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Show WASHING TOM 'lln- urmy appropriation, bill carry-ins carry-ins uppmjrintafjly $271,U.iO,0Ocj and providing for an enlisied personnel of U,o) und an officer strength of Vi,m v;M sigm-d by President IJurd-ding. IJurd-ding. The senate has passed the navy "S'TuppIn" bill providing for American Ameri-can observance of the itrmH -onfr--nce treaty In reducing capital ship. Minor Kenate am end mens tjat the liou.se till to conference. The suit of Mrs. Emma G. Bergdoll property custodian for return of about $200,W worth of property selaed as belonging to her son, Grover C. Kerg-doll, Kerg-doll, the draft evuder, was dismissed witliout prejudice tiy Justice Jennings Ballny In the District of Columbia supreme court. Continued and noteworthy Increases In the physical volume of production produc-tion and a further advance In prices were the outstanding feu tu res of the economic development of the country coun-try during June, aeording to the monthly survey of business conditions Issued by tha federal reserve board. Recommendation that the agrieul-turul agrieul-turul producers of the United Stales "ha encouraged to develop cooperative coopera-tive associations to hasten the standardization stan-dardization of agricultural production, produc-tion, Improve the distributive pin- NEWS HISTORY OF THE PAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Park City Utah Minos shipments iue slewing a steady Increase In Jroduct.lon. "Buck to the Farm Special" la the Wmiit'iiulloii of u caruvan of uutomo-Mlos uutomo-Mlos which will leave Salt Lake City Oouimerclal club July 20" for a four days' tour of southern Utah towns. ITlmarily the excursion is being given giv-en as a farm Inspection trip, and Is under tha auspices of the agricultural bureau of the Oomerelal club. It will also have trade trip features. llsavy rains near the Killings Montana Mon-tana had washed out railroad tracks and caused n flool In Alkali creek, which luid covered the Midland Empire Em-pire fair grounds, east of Billings, to a dopth of more thau four foot In many places. cesses and reduce their costs" forms the foremost conclusion of the joint congressional commission of agricultural agricul-tural Inquiry in its completed report on marketing und distribution. Extension of executive clemency to Vincent St. John, nationally known as a former organizer and secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of the I. W. W. and Clyda Hough of Rockfotrd, IUnols, both serving sentences for violation of wartime war-time laws, was announced at the department de-partment of justice. On July 11 and 12, the commerce department stated, the latest cabled news of foreign markets and trade opportunity received from abroad will bo sent by radio phone to the meeting meet-ing of the New England Shoe and Leather association in Boston, and an import and export exposition in Nw York. Senator W. H. King appeared before be-fore the appropriations committee and urged the adoption of an amendment to the deficiency bill referring to the court of claims the claim of the Uintah Indians against the government govern-ment on account of several hundred thousand acres of their lands taken from them and put into a forest reserve. re-serve. The Indians have not been compensated by the government foi this loss. The bureau of mines, in a statement state-ment shows thst up to June 1 oil and gas royalties have been collected collect-ed by the government amounting to V.ocaiiHe of "unlawful acta which may lead to riot and Insurrection," Oovornor Khoup of Colorado had ordered or-dered luobilizution of national guard tuoops and state rangers following tho burinlng of two railroad bridges and a mine tipple in the southern Colorado coal fields. Thirtoon people wore Injured In ftjur automobile accidents at Butte, Montana. After Henry Peters of Fort Dodge, Xowa, has been twice knocked down ty n stray bull, a herd of cows sur-roundod sur-roundod him and protected him from further attack. Increased activity in practically all liii-es of industry, with an improved employment situation and advancing prices for farm products, are features of tha report for May of John Per-rln, Per-rln, San Francisco, federal reserve agent for tho Twelfth district. Tha smallpox situation in Arizona, which recently caused widespread alarm, al-arm, Is now well In hand, and it Is expected that th0 epidemic will be eliminated within thirty days. Exhibits showing the industry and products of Idaho, and Pocatello In particular, will be sent by the Business Busi-ness and Professional Women's club to the national convention nt Chattanooga. Chat-tanooga. Tenn., July 10 to 15. according accord-ing to a decision made by the executive exe-cutive committee of the Pocatello club rocently. $5,201,808. During th month of May royalties of ?273,(554 were collected in Wyoming, $252,022 in California and ?25,340 in Montana. Production of petroleum from .the Oat Cree.k field in Wyoming from government land, was 128,252 barrels last month, and during dur-ing the month two wells were completed com-pleted on government land in Wyoming Wyom-ing and five were being drilled. FOREIGN Gregorie iSemeoff, former ataman of the Cossacks and antisoviet leader, lead-er, has been permited to land at Nagasaki Naga-saki to receive medical treatment. Immigration of American or Russian-American workmen is becoming an increasingly important factor in United States," who now is in charge of this department jr Russia, recently reported to the council of lab6r and defense that over 5000 of these immigrants im-migrants have recently arrived. Many others are on the way, ilncluding mechanics, agricultural groups and technical experts. . The first consignment of fresh eggs ever sent by British Columbia to New Zealand has just gone out on the steamer Makura from Victoria, B. C. There were 1200 dozen in the nature of a trail shipment. A. B. Brice Rielaski, former chief of the investigations bureau of the American department of justice, is reported re-ported to have been kidnapped and held for ransom near Cuernavaca in the state of Morclos, Mexico, together with Manuel Barcena, an attorney of Mexicola. GENERAL Mrs. Charles .de Wolf Gibson, mother of Charles Dana Gibson, the artist, and Langdon Gibson, the Artie explorer, died suddenly at Bristol R I., after an atack of acute indigestion Khe was torn in Boston eighty years ago, and was a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford. C!. Hamilton Cook of Buffalo, N Y was unanimously elected national com-mnndor com-mnndor of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War at the annual an-nual convention of the organization at Snn Francisco. Minneapolis was unanimously chosen as the next convention con-vention city, Trovidence, It. I., the only other remaining contestant ' withdrawing with-drawing before the question was submitted sub-mitted to vote. Former United states Senator Cornelius Cole, who will be 100 years of as September 17, has just looked Now York over after nn absence of forty years and approved the changes and developments made during his absence. The rmly-fiieed, twinkling-eyed twinkling-eyed old geuteleman, who first took his place in congress in 1S51, has inspected in-spected Riverside drive, the subways, skyscrapers, flappers and motion Picture Pic-ture palaces -and found them all good Estranged from his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Eve-lyn IVass, S years of r.ge, George Elis Bass, aged 21, an oculist of Chattanooga. Chatta-nooga. Tenn., shot her to death in a crowded Chicago street and then firod a shot into his own body. Pursued Pur-sued ! the infuriated witnesses to the killing of his wife, Bass fled a hnlf block and. when capture seemed certain, he again shot himself twice under tho heart. A huge war reparations plan under which the Germans would reconstruct France and also build the long planned tunnel under the English channel has been submitted by the minister ol public works of France, M. Letroc-quer, Letroc-quer, to Premier Poincare, who has laid it before the French member of the reparations commission. The plan involves the use of German labor and materials to the extent of 20,000,000,000 of francs. A flood of aliens 7.00o Europeans whose arival in New York harbor was timed to coincide with the opening of the country's gateways to the new half-year immigraion quotas, literally swamp ElUs island. Twelve shipt bear the great crowd of nswcojner. Several of the vessels were waiting outside the three-mile limit and the tiiers are spending to this port to insure in-sure landing of their immigrant passengers pass-engers before the qucUis are exhausted. Chlcugo police seek two women a blonde and a brunette, both described aa pretty rs .the ringleaders of u gang which specialized in silk robberies. robber-ies. Six members of the gang, snid to be one of the most gigantic crime rings to be discovered in recent years, are under arrest, charged with 22 robberies rob-beries in which silks, valued at $100,-000 $100,-000 were stolen. Radium, used extensively in the treatment of cancer, has dropped 15 to 20 per cent In price. The new price Is ?120 :t milligram. Lower freight ratos and decrease in extraction costs were given as rer.sons for reduction. At lev.st five members of a pi-cnic party were suffocated in an abandoned aban-doned mine near Hartford, Ark. Three .others who attempted t; rescue the victim were overcome and are reported re-ported to be in a serious condition. |