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Show A Complete History of Whal Hal Been Happening Thioughout the World. f " WESTEKM ; C. D. Klcher, wanted in My ton, Utah on a charge In connection with the embezzlement of funds belonging to the First National bank of that town, ; was arrested and turned over to gov. ernment officials at Portland, Oregon. With the shearing season nearlng an end In the Idaho district interest has centered on the shipment from the Gray's Lofce region of 100,000 pounds '' f wool sold to St Louis for 30 cents a pound. The lot was the largest shipment ship-ment and was brought to one week's shipments totaled thirteen cars, St. Louis and Boston dealers getting the bulk. j A civil service examination to fill the postinastership at Suit Lake will be I held July 25. The office, which pays $0000, will not become vacant until September 5. In the examination of candidates education and training wl.l constitute twenty of the hundred points the remaining eighty points cover business experience and fitness. As regards metallurgical operations, 1922 will probably, occupy a unicpie i place In mining history, in that two large milling plants of the most modern mod-ern type have been put In operation. The first new mill to start treatment of ore during the year was the Silver King Ooalllon Mines company's plant at Park City; the second, that of the Utah Consolidated Mining company. : Excessive heat and deficient moisture, mois-ture, with danger of premature ripen. Ing and shrunken yield, have had much WASHINOTON The interior department, preparatory prepara-tory to enlarging and rebuilding the Fort Hall Irrigation project In Idaho is sending to each land ownsr under that project a foim of agreement tinder tin-der which they will be required to obll. gate themselves to the extent of $15.10 per acre to cover the costs of the work. Uncle Sain is nwiking money out of tils naval radio equipment. The commercial com-mercial business carried not only reduced re-duced the cost to the government of Its own business, but brought into the United States treasury more tliau (X)0,000 In cash In a year. Passage of the Dunn act, signed by President Harding, makes it possible for Utah to count on an additional $2,. 151,479 of federal aid for Utah roads, within the next three fiscal years? and will stir good roads enthusiasts of the fate up to proportionate actlTiy. The bill as passtHl provides $50,000,000 for fede.ml aid in he construction of roads on the feleral hlghawy system In the fiscal year begun July 1, $05,000,000 the following year and $75,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925. The amount appropriated for the fiscal year now ending was $75,000,000. Including In-cluding fedenl aid previously appropriated approp-riated and still unexpended, Utah be-gan be-gan tlie present calender year with about $2,250,000, in round numbers, to be allocatel to Utah road projects, in additon to a part of $1,100,000 which had already neen allocated and had been partially expended in road construction. con-struction. The coal strike, almost forgotten by the public until the bloddy outbreaks In Illinois and We.-t Virginia brought it forciblly to mind, has result?d dun Ing the twelve weeks of its life In cut. ting down available stock piles to with- . 12,000,000 tone of the danger lin , according to reports to the geological survey and the department of commerce. com-merce. These agencies estimate that the industries of the country can con-tinue con-tinue operation, at their present rate 'or about four weeks more and will 'hen have to curtail operations to a sis of four or five days a week, generally gen-erally because of the approaching coal shortage, now regarded as certain. to do with making wheat go higher In price. ' After completing a 150-mile trip over, land from Filer, Idaho, the wagon train successful bidders on the Elko.Hal-leck Elko.Hal-leck road contract, has arrived at Ooln, four miles east of Elko. A camp has been built, and the first earth moved on the $110,000 link of the Victory highway east of this city. It is expected that the entire twenty-mile twenty-mile strli of graveled highway will be completed thjs season, w perhaps the exception of the work incident to wetting down the suface of the gravel topping. GENERAL r Adoption of a program for a non- partis! political campaign this fall to elect the friends of organized labor, and an overwhelming defeat of the radical forces that favored recognition of the Russian soviet government, marked the closing session Monday of the American Federation of Labor con. vention ntCincinnati. An invisible peril that has been lurk-! lurk-! Ing for months, menacing thousands of lives and perhaps oausing death in many causes, was bared when the New York World obtained the admission admis-sion of the department of ugrlculture that It has condemned as unsife a vast quantity of chloroform sold from the army surplus stores. This chloroform, put up in small tin containers and in. tended for an enesthesla, has been distributed to surgeons and to hospitals hospi-tals throughout the county, itnd there is no way of telling at present how much of It hiis already been used In connection with operations. About 1.000,KX cn8 are said to have ten sold and It is estimated that possibly one-quarter of it has decomposed t such an extent that to admirer it to a patient would be to Invito le.;th. Support of the movement in congress con-gress for reduction of second-class postal rates will not receive official indorsement of the postoffice depart, ment, It was said at the department until a thorough Investigation has been completed and the department is assured that such proposed reductions will not imposa additional burdens. House and senate conferees on the army appropriation bill have agreed on a maximum of 12,000 officers as the permanent strength for the army for the next twelve months. FOREIGN Oxford unlverslkv has no academic gown large enough to fit the ample proportions of William Howard Taft, so the former president had a tailoi take measurements for a new robe; in which, lie recieved the degree of doc, tor of laws. Japan has sealed her pledge to promote pro-mote world peace taken at the limitation limita-tion of nrmamenteonferenee at Wash . lngton by declaring her final decision lo withdraw her troops from Siberia and announcing to the vorld a policy of non-aggression. The diplomatic nd vlsory council at Tcfclo fixed Ottobei 30 as the day when the last Jnpimeif soldi r must be out of the maritime provinces of Siberia. With the murder recent'y of Dr. Valter Rathennn lieriiip.j loreign niln-lster, niln-lster, who was shot down by unknown ssass'ns, political consequences, rndi. cul In tin Ir scone, are forecast Tii"- ulent scen3s were enacted in thi re'ehst'g following the assassination Socialists nttackln'j Nationalist mem. liers trying to drive them from V chamber. The Spanish st punier Itenulic I? t to depart from Spain through t'u Panama canal. Ti e f teair.er will car--v n cari'O of various Siianlsh prmiuc's William Rockefeller, who with his older brother, John !.., built up the family m!ll!;r.s in the t-ll !n1'i-y, d'ed of pneumonia complicated by a recurrence of kidney trouble r-t his country estate overlooking the Hudson l iver from North Tnrrytown. He was 81 years old. Governor Len Small was acquitted of a charge of conspiracy to nv!ie7-r.le nv!ie7-r.le Illinois state funds, after one of the nut sons'ition-'l tral's In the history his-tory of Illinois. The Jury was out only an hour and thirty-five minute. j Lack of nerve on the part of Sheriff Melvin Thai ton of Williamson county Illinois and the killing of two union miners by guards were two of the cases assigned for tlie nmssicre of twenty-five wtrlkebreakers In a report made over long-distance telephone to Adjutant GorerM Black by Major Gen-e Gen-e al Milton J. Foreman. Generally favorable rondi:lons for the harvesting of grain jind hay and for the cultivat'on of crops, except In some imithe;isfo:n ami north central sftes. wore recorded by "the weather bur. no i:i l!s weekly weather and crop review. Fifty thousand workers of the men's ctot'ilng industry left thflr Jobs throughout the metropolitan area of Ne v York to force manufacturers to let their work out to registered union Contractors. or commercial propaganda. Wu Ting-Fang, former min'ster to Washington, more recently foreign minister for Sun Yat Sen In the dls rupted soul) e-n re-mbllean government t Canton is dead. Madame Slarie Itulsj Bcssaraho wri'er of feverish verse and snsa-tional snsa-tional stories under the namp of Hera Mnrtel, was convicted at Paris of the murder of her husband and fdilpplnc tha body away In a trunk, and sentenced sen-tenced to twenty years' hard labor upon a confession made in opin court by her daifiiter, Pauls Jacques, tried Jointly with her, but acq.iltted when the mother, who had just been condemned by her daughter, became her daughter's defender; she Implored tlie Jurors! mercy for her daughter and later, when she was' convicted and the daughter acquitted, she thnnked the Jury for setting her daughter free, Complete returns in the elections fo a new parliament in southern Ireland show that the boyd will lie made up Ot j fifty-eight protre'aty representatives filr'thy-slx ant". treaty reprose.nttatlvei, six iihie!" ndcnt-i and four mombert from Trinity college. Field Marshal Wilson of the h'n;-lisli h'n;-lisli army was asslsluated .. tlie re. ti 1 1 of conspiracy on tlie part "of an nrchists who fire said to plan a can;. pai;;n of assignation of English not sbles. |