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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSY READERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important .Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN The Standard Oil company, which is prospecting in the Cold Bay field, southwest Alaska, has commenced drilling its first well, according to wireless advices. Equipent like that used by the Standard Oil company has arrived at Amborage for the Associated As-sociated Oil company, which was recently re-cently 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 sad he found the cap in an alley and he lit the match to it to see if it would burn. The Union Oil company of California Cali-fornia announced it had leased 10,000 acres of oil land in Laramie county, Colorado, and that the first well in the field was started. A postponement of four weeks in final consideration by the department of agriculture of the merger of Morris 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 Tulare county, California, farmer, who died several months ago, has just been declared to have lost a two year fight to prevent his return to Tulare county coun-ty to answer charges of embezzlement. embezzle-ment. The Colorado supreme court has set aside a habeas corpus petition peti-tion granted by the Denver superior court and ordered Robinson returned to Visalia. A daylight robbery of between ?25,-000 ?25,-000 and ?30,000 in cash occurred in the residence district of Los Angeles when three men In an automobile seized the automobile of Clarence Dale, collector for the Sam Selig chain of grocery stores. The cash was in a c ombination locked strong box bolted to the collector's car. Robbers broke into the Olympia, Washington postoffice and blew open a stamp safe after drilling their way into two vaults. A check showed $27,000 worth of stamps stolen in addition ad-dition to !?:iT4 In cash and several hundred dollars taken from registered register-ed mail, according to Postmaster Frank S. Clem. GENERAL Demands for an investigation of fluctuations in the sugar market, made during the closing days of congress con-gress were revived Thursday by publication pub-lication of a letter written to President Presi-dent Harding by Basil Manly, director of the People's Legislative service, charging that the American people were in a fair way of being robbed of $000,000,000 for the benefit of sugar gamblers and profiteers. Six masked bandits held up a fast freight of Philadelphia Reading near Camp Hill, Pa., uncoupled the engine and looted a cur, escaping with a truck load of merchandise. Fire which broke out in the brush factory at the Allegheny county workhouse work-house at Hoboken, ten miles from here, Thursday destroyed the building build-ing and spread to other parts of the institution. More than 1,000 prisoners prison-ers were confined in the workhouse. Railroad employees promoted to clerical work but not receiving tin; technical rating of clerks will receive the same rate of pay as other men performing the same work, according to nn interpretation on a decision is sued hy the United States railroad labor hoard. Mrs. Anna Buzzii, housekeeper for Frederick Schneider, wealthy Bronx contractor, when he was slain on February 2D, was arrested on a charge of homicide. She had been released after being held several days as a material witness. One man has been drowned and four or five families tire trapped on Betz's island in the Missouri river west of Sergeant Bluffs, as a result of the rapidly rising water. The dead man was Arthur Johnson. He lost his life trying to make his escape es-cape from the rapidly disappearing strip of land. PERSONAL Leonard R. Steel, 45, of Buffalo, N. T. founder of the L. 11. Steel corporation cor-poration died suddenly on a westbound west-bound New York Central train near here early Thurseday. Mr. Steel was found dying in his berth by Ernest Mattey, his chauffeur. Milo D. Campbell of Michigan, who recently became the dirt farm member mem-ber of the federal reserve board dropped drop-ped dead while playing golf at the Columbia Country club at Washington Washing-ton D. C. A medical bulletin issued said the condition of George Jay Gould, Sr., American railway magnate and financier fi-nancier who is ill in France, was noticeably better; complications affecting af-fecting the heart had caused much anxiety on the part of the sick American's friends. Mrs. John W. Weeks, wife of the secretary of war is very ill on board the private yacht "Evergreens" which was hurried into port to secure medical medi-cal aid for Mrs. Weeks. Three archbishops, fifteen bishops and two hundred priests attended the funeral service at St. Louis for Bishop Maurice F. Burke of the St. Joseph diocese of the Roman Catholic church at St. Joseph's cathedral. The Earl of Carnarvon, who has been supervising the excavations at the tomb of King Tutenkhamen, is suffering severely from blood poisoning, poison-ing, presumbaly the result of an insect in-sect bite. The world's non-stop dancing record rec-ord now is claimed by a Marseilles "professor" who called it a day after he had held the floor for 2-i hours 4 minutes and 5 seconds. He was assisted by two young women pupils, the first of whom, Mile. Marcelle Tref, danced 10 hours, 25 minutes and 15 seconds. Mayor James Rolph Jr. of San Francisco is prepared to name a committee com-mittee of twenty-live business and political po-litical leaders for the announced purpose pur-pose of attempting to secure for San Francisco both the Republican and Democratic 1924 national conventions. conven-tions. Enforcement of law equally against all classes today stands out as a factor on which depends towards advancement ad-vancement of the nation, according to Attorney General Daugherty, who addressed ad-dressed the Florida Bar association at Miami, through a letter. Mr. Daugherty was unable to attend the bar meeting in person because of his recent illness. Lord George Henry II. Cholmond-ely, Cholmond-ely, the fourth Marquis of Cholmond-eley( Cholmond-eley( died at Malpas, England. He is succeeded by his son, the Earl of Rocksavage, a well-known polo and tennis player. FOREIGN The American consulate at Smyrna has been destroyed by fire. The seals and records were saved. One Irish Irregular was killed one wounded and four others were captured cap-tured in a raid by Free State troops in Kingstown. The captured men are said to be prominent local Republican Re-publican leaders. Sixty members of a new Germanic praty were arrested throughout Germany, Ger-many, charged with "traitorous activities." ac-tivities." The police are believed to have nipped in the bud another projected pro-jected ''putsch," but the Prussian minister of the Interior makes a secret se-cret of the affair. Captain Roald Amundsen, bead of the Norwegian Polar scientific expo-dtion, expo-dtion, has announced that he has wired his attorney in Christiana to dispose of his homo in Norway to raise funds to meet debts Incurred by the expedition. Governor General Leonard Wood, Manuel Quezon, president of the senate, sen-ate, and Manuel Koxas, speaker of tho house, left Manila for Iho island of Negros to investigate tho advisability of selling the Bix sugar centrals now operated under the management of tho Philippines national bank. was reported that tho Jnpuneso government Is preparing to send a protest to Washington against the continued insistence of United Statos Minister Schnrman, at Peking, that the Chinese-American wireless con-Iract con-Iract bo completed. Japan lias lodged protests with tho Poking government against the American contract, claiming claim-ing prior concessions. A sensatonal story of a plot by an Irish republican organization lo murder mur-der P.rltlsh cabinet ministers and commit othor outrages Is printed by the London Daily Sketch. The newspaper news-paper connects tho alleged schome with tho activities of Irishmen recently re-cently arrostod In Great Ilrltaln. It says that tho persons marked for an-suslnntlon an-suslnntlon Included Premier Lonar Law, David Lloyd Goorgo and Sir Hamar Greenwood. |