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Show All Corners j ofilie Earth Complete History of the Patt Week Told in Paragraphs Prepared for the Busy Reader INTERMOUNTAIN. Fire Tuesday destroyed practically the entire town of Cloverdale, Ore., In southern Tillamook county, according accord-ing to word received here. L. D. Robinson, chief clerk in the Salt Lake offices of the Chicago, Burlington Bur-lington & Quincy railroad, Thursday becomes traveling freight agent for that company, working out of Salt Lake over the territory handled by R. F. Xeslen, general agent. This includes in-cludes Utah and Neveda, most of IOa-ho IOa-ho and parts of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. Arguments in the application of Marcus Mar-cus Murray for letters of administration administra-tion in the estate of his uncle, James A. Murray, who died recently in California, Cal-ifornia, were concluded Friday and the matter was taken under advisement by District Judge Jackson. Mr. Murray left an estate in Montana and Pacific coast states valued a several million dollars. Scott C. Bone, newly appointed governor gov-ernor of Alaska, accompanied by Mrs. Bone and his son and daughter, sailed for Juneau Saturday. He said he would take over the office, succeeding Governor Thomas Riggs Jr. immediately immediate-ly upon his arrival at Juneau. General T. Coleman Dupont announced an-nounced at Colorado Springs late Thursday that he had telegraphed the governor of Delaware, accepting his appointment to the United States senate to suceed Josiah O. Wolcott. '7ith an estimated fllnsh production of from 400 to 500 barrels of oil daily the No. 2 well of the Thermopolis Cat Creek Creek syndicate located in section sec-tion 11-15-20 near Lewiston Mont, came In recently according to an announcement announce-ment of company officials. Vhi-pe fatal ncidents happened at Sundance, AVyo. last week. Louis Schnedier, 70 year old prospector, was found dead with a bullet through his heart; Ralph McHenry died from a broken back en vised by an automobile accident and Walter AtkinsonlS years old, was dragged to death by a horse. The Pacific fleet, with all its 207 vessels ves-sels present, will rendezous in San Francisco bay on or about September 1. for review by Secretary of the Navy Denny, according to an official order Issued by Admiral 75. W. Eberle, fleet commander, Saturday. The ships will pass in review befoe Denby in battle formation, it was said, and the demonstration demon-stration will be one of the greatest displays dis-plays in the navy's history. During the year 120 the production of gold, silver, copper, etc.. in Neveda was as follows: Gold 172,540.46 ounces; ilver 7,745,093 fine ounces ; copper. 50,549,763 pounds; lead 21,263,700 pounds, of a total valuation of $23,879-513. $23,879-513. OOME8TIC. Mrs. David Duff of Centralia Kansas, who died after a three days' illness, was the largest woman in the couuty. She weighed 500 ponds. She was 37 and the mother of three children. Jter paretics are of normal sizj. The number of cattle for each hun-dred hun-dred persons in the United States is one-third less than in 1900, the sheep 6upply Is reduced nearly two-Hiirds, while the number of hogs is 41 pet-cent pet-cent smaller, according to figures com-. com-. piled from the federal census repiwts by Herbert Myrick, a farm expert of Chicago: Jn the sworn affidavits of Jack Dem-ipscy Dem-ipscy and Jack Kearns that tTTey are no longer residents of Utah and California, Californ-ia, respectively, but that they are and have been residing in business in New Yok, Supreme Court Justice Guy Thurs afternoon issued an order to Frank J. Spellman to show cause why he should not release Dempsey's ?0300 automobile that Spellman had attached nt the beginning of bis 9IO0.00O suit against the champion and his manager. alleging breach of contract regarding ituorton picture rights. Governors of thirteen slates, including includ-ing Wyoming, will meet at Salt Lake on July ISih. discuss the future progress pro-gress of activilles of the Western State Reclamation service. C. I.avier of Ogdensburg. N. Y. was able to talk Saturday after being dumb for nine months as a result of shell shock. His voice came back-to back-to him when a thunderstorm shook the steamer Rapids King, on which he was travling from Toronto. More than thirty men have been apprehended ap-prehended at Detroit as rum runners on Detroit river during the past few days by officers in a powerful speed 'boat, it wa- learned Tuesday. The -officers are empowered to act on either Bid of the .international boundliry.- i Seven slates sweltered Wednesday in thi- giii of a heat wave which threatened serious damage to crops. Temperatures ranging from P5 to 110 were reported inlllino's, Wisconsin, Missouri. Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. Much sickness, especially among children was reported as the result re-sult of the torrid spell. Rain was badly needed lu practically all parts o the Middle West. Frank A. Peterson, assitant United States attorney, of Omaha, Neb. tendered ten-dered his resignation Wednesday in a letter to Attorney General Daugberty, in which he declared his sense of "jus tice had been outraged" by the pay. don of Thomas II. Matters. Omaha at torney, who he said, served but forty-four forty-four days of a live-year term. Mr Miitfers, who was sentenced on n charge of violating the national banking bank-ing act in connection with the failure of the First National bank of Sutton, Neb., was recenly released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. A compromise is said to have been reached by government officials and officers of-ficers of the breweries recently raided raid-ed and closed by prohibition agents at New Orleans, La. According to the reported agreement, the brewers will pay to the government, in tax penalties penal-ties a sum considerably more than .$100,000. Payment of these penalties it was reported, would not exempt the brewers from being prosecuted on chargs of having violated the Volstead act. WASHINGTON. The labor department shows that a year ago the dollar had a buying power pow-er of 37 cents as compared with its value before the war. Now the power has increased to 65 cents. For the convenience of visitors in the various cities over the country, Postmaster General Hays plans to have all postoffice buildings marked with suitable signs erected on the exterior. ex-terior. Dr. David Jayne Hill author, collegian colleg-ian and diplomatist of long experience, likely will be the administration's choice as the first American ambassador ambassa-dor to Germany, following the world war. The selection of Dr. Hill fof the difficult post at Berlin is said to have already been decided on toy President Pres-ident Harding. Dr. Hill is now in Europe. Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, personal per-sonal physician to President Harding, is workin; on a plan for the development devel-opment of a super race of people in the United States. It is intimated that the Washington administration is interested in-terested in the plan. The house Wednesday adopted a resolution res-olution providing that a final vote on the Fordney tariff bill shall be taken July 21 and that only the duties on oil, cotton, chemical dyes and a'sphalt shall be open to changes by the house and that other changes must originate with the ways and means committee. FOREIGN. The former German emporer is ignoring ig-noring the repeated demands for payment pay-ment of his municipal taxes, on the plea that his stay at Doorn is involuntary, invol-untary, to which the municipality retorts re-torts that it has not the slightest objection ob-jection to his departure. William is daily becoming more unpopular; he cannot show himself in the roads without with-out being' hooted and jeered. Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrived ar-rived in Rome last Wednesday. King Victor Emmanuel welcomed the prince at the station, and the two drove in state carriages to the Quirinal, being enthusiastically cheered along their route. The prince was twice compelled compell-ed to appear upon the balcony of the Quirinal palace to respond to cheers from the crowd. i Fire which broke out in the Blohm & Voss shipyards at Hamburg last Tuesday Tues-day caused damage amounting to many millions of marks. The timber sheds, with great quantities of building material, mat-erial, were destroyed. The allied supreme cottneit prohahly will meet toward the end of this month, either in Boulogne or in Paris, it was announced recently- by the French foreign for-eign office. The Upper Silesiail question ques-tion will be nnp'.rrrt'Wt Irr the rl'!s'"'-s';':is. rl'!s'"'-s';':is. The Greeks have adv.- nceii '5 niii'eV; 'In their offensive against the Turkish nationalists, said a dispatch from Smyrna Smy-rna Wednesday. The main gains Were made east of Broussa and' northeast of Anchak. The offensive, was launched Monday after a terrific bombardment of the Turkish positions. A vice regal proclamation Issued Satnrday at Belfast fixed June 2S as the date for the opening of the parliament parlia-ment for southern Ireland. The volcano of Stromboli situated on the island of the same name on the coast of Sicily, is violei.tly active again after a comparative stillness since 1015. Stromboli has been active ac-tive for the past 2.000 years, anil the people fearing a repetition of the previous pre-vious disasters are fleeing into Italy. For the next three months all Italy will participate in various celebrations in honor of the six hundredth anniversary anni-versary of the death of Dante, and which will culminate in especial eel ebratlons- during September. |