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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES: FOR BOSHEADEHSj 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 Seven men, members of the crew of the 6000-ton tanker Alden Anderson, Ander-son, which was destroyed by a fire at Avon, about twenty-five miles northeast of San Francisco, are missing miss-ing and believed to have perished in the blaze, which caused damage estimated esti-mated at $1,250,000, according to officials offi-cials of the Associated Oil company, owner of the vessel here. The government has rested its case against the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport company for cancel lation of leases and contracts on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve in California. Califor-nia. Iceberg head lettuce, once ranked a luxury and produced only on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, is rapidly becoming a west ern staple. During the past three years a score of production districts have been developed through the enterprise en-terprise of packers and shippers. Shipments are made from not only California, but also from Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington. Eastern markets have been developed for this succulent succu-lent vegetable as rapidly as production produc-tion has increased. The next meeting of the Rio-Grande commission to discuss the diversion of the waters of the upper Rio Grande for irrigation purposes will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in January or February, according to Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce. com-merce. Ruins of a buried city, six miles in extent, have been uncovered by an exploration party headed by Governor Gover-nor James G. Scrugham, the governor gover-nor announced in a telegram from Beatty, Nev., where the exploration work is being carried out. Plans are now underway for the building of a new canning factory at Spanish Fork, Utah. Following a statement that he believed be-lieved a merciful death should be meted met-ed out to the hopelessly feeble minded and habitual criminals', Reverend J. H. Skeen, pastor of the First Baptist church here has been almost universally univer-sally denounced by the leaders of the city's welfare work. Three women and one man, all Mexicans, were instantly killed when a machine in which they were passengers, passen-gers, was struck by the Union Pacific Los Angeles Limited at Wineville, ten miles west of Riverside Calif. Decoyed into an automobile by a pretty woman who asked them to show her the way tu a downtown intersection, in-tersection, two employes of the Piggly Wiggly company at Oakland, Calif., were robbed of $2200 company com-pany funds by two bandits who leaped leap-ed upon the running board of the car. GENERAL. A grim reminder of the fruits of speeding or careless driving is to be placed at every lamp post in the city of Chicago where a traffic fatality has occurred. It will be in the nature of a blue sign, 180 square inches in size, bearing these four significant words: "One was killed here." Cozy Dolan, former coach of the New York Giants, banished for al leged complicity in an attempted bribery deal with Jimmy O'Connell. will seek damages of not less than $100,000 in the suit he plans to bring against Baseball Commissioner Lan-dis, Lan-dis, according to W. J. Fallon, Dolan's attorney. General Plutarco Elias Calles, president-elect of Mexico, was for mally welcomed to New York by Mayor May-or Hylan. The mayor received him at the city hall, after William H. Woodin, chairman of the mayor's committee com-mittee for the reception of distinguished distin-guished guests, had escorted him from his hotel. Upon the visitor's arrival the street cleaning department's band played the Mexican national anthem. Seven Chinese who were smuggled Into this country from Hongkong in packing cases aboard a steamship suffered so severely from starvation and hardships during the thirty-day voyage that one of them died soon after being taken into custody by the police and the six others were nerr death. Three Chinese of Chicago charged with smuggling their seven countrymen aiso were arrested. The customs service has announced hat the rules closing the International Internation-al bridge between El Paso, Texas anil Jaurez, Mexico, between 9 p. m. and 7 a. m. would be su.-.pcnac.i ...n the American Federation of Labor convention at El Paso November 10 to 1.7, so far as delegates are concerned. con-cerned. A violent windstorm of tornadic proportions struck Waterloo, Iowa, causing damage estimated at $25,000. Windows in many buildings were broken and the downtown district, strewn with wreckage. No casualties casual-ties were reported. The supreme court has again refused re-fused to review the case of former employes of the Santa Fe system convicted con-victed of a criminal conspiracy when they quit work at Needles, Cal., during dur-ing the shopmen's strike of 1922. The murder of Gee Ling of the Hip Sing tong New York's halted official of-ficial negotiations in Chinatown which it had. been hoped would end the Hip Sing-On Leong tong war. Tommy Milton, racing pilot, 1922 national champion, and the only driver driv-er to win the 500-mile Indianapolis classic twice, has entered two cars in the 250-mile Thanksgiving day race to be held on the Culver City speedway, speed-way, near Los Angeles, November 27, it has been announced. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, known as the writer of Nick Carter stories, is near death at Piqua, O., according to announcements at the Miami county infirmary, where he has been living for the past year. Drops of water more than ten million mil-lion years old, preserved in quartz since an age before life began to ap pear on earth, will be exhibited in the Field museum at Chicago. Singing an old and loved church hymn as his life ebbed away, James Forgan, dean of Chicago bankers and a financial power in the middle west "or more than a quarter of a century, died at a hospital in Chicago after an illness of only five days 'victim of itomach ulcers. Without determining finally the legality le-gality of publication by newspapers of facts relating to income payments, Attorney General Stone announced that the department of justice will 'have appropriate case presented in the courts" to secure a judicial construction con-struction of the law. Suit for $100,000 alleging alienation of affections was filed at lAicoln, Neb., by Agnes N. Evans, a graduate of the University of Kansas and a stenographer and music teacher at Lawrence, Kan., against Beatrice Gardner of Lincoln. FOREIGN AH foreign flags, excepting the Russian rational colors,' were at half-mast half-mast in Pekin while the entire diplomatic dip-lomatic corps gathered at the funeral of Edward Bell, American charge d'affaires, d'-affaires, who died suddenly. The death penalty was inflicted recently re-cently in Switzerland for the first time in twenty-two years. At Altorf, capital of the canton of Uri, Clement Bernet was guillotined for the murder f a young girl, who surprised him vhile in the act of burglary. There is no official executioner in Uri and he authorities had difficulty in finding find-ing anyone to carry out the sentence. A train hand, who offered to do the iob for 500 francs, was forbidden by fhe federal railroad management when other employees threatened to Urifle if he were allowed to "cast discredit" upon them. Finally a mechanic mech-anic was induced to pull the trigger releasing the knife. The economic and fiscal unity of Germany has been restored, French md Belgian financial experts informed inform-ed the preliminary reparations conference con-ference at Paris. Explotation of the Ruhr and Rhineland railroads has been handed back to the Germans, it was announced. In their campaign to suppress the illegal sale of vodka, the authorities of Kharkov, Ukraine have, during the last month, arrested nearly 2000 per sons, while 11,000 searches of houses have been made by the military in the Kiev and Kharkov districts. These searches resulted in the discovery of 4825 illegal stills, the confiscation of 350,000 bottles of yodka and the im position of fines amounting to t'.ie equivalent of $100,000. After drifting three miles off shore at Honolulu for several hours, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant H. C. Frazier and two passengers, pas-sengers, flying in a first attempt tc. establish an interisland air mail service, serv-ice, were rescued as their plane was on the verge of sinking. A Unitec, States destroyer, which effected the : escue, sank the wrecked ?!ane by I gunfire. |