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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES "FOB BUSYJREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THI8 AND OTHER C0UNTRIE8 Important Events of the Last Seven Dys Reporte,- by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WE8TERN A roundup of members of the I. W. XV. in Oregon, Washington, California, Cal-ifornia, Nevada and Arizona la to be conducted liy tlie United States department de-partment of Justice, because of the fclloKCd activity of the organization In these states In spreading the foot and mouth disease In California and illegally ille-gally aiding in the general boycott of California goods, it was announced by Grove L. Fink, assistant United States Stat-es district attorney of California. Horace A. Greer, former chauffeur for Mabel Normand, the screen actress ac-tress was acquitted In Los Angeles !n superior court on a charge of assault as-sault with intent to murder Courtland B. Dines, Denver oil operator, only to be Immediately rearrested for an lleged violation of the Wright act, the state prohibition law. Five Chinese were shot to death I In a tong war that broke In Mexican, 1 iMexIco, says a dispatch to the Los i Angeles Times. The entire Chinese j Quarter Is being closely guarded, but j further killings are expected. j Josephine Iiartholme, , 14 year old I Klrl, inmate of the juvenile ball at I-os Angelos confessed to having set flro to the Hope Development school at I'laya del Hey, near here, May 31, when twenty-four live8 were lost, according ac-cording to an announcement by District Dis-trict Attorney Asa Keyes. "Silver Joe" Kelley, alias Joseph Connelly, wanted at Marysville, Cal., on a first degree murder charge, was caught at Orin Junction, near Casper, Wyoming by deputy sheriffs. Kelley Is accused of having shot and killed Francis Heeman during: the holdup cf a saloon in Marysville, January 6, 1923. He made his escape and was never apprehended until recently. Four men are believed to have been tarred and feathered in Santa Ana canyon near Santa Ana, Cal. according accord-ing to Ed McClellan, chief criminal investigator for the sheriff's office. One of them at least is believed to jinve ueen a memoer oi tne 1. W. VV. from San Pedro. Charges of desertion and the em-bozzlement em-bozzlement of $124,000 were preferred prefer-red against Lieutenant Ervine R. Brown, supply corps, U. S. N., when he appeared for trial by general court martial at the naval air station, North Island. "Not guilty" was the plea to both charges. The question of the authority of Wyoming to tax contracts between the federal reclamation service and Idaho irrigation enterprises where-under where-under water impounded in Wyoming is used for irrigating lands in Idaho, is raised in four complaints of equity filed in the United States court here, wherein the Twin Falls Canal company com-pany and the Northside Canal company com-pany seek injunctions perpetually restraining Lincoln and Teton counties, coun-ties, Wyoming, and the state of Wyoming, from collecting taxes levied against the plaintiff corporations. corpor-ations. GENERAL. Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K. Thaw wag divorced by her second husband, an actor and dancer known on the stage as Clifford. Tho uecree awarueu to ergil James Montanl froru Florence X. Montani, was signed by Supreme Court Justice .Wagner of New York, who heard the divorce testimony two weeks ago. Three automobile bandits held up and robbed A. Zusman, a salesman for the Temple Jewelry company of Chicago, on the Waukegan road between be-tween Lake Forest and Highland Park and robbed him of $35,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry, he reported to the authorities. The Moulin Rouge cafe of Chicago, was wrecked by a bomb. Thirty-actors Thirty-actors and actresses rehearsing a revue were thrown into a panic and some of them were slightly injured. Harry McElvey, head waiter, attempted at-tempted to throw the bomb out of a door before it exploded. He was probably fatally injured. Magnus Johnson, Minnesota's "dirt farmer" senator, was renominated on the Farmer-Labor ticket by an overwhelming plurality in Monday's state-wide primary. He defeated two opponent Charging that a "select ring- of Washington line officers dominates the navy and assign themselves und their friends to "all the military and social plums", Representative lirltten. Republican, Illinois, in a letter to President Coolidge requested an Inquiry In-quiry Into the merits of the recent promotion of six captains to the rank of rear admiral. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago and Ilanford MacXider, Mason Ma-son City, former national commander of the American Legion were slightly bruised in an automobile accident near Osage, Iowa. An automobile driven by XacNider collided with a light touring car. MacXIder's car was hurled into n ditch but the a cupants escaped serious injury. Search for the "master mind" who planned the holdup of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul mail train near Chicago a week ago when eight bandits obtained $2,075,000 In cash and securities extends throughout the country, while federal authorities prepare evidence for the grand jury against four men in custody. Young Striblfng, Georgia's schoolboy school-boy fighter Is a camera fiend. Strib-ling Strib-ling has a motion picture machine of his own and carries it with him wherever he goes.. He took movies of the Gibbons-Carpentier fight for his own consumption. President Coolidge promised Senator Sena-tor Dill of Washington, and Mayor Edwin J. Brown of Seattle that he would push the button opening in August the Skagit Hydroelectric power pow-er project now under construction by the city of Seattle. Paul D. Perkins., rrrent rlHpr, nf rho K. K. K. in Louisiana ; J. Stuart Douglas, Doug-las, speaker of the house of representatives repre-sentatives and other legislators are slated for expulsion from the klan because be-cause they supported antiklan legislation legis-lation enacted into law by the assem. bly last week, according to reports prevalent at Baton, Rouge, La. Warren S. Stone, grand chief engineer en-gineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Loco-motive Engineers, was elected president presi-dent of all brotherhood activities, including in-cluding banking, insurance and the labor organization, at session of the triennial convention at Cleveland of the Brotherhood and its insurance organizations. Announcement is made by Tex Rickard, master sports promoter, that the corporation of which he is the head had purchased the car barns between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets, New York. Upon this site it was announced will be erected the largest amusement establishment in the world. The cost of the erection of the new garden, as the building will be known, will hp ahnnf 53 nnn - 000. The cost of the site was $2,'-000,000. $2,'-000,000. Joe P. Morgan, 50, deputy sheriff of Muskogee, Okla., was shot and killed by one of two prisoners he and John S. Barger, another Muskogee, Musko-gee, officer were returning to Mosko-gee, Mosko-gee, where the prisoners were wanted want-ed in connection with the theft of automobiles. FOREIGN Proceedings of the Mexican government gov-ernment to expel Herbert C. Cummins, Cum-mins, British agent, were ordered stopped by President Obregon upon flis arrival in Mexico City. This action ac-tion was taken by the president after he had conferred with Foreign Minister Min-ister Aaron Seenz and learned that Great Britain had ordered Cummins' withdrawal. Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Tick-ford Tick-ford were given a great reception by Cheering throngs when they arrived in Copenhagen. The crowds were of such proportions that tramway sen-ice was disrupted and many young women fainted. The square by the Central railway station and its adjoining streets were jammed as early as 5 o'clock in the morning. Massins. owned by Henry Ternynek won the gold cup, with 3500 pounds added, the big event of the Ascot meet, at Ascot Heath. England. Ce-sare Ce-sare Ranucci's Filibert de Savoie. was second. Eleven horses ran. The political consequences growing out of the disappearance of Deputy Matteottl, the "millionarie Socialist", of Italy have been far overshadowed In public importance by the investigation investi-gation into the alleged crime itself. Although the excited public still is goading the nation's guardians of justice to solve the mystery surround, ing the dropping out of sight of Matteotti, the officials thus far have been unable to find any real evidence that the deputy actually has been murdered. Twenty persons, mostly women and children, were drowned when the Norwegian mail steamer Haakon Jarl sank after a collision with the steamer Kong Harald. The coi-sion coi-sion occurred in the Vest fjord of Norway. |