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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BU5YREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'8 DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Laot Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pro-pared Pro-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN For the first time since the Indians forsook the how for the breachload-ing breachload-ing rifle, an American deer was killed kill-ed with an arrow. The animal fell to Miss Virginia Ayres of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, who uses a 52 pound bow, nearly double the strength of the ordinary or-dinary weapon, and steel-headed arrows. ar-rows. Chlorine gas will be forced into the Palisade mine, near Palisade, Colo., in the hope of driving the three men who are alleged to have robbed the Palisade postoffice of more than $15,000 in stamps and cash from the property. In Montana, home state of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, selected by Senator Sen-ator Robert M. La Follette as the latter's running mate in the presidential presi-dential campaign, the La Follette Progressive party will endeavor to have the name of Governor Charles Bryan put on the ballot as candidate for vice president. Eight youths and a trio of bobbed haired girls, all of the eleven under 21 years old are in custody at Los Angeles as bandit suspects. Police alleged they participated in more than forty holdups and robberies, including in-cluding the robbery of Betty Blythe, motion picture actress, who lost several sev-eral diamond rings and a fur. The Bonanza, Jumbo and Mother Lode mines of the Kennecott Copper Company at Cordova, Alaska, will be closed for two or three months as the result of a fire that destroyed their power house, a storage house and a residence at Kennecott, northeast north-east of Cordova. The loss is estimated estimat-ed at $150,000. William Wrigley Jr., of chewing gum fame, baseball and steamship magnate, and owner of Catalina island, is-land, has arrived at Los Angeles, en-route en-route to Avalon. Awaiting only the owner's approval, it was stated, the construction of a new ball park for the Angeles may be started at once as the result of Wrigley's visit. He is also expected to pass on certain projected improvements on Catalina island. H. A. Lieverson, alias C. C. Barton, Bar-ton, declared by authorities to be wanted in Green River, Neb., for alleged al-leged embezzlement of $12,000 from lumber firms, was arrested at Seattle. Seat-tle. Breaking into the postoffice in Palisade, Colo., bandits carried away a safe containing more than $15,000 which included cash and stamps, and escaped on a handcar stolen from the railroad yards, accordng to reports received at Grand Junction. Reports of the robbery also said the bandits obtained a small sum from the Grand Valley postoffice. The fourth successful ascent of the Grand Teton, the most difficult peak in the United States to climb, and located in Jackson's Hole, was accomplished July 25 by Ralph Ker-ron, Ker-ron, of Newton, Iowa, and Paul I-et-zolt of Twin Falls, Idaho, two college col-lege boys possessed of a passion for mountaineering and the necessary amount of courage and daring. The body of William Jones, negro, who lost his life in the quicksand of the Colorado river near Zuma, Ariz., July 20 while attempting to escape from Arizona officers, was recovered on an intake boom at Hanlon's heading, head-ing, California, six miles south of the point where he disappeared. GENERAL William C. Pelky, chairman of the Republican state central committee; John T. Toomey of Johnston and Willi: Wil-li: m (Toots) Murray of Boston were indicted by the grand jury at Providence, Provi-dence, R. I., on charges of conspiracy in connection with the explosion of a "gas bomb" in the Rhode Island str.te senate June 19. Postmaster General Xew has ordered or-dered the continuous transcontinental air mail service operated on schedules sched-ules now in effect, until further notice. no-tice. The sen-ice was originally authorised au-thorised for a thirty-day trial beginning begin-ning oa July 1. Decision to terminate the army around-the-world flight at Seattle has been announced definitely, at the war department. The terminating point had been left open, pending consideration of claims of other Pacific Pa-cific coast cities to secure the designation. desig-nation. Lucian C. San Souci reporter cm the Tribune, a French publication of Woonsocket, R. I., was branded with a large letter K on the forehead and the left wrist when he was "listening "listen-ing in" on a secret meeting near Blackstone, Mass., according to a story published in the paper. San Souci was lying in a field when three men, wearing flowing white robes, overpowered him. In a few minutes he ws surrounded by a score of the hooded figures. The fashionable Le Paridis and hotel roofs were raided again in the polite, almost noiseless manner recently re-cently adopted by Washington pro-ihbition pro-ihbition agents. Two arrests were made, the man in each case, as usual, usu-al, being invited to accompany the raider to the nearest police station, where he wa3 allowed to post collateral col-lateral for appearance. This was the third raid within the last few weeks at the Le Paradis. Three persons were killed and eighteen injured, some critically, when a wood train on the elevated division of the Brighton line of the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit company com-pany ran into the rear end of a steel subway train at Ocean Parkway station. sta-tion. Herbert Barr Griggs, navy air pilot pi-lot of New York, paid the first penalty pen-alty for violation of a city ordinance which prohibits low airplane flights over crowded thoroughfares or beach,-es. beach,-es. Charged with flying his machine only 125 feet above the heads of bathers at Rockway beach last week, he was fined $25 by Magistrate Goodman at Far Rockaway. James G. Freed, 60, president of the International Sterotypers' union, died suddenly at Caldwell,, N. J., following fol-lowing as illness which came upon him while returning from Savannah, Gr., by boat with his wife. Two physicians phy-sicians were unable to diagnose the cause of his death. Mr. Freel came here five years ago from Brooklyn. Attorney General Stone has ordered order-ed a further inquiry into the gasoline price situation. The report of the federal trade commission on the subject sub-ject made at the request of the pres-: ident, contains information, Mr. Stone said which warranted a further investigation of the several phases of the problem. Waving a knitting needle he picked up off the floor, 16months-old Edward Ed-ward Gould, of St. Louis, Mo., plunged plung-ed it into his eye and pierced the brain, dying instantly. Sam Allen. wAitpr on the Steamer Cincinnati, Ohio river boat, had a toothache. He tied a string to the painful molar, fastened the other end to the ship's anchor and cast it into the river. With it went the tooth and likewise part of Sam's jaw. Allen Al-len thought the wound superficial and retired. During the night he bled to death. Henry Ford may enter the race for the Republican nomination for United Uni-ted ' States senator from Michigan, according to a report received from Washington in a semi-official way by a high state official, says a special dispatch from Lansing to the Detroit Free Press. FOREIGN The British-American liquor traffic convention signed in Washington in January has been filed with the League of Nations for registration. The painting of Lady Astor, the introduction of which ino the House of Commons raised such a hubbub recently, will be removed from the staircase where it hangs, during the parlimentary vacation, according to lobby reports. The Westminster Gazette Ga-zette says the removal i3 at the re-qutst re-qutst of the donor, Lady Astor. Samuel H. Chapin, 25-years old, of San Francisco, ended his life at a Paris hotel by cutting his throat and wrist with a safety razor blade. Police investigation disclosed that Chapin had abundant funds, although he had recently acted strangely. The American consulate notified his mother, Mrs. C. H. Wolcott of New York. Masanao Hanihara, Japanese ambassador am-bassador to the United States on his return to Tokio from America said he did not know whether he would return to Washington. He declared that he was not recalled, but came to Japan to discuss the situation arising out of the passage of the American exclusion act with Baron Kijuro Shidehara, minister of foreigD affairs. |
