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Show ' TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reporter' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the 1 Busy Reader '' WE8TERN Mrs. Kennie Solomon "Adler of San Francisco voluntarily relinquished relinquish-ed her claim to the $100,000 estate of her late husband, John S. Adler, in order that it mifrht go to his sister, sis-ter, Miss Clara Adler of the Elms hotel, Chicago, when Adler's will came up for probate in superior court. Mrs. Henry Landes, 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 City, has taken personal charge of 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. 1 ' Fresno, Calif .General Grant na tional park, with its towering sequo- ' ias, has been saved from the flames which for three days have swept I menacingly toward it. A battle at ' the county road leading into the park and along Mill Creek, several miles from the park, has succeeded It was declared by fighters. The main effort is now being made to save the $1,000,000 grove of giant redwoods' on Redwood mountain on the eastern side of the firs. . Coarhart, Ore. Taxation of electric elec-tric light and power companies in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana ' and Utah hus increased 42 per cent in the last three years', according to statistics assembled by George L,. Myers, president of the Northwest Electric Light and Power association i and presented ' at Thursday night's session of the association's. ' annual convention. This percentage of tax ! increase, President Myers declared, is greater than the combined increase in the amount of money invested, the gross revenues, expense of operation net revenue and fixed charges of all the companies in this geographic di-, di-, vision. . Twenty-two of the thirty-three nurses in Nevada are employed at St. Mary's hospital in Reno, according accord-ing to a list of registered Nevada nurses received by Secretary of State ; Y. V. Greathouse. Altogether there I are niety-eight nurses registered in ! this state, but only thirty-three have i Nevada addresses. Report from Cheyenne is that State Treasurer John Snyder will I draw a check for $400,000 July 1st i and apply it on the state highway j bonds. This mafies a total paid on ; these bonds which were floated sev- ernl years ago of $1,650,000, and j leaves a balance due of $2,950,000. ' Of the apportionment among states for federal highway construction for the coming year, beginning July 1, Wyoming will receive $936,372. This announcement comes from Secretary Wallace. Lieutenant Russel L. Maughan succeeded on his third attempt in crossing the continent between daylight day-light and dark, making the trip from New York to San Francisco with an average speed of more than 156 miles an hour. Burglars ransacked the home of Jack I'ickford, motion picture actor, at Ixjs Angeles and escaped with jewelry valued at between ?37,000 and 540,000. according to the police. The loss was discovered by a maid upon her return to the house after a Sunday Sun-day off. ( H A. Cunard Cummins, charge de archives of the British legation at the . City of Mexico lm8 crossed the border into the United States at Laredo, Texas, and left for San Antonio. He refused to comment as to whether or not his retirement from Mexico was voluntary. GENERAL. I Cyrus E. Woods, ambassador to Japan lias formally presented his resignation re-signation to President Coolidge and it was accepted with an expression of ' appreciation for his services.. Kefer-Ung Kefer-Ung to the Japanese exclusion provision provi-sion in the immigration law, Mr. Woods declared Japan was conduet-. conduet-. lng herself in the situation "with the dignity of a great nation." Plans for the evacuation of the Dominican republic by the United States marines, who have been stationed sta-tioned there fur almost seven years, have been completed with the assign, ment of the naval transports Henderson, Hender-son, Kittery, Beaufort anil Jason to the task of removing the 1S00 men now on the island. The evacuation will start as soon as possible after July 10. Suit for $25,000 damages was filed in supreme court at New York by Mrs. Mary Carey of New Uochelle, against the manufacturer and seller of a "hot cross bun" that last April caused her she says, to lose all her front teeth, injure her jaw and gums, nd permanently impaired her personal per-sonal appearance. She says the bun contain"!! a wire nail. Bishop Ucvi L. Coppin of the African Afri-can Methodist Episcopal church, is dead at Philadelphia of pneumonia. He was 70 yea'-s old. Bishop Copping Cop-ping had supervision over the Fourth Episcopal district, w'nich comprises the states of Michigan,-,, Illinois and Indiana. Definite assurance that the premier's pre-mier's conference in London will be restricted to a discussion of the Dawes plan for reparation settlement and that the subject of interallied debts will not be permitted to come forward has reached the Washington government. A violent windstorm which reached reach-ed a velocity of fifty-two miles an hour, swept the southern section of Omaha, unroofing buildings, leveling light and telephone wires and wreck-ing-a number of houses. Several persons per-sons were hurt. Property damage was heavy. There was some loss of livestock. Many persons were reported injured in-jured at New York by an explosion of undetermined origin on board the British freighter Egremont Castle at her dock in Brooklyn. Two alarms of fire were sounded and half a dozen doz-en ambulances summoned. H. H. Biglow, millionsre president of Brown and Bigelow, St. .Paul advertising ad-vertising concern, as sentenced to two years' in -Leavenworth peniten-tiary peniten-tiary and fined $10,000 An federal courtat St. Paul, Minn., when he pteant guilty to attempting to de-frauo de-frauo - ,the government of income tax returns. Andrew Mellons, secretary of the treasury, and Arthur Sixsmith, hia secretary, have been subpoenaed to appear at witnesses for the defense in the trial of Gaston Means and Elmer Jarnecke, who are charged with violation of the prohibition laws. FOREIGN Roald Amundsen, the explorer, who has been preparing for an airplane expedition to the North Pole, has announced an-nounced that the trip has been postponed post-poned because of economic difficulties, difficul-ties, according to a dispatch from Pisa, Italy. Captain Amundsen de-clered de-clered it would be out of the question for his expedition to start this year. A free for all fight between American Amer-ican and Filipino sailors from American Amer-ican warships at Torquay was reported re-ported by the Press Association. The Filipinos are reported to have used knives, wounding two Yankee sailor3. The fight started in a dance hall. The chief of the Yokohoma customs force has apologized to United States Consul Kemper for the discourteous treatment to which American passengers passen-gers of the President Madison were s-ubjected by members of his staff. Some of the American passengers of the President Madison were forced to undergo an unusually rigorous examination ex-amination when the vessel arrived here on June 24, including the removal re-moval of their shoes. Superior offi cers intervened and apologized' to the passengers'. Since that incident American passengers arriving here have been treated most courteously. The United States will be invited to send a representative to the proposed pro-posed allied conference in London in July in any capacity the American government thinks fit. Japan will be included among the nations invited. in-vited. About $750,000,000 of private Japanese Jap-anese capital is invested in Mancnur-ia Mancnur-ia and Mongolia, according to statistics sta-tistics published by the colonial affairs af-fairs bureau of the Japanese government. govern-ment. These figures do not include in-clude the vast enterprises of the South Manchurian Railway company, in which the Japanese government is the principle shareholder. ) The British prime minister, Ramsey Ram-sey MacDonald, and M. Herriot, the French premier, hr?e agreed provided provid-ed there is no objection from ths other allies, than an allied conference conferen-ce shall be held in London not latei than mid-July for the purpose ci definitely deciding on the procedure to be adopted for putting the Dawes report into execution. |