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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Turgatee, Oregon and vicinity were covered with a sheet of water a foot deep, which swept over the lowland, washing out the tracks of the Oregon-Washington Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company to the aggregate of about one and a half miles. The greatest damage was done at Kelson and Wea-therhy. Wea-therhy. No loss of life has been reported. re-ported. William D. Brown, 99-year-old California Cali-fornia pioneer and said to be the oldest old-est Shriner in the world, died at Berkely, Calif. He was born in Charlottesville, Char-lottesville, Va., and would have reached his one hundredth birthday on December 4 of this year. Applicants for licenses to drive automobiles au-tomobiles in California must submit evidence of their mental and physical fitness under the terms of the law passed by the last legislature which became effective July 21th. The new-automobile new-automobile law als,o forbids the use of "speed traps" as a mean of determining determin-ing the rate at which a machine is traveling. The "trap," used for many years, was a method of timing the speed of a machine between two arbitrary ar-bitrary points on the state highway. During a freak thunder and lightning light-ning storm tank No. 4 on the underground under-ground reservoir of the Pacific Oil company near Bakersfield, Calif., was struck by lightning and the stored oil ignited. The tank had a capacity of 750,000 barrels. The loss is estimated esti-mated at $-150,000. Employes of the Pacific Associated and Standard Oil companies cooperated in preventing any spread oi the flames to surrounding surround-ing tanks and refinery property. Funeral services were held at St. Ignatius church. San Francisco, for Pancho Villa, world's flyweight boxing box-ing champion, who died in a hospital here recently while undergoing an operation on his throat. Ten members of the Catholic Filipino club acted as pall bearers. The Rev. Father Pius Moore delivered an eulogy. Men and women representing many nationalities national-ities and from all walks of life filled the church to overflowing. Mrs. Virginia Cookson, Orange county, California, farmerette for whom the sheriff's posses have been searching for several days on the theory that she had been murdered or abducted, appeared at police headquarters head-quarters at Calexico, Calif., and told of being kidnapped by three men in an automobile. Park rangers and guides recovered the body of J. L. Cartwright, an eastern east-ern news writer, who was killed by 300-foot fall from a shale rock to a glacier about Twin lakes, not far from Sperry Glacier, Mont. Rangers and guides said Cartwright left Sperry to traverse a portion of the park that has no trails, against the advice of official guides. The scene of the mishap was within a few miles of where the Whitehead brothers of Chicago were last seen last fall. GENERAL Fifteen hundred prohibition agents will lose their jobs not later than October Oc-tober 15. in the biggest shake-up in the enforcement service since the enactment en-actment of the Volstead act. A vast majority of the forty-eight state administrators ad-ministrators will be among those to go. No more than 900 will be appointed appoint-ed to the new force with which it is hoped to make the nation completelv dry. Less than four hours before he was i to be executed Russell Scott was sav-i sav-i ed from the gallows for the second time within a week when Judge Jos-i Jos-i eph B. David convened a special ses-i ses-i sion of court at Chicago and issued i a writ of habeas corpus staying the j execution until time had been given to inquire into the condemned man's 1 sanity. j Hundreds were paic-strieken and a j whole north section of Chicago was j shaken when a gasoline barge of the Texas company, on wh'-vh were SO.-000 SO.-000 gallons, exploded with a terrific and terrifying blast and a roar of flames which leaped 400 feet into the air. The barge, known a- the Reliable, Re-liable, was moored at the time in the north branch of the river just oE the oil company's north side plant and storage property. News of the death of Willinm Jennings Jen-nings Bryan at Dayton, Tenn., came to Washington with stunning suddenness sudden-ness and at a time when his name was blazing in headlines much as it did at the height of his political career ca-reer twenty years ago. His efforts at Dayton, where he had fought with great spirit over the question of evolution, evo-lution, had given friends here the impression im-pression that he was in vigorous health, and it had been freely predicted predict-ed that his voice would ring out when the next congress assembled in a movement to throw into senate and house debate the cause for which he had fought in Tennessee. The new $60,000,000 Chicago Union station, covering thirty five acres and used by four railroads has been formally for-mally opened six weeks after some of its facilities began to function. Ranking Rank-ing with the Grand Central and Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania stations in New York, as the largest railway depots in the country, the station has accommodations for 300 trains daily, for 50,000 passengers and 400 tons of baggage. Federal legislation abolishing all radio broadcasting of advertising will be sought at the next session of congress, con-gress, Sol Bloom of New York announced an-nounced prior to sailing for a trip to England and France. The petition of seventy-three western west-ern railroads for an 11 per cent increase in-crease in freight rates will meet the organized opposition of American farm bureau federation. Officers of the organization who conferred . at Chicago announced farm bureaus in twenty -two states affected by the increase in-crease will be mobilized to fight the petition. More than 1600 persons, occupying 40 railway coaches left Shenandoah, Iowa, on a tour, sponsored by the Wiwanis club, that will take them as far east as Niagara Falls. The excursionists ex-cursionists hail from six states: Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma Okla-homa and Indiana. They are to travel trav-el in four special trains, each drawn by two locomotives, over the Wabash lines through Moberly, Springfield, 111., Fort Wayne and Detroit. The tour is the second community undertaking under-taking of the kind within a year. Columbia university will not reject educational credentials from Tennessee Tennes-see schools, as advocated by Dr. Henry H. Rushby, dean of the college of pharmacy at Columbia, Adam L. Jones, director of admission, has announced. an-nounced. FOREIGN The budget for the fiscal year 1926, as submitted to the legislature at Manila, places the government's expenditure ex-penditure at $34,500,000, while the income in-come is estimated at $35,000,000, leaving leav-ing a surplus of approximately half a million. The largest single item of expense is for education, amounting to approximately $9,000,000. The second phase of the evacuation of the Ruhr, which has been occupied by allied troops since January 11, 1923, began with . the departure of troops garrisoned at Essen. Complete evacuation of the Ruhr is to be concluded con-cluded by July 31, when the Ruhr will be definitely handed back to the German Ger-man authorities in accordance with the London agreement. Fifteen persons were killed and hundreds reported injured when the packed Melbourne, Australia, veranda of a moving picture theatre collapsed. The spectators were watching a parade pa-rade on Bourke street. The World Federation of Educational Educa-tional Associations took initial steps at Edenburgh, Scotland to put into operation the organization's plan for future world peace and understanding by adopting a series of resolutions recommending courses of study that will present to students a full conception con-ception of internationalism. A special dispatch to Berlin from Bucharest states that the Rumanian government has consented to the export ex-port of 60.000 carloads of wheat in view of the fine harvest. A reduction in the export tax also is granted be- cause of the prevalent low prices of wheat in the world markets. i Eleven miners were killed when a I shaft rope parted, sending their cage j to destruction at the bottom of the j pit in the Cinco Minas mine in Jalisco. Jal-isco. Mexico. The general confederation confeder-ation of workers made demands for indemnities for the victims' families, but these were refused by the mine operators. It is reported that a strike is contemplated. j The Tribuna of Rome says special j ecclesiastical arrangements for the j religious marriage of Princess Matilda, Mat-ilda, second daughter of the king and queen, to Prince Fhillip of Greece. have been completed by Monsignor Ceccuria. major-chaplain of the Ita ion court chapel. |