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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSHEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIE8 Important Events of the Lt 8even Days Reporter by Wire and Pr-parsd Pr-parsd for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Idaho's public utilities commission is voicing protest against the ruling by the western trunk line committee which allows only two free diversions on a car of potatoes after it leaves Che shipping point. According to Will II. Gibson, u member of the commission, commis-sion, the ruling would affect Idaho potatoes In carload lots to the principal princi-pal markets for Idaho potatoes. He lidded that Idaho shippers need more diversion privileges because of the long haul east of the Rocky Mountains. Moun-tains. Frederick Miller, Portland, Oregon Jeweler, was sentenced to 15 months in the Oregon penitentiary and fined $1, following conviction of manslaughter man-slaughter as the result of the death of Mrs. Alma Hall, who was run down and fatally hurt by an automobile driven by Miller along the Columbia highway, January 23. Oregon manufactured $2,053,000 worth of candy during 1923, according to figures compiled from excise taxes paid. The report indicates that Oregon Ore-gon is one of the largest caterers to the western sweet tooth this side of the Mississippi. Automobile licenses collected for the first half of 1924 exceed by $30,-O00 $30,-O00 the amount collected for the entire en-tire year of 1923, according to H. J. McSherry, state traffic inspector for Nevada. Four men were severely burned when bullets from the coast guard cutter Areata, seeking rum smugglers, smug-glers, pierced the gasoline tank of their motorboat in Mutiny bay, eighteen eight-een miles north of Seattle, Wash. Three of the four men were wounded by bullets. Adolph B. Spreckels, nationally known sugar magnate manufacturer and sportsmen, died at his home at San Francisco. Investigation has revealed that 89.68 per cent of Lewis county bees are in a diseased condition according to B. A. Slocum, apiary specialist of Washington State college at Pullman. Pull-man. J. O. Wallace of Chehalis has been made inspector of this district in hopes of removing what is regarded re-garded as a serious condition. ' A water well that cost the Green River water works $3000 to drill is a gift by that corporation to the people of Rock Sprigs, Wyoming for their proposed city park near No. 6. The only provision is that the city pay the cost of the casing which is estimated at $475. Mrs. Henry Landes, wife of the dean of science in the University of Washington and acting mayor of Seattle in the absence of Dr. Edwin J. Brown, mayor, at the Democratic national convention in New York City, has taken personal charge of the police department. Mrs. Landes removed William B. Severyne from the office of chief of police, after she had given him twenty-four hours to effect reforms in the city and in his department, and he defied her. Between 2.50O and 3000 veterans of the World war who served in the Rainbow division, will come to Columbia Col-umbia South Carolina for the annual convention of the Rainbow Division Veterans, July 14-16 according to Col. J. Monroe Johnson of Marion, S. C, president of the national organization. Prepa rations are being completed by Colonel Johnson in cooperation with a central state committee in Columbia. Thomas Murphy's liaron Worthy, the favorite, won the Kdwards purse of $5O00 with $.")00 added, feature of the grand circuit card at Cleveland, Ohio.' Russell Ongale was second and Mary Spangler third. Best time 2:04 2-fi, made by Russell Ongale on taking the first preliminary. Dr. Charles K. Edmunds for the last fifteen years president of Canton Can-ton Christian college, China was installed in-stalled a3 provost of John Hopkins university. Dr. Kdmunds is an alumnus alum-nus of Johns Hopkins of the class of 1M)7. His research work was in the field of optics and terrestial magnetism. magne-tism. For eleven years he was in charge of the Carnegie institution's magnetic survey of the China coast. Robert B. Loudon, president of the Loudon Coal Mines company of southern south-ern Illinois, which went Into receivership receiver-ship in Minneapolis four months ago with liabilities estimated at approximately approxi-mately $40,000 was indicted by the Hennepin county grand jury and arraigned ar-raigned on a charge of embezzlement. A campaign for $3,000,000 for a new Catholic preparatory seminary for the diocese of Cleveland, Ohio, was completed com-pleted with oversubscriptions of approximately ap-proximately 50 per cent it was announced. an-nounced. The new seminary will provide accommodations for several hundred students. Loss of life in Saturdays tornado which wrecked a large portion of Lorain and parts of Sandusky and other Ohio cities, was not as great as first reported, but rechecking of casualties showed that more than 100 persons lost their lives in this storm and almost simultaneous disturbances at Pittsburg and in the upper Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. Russel McDaniel, aged 18, of Mat-toon, Mat-toon, 111., was instantly killed in a baseball game at Johnstown, 111., twenty-five miles southeast of Mat-toon Mat-toon between a Mattoon team and a Johnstown and Trilla nine. McDan-iels McDan-iels was batting and was hit on the head with a ball. FOREIGN R. H. Todd, commissioner of immigration immi-gration and Republican national committeeman, com-mitteeman, was nominated for residence resi-dence commissioner at Washington by the pure Republicans at a convention conven-tion which for the first time placed women on the territorial committee with votes at San Juan, Porto Rico. The water shortage may prevent the holding of the swimming, diving and water polo events of the Olympic games in Paris as' scheduled. Lieutenant Locatelli, chief pilot of the projected Amudsen aeroplane expedition ex-pedition to the north pole, has interviewed inter-viewed Premier Mus(olini and the director of aviation, Mercanta, regarding re-garding the feasibility of a similar expedition under the auspices of the Italian government. Great Britian eats as much ice cream every year as all the people of New York state plus two-thirds of those in Pennsylvania, according to those who manufacture it over here. Last year his majesty's subjects consumed con-sumed 20,000,000 gallons of this frozen froz-en product. Premier Herriot of France is determined deter-mined that the Ruhr must continue to be occupied and that funds to cover the expense of the occupation must be provided even though he should be defeated by his insistance on this point. GENERAL. Dr. James Whitney Hall, alienist retained by the defense for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, confessed con-fessed kidnapers and slayers of 13-year 13-year old Robert Franks of Chicago, started an examination of the youths at the county jail. After examining the youths he announced that important import-ant facts advantageous to the defense had been revealed. Cyrus E. Woods, ambassador to Japan has formally presented his resignation re-signation to President Coolidge and it was accepted with an expression of appreciation for his services.. Referring Refer-ring to the Japanese exclusion provision provi-sion in the Immigration law, Mr. Woods declared Japan was conducting conduct-ing herself in the situation "with the dignity of n great nation." A twisting tornado that whirled out of the west last Saturday took six lives in Sandusky, Ohio, leveled approximately 200 dwellings, destroyed des-troyed twenty-five business places, injured more than 100 persons and caused a property damage variously estimated, at between ?1,500,000 and $2,000,000. A verdict of $20,000 damages was awarded to Mlss Madeline Dever New York against Philip M. Shaw, middle-aged middle-aged banker. She sued for $100,000, alleging breach of promise to marry. The department of ugriculture has won its contest for the right to inspect in-spect the books and records of the packing companies when Federal Judge Cliffc at Chicago issued a writ of mandamus directing that all such records be opened to the department inspectors. The cutting down of the American flag at the United States embassy at Tokio by an unidentified Japanese was discussed in the lower house of the diet, while it was officially Indicated Indi-cated that a special meeting of the cabinet might be held to discuss the affair. A train collision between Tlalna-pantla Tlalna-pantla and Atzpotzalco, about seven miles from Mexico City, has caused four deaths and a number of injuries injur-ies among the passengers. The first and second class coaches of a mixed train proceeding to Mexico City became be-came uncoupled, the engineer not knowing that he had lost the coaches coach-es until some time afterward. The cars collided with a freight train. Plans for the evacuation of the Dominican republic by the United States marines, who have been stationed sta-tioned tUere for almost seven years, have been completed with the assign-ment assign-ment of the naval transports Henderson, Hender-son, Kittery, Beaufort and Jason to the task of removing the 1S00 men now on the island. The evacuation will start as soon as possible after July 10. Signora Carlotto Mesci of Rome was set free and praised by the court for killing her husband while he was brutally beating one of their children, child-ren, at Rome. Sweeping a patch about fifty miles wide, with Peoria, 111., as its center, a tornado struck this vicinity at 2:30 a. m. Saturday, claiming the lives of four persons, injuring seventeen others oth-ers and piling up damages which will run into the millions of dollars, according ac-cording to estimates. |