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E WAR WAS
HT AND WOM
Monstrous Conspir
as Defeat by Forces
Civilization.
^NATION SOUGHT
ranee the Decisive Fac
Mighty Struggle in
emocracy Triumphed
Irrecponsible Auto
a :ic Militarism.
ARD W. PICKARD.
militarism, imbued with
(»ring greed for world
started the Great War.
, inspired with decency
s' nse, ended It.
art- commercial" Is a sny
true of all modern wars,
war of all time, just end
le>8 so than otliers, for
made by the militury
nuny. It was for the bene
er' iul Germany, for the
tin- trade of the world,
the defeat of France in
formation of the German
ruling classes of Germany
assiduously preparing for
struggle that began in
tty at times, with brazen
others, they laid their
up their mighty military
:nded their espionage sys
atnls with the aid of the
ses and the diplomats,
ed by more than one stu
Irs the world In general
this or looked on It as
fulness and legitimate
tltion.
I>lan was nothing less
rnious conspiracy to es
the conspirators knew as
a dominion extend
North sea to the Persian
preliminaries, German
placed - on thrones of
pe wherever possible, and
1st ions were established
Germany virtual control
eted countries. Then the
cy Impatiently awaited
Was Ready-Made.
excuse was needed to
the conflict, and this was
June 28, 1914, by the as
of Archduke Ferdinand of
his wife In Sarajevo, Bos
rhlan. That this crime
to serve as a pretext Is
the fact that everything
u few* days In advance
the German military ma*
lion. Austria, under or
erlin, made demands on
ich no self-respecting nu
bmit, and on July 28 de
n its neighbor. Russia, as
sponsor for Serbia, mo
mies at once, despite the
Germany, whereupon the
lured war on Russia,
g in offensive and defens
witli Russia, was com
obilize, and the kaiser's
got injo action at once,
of events so far had been
the German high com
wns in accordance with
ed plan, which was to
by a swift advance on
then to turn about and
of Russia's military re
2 German troops entered
Cirey and began moving
emburg, despite the spir
of the grand duchess,
asked Belgium to permit
of troops through that
is was refused, the king
appealing to the powers
runteed the neutrality of
time Great Britain had
to avert the outbreak of
r, and Germany rested
on the information of
t the British would not
the conflict. But Berlin
tliout the British spirit of
d faithfulness to treaties,
the kaiser tore up the
per" and invaded Belgium
jumped to the rescue,
fleet was mobilized and
pitifully small, began mov
the channel. Then events
dazing rapidity. One af
the nations fell into line
Germans and Austro-Hun
the Teutons were ready
rs, except France, were
Invasion of Belgium.
f> began one of the most
Papiers in the history of
■e rape of Belgium. King
Us heroic little army re
ut omst. but the suppos
ée forts of Liege, Na
®th<T Belgian towns were
~ed by the Hun cannon
tnd its people were made
atrocities committed by
officers and privates
fanain a blot on the name
to the end of all time,
tes been so well Informed
tteise brutal crimes that it
to recapitulate them.
**errun all but a narrow
Jum. the Hun armies be
teriin fondly believed was
Winiphul march to Paris.,
ttttie I > |n hr army was
their path and fought
to a man. and side by
ten the French Poilus con
tent. They were pushed
Marne was reached and eroe^ed by
the rnvadmg hoots and the capital
£ * Withl ° th * of the
Huns. Then came forward the first
heroic figure of ttle „ f> Mursha|
J offre of hrui.ee. Commandeering
every motor vehicle in Paris, he rush
«Hi to the front the entire force left to
defend the capital and In a mighty
buttle along the Marne the German's
were defeated. They had spread orn
too much and permitted their right
Hank to be turned and were driveD
back to (lie northeast. Reuehing lines
prepared with this possibility in view
w} ilup in and then a period
Of trench warfare that lasted for three
years in the course of which there
were no reniurkable gains of territory
by either side.
Under the management of Lord
Kitchener Britain« millions were be
ing enlisted und trained and trail*
ported to the battie grounds. Nut
ouly from the homeland did they
come, hut from Canada. Australia.
New Zealand. India, South Africa and
all of the far-flung possession.« of the
empire, with nn ardor that settled for
all time the question of their loyalty
to that empire. Ireland alone held
hack to a considerable extent, hoping
to gain independence and mu king It
self the hutching ground for many a
German plot. Kitchener's greut work
practically accomplished, he went to
his death when a German submarine
sank the cruiser ou which he.was
going to Russia.
Germany's Submarine Warfare.
In the first months of the war the
British fleets, aided by the Japanese,
took away Germany's island colonies,
and then, having almost full mustery
of tile seas, established a blockade of
Germany designed to starve her into
submission. The reply to this was
quick in coming. The Germans start
ed out their submarines at once, and
began building more and bigger un
dersea vessels. Disregarding the rec
ognized laws of warfare, they declared
unrestricted war on all vessels of
their enemies, and a muriTerous career
that finally resulted iu dragging the
United States into the couflict and
bringing defeat to themselves. The
first notable victim of this method of
warfare was the Lusitania, more than
a thousand of whose passengers per
ished. On this and many another ves
sel that was sent down by the sub
marines were American citizens, and
there was a powerful demand on our
government to stop the practice or to
enter the war.
For nearly two years President Wil
son held back, writing numerous notes
of protest to Berlin and receiving an
equal number of false promises.
Early in 1917 Berlin announced that
submariue warfare thereafter would
be unrestricted—as it hud been in
reality most of the time—and there
was nothing left the United States but
to declare a state of war witli Ger
many. This was done on April ti and
from that fateful day the doom of
Germany's great conspiracy was set
lied.
America's Wonderful Effort.
With amazing energy and speed
America went at the tremendous task
of making an army out of its civilian
population. There were many mis
takes and many delays, but these are
almost forgotten in the contemplation
of the marvelous success with which
tlte thing was accomplished. After a
long and heated debate, the selective
draft system of raising an urmy was
adopted, and young men by the hun
dred thousand were taken from their
civiliun pursuits, put in immense
traiuing camps aud made iuto soldiers.
To command them, thousands of of
ficers were trained in other camps, lu
the incredibly short time of one year
nearly two million fighting men, as
efficient as the world lias ever seen,
had been transported across the At
lantic, with all the vast supplies re
quired ; aud at home the industries of
the land had been reorganized for the
business of war. Knowing well the
arduousness of the task of winning the
war, the government bent every ef
fort to it aud the draft age limits were
extended to Include all men between
the ages of eighteen and forty-six.
Many thousands of those thus drafted |
were In training when the war came
to a close.
America's arrival in France was
most timely. Though the crown prince
had failed miserably in his attempt to
force a way to Paris by the Verdui
route in 1916. the Germans never gave
up their plans to take the French cap
ital, find In the spring of 1916, with
re-enforcements released from the
eastern front by the collapse of Rus
sia, they liegan a powerful drive in
northern France. 1» the first stage
of this they reached the Somme, and
in the second they got to the Marne
again, ouly 55 miles from Paris.
Yankee« to the Re«cue.
The Yankees, who were getting
their final training behind the lines,
had not yet seen very much action,
but in this crisis their commander,
General Pershing, offered their imme
diate services to the British and
French. Brigaded with the allies,
they went into battle with a rush that
inspired the tired Tommies and
Poilus, and the advance of the Huns
was checked. General Foch. France*»
master strategist, was made supreme
commander of the allies In the west,
and he at once began delivering the
aeries of terrific strokes that ultimate
ly forced the Germans back to their
own borders. Fighting with the
French, the Americans had a big part
in clearing out the Marne salient ;
fighting with the British, they gave
great help in the allied victories fur
ttoer north. Then the First American
field army was organised, placed on the
extreme west of the line and there
wiped oat the St. Mlhlei salient and
started on the ope rations that lu leas
|
. Bia ™ *tee enn*j% Um»
or • communication from Metz and
threatened the capture of all his
forces left in France.
"When Russia's vast manpower
gets into action Germany will be
oTwhed as under a steam roller" said
everyone in 1914. and for a time this
prediction bade fair to be realized.
The Russians invaded East Prussia
and were making fine progress there
und in Poland, which wax kept up.
with some reverses, until early in
191.1. when Von Hindenhurg adminis
tered to them a succession of terrific
defeats. These were uot due so much
to the military supremacy of the Ger
mans as to the shameful lietniyai of
i'TÄra*':
arms and supplies. From that time
on Russia s main successes were wou
against the Austrians ami were tem
porary. Demoralization steadily
spread through the czar's dominion,
fostered by German agents, und the
outcome was the deposit-hm - of Xteh
olns and his dynasty and the estab
lishment of a confused semblance of
government by the soviets of the sol
diers. workers and peasants—a condi
tion that remains to tie desired up.
though the power of the boislieviki is
rupidiy wuuing.
_ ,
,i(H * luri ng that the tenus of j
Italy, Once Defeated, Triumphs.
tlie Triple Alliance had been violated
by Austria, entered the war on the
side of the allies on May 23, 1915.
Turkey had gone in with Germany lie
fore the war was three months old.
and Bulgaria cast her lot with the
Teutons in October. 1915. The for
tunes of the Italians were spectacular.
They won over the Austrians for a
long time and invaded the regions of
Italia Irridenta along the Adriatic,
threatening Trieste. Then subtle
Teuton propaganda, coupled with de
featist work at home, brought disaster
•n them. Helped by Germau divisions,
tlie Austrians made a tremendous
drive and forced the Italians back to
the Piave river line. There the con
test stood for many months, until tlie
middle of June, 1918. when under Gen
eral Diaz, the Italians not ouly stoic
ped another offensive, but turned it
into a great defeat and rout which
culminated in tlie surrender of Aus
tria. This was hastened by tlie fall
ing to pieces of the-Austro-Hungarian
empire, the states of which were es
tablishing their Independence, follow
ing the lead of the Czechoslovaks.
Turkey, with the aid of Germans,
administered to Great Britain two set
backs that were rather humiliating.
The first was at the Iiardunelles,
which the British tried to force, first
with navy alone, then wi|h land and
sea forces. Both attempts were disas
trous failures. The other defeat by
the Turks was in Mesopotamia, where
General Townsliend aud his army
were captured at Kut-el-Ainnra. Both
these reverses were more than com
pensated for by the later conquest of
Mesoitotumla and tlie Holy Land and
the consequent surrender of Turkey.
As for Bulgaria, she was heuten
largely by the regenerated Serbian
army, which had great assistance from
tlie French, Greeks and British. Ser
bia had been wholly overrun in th«
first few months of the war, but her
spirit never died out and in the late
summer of 1918 she not only regained
her own, but forced Bulgaria to her
knees.
Roumania kept out of the conflict
for some time and then joined the al
lies, though they would have prefer
red that she remain neutral. She ln
vaded Transylvania and at first
threatened to give Austria a grqat
deal of trouble, but Germnuy came to
Us ally's aid. Russia collapsed aud
Roumauia was forced to give up.
Warfare In th« Air.
The most picturesque side of the
great conflict has been the war in the
air. It was quickly seen that the air
plane would play a big part in the
war. and every belligerent nation soon
had powerful air fleets. The machines
were enlarged and Improved beyond
all imagining, and from mere obser
vation planes became fighting and
bombing machines of vast importance.
Except for observation purposes, the
lighter than air craft were utilised
only by Germany. She pinned her
faith to the great dirigible Zeppelins,
but these on the whole proved a dis
mal failure. True to her savage pol
lcv, Germany waged unrestricted war
fnim the air as on land and m*. Her j
Zeppelins and planes repeatedly at- J
tack«>d I«ondon, Paris and Innumerable ,
other unfortified titles and towns, and
her airmen made a practice of bomb
ing Red Croas hospitals.
I.ong before the war closed the :
allies had established their supremacy
in tlie air. and equal to the best of !
their flyers were the gallant Amerl
cans who entered that branch of the
service. j
Another novelty of the war was the
tank. This machine, based on an
American Invention and first develop
ed by the British, came as a complete
surprise to the German» and the? fled
in terror from Its bristling guns and.
Its crushing weight. They tried mak
to* tanks for themselves, but never
caught up with the lmprovamenta
brought out by the alitas.
The net results of the Great War
cannot be stated yet. Bat they in
etude first and foremost, the down
fall of irresponsible autocracy and
militarism and the beginning »
spread of democratic rule that will
embrace the world. The fallen mon j
arch* include the kaiser, the czar of
Russia, the kings of Bulgaria. Bava
rta, Woerttemberg. Saxony and Mon
tenegro and King (Ymstantlne of
Greece, and probaWy the »«nperor of
Austria The people are tn the and
die and tf they keep their heads and
arhmlt to Intelligent leadership *•>
SOUGHT nutiui
DOMINION; WINS
WORLD HATRED
Kaiser and His Power Completely
Crushed by Hosts of
Civilization.
mwb world into war
Once Mightiest of Monarchs Leads
H*s People From Peace and Pros
perity Into Ruin — insane
Dream EiWts With Hia
Abdication.
William Ilohcuzoilern. German em
peror and kiug of Prussia, has abdi
cated.
He was;
William II, German emperor and
king of Prussia, sole arbiter over the
fate of 70.609,900 men. women aud
, children ; commander in chief of the
j German army aud uavy. and supreme
j tor - * lren in his youth the mo«t dan
J * erous of " I! toys his army and navy.
, T*»cy were Ids playthings. He de
'el.ttiod »&•*» throughout the years to
f! '*' P° lnt »*•«* ,lp •*»«» *" Put them
*< * Uk * • erwa inventor, he
: feared the end of his reign would find
bl * Inventions untried, so grasped the
! flr *' opportunity to wage a world war.
Daises Pretense to Open War.
Meantime the German war party
j grew, with William at its head, and
y,,. »cbeme 0 f world dominion awaited
y,,. i, our to begin lu attainment. it
nnit with the assassination of the
Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand
an j w y,. at Sarajevo,
Recalled from a yachting trip. W|1
presided at a conference at Pota
^ Q f representatives of the German
Austrian armies, navies and com
mcrrtal interest*. There, according to
beat information obtainable, the
decision was reached to make the an
«aasioation of the archduke a pretense
for the world war for which Germany
bad tong prepared.
In the diplomatic exchanges between
j Germany and Austria on one side and
Great Britain. France and Russia on
war lord ; overlord of four kingdoms,
six grand duchies, five duchies, seven
principalities, three "free towus" aud
one "reichsluud," Alsace-Lorraine, vir
tual owner of 2U6.7HO square miles
with a total frontier length of 4,570
miles ; owner of deiiendeucies in vari
ous parts of the glolie aggregating
1.027.820 square mile» aud 12,000,000
natives.
Now, and ever after, he Is :
Herr Wilhelm Hohenzoliera—by the
grace of his people.
A dream of world dominion obsess
ing the mind of Emperor Willism
plunged the world Into war. Upon
him and tlie tremendous military en
gine of destruction of which be was
the embodiment, the exponent aud the
leader, rests tlie responsibility of de
liberately planning and bringing about
the greatest conflict the world has
ever seen.
Sought World Dominion.
He signed the order for the German
mobilization. He stood sponsor for
the terrorism and brigandage wlUch.
under the guise of warfare, ravished
Belgium, laid waste the citiae of
France, depopulated and outraged Ser
bia and sent the Lusitania with her
freight of women and children to a
grave In tlie Atlantic.
Against these bis cry "1 did not will
the war" availed as nothing. Before
the bar of humanity William was ad
judged guilty of the greatest crime
since the crucifixion. In him human
ity -wiw the last of the uutoerats. the
final Caesar.
Assertions that he was at heart
peaceful, so iiersistently circulated for
years as to give them the stamp of
German propogagda. lie came branded
as false. He who had long proclaimed
himself the prince of peace stood re
vosied as humanity's scourge.
Claims Almighty as Hia Ally.
Many doubt whether William was
entirely sane. He said repeatedly that
he iiosseaMHl a divine mandate to rule,
that the Almighty was his "uncondi
tional and avowed ally." It Is not en
tirely cleur whether such outgivings
were the product of a disordered brain
or were due to unbounded egotism and
an effort to impress his subjects with
the Idea of reverent and unquestioning
submission.
His speches to his armies In which
he asserted he and they were "instru
ments of divine judgment upon Ger
many's enemies" were regarded by
many outside of Germany as pieces of
rhetoric, intended only to deceive his
own people.
Few statesmen realized that the em
peror in his "shining armor." maneu
vering his armies and fleets, building
np the German military system, ce
menting the central empires and Tur
key. and fostering the preaching of the
supremacy of autocracy, was erecting
a mschlue that one day would make
war upon all civilization.
Y'et the world was warned by some
far-sighted men that the emperor
would one day bring catastrophe upon
the nations. These men saw In him
then and see him now as a mail Inveu
'for peace bat driven to war.
the other William p«iaed a* one wishing
He signed tbe order for the moblHra
tton ot the German army and from
that moment war was inevitable.
Publtcatloa of the "Willy Nicky"
la 1817 piacad the Oar
ter. Th ______
that Emperor William hod induced
Emperor Nicholas of Russia to sign i
racret agreement to which he was to
force the adherence of France in the
perfection of an offensive and defens
ive alliance against England. The !
treaty was discovered and repudiated
by a Russian minister.
Falling in his attempt, the German
emperor set upon himself the task of
drawing England to his aide against
France ami Russia.
How- weil ht- 'bought he had suc
ceeded in tiii> nuiy is- gathered from
a letter iw wrote to l*re»t(lent Wilson
in 1914 in which he suid King George
had promised Prince Henry of Prussia,
on July 29, 1914, that England would
remain neutral in a war involving the
central powers with Prauce ami Rus
sia.
Lichnow&ky Shows Up Intrigue.
Perhaps the niiwr direct and authori
tative of tlie accusation« against the
German emperor and the i-un-Geranin«
are contained In tin- published secret
memorandum of Prince ('hurte* Mas
Llchnowsky. who was German am
bussathir at Loudon at tbe outbreak of
hostillltes.
The prltire unequivocally placed the
blame for the war on Germany, and
for Id« frankness was Imprisoned in »
K1L—ion ciiateuu. permanently expelled
from tlie Pru**i*n house of lords,
which action n«i «auctioned by tlie
emperor, and finally was exiled to
Switzerland.
Emperor William's domination over
of
_____ ...___________________
Gentian statesmen, diplomats and the |
high command of Um» German army
was emphasized by In. Wilhelm ;
Muehlon. a former director of the
Krupp work*, the great Germau muni
tians factory, in hi* book on "Tbe
Devastation of Eurojie." In this he
not only laid blame upon Germany for
had faith and criticized tbe German
army for its brutality hut asserted that
in the German foreign office "only he i
who did tlie emperor's bidding was ai
lowed to remain." "They could not
do better." he declared, "tiecause of
the character, the power, the vaadlla
tion of and continued interference by
the kaiser."
It was Doctor Muehlon who aa«ert«»d
the authenticity of the statement that
Ktuperur William slated at a meeting
of German army officers that lie bad
plenty of prisoners and that he hoped
the officer* would aee that uo more
prisoners were taken.
Maximilian Harden, a German lib
eral leader, declared tbe German ruler
brought on tbe war because of his de
sire "for something like world rule."
"No Nonsense From Us."
The emiieror. despite his previous
expressions of good will for America,
gave vent to hi» anger against the
United States when tt became evident
no official action would he taken to
stop the shipment of munition* and
supplie* to the entente allie« by de
claring to the American ambassador,
Janie* W. Gerard. "1 shall stand no
nonsense from America after Un
war."
William's designs to spread German
dominion In Asia found expression in
his famous visits to Constantinople
when lie was proclaimed as protector
of the Moslem». In this tlie world saw
a cunning step toward achievement ot
the German ambition of German do
minion from Berlin to Bagdad.
Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Albert was
born January 27. 1859, and became
Emperor William II on the death of
his father. Frederick 111. June IS, 1888
He came out of the Unlv«*r*!ty of Ihmn
to
In
in
fully prapsred to enter the school of |
statecraft. 8et to work in the govern
ment bureaus, he was earty taught tbe
routine of official business under the
tutelage of the great Bismarck.
At the death of bis father, the ini
portal throne devolved upon William
U. who was then but twenty-niue
year* of age. Bismarck continued as
chancellor, hut uot for long.
In 1890 the disagreement of the two
men-reached a crisis a rupture came
and Bismarck went. The relation* be
tween the two men remained strained
for several years, but before Bismarck
died peace was mad* between them.
Stick tar for Military Etiquette.
With the passing of Hismarck the
emperor s real reign tn-gan. As a mill
tary man he was a stickler for effi ,
ciency, dlaciplt,«. and the otmervanra
of etiquette to the last detail. And with j
rhe details of all these component, ot
srm> life and training he was familiar
to toe smallest {mint.
In everything he was dracrflied as
thorough and. wlthai. one of th«» bard
eat worker* tn the empire.
Physically unlmpreaaive—he was
short and inclined to stoutne ss Wil
liam wa* foud of being photographed
while striking a military postur*.
though taking good care to veil toe
deformity of his left arm. a disfigure
ment with which he was bora aud of
which he vu extremely sensitive. He
illumed bis English mother for linug
i
j
for
s
!
est
0 tit#» tvngiUMi OMUier Kir imu#
a life of seif-Indulgence and cunwd her
repeatedly a* being responsible lor his
deformity
Ht married Augusta Victoria, olde*?
daughter of Grand Duke Frederick of
Schleswig - Holstein - Sonderhurg - Au
gtistenhurg. on February 27. 1881. 4
They had <dx non* and one dasghter.
of whom the Grown Prince Frederick
t* the eldest. With the crown prince,
bis father clashed frequently, and on
one occasion virtually «»lied young
Frederick to Dantzig, hut noon recalled
him.
German mothers who wrote to the
emperor of the deaths #f their aoas
killed In battle elicited from him so
word of sympathy. Be regarded their
deaths as "glorious." let his awa sis
aorta, though holding high commands
were so protected that the imperial
family stood praeOcaUy aioae la ali
Germany la wardlag «ff (tea ffawteaa
tbe
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nuninntdi ftuiu
During the entire epidemic of influ
enza in Oregon tbe cases have totaled
and the death* have totaled
Tbe influenza quarantine in the
state of Washington was lifted last
week, subject to tin-approval of town
and city authorities for their own dis
tricts. .
*-»«<■> effort should he made by the
live stock until for the intertucmntaiu
west to continue the maximum output
of meat which ha* been developed
during the period of the war. it is as
serted.
A; m uo-urred nn »*>« Mil
waukee raUruuil near Three lork
Mont„ when two gasoline »(weder« col
litled, which resulted in Um- death of
Mr. Martin, section foreman in Three
Fork*.
Mias May Trumpet »«ate ««pen tuen
de» t of public instruction of Montana
bn* snnmmted that till t cacher- rT
animation* have iieen (Mined until
Decetulier 5, hern inn of the influenza,
epidemic.
The secretary of Um- Montana state
council of rieten»«* i» iu receipt of a
wire from the government, asking ht*
organization h> assist In a publicity
campaign In Um- stale for further and
increased food i-nuxervuliiin.
Notwlthstanding the intense exeite
ment connected with the big p*an
| celebration at D-wWtown Mont., ail
*ht> and all night, th*- 0 |ieu!ng day of
; the Unit is I War Work drive brought in
suhacrtpUitna in excess of S7UDD.
i statua.
The influenza situation in Baker.
On-, was so much Imjmived that the
bun on public gatherings was lifted
Sunday. The ehurche* and moving
picture house« were permitted to re
iqieu, and tlie city resumed its normal
Charles M. Wax. atlas P. M Hudson,
atlas Oliver (hlsinie, «Hie of Ute prtnei
imis in tlie famous New York black
mail case Involving Federal Attorney
James W Oahome, is now limed as u
|tarnl>- violator from the Oregon state
prison.
Htx sugar manufacturing rompante«
last week distributed nearly y7.(M0j80fl
to ln-et growera. Farmer* throughout
the intermnuutain reghm received
check* for their first month'« deliver
les of beet* to the twenty-two factor«»«
In this region.
Idaho's supreme court will decide
whether or not Vlwtilo Ramirez, the
Mexican convicted with l**dm Koptu
ozu of the murder of Frank Riacarru
in Madison county. October 8. 1017.
must pay Ute death penalty An appeal
was filed lust week.
According to reports r«*eelvcd at dis
trict No. 1 headquarters of the Lolo
and Bitter Root forest reserve. » 6.0838
Sheep and 24» entile and horses grazed
in till- I silo forest and 50,729 sheep and
2.73(5 luirae- and cuttle grazed tn tbe
Bitter Bant forest bet we«* May 1 and
October 31.
The total output of tlie twenty-two
iutcniHiuutaln sugar fu<*u»rtes will
probably la» U.UUb.UUO sacks of sugar,
wntih at the priment market price
nearly Ttic iieet tonnag«
for Utah. Idaho and Washington I»
estimated at 12290,000 tons for the
1918-1919 season.
Sentiment in favor of continuation
of government control price fixing
during the n*«iin»-traction period fol
lowing the war aud of only gradual re
| Ul(|ul *hme l it by the federal |
ment of rontrol of tbe lumber indus
try. was expr e s s e d at a meeting at
Portland of the Went UoaM Lumber
men's association.
Learning timt favorable considera
tion I* lietng given by reclmnjitlo«» of
ficial« to the plan f«ir tlie conatrac
tion of a reservoir at or near Ameri
can Falls. Idaho, for »hc irrig» il-n of
more than «NMN0 «eres In the
liruticMU project, the state land board
last weak withdraw lands lying np
proxlroately on the reservoir alte from
public «nie.
Affairs have reached a hot poiat In
Ouater county. Idaho, w liera bitterness
tuts <lrvelfi|i**ri anew between the real
dents of Mackay on the one aide and
, rrmdfnU at < Wli . ,, D the other as
t (|f compUemtkim growing oat
j nD , tt ,. ro ,, t b , Ouater county health
m u u , rnforce . quarantine block
the Cli . uu against
i ade in the
j travel«*!*.
Wb«*n tbe See«ind Montana left lier*
for tlie war. It contained loset us Loti,
s 8wlas, from somewhere in Montana,
whose reputiitltm as a scrapper was
usaored. On one occasion, while on
guard duty in Gnilatla county, he had
chained up a jiro-HuD saloon, knock
ing three men cold with hit ^ fist*.
! Lucius wn* "he of the regiment s for
est fire fighters. Now com*-« the word
that lie has l*-**u awarded the di»
tiiai n** u** i*-*« _
llnguUlied service crus» in France for
gallantry in action,
Amv-nnda picture theater* opened
remuer 12 to capacity »udieoc«»*.
fi U i.dre«l* of hungry movie fan*
mKrr f or tbe sight of favorite heroes
4 fter four w*-eks of «nf®r«h*d absence
crowded them to the doors,
AaDoaa ^ nl trow Han Fraactoco
that forty-eight wounded noidtera from
tbe <* est ecu front have Ju»t arrive« at
to* Lettermso General hospital at Uw|
place Indicates that the mov«a»e»l of
reçoit»« ruction mditivr» to western hoe
pi tal* ha* ruiunn-uced.
Hiz thousand sprue« worker* com
posed about eque'^ "T*
soldiers, are be»ttg released at t he rale
of 000 a day from U*
In the Olympic praiaaula near •**«««*•
.* « raxuli of ik* tormumüonofg"
, .uiiieut spruev contracts tot airplane
malarial.

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