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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS (A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINCS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Approximately one-fourth of the huge Moffat tunnel project, which will provide America with her shortest short-est transcontinental rail route has been completed, according to word received in Denver. Estimates were made from official records of the Moffat tunnel commission. The Biff Casina, famous the world over as the center of night life in To-nopah, To-nopah, Nevada during the boom days of that camp, bowed hefore the prohibition pro-hibition law and will remain closed for one year for having carried on the old life. Judge Farrington verbally ver-bally ordered in the federal court that the place be closed for a year and he announced that he will file a written opinion in the case later. Preliminary organizations of a Pacific coast chamber of mines and minerals, having as its purpose the federation of all existing mining organizations or-ganizations in western states, Alaska, British Columbia and Mxico, was effected ef-fected at a conference of mining executives at Sacramento, Calif. Organized baseball should show its appreciation of the act of Heinie Sand, Philadelphia shortstop, in exposing ex-posing the attempt to bribe him, said George A. Putnam, discoverer of Jimmy O'Connell and secretary of the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast baseball league. Three persons were killed when a steam boiler on a threshing outfit blew up on the George Woolsey farm near Steele, North Dakota. While pushing a speeder car out on the main line of the Union Pacific at Black Buttes, Wyoming, Weller J. Bishopp, 37, was struck by a westbound west-bound engine and injured so severely that he died on the way to the Wyoming Wyom-ing General hospital. Earl Cooper won the 150-mile Raisin day classic at Fresno, Calif., with Bennett Hill second and Tommy Milton third. The time was 1:25:13, a new track record. Winton, Wyoming has its own water supply, the new system which has- been under construction by the Union Pacific Coal company during the summer months having been completed com-pleted the past week. The water is pumped from recently drilled wells in that vicinity. Hitherto water has been hauled to Winton from Rock Springs by rail. The coal company also announced the completion of a water system at Hanna, where seven miles of main were laid. GENERAL James Cruze, motion picture director, direc-tor, will marry Betty Compson, film star, late in October, announced Mrs. Mary Compson, mother of the actress at Los Angeles. Cruze is in Chicago and is expected to return to Los Angeles An-geles in a week. Superintendents of 197 Indian schools with an attendance of more than 20,000, were instructed by the Indian affairs office of the interior department to extend the courses so that pupils may receive increased educational advantages. Prohibition officials claimed to American liquor conspiracy with $10,-American $10,-American liquor conspiracy with $10,-000,000 $10,-000,000 involved when they towed into in-to New York harbor the twin screw British steamer Frederick B. with its crew of 28 men and two women under armed guard and with a $500,-000 $500,-000 liquor cargo aboard. Miss Gladys Kuh, a .Tucker county, Texas deputy sheriff, arrived at the Parsons jail early Tuesday and turned turn-ed over to Sheriff J. B. Close, two alleged moonshiners she had captured captur-ed on a lonely country road at mid night. The girl officer escorted her prisoners in at the point of a pistol, reminding them that they had better be good because "a woman would not have any better sense than to shoot." Eighty-four thousand lives were lost in the United States last year as the result of accidents. The death toll amounted to 14G2 per week, or 209 a day. Automobile accidents headed the list with 37 deaths a day. Falls killed 36 a day, drowning 19 e:.d raihoad accidents 16. Seven persons in one family were killed when their automobile was hit by a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train at a grade crossing near Port Allegheny, Pa. Smouldering ruins now mark the : ite of three departments of the Cudahy Packing company's South Omaha plant, which were destroyed by fire in a fast spreading blaze which for a time until a shift in wind, threatened to equal the two-day fire of February, 1923, which swept the Armour plant, near by, with a loss of over a million dollars Emil W. Jarnecke, who was convicted con-victed with Gaston B Means, former department of justice agent, on charges of conspiring to violate the prohibition law, was released on his own recognizance by Federal Judge Foster of New York Means, out on $25,000 bail since the conviction, was granted twenty days in which to file an appeal. When he struck out twelve Giant bastmen, Walter Johnson tied the world's aeries record hung up in 1906 by Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox. Walsh's mark, however, was made in a nine-inning game, while Johnson took twelve innings to reach his figure. One of the most dramatic air tragedies since the World war marred mar-red the closing of the international air races at Dayton, Ohio. Captain Burt E. Skeel, army air service pilot of Selfridge field, Mich., was killed in midair when his plane collapsed and exploded as he neared the ceiling of his course in the Pulitzer trophy race. Mayor Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia Phila-delphia and General Smedley D. Butler, But-ler, director of public safety, conferred confer-red recently for the first time in more than three months, and patched up their differences. They were together to-gether nearly an hour, General Butler coming from his home, where he has been ill for ten days, especially to meet the city's chief executive. Before the horrified gaze of her mother, three-year-old Georgie Ep-per Ep-per was killed at Chico, California by i huge bear which had been regarded in the neighborhood as a pet. Bobby Jones, Atlanta, won the national na-tional amateur golf championship title, for which he has been striving for years, when he overwhelmingly defeated George Von Elm, Los Angeles An-geles in the final round. The score was- nine up and eight to play. The wheat crop this year will return re-turn to the American growers about one billion dollars in cash at country points, Managing Director Meyer of 'he war finance corporation told Secretary Mellon. His statement was on the basis of an investigation in the wheat producing areas. FOREIGN The condition of Anatole France is again causing alarm. The improvement improve-ment shown after the attack of angina an-gina pectoris last August has not been maintained and the writer is growing steadily weaker. The end, it is felt, is imminent. Considerable excitement has been caused at Managua, Nicaragus, by reports of the seizure of the Nicara-guan Nicara-guan consulate general in London for an alleged bond debt, which, it is declared, was settled between Nicara-guan Nicara-guan consulate general in London for bondholders in 1912. The Nicara-guan Nicara-guan minister of foreign affairs has communicated with the British foreign for-eign office on the subject and an explanation has been requested. As a direct result of the imposition imposi-tion of a 15 per cent ad valorem customs duty on imports into the Free State, 60 additional workers have been employed by a Cork firm of boot manufacturers. Head hunting still is the principal occupation of the cannibal tribes of the Upper Amazon, investigation has revealed. The captured heads are shrunk until they are as small as oranges, and then kept as ornaments. Government officials of Germany are inclined to believe that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wanted in the United States for draft dodging has returned to America. The officials are basing their conclusions on hi", prolonged absence from Eberbach, where he has not been since April 6. The English house of commons in committee on the Irish bill rejected by a vote of 257 to 207 an amendment amend-ment adopted by James Dale Cassels conservative that the commissioners provided for in the bill should adjust the boundary between Ulster and the Free State without substantially altering al-tering the area of northern Ireland as fixed in 1920. |