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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the I Busy Reader WESTERN The rail mill of the steel plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company resumed operations after being idle for several months. Five hundred men -started work and will be employed em-ployed in two shifts of eight hours each, it was announced at Pueblo, Colorado. John Ellegood, 5G, was killed, $40,-000 $40,-000 worth of property was ruined and three buildings were wrecked in a double explosion at the Du Pont Powder company's plant at Du Pont, Wash. The conviction of L. H. Lathrop, S. S. Champlain and George W. Clark, officials of the Northwestern Improvement Im-provement company of Pocatello, Idaho, Ida-ho, on a charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with a $40,-000 $40,-000 real estate transaction, was upheld up-held by the United States circuit court of appeals at San Francisco. Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, governor-elect governor-elect of Wyoming, will not attend the ceremonies in January inaugurating Mrs. Miram A. Ferguson as governor of the Lone Star state, it became nkown at Cheyenne, Wyo. The Wyoming Wyo-ming legislature will be in session at the time and Mrs. Ross said she felt she should remain at Cheyenne. Matthew Decker, held as a suspect in the slaying of Walter W. Powezv automobile salesman, was postively identified in Los Angeles by Mrs. Ethel Garcia as the man she saw running from the scene of the killing, it was announced at the district attorney's attor-ney's office. Two more large Nevada wool clips have been disposed of, according to word received in Elko, the first bringing bring-ing the top price so far recorded of 48 cents, and the second bringing 43 cents. The top price clip is that of Adams and McGill in White Pine county, amounting to approximately 200,000 pounds and is one of the largest larg-est in the eastern part of the state. Effective immediately an embargo was declared by the California state department of agriculture on the importation im-portation into California of live poultry poul-try consisting of chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, pigeons and pea fowl from the states of North Dakota, Da-kota, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. GENERAL The fourth Mrs. Willard Mack left her husband in New York she said, because he drank too much and now Mr. Mack has come to regard her point of view with favor. Mr. and Mrs. Mack, before their attorneys, reached a separation agreement and the author-actor-producer told her he would provide her with every possible possi-ble comfort until a divorce is obtained. A forty-four-word letter, reposing in the eye of a needle, has been re ceived at the Smithsonian Institute. The microscopic missive, which was sent to the institute for display before be-fore the annual meeting of the board of regents, is so smalL it has to be magnified eighty-eight times before it can be read. It measures exactly l-11.250th of a square inch. The text of the letter follows. "This is a crude, hurriedly prepared, large sample sam-ple of the micro-engraving, I trust it will contain a moment of interest to the regents and regret that time prevents pre-vents preparing an exhibition more worthy of their inspection. Believe me to be, your cordially, Alfred Mc-Ewen." Mc-Ewen." The Missouri Pacific railway, which, I through recent acquisition of control in the Gulf Coast lines and the International In-ternational Great Northern raiiroad became the largest transportation system on the United States announced announ-ced the purchase of fifty additional locomotives, 3000 freight cars anu forty cabooses at an aggregate cost of about ?9.0;0,000. James Higgcson, 62, of Oklahoma City, conductor on a St. Louis and San Francisco train, was suffocated while directing passengers to safety when fire destroyed two coaches of his train. Coincident with the congressional memorial services for Woodrow Wilson, Wil-son, Representative La Guardia, Republican, Re-publican, New York, introduced a resolution to authorize payment of a $6000 annuity to Edith Boiling Wilson, Wil-son, widow of the war time president. This would follow custom. John F. Hylan told the board of es timate in New York that he would be mayor of New York another term. "If anybody has got any thought in their mind that I intend to retire, let them get rid of it," he said. "I will be on this job until I am 60 years of age." Jack Johnson, negro, former heavyweight heavy-weight fighter, was fired upon and halted by a Gary police officer in Gary, Ind., who alleged that the pugilist pu-gilist was driving his automobile seventy miles an hour. He first gave his name as John Smith, but when he presented as bond a watch inscribed inscrib-ed "Presented to Jack Johnson by the King of Spain," he admitted his identity. iden-tity. He paid a fine of $1 and costs and was released. Oregon's appeal in the case involving involv-ing its compulsory public school law was advanced by the supreme court at Washington and will be argued February 24. Government construction of a $30,-000,000 $30,-000,000 flood condition dam at Boulder Bould-er canyon on the Colorado river was proposed in a bill introduced by Representative Rep-resentative Fredricks, Republican oi California. Samuel Gompers, who for nearly a half century led the labor ranks of the country was buried near the graves of some of the wealthiest and most prominent men of America. Ameri-ca. The Gompers plot in Sleepy Hollow Hol-low cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y. is within 200 feet of the grave of Andrew An-drew Carnegie and about the same distance from the mausoleum of William Wil-liam Rockefeller. Also near by ar the graves of John D. Archbold, once president of the Standard Oil company, com-pany, and Carl Schurtz. Mr. Gompers Gom-pers purchased the burial plot about i 1000 square feet in- area, five or six years ago. No member of the family has heretofore been buried in the plot. Representative Colton of Utah introduced in-troduced a measure under which jurisdiction jur-isdiction would be conferred on the court of claims to adjudicate all claims between the United States and the Uinta and White River tribes of Ute Indians. A bomb explosion demolished the front porch of the home of Franklin Lorraco, who had received threatening threaten-ing letters demanding $5000. Orlando Morganti, who lived on the first floor had received a warning that he should move, as the building was to be destroyed. FOREIGN It was officially announced that Tsueno Matsudoria has accepted the post of ambassador to the United States from Japan. He will sail for America early in January. It is semiofficially semi-officially intimated he will reopen the immigration issue outlining a new protest on the stand taken by the United States regarding Japanese immigration. im-migration. Chi Hsieh-Yuan, the deposed military mili-tary governor of Kianksu province, is reported to be a prisoner of a detachment de-tachment of his own troops in Nanking Nan-king capital' of the province, according accord-ing to advices at Shanghai. He is said to be held for a ransom of $300 to be paid to each one of the members mem-bers of the detachment holding him. The English Labor amendment to the King's address expressing regret at the Conservative government's attitude at-titude on the housing problem, was defeated in the house of commons. Vincente Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish author, who recently from Paris has been attacking the king and government govern-ment of Spain in pamphlets which were scattered in various parts oi Spain by airplanes, has been summoned sum-moned to appear before a military judge in Madrid to answer charges made against him. Ibenez is at present pre-sent in France. William Van Anden Hester, president presi-dent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle corporation cor-poration died of heart failure at his summer home at Glencove, after an illness of several months. He was 66 years of age. Mr. Hester was the son of Colonel William Hester, former for-mer president of the corporation, and nephew of Isaac Anden who founded the paper in 1841. A dispatch to La Nacion from Rio Janeiro says the Brazilian government govern-ment has decided to lift the state of siege in the state of Sao Paulo. Ofelia Rivas. famous Cuban actress went to a horrible death in a vain effort ef-fort to save the life of her pet dog when the Ward liner Esperanza piled up on the rocks on November 21. Both the actress and her dog were devour ed by a shark, it was revealed. j |