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Show NEWS HISTORY OF . THE JPAST WEEK A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World , WESTERN After severely knifing Itr-puty Warden War-den Arthur Mm-how, four prisoners escaped es-caped from the Souih Iiakota penitentiary peni-tentiary at Sioux Falls, taking Warden War-den George W. .Jamison with them. The prlnoners fled In a motor car parked by a tourist Just outside the prison walls. With numerous forest fires Mazing throughout the wooded areas of north-cm north-cm Minnesota, (Jovornor J. A. O. I'reua has taken personal charge of - .. the situation, ordering out national gi;mlmen at Ihiluth for relief duty. Drought conditions have Increased he menace to alarming proportions, according ac-cording to state forestry officials, and more than 2000 men were fighting fires In various sections. Six known dead, hundreds homeless, at least two towns wljied out and a dozen others in Imminent danger was the apparent toll of forest fires which swept northeastern north-eastern Minnesota, causing the worst conflagration since 1018, when 400 persons per-sons lost their lives. Three persons were struck by lightning and rendered unconscious when a severe electrical storm visited Denver. Mrs. Walter Wright and Harry llolloway were stunned when a liolt shattered a tree In a yard next door, both being a short distance away. Mrs. I. Wagner, 04, was seated on her front porch when lightning struck in the yard. She was unconscious uncon-scious forty-five minutes. All will recover re-cover in the opinion of physicians who attended them. The man who terrorized the business busi-ness section of Salt Lake on the night of July 15 and the morning of July 16 by breaking in a number of safes in various business establishments and who, through his activities, earned for himself the cognomen of the "sledge hammer safe-cracker," is believed be-lieved to have been taken into custody at Bakersfield, C.al., by D. 15. Newell, sheriff of that place. GENERAL The 1922 area of sugar cane, not including sorghum cane, in the eight lrineipal states producing sugar cane is estimated by the United States department de-partment of agriculture to be 524,200 acres, or about 90 per cent of the harvested cane acreage of 1921. This is a preliminary estimate and includes the acreage intended to be harvested for seed and Byiup, as well as for sugar. English women athletes won the first international woman's track meet at Paris over competitors from the United States, France, Switzerland and Czecho-Slovakia. The American team was second, France third, Czecho Slovakia fourth and Switzerland fifth. A tube of radium valued at 14,000, was back in the hands of the surgeon who owns it, and Mrs. Martha Spohn, a patient in whose body the radium was "lost," was reported recovering following an operation to recover the missing metal. In a previous operation opera-tion a tube of radium was inserted in the incision. When Mrs. Spohn was placed on the operating table for removal re-moval of the tube, it had disappeared. Another incision revealed that the radium had burned through tissues to another part of the patient's body. An American merchant marine "large enough to be a factor in the shipping of the world and which in time of war would insure sufficient subsidiary ships for fighting operations,'' opera-tions,'' has the indorsement of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, now in annual an-nual convention at Seattle. I I WASHINGTON Iiunnin' exp-ns-s of the go r-rn-rnnnt f';ll o!T l.y mort: than $ 1 T .J ',-000 ',-000 during July as rumpared with th; j same munth la:U yt-ar, while puMic d-lt di.sl.iirsmi:n:s w:rj reduced t.y S-'HiS.OOO.OOO, according to the monthly statement of expenditures issued ty the treasurer. The attention of farmers in all sec tions of the country to the free distribution distri-bution of excess war explosives for farm work, is called hy the Inked States detriment of agriculture. Since last fall the department, in cooperation coop-eration with the various state agricultural agri-cultural colleges, has distributed 11,000,0110 pounds of picric acid, a surplus sur-plus explosive, which is very efficient, easy and safe to handle. In Minnesota Minneso-ta the state agricultural college reports re-ports : "We feel that picric acid has been a great benefit to the state and has done great deal to stimulate land clearing. All reports are to the effect ef-fect that its use has been highly satisfactory. sat-isfactory. The 774,000 pounds allotted to Minnesota were distributed to 3511 fanners, averaging 222 pounds per farmer. We estimate that this will clear 35,000 acres of land, and has made a saving of over 70,000 for the farmers of the starte." The "Absent voter" is wooed with unusual ardor this year by political leaders. Hundreds of thousands of voters, temporary absent from their homes, are being urged to register for the November elections, and to vote by mail if it is imposlble for them to return home in time. Nearly a score of states have "absent voting" laws, which provide in detail for the registration regis-tration and voting of citizens who are for the time being, exiles from their home commonwealth. The government will be inclined to deal leniently with Western reclamation reclama-tion "homesteaders" who, because of deflated crop prices may find themselves them-selves unable to meet obligations, due Uncle Sam this fall and winter. Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior Fall states in a message to the reclamation record on the twentieth anniversary of the enactment en-actment of the federal reclamation act. However, Fall sounded the sharp warning that his department intends to be stern in its refusal to defer payments pay-ments from persons who are not true homesteaders and have been caught short by speculation or by their lack of fitness for farming. It is only the. bona fide, sincere public land settlers that the governmnet seeks to encourage encour-age and aid, the secretary asserted. Amendments of existing laws with reference to summoning of witnesses in civil cases is urged by Attorney General Daugherty in letters to Chairman Chair-man Nelson of the senate judiciary committee and Chairman Volstead of the house judiciary committee, asking for additional legislation to enable the government to institute suits for the recovery of money in "certain war fraud cases." FOREIGN Cyrus C. K. Curtis, Philadelphia publisher, returned to the United States after seven weeks in Europe, with word from former Premier Clem-enceau Clem-enceau that French war leaders felt "America never finished her job." Negotiations for a commercial treaty between America and Germany are expected ex-pected to begin soon arter the return of the German ambassador to Washington. Wash-ington. Ambasador Weidfeldt sails for New York with instructions to take up the question with the state department. In circles close to the German government it is stated that Washington is disposed to grant Germany Ger-many "the most favored nation" clause. Resolutions declaring the hostility to future wars of the second trades union congress were passed at its recently re-cently concluded session in Melbourne, Australia. Demonstrations against war were approved and all trade unions un-ions were directed to hold these demonstrations dem-onstrations during the week of the anniversary of the start of the World war. Chinese colonies in Japan are greatly great-ly exx-ited over the report that 2500 Chinese laborers are to be immediately immediate-ly deported under an old regulation prohibiting foreign laborers working Twenty gallons of whisky and five gallons of blackberry brandy were found by officers in a church near West Jefferson, N. C. The liquor had been concealed there by bootleggers, it was said, apparently in the belief it would be safe. Churchgoers detected detect-ed the odor and a search revealed the liquor. Mrs. Eugene Mara, 77, said to have been the first white child to arrive in Carson City, New, and reputed to have been the sweetheart of Samuel L. Clemons (Mark Twain) when he was in Nevada, is dead at Carson City. Before turning on the gas to end his life, at Cody, Wyo., William Harding Hard-ing moved his canary to another room to save the bird. Ivan L. Anderson, Robert Hones and Clifford Freeze, all of Salt Lake, who "were marooned on the rocky apron which separates the upper and lower Yosemite falls, 1000 feet from the floor of the valley, were rescued by rangers. The rescuing party of four tied themselves together with a half-iTich half-iTich rope, and were enabled to reach the stranded youths only after consid- erable perilous efforts. Hundreds watched the work of the relief party, searchlights being used to guide them. outside the foreign settlements. Although the Kaga, one of the great partially completed battleships to be scrapped under the terms of the Washington Wash-ington treaty limiting naval armaments, arma-ments, has arrived at Tokio ready for the breakers to commence their work of destruction, and her sister ship, the Tosa, has been towed to Kure for similar treatment, not a rivet will be drawn from their hulls until the treaty has been finally ratified rati-fied by all the powers concerned. Lord Nor.hcliffe, famous British publisher and political power, died of acute blood poisoning at London. French scientists have found that the death of many fine trees on streets where automobile traffic is heady is due to fumes from the motors. Canada is experiencing a building boom. Figures for the first six months of the year show a volume of construction con-struction unequaled in any year since 1914. Sixty carloads of foodstuffs from New Jersey on the food ship Saugus, which sailed from New York on June 20, has arrived at the "American Orphan City," at Alevandropool, where the near east relief is maintaining 20,000 Armenian children. |
