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Show TELEGRAPKIG tales FOR BOMBERS 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 Triumphant Aggies! While the Red Devils of Utah were relinquishing titular tit-ular claims before the vicious onslaught on-slaught of the Utah Aggies, the Colorado Colo-rado Aggies clinched the 1925 Rocky Mountain conference championship by defeating the University of Wyoming 40 to 0 at Fort Collins, Colo. Roy Olmsted, former lieutenant of Seattle police; Lee Parker, deputy eheriff; Alfred Hubbard, who was arrested ar-rested November IS, while landing whiskey on Camano island north of Seattle, and six others were captured captur-ed by federal prohibition agents, who seized 100 cases of holiday liquors at Woodniont Beach, twenty miles south of Seattle. District Judge J. J. Lynch dismissed a petition of executors for the estate of the late Senator W. A. Clark of Montana to appoint James MacDouald of New York executor in the place of Mrs. Annie E. Clark, the widow. The court held that provision in the will of the late senator that any vacancies va-cancies among executors of his will be filled by choice of the remaining executors was in conflict with the state law. Mrs. Clark resigned as executrix. Hope for concessions from California Califor-nia that will form the basis for a tristate agreement between Arizona, Nevada and California upon division of benefits derived from development of the lower Colorado river basin was expressed at Los Angeles by Charles P. Squires, Colorado river commissioner commis-sioner from Nevada, following a conference con-ference with southern California representatives. rep-resentatives. Four children ot the family of Gus Collins, a miner of Hanna, Wyoming, are dead after a repast of spoiled or poisoned meat. S. C. Stone, 60-year-old stepfather of Jack Hoxie, film star of Los Angeles, Ange-les, has made a partial confession to the brutal slayings in August, 1924, of May and Nina Martin, schoolgirls, it was claimed here by- District Attorney At-torney investigators. The last big buffalo hunt that the country will probably ever know is to start when a number of hunters will hunt down and kill several hundred hun-dred buffalo on the big Phillips ranch near Pierre, S. D. The Phillips Phil-lips herd is the largest bunch of buffaloes buf-faloes in existence, and the Phillips estate managers have decided to quit buffalo raising and go into cattle raising rais-ing instead. Two hundred acres of potatoes raised rais-ed near Salmon, Idaho, will yield a profit of approximately $143,000 to the owners of the two tracts making up the 200 acres. Peter McKinney of Nielson & McKinney, owners of 120 acres, said that the yield on their tract averaged 33,000 pounds, or 330 sacks to an acre. He said the 80-acre 80-acre tract owned by the Shenon Land company averaged about 300 sacks an acre. The combined yield of the two tracts was 63,000 sacks. GENERAL President Coolidge has been asked by the Arlington memorial commission, commis-sion, composed of the secretaries of war and navy, to recommend an appropriation ap-propriation of $50,000 to complete the memorial for the unknown soldier. Two men and a girl were captured and another man was thought to have been killed in Chicago when scores ( of policemen ambushed a gang just as they exploded a bomb which wrecked wreck-ed a hardware store. Eight persons were injured, one seriously, when an airplane in which they were riding struck a tree and crashed to the ground as it was making mak-ing a forced landing at St. Joseph, Mo. All were Kansas City and Excelsior Ex-celsior Springs, Mo., residents. The conclusion that "the Volstead act has failed utterly to accomplish its purpose to promote temperance and sobriety" has been reached by the Moderation League, Inc.. of New-York, New-York, on the basis of a survey of conditions con-ditions in several hundred representative represen-tative cities. Eighteen permits and fifty-three licenses li-censes covering water-power developments develop-ments aggregating 1.763.000 horsepower, horse-power, were issued by the federal power commission during the last fiscal fis-cal yar according to a Washington report. 1 Upon concluding hr-arings on federal feder-al reclamation projects at Washington Washing-ton the Crampton subcommittee on appropriations decided unanimously to favor an appropriation for carrying the American Falls dam to its maximum max-imum height. This was the only ap-propriatiou ap-propriatiou on which the committee acted. Sa Boran, 10. had no money to giv to the current community chest fund. She gave her pet duck to her teacher, saying it was her contribution. contribu-tion. At a luncheon of chest fund workers the duck was auctioned off, a part at a time. The bill brought $35, the feet $20 each, and the auctioneer auc-tioneer collected $310 for the fund. Then the buyers surrendered title and the duck was returned to Eva. John L. Hitchcock, well-to-do San Francisco property owner, arose in the midst of a business conference in a downtown office here, shot his three conferees, inflicting severe wounds, and then shot himself through the head. He is believed to be dying. Temporary insanity was believed to be the reason for his act. N. J. "Satan" Miller, 105, civil war veteran and believed to be the oldest man in Nebraska, died at Omaha. Counsel for Countess Karolyi, wife of the first president of Hungary, have appealed directly to President Coolidge for a review of the' state department's de-partment's decision barring her from the United States. Federal Judge Thatcher of New York denied the motion of Lawrence Copely Thaw to throw out of court the complaine of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, in her suit to recover $600,000 which she gave him early this year. Mrs. Thaw is the mother of Harry K. Thaw. Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, But-ler, for the last two years director of public safety in Philadelphia is going back to the marines. He made the announcement for the first time in an address before the New Century Cen-tury club and declared to his audience of women that his job here "is not worth staying for a waste of time." He asked that complete support b6 given to Assistant Director George Elliott, who is slated to succeed him when his leave of absence from the marines expires, December 31. FOREIGN King Maha Marjiivudh is dead at Bangkok, Siam. The king recently divorced his childless queen and elevated ele-vated another young woman to the rank of queen in the expectation that she would shortly give birth to an heir. It is understood that Nagaoka, of Japan, former minister at The Hague, will be chosen as Japan's delegate to the extra territorial commission, which is to meet in Peking on December Decem-ber 18. Two men, Chief of Police Zaphiro-opulos Zaphiro-opulos of Saloniki and an officer named Drakatos, were hanged at Athens Ath-ens for embezzlement of the public funds, a crime for which they were sentenced to death by a court martial recently. Several other officers and civilians were sentenced to imprisonment imprison-ment for the safe offense, two of them for life. The Mexican government, it is announced, an-nounced, plans to spend 6,000,000 pesos, pe-sos, beginning next year, on irrigation projects in the states of Chihuahua and Durango. This decision follows a visit to the region by President Calles. Reports received at Yokohama from Hongkong says that a Shanghai bank has attached the steamer President Grant for 500,000 yen as the result of a controversy over a bill of lading in connection with the failure of Takata i Co., a Japanese concern. The Socialists' demands for half the portfolios in the new French government govern-ment and for the right to name the new premier and dictate the financial policy blocked cabinet making negotiations nego-tiations and spoiled the efforts of M. Briand to form a ministry. Former Kaiser Wilhelm has senl representatives to Corfu, where fur niture and art objects from his palace pal-ace at Achilleionn w-ill be put up at auction. These representatives will bid on certain personal souvenirs. Freshmen have been barred from taking motor cars or motorcycles to school at Cambridge, England. The privilege also may be withdrawn from upper classmen, Professor A. C. Seward, vice chancellor, said, although al-though at present they may use motor vehicles in the afternoon and early evening. After being presented with the Royal Roy-al Humane society for bravery in rescuing res-cuing three persons from drowning. Samuel Grensill of London thanked the donors but said he would appreciate appre-ciate work instead. He is 60 years old and an ex-service man. |