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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dsvs Reported by Wire and Pre-Jared Pre-Jared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Officials of the Union Pacific railway rail-way system Monday announced that plans for extension of the company's main line from Orchard to Boise, Idaho, had been completed. Twelve are known dead and scores are injured, as the result of a series of cloudbursts Monday evening devastated de-vastated much of the country from Bait Lake to Brigham City, Utah. The towns of Willard and Farming-ton Farming-ton probably suffered the heaviest damage. Half the town of Willard was swept away by Hie flood. The Lagoon resort near Farmington suffered suf-fered greatly from the floods and it was here that the largest loss of life Docured. Two hundred miners in Xo..l mine Df the Kemmerer Coal company were entombed Tuesday following an explosion. ex-plosion. The explosion occurred in the lower levels. A cave-in at entry N'o. 15 cut off all communication with the men who were working around the twenty-eighth entry. Xothin? definite concerning the condition of the entombed men has come from the depths of the mine, but experts ' in miners' rescue work declared they law little hope of rescuing the men llive. A number of postoffice inspectors who assisted in obtaining evidence upon which manjc Texas oil operators were indicted for fraud have come to Los Angeles to perform similar work among southern California operators, op-erators, it is stated. Carl Sorenson who was buried in a Cavein in the bananza Billings stope Df the Eureaka Hill mine near Eureka, Eure-ka, Utah Wednesday afternoon, died Df his injuries Thursday. In the same accident his employer, Jens Neilson, a leaser, was instantly killed. Fears that the Mallory line tanker Swift Star had gone down with all hands was expressed in shipping circles cir-cles at Los Angeles following receipt It the government station of a radio message from Tampico, Mexico, stating stat-ing that an ice-box, with the words Swift Star stenciled on it and containing con-taining the body of a man, believed to be that of a member of the crew, had been washed ashore on St. Andrew's An-drew's island, 300 miles north of Colon, in the Caribean sea. GENERAL Tulsa awoke Tuesday under martial law, surprised and angry. Indignation Indigna-tion was expressed at Governor J. C. Waltons proclamation placing the city under military rule as the result of the whipping of Nathan Hantman by a masked hand. Troops n:shed here from Oklahoma City and Okmulgee Okmul-gee patroled the streets from the camps they had pitched. Reductions in gasoline prices, begun be-gun when Gov. W. II. McMaster of South Dakota ordered state highway supply depots to sell gasoline at 10 cents a gallon, assumed a national aspect Tuesday when price cuts announced an-nounced by the Standard Oil company of Indiana and Kentucky and Independent Inde-pendent producers became effective in mid-western and southern states. Director Sfobey of the mint Saturday Satur-day gave orders for the production by the Philadelphia mint of a bronze medallion of President Harding. The medallions will carry on one side the face of the late chief executive in base relief and on the reverse side will be the dates af his birth, inauguration inaug-uration ami death. They will be sold to the public at $1.-"2 each. With a feeling somewhat of amazement. amaze-ment. Hillsboro, 111., resident Saturday Satur-day found themselves in the midst of a small army of about COO kliakl-clad, Bteel-helmeUd soldiers, as a result of the strike of several hundred workers et the plant of the American Zinc company. Everything was calm here after one man nad been shot In a riot Friday morning near the plant. PERSONAU Following a week-end of rioting In various parts of Germany In which 20 to 30 persons were killed, Gus-tave Gus-tave iStresemann of the German peoples peo-ples party began Monday the task of forming a government to succeed the Cuno cabinet which resigned Sunday. President Coolidge transacted official offi-cial business at the White House Monday for the first time since lie became the nations chief executive. Awaiting him at the White House was a huge pile of governmental business which was sent to the Pacific coast a few weeks ago for President Harding's attention. Jesus Salas, the member of the Durango legislature who is in jail following his voluntary confession that he led the band which killed Francisco Villa, has announced that be will donate the rewards offered for the death of the former bandit leader towards the establishment of charitable institution for the families fami-lies of Villa's numerous victims. Hcwiry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Harvey S. Firestone and Mr. and Mrs. George W. King of Marion drove up to the Harding residence Friday morning to pay their final respects to their dead friend. Just two years ago about this time Ford, Edison, Firestone and the president -were on a camping trip together in Maryland. William Rockefeller left an estate with a gross Friday in the report of the state tax commission. The report showed a net value of ?GT,G49,C(j0.30 after deductions for administration expenses, debts, funeral expenses and commissions to executors. Mr. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, who died on June 24, 1922, had numerous debts of sevexal million dollars dol-lars each. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the American draft evader, shot down and killed one man and wounded another Friday night when men concealed in his hotel apartment at Eberbach Germany Ger-many seize him in a kinaping attempt. A gold medal for heroism at sea awarded by the late President Harding Hard-ing Wednesday was presented to Edward Ed-ward Kavanaugh, an Irish sailor, by Colonel Watklns of the United States shipping board. Mrs. Annie Hosier, mother of eleven children, who was pnrdoned by the late President Harding, following her conviction for violation of the liquor laws, was re-arrested Thursday on a similar charge. Janathan M. Davis, Kansas' governor, gover-nor, was seriously ill from Influenza. President Coolidge has affixed his signature to a paper authorizing Mrs. Vila B. Pugh, a clerk in the general land office, to sign his name to land grants. She is the only person in the service of the country with authority to sign the president's name to official of-ficial documents. FOREIGN Tu Er-IIeng, former head of the Students' Self-government association if the Hangehow Normal school, and two cooks, Chien Ah Li and Pi IIo-Song IIo-Song were sentenced to death Monday Mon-day by the Hangehow district court for participation in a plot to poison the entire student body at the school. Twelve persons were killed and more than eighty were wounded at Aix La C'linpelle Monday night when crowds attempted to storm the police po-lice headquarters and rescue prisoners prison-ers taken during the day when the police broke up a food shortage demonstration. dem-onstration. Twenty-three persons were killed and seven were probably fatally injured in-jured Monday when a motor coach filled with excursionists plunged down a 2."i0-foot raviny in the Pyrenees Pyre-nees mountains near St. ,Saujiir, France. A naval demonstration In Chinese waters by the European powers, it was learned Friday is under consideration consid-eration owing to anarchical conditions in the Chines'' navy. The French department de-partment of marine is preparing to send two cruisers. German police Friday fired on a crowd of several thousand who were staging a demonstration against the scarcity of food and the high cost of living at Creficld, killing one and wounding ten. All the Bhrtps In Berlin, with the exception of the provision stores are closed as a protest against the refusal of the authorities to allow prices to be fixed on a gold basis. Three persons are dead, the current In the Chicago river was reversed, an airplane was broutcht down, a dam In the pesplalnes river was bursted, two bouses were toppled over and tele, phone and electric ll'ht wlrfts and elevated and street car traffic were crippled as a result of a terrific electrical elec-trical storm wlJeh visited Chicago nirly Saturday. Two men and a woman were Mown to pieces Mien a small powder house Df the ICoedale Coal company at Maldsvllle, W. Va., Thursday. Cause f the explosion was not determined. Nearly two 'Wi enu'lne companies f'iii::ht a fire at the plant of the Al. bert S'-hwall Malt, company nt Cbbao whl'h, It Ifi etitlmated, ban canned a lo-s of approilmal'dy $:.V)0,00'l. The jil an I. conilriU e' four bulldln;'ii, two of them el:;ht -story craln elevators. Jilspatches from Tsltsihar province of Ilolunldani.', Manchuria, announce that 7.",0 bandits were slaughtered by soldiers In the barracks there by command com-mand of the provincial tiichun, or military governor. The victims wer among 1200 outlaws who surrendered recently and were being trained foi the artny of Chang Tso-I.ln, the Man-churlan Man-churlan war lord. New volcanoes are developing In the mountains of northern Spain, following fol-lowing an carlh'iunke which destroyed villains, said a dispatch from Herdun Monday. Hundreds of persons whoso homes were demolished are living In the open. As a result of various dliiturlKincen In I MioiiHeldnrf during the week end, I he eastern frontier between occupied and unoccupied Cermany will Ik ; closed to ordinary travelers for oik j week. |