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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADEAS 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 Suit to cancel a $25,000 insurance policy held by Charles Henry Schwartz perpetrator of the "too perfect crime" at Walnut Creek, Calif., on the ground of fraud, was filed in federal court at San Francisco by the Northern Life Insurance company of Seattle. This is believed to be the only policy pol-icy held by Schwartz on which there was any possibility of collection. The policy is payable to his widow. One of the largest single shipments of breeding ewes ever to be brought to this section of Wyoming has been received by Moore & Wellington of Rock Springs, Wyoming, who purchased pur-chased 1600 ewes from a McCall, Idaho, Ida-ho, breeder. Charles Roe, 47, of Vancouver, B. C, was arrested at Denver, Colorado for an alleged criminal act committed commit-ted in 1908. The Denver police made the arres on a warrant from Cres-ton, Cres-ton, Iowa, authorities charging Roe with criminal assault on a girl there in 190S. Four forest fire fighters were reported re-ported missing near Revelstocke, B. C, in the Big Bend District, where fires have been threatening the lumber lum-ber settlements. A search for them is under way. Following a pitched battle in the little community of San Luis, Sonora, Mexico, Mexican officers captured a second suspect of the trio which held up the Gadsden, Ariz., state bank and shot and killed S. T. Hobbs. One suspect, sus-pect, Juan Adams, is in jail at Mexican, Mexi-can, and officers have information which they believe will lead to the capture of the third man wanted. Police have been asked to attempt to find Father Martin J. O'Brien of Dallas. Texas, who left Los Angeles supposedly to visit relatives in Cov-ina, Cov-ina, near Los Angeles, and since has dropped from s.ight. Request for the search was made by Father D. F. McNeil of St. Vincent's college here. S. C. Ford,, former attorney general gen-eral for Montana was adjudged guilty of contempt of federal court and fined $300 by Judge .George M. Borquin in the United States district court. The contempt resulted from pleadings filed fil-ed by Ford in behalf of Gordon Campbell, Camp-bell, Montana oil operator during, his trial for misuse of the mails in promotion pro-motion of Montana oil companies. GENERAL Miss Bina M. "West, supreme commander com-mander of the Women's Benefit association, asso-ciation, Port Huron, Wis., was elected elect-ed first woman president of the National Na-tional Fraternal Congress of America, representing 10,000,000 fraternalists, at the closing session of the thirty-eighth thirty-eighth annual convention at Duluth, Minn. Roy P. Wilcox of Eau Claire was nominated by the Republican party in state convention at Oshkosh, Wis., for the office of United States Senator Sen-ator on the fourth ballot of the convention. con-vention. The nomination was made unanimous after W. L. Pieplow of Milwaukee Mil-waukee threw his vote of 1S3 to Wilcox. Wil-cox. 'The multilated body of a woman with the skull fractured in three places was found in a straw pile that had been partly burned near Carlisle, fifteen miles from De.s Moines, Iowa. The partly burned straw pile had been there for two or three weeks. Two men passing the spot found the body and notified the Warren comity coroner, who was making efforts to identity the body. A lone bandit entered the office of the State and Lake theatre at Chicago, Chi-cago, held up the manager and escaped es-caped with $12,000. There were five men in the office at the time. The robber alone was armed. Demands were made by his friends on Edward W. Browning, millionaire philantropist with a penchant for adopting young gills that despite certain legal escape from any paternal pater-nal obligation to Mary Louise Spas, whom he adopted and repudiated, he makes ample financial provisions to give the girl her liberty from parents who "heartlessly sold her and guided her in a perjury about her age." "We had to have moonshine to rvt on the baby's gums; it's teething." That is what Leon and Virginia Stenzy of Pana said when caught with three pints of "white mule," a quantity of wine and five gallons of beer. An injunction was issued in the city courts of Taylorsville, 111., restraining them from operating a soft drink parlor. A resolution demanding that Geo. H. Carter he ousted as public printer print-er of the United States was adopted without a roll call by the International Interna-tional Typographical union at Kalamazoo, Kala-mazoo, Mich. Acting Secretary of the Navy Robinson Rob-inson said that if a bona fide offer for lease of the dirigible Los Angeles for commercial purposes should be made he would favor its acceptance, despite des-pite the fact that this would tie up the Shenandoah because of lack of helium. John Hays Hammond, Jr., representing a commercial aviation corporation, has made a request to President Coolidge for use of the Los Angeles, but Mr. Robinson said no formal offer for a lease had been received. re-ceived. After a running fight off shore in New river inlet near Fort Lauder-ville, Lauder-ville, Fla., during which one man was badly wounded, a coast guard cutter overtook the launch Sail K-S05 with 450 cases of whisky aboard. An order annulling the adoption of Mary Louise Spas by Edward W. Browning was entered in the surrogate's surro-gate's court of Queens county, New York, formally closing the romantic episode which began a week ago when she was selected from 12,000 appli-cans. appli-cans. Movements looking to the pardon of former Governor Warren T. McCray, of Indiana, serving a ten-year sentence sen-tence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., took definite form when a party of Indiana men started to Washington to present to the department depart-ment of justice a petition for Mc-Cray's Mc-Cray's release. McCray was convicted convict-ed of misuse of the mails, the charges charg-es growing out of his efforts to recoup re-coup losses in dairying and cattle raising. Representatives of New England newspapers told the congressional special joint subcommittee on postal rates at Boston that it cost them from four to five times as much to deliver 100 pounds of their newspapers to dealers outside of Boston by mail than it does by other methods. The opinion was expressed that more newspapers woud get into the mails under the 1920 postal rates and that the government's revenue would be increased by reverting to those rates FOREIGN Mustapha Kemmal Pasha, president of the Turkish republic, has divorced his wife, Latife Hancum. No reasons are given officially for the divorce, but public rumor has been busy for some time concerning the domestic relations of the president. The divorce di-vorce is attributed in some quarters to a tendency to masterfulness by Madame Latife, and to her desire to mix in matters which her husband considered outside her sphere. Intense interest is being taken in French government circles in the Belgian-American debt funding negotiations nego-tiations in progress in Washington. The French foreign office is receiving receiv-ing each day long communications on the proceedings from Emile Daesch-ner, Daesch-ner, French ambassador at Washington. Washing-ton. The report of the department of commerce at Washington on the rubber rub-ber producing possibilities of the Philippine islands was criticised at Manila as too conservative. The commerce report held that with favorable fa-vorable conditions 70,000 tons of crude rubber could be produced in the Philippines annually. One and one half million acres were said to bo suitable for rubber planting. , America may have the money, but Europe still produces the artists that's the boast of the German newspapers. news-papers. It is cited as a consolation against the ever greater inroads which the American films are making in the European production. To prove the contention the German newspapers news-papers point out that practically all American film stars are foreigners. They list them as follows: Gloria Swanson. Swedish; Mabel Normand, Dutch; Betty Blythe, English; Pola Negri, Polish; Ala Nazimova, Russian; Rus-sian; Mary Pickford, Canadian, Mario Provost, Canadian, Mae Husch, German-American; Viola Dana, German-American; German-American; Mae Murray, -Austrian; P.uster Keaton, Austrian; Rudolph Valentino, Mexican, Roman Novarra, Mexican: Rod la Rocque, French, Adolph Munjou, French, Charles de Roche, French. The only 100 per cent American listed among the film stars is Monte Blue. He has Indian blood In his veins. |