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Show NEWS OF ft WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Six grandsons officiated as pallbearers pallbear-ers at the funeral of Dan Moriarity, better known as "Grandpa" Moriarity, of Anaconda, Mont. "Tabby," the pet cat of a ciiizen of Fairplay, Colo., escnped with all of its traditional nine ilves when It was rescued res-cued from an old box iu which It had been imprisoned for 99 days without food or drink. m m m J. R Howard, president of the American Amer-ican Farm Bureau feneration, declares that through the effort of the organization, organi-zation, farmers have been saved more than $50,000,000 in freight rates alone. Portland voters favorably passed upon the question whether they il pay a tax of $2,000,000 to help finance the proposed Atlantic-Pacific Highways High-ways and Electrical exposition to be held there in 1925. Project 159, better known as the Eighteen-Mile Hill road, now nearing completion, was officially designated "Harding Way" by the board of county commissioners, and the county engineer engin-eer and surveyor instructed to so designate de-signate It on all official maps and survey sur-vey reports and to record the same with the county clerk and recorder. Jessie Miller was sentenced to a day in the county jail for contempt of court at Butte, Mont., when she admitted admit-ted to Judge J. J. Lynch that she applauded ap-plauded the veridct of the jury which found her brother-in-law, Abe Warwick, War-wick, not guilty of selling cocaine. m There are 116 school districts in "Washington county, Ore., 227 school teachers, 192 women and 35 men. Eighty per cent of a normal force of men is now working In the Colo, mines, It Is reported. 1,019 workmen reported at the mines, as compared with 983 a few days before. GENERAL Private Wasserman, of U. S. Marine corps, discovexid two men at the door of a mail car at Washington Junction, Md. He fired on them and one man dropped off the train and the other swung out on the hand rail of the car end was later captured. State and federal authorities in ChilKiahua have been appealed to In an effort to end a reign of lawlessness In mining camps In northern Mexico, according ac-cording to official advices received in Juarez. Two Indictments, charging Roy Gardner Gard-ner escaped convicted mall robber, of attempts to rob the United States mails at Maricopa, Ariz., on November Novem-ber 8, and at Phoenix, on November 15, were returned by the grand jury in the United States district court. Gardner Gard-ner pleaded not guilty to both Indictments. Indict-ments. Unemployment and the prospect that his wife would have to go to work to support the family was the plea of Thomas Catherwood, 20 of Chicago who confessed, according to the police, that he killed his sister-in-law, Mrs. Betty Sharpies and stole $65 from Tier home. While railroads In every part of the United .'tates are calling conferences to propose a reduction of wages, international in-ternational officials of the six shop crafts, affiliated with the railway employes' em-ployes' department of the American Federation of Labor, are preparing their demands for wage Increases of 5 cents an our over the rates established establish-ed by the railroad labor board's SSOO.-000,000 SSOO.-000,000 wage award of July 20. The greatest gathering ever known in the west is predicted for the convention con-vention of te Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, to beheld In San Francisco next Jane. Members of Islam temple of San FlifnctBCO, under un-der the auspices of which the convention conven-tion is to he held, and who have been In charge of reservations and preparations, prepara-tions, estimate that there will be at least 250,000 visitors on this occasion. The Illinois commerce commission has issued an order rehiring street car fares In Chicago from S to ." cents. Captain George K. Poppe, skipper of the schooner Lillian E. Kerr, out of Boston came to the federal court with chi-rges of mutiny on tb3 ttlgh seas ngaiiv-t Frank Howell, a negro sailor. During what he said was his tight for life with Howell. Mrs. Poppe held the wheel of the vessel while the men (ought. Howell with a knife. ll8r hu'-tsand hu'-tsand wi'.h a pistol. The oil business is leading all other industries in spectacular recovery. Six advances in prices since the last of September have brought Pennsylvania crude oil to ?4 a barrel, a rise from $2.25. . Ten smali type touring cars are being operated at Bruceton, Pa., in an old coal mine 130 feet below the earth's surface and 1050 feet in from the pit mouth of the mine, in vehicular tunnel ventilation tests. These tests are being be-ing conducted by the United States Three men in an automobile drew up alongside a taxicab containing Charles E. Leighton, purser of the United States steamship liner Marama, who was carrying $5000 payroll back to his ship and escaped with the money, according ac-cording to Leighton's report to the police po-lice at San Franscisco. An express train plowing through a thick fog and 6now crashed into an automobile at Summit, III. which was crowded with funeral attendants, the casket being in the car ohead. Eleven were killed and 2 injured. The car was so demolished that not a piece bigger than a mans arm could be found. WASHINGTON. Although a new tax law is now on the statute books, agitation for a further fur-ther revision will be commenced at once by individuals and organizations dissatisfied with the measure signed by President Harding. Whatever may be the view in other official quarters, at least a part of Toe American arms delegation believe that any resulting agreement on a naval armmament should be put into the form of a treaty. Responding to the speech of M. Briand, Premier of France, the United States and Great Britain, seconded by the delegates of Italy and Japan pledged their respective nations to support the cause of right, liberty and justice in the future as in tte past. The anti-medical beer bill has been signed by President Harding. Japan has decided to recede partly from her hitherto Insistent stand tirat she be allowed on increase of ten per cent In capital ship tonnage under the general program plan for limitation of naval armament. -The Ku Klux investigation has received re-ceived it quietus. The Imperial wizard is to be permitted to do his promsed house cleaning In his own time and way, without interference by congress for the present at least. a radio system designed to give information in-formation to aviators of weather conditions condi-tions along their routes of flight, in the air as well ns on the ground, has been approved by the army air service ser-vice ancj soon will be extended over the entire continent. Investigation by the interstate commerce com-merce commission on Its own hehalf of the reasonableness of the present level of national transportation rales is the latest and perhaps most mandatory manda-tory of government actions, all of which have heen directed toward forcing forc-ing down railroad charges. Some thousands of dollars, the property prop-erty of an American citizen. D. L Drake, who died in Mexico in 1912, and whose place of residence In this country is undetermined, are awaiting a claimant, according to the vste department. de-partment. The estate will revert to the Mexican federal government unless a 'claimant comes forward within n short time. FOREKJN. The negotiations for an Irish settlement settle-ment are feared to he Hearing an nn, favorable end. and there Is apprehension apprehen-sion that they may utterly colappse unless un-less more favorable clccumstances shall develop. m- m The London newspapers express satisfaction sat-isfaction at the bethrothal of the Prln-css Prln-css of Mary to an Englishman nnd equally approve her choice of a bus-, band in the Viscount Lascelles. Three more small boxes containing what the prosecution and the experts contend are human bones, were produced pro-duced and added to the box Which has heen prominent in the proceed ;ng.s in he trial of Henri I.andru. accused of eleven murders and a cremating Ibc bodies. Lord Curr.on. British secretary of state for foreisn affairs "says the real strength and protect'on of France does not cons'st in her arms or the inex-austihle inex-austihle spirit of her people or even the justice of her cause, but In the fa, that ti e conscience of tiie world win not tolen te the reappearance In the heart of Europe of a great and dangerous dan-gerous power. m a A further step in naval retrenchment In accord with the movement for limitation of armament Is planned by the British government. Sweeping reductions re-ductions In personnel of the royal navy na-vy are sa'd to include the demotion of sixty captains and 240 commander.'. Immense crowds heard the testimony testi-mony of Fernande Segret, "Uluebean"' I-undru's eleventh alleged finan- e ar the only one. believed to bare rs w death at his hnnds. |
