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■< RUSSIANS QUIT RIGA OF WEEK Big Gulfport Kalla Into llanda o f Teu tona. but Winter May Prevent Brewing Their Advantage. ID E MADE ON I. » . » . reco vers po w er or speech GOVERNMENT ATTACKS ON BIG SCALE TASK OF MAINTAINING FOOD SUPPLY Riga, Russia's big port on the Gulf o f Raig, is in the hands o f the Ger S11.346.400 to Be Spent in Stimulating Production and Protec mans and its garrison and the civilian tion and Conserving of Crops— Farm Help Activities to Be population are in retreat eastward Following up rapidly the advantage Extended— Marketing Assistance to Be Ex-* they gained in driving the Russians tended to the Producers. across the Dvina river on both sides of Uxkrull last Saturday, the Germans threw bridges across this stream and soon were on the heels o f the former Washington.- The task of maintain- Mtore* and the normal consumption in defenders, some o f whom offered re fng during the war nu ample supply order that such action ** may tie nec sistance, but others o f whom showed o f fluid will he uttuckcd oti u still essary to Insure a sufficient supply the white feather, g ivin g the invaders larger scale by the United States de may be taken Intelligently. Farm Brenta o f Noted People, Government! no trouble in marvhing up the eastern Action Against Agitators on Eve o f partment o f agriculture through a stocks and *upplle* In retail stores and bank o f the Dvina toward Riga, 16 score or more o f projects, under the In the hands o f consumers will be es and Pacifie N o r th »eat and Other Report o f President's Investiga miles distant. ! provisions of the food productlou hill timated, and stock* held hy wholesale Things Worth Knowing. tor o f Western Troubles. W ith the fallin g back o f the Rus Just enacted hy congress. jobbing, storing, manufacturing and sians from the city proper and the ad While most o f the projects will he other commercial establishment* will vance o f the Germans northward along ! extensions o f present activities, some be enumerated. It I* contemplated both sides o f the stream, the Russians o f them will represent new undertak that the survey will be followed by The Christiania Social Demokraten still defending Washington. D. C. The government the western bank j Ings. The task will tie to tlnd Just monthly report* on several o f the more asserts that Norway has provisions for around Dahlen seemingly are in danger Wednesday took drastic measures to where the country stunds In so far Important commodities, and If the only one month. Import prospects are o f being caught between the two fast- end the anti-war propaganda conduct j as the adequacy o f the present fo<l|l emergency require* It, by another sur also gloomy, it is said. moving bodies o f the enemy and made ed in the name o f the Industrial Work Joseph Getxelowlts. dumb from \ supply Is concerned, to speed up the vey after an Interval of perhaps six The State department was advised prisoner. Behind them the Russians, era o f the World, the Socialist party birth, suddenly recovered his power | production o f food crop* wherever this month*. Sunday o f the sinking August 23 o f in their retreat from Riga, are laying can he done, and to stop ns many ns Production W ill B* Stimulated. the American schooner Carl F. C re say, the country in waste, burning villages and organizations throughout the Uni of speech la Bellevue hospital. New j possltde o f the leak* through which In addition to the activities under York, while recovering from a fall. and farms. Whether the city itself o f Bath, Me., by a submarine. The ted States. Several boys hud teen tormenting j hundreds of millions of dollar*’ worth the three project* mentioned, special remains intact has not yet been made crew o f seven was saved. On orders from Attorney General (■etzelowltz In Henry street, near the j o f edible product* annuully I* wasted. work will he undertaken h.v many of known, but doubtless the guns in the According to information from Mad Gregory, United States marshals in home o f his sister, where he lived. In I Eleven million three hundred and for- the bureau* and offices o f the depart fortress and the ammunition stores j ty six thousund four hundred dollars ment o f agriculture In the Interest of rid, the Portuguese government em either were moved or destroyed to pre many towns and cities descended at 2 chasing the hoys, he stumbled and | are made available for the work In Increased production and for the con ployes in the postal and telegraph fell. A policeman picked him up and vent them fallin g into the hands o f the p. m., central time, upon local head' service have gone on strike. Suspen | the fiuid production Mil, This tuoucy servation, protection uud Improved had turn seat to Bellevue. There the Germans. quarters o f the Industrial Workers o f sion o f all communication has resulted. ! Is for emergency use In addition to the bundling and marketing of crops nod Aside from the strategic value o f the World, seized books, checks, cor' phyalcluns examiued the young Rus 1 funds appropriated In the regulnr ag- live iitock. The bureau o f animal In Conscientious objectors accepted for controlling the Gulf o f Riga and o f a respondence and other documents, ami sian and found that his vocal chords | riculttirul appropriation hill for the dustry will seek to hrtug about In m ilitary service were advised by Sec base nearer the mouth o f the Gulf o f in some instances arrested officials o f had all the appearances o f being uor- mal and In their opinion simply lacked i Usual activities of the department. The creased pnulucttun of hogs and poul retary Baker Tuesday to make no pro Finland, at the head o f which Petro the organizations. While rvudtug S hill a ls o Is distinct from the food con- try, the two live stock products capa test until assigned in training camp to grad is situated, fo r the moment it is In Chicago federal agents took pos (lie will to talk. ; trol hill, a measure having to do chlef- ble o f most rapid Increase. The some task particularly violating their mpoesible to see the importance of session o f the national headquarters o f prayer book he suddenly began speak j ly with the regulation o f the dlstrthu- agents o f thl* bureau also will locate scruples. the German gain, especialy with the the Socialist party, and a warrant au ing Yiddish with euse uud perfect pro j Hon of fiuul. surpluses o f hog* In heavy producing nunciation. According to the Cologne Gazette, near approach o f winter, when milli- thorizing the seizure o f its documents T o Increase County AQent Force. nreas and farmer* In other sectlous of lie now speaks a few words o f Eng tary operations in this northern region was served upon its counsel. the first step toward the self-govern One of the most Important steps to the country with good facilities for lish. are almost impossible. A statement issued by the depart ment o f Poland has been taken. From , he taken In the emergency agricultural hog raising. In the e ff o rt to bring ment o f Justice announced that the now on justice w ill be administered in work will he the extension o f the ex- about more economical distribution of Washington, D. C. — Abandonment seizure o f the papers was made in con the name o f the Polish crown and by i Istlng force o f county agents, the Joint j hog*. Effort* alrni will be made Indi o f Riga in the face o f the new German nection with a federal grand jury in GUIDES FOR IT’S SOLDIERS Polish judges. field employees o f the department ami rectly to Increase animal production drive into Russia, and even the evacua vestigation o f the I. W. W., now pro German airplanes visited the South tion o f Petrograd itself, have been ceeding at Chicago. Great Britain Carefully Provides for the states, who come Into most direct j hy combating animal diseases and I contact with farmers. With the uddt i |H-sta, especially hog cholera, tubercu east coast o f England Monday night, forecast as possibilities in confidential the Men Home on Leave The department’s action was taken | lion of the new county agents, an losis, and the cattle tick, which cause dropping bombs at various places, ac advices to the American government on the eve o f a report to President From the Front | agent will he situated In practically losses aggregating millions o f dollars cording to an official statement. Wilson by Chief Justice Covington, o f during the last two weeks. Such { every agricultural county tn the Unit- unnually. The bureau also will en London.— Soldiers on leave from the the Supreme court o f the District of development is not regarded with so The Petrograd Council o f Work i ed States »hut will cooperate to advise deavor to stimulate the Increased pro front In the early days o f the war had Columbia, who was designated recently men’s and Soldiers’ Deputies Tuesday much alarm as might be supposed. ! and assist farmers tn every way po»- durtlon uud utilization o f dulry food; the greatest difficulty In finding their W ith R iga abandoned and German by the President to investigate the la adopted a resolution o f protest against way about London and across It to ! slide on mutters of production, conser- and will carry on u campaign for the the re-establishment o f the death pen occupation o f Petrograd in prospect, bor situation in the West. vat Ion and marketing. The number more general production o f Infertile Judge Covington has completed his main line centers leading to their pro alty at the front. They demanded that the seat o f the Russian provisional of woman county agents In rural coun- eggs. vincial homes, but thla has all beea investigation, which lasted several government undoubtedly w ill be moved the measure be revoked. | ties will he considerably Increased nml The bureau o f entomology will ex to Moscow. Much as they regret see weeks, and took him to the Pacific altered, and what was once chaos at I other woman agent* will be placed In H. W . Griesbach, o f Sweet Grass, tend Its activities In the field to pro Victoria station now works like any ing the Russian captial occupied by a Coast. | a number o f the larger towns and clt Mont., and J. R. Brennan, o f Tacoma, tect crops and live stock. It will as Whether the concerted action o f purt o f the military machine. German army, the forceful thinking | lea. These women will Htlmulnte the sist In organizing communities for com Wash., were listed as killed in action This has been made ixmslble by the men o f Russia, working to set up a marshals throughout the country w h s production o f garden truck, poultry bating Insect pests, both o f crops und in the Canadian casualty list issued government, may regard it as a bless in any way related to Judge Coving help of the volunteers o f the National 1 and other products by women und dill- live stock. Monday. Am ong the gased is named ton’s investigation was not disclosed. Guard and by members o f the Wom ing in disguise. ! dren, and will advise and Instruct In R. J. McAdam, Butte, Mont. Marketing Assistance. There are many advantages in mov It is known, however, that Judge Cov an’s Reserve Ainbulauce company, who regard to the most efficient method* Producers will be given advice by Practically one-third o f the small ing the Russian capital to Moscow. It ington made a special study o f the ac take chnrge of the men on arrival, o f food utilization and conservation. the bureau o f market* regarding Im It was change their French money into Eng arms ammunition supplied to General is the center o f the Conservative group tivities o f the I. W. W. Labor and Food Problems. proved method* of packing and hand Pershing’s troops in France has been and commands the sentimental, almost shortly after he reached the Northwest lish, grunt them loans and personally Under the food production bill the ling fisKl products. The bureau also found defetcive from chemical reaction religious— regard o f the Russian popu that 27 leaders o f the organization conduct them to the various stations | office o f furm management of the do- will extend Its market new* service to set up in the powder after manufac lace as the ancient capital o f the old were arrested in Spokane by Idaho they mny require to travel from. The ! partment. In co-operation with the Include grain, bay uud weed*, dairy empire, surrounded with the tradition National guardsmen, the day before same tiling Is dune when leave la up. ture at the Frankfort arsenal. j United State* department of labor. and poultry products, and to cover o f Russia’s greatness, the triumphs o f the time set for a general strike in The soldier, used to discipline, llkee German troops appeared for the first I will extend the farm-help activities more fully vegetables and fruit* and Montana and being handed on from one to another Alexander, Catherine and Peter the Washington, Oregon, time on the Carso (Ita ly ) front Thurs I through which furm laborer* and the meats and »neat products, and will as Idaho. rather than being left In a atrango Great. day morning, according to Austrian farmer* who roost uoed them huve sist In solving local truck marketing The charges against 'leaders o f the place to his own devices. Furthermore, some Russians of prisoners. The Austrians are rushing been brought together during the pres problems. These services will makn the new government are said to organization under arrest or whose ar reinforcements from the Russo-Rou- ent season. public facts as to supply, demand and think that a German occupation o f rest is contemplated were not made manian front, the prisoners say. The third o f the more Important of movement o f fixxl products. Intended R iga and even Petrograd, might be a public here. the emergency project* to be curried to help In the elimination o f the lost IN KAISER’S ROOM. TAR Snow has put out a serious fire near wholesome object lesson for the Radi It was said at the department of out by the department o f agriculture motion and economic waste existing Gordon Pass, in the Flathead country, cal element which has been hampering Justice that these would have to be de SAYS, NO KICK COMING is u quick survey o f the food situation. In the marketing machinery o f the according to reports received at forest the new government, and that an ex termined by the grand jury investigat This activity will he for the purixi*« service headquarters at Missoula, perience under the m ilitary heel o f ing the organization. country. The bureau also will help Lorain, O.— W illiam Kelsner, | of ascertaining as accurately ns possl- producers and consumers to form di Mont. A ll fires were abating and con Germany might convince them o f the Officials also declined to state i f in who Joined the navy four j i>le the condition o f the country’s food trol line have been established every need o f supporting the government as dictments had been found by grand rect business relations through the months ago, has written Ids par where. parcel post. now constituted to save their father- juries in Chicago or elesewhere against ents that he U well treated. Ho I. W. W. leaders. It was intimated, With the extra funds furnished hy la evidently on one o f the In ONLY FEMALE ARMY SURGEON The National W ar Committee an land for Russia. however, that the investigation had the bull the bureau o f plant Industry terned Germnn ships seized by nounces a prize essay contest fo r chil only begun. Indications are that fed will greatly Increase Its war against tbe United States. dren between the ages o f 8 and 18 on eral grand juries in other cities will destructive plant diseases which annu the topic, “ Why Am erica Entered the “The walls are covered with be called upon also to investigate the ally bring about the loss o f considera W a r.” The prizes include a $50 Lib Illinois Guardsmen Disperse Rioting silk and Inlaid with silver. The activities o f the organization. ble proportions of the crops o f the erty Bond and gold coins o f $25, $15 room to which I was assigned Mob— Bricks Hurled Freely. country. The hurcuu also will seek and $10 respectively. was reserved fo r the kaiser to bring about Increased conservation when the ship was German," Springfield, 111.— Charging with fixed CHINA TO SEND PICKED ARMY From a concealed position on a of fixxl products hy encouraging natur says his letter. bayonets, Ilinois Guardsmen Monday mountainside near Middlesboro, Ky., al storage and drying of the products night dispersed a mob o f more than 15,000 Troops Are to Entrain to Aid 200 shots were fired across the valley best suited to these methods o f preser Retreating Russians. early Monday at a party o f repair 1000 streetcar sympathizers who half vation. an hour before had wrecked four men, proceeding to the mines o f the TO DO HIS Farm Products and Animals. San Francisco — The 24th Chinese SCULPTOR streetcars and were then attacking the L o w er Lign ite Coal company, where a Under the food production bill the army corps, composed o f 15,000 picked strike o f union coal miners is in prog headquarters o f the railway company department’s work for the conserva intent on wrecking and ransacking the troops from the northern provinces, is W ill T u r n Talents From Modeling In ress. Clay to Remaking Faces of the tion o f fnrm products, Including live being mobilized in a Chinese city for building. The Swiss sanitary authorities at Wounded. stock, will be greutly extended. The Dispersed by the soldiers from the immediate departure to Europe, ac Basel and all along the German fron corner in the main business section, cording to a cablegram received here states’ relation service will add to Its tie r are taking measures to prevent where the cars had been attacked, the Thursday night by the Chinese Daily staff many county and city agents, who Cleveland, O.— Max Kallsh, C leve dysentery, typhus and scarlatina, mob headed for the offices o f the rail World, venacular newspaper, from its land sculptor. Is going to do his bit will give Instructions und demonstra which prevail in Rhine towns, from road company and the Springfield Gas correspondent in Shanghai. tions to all parts o f the country In and It’s a strange bit, too. Kallsh Is entering Switzerland. A ll travelers & Electric company, subsidiary. cunning, drying and the preparation o f The dispatch, censored and deleted, turning his talents from creating face* coming from Germany are required to food products In other forms which Six soldiers on guard at the building indicated that the troops w ill lie taken In clay to remaking those o f human, undergo medical examination. held the crowd in check for some time, through Siberia to the eastern front, beings. Kallsh Is odo o f u small army will protect them against spoilage. The bureau of markets will seek to re F ive Italian aviators have returned but bolder ones in the mob finally where the Russians are being pushed of American sculptors who uro going duce losses due to fuulty handling, from a successful flight to Vienna. started hurling bricks at the plateglass back towards Petrograd. The message I to the battle front to help b a ttle packing, shipping and marketing. The Leaving the Italian front the machines windows, riddling the front o f the hinted that gaps in the Russian armies scarred veterans. They propose to r ^ bureau of plant Industry will endenv- passed over the Austrian lines unob building. As reinforcements arrived w ill be filled by these troops, and pos make the inangled features o f the sol or to urouse Interest In the uaturul diers Injured tn battle. served and flew straight to the Aus and charged them with the butts o f sibly by Japanese. The 24th corps was said to include storage during the foil and winter They call these fellow s plastic trian capital, where the aviators their guns, the rioters fled in confu mouths o f aemlporishable products. They replace the missing dropped pamphlets inform ing the peo sion, a few o f them being trampled, several companies o f engineers, com sculptors. Forces making for the conservation of ple o f the city o f the great Italian vic but none seriously injured. No shots manded by Chinese graduates from parts o f the face with copper or live stock and animal products will bo American colleges. were fired by the soldiers. papier mache and then graft skin over tory. put Into operation by the bureau o f It. L ittle Is known o f the science In The certificate o f death o f Kiolegn, animal Industry. This work will In Holland Fears Misery. Japanese Ready to Move. America and the sculptors are going an Indian, who died July 7, near Ro- clude, as already mentioned, cam Berne- In Russian circles in Berne to France shortly to learn the flna A m sterdam — Representing 150,000 nan, Mont., on the Flathead Indian paign for the reduction o f losses o f points o f the art. workers, a trades union congress that and Geneva the fall o f R iga was pre reservation at the age o f 110, has been live stock from animal diseases, losses filed with the state board o f health. met here Tuesday discussed food prob dicted a week ago, when the archives of eggs through faulty handling and He was an Oregon Indian. lems in connection with the stoppage and treasures were removed to Pskoff, ACCLAIMED BRITAIN’S HERO from failure to produce Infertile eggs, o f imports from America and the un while most o f the ships le ft R iga for Doctor Markland is (he only female and movements to assist In the more Membership o f the American Red favorable outlook for the home crops, Reval. London Schoolteacher, Wounded lit surgeon In fhe British army. Doctor economical distribution o f hogs. In Cross has reached the 3,500,000 mark which have been greatly damaged by Riga was known as a hotbed of Markland Is a most unusual miss, and Battle In France, Attains the latter work field agents o f the bu and is increasing at the rate o f 25,000 the continuous rain storms. The meet Lenine pacifists and also o f German the distinction which she holds has High Fame. ’ reau o f aulinal Industry will bring to to 100,000 a day, according to a head ing adopted a resolution calling upon agents. j been won by her great skill a* a sur- gether owners of surplus hogs and quarters announcement. A t the be the government to reduce the maxi The Munich Neuste Nachrichten London.— A London schoolmaster ; geoa. farmers having facilities for raising ginning o f the year the total was 275,- mum prices on food, fuel and shoe says that a large Japanese force is She bolds n reputation In her pri named Wlman, who enlisted and lost more hogs. This should result In the leather, and to take other measures to concentrated on the Manchurian fron an arm and a leg In France,, returned vate practice which makes her one of distribution o f the surplus stock from Federal authorities at St. Paul, prevent misery an I want among the tier ready to come to the assistance of to teaching after his recovery and be the foremost women surgeons In the regions o f heavy animal production working classes during winter. the Russians. world. came the Idol o f his students» a fte r exam ining John Shoap, who told and expensive feed to parts o f the Doctor Markland will render service The discipline among mem hern o f hljs country where anlmnl Industry Is not Fort Snelling officers that 'h e'w as a 169 Whales Are Captured. Two-Platoon Fight is Won. very probably In one o f the hospitals class was perfect, the boys enforcing well developed and where pasturage German spy, announced that the man Aberdeen, Wash. — A total o f 169 Tacoma, Wash.— A two-platoon sys It among themselves. Finally, a fter the behind the filing lines In France. She and feed are relatively abundant and was mentally deranged and that he had whales has been brought in this season tem for the Tacoma fire department authorities discovered him t o bp a bet has won the commendation o f many cheap. The bill also makes provision been treated at b hospital fo r the in by the four whaling ships o f the Bay was authorized by the C ity council ter teacher than ever, the school ar physicians In Great Britain, and when for the extension of other lines o f tbe sane in Washington state. C ity station, fifteen miles west of Thursday. ranged for an exhibition hearing o f one she offered her services to the nrmy, work o f the department. here, with five weeks o f whale-hunting The present force o f 105 men in the o f his history lessons. At t’tkle exhibi she was accepted after some delibera Eleven men pleaded gu ilty in the tion ns to whether a woman doctor United States district court in Spo remaining. The year’s catch w ill ap fire department w ill be divided into tion Wlman asked: Berries Keep 21 Years. two shifts. Although the efficiency o f kane Thursday to having failed to reg proximate 250. "Now, boys, who is the gr la te s t out could eerve In the army ranks. Montlcello, Ind.— Mrs. Ida Foss, n Seven tons, 14,000 pounds, o f whale the fire department will be seriously There Is little question, hut that ister under the selective d raft law and standing British military lie ro o f an Doctor Markland will prove that wom farmer’s wife living near this place, w ere sentenced to from one day to meat, was taken recently from one impaired, all councilmen agreed, the t im e r , recently opened a can o f huckleberries six months in ja il. Three other men finback, which is the largest amount division o f shifts was decided as the The boys Instantly sto<sl, cheered en doctors In the field can be o f con indicted fo r having failed to register o f meat furnished by any whale taken only present solution o f a threatened thrice and shouted in chor .us "M r. W l- siderable service, and soon many more that had been put up 21 years before und found them In perfect condition. strike o f all firemen. this season. of her sex will be seen In the ranks. m sn I" pleaded not gu ilty. Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. Department of Justice Orders Records of Order Seized. COMPILED GENERAL MOVE MADE FOR YOU USE BAYONETS ON STRIKERS 000 .
