Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSY B U S Y READERS A RESUME OF THE WEEKS WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre Pre- Prepared Pre Prepared pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME was chosen for the thel but annual meeting of the soverign Order grand lodge 10 of the Independent Or- Or Or Or- Order Order der of Odd Fellows b by the unanimous vote ote of the delegates of the com corn communication of the order at Portland Oregon The meeting will wj be he held the third Monday In September Swimming in the ocean along an any of the several miles of San Sail Francis Francis- Francisco's Francisco's cos co's Pacific ocean frontage will re- re suit SUU m arrest hereafter The new re regulation just gone Into effect was announced b by Herbert FJ eshbaker president of the park commIssion who sa said the refusal of bathers to heed beed warning signs has resulted In Inmany Inmany inmany many Waders will not be arrested Picked up on the highway fifteen miles north of oC Vancouver er Wash WasIl a aman aman aman man blind paralyzed paralyze 1 and unconscious was taken to a hospital at Ridgefield Wash and on recovering o conscious conscious- consciousness consciousness ness gave his names as Dr Nathaniel Reich professor of Egyptology at the university of oC Pennsylvania He lie said he be ba had 1 been the victim of a heart at- at attack at attack tack while traveling on a bus hus between Tacoma and Portland and had aske asked 1 to be left on the lie road Efforts are being made for tor a coun coun- council council cil cf of engineers to visit the site of the now lake formed In the lie Gros Ven Ven- Ven Ventre tre tre river in Wyoming just south of tho Yellowstone park In tIle the lie Jacksons Jackson's Hole countr country to determine what if i anything should be done to the waters of the lake gradually The lake was created when a landslide loosened by an ea earthquake filled up the aey valley of ot the Gros Ventre with witha a dam more than feet high A proposal to divest sheriffs and constables of all but civil functions and to establish a state constabulary to care for all aH criminal work waS w a made at Colorado Springs Colo by Philip S Van Cise former district at- at attorney at attorney torney of oC Denver speaking before the Colorado Bar Dar association To have his lead horses killed his wheel horses knocked down and him him- himself him self rendered unconscious and knock knock- knocked knocked knocked ed from the wagon seat by a bolt holt of lightning was the experience of Jos Jos- Joseph Joseph Jos- Jos Joseph eph Basset cattle foreman for tor the J n 11 Cazier interests a few days ago when he was driving through Pole canyon during a severe electrical storm near Elko Nevada Basset be- be be believes s that he owes his life to the fact that the heavy downpour of rain which followed was the means which li him back to life GENERAL Without a single relative In attend attend- attendance attendance ance the woman found scalded to death a few days ago in a south side Chicago apartment and ancI identified as Ruth Echo Silver Dollar Tabor daughter of the late Senator of Colorado was buried buriet with simple services at an un undertakers undertaker's chapel The chicken population of the Uni United ted States has lias been placed at by the department of agriculture agriculture agriculture ture This number the department said Eaid would make a procession of chickens miles long and they could coult la lay enough eggs each year from the tho earth to the moon and back again Byron Dyron W V Kuhn 73 maker of pres presidential hats died at Milwaukee Wis Is after two years illness Kuhn made hats for six presidents U S Grant K n n B Hayes Haves Grover Cleve Cleve- Cleveland Cleveland Cleve- Cleve Cleveland land Theodore Roosevelt William II Taft and Warren G Harding Har The hats bats he made for the tho presidents were in the lie nature of gifts The fourth serious clash between members of ot the Ku Klux Klan and un- un unorganized un unorganized organized young oung men determined 1 to break up the klan meetings in this state this summer amounted to a bat hat hattie battle tle tie In the town square at North Brookfield Mass Hundreds participated participated and shots were fired tired The shipping board again over over- overruled overruled ruled President Palmer of the fleet corporation in the matter of ship sales foales By Dy a three to three vote ote it fail fall failed failed ed to affirm the recommendation of Mr Palmer that four ships operated IJ by the Munson J Steamship company as the Ilse Pan American line be sold to that company for tor Commis Commis- Commissioner stoner Benson did di 1 not attend the meeting Mrs Sophie of New York Yorka a pretty hair bobbed blonde of oC 28 was crammed into a roaring furnace end and burned alive after aHer her husband had been unmercifully and beaten heaten One man Is dea dead 1 and twenty eight twenty persons are in hospitals at Ft Wayne Ind id as a result of a crossing crash An Interurban car of the Indiana Ser Ser- Service Service Service vice corporation was derailed and turned over on its sl side after hitting au au automobile at the Waynedale l I crossIng four for miles south of Fort ort ortI I Wayne arne I Another record has lias been broken It Is la Chicago's jail record There were 1091 1090 prisoners behind the bars last week the greatest number on record And Ami while some of them were havIng crap games ames using cubes of sugar i ir r dice George Wielding the mho ho new war war- warden warden warden den walked In and stopped the fun tun The prisoners prisoner's wont won't lose their sugar but they they'll have to take it granulated Army proposals for tor a selective ser ser service vice law to round out the national de- de defense defense de defense act net have been referred to the joint board of the arm army and navy for Ironing out disagreement between the services as to the he form such legisla legisla- legislation legislation legislation tion shall take talo Both oth departments are hopeful that such a law will be beI I enacted at the coming coining session of con con- congress congress congress gress Two stitches In III the heart of Melvin lehin Jones of Washington aged 5 saved its his life lire after aHer he had fallen on the points of a pair of scissors A quan quan- quantity quantity quantity of blood for a transfusion was supplied b by his father The bo boy was about to cut paper dolls doUs when he fell feU down a flight of stairs Both scissor points pierced his side one cutting a quarter inch gash in his heart Senator Smoot of the American debt commission takes little stock in inthe inthe inthe the talk about Frances Francos Inability to meet her war debts but he ho does believe be- be believe be believe lieve that Italy Haly is han handicapped by economic troubles sas sa's says a dispatch from Washington asb The Tho Saloon Anti League of America is now perfecting a joint program of its national and state leagues to back backup backup UI up all aU American officials from president president president dent to constable for rigl rigid 1 enforce enforce- enforcement enforcement ment of prohibition Wayne B fl Wheel Wheeler er er general counsel for the league an an- announced announced nou need Anthracite coal companies have started to economize as a n result of the suspension that began September 1 making about miners idle 1 forces have bave been reduced to a minimum causing numerous complaints by grievance grievance committees of the United Mine Workers The body bod of ot Nelson Williams Or Or- Orchard Orchard Orchard chard Colo youth was from the debris of a landslide that three weeks ago wrecked the water system of that city and destroyed mining mining property in the region A search now is being made for the body of Harold Reavis Williams companion who also is believed to have perished The youths were pick pick- picking picking ing berries in the region when the slide occurred 1 FOREIGN Two British automobile drivers Captain John Duff Duft and re- re relayed relayed re relayed each other to establish a worlds world's nonstop record for twenty four hours bours It at 1 France covered ered a distance distance dis- dis distance tance of 2279 miles an average speed of 95 miles an hour This is consider consider- considerably considerably considerably ably better than the previous record held by an American Ellroy Garfield and a French French Tench driver who covered 2101 miles in the same time an average speed of 87 71 miles So greatly greath- has the tle number of suicides sui sui- suicides suicides increased in Greece recently that authorities have i issued sued an order provIding for a burial place for tor per per- persons persons sons who end their own lives hives separ separ- separate separate separate ate from places where persons die natural deaths are interred The Tho cem cern cemetery cemetery eter for suicides a adjoins the grounds where dogs are buried hurled and where re- re refuse refuse re refuse fuse is cast casL It is hope hoped 1 this display of public contempt for suicides will discourage the practice The Nicaraguan government has bas annulled the contract with J G C White While Engineering corporation of NewYork New York under which the corporation has YorkI op- op operated operated op operated I the Nicaraguan Pacific railway since 1919 The governments government's action is in pursuance of its policy of resuming resuming ing full fuH control of o its railways Just as the rope was being ad- ad adjusted adjusted ad adjusted about the neck of a communist conspirator a reprieve from King Bor Dol Boris Boris is ts of Bulgaria arrived This is the first Instance of the king annulling a sentence of death after it had been confirmed and signed by him Four Russian labor delegates were welcomed to a labor conference at Tokio by representatives of the labor federation of Japan Numerous work work- workers workers work ors ers assembled at the railway station while the welcome was In progress The Tho police here mobilized 1 to suppress demonstrations made several se arrests a German born German American charged with an attempt to organize the Knights of the Fiery Cross similar to the tho American Ku Klux Klan will be deported The same fate awaits Otto Stroh father of Gotthard if f it should be proved that he also is an American citizen Others implicated in time the movement have been heen released pen pend pending 1 lug ing further investigation Possibility of new trouble in tho lie Near East Cast this time at the rim rim of Russia was foreseen at Vienna as re- re reports re- re reports re reports ports came camo that was in time the theof throes of persecution and executions with sharp sharp martial law reigning At an extraordinary session the lie Japanese cabinet voted yen for the construction of a semi perm anent parliament building The new structure will be he put up on the site silo of the Imperial diet building which burn burn- burne burned burned e ed 1 recently It is expected to be com com- completed com com- completed completed by January in time for tor the diet session after recess The opening session in December probably will he be beheld beheld held in temporary barracks harracks Police announced that th th fire tire was waa caused by a careless workman using a gas lamp |