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Show 1PIII1LE5 FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER j COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the . Busy Reader ' WESTERN Nephl P. Pierce, Sergeant of the Salt Lake police force, who was shot J on the night of November 27, by ban- I dits, died' at a iSalt Lake hospital I Monday where he had been confined I since the shooting The two robbers were apprehended the following diiy I an gave the names of Arthur Hayes and Robert Allen. Both were sen- I tenced to terms in the state prison fj and are now confined there. With I the death of the sergeant the crim- : inals are now liable to trial on changes of murder. Sentences of from one to fourteen years each in San Quentin peniten-I peniten-I tiary were imposed by Superior Judge C. O. Buslck of California, on ; eight alleged members of the I. W. W. convicted last week on the charge I of criminal syndicalism. Some of the men created a minor disturbance -i while they were being sentenced. v Following domestic trouble O. K. " Exum of Pocatello, Idaho, shot and ; killed his wife, and then turned the gun on himself. Exum is not expected expect-ed to Jive. Pearl Cockrell, held in Albuquerque N. M., has confessed that she nursed one of the bandits who was shot in the robbery of a federal reserve bank truck of $200,000 here last December, according to a statement by Rugg Williams chief of ploice, of Denver. Approximately six thousand barrels of oil In a battery of thirteen 500 bnr- : rel capacity tanks of the Comar Oil ( company is burning in the Tonkawn, Oklahoma field. A heavy cloud of smoke hovers over Ponca City, more 4 than 20 miles away. The local offices offi-ces of the Comar company have not been advised as to the cause of the fire. ; With the exception of Sanup's Boy 5 and Old Posey, both of whom may be dead, the entire band of regenade ' Piute Indians, of Southern Utah, are under arrest. There are now 92 In- : dians under guard at Bluff and Bland- .' lng, Utah, and at least four of the captured Indians will be indicted for f Insurrection and prosecuted by the farloinl crnvprnmant Salt Lake county Sheriff B. It. nar-; nar-; ries must stand trial in the Third I district court to establsh right and ' title to the office he now holds. This ' Is embodied in the decision of Judge McCrea who overruled the demurrer to the amended complaint filed by (59 citlzena seeking to oust Harries from : the office of sheriff on the grounds of religious Interference in politics. Samuel D. Nicholson, United States senator from Colorado, died at his home In Denver. Carcinoma, or cancer can-cer of the liver, caused his death. He had been ill for nearly a month. GENERAL A policeman's overcoat, used as a life net, saved the lives of two women wo-men who Jumped from windows of a blazing apartment building at Chicago. Chica-go. Flying over the one kilometer course in Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur ! Wright field, Lieut. R. L. Muughan, by making an average of 233.8" miles .' an hour, set, a new world's record. He exceeded the world's record of ' 233.01 made by Sadt Lecolnte. the French flying ace, by .80 Maughan ; is from Logan, Utah. Four persons, three women and a ; man, were killed in a spectacular ' fire which swept through the Prlnce- ; ton apartments 1n the theatrical dis trict in New York. ; The American Telephone and leie- s graph company of New York have moved another step toward forming a billion dollar corporation when ; stock increases to that amount were ; authorized. It has been learned that a 'short- I age of approximately $400,000 exists in the accounts of the Kirksvllle, Mo., Trust company. The cashier of the bank, L. F. Glbbs committed ; suicide in the vault of the bank. Everett and Clyde McMurray, convicted con-victed of the theft of several thousand thou-sand dollars worth of confiscated liquor from the Pol county Jail at Des Moines. Iowa, December 27, were sentenced to from one to ten years at the Anamosa prison by Judge Bonner. Bon-ner. Another wife of C. W. Davis, the 74-year-old Civil 'War veteran who Is held at Wilkesbarre, Pa., pending a complete investigation of bis amazing matrimonial career, turned up making mak-ing fourteen wves now definitely known to the police, who now believe be-lieve he may have had at least a dozen more. Two persons were killed and seven injured when an elevator in the Randolph Ran-dolph hotel at Des Moines, Iowa, dropped eight floors with Its load of human freight |