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CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO BHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGREBS OP EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Wwtsrn Newspaper Union Newsservice. ABOUT THE WAR. Intense artillery fighting continues in Flanders. Germans and Turks planning at* tempt to recapture Bagdad. The Russians and Rumanians are re sisting valiantly but have been forced to give up positions north of Fokshani. Twenty-one British vesels of more than 1,600 tons and two vessels of less than 1,600 tons were sunk last week. A Russo-Rumanian retirement to the villages of Marasechti and Furteni on the Sereth river is reported by Petro grad. Nine hundred and thirty-three Scan dinavian ships have been destroyed by torpedoes or mines since the begin ning of the war. Field Marshal von Mackensen is centering his efforts to break through the entente line toward the railroad Junction of Tecutchieu. German air planes raided the Eng lish coast Sunday, killing twenty-three persons, including nine women and six children. About sixty were injured. The French Saturday recaptured at the remaining trench elements taken by the Germans Wednesday. A Ger man attack south of Ailles was re pulsed. The American steamer Campana was sunk by a submarine and five Americans, including the captain, are believed to have been taken prisoners on the diver. The Russian embassy in Washing ton learn that the kaiser is planning on offensive against Riga, with the hope of threatening Petrograd. The Russians are holding their own in Galicia. Winning a daybreak battle in brief, furious fighting, the British forces of Haig are forging their way onward through the lines of the Germans in Belgium, near Hoge, on the fighting front defending which are the armies ' of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. The Canadians are holding stub bornly the trenches at the doorstep of Lens. The Germans unsuccessfully at tacked near St. Quentin a sector long idle. German attacks along the Aisne also failed. Fighting continues in Gal icia, Uukowina and Southern Mol davia. WESTERN. Condition of former President Taft Is improved. Plot to corner canned tomatoes is uncovered is claim. Thomas Wardall of Seattle was born in 1815. He is healthy, happy and ac tive. Mrs. Lavinia B. Steward, philanthro pist, whose contributions to science and charity became public only with her death, died at her summer home, Oracle, Ariz. Rioting in the strike of operating forces of the Kansas City Railways Company broke out when strikers at tacked three cars filled with men im ported to break the walkout. Scores of national guardsmen raided the Oakland, Cal., headquarters of the Industrial Workers of the World, car ried out the organization's literature and records and made a bonfire of them in the streets. A terrific rain storm which struck Blsbee, Ariz., flooded the ousiness part of the town, causing damage estimated at $50,000. A score of automobiles caught by the torrent which swept through the streets were smashed to bits. WASHINGTON. Senator EaFollette introduces peace resolution in Senate. Debate on revised war tax measure taken up in Congress. Coal prices increase Indicative of profiteering it is said. Plans for controling price of wheat and flour to be announced soon. Herbert Hoover was formally ap pointed food dictator of United States. Seldon G. Hopkins of Cheyenne, Wyo., was nominated by President Wilson to be assistant secretary of the interior, succeeding the late Bo Sweeney. Bill to provide insurance for Ameri can fighting men introduced in Con gress. The regular army has passed its war strength figure of 300,000, It was officially announced by tbe War De partment. The date for calling the first Incre ment of 200.000 men Into the ranks of the national army may be changed from Sept, l to the 4th. Secretary McAdoo is planning to ask Congress in the near future for author isation of a new bond issue of $6,000,- 400,000 at this session of Congress. FOREIGN. American soldiers entertain Preach comrades at dinner. Sinn Feiners won another parlia mentary bye election when they cap tured the seat from Kilkenny. Canada’s war expenditures are now about $850,000 a day, the total to July 20 being $623,000,000. Additional Japanese naval units have joined the allied forces in Euro pean waters, the Japanese naval at tache at London announced. A dispatch from Vienna announces the engagement of Archduchess Hed wig of Tuscanby to Count Bernhard Zu Stolberg-Stolberg, born in Manka to, Minn. Emphatic disapproval of the sugges tion that American troops be sent to the eastern front was brought home by all except one of the members of the American mission to Russia. Representatives of Spain, Switzer land, Holland, Denmark and Norway are going to meet Swedish representa tives in Stockholm for a conference on war and peace at Sweden’s invitation. The conference of the British Labor party 'held at Westminster voted to send delegates to the Stockholm con sultative conference by 1,046,000 to 550,000. An explosion and fire in a big chemical works in East London wrecked the building and killed or in jured scores of workers. Thirteen bod ies of women were rescued from the ruins. The American Red Cross has insti tuted a “fresh air farm’' on a beautiful hillside near Paris as a refugee center for 400 children driven from their homes by gas bombs dropped by ene my airplanes. Dr. Karl Liebknecht, Socialist lead er in the German Reichstag, who was arrested in connection with the May day demonstration in Berlin in 1916, was liberated by the German govern ment through fear he might die in prison. Arthur Henderson, the Labor mem ber of the British War Council, who addressed the British labor conference and advised sending of British dele gates to the Stockholm consultative congress of Socialists, has tendered his resignation and Premier Lloyd George has accepted it. SPORT. StaadliiK of Western I.eagur Club*. CLUBS. Won. Lost. Pet. Wichita 13 7 .650 Hutchinson 13 7 .650 Omaha 11 9 .550 Lincoln 11 9 .660 St. Joseph 10 10 .500 Joplin 9 11 .450 Denver 8 12 .400 Des Moines 5 15 .250 Devereux Milburn, the famous polo player, is among the men designated by the War Department for the second Plattsburg, N. Y. camp of the officers' reserve corps, who will start training Aug. 27. Don Harker, dean of tennis players in Colorado, defeated Scott Townsend, former state champion, in an exhibi tion match at City park, in Denver. The entire proceeds, which were $22.60, went to the Denver Red Cross. Miss Katherine Stinson, the girl avl atrix, will race with Barney Oldfield at Sheepshead Bay Aug. 18, in connec tion with the match races between Oldfield, Ralph de Palma and Louis Chevrolet. A purse of SI,OOO has been, offered for the “earth and air” race. Announcement was made at Colo rado Springs of the calling off of the Pike’s Peak automobile races, sched uled to begin Sept. 8. The announce ment stated that automobile manufac turers and drivers are engaged in war work and are unable to participate in the meet. GENERAL Bisbee people determined to stand by deportation acts. Third arrest is made in New’ York exemption board case. One of New York exemption boards was summarily removed. Lavish entertainment planned for members of Japanese mission. United States submarine collides with excursion steamer in Boston har bor. More than 5,000 men for the British and Canadian forces have been recruit ed in this country by the British re cruiting commission. Conditions in Syria and Palestine are declared to be “the worst possible" by a refugee who fled from there and has just reached New York and re ported to the American committee of Armenian and Syrian relief. The backbone of the strike which has paralyzed for five weeks the large copper mines in the Globe, Arlz., dis trict has been effectually broken, ac cording to statements made by George R. Hill, president of the Loyalty league. Most of the graduates of the officers’ training camp will be appointed to the officers’ reserve corps to be called in to active service in the national army only during the war and returned to the Inactive list at the close of hostil ities. The known tin deposits in the United States are few, but Alaska Is something of a contributor to the much-needed tin demand. A national holiday may be declared on Sept. 3, Labor day, in celebration of the entrainment of the draft levies for the training cantonments. At Chautauqua, N. Y.. T. P. O’Con nor, M. P . the Irish Nationalist leader. In an address on the Armenian situa tion told of Germany’s responsibility for the slaughter of thousands in A* taenia. THE CHEYENNE RECORD. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Aug. 25 —Pickle Day at Plattevllle. Aug. 28-Sept. I.—Prowera County Fair at Lamar. Auk. 28-30.—Annual Convention K. P. Grand Lodge, Including Uniform Rank. Pythian Sisters and Knights of Khorassan, at Colorado Springs. Sept. 3-7—Frontier Day celebration at Fort Morgan. County Fairs. Aug. 28-Sept. I—Prowers County at La mar. Aug. 29-31—Larimer County at Love land. Aug. 29-31—Crowley County at Sugar City. Aug. 31-Sept. I—Farmers’ Fair at Fow ler. Sept. 4-7—BoulderCounty at Longmont. Sept. 4-7—Arkansas Valley at Rocky Ford. Sept. 6-B—Sedgwick County at Jules burg. Sept. 11-14—Logan County at Sterling. Sept. 18-21—Cheyenne County at Chey enne Wells. Sept. 18-21.—Western Slope at Mont rose Sept. 17-22—Colorado State at Pueblo. Sept. 26-22—Phillips County at Hol yoke. Sept. 25-28—Colorado - New Mexico at Durango. Sept. 25-29—Las Animas County at Trinidad. Sept. 26-28—El Paso County at Calhan. Sept. 27-29—Grand County at Kremm ling. Oct. 2-s—Kit Carson County at Bur lington. The Crowley county fair will be held Aug. 31. Fifty men working on the Pueblo city hall walked out. South Side exemption board of Pueb lo will call second list of lpo men. State labor convention adjourned after passing resolutions condemning constabulary bill. Team of fine mules valued at SSOO, property of Henry Hayhurst, killed by lightning south of Las Animas. A terrific hail storm, accompanied by a heavy rain fell at Fort Morgan, doing damage to beets and alfalfa. Bears and other wild animals are becoming numerous on the ranges be tween Grand Junction and Montrose. Not one of the nine draft districts in Denver will obt&in its quota from the first call, and a second will be made. Announcement was made of the call ing off of the Pike’s peak automobile races, scheduled to begin on Sept. 8. The sixty-third annual convention of the International Typographical Union opened at oClorado Springs on Mon day. It is stated that seventy more Colo rado men are to win posts, in addition to the 300 already commissioned, at Fort Riley. Advance of half dollar per hundred in wholesale price of sugar last week Is expected to be followed quickly by another smaller raise. Rex B. Yeager of Denver was elected president of the Colorado State Board of Embalming Examiners at the annu al election in the capitol. “Six days in one —all the same Cheyenne,” is a sentence in the an nouncement of the annual rodeo to be held in Cornish, Aug. 18. Dr. F. S. Bates, a former resident of Colorado Springs, was killed by a bolt of lightning during a storm at Fort Riley, Kan., the officers’ training camp. Two new tent villages, occupied not by tourists, but by miners and pros pectors, have sprung up near Fremont Pass, attracted by the Breckenrldge molybdenum boom. Prof. Albert C. Pearson, composer, teacher and critic, and member of the faculty of the Colorado College school of music, died at Colorado Springs aft er a brief illness. The total labor shortage that Colo rado farmers will fdce in harvesting their bumper crops this year Is esti mated at 20,000 men by H. W. Cornell, director of the State War oCuncil. The fourth quadrennial session of the Supreme Camp of American Wood men, a negro organization founded on the same lines as the Woodmen of the World, will be held in Denver Aug. 13 to 18. Two children were killed and seven persons seriously injured Sunday when a car driven by a negro known only as “Bud,” overturned about a mile north of Fort Lupton, while going at a ter rific speed. Because he tore up an American flag, Joe Garharlci, a Mexican, is un der arrest and has been arraigned be fore United States Commissioner Cates on charges of desecrating the flag at Pueblo. Suit for $50,000 has been brought in Denver against the estate of the late John F. Campion by Mrs. H. A. W. Ta bor. who says that amount is due her because of an agreement between Campion and Senator Tabor. The city of Pueblo has saved $173,- 610.75 since the commission form of government went into effect in Janu ary, 1912, according to the report of J. Knox Burton, commissioner of fi nance, made to the City Council. Seven Pueblo men and one alternate will be sent to the second officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, 111. Maj. Alvardo M. Fuller, at Fort Lo gan, announced the official list, stat ing that 194 men had been selected in Colorado's full quota. The first Pueblo men to enter the selective draft army will be called for service Sept. 1, according to a tele gram received by members of the ex emption board for district No. 2. The message stated that one-third of the city’s quota must be ready to report for duty at that time. COLORADO GRAIN CROPS BHOW BIG INCREASE OVER PRO DUCTION IN 1916. Gain Shown for All Crop*, Except Winter Wheat, and State’e De crease la Bmall. Western Newspaper Union News Berries. Denver.—Colorado has jumped right up in the front rank with increases in crops, according to the official report of the United States Bureau of Crop Estimates in Washington. The state shows an increase in all except win ter wheat, and here the decrease is es timated at only 330,000 bushels. There is a big increase in potatoes, and su gar beets show better than for ten years. The statement, which is for August, follows: Corn —9,980,000 bushels; production last year (December estimate), 7,362,- 000 bushels. Winter Wheat—7,73o.ooo bushels; production' last year (December esti mate), 7,400,000 bushels. Spring Wheat—s,9so.ooo bushels; production last year (December esti mate), N 4,485,000 bushels. Oats—ll,o9o,ooo bushels; production last year (December estimate), 9,570,- 000 bushels. Barley—s,Bso,ooo bushels; produc tion last year (December estimate), bushels. Potatoes—B,o6o,ooo bushels; produc tion last year (December estimate), 6,- 900,000 bushels. All Hay—3,410,000 tons; production last year (December estimate), 2,411,- 000 tons. Apples (Agricultural cr0p)—1,338,- 000 barrels of three bushels; produc tion last year (December estimate), 735,000 barrels. Sugar Beets —Aug. 1 condition 91, compared with the ten-year average of 90. Prices —-The first price given below is the average on Aug. 1 this year, and the second the average on Aug. 1 last year. Wheat, 219 and 97 cents per bushel. Corn, 180 and 75. Oats, 88 and 58. Po tatoes, 234 and 140. Hay, sl3 and $9.80 per ton. Eggs, 33 and 22 cents per dozen. Painters Elect New Officers. Boulder.—Delegates to the Colorado state conference of painters, who have been holding sessions here during the past week at times when they were not in attendance upon the Colorado Labor Federation convention, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Paul Hoyt, Pueblo; secretary-treasurer, A. G. Potts, Den ver; directors, Samuel S. Forrest, Den ver; Thomas J. Dugard, Boulder; El mer Lane, Colorado Springs; Fred W. Innes, Pueblo; W. G. Leßoy, Trinidad; William Pond, Fort Collins, and H. C. Fildes, Denver. The conference adopt ed a card for use in all the unions of painters over the state, to be known as a state council identification card. It also ment on record to start an agi tation for the removal of old wall pa per before walls are repapered, as a sanitary measure, and voted a funeral benefit for its members of $125. The next conference will be held in the city which the Colorado State Federation of Labor chooses as its 1918 conven tion city. Funeral of Bishop Matz Held. Denver.—The funeral of Bishop N. C. Matz of the Roman Catholic diocese of Denver, who died Thursday, was held from the Cathedral of the Immac ulate Conception here Monday morn ing. Special services were held Sun day afternoon and evening. Burial was In Mount Olivet cemetery, Denver. Bishop Matz had been in ill health for four years and was taken to a hospital about a week ago when his condition became critical. Fort Morgan Frontier Days Sept. 3-7. Fort Morgan.—The directors of the Frontier Days’ celebration have decid ed to hold it Sept. 3, 4. 5, 6 and 7. Many of the same riders and horses which were in Cheyenne will be here, and it is planned to have all kinds of amusement for the benefit of the peo ple who attend. Alderson Takes Chair at Mines. Golden.—Harry M. Rubey of the board of trustees of the Colorado School of Mines received a wire from Dr. Victor C. Alderson, accepting the presidency of the institution. Dr. Alderson was in Boise, Idaho, when he wired his acceptance. Pass 21 of 36 in Teller County. Cripple Creek. —Of thirty-six Teller county men examined by the local ex emption board, twenty-one were found physically fit for army service. Of these, it is claimed, six will claim ex emption on the ground that they have dependents. Colorado Men Made “Sammy” Officers Denver.—Three hundred Colorado men have been commissioned officers at the training camps at Fort Riley, Kan., and Fort Sheridan. Labor Defies Industrial Commission. Boulder. —Organised labor of Colo rado, represented in the convention of the State Federation of Labor here by more than 200 delegates, waved the flag of defiance at the Colorado Indus trial Commission. Resolutions were passed which call upon all local unions to Ignore the board in the settlement of any labor disputes and other busi ness affairs of organized labor, on the premise that the state law "abridges the rights guaranteed by the constitu tion of the United States.** DENVER MAN AND FAMILY PERISH TWENTY LOST WHEN CITY OF ATHENS, WITH MISSIONARIES ABOARD, GOES DOWN. BRITISH SHIP HITS MINE ARTHUR DUCKWORTH, HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN, OF DEN VER, AMONG THE VICTIMS. W..tern Newspaper Union News Bervice. Denver.—The Rev. and Mrs. Ar thur Duckworth and their six chil dren, of Denver, were among these who perished, according to news dis patches, off the coast of Cape Town, Africa, when the steamship City of Athens struck a mine and sunk, Aug. 10. They were en route to In dia to resume missionary work, after a year's vacation spent with parents and relatives in Denver. Twelve oth ers, including four members of the crew and five Americans, also per ished. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Duckworth, and their children, Ethel, 12; Rosa lind, 10; Edith, 9; Martha, 8; Scoville, 3, and the baby, 8 months, had been living in Denver at 2838 High street since last September, when they re turned from Viramgam, India, for a year’s vacation. They had intended to return to India in September, but at the request of the Christian Mission ary Alliance Board of Nejy York, un der which organization the Rev. Mr. Duckworth conducted his missionary work, they made arrangements to re turn earlier, leaving Denver May 22 and sailing from New York July 12. PREPARED TO SEIZE HARVEST. Hoover Announces Plans for Control of Wheat, Flour and Bread. Washington.—Herbert C. Hoover, food administrator, announced the plans for the control of wheat, flour and bread. They are specific and comprehensive. They have been worked out fully in view of the dis rupting and disturbing conditions of the European war and the part this country still has to play. They pro vide: 1. For the vigorous prosecution of all persons who hold more wheat and flour than is required in their normal business. 2. For the maintenance of a fair price throughout the country, by seis ing, if necessary, the entire 1917 har vest and determining the cost to the consumer. 3. For food administration agencies at the principal wheat terminals throughout the country. 4. For the restriction of storage to thirty days unless special permit is given by the food administration. 6. For the elimination of specula tion by compelling all mills and ele vators with more than 100 barrels daily capacity to take out a govern ment license. The regulations will go into effect on Sept. 1. Mr. Hoover believes that by rigid application of the regulations the price of wheat can be stabilized throughout the year. With the price of wheat stabilized it is believed that the price of flour will conform and thus a stabilized price of bread will be maintained. Chang Won to Join U. S. Army. Pueblo.—Pueblo, it is believed here, has supplied the first Chinese to en ter the United States army. He is Chang Won. MACKENSEN TAKES PANTZIU. Lens Center of Drive as Canadians Advance in Coal District. Berlin, Aug. 14. Troops under Field Marshal von Mackensen cap tured the Rumanian town of Pantziu, a railroad junction in southern Mol davia, which had been desperately de fended by the Russo-Rumanian forces. London.—In Flanders the Anglo- French are resting preparatory to an other assault. The Germans must make new efforts to hold the salient east of Ypres, say war experts. - German airplanes which raided the southeast coast of England Sunday had London as their objective, hut British airplanes blocked them. Two raiders were brought down by Eng lish flyers. Berlin admits the loss of two machines and Amsterdam reports that a German machine was forced to land in Dutch territory- The American bark Chrlstiane has been sunk off the Azores by a Ger man submarine. The crew was landed. Increase Wheat and Rye Acreage. Washington.—Plans for nation-wide conferences to increase the planting of winter wheat to 47,337,000 acres, and the planting of rye to 5,131,000 acres, announced by the secretary of agriculture to meet the nation’s need for next year, will be made without the disturbance of plans for corn and other crops. The staff of the Depart ment of Agriculture and crop experts from agricultural colleges, state com missions on agriculture and State Councils of Defense will attend. WOMAN COULD HARDLY STAND Restored to Health by Lydhfl E. Pinkh&m’a Vegetable f Compound. I Fulton, N. Y. "Why will woman pay oat their money for treatment and ■ receive no benefit, when so many have moved that Lydia E. Pinkham-a Vege table Compound will make them wellT For over a year I suffered ao from female weak ness I could hardly stand and was afraid to go on the street alone. Doc tors said medicines were useless and only an operation would help me, but Lydia E. 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ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE What the American Soldier Intends to Do With Kaiser Is Not Under stood in England. With commondable enterprise a Lon don editorial brother seeks to clarify for his readers the quaint expression of certain American soldiers who have in timated that their first undertaking in Europe will be to “can the kaiser.” Id interpreting them to intend to seal up his high mightiness hermetically, how ever, the Londoner’s zeal outruns Ids information. Nix, nix, friend, It doesn’t mean that at all! says the St. Louis Post-Dis patch. It means merely that they pro pose to decorate the German emperor with hardware; to take his taw; pour the leather into him; put him on the pan; slip him one on the wind! kid nap his Angora; show him where he gets off. To put it more plainly, hav ing bought chips in a game where the custom has been to play ’em close to the waistcoat, the Americans have taken off the limit und announce they will copper all bets, see all raises and intend, the very first time the kaiser gets his feet wet, to call him off the Christmas tree. It is plain in the circumstances that our British brethren are about to find their knowledge of English handsome ly increased. Gallant Dissuasion. He—It is particularly dangerous for you, Miss Emily, to think of going out as a missionary to the cannibal tribes. She—Why especially dangerous for me? He—Because if the heathens think like your friends here they will at once conclude you are sweet enough to eat. Whenever a man fails In an under taking he attributes it to fatalism. The hoard of health consists of three square meals a day. INSTANT postiin as coffee's successor on the family table makes for better health and more comfort Preferred by Thousands Ther&a Season*