Show telegraphic TIES TALES FOR BUSY READERS A RESUME OF THE WEEKS DOINGS DOING S tn IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES important events of tile the last seven days daya reported by wire and pro pre I 1 pared for fop the benefit of the busy reader header WESTERN EPITOME Turg ateo atee oregon and vicinity wore were covered with it a sheet ahlet of water a toot doop deep which swept over tho the lowland washing out the tracks of tile oregon washington railroad nall road and navigation company to the ag aggregate gregat of about 0 one e and a half ri miles illes tho the greatest damage was done at nelson and aoa thorby no loss loas ot of life has been reported william D drown 99 year old california pioneer and said to bo be the oldest shriner in tho the world died at berkely Her ller kely calif lie waa born in charlottesville lottes ville va efti and would have reached his bis one hundredth birthday on an december 4 of this year applicants for licenses to drive au an tomo bilea in california must submit evidence of their mental and physical fitness 11 under the terms of tho the law passed by tho the last legislature which became effective july milt the new automobile law also forbids the aeo of speed traps as a mean of determining the rate at which a machine la Is traveling the trap used for many years was a method of timing the speed of a machine between two two arbitrary points on tho the state highway during a freak thunder and lightning storm tank no 4 on the underground reservoir of tho the pacific oil company near Dakers bakersfield field calif was struck by lightning and tho the stored stared oil ignited tho the tank had bad a capacity of barrels the loss Is estl esti mated at employed Emp loyes of tho the pacific associated and standard oil companies cooperated in preventing any spread of tile the flames to 10 surrounding tanks and rot refinery anery nery property funeral services were held at st ignatius Ignat lua church san francisco tor for pancho villa worlds flyweight boxing champion who died in a hospital here recently while undergoing an operation on lila ills throat ten members of tho the catholic filipino club acted as pall bearers tile the rev father rius plus moore delivered an eulogy men aten and women representing many nationalities and from all walks of life filled the church to overflowing mrs virginia cookson orange county california farm farin eretto for whom the sheriffs posses have been searching tor for several days on the theory that she had been murdered or abducted appeared tit nt police quarters at Cal calexico exico calif and told of being kidnapped by three men in an automobile park rangers and guides recovered the body of J L cartwright an eastern news writer who was killed by foot tall fall from a shale rock to a glacier about twin lakes not tar far from sperry glacier mont rangers ant and guides said cartwright left sperry to traverse a portion of the park that has no trails against the advice of official guides the scene ot of the was wag within a taw few miles of where tile the whitehead brothers of chicago were last seen last fall GENERAL fifteen hundred prohibition agents will lose their jobs not later than october 15 in tho the biggest shako shake up in the enforcement service since the enactment of the act A vast majority of the forty eight state administrators will be among those to BO no more than will be appointed to the new force with which it Is hoped to make the tha nation completely dry less than four hours before he was to be executed russell scott was saved from the gallows tor for tho the second time within a week when judge josph B D david convened a special of court at chicago and issued a writ of habeas corpus staying the execution until time hail had been given to inquire into the condemned mans sanity hundreds were stricken and a whole north section ot of chicago was shalen shaken when a gasoline barge 0 ot tho the texas company on an which were gallons exploded with a terranc and terrifying blast and a roar of flames which leaped feet into the air the barge known as the reliable was moored nt at the time in the north branch of the river just off the oil companas comp anys north side plant and storage property drouth in some sections ot of texas has become so acute the state labor commissioned has sent an appeal to employers asking them to supply work for unemployed farni farm hands lie has urged municipalities and oun bounties ties to start public improvements to relieve the tha situation president coolidge cool id ge will take a hand band in tho the anthracite coal strike it the controversy should not be settled and it an actual strike should tako take effect ou on the ending of the present agree ment f se September news of tho the death of willi williaim tim jen aings dryan bryan at dayton term tenn came cacao to washington with will stunning ling suddenness and at a time when lus name was blazing in headlines much as it did at tho the height of ills his political career twenty years ago llis ilia efforts effort at dayton where he had fought with great spirit over the question of evolution had given friends here the impression proe sion that lie he was in vigorous health and it had been freely predicted that ilia hla voice would ring out when tho the next congress assembled in a movement to throw into senate and house debate tho the cause for which lie ho had fought in tennessee the now chicago union station covering thirty five acres and used by four railroads has been formally opened six weeks after some of its facilities began to function ranking with tho the grand central and pennsylvania stations in now new york as tile tho largest railway depots in tho the country the station has accommodations for trains dally daily tor for passengers and tons of baggage federal legislation abolishing all radio brond broadcasting casting of advertising will bo be sought at tile tho next session of 0 congress sol lioom of now new york announced prior to sailing for ft a trip to england earland vad france the of seventy three western railroads for an 11 per cent increase in freight rates will leei meet tho the organized opposition of american farm bureau federation officers ot of tho the organization who conferred tit at chicago announced farm bureaus in twenty bonty two states affected by the increase will bo be mobilized to fight tile tha petition moro afore than persons occupying 40 railway coaches left shenandoah iowa on a tour sponsored by tile tho club that will take thorn them as tar far east as niagara falls falla the ex from six states iowa nebraska acan kanas as missouri oklahoma and indiana they are to tray sl ol in four special trains each drawn by two locomotives over the wabash lines through moberly springfield ill III fort wayne and detroit tho the tour Is tho the second community undertaking of the kind within a year columbia university will not educational credentials from tennes see schools as advocated by dr henry 11 II rushby dean of tho the collego college of pharmacy at columbia adam L jones director of admission hats haa an bounced noun ced FOREIGN the budget tor for the fiscal year 1926 as submitted to the legislature at manila places tho the governments expenditure pend iture at while the income Is estimated at leaving u n surplus ot of approximately halt a million the largest single item of 0 expense Is for education amounting to approximately the tha second phase of the evacuation of tho the ruhr which has been occupied by allied troops since january 11 1923 began with the departure of troops garrisoned at essen complete evacuation of the ruhr la is to be ba concluded by july 31 when the ruhr will be definitely handed back to the german authorities in accordance with tho the london agreement fifteen persons persona were killed and hundreds reported injured when the packed melbourne australia veranda of a moving picture theatre collapsed the spectators were watching a parade rade on bourke street the world federation of educational associations took initial steps at edenburgh scotland to put into operation the organizations plan tor for future world pence peace and understanding by adopting a series of resolutions recommending courses of study that will present to students a full conception c of internationalism A special dispatch to berlin from bucharest states that the rumanian government has consented to the export of carloads of wheat in view of the fino fine harvest A reduction in the export tax also la Is granted because of the prevalent low prices of wheat in the world markets eleven miners were killed when a shaft rope parted sending their cage to destruction at the bottom of the pit in tho the cinco minas mine in jalisco mexico the general confederation of workers made demands for indemnities for the victims families but those these were refused by the mine operators it Is reported that a strike Is contemplated the tribuna of rome otome says special ecclesiastical arrangements for tho the religious marriage of princess matalda second laughter daughter of 0 tho the king and queen to prince phillip ot of greece have been completed by monsignor Nion signor Coc curia major chaplain of the ital lon ion court chapel france is faced with the possibility of a general batik bank strike bv the end of next week taking adv advantage of tho the increased business caused by new 4 per cent guaranteed loan the employees of ono one at 0 the largest paris banks have gone on strike because tho the management refused to grant increases in pay and the employees of other banks have called meetings i to decide whether to loin join tho the movement dank bank employees in marseilles ure already on strike and the MG movement shows signs of gaining in Al vignon toulon and other cities |