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Show WASHIN3TON Imports of wines and lienors were banned Tuesday n'hc by (1 ni.-nlssion-er Ii'a'r of the lntern-il revenue until supplies already In the country for non-lift erage uses are lns.iffli u nt to meet the national requirements. After a three 'Jay fight, tlie senate, by a 2 to 1 vote, fixed the basic duty on raw wool at 33 cents per pound of clean content. I!y practically the same vote, Che senate ifccted an amendment seeking to reduce the Guty to the Fordney rate of 25 cents, anil then rejected an amendment by Senator Sena-tor Wads worth of New York proposing propos-ing a rate of 28 cents per clean pound. Royalties received from the production pro-duction of oil and gas on government leased lands are now running around half a million dollars a month and for the last fiscal year aggregated $5,-7GC,S07, $5,-7GC,S07, it was announced Wednesday by the bureau of miies. Receipts for the month Kf June amounted to $565,-10 $565,-10 for production In Wyoming, California Cali-fornia and Montana. The bulk of this amount, $550,708, was fwr oil. There are now 311 producing wells on leased public lands, it was said, and seventy-two seventy-two In process of drilling. Approximately one billion dollars nl 4 per cent Victory notes, maturing May 20, 1923, will be called for redemption re-demption on December 15, 1922, as a result of lots drawn Tuesday by Secretary Sec-retary Mellon which decided the series to be retired in advance will be those lettered A, P, C, D, E and F. Republican and Democratic senators sena-tors Monday joined in demands for prompt payment of American damage claims against Germany and Austria but differed as to precedure during three hours' delbate on the bill of Senator Underwood of Alabama, the Democratic leader, which proposed an American claims commission. Indictments against five persons in NEWS HISTORY OF THE NISI WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN ' The Rtv. J. E. Lev-Is negro pastor t th Church of the Living Ood, of Lo Ang-eles has announced another tte-mpt to sail from Los Angeles to Monrovia Liberia. His first attempt failed when the "ark," a craft upon which h had labored many months, ink at Its launching. Now he and his flock have obtained the motorshlp Anfel, and rechrlatenea her '"Queen of (Liberia? aarl they plan to start the voyage tb Africa August 13. Jesus Gomes, a laborer, arrested at Bparks, Nevada made a statment before be-fore the chief of polce here Tuesday Tues-day that h was hired to kill Frank Brennan, a doputy aherif on railroad trike duty at Tracy, Cal. Gomes sard ha was hired by a "tall man wno worked In the round house," and was paid $10 for the deed. Winded by sunglare, nowarcr n. Johns, World war veteran cf Chicago, was found exhausted on the aescrt 80 miles west of Salt Lake and taken to the county hospital at Tooele City, according to word received at Salt Lake. Johns was attempting to hike to Prescott, Ariz., for entrance to a government hospital there, tie is aJd o; be 85 per cent disabled, Dut has signified an intention to make another effort to cross the desert on foot, since officials of the veterans' bureau have denied his application for transfer and cannot issue transportation transporta-tion to Johns. connection w!th the Knickerbocker theater disaster of last January, in which ninety-seven lives were lost, were dismissed Monday by Justice Siddons of the District of Columbia supreme court, who sustained demurrers. demur-rers. FOREIGN Antoine Oulette, one of the Indians who served under Sitting Bull at the time of the Custer Massacre, over 50 years ago is dead at Weylurs, Canada, at the age lof over 100 years. The British government nas received receiv-ed a note from the Washington government, gov-ernment, it was annouced Moday ask-ig ask-ig co-operation in the suppression of liquor runing into the United States through Bermuda ami the Bahamas. Tetrameter,-by Terarch, out of Man-dota, Man-dota, won the Steward's cup, a handicap handi-cap of 1000 sovereigns, for 3-year-olcls and upwards, six furlongs, run it Goodwood, England. Gavan Duffy has resigned as foreign for-eign minister of the provisional government gov-ernment of Ireland. He announced that, while he agrees with govern-ments's govern-ments's military policy, he opposes its policy on certain other grave and urgent issues s strongly that he cannot can-not longer honorably remain with the administration. Senor Lebroton, the Arget'ne ambassador am-bassador to the United States, has definitely given up his post and is leaving France soon direct for Argentina, Argen-tina, where he will serve as senator. President Alvear of Argintina, who is now the ambassador to Frnace, will leave for Argentina on August 19. A strike against wage cuts recently inaugurated among Canadian railway shopmen was favored by 97 per cent of voters in a ballot just completed by Montreal unions, it was announced Wednesday. B. n. Prater, egineer of maintenance mainten-ance of way, Oregon Short Line, nas been conferring with Rupert, Idaho business men in reference to the railroad rail-road strike. He stated that no work had been done on car repairing since July 1, and that unless men could be ecnired to tHke the place of the strikers strik-ers in the Tocatello shops, a car shortage would seriously affect the movement of the crops in this section. sec-tion. Financial ruin faces fruit growers of the western slope district of Colorado Col-orado unless railroad cars can be secured se-cured immediately to move the perishable perish-able crops, it Is stated in a resolution sent to Colorado senators and con-Sressmen con-Sressmen at Washington following a meeting .at Delta, Colorado, of shippers, ship-pers, growers and business men of Montrose and Delta counties. That the strike (if shop employes Is hampering transportation was evidenced evi-denced at Livingston, Montana. Division Divis-ion Superintendent G. H. Jacobus of the NorUiern Pacific railway announced announc-ed that pass-snger service' on the Shields river ralley branch would be discontinued and that the Yellowstone Yellow-stone Park special, a train of Pullmans Pull-mans opera ;ing between, St Paul and Livingston, would also be taken off. W. H. T;oblnon avaitor and two men passengers were burned to death at Los Anjeles. When the airplane in - which they were riding caught fire and fill. GENERAL Martial law has been declared at Deiison, Texas. Five infantry companies com-panies of the 142nd regiment have tone there. Rangers called to Deni-son Deni-son will be shifted to Childress and Sherman under the "open port" law. Boston has been chosen by the convention con-vention of the Independent Order of Good Templars for the 1924 biennial session of the grand lodge. This selection se-lection closed the formal buisness of the convention Wednesday, though the executive board remained "at Butte, Mont., Wednesday for further conference. confer-ence. Senor de La Huerta, Mexican secretary sec-retary of the treasury arrived at Mexico, Mex-ico, City Monday. Immediately after his arrival 'he visited Chaputepec castle to dmfer with President Obre-gon Obre-gon who is confined to his room. The secretary declined to discuss any phase of his New York visit stating he wished to consult the president before be-fore making any delaration. The rail and coal strikes brought a touch of wartime privations to Chicago Chi-cago Mi ;nday, when one of the city's largest chain grocery stores announced a strict limitation of purchases or sugar. su-gar. A temporary limitation of 10 pounds to each customer was blamed on the slowness of the railroads in getting cars through. Lieutenant Milton B. Mackall, who for the last thro- ye:;r-; had lain in a bath'ub i tne Fort Mcllenry hospital hos-pital at Baltimore as a result of a wound received in the world war, died Monday. The retail price of coal in car-lots car-lots in Chicago has jumped from So.lCi a ton to $ll.0."i and $13 since the miners went on strike while in small quantities the cost has increased from $o.25 to $G a ton to $15.25 and $1S, according to figures given out Monday Mon-day by a large industrial concern. Ignce J. Paderewskl lias decided definitely that his country is unwilling to accept his political services, it was learned Wednesday. Ha will return to the United States In November to fill several concert engagements. ' Former Premier Orlando, of Italy, after an hour's consultation with King Victor Emmanuel is reported to have refused to form a cabinet to succeed suc-ceed that of Premier Defecta which resigned last week. Senor Orlando, who has been discussing the situation situa-tion with all the leaders or the various var-ious constitutional groups of the chamber, is said to have declared himself against the formation of o short-lived cabinet. Recent speculati. n on the supposed Impending large-scale operations against the Republican insurgents in southwest Ireland seems to have .moved .mov-ed the Free State government to put the brakes on popular anticipation of an early march to triumph and peace. National troops have gained a fres-ii victory in west Ireland by capturing cap-turing P.allyhaunis, County Mayo, it was announced Monday. Sun Yat Sen. deposed president of the Sourh China republic, announced Monday that his forces had captured Ohiung-Ming in the vicinity of Ying-tak, Ying-tak, aibout sixty miles north of Canton. Can-ton. At Chen's headquarters, however, how-ever, it was asserted that the engagement engage-ment at Yingtajk was unimportant aad that only a few of Chen's soldieri were engaged. |