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Show WASHINGTON Senator Kctidiick Wyoming has Introduced u I, ill amending the oil leasing law by pirn i I i i -c th.it royal-ties royal-ties may be ;ii'l to the -tales quarterly quar-terly Instead of annually. The s-mi-tor su-.'t:ot. this change because of the. desire of Wyoming Stiitii iinh fruity fr-uity to raise funds for new construction construc-tion work. Hunger iinil undernourishment undoubtedly un-doubtedly will prevail in many district dis-trict In Russia lifter the cumin;' harvest, har-vest, hut actual famine is now on the wane and Brum will have- vanished, except In isolated districts, according to reports which have reached the American relief administration in Moscow from its workers in the field. Appointment of a joint congressional congression-al committee to Investigate the practicability practi-cability of creating a government farm insurance bureau would be authorized under terms of a resolution introduced intro-duced by Senator McNary, Oregon. The Insurance bureau would protect farmers against crop losses, fires and other hazards, McNary explained. Ilerr A. II. G. Fokker, designer and builder of the monoplane used oxten-slvelcy oxten-slvelcy by Germany in the World war for pursuit and combat duty, Is cooperating coop-erating with American naval designers design-ers in experiments looking to the development de-velopment of a new torpedo plane, the navy department announces. Attorney General Daugherty has Arranged Ar-ranged to conduct a hearing on the question of the legality of permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages on shipping board vessels. NEWS HISTORY OF IHE PAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Approximately $100,(0,000 will be Spent for good road construction throughout the country during the fiscal fis-cal year, which began July 1. This will be brought about by the continuation continu-ation of federal aid roads under recent re-cent authorization of tin appropriation appropria-tion of almost fifty million dollars for distribution among the several states. Undor tbe conditions of the aid each tote muirt match the sum alloted it. The cpportlonment to be mado to the various western states for the fiscal year, which began July 1 Is approximately approxi-mately un follows: Arizona $ 702,188 California . 1,(1-1 1,.'!!9 Colorado 804,117 Idaho 025,091 town 1,401,013 Kansas I,401,fi21 Minnesota 1,415,731 Montana 1,031,257 Nobraska 1,054,120 Nevada 035,024 New Mexico 793,21(5 Oregon 788,443 Texas . 2,0.10,11.") Utah ncc.278 Wyoming (123,078 National crop nnd market reports are now broadcasted by radio from 45 government nnd private broadcasting broadcast-ing stations In the Unified States. More than 35 of the stations broadcast broad-cast by radiophone, which Involves no technical knowledge of radio technique or codes on tbe part of those who "listen In." The radio market news service of the United States department depart-ment of agriculture is an effort to get vital agricultural news to farmers as quickly as possible after the close of the markets. To gather market information infor-mation the department has 73 branch offices in 46 large centers, 16 of which are directly connected with the Washington Wash-ington office and with each other by 2550 miles of leased telegraph wires. The house committee on agriculture has reported favorably a bill introduced intro-duced by Representative Riddick of Montana releasing from obligation to the government those farmrs in the drought stricken areas of the west who borrowed from the government to buy seed In the spring of 1921, and who have been unable to repay, because be-cause the crop of that year was also a failure. The 'bill stipulates that a yield of five bushels or less of wheat or rye, 16 bushels of oats, 10 bushels of barley or three bwshels of flax, grown in 1921 in the drought stricken regions, shall constitute a failure, and the borrower whose crops fell below the figures named last year are formally, for-mally, under the bill, released from repayment of the amount borrowed from the government. About $1,250,000 is involved. The plan for the complete eradication eradica-tion of tuberculosis in the cattle herds of the country seems well within the bounds of possibility to department of agriculture experts as the result of a demonstration that an entire county may be cleared of all its reactors in a week nnd a day. Such a demonstration demonstra-tion was recently completed in Essex county, New York, where local authorities, author-ities, were assisted by the state and the department of agriculture. FOREIGN Finishing touches this summer are being put on the construction of the flfty-soven million dollar trunk railroad rail-road which tho United iStntfrs has built across the Alaska mountains to connect Fairbanks and Ncnnnn on the territory's great interior river system, sys-tem, with the tidewater points of Anchorage An-chorage and Seward. Private Louis Marsch, Moulton, Tex., was burled nlive and three other soldiers were seriously Injured when a gravel bank caved in on them at Fort Sill, Okla. Thirty business houses were flooded, flood-ed, several Mexican dwellings floated float-ed away and three bridges were washed wash-ed out by n flood which swept through tho border cities of Nogales, Ariz., nnd Nogales, Sonora. The body of John Fitzgerald, 20 years old, of Tulsa, Okla., was found at the foot of the "Third Flatlron," a mountain needle one mile west of Boulder, Colo. According to members of searching party Fitzgerald apparently appar-ently had fallen approximately seventy-five feet down the face of the cliff he had been scaling. Montana railroads ore making reduced re-duced rates for the national editorial meeting at Missoula. Montana dentists held a state convention con-vention at Butte. GENERAL Wilbur Glen Voliva, ruler of Zion, 111., has ordered a supply of blankets with Which to cover knicker clad hik-, hik-, lng girls while they pass through the village. Running forty miles an hour, east-hound east-hound iSante Fe train ran into an open op-en switch at Burrton, Kansas, wrecking wreck-ing the train and Injuring nine persons per-sons seriously. China's inability to control disorderly disor-derly elements of her own population has brought her face to face with the, possibility that armed aliens again will establish themselves within her domain. Chief Justice Taft and Mrs. Tnft sailed for the United States on the steamer Canopic from England. Chile has accepted the Peruvian proposal that, in case no plebiscite is held in Tacna-Arica and Chile and Peru cannot decided the sovereignty of the province by direct negotiation, both countries will request an exercise exer-cise of the "good offices" of the United Unit-ed States. i There have ben serious outbreaks in that portion of Upper Silesia which the league of nations awarded to Poland. There were seven bombs thrown, principally against German leaders. It is semiofficially stated that two German experts were going to Paris to ask the reparations commission for a moratorium by which Germany would be enabled to spread her casn payments over a longer period. Miss Gertrude Bell, assistant political poli-tical observer for Fnglnnd, now makes weekly trips by aeroplane from Cairo to Bagdad, a distance of 900 miles. Landed here from ft ship when 12 months old because it was thought she was dying, Clara Bloxham has just died at the age of 70 years, at Deal, England. Two boy murderers are on trial In Rir!ln. One. 13, killed his cousin. The i ther, aged 15, choked a fellow errand boy to death. The Mexican government has protested pro-tested to the United States government govern-ment against the hauling down of the Mexican flag at its consulate at Cleveland Cleve-land by the police. On the same day two Americans at Calexlco, Calif., puled down the Mexican flag from the consulate and were arrested. Receipts of tbe Salt Lake City post-office post-office for June amounted to $85,927, which is $10,oS7 more than the receipts re-ceipts for June, 1921. This is a gain of 14.03 per cent, against an average aver-age gain of 12.24 per cent for the fifty largest offices in the United States. When Frank Meek of Danville, 111., left that city for Los Angeles he weighed 305 pounds. When he reached reach-ed Los Angeles he weighed 224 pounds. He walked all th- way. Starting out to make the' world better bet-ter by killing all the women, Andy Ruise, a Mexican lalorer of Taylor Springs, 111., killed his sister-in-law and dangerously injured his wifr As a tree missionary for the treeless belt of Idaho, Dean F. G. Miller of the school of forestry of the Idaho University Uni-versity is spending July and August In a trip through the central and southern parts of the state, in the interests in-terests of forest extension. A leave wult-vlning several .rifles ard believed to have been used by a 1cnd of robbers has been found 35 miles west of Pueblo, Colo. Gold bars valued at $2,500,000 arrived ar-rived at New York rn the steamship Borongprln consigned t J. P. Morgnn nnd cbmpany for the account of the British treasury of which the Morgan firm is the fiscal agent in this country. coun-try. Before going ofl his vacation. Charles Brodek, a New Tork lawyer, burglar proofed his home and put a night watchman there. He has turned in a Met of $8000 worth of articles tolen in his absence. |