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ment to the appropriation bill. Ma
tional prohibition at this time, they
say, would spell ruin for them.
Salt Lake was chosen as the 1919
meeting place of the western division
of the Physical Education association,
which closed two days session at
San Francisco.
Many towns and cities In eastern
Washington have promised to "shut
up shop" during the harvest, that their
people may get out into the fields, If
such a plan proves necessary.
Six women have been put to work
on the Northern Pacific section west
of Hoquiam, Wash, and assigned 20
cutting grass and keeping the right of
way clean. The rolling stock branch
of the railroad Is expecting to add
women to its department.
Considerable concern Is being mani
Tested by the state farm markets bur-
eau as well as by shippers all over
the state with regard to the possibility
that Idaho will again have to meet a
car shortage when crops are ready to
move.
The selective draft men of mini
mum height of five feet and mini
mum weight Of ITO pounds, If other
wise physically fit may enter the army
hereafter according to special regu-
lation of the war department, received
at Camp Lewis, Wash. The minimum
hitherto has been five feet, three
inches, and 100 pounds.
w. A. Drake of Fort Collins, wealthy
sheepgrower, and G. A. Ballreich, law
yer, of Pueblo, Colo, have been named
as candidates for the Republican nomi-
nation for governor at the September
primaries by the Republican state
ssembly.
DOMESTIC.
| Judge A. G. Hoppman of the Madi-
son, Wis, municipal court, held that
Robert M. LaFollette, United States
senator from Wisconsin, had no place
Of abode in this state. The decision
was given in the 100000 libel suit
brought against the Madison Democrat
| by Senator La Toilette.
James NJ. Robinson, banker and
| elevator owner of Potter, Kan, has
been bound over to the federal court
at Leavenworth, Kan, on charge of
| boarding 500 pounds of flour.
Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr has
| been slightly wounded and taken to
| hospital in Paris according to cable
message received by his father, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, from his daugh-
| ter-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,
| Jr.
A new race of supermen in the
United States and decadent under
| nourished deteriorating race of In
errors in the lands of the central
powers. That is what DR.. Harvey
Wiley, head of the bureau OF food,
sanitation and health, and associate
editor of Good Housekeeping, sees as
the chief biological physiological re-
suit of the war.
Upward of $3S,00O,OO0 was lost last
year though theft of freight in transit
In the United States, it is announced.
Every able-bodied man in California.
regardless of age or wealth, must work
during the war. An order to this
effect has been issued by the state
council of defense.
A lien of $1,000 has been filed, at
Syracuse, N. ". by internal revenue
| agents against the property of G..
Loomis Allen, the electric expert and
fcrmer member of the government rail-
ways board. for failure to pay his
income tax.
Three men were killed and damage
estimated at several hundred thousand
dollars was done by an explosion at
the nitrate plant of the Aetna Explo-
| sives company. near Ishpeming, Mich.
En- route TO Italy to re-enlist, a party
of 800 Italian soldiers who escaped
from being pressed into the service OF
Austria by surrendering to the Rus
| slams have arrived at San Francisco
from the orient under the care of the
United States war department.
The news that American troops had
| VIGOROUSLY advanced in the western
| front prompted an almost unparalleled
| oulburst of enthusiasm on the floor OF
| the stock exchange on July Is. Brokers
yelled and cheered and bought stocks.
Prices scared.
Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt, reported
missing after an aerial engagement
over the German lines, probably land
ed unhurt and is now a prisoner In
the hands of the Germans, according
to cable message received on July Is
by his father, Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt.
The American steamer Westover, an
army supply ship manned by navy
men, was te"pedoed and sunk in the
var zone July II while bound to Eu-
rope, the navy department mas been
advised by Vice Admiral Sims. Ten
officers and men of the crew OF ninety
two are missins.
Announcement by the navy depart
ment Friday night that the armored