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Show ' Exports of both cotton and wlieat Increased in volume, but declined In value during July as compared with last year, commerce department figures fig-ures Thursday disclosed. Cotton exports ex-ports amounted tn 527,000 bales, valued val-ued at ?32,000,000, compared with 211,000 bales worth $44,000,000 a year a'. Wheat exports aggregated 2.1,M)U,000 bushels at $37,000,000 .as against 24,(KW,0O0 bushels at $70,000,-x) $70,000,-x) last year. Sixteen delegates will represent Colorado Col-orado at the fourteen th annual convention con-vention of the National Tax association, associa-tion, which will be held in Bretton Woods, X. h., September 12 to 16. inclusive, in-clusive, (lovernor Shoup announcing the list Monday, headed by Attorney-General Attorney-General Victor E. Keyes. There was general agreement at the museum of natural history at Xew York Thursday that the homing pigeon pig-eon which flew into Columbus circle and incidentally into all the newspapers newspa-pers Willi a message from Yellowstone Yellow-stone park announcing that Edmund Heller, the naturalist, was lost in 'the Hoodoo mountains and in need of immediate im-mediate assistance, had flown from the hands of some joker. It was pointed point-ed out that no bird could possibly make such a flight in the time elapsed August 13 when the alleged message mes-sage from Heller was dated. AH Corners of the Earth i Complete History of the Past j Wek Told in Paragraph I Prepared for the Busy Reader :jj INTERMOUNTAIN. The eastern Siberan republic with headquarters at Chita has been overthrown over-thrown by the aiiti-'l'.olsbevTki forces, According to unconlnied reports from foreign sources received at Vladivostok These reports declared the military stores of the Chita government had been fired and that the government had fled to Manchuria. Reports have been received at Pase-dena, Pase-dena, California, o the death in the Arizona desert of August Kaufman. cement contractor of that city, who perished of thirst while wandering in 6earch of aid for his family. His daughter Lillian, aged 3, died during the wanderings of 72 hours. Mrs. Kaufman and two surviving children were rescued by ranchers. WASHINGTON. Grain men from practically every state west of the Mississippi river are in Washington prepared to begin presentation pre-sentation of testimony before the in terstate commerce commission intend ed to show cause for reductions in freight rates on grain products and hay. The hearings are expected to continue five days. Woodrow Wilson's first appearance Wednesday at his law offices here was taken by his friends as evidence of the former president's improving phy sical condition. Bainbridge Colby, former secretary of state and Mr. Wilson's Wil-son's law partner, also was at the new offices, where Mr. Wilson spent some time in conference with clients. Secretary Hughes was asked In a resolution adopted Wednesday by the senate to transmit a list of all Ameri cans aboard the Lusitania when suk by a German submarine together wUh a statement of claims filed for damages dam-ages and steps tafcen toward vdjust-ment, vdjust-ment, and copies of all coespond-ence coespond-ence between the state department end Gorman government on the subject. Butter produced from soar cream the acidTTy of which has been 'educed by neutralizing agents before churning, churn-ing, is not adulterated butter or taxable tax-able as such under an opinion by Attorney At-torney General Daugherty made public Wednesday. m m m The bill providing for federal regulation re-gulation of the meat packing indurtry has been signed by President Harding, it was announced at the White House Wednesday. Under the law tbe secretary sec-retary of agriculture Is given broad powers of control and supervision of the industry. FOREIGN. A reception greater so-far as the size of the crowds and enthusiasm was concerned than given them at any place in France they have thus far visited with the exception of Paris, was accorded the delegation of American Ameri-can Legion members ot Lyons, Tuesday They arrived after an all-day trip by train from Toulouse. Twentyjfour Poles were killed and many wounded Wednesday in a fight between Germans and regular Polish troops near the frontier villages of Sternalitz and Kostellltz, In Upper Silesia. Si-lesia. The German drore the Pole3 across the frontier. . Uncertainty over the Irish situation has caused the English government to change its plans, and instead of proroguing pro-roguing parliament as had been intended, in-tended, it will merely be adjourned until un-til October 18. The speaker, in th interval, will have the power to convoke con-voke parliament should Irish developments develop-ments necessitate it. Premier Lloyd George is expected to make a statement state-ment on the Irish situation just before be-fore adjournment. Creation of the permanent court of international .iu--''V N assured, it is announced at Geneva. The secretariat of the league of nations has been informed in-formed that Spain and Haiti will soon deposit their ratifications of the agreements agree-ments establish the court and when they are received the number of nation, na-tion, which have deposit.nl ratifications ratifica-tions will have reached twenty-four, the requisite number. If they are received re-ceived in time, the assembly of the league of nations which will meet nest month, will be able to elect the judges and constitute the court. Mrs Jane Van Albert, who became a bride Wednesday, will always look up toher busband. He is 0 feet 5 inches tall and she is 5 W 4 inches They went to school together In Holland and met recently in Winnipeg when the circus that employs A a nAlberl was there, and they were married. A man believed to be insane was arrested at Tokio, after a tsn.ggle, as e wasattempting to enter the room of Field Marshal Tamagata at Ins sum-emr sum-emr villa at Odawara. The War Mothers of the southeastern southeast-ern Idaho distiic1", comprising Ban-OOClf, Ban-OOClf, Oneida, Bear Lake, Franklin and Caribou counties, will be the guests of the Soda Springs chapter August 25 and 26. Frank DeKay of Blackfoot Btate War Mothers will be present and address those in attendance. The meetings will be held at the Presbyter-Ian Presbyter-Ian church. An effort is being made to take the delegates on a tour of the near-by country. David Reese, restaurant manof Colorado Col-orado Springs, Colo., had a premonition premoni-tion a month ago that he would kill his wife, so he asked the police to lock him up to protect her life. Four days later he was released at his wife's request. Thursday he shot her and threw her body out of a second-story second-story wind-on. He then turned the weapon wea-pon on iumself, dying instantly. His wife died at a hospital. They had five children. Engineers of the Idaho reclamation service will begin work in the near future boring foundation test holes for the Black Canyon dam, according to information coming from authentic sources. DOMESTIC. Election betting has started in Wall street with the odds heavily in favor of Mayor Hylan of New York, and the Democratic ticket. Democratic money, the brokers report, is very plentiful, and by no means all of it is toeing taken. The odds are two to one that the entire Tammany ticket will win and two and a half to one that' Hylan will be reelected. Even money is being offered, of-fered, without takers, that the mayor will carry every borough in tile city and odds of one to four that he will double Curran's vote. L. H. Heitmaun, 61, world's champion cham-pion stay at home, died at Burnside la., Wednesday. He lived all his life within three miles from where he first saw light, had twelve children, and died two miles from where he was born. J. S. Crowell, former owner of the Crowell Publishing company, Spring-Held, Spring-Held, O., publishers of the Woman's Home Companion and Farm and Fireside, Fire-side, died early Wednesday in a hos-pltnl hos-pltnl in Cincinncti. He had been 111 wi'Oh cancer for many months. m The board of trustees of the University Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, at a special meeting Wednesday in response- to the request of Secrtary of War Weeks, released Major General Leonard Wood until September 1, 1922, from his agreement agree-ment to become head of the university. This aotion leaves the general free to accept the appointment of President Presi-dent Harding as governor general of the Philippines. Music to improve the morale of workers whose duties take thein well Into the wee, small hours has been tried out in theMinneapolis postoffice and Proved a success. E. A. Purdy, postmaster post-master at that place so informed Postmaster Post-master at that place.so informed Postmaster Post-master General Hayes. The idea was Wed, Mr. Purdy said, after he had made a psychological study of conditions condi-tions under which his night force worked. He found men working away from the general noises of the day as a rule showed a low morale, inclined fo be morose and generally worried at being away from their families, which resulted In an absence of enthusiasm enthu-siasm in their work, i Captain Alexander McDougall, Du-uth Du-uth Inventor and ship-builder, bus lost 'Ws suit (0 recover royalties amount-'lne amount-'lne to more than If 19,(XX),(XX) from the Oliver Iron Mining Company, on is claim that the corporation's engineers engin-eers were guilty of infringement on jkls patent or washer. Federal Judge jllbur Booth, in a decision filed at Puluth Wednesday, absolves the defendant de-fendant from liability, on the ground ithat no device can be held to Infringe a "Combination claim such as the plain-!tIff plain-!tIff possessed, unless it employs all |