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Show HEWS OF A WEEK IN 1 COiEiEO FORM RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenlnfli That Are Making Mlttorj Information Gathered from AU Quarter of the Glob and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIN. Installuciun of "lmby lighthouses," to flash their warning lights forty-five times per minute at all railroad crossings, cross-ings, at approaches to dangerous curves and on sleep grades throughout through-out Wyoming, is being considered by the state road commission. Police are conducting a widespread search for Dorothy Skeels, pretty year-old high school student, who has been missing from the home of her parents, Itev. and Mrs. Skeels, at Denver, Den-ver, for over a week. Joseph W. Latham, 5G, vice president presi-dent and general manager of the Vulcan Vul-can iron works, committed suicide by shooting in his office at Denver. Business Busi-ness associates said he had been in ill health for some time. Approximately 15 per cent of Colorado's Colo-rado's 12,000 coal miners will ask for a daily wage increase of 5.1.50. The men who seek the increase are not shovel men, but are known as inside and outside laborers. "IOvery man in Wyoming carries a gun," Gerald A. Stack told a coroner's jury in explaining his part in a fatal roadhouse row at Chicago. He was held by the police after admitting shooting Paul Williamson, who, it was alleged, insulted a girl in Stack's party. Joe Sennett, 29, was killed and Miss Pauline Pitman was seriously injured at Denver when the automobile in which they were driving crashed into a curb. DOMESTIC. Presidents of nearly twenty railroads rail-roads of the country met in Chicago in secret session to discuss what was termed by Hale Holden, president of I Itobbers broke inlo the county courthouse court-house at St. Joseph, Mo., unlocked the vault in the sheriffs office and stole .:!:SH) in Liberty bonds. Further evidence of Die It'gh cost of politics was furnished by the threat of election poll officials at Mount Vernon, Ver-non, X. V., to strike If their demand for an increase of So a day is not met. Through an order issued by the war department, officers and men in the army are empowered to register for and cast their ballots in the presidential presiden-tial election in November without re-' re-' turning to their home towns." While appraisers were listing cans of peaches, tomatoes, etc., in the store at Oelina, ()., of Dennis Dixon, deceased, de-ceased, they found two peach cans on the shelf containing in gold, bills and securities a total of Jo.'i.lX X). Four men were seriously wounded in a gun battle when Sheriff Robert Clay and three deputies surprised four men - draining alcohol from a freight car near Wesley City, 111. The sheriff was shot in the leg. WASHINGTON. Federal guarantee of railroad earnings earn-ings resulted in an increase in the public debt of 5101.ror,000 during August, Au-gust, according to treasury figures Issued Is-sued September 1, showing the nation's na-tion's gross debt to be 524,324,620,000. Exports of the United States to the principal countries of the world during July totaled oTl,3Sl,S27, an increase of $82,004,312 over the corresponding period last year, according to department depart-ment of commerce figures. General John J. Pershing will tour principal countries of South America at the end of this year as the personal per-sonal representative of President Wilson, Wil-son, if present plans of the state department de-partment are carried out, it has been learned. Suffrage leaders have announced they will start immediately a vigorous campaign to get Connecticut to ratify the nineteenth amendment, granting national enfranchisement to women. Plans for the sale of the government's govern-ment's entire wooden ship fleet of 2S8 vessels, aggregating more than one million deadweight tons, have been practically completed, it is announced an-nounced by the shipping board. FOREIGN. Japan lias declared her intention of keeping troops at Vladivostok until security se-curity of life and property is guaranteed, guaran-teed, according to Vladivostok reports to Tokio cabled to Hochi, a Japanesa the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, rail-road, as a very "critical" situation, resulting re-sulting from what he said was dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction among employees. A San Francisco bank has offered a reward of $1000 for the arrest of Charles W. Hayes, a chauffeur, who disappeared with an automobile said by bank officials to contain .$50,000. Hayes, a new employee, had been detailed de-tailed to drive two bank collectors over downtown routes. He disappeared disap-peared when the day's work was nearly near-ly ended. Wineries of the Lodi, Calif., district are now operating full blast. The Roma winery alone is expected to produce pro-duce 2,500,000 gallons of grape juice. Both wine and grape' men are observing observ-ing the prohibition law. Resolutions declaring, "any compromise" com-promise" of the Japanese question "would not be acceptable to the citizens citi-zens of California" were adopted at a- conference held at San Francisco I of representatives of organiza-l'.OnS working for the passage of anti-Japanese legislation in California at the November election's. "A sugar' riot broke out Jg the 1750 immigrants in the El-.i El-.i Island dining room Thursday, when for the first time since the war sugar, substituted for molasses to sweeten coffee, was put on the tables. Several aliens were removed to hospitals, hos-pitals, one with three fractured ribs. Ben Hickman, escaped convict from the Utah penitentiary, where he was serving a life term, is in jail at Paw-liuska, Paw-liuska, Oklahoma, having been captured cap-tured after be had shot and killed his wife on a street. Formation of a gigantic wheat pool In the United States, whereby the farmers will virtually control marketing market-ing and selling of the grain, is one of the more important subjects' to be planned at Columbus, O., by farmers attending a session of the National Board of Farm Organizations. Major H. S. Green, officer in charge of the Quantice, Va., marine barracks post exchange, was knocked unconscious uncon-scious at his quarters in the camp Monday by a robber, who escaped with 12,000 of the funds in his possession. Women of Georgia have a right to vote in the statewide primary on Sop t ember 8. as well as at the coming general election, according to an opinion opin-ion submitted to Governor Dorsey by the slate's attorney general. Nearly every small town in Iowa, with the exception of mining centers, is almost desiitude of coal, according to answers to a questionnaire sent out by the state transportation committee. commit-tee. Sevei.ty thousand miners are idle tis a result of the strike in the anthra- j o-iie coal fields of Pennsylvania, of- I fii-ials estimate. i No solution lias been reached of (lit- , mysteri'ius killing of George Johnson ! and 'J'lie wlore Schmidt, rancher.-, found ; shot io eVsitli in Johnson's summer j home nen- Santa Cruz, Calif. Reworked rag- are refihicinL' virgin wool in the clnih of manufacturers, wr-onlisig In :-i'c;il;er-: at the annual conver, ion of Xa:ional Sheep i::ul ! W..,i I'::. '','::.! of Amerlfa. ;ii ye.--m; J "' C:.: -". language newspaper at iionoiuiu. The Polish delegates to the Minsk peace conference have formally rejected re-jected all proposals of the bolshevik delegates, the war office announced at London. The Folish delegates, however, how-ever, will go to Riga, Latvia, where the conference will be resumed. It is denied at Paris that President Deschangel has prepared a letter of resignation and placed it in the hands of his wife. On the contrary, it was said, confidence is felt that the president presi-dent will be able to resume his official of-ficial duties in November. A shipment of 5,000,000 in gold has left France for the United States as part payment on France's shares of the Anglo-French loan, maturing October Oc-tober 15, it was announced by the French finance mission. - ' ' Girls are being sold by their parents in famine-riddf-n uislricts a short distance dis-tance south" of Pekin, according to ad-vfC-s received last week. Girls 10 years old have been sold for $10, it is reported in a petition for relief received re-ceived by the ministry of interior. Pedro Zamora, the Jalisco bandit, has threatened to execute W. A. ("Sandy") Gardiner, an American citizen, citi-zen, and B. C. Johnson, a British subject, sub-ject, who were kidnaped by Zamora's hand at Cuale, on August 20, if the men are not ransomed immediately. The American congressional parly visiting Japan was welcomed at the railway station upon its arrival at Tokio by Viscount Inajiro Tajiri, mayor of Tokio, who is a graduate of Yale in the class of 1870, and a delegation dele-gation from the Japanese diet. The British house of commons is considering placing a head lax on Americans and all other foreigners who enler England. The American government has long had a head tax on all incoming foreigners. Strike notices calling for a walkout ' of the members of the British Miners' federation on September 25 are being sent out, according to a decision reached at a meeting of the district delegates of the federation at London. The bolshevik army of General Binl-enny, Binl-enny, noled cavalry leader, was annihilated anni-hilated during the operations in the Lemlierg sector which began August 20 and ended September 1, says the Polish official statement. Representatives of both the soviet and Polish peace delegations at Minsk have been sent to their respective capitals cap-itals to consult their governments regarding re-garding any proposed transfer of the negotiations to another place, according accord-ing to a wireless dispatch received from Moscow. Dr. Walter Simons, the foreign minister, min-ister, addressing the German reiehslag foreign affairs committee, declared he had been urged to collaborate with the Russian bolsheviki against the western powers as a means of brea':-Ing brea':-Ing the bonds imposed by th" (reply of Versailles, but that, after mature reflection, be bad rejected this course. Prohibition of all drinks having an alcoholic content exceeding 2.8 per cent is recommended in a report of a Swedish government committee appointed ap-pointed in 1011 to consider the liquor question. |