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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE M WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout th World WESTERN Newi of a gold-silver strike seven aalle from Lodl Tanks about forty-fire forty-fire miles from Lunlng, has started a TOah from Tonopah, Goldfleld, lteno, Fallon, Mina and other points. Sam-plea Sam-plea of the ore are stated to assay from a few hundred dollars to over 1000 per ton, with about eighteen Inches of high-grade quartz exposed. The ore Is electrum, with values equally divided between gold and sil-Ter, sil-Ter, with a secondary gold enrichment. enrich-ment. The discovery was made by Hughes and Hatterby, two prospectors, prospec-tors, shortly after locating an abandoned aban-doned claim. Scores of claims have been located and a genuine boom appears imminent. Salt Lake City has sold 5(100,000 in tax anticipation notes to a National bank of New York, the notes to bear Interest of 4 1-8 per cent, the lowest rate for city borrowing for a period of for or five years. Great Interest Is being shown In the 'Pocatello community long 'distance 'dis-tance swimming contest which will be held in this city over a period of five days, beginning Tuesday, August 18, and closing Saturday, August 10. The contest Is being sponsored by the Pocatello Rotary club, which has provided pro-vided two gold medals for the winners In the dlTislons. The intermediate division di-vision includes all contestants between be-tween the ages of 16 and 21, and the Junior division includes all under 15 years of age. The contests will be against time, and each entry will wim alone and his record sealed until the close of the contest, after which the records will be compared and the trophies awarded. Trappers from the trading posts on Lake Athabasca report that the Indians In-dians are dying in large numbers of influenza. The present population pop-ulation of Fond du ILac Is said to be about 400, with many bands still in the hunting grounds. The recent deaths of seventy-four natives na-tives there with losses from influenza at other posts indicate, said the trappers, trap-pers, that the Canadian Indians are rapidly being wiped out. The prickly pear pest is spreading at the rate of 20,000 acres a month in New South Wales, causing a primary pri-mary loss to the state of at least 20,000 pounds sterling, according to the estimates of the H.TiouHiirpl ... r,irjlUN Nearly a hlllion dollar oversubscription oversubscrip-tion to i ' i rosaury's new issue ot 44 I,cr 1 ' :it short-term notes is an-noun an-noun el ! y Secretary Mellon. Sub seriptlons for the issue, which was for about $::0o.0.;0.000, he stated, aggregated aggre-gated over $1,200,000,000, all of the federal reserve districts reporting over ov-er subscriptions of their quotas. Proposals of southeastern railways to alter rates on apples coming from the Pacific coast to Virginia, Georgia and the Caro'inas were held unjustified unjusti-fied by the interstate commerce commission. com-mission. Acting on the complaint of the Virginia corporation commission, the Itichmond, Va., Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and western apple shippers, the commission ordered set aside certain proposed schedules which would have increased the apple rate to the territory terri-tory named by amounts ranging be tween 0 and 23 cents the 100 pounds. Rates on sugar were declared too high to be reasonable In certatin sections sec-tions of the United States in a report to the interstate commerce commission commis-sion by the commerce examiner assigned as-signed to hear complaints. According to the final estimate of the bureau of the mint and the geological geo-logical survey, Utah in 1921 produced 91,036 ounces of gold, valued at $1,-894,300, $1,-894,300, and 14,02S,C61 ounces of silver. sil-ver. The Idaho production was 20,229 ounces of gold, valued at $542,200, and 7,200,319 ounces of silver. Nevada is credited with a production of 155,791 ounces of gold, valued at $3,220,500, and 6,998,774 ounces of silver. This year's cotton crop was placed at 11,449,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight in the second forecast of the season, announced by the department of agriculture, basing its estimate on the condition of the crop which Is 70.8 per cent of normal. Captiun Carl T. Vogelgelgesang, commandment of the New York navy yards, has been selected by the navy department, to head the naval commission commis-sion to Brazil to be sent at the request re-quest of that country. He will go to Brazil with Secretary Hughes and other members of the official party sent to attend the opening of the Bra-zillian Bra-zillian centennial exposition. A ban on the exportation of coal, except in cases of great emergency, has been decided upon by the government, gov-ernment, Secretary of Commerce Hoover. Hoo-ver. This is part of the government's fuel conservation plan during the mine strike. Acting Secreary Roosevelt has ordered or-dered Major General Lejeune, commandment com-mandment of the marine corps, to send on officer and three or four enlisted marines into the Teapot dome naval oil reserve, Wyoming, at a place about forty miles from Casper, to eject squatters who have begun drilling for oil. authorities, received at Salt Lake City. About five million acres of lands are infested with the pest now, with a loss in value of at least 250,-000,000 250,-000,000 pounds sterling and an annual loss in production of about 300,000 pounds sterling, the authorities estimated. esti-mated. GENERAL Suffering from lack of nourishment, J. H. Smith was taken to a hospital at West Palm Beach, Florida, where he died. Hospital attendants, searching search-ing his personal belongings in an effort to locate .relatives, reported they had found $37,000 in cash in the clothes he had on his back when he entered the institution. The harbor tug Edward was blown to pieces and the five men of her crew were killed when her boiler exploded ex-ploded while she lay in her slip on the Brooklyn side of East river, three blocks upstream from the Manhattan Manhat-tan bridge, New York. Government agents announced that $75,000 to $100,000 worth of pistols had been stolen within the last few months from the United States appraisers' ap-praisers' stores, and that many of these high-powered automatics of foreign for-eign makes were believed to have come into possession of the underworld. under-world. Six dead, nine seriously injured, Including two who may die, and more than fifty badly bruised and shaken up, was the toll when Cincinnati, Lebanon Le-banon Northern train No. 11 met in head-on collision with a negro excursion excur-sion train carrying more than 00 persons, at Lester station, a suburb of Cincinnati. Foodstuff exports during the past fiscal year fell off by more than $500,000,000 as compared with the fiscal fis-cal year of l'XIl, according to foreign trade reports issued by the commerce com-merce department. "If you must drink, try the bike and when that is gone, the ocean is always ready tJ be tapped," J tn'.-rc Adams told Thomas Andler. nt Chicago. Chi-cago. Andler said his wife drove him to drink. "Warning against unofficial promoters promo-ters of colonization schemes in South America has been issued by the commerce com-merce department, which added that such promoters have been p;i rt i u Uir-ly Uir-ly active in th i western states. .Many Americans going to. South America as colonists have found that they have invested their savings in land in the remote wilderness, the department depart-ment said. Clovelnnd is now b-ck to five-cent Btiml c-ji fare. FOREIGN Dr. Alevander Graham Bell, inventor inven-tor of the telephone, died at his No-via No-via iScotia home last week. The British note on the inter-allied debt question has removed all possibility possi-bility of France consenting to a moratorium mora-torium for Germany, in the view of official circles expressed at Paris. Pope Pius XI declared that American Amer-ican welfare work of the Knights of Columbus in Italy would go down as one of the greatest achievements in his pontificate, Edward L. Hearn of New York, director of the Knights of Columbus European work, declared in presenting to the international convention con-vention of the order at Atlantic City, the pope's message, delivered to Mr. Hearn before he left for this country. Parliament of China and President Li Yuan-Hung are in complete agreement agree-ment over the adoption of a permanent perman-ent constitution for China similar to that of the United States, the cabinet announced at Pekin. The right of each province to maintain its own assembly assem-bly is to be recognized. This, it is ibelieved, will comply with the demands de-mands of the southern provinces for provincial autonomy. The Italian general strike appears to have been a complete failure here. This is emphasized 'by the fact that the republicans and anarchists have announced their separation from the Socialists, not wishing to share the responsibility with the latter. In order to prevent a slump in the forward silk market, raw silk manufacturers manu-facturers and exporters of Japan have decided to withhold 30 per cent of their output in the harbor at Yokohama. Yoko-hama. The silk ha3 'been accumulating accumulat-ing at Yokohama owing to the stagnation stag-nation of export trade and a decline in the domestic demand, according to dealers. V The F.ritidi government nas received receiv-ed a note from the Washington gov-ernm gov-ernm nt. ir was annouced Moday as--'g co-operation in the suppression oC liquor ruiiing into the United States through Bermuda and the Bahamas. The C, reek government has informed the allied commission that It does nut intend marching on Constantinople Constantin-ople without permission of the allies. The military movement in Thrace was explained as a reorganization of the pnsit'i ns of th? army in the event that the ail1' s authorize action against t'ousan: intp.e. A new low record for all time was made by German marks nt New York at 151 cents a hundred with a feeble rally 'at the close of the market |