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Show B OF A WEEK IN coiora m RECORD OP THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST UANNE8 PCSSIBLE. Kappsntngs Tint Ar Making History Information Gathered from All Quartara of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Frank neater, chief of police of The Dalles, Oregon, was shot Wednes-lay Wednes-lay might and wounded, although not lerlously, while frying to arrest three Chinese, who escaped. Wheat prices went below $1 a bush-51 bush-51 at Portland, Oregon, Tuesday for the first time since August 2, 1916, the close being at 97 cents to 51.01 for mraediate delivery. The threatened railroad tieup was ascribed as the rea-lon rea-lon for the break. In Diamond Valley, Eureka county, i well drilling outfit nas been secured ind an effort will be made to secure ivater for irrigation. Twenty-five thousand acres of land have been looted lo-oted under the Pitman act and should tvells prove of quantity a large settlement settle-ment is promised in this virgin valley. KORTHWE2T The state co?i;-olled bank of North Dakota, Governor Lynn J. Frazier and other officials of the state and the bank Thursday were under injunction o-ot to receive deposits of public or private funds in the bank under the terms of a temporary order issued Tuesday by Judge J. A. Coffey in Stutsman county district court and served on the governor late Tuesday night Approval of a loan Of ?1,000,000 to a financial institution for credit" extensions ex-tensions on livestock in ilo- lana and Wyoming, was announced Wednesday by the War Finance corporation. The corporation did not make public the name of the institution, nor the terms of the loan. An open break between Governor Joseph M. Dixon and Attorney General Gen-eral Wellington D. Rankin of Montana occurred at a meeting of the state board of examiners at Helena, Tuesday. Tues-day. During an argument over the purchase of a dairy herd for use of the state prison at Deer Lodge and the leasing of a ranch, the governor called the attorney a "prevaricator" and declared he was responsible for much of the friction in the board. DOME8TIC Another Serlpps-MicRae newspaper, the twenty-seventh, will start publication publica-tion in Knoxville, Term, soon, it was announced fiere Thursday. It will be known as the Knoxville News, and will be a daily afternoon paper. Mrs. Catherine Macks, charged with violation of the liquor law ,at Cleveland, Cleve-land, Ohio, was discharged because a roach was found in the liquor. "I cannot accept this as evidence ; it 18 unfit for beverage purposes," said the judge. m More than 50,000 articles of mail, Including parcel post packages and second-class matter, addressed to Denver Den-ver residents, were burned Sunday at Akron, Colo., when a United States mail car caught fire from engine sparks and was destroyed, it was learned Monday. The mall matter was from eastern points. Taking no further chances on the safety of bis remaining supply of liquor, li-quor, Joseph E. Leifer is removing it, under heavy guard, to his house in Du-pot Du-pot circle, Washington, from his country coun-try estate in Virginia, which was robbed rob-bed two weeks ago of .$300,000 worth of whisky -and champagne. Valuable papers in the case of Gro-ver Gro-ver Cleveland Ilorgdoll, Philadelphia draft dodger, were stolen from the office of-fice of Representative Ben Johnson, democrat, Kentucky, last Tuesday, It was discovered Thursday when office was opened. With the Kergdoll papers pa-pers went also a number ,pf private papers of Importance, Johnson said. The capltol police are investigating. A resolution calling upon congress and President Harding to enact legislation legis-lation and amend the national prohibition prohibi-tion enforcement act to permit the manufacture of light wines and beer, In order that the breweries might be reopened thereby relieving the unemployment unem-ployment situation was presented In the meeting of the city unemployment commission at St. Louis Monday. Charlie Chaplin arrived In New York Monday aboard the Canard liner Ber-engarla Ber-engarla from Southampton and Cher- burg. One hundred ami twenty boxes of gold bullion were also on the lintjr, consigned to New York banks. m m m Two members of the crew of the Steamer William H. Wolf lost their 1 lives when the vessel burned, opposite oppo-site Marine City. Mich.. Thursday morning, and Captain J. P. Hansen of Detroit who escaped by jmy.p'tiL-from jmy.p'tiL-from the deck of b's ship inlo a small bvat, suffered fracture.; in both legs. Sixteen sophomore men of the engineering en-gineering college of the University of Minnesota were notified by E. E. Nicholson, dean of student affairs, that they are suspended from the university. uni-versity. WASHINGTON. Ideal weather for picking and ginning gin-ning cotton prevailed during the past week and very rapid progress was made in all sections where this work has been completed, according to the national weather and crop bulletin. Killing frosts occurred in the northern sections of the cotton be'.t, but without material damage. The appointment of Captain Jesse F. Cottrell, representative in Washington Washing-ton of several Tennessee newspapers for many years, as U. S. minister to Bolivia is being hailed with satisfaction satisfac-tion by the newspaper fraternity. Captain Cap-tain Cottrell, who left his profession to serve the country during Uie war, has won an enviable reputation. W. R. Stansbury, the new clerk of the U. S. Supreme Court, is now enjoying en-joying rhat satisfaction which comes from the knowledge that long, faithful and inteligent service has been recognized. rec-ognized. His position is for life, and he started in as a junior clerk more than 30 years ago. Imperial Wizard Simmons of the Ku Klux Klnn aroused more interest when i he visited Washington to testify be-! be-! fore an investigating committee of the I houso than will any of the notables who will soon be here to participate in the conference on disarmament. He was much in demand for interview and still and motion pictures. Visitors to Washington are displaying display-ing much interest in the transfer frora the State Department o the Library of Congress of the originals of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The change was made ; not only that the public might have an oportunity to see and enjoy these his- , toric documents but that they might be better cared for. I Delegates to the four associations : of post office ' workers in session in j -Washington last week provided a novelty nov-elty in that the? .broke the record for attendance at sessions bj RiGl bodies of an educational character. Delegates to conventions of associations in Washington all too often permit the lure of the Capitol City to draw them away from the working sessions, but , not so the post office people. They are used to work, and seem to like it. Newspaper dispatches going out of Washington often carry Jhe crytle word "Scotus," one which, if not in terpreted by telegraph editors beforl the article of which it is part goes , into print would cause speculation, at ! least, among readers. Scotus stands for Supreme Court of the United States. Were the full title of the country's highest court written out in each dispatch in which it is necessary j to use it the telegraph company would charge toll on six words instead of one. In addition to this saving, the use of the word saves time in writing. FOREIGN. Prince Lopburi, brother of the king ' of Siam is expected to arrive at Vic- toria, B. C, October 31, with a large entourage, aboard the liner Empress of Russia. He will tour the continent and may go through Europe. Five communists were arrested Tuesday at Berlin, charged with attempting at-tempting to assassinate Gustive i Stresemann, leader of the German people's peo-ple's party. Shots were fired at Herr Streseman while he was presiding at a recent convention of the German people's party. The new cabinet at Lisbon, Portugal, Portu-gal, constituted on a nonpartisan basis, has annulled the legislative elections of July 10, and r.ll Judrcial acts of the present parliament. The president of the republic signed a decree Wednesday Wednes-day night appointing the new ministers. minis-ters. The foreign, Interior, war and marine ministers have already assumed assum-ed their portfolios. The International relief committee of Constantinople Thursday sent a wireless to the civilized world on behalf be-half of thousands of destitute and homeless Russian refugees who have been absolutely helpless since the recent re-cent withdrawal from this city of the American Red Cross unit. Baron Lee of Fareham, first lord of the admiralty, and John St. Leo Stra-chey, Stra-chey, editor of the Spectator Thursday paid tribute to Theodore Roosevelt at a reception given by Lady Lee to the British committee of the women's Roosevelfc. memorial Lord Lee described de-scribed RiK)sevelt as having been his closest friend for more than twenty years and Ills spiritual leader Ip the public sr-.lc;. Every fighting ship in the British Brit-ish navy is now being rapidly converted con-verted by the admiralty into a sort of naval museum, not of obsolete ships, but containing, for a very practical i purpose, hundreds of small wooden i models, accurately made, of every ex- j All department secretaries of the Philippine government have -mbmitter! j ilu-lr i f :. (.nations, '.' lirir pui .io-o. they stated, was to give Major Genera; 1 o i a f:'ee h: n I in soil ft n.; his c: b j iut when lie b--conies pi-.crnr g : j end of the Mat: is. |