, Ohio, to Bolling Field, Aniicostia,
D. C., with no stops, a De Haviland 9
plane, equipped with a Liberty engine,
covered the distance—430 miles—In
three hours and five minutes.
Idaho news paragraphs I
Recent Happenings In This State
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
There Is no Spanish influenza in
Potlatch.
Rev. W. T. Busier, formerly pas
tor of the Methodist church in Lew
iston died recently.
The funeral of W. S. Cunningham,
age 60, who recently died, was held
in the Gilbert region, near Oroflno.
Two cases of influenza have de
veloped at the state normal school
and City Health Officer Susan llruce
has ordered the school closed.
Mrs. Raymond C. Hill of Lewiston
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has received confirmation from the
war department of the report of the
death in France, of lier husband, I
Lieutenant Raymond C. Hill, 146th |
field artillery.
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S. P. Shutt, owner and editor of I
tlie Cottonwood Chronicle, has sold ;
the plant and business of the paper
to H. C. Bailey of Coeur d'Alene, who |
is taking charge at once. Mr. Shutt j
has not announced his plans.
Simpson, Lewiston, reports
the death of his son, Kay, by drown
Ing in the Snake river, near Nyssa,
ere. He was lost off an engine while
firing into Nyssa and it was supposed 1
was lost in the Snake river,
The Northwest Livestock associa
tion announces that Dr. H. ,1. Waters,
former president of the Kansas Stale
Agricultural college, editor and pub
llsher of the Wallace Farmer at Des
Moines, ^owa, will speak at the stock
show, which opens November 7.
The secretary of the Lewiston Red
Cross chapter, announces the receipt
of 100 sheets 492 towels and large
numbers of napkins and handker
chiefs. Shipments of refugee gar
ments were also received from Cot
tonwood. Woodland, Vollmer, Lcnore,
Sweetwater, Winchester, Nez Perce,
Agatha.
Geueral F. C. Ainsworth, Ü. S. A.,
retired, Washington, D. C., is on a
hunting trip in the Bitter Root moun
tains. He will leave Weippe in a few
days, where he met John B. Collins
and will spend several weeks in the
mountains back of Pierce City. This
is the seventh annual hunting trip of
General Ainsworth In this section.
Summonses were issued yesterday
by the Nez Perce county council of
defense to 35 citizens of the county
to appear for examination as to their
failure to take their quota of Liberty
bonds. The hearing will be public.
The Liberty loan committee and coun
cil of defense are determined to go
through the list relentlessly and ex
amine all shirkers.
The greatest celebration ever stag
ed In the Lewiston valley was held
Sunday afternoon. At .1 o clock 600
loaded automobiles, carrying flags and
banners and preceded by a band of
70 pieces, left Lewiston for Clarks
ton, where a patriotic meeting was
held at 2 o'clock, several thousand
people being in attendance. The par
ly then visited Asotin, the line of au
tomobiles being so long that when
the first had reached Asotin the last
had not left Lewiston. At Asotin
patriotic exercises were held by the
school children. In the evfenlng the
three communities united in a mon
ster patriotic demonstration, 10,000
persons joining in the parade of 24
divisions.
S. A. Sutton of Cavendish and W.
H, Bertrand of Ahsahka were in I>ew
iston recently in conference with an
attorney with reference to the matter
of the» construction of the north ap
proach to the bridge now being buBt
bver the Clearwater river at Peck.
If within the authority of the law it
is thought that the North Fork high
way district will assist in its con
struction. It is esimated that - 125,
000 sacks of grain are delivered at
the Peck station from the Cavendish
region and that the plans of the high
way commissioners provide for the
construction of a good highway to
serve this traffic. Such a road would
also connect on the Clearwater river
with the I^ewis and Clark water grade
highway which is being constructed
by links and which will be a reality
within a few years, serving all the
Clearwater region and providing a
transcontinental highway into Mon
tana. The Peck bridge is expected
to be open fdr traffic in a few weeks.
Ray Mustoe, son of Mr. and Mrs. [
William Mustoe of Melrose, left re
cently for an officers' training camp j
In Texas with a contingent from |
the university, where he has been in]
training tor some time.
G.
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BIG LOSS IS CAUSED
BY FOREST FIRES
Are Worst in History of Northern Wis
consin and Minnesota, Rided by
Big Storms.
Duluth, Minn.—Duluth and Superior
wet£ Sunday the hub of tlie worst
chain of forest fires in the history of
northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Conflagrations, fanned into fury by
storm, have destroyed hundreds of
thousands of dollars' worth of prop
erty In the area between Two Harbors,
north of here. Moose Lake, Brainerd,
Finlayson and Ashland.
If you have a dollar and I have
dollar and we swap, then we still have
one dollar each. But It you have an
idea and I have an idea and we swap,
then you have two ideas and I have
two ideas.—A. A. C. Bulletin.
Here Are Terms
by Our President,
Germans
Here are the 14 propositions laid
down by President Wilson, January
8, addressing congress:
1. Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private international understand
ings pf any kind, but diplomacy -shall
proceed always frankly and in the
public view.
2. Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wa
lers. alike in peace and in war, ex
cept as the seas may be closed in
whole or In part by international ac
tion for the enforcement of interna
lional covenants.
3. The removal, so far as possible,
of all economic barriers and the .es
labllabment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations con
senting to the peace and associating
themselves for its maintenance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national armaments will
be reduced to the lowest point con
ststent with domestic safety,
5 . a free, open-minded, and abso
lutely Impartial adjustment of all co
lonial claims ' bÉrsed u P° n a 8trlct
servance of the principle t lat n e
termlning all such questions o »ober
ei « nt y the interests of the popular
,,ons concerned must have equa
"eight witb the equitable claims of
the government whose title 1? to be
determined,
g The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of aO
llueM ions »fleeting Russia as will se
cure the best and freest cooperation
0 f t he other nations of the world in
obtaining tor her an unhampered and
unembarresed opportunity for the
independent determination of her own
political development and national
Policy and assure her of a sincere
welcome into the society of free na
lions under institutions of her own
choosing; and more than a welcome
'Assistance also of every kind that she
may need and may desire. The
treatment accorded Russia by her sis
ter nations in the months to come
will be the acid test of their good
will, of their comprehension of her
needs as dislinquished from their own
interests, and of their intelligent and
unselfish sympathy.
7. Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and re
stored without any attempt to limit
the sovreignty which she enjoys in
common with all other free nations.
No other single act will serve as this
restore
confidence
will
among the nations in the laws which
they have themselves set and deter
mined for the government of their re
lations with one another.
serve to
Without
this healing act the whole structure
and validity of international law is
forever impaired.
8. All French territory should be
freed and the invaded portions re
stored, and the wrong done to France
by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of
Alsace-iairraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly 50
years, should he righted in order that
peace may once more be made se
cure in the interest of all.
9. A readjustment of the frontiers
of Italy should be affected along
clearly recognizable lines of nation
ality.
10. The peoples of Austria-Hun
gary, whose place among the nations
we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured, should he accorded the freest
opportunity to autonomous develop
ment.
11. Rumania. Serbia and Montene
gro should be evacuated; occupied
territories restored: Serbia accorded
free and secure access to the sea: and
the relations of the several Balkan
states to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically es
tablished lines of allegiance and na
tionality; and international guaran
tees of the political and economic in
dependence and territorial integrity
of the several Balkan states should
be entered into.
12. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be
assured a secure sovreignty, but the
other nationalities which are now
under Turkish rule should be as
sured an undoubted security of life
and an absolute unmolested oppor
tunity of autonomous development,
and the Dardanelles should be per
manently opened as a free passage to
the ships and commerce of all na
tions under international guarantees.
13. An Independent Polish state
should be erected which would In
clude the territories inhabited by in
disputable Polish populations, which
should be assured a free and se
cure access to the sea. and whose po
litical and economic independence and
a
APPLE RATE NOT TO STAND.
R. R. Administration Official Will Not
Accede to Accent Agreement.
A telegram received by the Oregon
public service commission this week
from its chairman, F. J. Miller, in
Washington. D. C., states that Traffic
Director Chambers of the railroad ad
ministration has declared that an
agreement entered into earlier in the
week whereby a maximum freight rate
of $1.10 a hundred on apples for trans
continental shipment from the north
west was promised, can not stand. He
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Demanded
to Which
Agree to Abide
territorial integrity should be guaran
teed by international covenant.
14. A general association of na
tions must be formed under -specific
covenants for the purpose of afford
ing mutual guarantees of political
Independence and territorial integ
rity to great and small states alike.
MOUNT VERNON SPEECH.
The president's speech at Mount
Vernon July 4 contained these pro
visions: *"
"There can be but one Issue. The
settlement must be final. There can
be no compromising. No half-way
decision would be tolerable. No
halt-way decision Is conceivable.
These are ends for which the asso
ciated peoples of the world- are fight
ing and which must be conceded
them before there can be peace:
"1. The destruction of every arbi
trary power anywhere that can sep
arately. secretely and of its single
choice disturb the peace of the.world;
or, if it can not be presently de
stroyed, at the least its reduction to
.virtual impotence.
"2. -The settlement of every ques
tion. whether of territory, of
sovereignty, of economic
rangement or of political re
lationship, upon the basis of the
free acceptance of that settlement by
the people immediately concerned and
not upon the basis of material in
terest or advantages of any other na
tion or people which may desire a dif
ferent settlement for the sake of Us
own exterior influence or mastery.
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"3. The consent of all nations to be
their conduct toward
governed in
each other by the same principles of
honor and of respect for the common
law of civilized society that govern
the individual citizens of all modern
states in their relations with one
another; to the end that all promises
and covenants may be sacredly ob
served. no private plots or conspira
cies hatched, no selfish injuries
brought with Impunity, and a mu
tual trust established upon the hand
some foundation of a mutual respect
for right.
"4. The establishment of an organi
zation of peace which shall make it
certain that the combined power of
free nations will check every inva
sion of right and serve to make peace
and justice the more secure by af
fording a definite tribunal of opinion
to which all must, submit and by
which every international readjust
ment that can not be amicably agreed
upon by the peoples directly con
cerned shall be sanctioned.
"These great objects can be put
What we
into a single sentence,
seek is the reign of law based on the
consent of the governed and sus
tained by tlie organized opinion of
mankind."
THE NEW YORK SPEECH.
On September 27, addressing a pub
lic meeting at New York, President
Wilson stated other particulars "as
representing this government's- in
terpretation of its own duty with re
gard to peace." He said:
"First—The impartial justice meted
out must involve no discrimination
between those to whom we wish to
be just and those to whom we do
not wish to be just. It must be a
justice that plays no favorites and
knows no standard but the equal
rights of the several peoples con
cerned;
Second—No special or separate in
terest of any single nation or any
group of nations can be made the
basis of any part of the settlement
which is not consistent with the
common Interests of all;
"Third—There can be no league or
alliances or special covenants and
understandings within the general
and common family of the league of
nations;
"Fourth—And more specifically
there can be no special, selfish eco
nomic combinations within the
league and no employment of any
form of economic boycott or exclu
sion except as the power of economic
penalty by exclusion from the mar
kets of the world may be vested in
the league of nations itself as a
means of discipline and control.
"Fifth—All international agree
ments and treaties of every kind
must be made known in their en
tirety to the rest of the world.
"Special alliances and economic
rivalry and hostilities have been the
prolific cause In the modern world
of the plans and passions that pro
duce war. It would be an insincere
as well as insecure peace that did
not exclude them in definite and bind
ing terms."
explained that Judge Prouty, public
service director for the railroad ad
ministration, will not accede to the
agreement. Representatives of Ore
gon, Washington, and Idaho commis
sions will continue their fight for tlie
rate.
Germans Make Stand.
The Anglo-American forces on the
southerly side of the great wedge that
has been thrust into the enemy lines
southeast of Valenciennes was halted
momentarily before an extemporized
German defense line running from
Valenciennes to the Oise.
10 ACCEPT PEACE
READY TO COMPLY WITH ALL OF
PRESIDENT WILSON'S DE
MANDS ON THEM.
BUT THEY ARE A TRICKY BUNCH
Kaiser and His Allies Want Armistice
Right Away—Has Taken Prelimi
nary Steps by Appointing the
Members for Conference.
Washington, D. C.—Germany's re
ply to President Wilson's inquiry de
clares Germany is ready to accept
President Wilson's peace terms, evac
uate the invaded territory as a pre
requisite to an armistice, and that the
bid for peace represents the German
people as well as the government.
Looks Like Complete Acceptance.
Although on its face the text of
the German note seems to be a com
plete acceptance of President Wil
son's terms, the people of the United
States and the allied countries
should be cautioned against accept
ing It as such a compliance of the
president's demands as will mean
immediate cessation of hostilities.
\\ ithont any attempt to discount ]
what appeared to be, at a casual
Not Necessarily End Of War.
reading, an acceptance of the terms
tlie president has laid down, officials
here were positive in not accepting
the German note, as a document
which means tlie end of the war. It
needs to be examined and fully con
sidered before the views of the
American government can be stated.
Should President Wilson finally de
cide that there is enough sincerity
in Germany's proposition to trans
mit it to the allies, as the German
chancellor requested, it should be
borne in mind that Great Britian,
France and the other entente na
tions must be taken into considera
tion for decision as to whether an
armistice should be granted or
whether discussions should be un
dertaken to carry out the details of
tlie application of President Wilson's
peace terms.
Where is Ruling Power?
The greatest danger facing the
people of the United States, officials
say. was that they might hastily con
sider Germany's proposition as the
unconditional surrender which the co
belligerents demand and relax their
efforts to continue tlie victories at
arms and carry over the fourth Liber
ty loan. On every side in official quar
ters it was stated that, this view of
the situation could not be placed be
fore the public too strongly.
Conceding that the proposal for an
armistice might be accepted and that
tlie German acceptance of President
Wilson's peace terms might be sat
isfactory, this question, in the opin
ion of officials and diplomats here,
remained, namely, "Who is the pres
ent German government?"
present German government is the
government of Hohenzollern, there
seems no doubt here that the Ger
man reply will be unacceptable.
No Peace With Kaiserism.
President Wilson's pronouncements
show him repeatedly laying down the
fundamental principle that no peace
can be made while the German people
endure kaiserism.
There seems little doubt that un
less the German people themselves
destroy the autocratic power which
of its own choice can disturb the
peace ,of the world the allied armies
will continue the work of destroying
that power on the battlefields of
France and Belgium and probably on
German soil.
The prediction is being freely made
that unless Germany's latest move
brings peace a revolution will sweep
the kaiser and his whole party com
pletely out of power. There are some
supporters of the president's diplo
macy who hint that such a develop
ment is precisely what he has been
working for and that this will be
made plain when the veil of diplo
matic secrecy is lifted.
Text of Hun Peace Note.
If the
"In reply to the questions of the
president of the United States of
America, the German government
hereby declares:
"The German government accepted
the terms laid down by President
Wilson in his address of January 8
and in his subsequent addresses on
the foundation of a permanent peace
of justice. Consequently, Its object
In entering into discussions would be
only to agree upon practical details
of the application of these terms.
The German government believes that
the government of the powers asso
ciated with the government of the
United States also take the position
taken by President Wilson in his
address.
The German government,
in accordance with the Austro-Hunga
rian government, for the purpose of
bringing about an armistice, declares
Itself ready to comply with the pro
positions of the president in regard
to evacuation.
"The German government suggests
that the president may occasion the
meeting of a mixed commission for
making the necessary arrangements
concerning the evacuation. The pres
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IN BIG FOREST FIRE
PROPERTY DAMAGE WILL MOUNT
FAR INTO THE MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS.
SEVERAL VILLAGES LAY WASTE
Thousands Homeless, Need Clothing
and Medical Attention—Charred
Ruins Mark Path of Flames in
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Duluth, Minn.—With probably 900
persons dead, thousands homeless and
without clothing, and with property
damage mounting far into millions of
dollars, whole sections of northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota timberlands
smoldering, fire-stricken areas, with
only the. charred ruins of abandoned,
depopulated towns to accentuate the
general desolation.
The bodies of 176 victims lie in Du
luth morgue. Hundreds more, along
the roads leading to Duluth and Supe
rior, lay where they tell when over
taken by the fire.
Twelve thousand homeless and pen
niless refugees, all in need, more or
less, of medical attention are quarter
ed in hospitals, churches, schools, pri
vate homes and in the armory here,
vvliile doctors and nurses sent .from
surrounding communities attend them,
and nearly every able-bodied man in
the city has been conscripted to fight
the flames, which now are reported to
be dying away.
Enemy Agents • Blamed.
Reports that the holocaust resulted
from the work of enemy agents are
circulated. Definite confirmation was
not available, but it was learned that
incendiaries were driven away from
a local shipyard when the tires in
Duluth and Superior were burning at
their height.
Duluth and Superior are In no fur
ther danger. Virginia is sate and
Brainerd was untouched. However,
peat bog fires are said to menace the
latter city. Bemidjl reported only
small loss.
Rural Settlements Wiped OuL
Great loss of life and property dam
age Is believed to have occurred in
the Cloquet region, where a number
of small towns have been destroyed
and all semi-rural settlements virtu
ally wiped out.
Until a census of the burned area
is taken no accurate estimates can be
made either of the loss of life or ex
tent of damage. The fires in Duluth
and Superior, it is said, destroyed
property valued at more than $1,000,
000. A special train of 20 coaches
brought 1500 refugees from Cloquet
and Carleton, Minn. They confirmed
reports that many had perished in
those towns.
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GEN. JANIN
Of the French army has been chosen
commander of the Czecho-Slovak
army, and is now in America on his
way to Siberia to take active com
mand.
(Red Cross Aids Russia.
Washington, D. C.—Arrival at Arch
angel of a relief ship which left an
American port in August with 4600
tons of food, drugs and other supplies
for allied soldiers and destitute civil
ians in northern Russia, was announc
ed Sunday by the American Red Cross.
The cargo was valued at $1.500,000, the
amount originally appropriated for re
lief at that point.
Page Critically III.
Walter Hines Page, retiring Ameri
can ambassador to Great Britain, ar
rived in New York Saturday from Eng
land, critically ill. He is suffering
from heart disease.
ant German government, which has
undertaken the responsibility for this
step toward peace, has been formed
by conferences and is in agreement
with the great majority of the relch
stag. The chancellor, supported in
ail of his actions by the will of this
majority, speaks In the name of the
German government and of the Ger
man people.
SOLF,
State Secretary of Foreign Office.
Berlin, Oct. 12, 1918."