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IMINIMMWDIEMIIWNS. THE STANFORD WORLD ARIES GAINING HOUSE AND BENSON IN EEO SECTOR REPRESENTING 11,5, ENTENTE FIGHTERS DRIVE MER. SUPREME WAR COUNCIL READY CILESSLY FORWARD, IGNOR- TO BEGIN DELIBERATIONS ON MG PEACE TALK ARMISTICE CONDITIONS TEUTS ARE STILL RESISTING te Id Ma rshal Haig Advanses Line South of Valenciennes in Operation Which Has as Its Object Cap- ture of That City Oyer Iteview for October 29) NVItile both Gerintiny and Austria are seeking to seetire 31 COSS111i011 Of hostilities and Turkey is also reported 10 he favorably disposed pm :till peace. Hitt entente allied troops cm al/ the battle fronts are paying Do 'Well to peace proposals, but are continuing %without Mercy ILO drive their foes be- fore them. Anti Ito all the battle zones the al- 11PS nre meeting tVill1 Marked sileCesS. III France, the German battle line is slowly crumbling under the - violence Of the anieoll tot i II northern Italy tin. .11181E0 -II 1111garinlis are he - lug forced hack by the British. 1.'1 - emit and Italians with heavy losses in men killed, wounded or made prisoner: near 1 he shores of the Adriatic in Albanit the Italians are driving lilt' Austrians toward the Montenegrin frontier. while in Ashitie Turkey. both in Syria mad Alesopid •a. the British are fast clearing the Turks front their former stronghohla. Germans Still Resisting. Although the 1,11- France Slid Flanders skill are strenuously re- sisting the allied ottempis to break their line. they are giving way steadily. In the other theaters there snitiartattl)' is riot the saute reaLstance exrept pos. sitlly in the itiountnlit region of Italy, where the allied forces are trying to open the Itaek door into Austria. South of Valenciennes in France. Held 3farshal linig's forces have ad- vanced the'r line In the general opera- tion which hiss Iii view the ( alit lilt' of Valeneiennes and pressing on toward Nforis anti Maulosue in the gettern1 cenvergIng movement that Is giting on between Itelgium and the region mirth of A'erthiti. French Gain Victory. Portlier sittitit. from the (Oise river to the region of 11elliel. tiw French have geniis% a signal victory by forc- ing a retreat in the big salient north of 1.11011 and ore threatening to etim- Mete the colltipse of the entire Ger- man line eastward through a fast turn- ing movement. .11nerican troops have been thrown into lite. near !Billet and have ativiniced netirly it mile and taken numerous prisoners. Huns. Admit Defeat. 'floe German war office admits the suceess of the thrust of the French between tlw Oise am! Serre rivers, in emmerCom with this general 1114 ment the Americans northwest of Ver- dun Mice begun an operation which possibly may :lave important results. For the first Gine since the Americans entered the War they liniVe opened fire tigninst the hack lines of the eltemy ' with their new ininf range guns anti lire heavily bombarding Lotiguyon, some 15 miles distaot from the Ameri- ean first line position. Should the blasting process prove effective In blazing a trail along the Meuse for a quick ativatice by the Americans. It is not improbable that a German re- treat from the region east of St. Quen- tin, northeastward of Luxemburg. will necessitateil. 20,000 HUNS CAPTURED BY YANKS IN 30 DAYS With the Americas Army North- west of Ver(11111, its first major operation against the Germans. considering lite clearing ont of the St. Milliel salient as a !oval affair. the Anierien» army, in a few flays less (hall a month. has liberated more than 45 villages and advanced to an aver- age depth of 10 miles. freeing I65 squnre miles of territory. In the ()t- rete:lye flue Anwricans have captured more than 20,4100 prisoner‘L 'flue Americans attacked oil a front of 20 miles from the Argonne to lbe MellSe and the advance has heel) made In the face of almost insur lllll untable difficulties. title partielllarly to the un- itive of the ground. which is eovsred with hills, deep ravines :111(1 woods. In addition the Antericalis had fronting them four organized sy,*terus of trentites-the Hindenburg line. the Hagen position, the Sitilker position and the Kriembilde position. They have forced their way Ihroligh 1111 these, lines. Abend of them lies the .rareYR poSithill, 11:04 been reached at one point in the region of the Bantlieville wood. NO \FLU\ VACCINE YET. 1Vashingttm, Oct. 211. ----Arrival In Franee .11. House, President 11'llson's personal representative, :kind All III! 11111S1.111. the highest ranking afirer 111 1111° Allloriefill miry, has cleared the atty . for the lieghtlittig of such deliberations by the slitireille War at ‘'ersallles as limy be neces- sary lo frame the draft of an armis- tice lo is silliiiiitted lii Ilertimity. The premieres of the allied commies, who make up the 'ninth -id elements of the council. 41111 104 11S)114111 bled nt short notice. hut it is presIlltleil their pres• pone Ail) not he II l'y ;Lula the military and naval members have ac- rtatilitished their work. It was sitid today in offiend quar- ters that Colonel House would um be it member of the conned, at least for the preStati that Ile simply is the eyes - and ears of the president ilk Elirope, charged with ascertaining the exitct state of piddle anti priv,ite feeling M regard Is, till nattier: ronnected with tlw war. Possessed of full kmowledge of this it is believed the presj. dent will lie even hetter prepared I hall heretofore to deal ail II every 'those of the complex problems that still arise 115 Slaill as negotiations for an :trill's - tie,. ;Mil pea re are fatly tinder, way. Admiral Isenstat's status differs from ti a l o f rot oll Mouse lu, thoil he pre - Seats litipSelf at Versailles in his ca- pacity as the ranking offieer of the ha 53 it mutt consequently pridk- ably ssill lie_ welcomed an expert and atilhorily by the tecliiiietil mem; hers of the 4-011141•11. Nit un, knows the extent :of the tosoWerS U-1111 Whit+ Ito }lag been Hotbed ily the president or Secretary lkiniels, hitt 11 it 1 1111 1 he call give ally orders IleeeSSary tO carry Mit the 1111V:1 I phases of any aritlisIIPP - eluLL is agremil Sti far Its it 111113' bel . tecessary to :tilts., the American naval forces in European waters. DEMOBILIZATION TURN ARMY IS THREATENED IN CABINET Amsterdam. (Mt. iii. larkey a rest from the (Omit% als of the last four ;tears. Tv.zel Pasha declared in 411:111114041' ut ell:polies al 1 . 01)S11111- 1i1111111i. on (blither 19 when the 1144W TIlekio411 411144111.4 made Hs first appear- Iltice in Hie chamber. lulling the Itfograllt of Ills' new callinet Ike sfaill: \We 11111 - e resolved, lievoriling its eircummtatires toermit, to selool home 11141Se eolilitrylliel: Who in vonsequence of the twecssitics of war have been removed front tow place Ill another within the cotaitrY.t ;Ind tire 1 . 1)4141Y I0 carry mil this resolve.\ Washington. (let, 28. --Use of vac- ClneS hi conthatinz or treating i 4 panisli ltintletiZit 1MS lest Z.olle Ille eN- perilllental Silage a, n i l. States public heal ,11 ,o1-1;1•4. 11(1.1. 111111? to learn. 'III uP s1 it i last flight the public hiji II Ii Ners ice warned the public against :my of the \stir cures\ being advertised for the malady. which, according to reports. is rapidly subsiding in all army camps and is showing a lessening incident in many states among the civilians LATES7 l',;(ARKET REPORTS. Chicago Livestock. Chicago. 4 .4-1. '211. -Flogs Itecro ,, 26.- thld. Msrket i (\spit to $1.5 , i higher than yesterday's general trade Butcher. $18.250'18 7 , .: light. $17.05it 3V:frig : ruigh SI6a 16 7r.. pigs good to choice. $14 751116. c a w, f/o),,I fo l e ?Amok Market on na- tive and west..rn steers active. 23e higher. flood butcher stock steady to strong; othems. canners and calves. steady; beef cattle. good. cliolee and prime, 13.75: butcher stuck. cows and heifers. $6.506 - 114: canners atid cut- ters. MMus 16.63; stockers and feeders. good. choice and fancy. $10.2511i17.75: in- ferior. common and medivan. 17 %Iva m.25: veal calves good and choke; 616416.5o; , western range beef steers. 814.:151:17.:01: cows and heifers. $1.561112.7(o. Sheep Receipts 23.0019 Market mostly 25c higher. Minnesota native Iambs trip- ped at its t; ...ethers. best fed. $12: lambs. chni,e and price, $16 251016 75. me- dium and good. 614.75Q/16.25; culla. $9511 13.25: •w es choke and prime. $10.2$0 10.50; mediton and 'cad, 19c la ?$: culls. 1407.50. Omaha Livestock. Omaha. net, 211.-11orgs: - Receipts 74.115. Market higher Heavy. $1 a mot ; mixed. 1170/7 V.: light. $17.$51$17.7S; pig.. $14 $041 ti sk bulk, $171.17.15. Cattle ReveiutS 7.000. Market higher. Natty\ Steers. fil cows and rig 11.30: western steers. 00'14: 'resits titeerS. $1 , 812, range cows and holdout. $6.$1q1 II. canner., 55.7504.76; stocker* and feeder.. $4.M1 1 ,13.60: calves. 811.540 13.$0. Sheep! tteeetpts 12.005. Market higher. C111 1 / 4 . 65,504s 7.7.0; w•thera. Vete tom ; ewes, 17119; feeder lambs. SOW $1.: 1610; Yearlings. Elh II. Minneapolis Grain. Minneapolis: ().-: Wheat' ilecelptit 151 cars. ..on,pared with 729 a year ago. Wheat. Ce,h. No. 1 northern. old, $2.21%. Corn: NO. 3' Yelluw. II .4: is Oats: No 2 schite. 65 .1 4 'it Vital. Flax: VI gto .531 69ii. 1 . 414-1)Domeol. Shipment*, 117,622 barrels. St. Paul Livestock. St. Pain. (let 29 -Hogs: Receipts 0.300. Market 50 to u.,11, higher. Range. $11.50 016.90. Bulk, 514.006116.9s. Cattle: ItecSipts 10.00,1. Killers. IS to 25c lower. Steers. $5.50 1 / 1 6.15: cows and heifers. $0 !in.ds.Fio: veal oalves, steady, 14.6110,14..70,1; so...kers and feeders, Steady, $5.35111'2. No Westerners on Otranto's Dead List, Washington. Oct. 2s. -Nnmes sit 141 of the American soldier's 1010141st their li ves 1 11 la,. ,,Lakaia of the transport 41111111o, I 14•101)or 11. ill a collis'.0/1 with- the steamer 1).:1 , 11311441-, off the ScriiIish riterlri ptatL, last litglit 1,3 the war . Three lin:14,A uuusil $11‘1410-1411p 4011111441'S ;11'14 lorlimeol In have gone olown will' the ship, loot 1he exact number will not he known until the cherking of the names of sur- vivors agoinst• the muster rolls of floe units aboard has been Completed. fur westerners were on the dead list, AUSTRIA MARES OESIFIE 1011 2 PEACE LATEST NOTE AGREES ENTIRELY WITH CONDITIONS OF PR ESI DENT conditions the presiolent has hold flow', for the entry into negotiations for an artliistiee and no obstacle ex- ists, act -mating to tbe judgment of the Austro-Hungarian goVernment. to the beginning of these negotiations. 'The Austro-Hungoritin government Maio II'S Itgeg really, in consequence, nithout 31Wili tig the result of other ne- gotiations, to enter into negotiations upon peaCe betWeeli Austria-Hungary and the states in the opposing group and fuu lilt immediate armistice Upon ill AustrisillIngaritin fronts. \It asks Pla•Kille111. WilD4011 10 SO GERMAN NOTE ALSO RECEIVED kind as to begin overtures oil the The A11,4111111 note is dated Oetober No Immediate Response Will Be Made 1, ,,t Vienna and is signed by count Atiolrassy, 011. 1144W foreign min - 1 , 11 -L\ to Note From Germany, Which Is Believed to Have Been Dispatch. ed to Satisfy Home People 1Vasiiington, on. /29.-1Vhile Ger- many's latest note to President Wil- son wits delivered to Ili(' 5111 (C depart- Resttiloation ment yesterday throligh the SWISS le- Meaning gal iu'It. cable dispatches from Enrolls. brought 10°11110ton that the AllStrm Elting:titian govertinitint ttIspnt'lt- tnt amother til the pres- ident asking that immediate negotia- tions for pence and an- armistice he entered into %%Woolf awaiting the re- sults of the exchanges with clecooloy, Toe N'ienitot goo o•riontent asserted that it adhered to the same point of ii' is expressed by the president in his last co11111111111Cati011 Ilpoll the rights of the Amstro-liungarlan peoples. etqw- 1110S14 Of HIP e):14(110-SIOVIlkS and Ingo-Sliovs, and requested that he be- gin overtures with the allied govern- ments with a view to ending ately hostilities on all Austro-Hungar- ian fr41111S, No offilial 1.111111114411 WaS fOrillO0111- ing 4111 1111) CO11111111 note, but It Is ItilioWn 1 11111 110 restamse will be Made ti present 10 the coli111111lliell 1011, Whit% is believed to litiVe been dispatelled Willi the primary 'intention of satis• lying Hu: Ho.rman pasople Hint 01141f 4405-441111410)1 Is 110I 01101611g 1111 oppor- tunity to forward the negotiations for an armistice 111111 pellet). .1 . 1144 1441'1111111 11004 dolivered to the slate department yesterday, is as fol- lows: - The German government has taken cognizance of the answer of the presi- letit of the United Stoles. - Tha president is aware of the far- reaching idninges bavt.'been ear- ried mit arul are tieing Carried out in Ills' German constitutional strueture. Hill that peace negotiations are being :*otioltieted toy the people's government iIt whose hands rest, both actually and constitutionally. the power to make the \The military po - wers are atlso sub- jeet to it. - The (termini government now assails proposals for ao which shall he the fir , t siep totrard a lust pence. as the pr e sbleof bas de- seribeill it ill 111N prowlaniallon. (Signed) \SOI.EN.\ Regarding the renewed assitraince ill the Herman mote that the em o stitu- lional surncture of the Gerititin govern- ment has and is being changed 141 1114111- porrafie lines, it is pointed till/ that the truth of this statement and Hoe scope or lite changes already made or pro- jected. after all are It matter to be dealt With in 4•01111(.111011 WIIII !IMMO 11101 001 in arranging an armistice. A strong disposition is 14V111141141441 offiejal- ly II) :111.111 In 111P 11111111111411f 4111.111 of both German Rod Austrian negotiators I,, comf111111) Giese two essentially (11f- fereitt fintetions ill suit' phase of the negotiations. In the case of the Austrian commit - Ideation. tom* silliposell Pi lie on itS W11:1' 141 W4144111110011 411E111101 110. me- dium of the Swedish government, It also wits noted that the effect was 11111411) 111 SIIOW 111141 Alloalia 11:144 r411111- plleol -1 , 4•1111 Ow presidents demand for the recognition of the rights of the 0 'zechti-Slovalis and Jugo-Slavs and other oppressed nationalities in Aus- tria. It dorm toot appear that the com- plete indepentleitre of these people has frIlaralifeed, and probably suffiivent assIlTalle4444 1111151 he made on that point before tioe Austrian pro- posals will he transmitted too ilie en- tente Imwers for subnoission to the military exports. The Austrian . Note. Basel . , Oct. 29. -The Austro,ilimgar- ian foreign minister instructed the Austro-littrigairian minister al Stock- holm Sunday to ask the Swedish gov- ernment to send 1110 following time to th e washingimo government : \In reply III the note of President Wilson of the (191111') of this uuiu,ii' It. 000ldressed to 1111. Austro-Hun- garian government and giving the de- cision of the president to speak tilreefiY with the Alistrollungttriatt govern- ment . 011 (1114\:11011 Of all 111.1111,1Dee and peace, the Anstroellittigarian gov. ernment has the ii(onor to declare that equally with the preceding pro:lama, lions of the president, it ailliereS, Also to the sante point of view ( - ordained in the last note upon the rights of the .1itstro-lloongarlotto peoples, especially those of II1P Czeelio-Slovaks and the 'Ingo -Slot vs. \Anstrin-Ilmogary: accepting all the -- -- KING ALBERT SENDS HIS THANKS TO HOOVER Washington, Oct. 20. -- Ileroert Hoover, eltairtnan of the Belgian re- lief commission, yesterday received the following cablegram from hing Al' -on this, the fount It anniversary of the foundation of the conontssion for \lief Belgium. toy heart promptS me to thank you once more in the name of all my compatriots (to. having during four years saved tlit• itolgion ntition from starvation.\ LUDENDORFF RELINQUISHES COMMAND GERMAN ARMIES Interpreted in London as Hun Acceptance of Al- lied Conditions London, OeL 28. -Official alinialltee- mina has been Made in Berlin that Ettiperor 1Vi11111in lots acceded, to the request of General Ludendorff, the first quartermaster general, that he be permitted to resign. General stir] W118 (11111M.11 III lier• HO no Saturday afternoon by tile fact that the daily report (not) aeroom uolotquort H. , was not Signed U.S wont( with the mime of General Ludendorff. Later the following official announce- ment Was isSlatiii: 'The emt ueror. aecepthig the request to lit. allowed to retire of Infantry' General Ludendorff, the first quarter - Allister general and commander in Mlle of I wilt* of the 25th inflintry brignde, has placed him on tile unattnelted list. The emperor decided at the same time that the Mwer Rhenish in regi- merit NO. 39. of which the general hits long been chief, shall Maw henceforth the - Mune of Ludendorff.\ ' Conditions Worse in Germany. Lonlibn. Oct. 28. -The resignatiov of General Latlemlorff is popularly inter - prowl here as heralding Germany's tweeptance of the allies' armistice terms. Whether this Interpretation is content. the resignation of the first quartermaster general mound full to iffeet seriously the German army.. Unofficial adviees repOrt the situa- tion in Germany is tinily growing worse. Persistent reports tell of riots in various parts of the country. con- flicts vrith the police and loss of life, and declare that lark of raw materials is seriously interfering with the pro- duct/ton of munitions. FREE LOVE INITIATED BY RUSSIAN SOVIETS London, Oct. 211 -Russian maidens under the jurisdiction out certain pro- vincial Boisheviki soviets beeimie the \property of the state\ when they reach IS years, and are compelled to register at a government \bureau of free love,\ according to the Official Gazette of the 1.1811imir soviet of work- ers' and soldiers' deputies, which re- cently ptildished that soviet's decree on the subject. Under the decree, it woman having registered, \has the right to choose from among men between 19 and 50 11 ett-liniiitnnt husband.\ The consent of the man chosen is not neecssary. the decree 11(141.4. 11144 111110 chosen hav- ing no right to make any protest. A similar privilege of (ionising front among the registered women is given every man between 19 and 50, \without the ciptisent of the 5\011111 11. - This pro- vision Is described ag ''in the itilereS1 of the state.\ MONTANA CASUALTIES. --- Killed in Action. Sgt. Itny S. Ittitzerin, Missoula. Pvt, Louis M. Crast. Emigrant, Pvt, Thos. M. Hay, Livingston, Pvt Delhert .1. Holliday, Anaconda. Missing in Action. Grooss, Culbertson. Pvt. Harry Christianson. Kalispell, Wounded Severely. Wagoner dames Donlan. Butte. PO. I.. .1. Spoonemore.'TtAvitsenti, t'orp. Geo. It. Robinson, Kalispell. Pvt. Venni:. V. Franle, Forsyth. Corp. Royal L. Riehards. Lewistown. Pvt. Witt, S. Cotton, Butte. Died of Disease. Pvt. Everitt I,. (\rim. Weiser. Pvt. Willie II, Cordes, Loekont. Pv't. John E.. Shaughnessy. Nlissottla. Died From Wounds. Sgt. Frank Brown. Glentlive. Pvi. 11'111: 11, Martin. Deer Lodge, pvt. I tttttt 1141 .1. 3141411'e. 11114O14.. Pvt. John Johnson, Butte. Died From Accident. t;Po. S. Reisl. (lrelit Mina, Slightly Wounded. Corp. Willow Wilson, Havre. Pvt. James .1. leinteciy. Butte. Wounded -Degree Undetermined, Andrew Crullto.rs. Red Lodge. Roy _L. Holmes, P(olson, Pvt. Jilt,. W. Skinner, Miles City. Pvt. Albert Santizak, Broadview. Chicago -Gotham Aerial Mail. Washington, t. 26.--Aerlal 1111111 servlee between New York and Chictigo will he started 4,;WCP11 In.cenolier 1 and PS, Postmaster General Burleson announced yesterday, depending upon the time manufactiwers deliver the necessary planes. The schedule for the onfavorable winter months templates the watt.11111PS leaving Chi- cago and New York at 6 ','cloc'k each morning and' completing the trip, in- cluding all stops. within 10 hours. Each plane w111 have a carrying ca- pacity of 20,000 letters. LENERAL D'ESPEHEY Gen. Franeliet d'Esperey or foronce, moomooler in chief of the allied forces lit Macedonia, which conquered IMO- gado. WORLD NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM A reduction of OfiC cent It pound in prices of packers' hides and three- quarters of a cent a pound on country hides for the months of November and December. and 11 reduction of two cents 11 110111111 011 packers' hides and 1.6 cents It pound on country hides for the lllll nth of January. has been agreed on between ilw price fixing committee of the War indlistrieS and the hide twins! ry. * It- was announced in the English 1101.1Se of C0111111011S that Sillee Ills' C0111- mencement of the war British troops have taken 327,416 enemy eouthatatits, inelutling 264.242 Germans. There were. it was 111SO Slated, 117,0011 combatant prisoners in the United kingdom at the present time. fr President Wils011 1111S approved It contimuitice of the present price of copper at 21; cents a pound until Jan- uary 1. The normal period for which the price 55101111 lie fixed is three months, but the present price is con- tinued for two months without It meet- ing of the industry because of the in- fluenza epidemic. • * D01111 M. Roberts, one time mayor of Terre Hainte, put., sentenced to serve six years 1W the federal pristill at foelis'ef1Wlorth, Kan.. more than four years ago, beeause of election frauds. has been paroled. 3eD ft Vienna' is threatened 'with a food crisis in the most :wide forin. Vossiehe Zeittong reports that deputa- tions of Austrians have gone to Ber- lin and Dresden to beg urgently for immediate assistance to avert the w(orst. The Vienna municipality has only three week's rations. * After running it week on a 45 -day compaign. the Sheridan. Wyo.. sugar fnetory has closed down tamporarily weause of II SC111'1113' of labor and siek- IlettS among its employes. * The War revenue hill will not he re- ported to the senate until after the No- vember elections, • Sens I or Si1111110115, eltairman of the senate finance coin - loll (Ce, which Is revising the house draft of the measure, 1131S announced. * * A revised list of commodities which will be eonsidered for exportation to Holland ott and after October 28 was made public last week hy the War trade board. 1\0011StliffS tire ex- cluded from the list, which includes clothing, earpets, jewelry, drugs, glass- ware, toilet articles and the like. * The 1Iallui &tort treaty. providing for reelprocal militnry service of cit- izens of apt country and the Cnitts1 States, has been ratified by the senate. The treaty is similar to those already made with Great Britain, France and Greece. * Seventy 1 11011Slind MillerS of the cen- tral Pennsylvania bituminous coal fields have voted to work Sundays to overcome the frilling off In produellim due to the -Spanish ., Influenza epi. demic. Fuel Administraitir Garfield an- nounces. * Because of their inefficiency, from 15 to 20 shipyards 11054' l,,iIIshi hg wood- en ships for the Emergency Fleet cor- poration will not receive any addition - Ill contracts. Chairmrin Hurley of the shipping board sold there would be tio eurtailment of Ilw shipping 'program the step being taken to save nutterial lalior and money. 17 A Sick and wounded soldiers landed in the United States from the Amer- ican expeditionary foreett during the week ended Oefolter IS. numbered 637, the wur deportment announces. 'RANT 1 . 4.NTANA CATTLE SUB MEETING HELD TO GET LOWER RATES ON STOCK TO BRING BACK BREEDERS NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY Northern Division of Red Cross is Ask- ed to Furnish 1,500 Nurses' Aides for Service Overseas at Sal- ary of $30 a Month Ifelentt7-The members of the state railway commission, federal market of- ficials, railway agents and stockinen held a conference at the state capitol building for the purpose of arriving itt plans to conserve the breeiling cattle of the S17111. by securing Gaon the,,,rall- way administration lower rates so that cattle taken out of the state on ac- count of the hay shortage Ingy he re- turned to the home ranges in the spring. The movement of cattle from Mon- tana this fall Ions loeen abnormal On account of the failure of the hay crop. and It Is feared that the stock indus- try will be much injured by It failure to secure the return of the cattle ship- ped out. When statistics have been compiled to ' the threatened Injury to Hie, state they will be transmitted to Di - realm. McAdoo or It. II. Aisliton, re- gional director for the northwest. whit suggested the conference, in an effort to induce the railway administratiou to lower rates. , * * * Resume Draft Calls. Adjutant Generail Ilreell:111 sli- i)tIUIlt't?$ that the quota of 900 meu Iii loe sent to Port- Worden, Wash.. tinder the' selective &o ft tiet, will begin to entrain November 11. , Allotments were annotinetsi some time ago. This call Was for Oct:doer 21. hilt WaS posl- plated becatts.• of the epidemic of In. fluenza. * * * Influenza SltuatiOn Uncertain. 11'in-tiler the influenza epidemic in the state is g row 11(7 worse or grow- ing better cannot be determined by the state health board from the re- ports of physichms, because the pity - 441111111)4 410 mit report. 'lite medical fraternity of Montana is quite Indif- ferent In the matter of reporting. mid hence nobody min find out hoW Many eilSeS thole are Or whether there are 1110re Cases today 1 111.111 Illit•re 'were a week ago or anything else. The dabs sent III 1(1 1110 State lwalth hoard is there') WI` practleally useless and valueless. It is anybody's guess how many (WM'S I !ler(' almost any place in Abolition]. In Rune, for in- stance, only seven of the forty-two doc- tors reported for one day last week. * * * Don't Want Lower's Applications, A 11115 betin Is y Assistant Supreme .Coort Clerk 11'. 0.yrnig, as secretary of lilt. Montana Ilar assoitiattion, from the office of tit:: judge onlViorale general Of the army at 1Vashington. saying that while there are thousands of applications for po- s1110115 ill the department from law- yers throughout the country. only about 15 appointments it ttttt nth are made, it the department will select these indep('ndent!) . of applications. * * * Nurse Aides Wanted. The northern division of the H ef t Cross hits been asked by Surgeon Gen- era/ Blue to furnhgla 1.5111) nurses • aides for service overseas. necording to word received by Affss 31argaret Hughes. 'date C11111111111 11 of the Red Cross nurs- ing service. The volunteer lintselt will be provided with living and 1111,- eling expenses and pith! $30 per 151011114 after joining lite service. Applieallta 11111s1 haVe 11:111 a etillrge ill elementary hygiene, supplemented by 2,155 hours of praetical training in a hospital author- ized by the Red Prost:. iss ghes will fur h a nispplielliti M H u m With information regarding lions, training land uniforms lump re• quest at the office of the child welfare hurean of floe stat(• department of health at the capitol building. * * * Justice Sanner Resigns. Assoriate Justice Sidney Stunner lots resigned from the sliprente clout to accept the office of judge advocate is Ills' army, with the rank of major, n11.1 flovernor Stewart has areepted his - res- ignation. In Ills letter of arceptance Governor SteWart pnys Judge Satiner it tribute 11114111 his efficiency as It mem- ber of the supreme court. Judge Kanner is to report lit Wash- ington within ui few 11113'51. The go•- tirlinr . Will WIllt till 'lifter the (Mallon Ito appoint It suceessor to Judge Spa. nor, * * * Soldiers' Taxes Held Up. Payment of taxes of Montana men in the nrnty or navy has been deferred lint ¶lji year lifter the close of the.War, under tin art of the special session ,,r the legislattire last spring. Attorney' General Ford calls altention to thls be- cause of the number of Inquiries he huts received. The Men themselves', or persons in their behalf, inns' fire illf- fldavits with the cannily treastirer. get- ting forth tlw fitot the ownerg t,f H i p properly are lit tither the army 01. navy, as the case may he, and this op - mattes to stny the collection of taxes.
