Passing Events

Passing Events Submarine F-4, sunk at the Honolulu harbor, last March, was raised by pontoons on August 29 and brought to dry dock. A num- ber of the twenty-two sailors who went down with the ill-fated vessel were recovered, and their bodies buried in the cemetery in Honolulu. A joint Anglo-French financial commission of six members de- puted by Great Britain and France to adjust the foreign exchange system in the United States, reached New York on the 10th of Sep- tember. They will establish an exchange in the United States. It is reported that the Allies desire to borrow, in the United States, one thousand million dollars, on their bonds. The Oregon Short Line reports that thirty thousand tourists entered the Yellowstone National Park through the western entrance, from June 15 to September 1, this year, and that the total number of people visiting the park between those dates was 40,000, an excess of 25,000 over any former season. This does not include those who entered privately in automobiles or other conveyances. Gold shipments from England continued during September to arrive in the United States. On the 29th of August, twenty millions in British gold reached New York together with thirty-five millions in American securities. Later nearly one hundred and fifty mil- lions of gold arrived in New York, and it was announced at the time tbat the American bankers were at a loss to know what to do with the accumulated gold. The Mexican situation continued in its usual chaotic state during the month. On the 31st of August General Oroszco was shot by a posse of Texans following a raid on a ranch house on the Rio Grande, 150 miles east of El Paso. United States troops were ordered to the border to prevent uprisings. A number of marauding bands of Mexicans in various districts on the border were reported to carrying on pillaging expeditions. Judge John A. Marshall, United States district judge for Utah, since February 4, 1896, resigned early in September, without giving any reason for his resignation which was accepted by the department of justice at Washington. Judge Marshall was born September 5, 1854, in Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar and came to Salt Lake City in 1878. He was probate judge of Salt Lake county in 1888-89, and a member of the state legislature in 1892. He received the appointment of district judge from President Grover Cleveland, in 1896. Mrs. Bessie Dean Allison, wife of William Allison, former super- intendent of the Ogden city schools, died in Ogden September 2, 1915. She was born at Morgan, Utah, October 15, 1867, and later removed to Salt Lake. She was a member of the Salt Lake Tabernacle choir, for years and went to the World's Fair, with it in 1893. She has been a member of the Ogden Tabernacle choir ever since its re- organization. She went as a soloist to the Lewis & Clark exposition at Portland, to the Irrigation Congress at Sacramento, and also ac- companied the Ogden Tabernacle choir on its trip last July, to the Exposition on the coast. She was one of Utah's noted singers. Mutual Contest Music. To those who have had trouble in getting contest music it will be pleasant to learn that the Daynes-Beebe Music

PASSING EVENTS 1117 Company, Salt Lake City, now have on hand a good supply of the M. I. A. music contest numbers: "From By-gone Days" (ladies' quartet) by George L. Osgood, 6c per copy postpaid. "The Passing Days" (male quartet or chorus) by Parks, 10c per copy postpaid. A large supply is on hand so that all may be accommodated. The Great War. The Germans Continued their drive against the Russians in Poland, and some activities were begun by them in the Argonne district in France. The efforts of the French and English allies to pierce the Dardanelles were continued. On the sea a large number of ships were blown up by submarines. The relations between the United States and Germany became very strained, but were finally eased upon the promise of Germany not to torpedo any ships carrying American passengers without due warning. The difficulty of the Germans in living up to this promise, however, appears to have threatened new diplomatic ruptures between this country and Germany, during the latter part of September. August 20. — Novogeorgievsk, the great Russion fortress at the confluence of the Narew and Vistula, was taken by the Germans who secured 85,000 Russians captives, 700 cannon, and much miscellaneous material of value. August 21. — Italy declares war on Turkey, asserting Turkish attempts to stir open insurrections in Lybia. — Great Britain declares cotton to be absolute contraband. — Mrs. E. H. Harriman who owns the controlling interest in the McKeen Motor Company. Omaha, Nebraska, compelled the cancellation of a two years' contract for shrapnel. — The fortress of Brest-Litovsk on the east bank of the Bug river, a chief stronghold of the Russians, was taken by storm by Gen- eral von Mackensen's army. A large number of prisoners were taken. August 24. — Sweden protests to Germany against the shelling of a Swedish steamship, "Cuxhaven," carrying no contraband. — The Rus- sian government suspends the Jewish pale which gives the Jews per- mission to reside anywhere in the empire except in Petrograd and Moscow and cities under the jurisdiction of the war ministry or im- perial court. This is done pending the examination of the whole question. August 25.— The first heavy snowfall occurred in the Alps, hinder- ing war activities. — Gustav Klopsch, an employee of the Carnegie institute was arrested as a German spy in Washington. Photographs of defenses along the Atlantic coast were said to be found in his pos- session. August 26. — The Russian war office stated that the Russian retreat has been conducted exactly in accordance with official plans. Two million more men have been called to the flag. August 27. — French aviators bombarded the railroad station at Mullheim, Baden. — Several submarines were destroyed by British war ships at Zeebrugge, Belgium. August 28. — Lipsk, twenty miles west of Grodno is captured by the Germans. The Russians are retreating rapidly in Galicia along a 125-mile front. Ten thousand prisoners have been taken by the Ger- mans. August 29.— Fierce fighting was reported in the Riga neighbor- hood. Berlin reports that the British forces in the Dardanelles have incurred heavy losses during the past two days on the Turkish posi- tions. August 30.— Galata bridge was shelled by submarines in the mer- cantile section of Constantinople causing a great panic.

1118 IMPROVEMENT ERA August 31. — The Italians report success in the Strino valley. — Germany sends Roumania an ultimatum demanding an immediate pass- age through that country for Teutonic munitions for Constantinople. — The British federal inspectors at Falmouth discovered that James Archibald, an American war correspondent, was transporting official dispatches from Germans in the U. S. to the German government. — The British report their losses in shipping from submarine and other hostile attacks as sixty-eight steamers with a tonnage of 178,713, with nine sailing vessels. — The Belgium Relief Commission in London reports 2,750,000 persons in Belgium without resources for a liveli- hood. The harvest reserved for civilians is insufficient for less than half this number. — Alfons Pegoud, a French aviator, who demonstrated in 1914, that an airship may be flown upside down, and who first looped the loop in a flying machine, was killed in action. September 1. — Martial law was abandoned in France outside of the military zone. — Since May 2, 1,100,000 Russians have been taken prisoners by the Germans, according to official report from Berlin, and the Russians have lost in the same time 300,000 men through casual- ties.— Count von Bernstorff announces to Secretary Lansing that Ger- many would sink no more liners without warning. September 3. — Field Marshal von Hindenburg captured Grodno, the last of the strong Russian fortresses to hold out. September 4. — The German army engaged in a battle for the pos- session of the Russion port of Riga and captured Friedrichstadt, tak- ing thirty-seven officers and 3,325 men prisoners. — The Allan line steamer "Hesperian" was sunk, presumably by a German submarine, 150 miles off Queenstown, with 350 passengers and a crew of 300 bound for Montreal from Liverpool. Most were saved. September 5. — The British steamer "Cymbeline," 4,405 tons gross, 370 feet long, plying between the United States and England was sunk. Six members of the crew were killed and six injured. September 6. — A German torpedo boat destroyer was sunk in the sea of Marmora by an allied submarine. September 7. — The Russian port of Riga on the Baltic was cap- tured by the Germans, causing panic in Petrograd. September 9. — The Germans attack the French lines in the Ar- gonne region capturing the French positions over a front of two kilometers. — Twenty persons were killed and eighty-six injured in a German airship raid over the eastern counties of England and the Lon- don district. — Ambassador Penfield at Vienna was instructed to inform the Austro-Hungarian government that Dr. Constantine Dumba is no longer acceptable as an envoy to the United States, and to ask for his recall. Mr. Dumba is the Austro-Hungarian ambassador at Waash- ington who employed an American citizen named Archibald, traveling under an American passport, to carry plans to his government to in- stigate strikes in American manufacturing plants engaged in the muni- tions of war. September 10. — Heavy fighting is reported in the Vosgos region in which the Germans are making use of apshyxiating shells and flam- ing liquids, according to dispatches from Paris. September 11. — Petrograd announces a victory in southern Galicia in which Russians captured five thousand Germans. — Uninterrupted artillery fire continues along the entire French front in Argonne. — The French steamer, "Ville de Mostaganem" was sunk by gun fire from a German submarine.— The British steamship "Cornubia," 736 tons, was sunk. — Dr. Henry Van Dyke, American minister at The Hague, stopped James F. Archibald at Rotterdam, and took up his passports and ordered him to report at the state department.