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Show 51 Ki A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World " WESTERN The interstate commerce commis- f sion has held that existing carload rates on apples from Idaho and Utah , l . points, by way of Salt Lake City, to j ' Bieibee, Douglas and Nogales, Ariz., are unreasonably high, and directed that the rates be reduced to ?1.40' per hundred pounds. ' j Never in the history of the inter- mountain west have there been mure ; motorists touring than this summer. Since the latter part of June they ' have swarmed into this , district by the hundreds daily. All previous estimated es-timated and actual records have been shattered by at least a 2T per cent increase. News has been received by the forestry for-estry officials that examination for forest rangers will be held at the head, quarters of the various forestry super-visers super-visers October 24. The service is anxious to have as many qualified men as possible enter the examinations. examina-tions. An examination for scalers will be held October 25 and 2rt, but the -4 place of examination have not yet f been announced. It took a mule driver, five city fire- j men, a veterinarian, a hardware man, j a blacksmith and alout 1000 speet- ) tors two hours and five minutes to j release a diminutive mule which j caught its foot in a street drain pipe j at Kansas City. Samuel M. Vaudain, president of the Baldwin locomotive works, announced an-nounced receipt of an order from the Union Pacific Railroad for IS locomotives locomo-tives to cost .$1)00,000. Construction of these engines will begin at once. After severely knifing Deputy War-. War-. den Arthur Muchow, four prisoners escaped es-caped from the South Dakota penitentiary peni-tentiary at Sioux falls, taking Warden War-den George XV. Jamison with them. The prisoners fled In motor car parked by a tourist just outside the prison walls. GENERAL RepeuMican leaders are alarmee" over reports that the president whf not seek another term. Northwestern flour markets remain very unsettled. . Three big steel corporations, employing em-ploying nearly 300,000 workers, have announced a 20 per cent waue Increase for all day laborers in their manu- f act u ring plants. Increased wages averaging 47 per cent and affecting between 30,000 and 40,000 nonunion miners in Westmoreland Westmore-land and Fayette counties. West Virginia, Vir-ginia, were decided upon at a meeting meet-ing of operators, it was officially announced. an-nounced. The state governments of the United Unit-ed States have a total debt of $1,071,-fiOtf, $1,071,-fiOtf, 1)81.28, or $10.18 for every man, woman and child in the country, according ac-cording to a nation-wide surveye of state finance just completed by the Rank of America, New York. Readjustment of wages bringing a close approach to normalcy as applied to mining has resulted in a return of the pendulum toward greater mining activity than has been experienced in the history of Alaska since the boom days. Mrs. Warren O. Harding, whose re. cent gift of $100 toward a fund to buy oats and hay for Clover, the fl-year old horse, brought'her an offer of honorary hon-orary membership In the Nyack Society So-ciety for the prevention of Crueiiy to Animals, she accepted the honor. English women athletes won the first international woman's track meet at Paris over competitors from '.ie United States, France, Switzerland and Czecho-Slovakia. The American team was second, France third, Czecho Slovakia fourth and Switzerland f:fth. The 1022 area of sugar cane, not Including sorghum cane, In the ei.-'lit principal states producing sugar cane Is estimated by the United States department de-partment of agriculture to be 521,200 acres, or about DO per cent of the harvested cane acreage of 1!21. This is a preliminary estimate and includes the acreage Intended to be harvested for seed and syrup, as well as for sugar. A grand American trap shoitln handicap will be held at Atlantic City son. Displaying a contract in which he said Miss Lilly Larson of Omaha, Kie him the "privilege" of shooting her or killing her in any way ho chose, if she ever went out with any other man, David Y a Chincm; waiter employed in an Omaha cafe, asked police to find JIlRS Larson, who, he Raid, din-appeared din-appeared when they were to liae been married. ' WA8HINSTON Breeding a dairy cow which will Rive enough milk to feed thirty children chil-dren a day more than six times the capacity of the ordinary cow is one of the latest feats of the industry, which ha3 been a-x-omplished by the United States department of 'agriculture, 'agricul-ture, and which can be done by proper pro-per feeding and selective breeding on .che Maryland government farm. l'aynient by the government of 100,000 to the persi n who discovers a permanent cure for any one of five diseases was proposed in a bill by Representative Sproul, Republican, Illinois. The diseases enumerated are Tuberculosis, pneumonia, epilepsy, dementia, de-mentia, praecox. The crew of the giant seaplane Sam-paio Sam-paio Correia, which collapsed and fell into the ocean between Cuba and Haiti Hai-ti while attempting a flight from New ork to Mo de Janeiro, pro'ialdy will be landed at (iuan:anamo, Cuba, y the U. S. S. Denver. All members Jf the crew were picked up by the Denver after the plane made a bad Sanding and was smashed. The first Infestation of mildew on red clover in this country this year has appeared east of the Mississippi from isconsln to Georgia, says a report of the agricultural department. This mildew makes the plant look vite. Last fall it was quite pre-ihient pre-ihient in the South, and is worse there this summer. Mgldly restrictive immigration leg-slation leg-slation enacted by congress in June, i!21. to dam the flood of foreigners surging to American shores cost the state department over $.,000,000 in passport visa fees during the past fiscal year, and its position as the only self supporting department of the government as well. Running expenses of the government govern-ment fell off by more than f i.TT.OOO,. 000 during July as compared with the same month last year, while public debt disbursements were reduced by 11)8,000,000, according to the monthly statement of expenditures issued by the treasurer. The attention of farmers In all sections sec-tions of the country to the free distrl. button of excess war explosives for farm work, is called by the United States detriment of agriculture. Since last fall the department, in cooperation coop-eration with the various state agricultural agri-cultural colleges, has distributed 3,000,000 pounds of picric acid, a sur. plus explosive, which Is very efficient, easy and safe to handle. In Minnesota Minneso-ta the state agricultural college reports: re-ports: "We feel that picric acid has been a great benefit to the state and aas done great deal to stimulate land clearing. All reports are to the effect ef-fect that its use has been highly satisfactory. sat-isfactory. The 774,000 pounds allotted to Minnesota were distributed to 3-rll farmers, averaging 222 pounds per farmer. We estimate that this will clear 35,000 acres of land, and has made a saving of over 70,000 for the farmers of the slate."' FOREIGN Great I'.rltaln will hold an Inter, national Air Congress In London the last week of June, 1023. The conference con-ference will be op'i to all countries which are signator.es of the Interna- ! tional Air Convention. The technical and scientific development of aeronautic aero-nautic in all its aspects will be discussed. dis-cussed. A bucket brigade it 200 Armenian orphan boys from the Industrial school recently saved thousands of Turkish homes at Reylerbey, on the thickly populated Asiatic shores of the ISos-phorus, ISos-phorus, from destruction by fire. Kngland's policy on reparations is cored by Andre Tardieu In speech. Kngllsh. clergymen score church as being to effeminate and not grappling with present day pn-ldeius. An American steamer is fired on by Chinese troops and the captain badly wounded. Kink Alfonso wins 35,000 francs at Deauville races by backing American ! Jockeys. Austria bankrupt: credit is sole hope for rehabiltation. j Cyrus C. K. Curtis, Philadelphia pulillher, returned to the United States after seven weeks in Kurope, with word from former Premier Clem- j j enceau that French war leaders felt "America never finished her Job." Negotiations for a commercial treaty between America and Germany are expected ex-pected to begin soon arter the return of the German ambassador ti Wash-! Wash-! ington. Ambasador Weidfeldt sails ; for New York with Instructions to take up the question with the state department. In circles close to, the German government it is stated that Washington is diso?ed to grant Germany Ger-many "the mo favored nation clause. j German republic lacks rl'ht spirit for proper progress. Bays recent speech of hl'h Geerman leader. j llcsolntlons declaring the hostility j to future wars of the second trades union congress were passed at its re- j , ccntly concluded session in Melbourne, j Australia. Demonstrations against j war were approved and all trade un- lon-i were directed to bold these dem- j onstnttions during the week of the anniernary of .the start of the World , war. |