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Show ! All Corners I of the Earth Complete Hwtory of the Past WeeK Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. Crook county, Ore., carried off prizes at Sopkane at the northwest potato show held there a few weeks ago. An oral will In which Lewis county property worth 80,000 was at Make, lias Just been set aside by the Washington Wash-ington supremo court, which In effect holds that no such will can stand the te.st In this state. V An unidentified man, believed by fho police to be Norman D. Gould died at PeiTvor, Colo, as the rpsult of a boating boat-ing administered to him with n bnso-hull bnso-hull hut by Mrs. Caroline Rossi at her home there according to an nllegel confession made to the police. Samuel P. Walker, known far and wide ns the "Medicine.. Min of flie Gallatin," anl founder and president of the Sheklnnh Healing association, on organization that claimed to hare found the secret of prolonging life, wag found denfl In his room at a hotel in Bozenvan, Mont. Emll E. Zsehau of the Butte Miner composing room force Is In receipt of a letter from Colonel Amerlcus MfteTlfell praising the work of Captain Zsehau, son of the Butte man, In the recent rifle gallery practice at the Reserve Officer's Training corps of the University Univer-sity of Nebraska. After neighbors of L. C. McKnnoy of Hood River, Ore., reported his case the County Health Nurse found the man who was out of employment trying try-ing to care for a 10-month-old son and In despair over desertion by his wife, wtio took with her an older child. White Mrs. Effle Hlckson sat at a table, pencil In hand to begin a letter, R. Hlckson her husband, steppeu Into the room silently with an automatic pistol In his hand and fired a bullet from behind his victim which entered the head just back of the right ear. Tho woman died Instantly and remained re-mained seated in the chair until found. Hlckson then turned the weapon upon himself and fired another bullet Into his own head from behind tho loft ear. GENERAL An entire family at Detriot, Mich, was asphyxiated by fumes from a gas heater, police discovered, when they forced entrance into the home at the request of neighbors. Because they were too poor to marry, Thomas Brands, IS and his sweetheart, sweet-heart, Matilda Rlst, 17 took their lives by poison. The boy told of the shattered shat-tered romance in the general hospital at Passaic, N. J., where he died. e Her ability to cook has earned Mrs. Anna Souder of Philadelphia $00,000 and an automobile. This sum and the motor car were loft to her by tlie will of Samuel W. Ihllng, for whom she was housekeeper. p Former United States Commissioner of Education P. P. Claxton pointed out that the $300,000,0X) paid for furs in the United States In 1920 Is more than twice the cost of all higher education in colleges, universities and profession- j al and technical schools, whether supported sup-ported by public taxation or privately endowed. A plan to use 4000 unemployed men in the city as night watchmen, their wages to be paid by contributions of 15 cents weekly by each family in the territory they are to guard, has been suggested to the unemployment committee com-mittee by Mayor Moore, of Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. The men who served under General Francisco Villa, former revolutionist, are soon to receive from the government govern-ment tracts of land in accordance with the agreement made wftb Villa by the Huerta government at the time of his surrender In July, 1920. Ench man will receive nbout fifteen acres. 4 Tho National Exhibition company, owners of the Polo Grounds, Is defendant defen-dant In a suit for $100,000, brought by Frank Lang, a Bronx butcher. Tor injuries suffered by bis four-year-old daughter Freda. In a f;ill from the bleachers during a baseball game at the Polo Grounds last May. WASHINGTON. Shoe manufacturers appearing be fore the senate flRance committee wtro given to understand by Acting Chairman Chair-man McChumber that hides vyjuld not be on the free list when the permanent tariff bill Is reported to the senate. m The present Immigration law, which was passed early last spring for the duration of one year, Is now close to its termination, and n committee of congress Is taking testimony with n view to determining what changes, If any, to mnke In the law. Germany's diplomatic and consulat forces pressed their preparations for banging out their Bag again In Washington, Wash-ington, New York and other cities. The new German consulate opens January 3. Most of its staff already has arrived. ar-rived. President and Mrs. Harding will revive re-vive the White House New Year's reception, re-ception, which was discontinued duriny the Wilson administration. They will receive members of the diplomatic corps, cabinet members and their families fam-ilies and the public at large. The suhnmrine controversy has revealed re-vealed so wide a difference of opinion among the powers that the arms delegates del-egates are seriously discussing a plan to leave the question of auxiliary warship war-ship tonnage to a later International conference. Co-operation of state law enforcement enforce-ment officials with those of the federal fed-eral government was nsSerT by Attorney At-torney General Daugherty In letters sent to the attorney generals of the states. Such co-operation, it was maintained, would result In better and more uniform enforcement of' all statutes. p Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, arrived ar-rived in Washington from Atlanta, having hav-ing been released by presidential commutation com-mutation of sentence from the federal penitentiary there Christmas day, after having been Imprisoned since March 1019, for violation of the espionage net. Charges were made by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin In a statement that representatives of the railroads and of the coal, steel and lumber interests in-terests at a "secret" meeting in Washington Wash-ington December 9, attempted to obtain ob-tain from farm organization lenders and did obtain from some leaders adherence ad-herence to an agreement not to push legislation to repeal the commonly called guaranty section of the transportation trans-portation act and te restore slate control con-trol of state rates. FOREIGN. The ninth nil-Russian soviet congress approved of the new soviet economic policy as outlined before that gathering by Premier Lenlne. A special group of detectives has been assigned to duty only In connection con-nection with railway thefts. During the last 10 months more than three million dollars worth of merchandise has been stolen on British railways. mm An unexpected feature of the first national convention of the French Communist party, in session at Marseilles, Mar-seilles, developed when the women delegates del-egates voiced opposition to the anti-militarist anti-militarist campaign. S'nce Spanish troops crossed the river Kert, near Clltlkermin, Morocco, on December 22, operations have been at a standstill, but preparations are proceeding for further forward movement, move-ment, with the eventual objective of attaining Dardrius. s Sentiment throughout Ireland, us reflected re-flected in dispatches to London newspapers, news-papers, is overwhelmingly iu favor of the Irish pence treaty. Reports from various provlncas Indicate that fully 90 per cent of the people In the 26 counties of southern Ireland want the pact ratified. The terms of the commercial agreement agree-ment between Holy and soviet Russia, which was signed by Foreign Minister Delia Torretta and M. Vorovsky the soviet representative, were published by the Home newspapers. The agreement agree-ment provides for resumption of trade between the two countries pending negotiations ne-gotiations for a general economic treaty. The first official report of cannibalism canni-balism In the famine districts of Russia Rus-sia has been made to the all-Russian soviet congress by Delegate Oveslenko of Samara. "At Ramlkovesky the parish par-ish people ore eating the bodies of their dead." he told the congress. "It is dangerous to bury the famine vie-thus vie-thus in the presence of the people, and guards must be kept over thera until they are in n state that makes catviiy Impossible." |