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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES TERSELY TOLO A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS Ar.'D OTHER COUNTRIES. Important Events of the Past Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of tha Busy Reader. INTER1..0UNTAIN. The Fallon, Nevada, sugar factory expects to sum Oft. Lull, and plans to serve increased territory. William A. Hig'.. tower, licensed of the murder of Father Patrick K. Hes-lin, Hes-lin, Colina Catholic priest, pleaded not guilty when arraigned in the superior court at Redwood City, Cal. His trial dale was set for Monday, October 3. Five boxes of the choicest apples , grown in Utah county, Utah, will be Kent to the leaders of the nation at Washington, D. C A box of Jonathans will be sent to President Harding, a box of Delicious to Mrs. Harding, a box of Rome Beauty to Vice President Coolidge and a box each of Winesap to Senators Sinoot and King. The fruit will be sent by die Wood-Clifton Mercantile company of this city some time next month. One of Chicago's largest wholesale clothing firms for men now extensively advertises knickerbockers for women Jor general wear. The advertisement points out the desirability of knickers knick-ers for women for business street wear. Charles W. French, alleged leader of a ring of confidence men whose operations op-erations are said to have totaled ?."0,-000.000, ?."0,-000.000, was released on $13,000 bonds at Chicago this w-'ek. A toy balloon caused the death ot George Price, 2, a coroner's jury decided de-cided at Denver recently. The boy died en route to a hospital after a polk'e ambulance had been summoned. Half, of a rubber balloon was found lodged in the child's w.ndpipe. Showers of hailstones that covered the sidewalks of Jamaica with slush featured a brief electrical storm that swept over New York last ' Saturday and relieved a hot spell. Lightning killed Hazel Donohue, 20 years of age, at Rockaway Beach late in the afternoon. after-noon. The bolt struck in the midst of a throng of bathers. WASHINGTON. A volunteer scrubwoman's, brigade was formed Wednesday by members of the National Woman's party and a scrubbing given to the marble statues in the capitol of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, woman suffrage pioneers. Secretary Hughes at his ccnfere&ee with newspaper men Wdnes6ay good' naturedly criticised the tendency of many newspapers and persons "who ought to know better" for ref.srreing to the coming conference as "the disarmament dis-armament conference." Such a designation, desig-nation, he added, gaven an erroaeoua idea of the real purpose of the meeting. ... The first unit of a modern permanent perman-ent road, which will be traveled all the year round, north from Kemmerer, Wyoming, to the Big Piney section, now being constructed jointly by the county, state and federal government, Is rapidly nearing completion. This work is being done under the supervision super-vision of the state highway department, depart-ment, and nfur acceptance will be maintained by that department. The unit is an expensive on, as there is a vast amoui.t of grading to be done, all of which is to be surfaced with crused rock. There are nloo two steel bridges to be constructed, each with a seventy-foot span, crossing the Ilamsferk river, as well as several immense concrete culverts to carry the flood waters of Willow cree'.:. Wallace Mount, justice of the state supreme court of Washington, since 1901, died of heart llsease at his home at Olympia, Sunday. He was G2 yeais old. Completion of negotiations by which the Hiks lodge of Twin Falls will obtain ob-tain a loan of approximately $75,000 from a Missouri life insurance company com-pany to complete its two story structure struc-ture started last year, was announced by members of the order. The announcement an-nouncement is regarded as presaging resumption of other large scale building build-ing operations. ' ... Mrs. W. JR..Stubbs of Tacoma, Wash, who has admitted she is Maude Moore, Monday started for Knoxville, Tenn., with her two bondsmen. She carried a massive bouquet and was not handcuffed. Her bondsmen, Robert Rob-ert Boring and Edward NeNew of Knoxville, expect to deliver her to the Knoxville authorities Friday and save their ,$10,000 bonds. . . Cooperative sheep-grazing associations associa-tions in the lntermountain west have lost in their action to be relieved of payment of corporation taxes to the federal government according to information in-formation received by Collector of Internal Revenue Jan.es H. Anderson of Utah. Under a' new ruling of the commissioner of internal revenue at Washington, graz'ng associations are subject to tax upon tl!-ir capital stock the same as all other corporations. Immediate development of many government irrigation projects in the west, which will give employment to thousands of men now out of work in various parts of the country, is the proposal made by United States Senator Sen-ator W. E. Borah of Idaho to Secre-, tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover to solve the unemployment problem facing fac-ing the United States at the present time. 1 There will be a desperate battle fought in the senate soon over tne retroactive repeal of the excess profits pro-fits tax and the reduction of the maximum max-imum income surtax from 05 to 32 per ?ent. m w m Because grasshoppers have eaten all grass in certain parts of Wyoming, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad was authorized Saturday by the interstate commerce commiss'on to put in effect on a one-day not'ee reductions in the i":tes on livestock to enable the raisers to move their cattle to other feeding grounds. 99 Congress will probably pass a re. apportionment bill at the present session, ses-sion, Representative Mondell of Wyoming, Republican leader of the house, announced Sp tin-day after a conference with the president. FOREIGN. The British cabinet has invited Mr. de A'alera to send delegates to a conference con-ference with the cabinet ministers at Inverness on September 20, according to the Daily Mail's Inverness correspondent, corres-pondent, who adds:., "only one condition condi-tion is imposed, namely, the understanding under-standing that Ireland must remaTh within the empire." Memorial services for the -victims of the ZR-2 disaster were held in Westminster West-minster Abbey Wednesday, that venerable vener-able edifice being crowded to Its utmost ut-most capacity. Bishop Ryle, dean of Westminster, officiated. King George was represented by Sir Trenchard, British air marshal ; Queen Mary was represented by Colonel Sir A. Divid-son, Divid-son, and the Duke of York by Wing Commander ijouis- Greig. DOMESTIC Bobbed hair and short skirts have received Uncle Sam's approval In the federal board for the vocational training train-ing at Chicago. But Colonel Charles R. Forbes, the director, drew the line on powdered noses, loafing or social calls during office hours. 9 9 Eleven -bolies of miners, entombed at Ilarrisburg, III., recently in the Har-co Har-co mine following a dynamite explo-Bim, explo-Bim, were brought to the surface safely. safe-ly. They were found at from 445 to 1000 feet below the mouth of the mine. , The men were entombed when the dynamite dy-namite charge in a new coal bed penetrated pen-etrated an old walled room, loosing black damp, which is believed tj have caused their death. . About lot) persons were seized with attacks of ptomaine poisoning at the state fair at Columbus. Ohio, a few days ago. Although Investigation is being made to determine the cause, I; Is suspected that the illness of the persons is due to eating free samples of corn beef. State far officials expressed ex-pressed the belief that none will die. Greeted by his friends as the oldest living Freemason in the country, Samuel Sam-uel Cox took his usual birthday walk Sunday at Marblohead, Mass., at the age of 102 jtwu-s. He was made ti member of Philanthropic lodge seventy-five years ago. The organization presented him with 10-' roses. The Loup river Is cutting a new channel two and one-half miles north of Monroe, Neb., and the spreading water Is destroying corn fields and overing a vast araouut of farm Ian Is. . It was said in league of nations circles cir-cles Wednesday that Eiilui Root probably prob-ably would be elected a judge of the new international court of justice, in spite of bis declination to accept. It was said his decision was not regarded at final, and that friends of the league in the United States bad declared there still were hopes that he would accept. ... The assembly of tire league of nations na-tions Wednesday morning postponed again discussion of the request of Bolivia Bol-ivia that tile long disputed question of the provinces of Tacna and Arica. now under the ndnr'nistration of Chile, be placed on the agenda of the assembly. Advocates of rent law reforms ln-i ln-i terrupted the s'tt'ng of the chamber of deputies at Havana Wednesday by jn riotous domonsi ration. The deinon-straters deinon-straters threatened to eject the deputies depu-ties from their After much disorder dis-order tly unruly elements were exiled, but not without difficulty. On the rcqnes' of Spain, the Swiss government decided to extend its permission per-mission for former Emperor Charles of Austria to remain in Switzerland nnt:l October. Under the original penuis-siion penuis-siion he was to have left the country by September 1. ... Tremler Briand of France and Mr. Lloyd George, prime minister of England Eng-land have decided at a private meeting upon a compromise par:itlon of L'pp'-t Silesia. |