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SUMMARY OF THE WORLD'S EVENTS IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMI- SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS MONTANA SQUIBS The Masonic lodge at Hamilton planning to erect n temple : A big picnic will be held Sunday. Au- gust 1. at Washoe park by the mill and smelter men. A train killed a stranger stealing a ride on the Bitter Root branch out from Missoula - Saturday. The federal trade commission, on its coming trip to the Pacific Coast, prob. ably will hold no hearings in Montana. At Augusta. Ill.. Edward Catlin, aged 60, committed suicide recently. He was Wrist Notes Covering Happenings In in the stock business in Meagher coin - This Country and Abroad That 1 ty for many years. i BOAT TURNS OVER; 1008 LIVES L EASTLAND WITH 2500 ABOARD WAS JUST LEAVING THE CHICAGO WHARF. All the People. ; little Hennes Halonen. four years old, cAusE NOT MADE KNOWN lat Butte Saturday and amputation at Are of Legitimate Interest to A bulldog chewed off the hand of 4 Chester M. Hall of Grand Rapi , s. the wrist was necessary. • while visiting relatives at Detroit Sat- A heavy electrical storm passing over ; the range near Virginia City recently E x urday, in a quarrel with his family, cursion Party of 7000 Employes and Friends of Western Electnc Co., sion lines of the Madison River Power • • .old stepson and then ended hi, own w shot and killed his wife and 18 -year- worked havoc with the heavy transmis- life. ; company. Counting only the cost of operation,' • The machinery in the No. 3 section I a cif civil government, sanitary work and i of the mill t the reduction works at the administration and handling of Anaconda was started Saturday. This s marks the completion of the remodel- Chicago, July Cli.—This morning, hips, the Panama canal is now on a: paying basis, according to official re- In g of that section, shortly after 7 o'clock, the docks of worts. Helena.—Death came suddenly Sat- the Chicago river were crowded with Count von Bernstorff, the German urday to Alassena Bullard, aged 65, one 7000 persons bound on a holiday excur- :ambassador. has left Washington to i of the oldest practitioners at the ilel- Edon across Lake Michigan. The,'were , ena bar. He had cerebral hemorrhage - remain away from the capital until in-, while on the street. employes and friends of employes of :structions from his government or new ; toe Western Electrical company. The 'developments mike it necessary for 1 Miss Marie Budson and Miss Ruth first boat of five to be loaded was the bim to confer again with United : Harsley, who are walking from Chica- Eastland, on which 2500 persons States officials. . go to San Francisco, on a wager of crowded. Sunday the Russian ship Rubonia 1 51000 that they can make the trip hem Then the ,boat started to leave the \was torpedoed and sunk by a subma- I rine. Her crew of 30 was landed on the tween May 18 and Oct. 1, are crossing dock, and, due to some cause as yet un- the state. i • explained, the big craft turned turtle the Orkney islands. The trawler Star L. 0. Ling, an insurance agent was and sank in about five minutes. sof Peace also was torpedoed and sunk ; arrested at Miles City, charged with By night there were 842 victims in toff the Orkneys. Her crew was land; larceny as bailee in the sum of $2500. the improvised morgue, and Coroner .ed at gtromness. i Ling was formerly district agent at Hoffman estimates that the total citati- on until last alties will reach 1000. Thousands of e he has persons jammed the morgue in an en- deavor to identif the dead. Hart- Tern131e Accident. • • Billings, filling that .h 11 . 0 c s b i t Supply sailed Sunday for Hongkong The United States navy supply shipi b Septemb e r, since a een wor k ing as a solicitor. -- from shanghai with food for the flood rendingsceues were enacted. At the survivors in the Canton district, where Fort William Henry Harrison, near close of one pf the wildest days Chi - floods have devastated the. West Helena. instead of being permanently cago has knoWn the results are sum - river valley region The navy depart- abandoned by the war department, will marized: meat was notified that the Supply in all probability, if congress votes to , , Will Probe the Disastel% would carry rice, flour and bread. ! increase the army establishment, be! regarrisoned, made a regimental p os t: Officers of the steamer are under ar- Orders were issued Monday, with ! and a state mobilization point for the rest and federal and county grand ju- the approval of President Wilson, to 1 t training of citizens as soldiers. ; ries have been ordered to investigate Major General Funston to repel with ' the disaster, force if necessary any firing intrd 1 Charges are made that the Eastland The Leonard mine team of Butte won .American territory during the fighting first prize at the second animal first- ' was topheavy, and that she hits lung ibetween the factions in border towns, I aid contests at Billings recently with been known to be faulty in design. :and a note was dispatched to General a score of 97%. The prize is a silver She has been remodeled. Carranza advising him of that fact. 1cup valued at $150, donated by Dr. Mc - 1 I It is stated a cable was still a' tachrd Donald of Stockett, and becomes the y ty of an team winning it three p to ull th a e vessel when she attempted to ;proper 1 way troll) the dock and that this consecutive years. In addition each man of the Leonard team will receive ; may have caused the ship to turn over. a silver fedal, given by the American I Some Blame the Ballast. ; Mine Safety association. I Other reports say the boat was not SPORTING ITEMS Johnny Dundee outfought Joe Rivers .of Los Angeles, Cal., in their 10 -round bout in New York Saturday. Captain--Jvite- of the Boston Nationals and Umpire Quigley were each fined $100 recently for fighting, Tom Workman, a Los Angeles boy, formerly of Stanford college, has joined the New York National 'league team. \Kid\ Williams of Baltimore, world's champion bantamweight pugilist, out- classed \Jimmy Taylor of New York recently. Representatives qfr of the six baseball clubs - in• the Northwestern league met Sunday and decided to play out the full season and not drop any clubs. \I will fight Willard anywhere in the world and will post $20,000 that I \will knock him out in a finish fight. 'Yours truly, JACK- JOHNSON.\ Oh any! oh my! Dave Burns and Chris Geaek tackled each other for the 149 -pound wrestling championship of the northwest at.Spo- kane recently and Gesek won two out of three falls W. Lueders of Chicago, amateur motorcycle champion, was killed in the races at Sacramento Sunday when his machine ran into a post in the second lap of the race. History almost repeated itself Sat- urday at Cleveland when \Chick\ Evans of Chicago defeated Ned Sawyer cif Chicago, 2 and 1, in the semi-final match_of -the western amateur goW championship. It was the same score by which Evans won from Sawyer In the semi-finals last 'Year. DUAL NATIONALITY MADE PLAIN. Children of Naturalized Not Subject to Foreign Conscription. Washington. — Children born on _American soil, whose parents have be- come naturalized American citizens. can not be classed as possessing dual :nationality and are not considered lik- ble to military service under a foreign flag, the state department makes clear In a statement recently. \While the United States has always recognized,\ the department says, \the existence of dual nationality in the case of children born M the United __States of alien parents or • children born in a foreign country of American parents, it does not concede that dual nationality exists in case of a foreign. born parent who has acquired natu- ralization as a United States citizen. While the state department extends 'whatever protection it can to persons Cif dual nationality who enter the oth- er country by which they are claimed It does not assure them immunity from military service. Puyallup berry growers have been receiving an average of $10,000 a, day from the marketing of their crop, ac- cording to information from that pros- perous section. properly ballasted. She was a water. Montana now stands 14th among the , fatatoa of the Union in the -production ballasted boat. That is to say, water was admitted to the hold for ballast, I of wheat, 18th in the produsjjon.„..t retr -,ft--„ as -seragirt-tt y-enter ghat- oatilf7F5firin the production of barley, 20th in the production of potatoes and low water the'ballast was pumped out to give her lighter draft: One theory is third in the production of flax. When i that, the boat had been relieved of too the 35,000,000 acres of good farming I land in this state shall be under culti- much ballast in anticipation of a heavy load. I vation, it is not unreasonable to sup- I I pose that this state will be among the One story is that the passengers were attracted to the side of the vessel leaders in the production of practically 1 all staple farm crops. by a racing launch. Others say the pas - I sengera rushed to the side to get into Montana, an empire in domain and I a moving picture being taken by a man a storehouse in wealth, is attracting in a tug. says i the Financier of New York. Third the attention of the entire country, largest of the states of the Union and possessed of more diversified resources than any other commonwealth, it is just now coming into its own. Mon- t had been reached. • White dresses ana long has been famed for its peeped from raincoats along the shore mines, its forests, and its great bands rails as those aboard waved goodby of cattle and sheep. These have pro- to friends on shore waiting to board duced millions upon millions in wealth —and they are still producing. Withing recent years this state has held first place in the production of gold, first in the production of copper, first in the production of beef and has held and still holds first place in the production of wool. The state is now riding upon a great wave of development. MONTANA. The Wilkinson Lumber Co. of Miles City has opened a branch at Hatha- way. Davis and Fetterly have -.succeeded E. C. Davis, real estate, general store and lodging house, at Eureka. Untric, propiretor of the Plains Meat market, has purchased the business of the shop at Paradise and will conduct both places. Remington Plant Strike Ended. Brtdgeport, Conn., July 25.—With the ratification last night by the ma- chinists of the agreement reached be- tween the labor leaders and the Remington Arms and Ammunition hdrupany and the Stewart Construction company, the strike at the arms com- pany's plants virtually came to an end Sunday and the, men went back to work Monday. The structural iron workers took similar action during the day. A mill has been built at Myndus, N. M., to grind watermelons into pulp, the juice to be turned into vin- egar. The first lot of melons has been ground, supplied from 300 acres of land. The mill is 80 by 188 feet, employs twenty men, and is prepared to make 300,000 gallons of vinegar. It is proposed to make also at this mill table oils, pickles, preserves, syrups and stock foods. If von nwrinn• rut tt:, 6i.- ger and enthusiasm into your work to get the desired results, a vacation Is the remedy which should be ap- plied. It is eminently better to get away from business and charge your- self with renewed energy than to Vessel Wavers eridewayik--- Rain began to fall as the wharf su- perintendents lifted the gangplanks from the Eastland, declaring that the government limit of 2500 passengers the other vessels. Then the passengers swarmed to the left side of the ship, as the other steamers drew up the river toward the wharf. A tug was hitched to the , Eastland, ropes were ordered cast off and the engines began to hum. The Eastland had not budged, however. Instead the heavily laden ship wav- ered sideways, leaning first toward the river bank. The lurch was so startling that Many passengers joined the large concourse already on the other side of the decks. ; the scene with shrieking whistles, and many men snatched off their coats and sprang into the river to aid the drowning. With thousands of spec- tators ready to aid and the wharf within grasp, hundreds went to death despite every -effort to rescue. Captain Pedersen in Command. Captain Harry Pedersen, 57 years old, of Boston Harbor, Mich., in com- mand of the Eastland, said: \I was on the bridge and was about ready to pull out when I noticed the boat began to list. I shouted orders to open the inside doors nearest the dock and give the people a chance to get out. The boat .continued to roll and shortly afterward the hawsers broke, the steamer turned over on its side and was drifting toward the mid- dle of the river. \When she went over I jumped and held on to the upper side. It all hap- pened in two minutes. - \The cause is a mystery to me. I have sailed the lakes 25 years. Pre- vious to .that sailed on salt water 12 years, and this is the first serious ac- cident I ever had. I do not know how it happened.\ Eastland Known for Speed. The steamer Eastland was built in 1903, and owned by the Eastland Navi- gation company of 'Cleveland. It was 265 feet long, 38 feet wide, and had a draft of 23 feet, with a net tonnage of 1218. It was brought to Chicago in 1904, and was used in the excursion business to South Haven, Mich., for several years. Later it was taken to Cleveland, Ohio, and placed in the ex- cursion service there. This spring the boat was remodeled. It was then •gift ri) Chicago and PTO on - tfie run to St. Joseph, Mich. It had a steel hull, and was known as 'one of the fastest excursion boats on the Great Lakes, having a speed of 21 miles an hour. Tots Clutch Mothers' Skirts. The ship then heeled back. It turned slowly but steadily toward its left side. Children clutched the skirts of mothers and sisters to keep from fall- ing. The whole cargo was impelled toward the falling side of the ship. Water began to enter lower port holes, and the ropes snapped off the piles. Screams from passengers attracted the attention of fellow excursionists on the wharf awaiting the next steam- er. Wharfmen and picnickers soon lined the edge of the embankment, reaching out helplessly toward the wavering steamer. For nearly five minutes the ship turned before it finally dived under , the swift 'current of the river, which, owing to the drainage canal system, flows from the lake. Then there was a plunge with a sigh of air escaping from the hold mingled with the crying of children and shrieks of women, and the ship was on the bottom of the river, cast- ing hundreds of its passengers into the water.. Many sank entangled with clothing and bundles, and did not rise, but scores came to the surface, giving the river the appearance of a crowded bathing beach. Many seized floating cnairs anti other objects. Those on shore threw out ropes and dragged in those who could hold their life lines. Employes of commission firms along the river threw crates, chickencoops and other ficatable things into the current, but most of these were swept drag yourself to it and be a drag away by the stream, upon it. ; Boats were put out, tugs rushed to Late News Notes. The death ship Eastland- Sunday night had given up the bodies of 820 of its dead. Of the estimated total number of those who went down to death in the Ciricago river when the teamer beaiing 2408 persons at the time of the catastrophe, 1000, not in- cluding the crew, have reported as safe. Of the 588 thus remaining un- accounted for it is believed 400 are alive and failed to report, and that ISA bodies still are in the river. The total death list is thus 1000. About three score bodies were re- covered Sunday. By noon divers had concluded that all bodies had been re- moved save those that may have been crushed into the mud under the East - land's port side and those that had gone down the river with the current. The Eastland lies on her side in the river, with divers still floundering through the interior of the steel cof- fin and burrowing under her, while Chicago, appalled, is just beginning to realize tile significance of one of the greatest marine disasters. Wilson Sends Sympathy. Acting MayarxMoorhouse Sunday re- elyed the Ton - Wink telegram 1- frorn President Wilson, Ao is at Windsor, Vt: \I am sure _ speak the universal feeling of the people of the coun- try in expressing my profound sym- pathy and sorrow in the presence of the great disaster which saddened so many homes.\ Noted Ship Disasters. Lives Lost 1,595—Titanic, April 14, 1912; off New- foundland banks. 1,100—Lusitania, May 7, 1915; Atlantic ocean. 1,024—Empress of Ireland, May 29, 1914; St. Lawrence river. 959—General Slocum . , June 15, 1904; East river, New York. Burgoyne, July 2, 1898; off foundland banks. 7Off—Princess Alice, September 3, 1818; in Thames river, near Woolwich. 574—Utopia, March 17, 1891; off Gibraltar. 300—Matsu Maru, March 23, 190g; off coast Japan. 289—Ship Kahunda, March 29, 1897; off coast of Brazil. 287—Lady Elgin, September 8. 1860: Lake Michigan. 200—Excursion steamer, April 24, 1909; Long Island sound. 136—Volturno, October 11, 1913; At- lantic ocean. 128—State of Florida,' April 18, 1884; off Canadian coast. 600—Norge, June 25, 1894; - lost off Rockall reefs. - • New - PACIFIC COAST NEWS Seth Morgan, who came acmes the plains in 1847, died recently at The Dalles, Ore Pendleton's new public natatorium, built at a cost of $11,000, was formally dedicated Saturday. The.. Di Flori cannery, located near San Jose, Cal., was totally destroyed by fire Saturday, with an estimated loss of $100,000. A new rule Is in effect now at the Oregon penitentiary which requires the payment of 25 cents admission from all visitors who go there merely for sightseeing purposes. Paul Farrell, 18 years old, nephew' of President J. D. Farrell of the Ore- gon -Washington Railroad and Naviga- tion company, was killed by a train at The Danes. Ore., recently. Two Chinese were killed and R. C. Nicholson and two Chinese were wounded Sunday in what the police say is a tong war between the Bing Kongs and the Suey One, at San Ash- cisco. A charge of murder was placed re- cently against Robert Moran of Port- land. following the death at McMinn- ville, Ore., of A. H. Adams, a well-to-do rancher, from injuries received in a fight here July 11. 1 ' . Reports reeeived at Valdez, Alaska, indicate that forest .fires are raging from the Coast to the Tanana river. Much damage has been done and many culverts and bridges on the govern- ment road to Fairbanks have been burned out. Direct communication by cable be- lt/teen San Francisco and China, Japan and the Philippine islands has been restored. Officials of the Postal Tele- graph and Cable company announced that their cable between Guam islands and Manila, P. I., which was broken about 300 miles from Manila July 9, has been repaired. Alaska's gold production in 1914 was valued at $15,764,250, an increase of $140,000 over the previous year, fig- ures made public by the geological sur- vey showeek Production of copper amounted to 21,450,628 pounds, against 21,659,958 in 1913. The total mineral output was $19,118,080, compared with $19.476,356 in 1913. INVESTIGATE NATIONAL DEFENSE Presidient Wilson Directs Secretaries to Make Report to Him on Their Programc ----- Washington.—Announcement from the White House Saturday that Presi- dent Wilson had directed Secretaries Garrison and Daniels to report to him a program of national defense caused widespread comment. It became known that several weeks I ago the president discussed the ques- tion at length with his cabinet, with the immediate result that both the war and navy departments began secret preparation 61 plans to meet any emer- gency and also to establish a perma- nent policy to be presented to con- gress for adequate national defense. The White House statement follows: \The president has been considering every phase of the matter of national defense and intends immediately on his return to, Washineton to confer with the secretary of war and the sec- retary of the navy, his purpose being to procure information on which he can formulate AL sane, reasonable wad practical program of national de- fense.\ Wants Strong Army ang Navy. The president, in letters to Secre- taries Garrison and Daniels early last week, calling for the reports, made no reference to any particular situation, but emphasized the importance of the entire subject of national defense. He wishes to make the navy as efficient and effectual as any in the world; to see the regular army adequately de- veloped and equipped with the citi- zenry trained to arms in a way con- sistent with American traditions, and which will commend itself to practical and patriotic men, For several weeks Secretary Gar- rison has been in conference— with members of the general staff shaping plans for presentation to the presi- dent. The general board of the navy abandoned its usual -trip to Newport this summer and is preparing its rec- ommendations for Secretary Daniels. The president wishes' lo have this in- formation ready when he returns from Cornish, and the indications are that the entire influence of the adminis- tration to secure appropriations ade- quate to establish the policy of de- fense that will .be formulated. May Call Special Session. Mr. Wilson has not indicated whether he will call congress into special session. This depends largely on developments in the international situation. The dispatch to Germany of what is generally re,garded as the strongest note yet written to any of the European belligerents has accent- uated the possibility of a special ses- sion in the event that American rights are again violated by German sub- marine commanders. Sullivan Had to Resign. - Washington.—James M. Sullivan, American minister to tha republic, has tendered his resignation to President Wilson and it has been accepted. Mr. Sullivan's resignation Is the consequence of an investigation conducted for the state department by Senator Phelan of California, into the minister's fitness for his office. The findings were unfavorable to Mr. Sul- livan. GERMANY GETS OUR THIRD WARNING AMBASSADOR GERARD PRESENT- ED PRESIDENT WILSON'S NOTE OF PROTEST. MUST RESPECT OUR RIGHTS Continuation of German Comniiders in Killing Americans Will be Con- sidered \Deliberately Unfriend- ly\-13erious Aspect Arises. Washington.—The text of the Amer- ican note , on submarine warfare, was presented at Berlin July 23 by Ambas- sador Gerard. It reveals that the imperial govern- ment has been informed it is the in- tention of the United States to regard as \deliberately unfriendly\ any repe- tition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of American rights. The United States announces that it will continue to contend for the free- dom of the seas, 'from whatever quar- ter violated, without compromise, and at any cost.\ Considered the Strongest Note. In official and diplomatic quarters the communication was received as the strongest and most emphatic pro- nouncement that has come from the Washington government since the be- ginning of its correspondence with the belligerents of Europe. President Wilson returned to Cor- m ni e s b h t , 8 N . N. H., Sunday to await develop - Illegality of Practices. On the assumption that Germany has already admitted the illegality of her practices by attempting to justify them as against Great Britain, the Uni- ted States, in the new note, expresses the belief that Germany will no longer \refrain from disavowing the wanton act of its naval commander in sinking the Lusitania, or from offering rep- aration for the American lives lost, so far as reparation can be made for a needless destruction of human life by an illegal act.\ Referring to the German govern- ment's expression of hope in its last note that the freedom of the seas may be established in ibme measure before the end of the present war, the Uni- ted States declares that this object can be accomplished, and invites the practical cooperation of the imperial government. The American govern- ment adds, moreover, that it \holds itself ready -at any time in net-as-tite- - common friend who may be privileged to suggest a way\ to assist in estab- lishing the freedom of the seas. German Note Unsatisfactory. At the outset, the German note of July is declared very unsatisfactory, because it fails to mee the real dif- ficulties between the two governments and indicates no way in which the accomplished principles of law and humanity may be applied in the grave matter in controversy, but proposes, on the contrary, arrangements for a partial suspension of those principles, which virtually set them aside. Contending that \the defense of an act as retaliatory is an admission that it is illegal,\ the American govern- ment then argues that it can not dis- cuss actions of Great Britain with Germany, and must regard as 'irrel- evant\ in the present negotiations the conduct of other belligerents. Insists on Safety of Life. \Illegal and inhuman acts,\ says the note, \however justifiable they may be thought against an enemy who is be- lieved to have acted in contravention of law and humanity, are manifestly Indefensible when they deprive neu- trals of their acknowledged rights, particularly when they violate the right of life itself.\ Pointing out that a belligerent should give up its measures of re- taliation if unable to conduct - them \without injuring the lives of neutrals,\ the note declares that persistence in such measures under the circum- stances would constitute an unpardon- able offense against the sovereignty of the neutral. nation. Conditions Are Extraordinary. The United States, it is further as- serted, 'is not unmindful of the ex- traordinary cohditions\ created by the present war, and is \ready to make every reasonable allowance for these novel and unexpected aspects of war at sea,\ but can not consent \to abate any essential or fundamental rights of its people because of a mere altera- tion of circumstances.\ The note says that events of the last two months clearly indicate that it is \possible and practicable to con- duct submarine operations in accord with the accepted practices of regu- lated warfare.\ The comment is added that the whole world has looked with interest and increasing satisfac- tion at the demonstration of this fact by German naval commanders, and that it is \manifestly possible to lift the whole practice of submarine at- tack above the criticism which it has atuuseu aim remove the chief causes of offense.\ Berlin Papers Bitter. Berlin.—The latest American note to Germany concerning submarine warfare was received most unfavorably by the German newspapers, in which it was printed Sunday morning. •
