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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Roportei' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Idalio'H nubile utilities commission Is voU'lni; protest n sains t tho ruling by the western trunk lino committee which allows only two free diversions on a car of potatoes after It leaves tho b1i1i)iIiik point. According to Will H. Gibson, a niemlior of the commission, commis-sion, tho ruling would affect Idaho jiotntoes In carlond lots to the principal princi-pal markets for Iilalio potatoes. lie lirtdod that Idaho shippers need more diversion privileges hecause of the lens haul east of tho itocky Mountains. Moun-tains. Frederick Miller, Portland, Oregon jeweler, was sentoneed to 15 months In the On'Kon penitentiary and fined fl, following conviction of man-KlauKhter man-KlauKhter as the result of the death of Mrs. Alma Hull, who was run down and fatally hurt by an automobile clrlvon liy Miller along the Columbia highway, January 23. Oregon manufactured $2,003,000 worth of candy during 1!23, according : to figures complied from excise taxes paid. Tho report Indicates that Ore. gon Is ono of the largest caterers to the western sweet tooth this side of tho Mississippi. Automobile licenses collected for the first half of 192-i exceed by $30,-000 $30,-000 the amount collected for the en-tiro en-tiro year of 1023, according to II. J. jMcXliorry, state traffic inspector for Nevada. Four men were severely burned when bullets from the coast guard cuttor Areata, seeking rum smugglers, smug-glers, pierced the gasoline tank of their motorboat in Mutiny bay, eighteen eight-een miles north of Seattle, Wash. ( Three of the four men were wounded by bullets. Adolph B. Spreckels, nationally known sugar magnate manufacturer and sportsmen, died at his home at ' San Francisco. Investigation has revealed that 89.CS per cent of Lewis county bees are In a diseased condition according to B. A. Slocum, apiary specialist of Washington State college at Pullman. Pull-man. J. O. Wallace of t'hehalis has been made inspector N of this district In hopes of removing what is regarded re-garded as a serious condition. A water well that cost the Green Kiver water works $3000 to drill is a gift by that corporation to the people of Rock Sprigs, Wyoming for their proposed city park near No. 6. The only provision is that the city pay the cost of the casing which is estimated at $175. Mrs. Henry Landcs, wife of the dean of science in the University of Washington and acting mayor of Seattle in the absence of Dr. Edwin J. Brown, mayor, at the Democratic national convention in New York u .. - i.-l. l -1... f v u , nus uiueu peiaonai c.Hige ul the police department. Mrs. Landes removed William B. Severyne from the office of chief of police, after she had given him twenty-four hours to effect reforms in the city and in his department, and he defied her. GENERAL Pr. James Whitney Hall, alienist retained by the defense for Nathan I-eopoId Jr. and Kichard I.oeb, confessed con-fessed kidnapers and slayers of 13-year 13-year old Robert Franks of Chicago, started an examination of the youths at the county jail. After examining the youths he announced that important import-ant facts advantageous to the defense had been revealed. Cyrus E. Woods, ambassador to Japan has formally presented his resignation re-signation to I'resident Coolidge and it was accepted with an expression of appreciation for his services.. Kefer-rin,; Kefer-rin,; to the Japanese exclusion provision provi-sion in the immigration law. Mr. Woods declared Japan was conducting conduct-ing herself in the situation "with the dignity of n great nation." A twisting tornado that whirled out of the west last Saturday took six lives in Sandusky, Ohio, leveled approximately 200 dwellings, destroyed des-troyed twenty-five business places, injured more than 100 persons and caused a property damage variously estimated at between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. Between 2."W and 3000 veterans of the World war who served In the Iialnbow division, will come to Columbia Col-umbia South Carolina for the annual convention of . the Rainbow Idvision Veterans, July 14-HI according to Col. J. Monroe Johnson of Marion, S. C, president of the national organization. Preparations are being completed by Colonel Johnson in cooperation with a central state committee in Columbia. Thomas Murphy's Baron Worthy, the favorite, won the Kdwards purse of S.MiOO with $.100 added, feature of the grand circuit card at Cleveland, Ohio. Itussell Ongale was second ami Mary Spangler third. Best time 2:0-1 2-5, made by Bussell Ongale on taking the first preliminary. Hr. Charles K. Edmunds for the last fifteen years president of Canton Can-ton Christian college, China was installed in-stalled as provost of John Hopkins university. Dr. Edmunds is an alumnus alum-nus of Johns Hopkins of tho class of 1S07. His research work was in tho field of optics and terrestial magnetism. magne-tism. For eleven years he was in charge of the Carnegie institution's magnetic survey of the China coast. Bobei't B. Loudon, president of tho Loudon Coal Mines company of southern south-ern Illinois, which went into receivership receiver-ship in Minneapolis four months ago with liabilities estimated at approximately approxi-mately .$10,000 was indicted by the Hennepin county grand jury and arraigned ar-raigned on a charge of embezzlement. A campaign for $3,000,000 for a new Catholic preparatory seminary for the diocese of Cleveland, Ohio, was completed com-pleted with oversubscriptions of approximately ap-proximately 50 per cent It was announced. an-nounced. The new seminary will provide accommodations for several hundred students. Loss of life in Saturdays tornado which wrecked a large portion of Lorain and parts of Sandusky and other Ohio cities, was not as great as first reported, but rechecking of casualties showed that more than 100 persons lost their lives in this storm and almost simultaneous disturbances at Pittsburg and in the upper Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley. Russcl McDaniel, aged 18, of Mat-toon, Mat-toon, 111., was instantly killed in a baseball game at Johnstown, 111., twenty-five miles southeast of Mat-toon Mat-toon between a Mattoon team and a Johnstown and Trilla nine. McDan-iels McDan-iels was batting and was hit on the head with a ball. FOREIGN R. H. Todd, commis'sioner of immigration immi-gration and Republican national committeeman, com-mitteeman, was nominated for residence resi-dence commissioner at Washington by the pure Republicans at a convention conven-tion which for the first time placed women on the territorial committee with votes at San Juan, Porto Rico. The water shortage may prevent the holding of the swimming, diving and water polo events of the Olympic games in Paris as scheduled. Lieutenant Locatelli, chief pilot of tho projected Amudsen aeroplane expedition ex-pedition to the north pole, has interviewed inter-viewed Premier Musstolini and the director of aviation, Mercanta, regarding re-garding the feasibility of a similar expedition under the auspices of the Italian government. Great Britian eats as much ice cream every year as all the people of New7 York state plus two-thirds of those in Pennsylvania, according to those who manufacture it over here. Last, year hist majesty's subjects consumed con-sumed 20,000,000 gallons of this froz en product. Premier Herriot of France is determined deter-mined that the Ruhr must continue to be occupied and that funds to cover the expense of the occupation must be provided even though he should be defeated by his insistance on this point. The cutting down of the American flag at the United States embassy at Tokio by an unidentified Japanese was discussed in the lower house of the diet, while it was officially indicated indi-cated that a special meeting of the cabinet might be held to discuss the affair. A train collision between Tlalna-pantla Tlalna-pantla and Atzpotzalco, about seven miles from Mexico City, has caused four deaths and a number of injuries injur-ies among the passengers. The first and second class coaches of a mixed train proceeding to Mexico City became be-came uncoupled, the engineer not knowing that he had lost the coaches coach-es until some time afterward. The cars collided with a freight train. Flans for the evacuation of the Dominican republic by the United States marines, who have been stationed sta-tioned there for almost seven years, have been completed with the assignment assign-ment of the naval transports Henderson, Hender-son, Kittery. Beaufort and Jason to the task of removing the 1S00 men now on the island. The evacuation will start as soon as possible after July 10. |