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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES TERSELY TOLO A r-SUME OF THE WEEK'S DOIrtGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. Important Event of th Past &ovn Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader. INTERMOUNTAIN. More than a million dollars worth of oil already has been destroyed in the burning of tour huge oil tanks at Lucas, near Beaumont, Texas. The 'lire was caused by lightning and Is still sending huge spirals ot smoke and flames into the heaveus. Daniel Cleveland, 83, of San Diego, C'ul., was this week embarked upon Itis first matrimonial venture. He was wedded to Mrs. Naomi Webb, 60, of Kew Jersey. Cleveland was formerly mayor of San Antonio, Tex., and is the oldest practicing attorney in the city. Fred a. -uorley San Francisco mining min-ing engineer, who fell In climbing an unnamed peak near Tuolumne Meadows Mead-ows last Saturday, died Thursday at the Sierra club lodge at Uhe Meadows. Moriey was 45 years of age and well known in mining circles In the west. He is survived by a widow. He formerly form-erly lived in Denver. Charged with embezzling $166,000 wftiile county treasurer, Laurence Lar-6en, Lar-6en, framer of Bow Bella N. D., was u rested on a warrant sworn out by J. It. Jensen, county treasurer, who succeeded suc-ceeded Larseu. Larson has asked a preliminary hearing, and Is at liberty on his own recognizance. Forty Portland men. said to he world war veterans, Thursday forced Alfred Kymes, janitor of the Portland Social 'J'uruiverein to raise an American flag, wihleh tmd been half masted in memory f .7. Albers, to the head of the staff. Albers who died Thursday formerly was head of the Albers Brothers Milling Mill-ing company. He was convicted on the charge of violation of the espionage espion-age act, hut his conviction was set " aside recently by the United States supreme court. Signatures to petitions for a recall election of various Nonpartisan officers offi-cers total 51,867. according to announcement an-nouncement by T. O. Nelson, state secretary of the Independent Voters' association, Monday at Fargo, N. D. Sixty thousand signatures are required requir-ed for a recall. Ignited, according to the owner, by 0 spark from a descending forest patrol pa-trol airplane, the residence of D. M. Lowe of Medford, Oregon, was burn-j burn-j ed to the ground at a loss of $5000. frhe Lowe residence Is at the edge of Barber field, the airplanes passing It when alighting. The exhaust of ithe plane, according to Lowe, set fire to the grass, which, fanned by the wind, ignited the grain field and house. Samuel C. Black, president of Washington Wash-ington and Jeferson university, Washington. Wash-ington. Pa., died at a Denver hospital early Monday after a two week's illness ill-ness growing out of complications resulting re-sulting from an atnek of Influenza last April. lie was on a honeymoon trip to national parks. DOMESTIC. Chief of Police Karl K. Morgan of Sioux City, Iowu, was removed from office by a vote of the illy council Wednesday. (His removal is the result re-sult of charges of corruption in the police department, preferred by Mayor AV. M. Short, who presented the resolution reso-lution asking Morgan's dismissal. One hundred and fifty indictments, Including 110 against persons charged with violating prohibition, have been returned by the Madison county grand Jury at Alton, 111. The names of those Indicted will not be revealed until warrants war-rants have been issued aud the arrests ar-rests made. The United States navy air station fit Cape May, N. J., one of the largest on the Atlantic coast, has been ordered closed after August 1 by Secretary 'Penny. This move, officers doculred. Is )a line with the general effort of the envy department to keep inside reduced re-duced appropriations. Lord NorthclifTe. the English publisher, pub-lisher, arrived at New York this week aboard the liner Aquitnnla. He will piake a study ot Industrial and economic econo-mic conditions here and In other couo-itries couo-itries before returning to Englaud. I A man giving the name of James Fleming who said he was an employe of the Grand Rapids National City bank of Detroit, Mich., was detained by police when found wandering aimlessly aim-lessly about downtown district with a handbag reported to contain fifteen thousand dollars. At a hospital the city psychiatrist pronounced him to be in a stupor. Judge Friend of Chicago Wednesday Informed the state attorneys in,the baseball trial that he would direct the Jury to return a verdict of not guilty In the cases of "Buck" Weaver and "Happy" Felsh, former White Sox players, and Carl Zork of St. Lonls, unless further evidence was introduced against these men. WASHINGTON. Executive clemency was granted Dr. J. C. Dysart of El Paso, Teras, Wed-l Wed-l nesday by President Harding. The pardon was conditioned upon payment of a fine of $500. Dr. Dysart was convicted con-victed several months ago of selling morphine and sentenced to three years' imprisonment In Leavenworth penitentiary, peniten-tiary, and to the payment of a fin of $500. A letter to Secretary Weeks from SHaJor General Leonard Wood, now in fhe Philippines as head of the Wood-F'orbes Wood-F'orbes mission, was received Wednesday Wednes-day and Mr. Weeks admitted that It indicated the character of the report to be made later by the mission. The secretary declined to make public any impressions gained by the writer, however, how-ever, relative to the capacity of the islanders for self-government or as to conditions generally. No. time has been fixed for submission of the formal report, re-port, it was said, as the mission had not completed its work. Another plea for release of Eugene V. Debs and other war-time prisoners was presented to President Harding Wednesday by a delegation representing repres-enting the Socialist party and the political pol-itical amnesty committee, which included inclu-ded S. M. Castleton, Debs's attorney ; Basil Manley, former head of the war labor board and William H. Johnston, president of the International Association Associa-tion of Machinists, representing the amnesty committee. The Blue Mountain Irrigation company com-pany of Montlcello, Utah, has applied to the federal power commission for a license for its constructed plant consisting con-sisting of a small diversion dam in Pole canyon, San Juan county, Utah, and a five-mile pipe line to a power house containing a 30 kilowatt generator. genera-tor. The power Is used for general purposes in the town of Montlcello. Out of a room full of women at a house committee hearing Wednesday, only one indicated she favored a law to prohibit feminine smokers from puffing puff-ing cigarettes in public. A hill by Representative Johnson, Democrat, Mississippi, would provide a fine of $25 or women who smoke in public places In the District of Columbia a $100 fine if they repeated the offense and a similar schedule for proprietors proprie-tors of hotels, restaurants nnd "public vehicles," who fall to enforce the ban. One male spectator saw need for the luw, while nineteen opposed It . FOREIGN. Provisions for reducing the production produc-tion of sugar and for sending a commercial com-mercial mission to Washington to secure se-cure a revision of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and Cuba are Included among nine measures mea-sures constituting an urgent legislative legisla-tive program drafted recently at Havana Hav-ana by congressional leaders and President Pres-ident Zayas. Countess Georglnn Markievicz, Sinn Fein member of parliament for St. Patrick's division of Dublin, was released re-leased from Mount Joy prison Sunday. She had served seven months of a two year sentence Imposed Last December. The first meeting since the war between bet-ween Japanese nnd German scientists took place at Berlin when six eminent Japanese physicians attended a session ses-sion of the Berlin Academy of Medicine. Medi-cine. Miss Amorel Harris, daughter of the governor of Newfoundland came to Ixindon to marry Lieutenant Colonel A. B. Bernard Half the wedding cake was aten at a celebration in Newfoundland and the other half trt the festivities there. Thousands of discarded crutches, canes nnd spectacles stand in heaps before the home of Ratana. a rich Maori. Ma-ori. Ratann Is reported to have cured scores of sick by a touch of his hand. e Reports that the Turkish Nationalist National-ist capital. Angora, is being evacua. ted nnd the populace fleeing In the direction of Slvas, C30 miles to the eastward, are contained In the latest advices from tne Interior of Anatolia. The situation la the Nationalist caps-tal caps-tal Is (escribed as critient. |