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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 Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. General Rennenkampf, Rosian, has been placed on the retired list. Zeppelins are being used by Germany for the defense of her commerce. icing-- Nerdinand has gone to the front, where he assisted in the war. Jose Garza, in charge of the Villa consulate at New Orleans, has closed his office. Robert P. Skinner, American consul. general at London, is at Washingtan, a C., this week. A piece of gold hac been given by California to President Wilson to be used as his wedding present. British casualties published since October 1 total 2285 officers and 50,072 non-commissioned officers and men. J. Chauncey Redding of Melrose, Mass., and Philip Buiman of Malden, Mass., were killed recently by a fall of a biplane. A royal decree has been issued in France creating new taxes and increas- ing the existing taxes for the duration of the war. London.—During June, July and Au- gust there were imported from Amer- ica over 5500 motor cars complete, valued at over $5,000,000. Arkansas lumber mines will furnish apyroxinaately 300,000,000 feet of red oak timber to the Russian government within the next few weeks. Prison reformers have gone too far in their application of leniency to pris- oners is the belief of J. 0. Davidson of Madison„ Wis., former governor. The Russian government is prepar- ing an internal loan of $500,000,000. The interest rate will be 5% per cent. The loan will run for a short term. The Tages Zeitung of Berlin says that during one period of the great battle at Loos last month the British fell at the rate of 100 men a second. Admiral Winterhalter, commanding ;the Asiatic fleet will represent • nlied States navy at the coronation of the emperor of Japan on November 20. The town of Harlebeke, Belgium, is being punished by the German govern- ment because the women of that lo- cality refuse to do military work for the Germans. British girls 18 years of age and over engaged in munition work receive a minimum wage of one pound weekly. While doing skilled work they get the same pay as men. The total number of British mer- chant vessels, exclusive of fisherman, sunk by submarines to October 14 was 183. The number of fishing vessels sunk to that time wee 175. I NOTED PERSONS DIE London.—Sir Andrew Noble. , Tacoma, Wash.—Judge John C. Stal- lup, aged 74. Peoria, Ill.—Joseph Johnson, Wash- ington, D. C. Philadelphia.—Rear Admiral Joseph Benson Parker, retired, aged 74. Mr. and Mrs. George Shirley, socially prominent in Omaha, were asphixiated by accident. _ Beverly, Mass. —Mrs. Florence. Swift, widow of E. C. Swift, the Chi- cago meat packer. Memphis, Tenn.—Knox Booth, for- mer internal revenue agent of Ten- nessee and Alabama. Kansas City, Mo.—Mrs. Ada Smith, widow of the late Joseph Smith, pres- ident of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. Train Kills Seven in Auto. Detroit, Mich.—Seven members of one family were instantly killed and an eighth was probably fatally injur- ed Sunday by a Grand Trunk passen- ger train which struck their automo- bile near Detroit. The dead are: Mrs. Rachael Stoldt, her five daughters, Pearl, Hazel, Ma- bel, Esther and Martha, and Miss Min- nie Engle, a sister of Mrs. Stoldt. William Stoldt of Troy, Mich., the hus- band and father, was badly mangled. Apparently Stoldt, who was driving the automobile, did not see the ap- proaching train and drove the machine In front of the locomotive. MONTANA SQUIgS \Barney's old road house, near Bate: is no more. It -has been destrezed,to make room for other building. Postoffices have been established at Mecaba, Dawson county; Verneil. Mus- selshell county, and Byford, Ferfus county. A yield of 367 bushels of potatoes to the acre was reported Monday by Har- ry Summers, who lives one mile north of Bozeman. Joe Mcdilvery, a lumberjack. was struck and killed Saturday by the east- bound Oriental Limited at the city lim- its of Libby. A tiiiigehesearch at the North Butte mine failed to reveal the cause of the re'eent explosion. The death list was 17, with five injured. Everything preliminary to beginning construction on Tobacco valley's •big irrigation project—the Glen take sys- tem—has been completed. In an attempt to rough -house the Pat- rick Leggatt saloon Sturday night at Butte, Larry Duggan, age is, and Tim- othy - Sullivan were shot, but not fatally. Andrew Tandy, well known around I ibby, was found dead recently by (\jef of Police in a shed at the rear cf the old townsite building. He had been missing several days. Benjamin F. Moulton of Grass Range has been appointed county commis- sioner to fill the unexpired term of the late James Gallagher of Hobson, which will terminate in January, 1917. The forest fire which devastated the growth of scrub pines and burned over the down timber in a 700 -acre tract in Brown's gulch, five miles from Butte, was brought under control Bun - Man's Spinal Cord Is Spliced. Paris.—An operation, unparalleled In surgical practice, for the removal of the splinter of a shell embedded in the whole width of the vertebral canal and suturing of the completely severed spinal cord, has been successfully per- formed by Dr. Emil Girou. Representative Evans of Montana aspires to a place on the house com- mittee on appropriations, and will make known his wishes when the dem- ocrats of the house lay plans for or- ganization. Senator Walsh declares his belief that congress should impose a duty of 20 per cent on all exports of muni- tions of war to Europe, contending that such duty woad raise $150,000,000 per year at the present rate of export. R. A. Baxter, who lives a few miles west of Bozeman, reports a yield of 78 bushels of oats to the acre from a patch of 17 acres. His spring club wheat averaged 53 bushels, and barley 8. The fall club wheat averaged 43 bushels on 29 acres. While Roundhouse Foreman Al Wil- liams was putting engine 1579 in the roundhouse at Logan, he ran over Pe- ter Nelson near the sandhouse, cutting off his head. He was a .nold-timer around the state, having helped build of the fit:A e early days. Not only has thee Missoula high school football team called off its scheduled game with Butte, but it has canceled all of its dates for this sea- son and the team has been disband- ed. Parental objections removing sev- eral stars and a dark outlook for a successful seasOn are responsible, it is said. As a contributor to the manual wealth of the . world, Butte has no rival. From an area of about six square miles it has produced twice or three times as much value as the Comstock lode. It is the leader in copper production; it is well in front in silver production; and it contains some of the most productive and im- portant zinc deposits now being work- ed. John D. Ryan, president of the Ana- conda Copper Mining company, has come to the aid of the board of trus- tees of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation building fund of Great Falls, with a donation of $5000 toward the fund, to be Utilized in furnishing the new association building now nearing completion. The donation was made with the understanding that the board secure the balance of the $15,000 re- quired for that work. Prof. Alfred Atkinson of the agro- nomy department or The Montana ex- periment station reports a yield of 126 bushels of oats per acre on dry land and 88 bushels of barley grown under the same conditions just threshed on the sub -station farm nea,r Moccasin, Fergus county. The oats came from a tract of 12 acres and are of the 60 -day variety. The barley is of the Symrna variety raised from seed imported from Asiatic Turkey, and about the same number of acres of this grain were raised. Mr. Atkinson says that the rainfall this , season in Fergus county was five inches above the av- erage of 10 inches annually. The seed is to be tested in the state grain lab- oratory at Bozeman, and will be sold to farmers next spring. Odd Fellows recent meeting in Great Falls for the annual grand lodge elected officers as follows: Grand master, W. H. Goodland of Butte; dep- uty grand master, J. E. Parker of Boze- man; grand warden, H. S. Draper of Missoula; grand secretary, R. W. Kemp of Missoula; grand treasurer, Phil Dod- son; representative in the sovereign grand lodge, Wiley Mountjoy of Twin Bridges. The grand assembly Rebek- coliowine °ulcers: Mrs. Alice R. Dixon of Phillipsburg, president; Mrs. Mary J. Bennett of Anaconda, vice president; Mrs. Millie Wilder of Rodersburg, warden; Mrs. Uellie W. Neill of Ilelena, secretary: Mrs. Ella Shoemaker of Glasgow, treas- urer. Miles City was selected as the place of the next Meeting. GERMANY EXPLAINS MISS [AYH:SETH OFFICIAL STATEMENT TELLS WHY ENGLISH WOMAN SPY WAS SHOT. DEED REGRETTABLE BUT JUST Duty to Army Makes Execution of Spies Necessary as Example to Others—Claims Big Conspiracy —Can Not Show Mercy. Berlin.—Dr. Alfred F. M. Zimmer- man. German under-secretary for for- eign affairs, has issued an official ex- planation of the recent execution in Belgium of Miss Edith Cavell, the British nurse. Re prefaced his re- marks by the declaration that he had examined every jot and tittle of the evidence with the greatest care and found the verdict, though regrettable, to be just. His statement follows: Sexes Equal Before the Law. \I see by the British and American Dress that the shooting of an English woman and the conviction of several other women in Brussels for treasoe has created a great impression and that we are being Severely criticized. It is indeed hard that a woman must be executed, but, remember, to what shall a state come which is in war if it allows to pass unnoticed a crime against the safety of its armies be- cause committed by women? No law book 'in the world, least of all those dealing with war regulations, makes such a differentiation, and the femi- nine sex has but one preference ac- cording to legal usages, namely, that women in a delicate condition may not be executed. Otherwise, man and woman are equal before the law and only the degree of guilt makes a dif- ference in the e sentence for the crime and its consequences. World -Wide Conspiracy. \In the Cavell case I have reviewed the decision of the court and examined the evidence down to the smallest de- tails. The result is so convicting and all the circumstances are so clear and convincing that no court-martial in the world would have reached any other decision. For it concerns not the act of one single person, rather it concerns a well thought out, world- wide conspiracy, which succeeded for nine months to render the most calu- able services to the enemy to the dis- advantage of our army, Countless British, Belgian and French soldiers a Sighting isithe -ra.aks who owe their escape from Belgium to the activity of the band now sentenc- ed, at the heed of which stood Miss Cavell, \With such a situation under the very eyes of the authorities only the utmost severity can bring relief, and the government violates the most ele- mental duty toward the army and its s..fety that does not adopt the strict- est measures. These duties in war are greater than any other. Plenty of Warning. \All those convicted were fully cog- nizant of the significance of their ac- tions. The court went into juet this Point with particular care and acquit- ted several codefendants only because it believed doubt existed regarding the cognizance of the punishableness of their actions. Those convicted knew what they were doing. WASHINGTON STOCK WINNERS AT SAN FRANCISCO FAIR Clean Sween in Ayrshire Class—Hol- steins Also Carry Off Big Prizes. San Francisco.—The state of Wash- ington,. in competition with the world, has won 10 of the 11 blue ribbons giv- en for Ayrshire cattle at the exposi- tion. The Willow Moor herd, owned by J. W. Clise, made practically a clean sweep In this breed, taking every cham- pionship, every grand championship, every reserve championship, every herd prize including the highest awards for prOduction, and every blue ribbon on individuals except two on this year's calves. J. L. Smith, Spokane, carried off awards for grand champion senior and reserve champion bulls. William Bishop of Chimacum, Wash., and the Carnation stock farm of Se- attle, won prizes for junior and re- serve champion bulls, respectively. BULGARS HAVE TAKEN USKUP. Very Important Point on the Salonikl- Nish Railway. London.—The Bhlgarians, according to their official report Monday, have taken Uskup, an important junction on the Saloniki-Nish railway and have thus placed themselves across the route by which the allies' reenforce- ments for the Serbs would travel. The Austro-Germans in the north have begun a more vigorous offens- ive and have crossed the Danube near Orsova. This brings much nearer the linking up of the armies of the Ger- manic allies and those of Bulgaria and the opening of the way through Bul- garia to Constantinople.. Dodge City, Kan,—After a long search the body of Miss Nellie Byers, a school teacher, was found hidden un- der a pile of leaves. She had been at- tacked. PACIFIC COAST NEWS Merlin, Ore., was almost wiped out by fire Saturday. Attendance at the Panama -Pacific ex a p r o k sition has passed the 15,000,000 m California is to provide military in- struction as part of the public high school course ; A daring $10,000 jewel robbery was perpetrated at the St. Francis hotel, San Francisco, recently. Harry William Duncan, slayer of Po- liceman J. F. Toolen, is charged with recent murder at Los Angeles. 'Mille trying to escape, Joseph Green was shot through the body and prob- ably fatally wounded Sunday at Oak- land by C. E. Turcotte, a policeman. The Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, Epis- copal bishop of the missionary diocese of Alaska, and Miss Rose Fullerton, a nurse. of Seattle, were recently mar- ried. 'Mrs. Mary Pamias .has confessed that she alone hacked to pieces the body of the crippled peddler, Michael Weinstein, at San Francisco during a fight. Six hundred thousand dollars worth of gold bullion from the Iditarod and Seward peninsula mining districts of Alaska were received at Seattle Sat- urday, The Willamette Valley Southern railway, an electric line extending from Oregon City to Mount Angel, a dis- tance of 32 miles, was officially opened Saturday. Four fires, started by arsonists, broke out simultaneously recently at the brewery hop ranch of Horst Broth- ers, east of Sacramento, causing $35,- 000 damage. Nathan C. Coghlan of San Francisco has been named as chief counsel for Matthew A. Schmidt, on trial at Los Angeles for murder in connection with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times. At Los Angeles Saturday Chester No- len, aged 17, and Frank Ward, aged 19, were recently killed by a policeman whtIn they failed to stop a motorcycle they were riding when ordered to halt. The bullet passed through both. The steamship Victoria sailed for Nome last Saturday from Seattle and will be the last boat of the season to reach the northern mining town. Re- turning, she will leave Nome about November 11, the last boat from Ber- ing sea. A contract for the construction of a steamship to cost $750,000 has been awarded at San Francisco. The new vessel is to fly the American flag and pirobetween an Francisco and orien- tal ports. It is to be completed next March. - The kelp crop of the Pacific ocean is to be harvested by a pow der com- pany to obtain an ingredient used in .naking ammuntion for the e•arring nations of Europe. It is to spend $5,- 000.000 in ails enterprice in order to obtain the chloride of potash. A tablet to General John C. Fre- mont commemorating his military achievements in California was unveil- ed at Los Angeles recently. The tab- let is the first of a number presented by the Daughters of the American Rev- olution to be placed at historic spots in the state. NEW YORK WOMEN ON MARCH. Suffrage Parade Saturday Largest Ever Seen Anywhere. New York.—Fifth avenue for hours Saturday was given over to the largest woman suffrage parade ever witnessed anywhere. It was the women's appeal to place New York, at the election on November 2, among the state which have given women the right to vote. Participated in by women from ev- ery state in the country and from more - than 20 foreign countries, by women from every phase of business, professionala educational, artistic and official life, the parade moved from Washington square to Central park, and although it began. shortly after 3 o'clock it was long after dark when the last marchers had finished. Suffrage leaders estimated that 40,- 000 women were in line. In addition, there were 5000 men. BIG LOAN TO MEXICO. New Orealsn Arranges to Handle the Sisal Crop. New Orleans.—New Orleans bank- ers announce that, as a result of the recognition of the Carranza govern- ment, they have closed a contract to lend $10,000,000 in gold to the Mexi- can administration and to handle the entire Mexican sisal crop through New Orleans. A ne wtransportation line, operating six steamships, between New Orleans and Mexican gulf ports is to be promoted by Mexican capitalists. HOG MARKET DOWN. Extensive Supply at Chicago Forces Price Lower. Chicago.—Hogs came crushing down In price last week owing to the exces- sive supply. Sensational breaks of 78c to $1 on the hundredweight took place. G01111411118 III Piot( New York.—In the arrest of Robert Fay, a lieutenant in the German army, and Walter Scholz, his brother-in-law, police and federal secret service agentsbelie ve they have detained leaders in a plot to wreck American munition plants and ships carrying munitions. WE CAN NOW TALK ACROSS ATLANTIC ENGINEER AT STATION IN VIR- GINIA TALKED TO PARIS, FRANCE. HONOLULU HEARS TALKING Spoken Words, Distinctly Audible to French Engineer—He Replied— Confirmed by Cable—Not Yet Practical. New York.—Arlington, Va., talked by wireless telephone with Paris, France, recently. Honolulu also heard the operator talking from Arlington. Announcement that the human voice had been successfull projected across the Atlantic is now made on behalf of John J. Carty, chief engineer of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, at the company's offices here. To B. B. Webb, a telephone engineer, fell the honor of being the first man to span with his voive the space be- tween the old world and the new. Sit- ting in the powerful wirele7s plant of the navy at Arlington, Va., Mr. Webb asked the wireless telegraph operator to signal the Eiffel tower in Paris. The wireless snapped out the signal and soon there came back a response. Awaiting word from Mr. Webb at the Paris end of the wireless radiation were H. E. Shreeve and A. M. Curtis, other engineers, and a group of French engineers, listening with especially de- signed apparatus. In Honolulu, 4800 miles from Ar- lington, Mr. Espenchied, another tele- phone engineer at the Pearl harbor navy yard, also was waiting. Webb, at Arlington, had a trans- mitting instrument, but no receiving apparatus. He knew, therefore, that he would have to wait for the cable to confirm the success or failure of the experiment. \Hello Shreeve,\ he shouted into the mouthpiece. \Hello Shreeve.\ He then began to count: \One two, three, four; one, two, three, four. Goodby.\ When the expected answer came it was addressed to the company here and said. that Webb's \hellos\ and \goodbys\ had been distinctly heard by the engineers and French army of- ficers in 'Paris and that portions of his test figures had also been picked up. At about the same time there came a message from Honolulu saying that Webb's talk had been understood in full by the receiving engineer there anditlitt - M11 - Thli' Voice fi.d been rec- ognized as Webb's. Mr. Carty says that much experi- mental work will have to be done yet, however, before telephone communica- tion across the Atlantic becomes an every -day affair of commercial life. SCOTTISH RITE MASONS ELECT. Next Session Will Be Held at Wash- ington, D. C. Washington, D. C.—The supreme council of the Scottish rite for the southern jurisdiction of the United States closed its biennial session Oct. 23 with the election of Garnett N. Morgan of Nashville, Tenn., vIce , th late Sovereign Grand Commander Daniel Richardson: - Judge E. C. Day of Helena, Mont., vice Erasmus T. Carr, deceased, and Judge John Alden Riner of Cheyenne, Wyo., vice Frank M. Footre, deceased,. as active sovereign grand inspectors general and to fill three of the 13 vacancies existing in the supreme council. Secretary General John H. Cowles of Kentucky was named custodian of the ne whouse of the temple here, where the next biennial session will be held in 1917. ITALY PLACES LUMBER ORDER Contract for 51,000,000 Feet Will Be Filled from Yellow Pine Forests. Savannah, Ga.—The Italian govern- ment has placed an order through a New- York and Georgia lumber com- pany for 61,000,000 feet of lumber, to be chiefly yellow pine, according to an announcement recently in South ern Lumber Journal of thie city. The order, which the trade maga- zine terms the largest single order ever placed in the United States, is expected to come chiefly front the southern states. Will Study Electricity. The study of electricity which has always been one of the popular courses at the Jenkins Institute of the Spokane Y. M. C. A., is to be made more practical this year them ever before. The new course, as outlined, is designed to be a helpful and val- uable training for electricians and electrical workers, including construc- tion men and those working with any kind of electrical machinery. U. S. to Seek Trade. Washington.—Elaborate plans for a world-wide campaign for trade by the United States are revealed in the es- timates of the department of com- merce expenditures for the next fiscal year to be presented to congress this winter. U. S. Keeps Neutral. President Wilson has signed a pro- clamation giving notice of the neutral- ity of the United States in the war between Serbia and Bulgaria. SPORTING ITEMS For the first time since the conclu sion of the baseball season of 1909, the San Francisco club won the pennant lu the Pacific Cpaat lealue this - year. Professor W. B. Hall, aged 50, super- intendent of the Washington school for the blind, recently dropped dead while playing a game of tennis. Heart fail- ure was the cause. Multnomah Amateur Athletic club of Portland made a clean sweep Satur- day of the inter -club boxing and wrest- ling bouts with the Seattle Athletic club, taking four events. A winter racing center that will rival New Orleans and Jaurez - that's the hope of those who are back of the project to build a $1,000,000 track in Tiajuana, In Mexico,. just across the border from San 1)lego, and within a few hours' ride of Los Angeles. A. B. Spreckels, the coast millionaire, is the chief backezekf the new track, and as- sociated with 'himare C. C. Tucker, Charles W. Clark, H. A. Houser, Chas. Jackson, F. C. White and several other wealthy California sportsmen. The stands in the proposed track will ac- commodate from 15,000 to 20,000. There will be stable space for 1000 horses and fast. etrack is expected to be lightning SATURDAY FOOTBALL GAMES. At Billings, Mont., Oct. 23, Charles falls. r of Chicago threw Duncan Gil- les of Vancouver, B. C., in straight At Cambridge.—Cornell, 10; Har- vard, 0. At Princeton.—Princeton, 30; Dart- mouth, 7. At New Haven.—Yale, 7; Washing- ton and Jefferson, 16. At West Point.—Army, 10; George- town, 0. At Annapolis.—Navy, 0; Virginia Polytechnic Institutt, 0. At Philadelphia.—Pittsburgh, 14; Pennsylvania, 7. - At Lincoln.—Nebraska, 20; Notre Dame, 19. At Walla Walla.—University of Ore- gon beat Whitman college, 21 to 0. At Spokane—Gonzaga was beaten by Washington, 21 to 7. NEW YORK EXPORTS HAVE REACHED A NEW LEVEL September Total, $297,766,70, Is In- crease of $141,714,417 Over Same Month in 1914. Washington.—New high records in the American export trade, made dur- ing September, 'ire Shown in recent reports. Exports for September totaled $297,- 766,705, an increase of $141,714,417 over September of 1914. They made a fa- vorable trade balance . , of $146,343,919 for the montliNe ,g inst a trade bal- ance tif.416.341,7 Air-Septefftber,i91C ,t - The favorable rade balance for the tf month was only $41,693,371 less than the favorable trade balance for the tn- tire fiscal year 1910. During September I rnportation of gold amounted to $42,042,648, and the exports were $2,033,990. Internal revenue receipts increased $11,419,622 during the three months ended September 30, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the pre- vious year. The total was $104,869,000. The income tax during the three months period aggregated $11,123,336, an increase of $3,506,586. In Septem- r internal revenue receipts from all o rces were $32,833,335. MOONSHINERS TO PENITENTIARY. J. L. Casper Ordered to Pay Fine of $33,000 and Spend Nine Years in Pen. Fort Smith, Ark.—John L. Casper of Kansas City, alleged head of the moonshine conspiracy, who pleaded guilty in the United States district court here, was sentenced to nine years and three days in the peniten- tiary and ordered to pay a fine of $33,- 000. • The six others who admitted their guilt got six months in jail to two years in the penitentiary, and big fines. J. Henry Brown, Harrison, Ark.; S. L. Williams, Winston Salem, N. C.; Qariehe Brewbacker, George Hartman and John Farrabee, Kansas City; John Coffey, Fort Smith. Government a Big Loser. The government has been defrauded of at least $383,000 in this moonshine whiskey conspiracy. WORKS OVERTIME MELTING MON New York Assay Office Hard Pressed to Keep Up with Gold Flow. New York.—So great has been the tide of gold poured into New York to pay the war bills of the belligerent na- tions that the task of melting it up to be turned into United States coin has almost overwhelmed the employes of the United States assay office here. Ordinarily about $100,000,000 in gold passes through the assay office in a year. Since July 1 the office has re- ceived and melted more than $82,000,- 000. Once Failure, Now Great. At the age of 26, Rufus Isaacs, mem- ber of a respectable but inconspicuous Jewish family of London, had, in the eyes of his family and friends, made a bad failure of life. He had triori thn sea, and was tired of it. He had tried banking, and was a bankrupt. Then he began to study law. Last month, at the age of 55, he came to America as Baron Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England, the chairman of the Anglo- French commission, and the bearer of responsibility that is almost without parallel in the history of the empire. •
