Show telegraphic TA TALES LE S FOR BE A RESUME OF THE WEEKS DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES important events of the last seven days reported by wire and pre pared for the belef t of the busy reader WESTERN the standard oil company which Is prospecting in the cold bay day field southwest alaska has commenced drilling its first well according to wireless advices equipment Equi pent like that meed used by the standard oil company has arrived at Am borage tor for the As socia ted oil company which wis re bently forced to suspend on its first well hard rock was struck at yakima wash one boy lost an eye and another boy the fingers off both hands and three others were slightly injured when one of them lit a match to a dynamite cap which he was holding in his hand the lad ead sad he found the cap in an alley and he lit the match to it to see if it would bum the union oil company of call cali tornia fornia announced it had leased 10 acres of oil land in L laramie county colorado and that the first well in the field was started A postponement of 0 four weeks in final consideration by the department of agriculture odthe 0 the merger of mor ris and company and armour and company packing interests requested by the packers has been agreed to by secretary wallace at present in oklahoma peter robinson former county count california farmer who died leveal months ago has just been declared to have lost a two year fight to prevent his return to tulare coun ty to answer charges of embezzle ment the colorado supreme court has set aside i habeas corpus peti tion granted by the denver superior court and ordered Po dobinson binson returned to visalia A daylight robbery of between aa 20 and 30 in cash occurred in the residence d strict of los angeles when three men in an automobile seized the automobile of clarence pale collector for the sam selig bhain of grocery stores the fhe cash was in a c om loci ed strong tg bolted to the collectors cir robbers broke into the olympia washington postoffice post office and blew open a stamp safe after driling dr lomg their way into two vaults A check showed worth of stamps stolen in ad to in cash and several bundled dollars taken from register ed mall mail ac according cordin to postmaster Post mastel prank frank S clem GENERAL demands for tin an investigation of fluctuations in the sugar market made nade during the closing days of con gress were revived thursday by pub ll cation of a letter written to pres dent harding by basil 11 manly director of the peoples legislative service charging that the american people were in a fair way of being robbed of tor for the benefit of sugar gamblers and profiteers ol 01 six masked bandits held up a fast f freight of philadelphia reading near dcamp camp hill pa uncoupled the engine and rud looted a car escaping with a truck load of merchandise tire rire which broke out in the brush factory at the allegheny county work house at hoboken ten miles from here h re thursday destroyed the bull 1 ing and spread to other parts of the institution more than 1000 prison eis were confined in tl ti e workhouse 11 f t 1 railroad employees promoted to clerical work but not receiving the technical rating of clerks will receive the th same rate of kiy as other men performing the same work according to an interpretation on a decision Is sued by the united states ra broad labor board I 1 mrs anna buzzel housekeeper tor for r frederick Ere derick schneider wealthy bronx contractor when he was slain on february 28 was arre ted on a charge ot homic de she had been released after being held several days as a material wi witness one man has been drowned and four or five famil es are trapped on betz s island in the missouri river west of sergeant bluffs as a t result 0 ot of tl e aia p adly ris ng water the dead ded man was arthur johnson he lost his life trying to make his es cabe cape from the rapidly t disappearing land AL 3 T s la PERSONAL leonard R steel 45 of 0 buffalo N I 1 founder of the L P steel cor po horation por atlon ration died suddenly on a west bound new lork central train near here early Thur seday mr steel was found dying in his berth by ernest mattey his chauffeur milo p campbell of michigan who recently became the dirt farm mem her ber of the federal reserve board drop ped dead wl lie ile playing golf at the columbia country club at Iv cashing ashing ton D C A medical bulletin issued said the condit on of george jay gould sr american railway magnate and fi fancier who Is ill in france was noticeably better complications at the heert had caused much anxiety on the part of the sick american s friends mrs john vi 11 11 eel s wife of the secretary of war is very ill on board the private yacht evergreens which as hurried into port to secure medi med cal aid tor for mrs IN weeks beeks three archbishops fifteen bishops baisl aps ops and two I 1 undred priests attended the funeral service at st louis tor for bishop maurice I 1 burke of the st joseph diocese of the roman catholic church at sl st s cathedral the earl of carnarvon who has been aper supervising ising the excitations at tit the tomb of king ring is suffering severely from blood poison ing the result of an in sect bite the NN worlds orld s non nonstop stop dancing rec ord now Is claimed by a marse lies lles professor who called it a day after he had held the floor tor for 24 hours 4 minutes and 5 seconds he ile was assisted by two young women pupils the first of f whom majle arcelle M tret danced 16 hours aa minutes and 15 seconds mayors james rolph jr of sm san francisco kran cisco is prepared to name a corn com cittee of twenty anve fin e bus ness and po lotical leaders tor for the announced pur pose of attempting to secure for sin S in francisco both the republican and democratic 1924 national conven eions enforcement of law equally against all classes today stands out as a factor on which depends towards ad van Nan cement of the according to attorney general Daug daugherity heity who ad diessel the florida bar association at miami through a letter mr daugherty was unable to attend tl ti a e bar meeting in person because of his 11 recent illness lord george henry 11 II Ch olmond ely the fourth marquis of Ch olmond eley died at malpas england he Is succeeded by his son the earl of a well known polo and tennis player FOEt EIGN the american consulate at smyrna has been destroyed by tire fire the seals and records were saved one irish irregular was killed one wounded and tour four others were ere captured in a raid by free state troops 11 in hingst kingstown own the captured men are said to 0 o be prominent local re publican leaders sixty members of a new germanic were arrested throughout ger mana man charged with traitorous ac c tivi ties the police are believed to hai e nipped in the bud another pro ejected putsch but the prussian minister of the interior makes a se cret of the affair captain roald amundsen head of the norwegian ian polar scientific elpe dation has announced that he has wired h s attorney in christiana to dispose of his home in norway to raise funds to meet debts incurred id by the expedition governor general leonard mv wood manuel quezon pies dent of the sen ate ite and manuel rosas romas speaker of the hou bouise houise e left manila for tl e island of negros to investigate the advisability of selling the six sug r centrals now operated under the in management mina ina gement of the phil paines national bank it t was reported that the japanese u eminent is preparing to send a protest to washington against the continued insistence of united states minister schurman it I 1 eken eking tl at the chinese Americ american ait wheless con tract be completed has lod lodge el 1 protests with the peking government against the american contract claim ing i nor concesa ons A sensational sen sens satonil atonal story of a plot by an irish republican organization to mur der british cabinet ministers and commit other outrages Is printed by the london dally daily sketch the news paper connects the alleged scheme with the activities of irishmen re bently arrested in great britain it says that the persons marked tor for as ss nation included premier lonai lonar law david lloyd george and sli sh hamir hamar greenwood |