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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES fob mmm A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Sevsn Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of tho Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOMt The steamer Maud, which has returned re-turned to Seattle, Wash., after a three year attempt to drift acrrss the north pole, wa.s attached for debts of fjOOO. At the instance of Armour & Co. and other supply houses, a United Statse marshal seized tho Maud under a li. bel. The conference of national park superintendents, in session at Mesa Verde National park, Colorado, passed pass-ed a resolution condemning (he erection erec-tion of signboards along public highways high-ways and congratulating business interests in-terests that have ordered a discontinuance discontin-uance of the practice. Colorado Stockgrowers advocated to the senate subcommittee on public lands that grazing permits in national nation-al forests be issued to establish stock men for a period of ten years. They also recommended that grazing fees be turned over to the states in which the forests are located. A 20 per cent reduction in the TJ. P. and O. S. L. railroad forces at Green River, Wyoming, ordered for October 1, has been canceled, it was announ-ed announ-ed at railway headquarters. A heavy increase in railroad business is given as the reason for the change of plans. William C. Bradbury, contractor, builder, rancher and one of the leading lead-ing figures in the development of Colorado Col-orado and other western states for more than fifty years, died at his home at Denver. lie was 76 years old. Winter range prospects in southwestern south-western Wyoming are the best they have been for forty years. Unusually heavy rains have prevailed since last spring, causiug an unusually heavy growth of forage on all range areas. Only an unusually heavy snow will keep sheep and cattle from wintering in unusually good condition. Engineer W. K. Smith of Southern Pacific passenger train No. 5 was killed, kill-ed, his fireman is missing and eight passengers are reported injured in a colision between a passenger and a freight train near Sparks. GENERAL Personal income tax collections in 1923 decreased $197,405,803 or 22.93 per cent as compared with 1922, according ac-cording to revised statistics made public by the internal revenue bureau at Washington. Records show that 7.69S, 321 persons filed income tax returns re-turns for 1923. The aggregate net income in-come was $24, 840, 13-1, 3G4 and the tax $063,031,505. School teachers of Shabrona, 111., will be required to spend at least three week-ends of every month w-ithin the confines of the village, according ac-cording to an edict of the school board. J. B. Stout, superintendent oE schools declared about half the teachers teach-ers have been spending their weekends week-ends out of town and did not attend the local community functions. The state racing commission has barred from all Maryland tracks Jockey Jock-ey Martin (Frenchy) Schwartz and two others accused of having an electric elec-tric battery to spur a horse to greater great-er speed on the Havre de Grave track recently. A phrase hitherto absent from America's international debt funding negotiations a sharp controversy over the amount of the .obligation stands out as the chief problem confronting con-fronting the American debt commission commis-sion and representatives of the Cze-cho-Slovakian government in their forthcoming funding discussions at Washington. Running thirty minutes late, the Houston & Texas Central railroad's crack train Sunbeame, northbound collided with the railroad's passenger train No. 16, southbound at Bryan, I Texas. More than thirty persons are I reported to have been injured. No ' one was killed. I The air mail between Chicago and New York is both a waste of time and : money according to an experiment conducted by the Chicago Tribune j recently. Letters carrying the extra ! 10 cents postage and deposited in the ; special air mail boxes took from two to three days in transit. Letters post-i post-i ed by the Twentieth Century and the ; Broadway Limited trains were delivered deliv-ered in twenty-four . hours. The anth-aoite coal situation In New York state has mt reached a critical stage and is not likely to do so as a result of the strike in the j hard coal mines, the recently appoint- j ed commission announced in its first official statement. j Because women's stockings have , become u:h1;t garments instead of under un-der garments, Chicago manufacturers manufactur-ers have had to change their dyes to resist fading by sunlight. The American Legion in session at Omaha. Neb., accorded Colonel William Wil-liam Mitchell, the army's outspoken critic of the nation's aeronautical policy, pol-icy, a measure of commendation when it unanimously adopted a resolution recommending one of his plans for rehabilitation re-habilitation of the national defense by creating a separate cabinet office to have control of three equal branches army, navy and air. Tostal receipts in Boise and Cheyenne Chey-enne for the past month are reported materially lower than receipts for September 1924. Boise's receipts last month were $17,100, where they were $18,995 a year ago, while Cheyenne's receipts were $8548, as compared with $S748 in September last year. The Camp Fire Girls of New York, 160,000 strong, have organized a crusade cru-sade against the use of the term flapper flap-per as "odious and unfair." Females of tender years must be called "moderns "mod-erns instead of flappers, and organization organi-zation has decreed, and has drafted Colleen Moore, known as the "perfect flapper" of fildom, to lead the crusade. cru-sade. Summons in a libel suit, charging W. E. D. Stokes, wealthy realty owner own-er of New York, with slander, was filed in the county clerk's office by the law firm of Nugent & Nugent, attorneys at-torneys for Stokes in his recent di-virce di-virce case. The sum to be sued for was not mentioned In the papers filed, fil-ed, but at the offices of the plaintiffs it was said damages of $250,000 would be asked. Seven persons were injured and a score more received slight bruises when a temporary bleacher erected for the Haskell Indian university of Tulsa, Okla., football game collapsed while more than 1500 spectators vere waiting for the game to start. Railway travel has been made so safe that the problem facing the steam roads is not of protecting passengers pass-engers and employees but safeguarding safeguard-ing the occupants of automobiles at grade crosisngs, said Carl R. Gray of Omaha, Neb., president of the Union Pacific system. FOREIGN The Belgian government has opened open-ed negotiations with the United States for an agreement similar to those concluded by the Washington government w V-h other countries extending ex-tending the zone of search for contraband contra-band liquor to an hour's sailing distance dis-tance from shore. In return Belgian ships would be granted permission to carry liquor stores under seal into American ports. The newspapers of Rome published a report that the grand master of Free Masonry in Italy is considering the dissolution of all Masonic lodges throughout Italy, as he has already dissolved those of Florence where clashes between Masons and Fascists recently resulted in the death of four persons and the wounding of a score more. Ten cardinals from Italy alone will attend the Eucharistic conference to be held in Chicago beginning June 20, 1926. it has been announced by Cardinal Car-dinal Giovanni Bonza'no, former apostolic apos-tolic delegate to the United States, is considered the probable choice of the pope as papal legate to the conference, confer-ence, which is considered here to be of unusual importance, not only for American Catholics, but for tho entire church. Asserting that he was insane and could not be tided, Valdimir Fonisow-ski, Fonisow-ski, 23, known in Hollywood, Calif., motion picture circles as Count Poui, and wonted in Los Angeles, Minneapolis Minne-apolis and riioenix, Ariz., was taken to the Winnipeg, Manitoba police court charged with passing worthless checks here. He was arrested in North Bay, Ont, after his visit to Winnipeg. After eleven years of partial prohibition pro-hibition Russia is now completely wet. Whisky, brandy and liquors containing 60 per cent of alcohol and vodka of 40 per cent strength, again appeared in the cafes, restaurants and stores. The new order was to have gone into effect on October 1, but as this was within the recruiting period of the red army it was postponed post-poned a few days. Although the coming session of the French parliament is generally expected ex-pected to reject the five-year provisional provis-ional settlement arrangement, parliament parlia-ment will vote to increase the salaries of deputies and senators, according to a decision just reached. The total parliamentarian pay roll will be increased in-creased from 25,000,000 francs to 39,-0000,000 39,-0000,000 francs. |