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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSJfJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Cays Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN A tHal of 15,000 acres in the Calif Cal-if ornia nation: 1 forest, of which 5000 acre-- are timherland, is on fire, according ac-cording to a report Monday by District Dis-trict Forester Paul G. Redington. "The Santa Hari.ara fire is still out of control and is being fanned by heavy northwest winds," said Mr. KeUnyxm. "However, Santa Barbara fir---fighters think they will have the fire under control in about three dj vs. Announcement was made Monday by the public health service of the appearance in &an Francisco of a rasa of bubonic plague. The victim was a woman who had previously resided in Facific Grove, Monterey county, California. Yv'hi'e passerhys were unaware of wli.it was happening. Joseph B. KolJhins, manager and treasurer nf the Keeley Ice Cream company, was held up by three bandits on Third South between Main and State streets at Salt Lake Ci y, Monday morning nnd robbed of ?S06. The Lewiston, Idaho, city council has given orders to the chief of police and it s men to "shoot and shoot to kill" any persons wearing hoods or garbs biding their identity whffa found invading any homes of this ci'. y or molesting its citizens, in case they resist the officers. This order is the result of a visit by three white robed men to the home of Georgia Cress, a negro. C)n the wings of a dry hot wind tha: swept fur.ious'y from the landward land-ward a brush fire in the Contra Costa county hills alx-ve San Francisco bay, leaped down the valley into Berkeley Monday afternoon, and for a time gnawed its way unchecked toward the heart of the college town. It burned 35 residential blocks, in one of the prettiest sections, causing damage estimated at 510,000,000 and leavin : ahonr. 2.300 homeless before It was brought under ccontrol. Frost cut a path thru eastern Montana. Mon-tana. Tuesday night. Temperatures are reported low enough to do some crop damage, Havre reported 36. GENERAL PERSONAL John H. Bartlett, first assistant postmaster general and former governor gov-ernor of New Hampshire, was taken to a hospt'.al Monday because oi injuries he received when his automobile auto-mobile was struck by a street ear. Although he received a cut on the head, physicians who examined him said his injuries did not appear serious. General Joseph Haller, eommand-der-in-chlef of the Polish armies, who is to attend the American Legion convention at San Francisco as official of-ficial delegate of the military forces of Poland, vlll sail from Havre on steamer France September 29. Governor Pierce has appointed a special board to investigate the cause of the fire that destroyed the flax plant, furniture factory and other units of the Industrial building at the state penitentiary at iSalem, Oregon, Monday, and to recommend types of buildings to be constructed to replace the burned structures. The loss on the prison Jire is estimated at $155,-00O, $155,-00O, with insurance of about $30,000. It was announced after a conference confer-ence Saturday between King Alfonso and Primo Rivera that Spain for the time being would be governed by a directorate of generals made up of representatives of every military district dis-trict in Spain, under the presidency of Captain General Primo Rivera. Absolute quiet prevails throughout Spain, according to advices from the provinces. There is virtually no visible evidence that there had been a change of government. Li Yuan Hung twice president of China, and only recently self-deposed from that office in the face of a coup d'etat by the militarists, looms once more as a dominating fjgure in Chinese Chin-ese politics. Lie is in Shanghai, accompanied ac-companied by twenty-two former ministers and secretaries. More than 200 members of parliament are here, ready to align themselves with TA Yuan Hung's venture. Insisting that he is still legal president of the republic. Jack Dempsey, Friday nigh, retaine his world's heavyweight title, knocking knock-ing out Luis Firpo, in the second round of one of the fiercest, fastest and most spectacular battles In the history of pugilism, at New York. Traveling as the Baron of Renfew, The Prince of Wales arrived in Quebec, Que-bec, Wednesday enroute to a ranch in Alberta where lie intends an extended ex-tended visit. FOREIGN Twelve persons were killed and many wounded at Sorau, province of Brandenburg, on Saturday, when police po-lice reinforcements who had been called to the town because of s food demonstrators fired Into a crowd In the market place. The German-Swiss frontier was closed Tuesday by the government of Switzerland. It is understood that Swtjzerland feared growing food riota in Germany might lead to civil war. Negotiations were In progress between be-tween Spain and England to ex-change ex-change Spanish Morocco for Gibralter when the Spanish military revolution took place according to a report from Madrid. The danger to the peace of Europe from the Italian occupation of Corfu ended Thursday when, after another anoth-er difficult session, the ambassador's council came to a full agreement. Italy finally consented to evacuate Corfu before the end of September. It Is understood they are to leave the Island September 27. Five persons were killed Including the pilot nnd mechanician, by the crashing of the Manchester-IOndon 'air mail plane near Evingboe beacon, bea-con, on the Hertfordshire-Bedfordshire road Friday. Final figures tabulated by the prefecture of Tokio on the earthquake earth-quake castraKie place the dead ,ln Toklo at 77,823 and In Yokohama at 33,707. In addition, 120,070 persons are missing In ToUlo. It is estimated that more than a million refugees have left the capital for the surrounding sur-rounding country, Sfivcn'.y lira.illan state troopers were killed or wounded when their encampment at Cruz Alta, In the state of Rio Grande do Sill, was attacked at-tacked by revolutionaries, who made a furious miprlse attack, according to La Naclon's Monte Caserns correspondent. corres-pondent. The state troopers fled, abandoning tholr dead and wounded and quantities of arms and equipment. equip-ment. I'.oforo an unusually crowded assembly, as-sembly, Ireland Monday win unanimously unani-mously elected a tho fifty third member of the I-eagiio of Nations. I'reldmt Torrlente welcomed Ireland Ire-land as a member. A strike of 2,500 pressmen Tuesday tied up practically every newspaper in New York City. The walkout was the culmination of IS months of strife over wages and working conditions. Failing' to reach a settlement by negotiation, the shipping board has instructed its legal department to prepare suit against the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation for recovery recov-ery of about $2,500,000 alleged to have been overpaid under that firm's war contracts. The whipping strap abolished two years ago by Governor Thomas E. Kilby has been re-introduced tin one coal mine camp in Alabama where leased state convicts are worked. Tliis became known as a result of an inquiry into an outbreak a. Banner rn'nes. The leaders of the trouble were flogged with a strap, it was divulged di-vulged in reports to the governor. Theft of $40,000 worth of United Ptates treasury certificate from his d"k was reported by Edward F. Moore, vice president of the Indiana National bank at Indianapolis. Martial law for the entire state of Oklahoma was proclaimed at mid-niht mid-niht Saturday by Governor J. C. Walton. Calling the full force of the approximately 0000 troops In the Oklahoma national guard to his command, com-mand, the governor climaxed his F-'0'-t-ieii;;..r fight against the Ku Flux Klan by declaring that any persons per-sons who aid the organiza' ion in c-riylng out Us "purposes" are en'-rnies of the sovereign state of Oklahoma and Rhall be dealt with by tl.e military forces. IIop'-s of local business men for the Ufiln-; of martial law in 'i'ulsa county coun-ty were raised Tuesday when it was l -a'-ned that Governor J. C. Walton v,-;,s on his way here to make a survey sur-vey of conditions. Six men InHudlntc sheriff Whlt-taker Whlt-taker were under Indictment nt Ama-rlllo, Ama-rlllo, Texas, In connection with the flogging of K. T. McIonald. A resolution urging the state department de-partment to demand of the government govern-ment tlio return of Grover Cleveland Jle; gdoll, Amerb-an draft evader, to the I niti il States was adopted l,y tho liana m rl-;,ni-l ment of the ytrnerlcun I.i: -Ion 'n con . cntii,n at Mayes, Kan- 'J" II '''.'! ;i v. Id-' r A.'i '. 'mi a II y-nr old rtu-d"M' rtu-d"M' '.-n't n IT";',: '"I a I'.anHai ''Ity, 'I 1 1 1 1 r- day char nil with nl ! erupting tn I a 1 mail t'.t ! "f I: an Mail ('lly' a i :,! h i :' i l ahU nlM. Ari'lniMon ay ,r. wp.l" Ihe I' ; 1 i;i III fun" The Balkan war cloud loomed lower low-er Thursday as a result of doproda-tlons doproda-tlons by liulgnrlan irregulars upon Jugo Hluv territory. The Hulgarlnns rrossed the frontier Tuesday night and rnlded villages. The Irregulars or Comlladjin, as they are known In Ihe I '.ii 1 k n M, are chiefly of tho 'bandit type. At pp 'Merit, Hie Macedonia Irregulars Ir-regulars are (Ionia ml Ing Dulniioiny. : Bulgarian officii, la have announced ! I hey may be uriahle to ro'draln the lr-1 lr-1 rogiiliirs owing to their mined Htrenglli. |
