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Show All Corners of the Earth Complete History of the Past Week Told in Paragraphs Ptepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN BuI.er, Ure. At a meeting of the Jtcully board recently, n committee to investigate ways and means of completing com-pleting I ho remaining portion of the Big creek ditch in Uedical Springs section was tvfl I. Ten thousand dollars dol-lars has already been expended and It is estimated thai $2,000 win be re-Quired re-Quired to complete the ditch. Hoi to, Mont. The mining company which resumed work January 16, in Ulltte, Uontu reports that only one ex-peiteticed ex-peiteticed miner has been obtained In. in 50 applicant! for work, mid thvit production to data has been negligible due to Shortage of machine men. Similar Sim-ilar reports are received from other mini's. It was assumed that old employees em-ployees would rush buck to Iiutte as soon as the announcement was made that mining would be resumed. Goldfled, Nov. (Jus Kelly of Texas passed through Coldflold, Nov., recently recent-ly on tils way to Tonopah to attend the funeral ctf Ids brother, Scott Kelly. Gus Kelly was In an army camp In Texas When he received the news lof the death of his brother and he flew 800 miles to make connection with a train to bring lilm here In time for the funeral. fun-eral. Carson City, Nov. An attempt Is to be made to stock Carson Valley with pheasants and the county cammtsaliotat Ki's have purchased twenty pair Id' these game birds. During the past two years efforts have been made to raise pheasants In captivity, but thus far the experiment has proven a failure fail-ure In l his valley. C'orvallis, re. The Agricultural College Col-lege of Oregon now lias the greatest great-est enrollment in its history students. A report from the registrar's regis-trar's office gave these figures out to oompnro with the registration at a corresponding time Inst year 3530 showing an increase of 379. Each ol those students is registered in a fuli-timo fuli-timo college course. WASHINGTON By a vote of 77 t 19 the house refused re-fused to agree to a senate amendment to the Independent offices appropriation appropria-tion bill Which would penult the shipping ship-ping board during the coming fiscal year to continue to use funds from liipildutSin of assets up to ?55,000,iJO.. Authority to use 3iioh funds until next July 1 was granted the board in a supply sup-ply measure passed a year ago, but it has realized only a part of the maximum, maxi-mum, and Chairman Lasker had requested re-quested extension of the privilege. Con currence was also refused In a senate amendment authorizing the purchase for $1,500,00:) of land in Washington to be used for an addition to the government gov-ernment printing office. Sergeant Kugene Itlviere, holder ol. the world's altitude record for a para chute drop, and Sergeant Roland Btakc were seriously Injured at Michel! tick when tNelr airplane crashed to tl:( ground fu m a height of 100 feet nnc buried them In the wreckage. Riviert suffered a broken leg and nose nnc serious cuts and bruises. Both Ol Hake's legs were broken and he suf fered Internal Injuries. Investigation of the cause of th fire which destroyed a solid block ol thickly tenanted office buildings, cutis 0d a loss of more than $5,000,000, resulted re-sulted In the death of one man and made 20,000 workers idle, has begun by state, city and Insurance officials. Appropriation of funds sufficient tc continue without interruption the fed-eral fed-eral aid highway construction program was urged upon congress by William C. Markham, representing the American Ameri-can Association of State Highway Officials Of-ficials and the American Farm Bureau federation, before the house roada committee. Representative Woodruff, Michigan, member of the committee, would make the appropriation $50, 000,000, $G.r,(X0,03r) and $75,000,000 for for the next three years. The senarte judiciary committee split on the question of Mi eligibility of Senator Snmut, Utah, and Representative Representa-tive Burton, for membership cn the allied al-lied debt refunding commission. A minority of the committee held them eligible and a majority ineligible. Both The demand by the United States for reimbursement to the extent of $241,-000,000 $241,-000,000 for the expenses of Its forces in the Rhinelund before any reparations repara-tions are paid has provoked surprise and perplexity in French official cii cles. There is also some pointed com rnent In several newspapers. FOREIGN GENERAL Friends of the Towner-Sterling bill, now before Congress, which creates a Department of Education, point to the report of the Save a Life League, jusi made public, which shows suicides of more than 20,000 persons in 1921, as Indicative -of the failure of modern educational pnocesses. Education which does not fit those who obtain- it for living, It Is pointed out, is of nu value either to the individual or to the state. That 10 editors, 10 Well-known writers, 40 college students, 51 school teachers, 21 clergymen, 57 judges and. lawyers, T mayors, 03 bankers and 88 presidents of large business concerns were numbered num-bered among the 1021 suicides is a field fit- national aid in education which conserves to the state the lives of valuable men by putting emphasis upon true rather than fictitious edu-catlona! edu-catlona! values. Dduard Johnson, of California, 13 years old, who a short time ago, come In contact with high power electric wires carrying 111,000 volts of electrlc-lly, electrlc-lly, si! i 11 lives and has practically recovered re-covered friam the experience. Severe burns on his hands and feet show that the current passed completely through him. Award of cash prir.es to individuals throughout the United States for ex-cOptlonally ex-cOptlonally meritorious action in lifo saving and rendering first aid to injured in-jured during the year 1021 were an-uounceO an-uounceO at Americas Led Cross headquarters head-quarters in Wn8hlnten. I'nless tho government acts soon :i will, with a strange request, may pre. ent the purchase of Mammoth envo, Kentucky, ns a national park. This was pointed out by Stephen T. Mather, director of national perks. In a rei rt recently issued. A move for tho punh ise of the ave as a national nation-al park is now under way and bus I.een urged upon congress for action "Tho .3,000 acres sought for park purposes pur-poses at the entrance to Mammoth cae," says Mr. Mather s report, "are In private hands under the terms of a famous will, which dictated that the lend must ho held in trust until such time as the death of tho last of the named heirs occurs, when it is to he eold :.t public auction in Its entirety. Penrose of the advanced age of the two s irvivlng heirs, it may not be long before this world famed cavern in iil be 8 ild under the hammer." Do; endent heirs of veterans who have died sin e the armistice will not Blmre in the bonus payments to be provided for former soldiers, according accord-ing to the terms of the bill which will be reported to the house. This de-cisi de-cisi n was reached by the republicans of tho house ways and menns com-milteee. com-milteee. after it was figured that such a provision would add $25,000,-000 $25,000,-000 es a direct charge against the treasury to the obligations undertaken undertak-en by the government when the bonus bill Is enacted. Germany's potash industry disrupted by the war, is rapidly getting on its feet again. Within the last few montlhs, according to recent announcements, Germany has concluded arrangements t'L'i- resumption of her potash trade with all European countries, except Poland, and '.lso a number of oversea countries including the United States The value of the total potash output in Germany in 1921 is estimated at 2,-500,000,000 2,-500,000,000 marks. Greeted by the cry of "German killer" kill-er" as he entered a Nish cafe in Belgrade. Bel-grade. Serbia, Baron Richter von Scl.i ,-ent'iiai drew a revolver and shol five men, at a table nearby. Ignace Jan Baderewski, former premier pre-mier of Poland and a world-famous pianist, gave out recently what was regarded in some quarters as an In timatlon thalt he might run for tho presidency of that country. With all sectors of the disaffected area in South Africa cleared of tebela except certain portions of Johnnesburg, or tho central region of the Rand, the struggle apparently has entered iti final phase. .Teppestowit, in the easl end of Johannesburg, seems to be the principal remaining center of resistance. resist-ance. Artillery, tanks and airplanes were used in the capture of Fordsburg from the revolutionaries. There is a huge decrease in the number of bankrupts in Germany. For the whole of 1921 the number was only 3100, compared with 12,700 in the prosperous year of 1913. The faculty of Sofia university declared de-clared a strike and declined to hold classes until the ministry of education assures its liberty of action. The dispute dis-pute over the attempt of the ministry to elimlnae one letter from the Bulgarian Bul-garian aliliabet, which was announced some time ago, is now developing Into an organized protest by the intellectuals intellect-uals against alleged class distinctions by the government. The situation is causing the cabinet touch anxiety. Followers of Mary MacSwlney smashed the platforms from which the supporters of Mlcheal Collies intended to address the large gatherings in frk, Ireland, a few days ago. Despite the efforts of the opponents of Collins to prevent the meeting, it proved to he the largest political gathering ever held in Cork. The revolt among the Limerick and Tipperary brigades of the Irish republican repub-lican army is growing serious, but it is tho firm belief of the members of the general headquarters of the army that the danger of a clash will be over-l over-l )me. The German government Informed t'.ie reparations commission in Taris that the fifth- ten-day payment of 51.000,000 geld marks wag made in accordance with the temporary sche dule recently adopted |