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Show TELEGHAPHIO TALES FOR BUSY READERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Father Walter A. Grace, pastor of a Catholic church at Arvada, a suburb of Denver, on trial in the United district dis-trict court on charges of forging a permit for an application to ship liquor into Colorado, was found guilty Wednesday. The jury deliberated only on-ly ten minutes. Cloudbursts have caused the Big rio'.-n River to leave its banks flooding flood-ing the entire country along its course in Wyoming. The town of T! eraaop;ilis was flooded to a depth of three feet, and outside communication communica-tion was shut off. Nuemrous railroad rail-road bridges were swept away by the flood waters. Id:;ho, according to the postoffice department, now has 217 rural free delivery routes, aggregating 5,817 miles of service. One new route was edded last year and 16 routes were extended for a total of 217 miles. Daily reports on the potato markets mar-kets of the country with special reference ref-erence to southern Idaho and also crop conditions and miscellaneous shipping information will be broadcasted broad-casted from Caldwell, Idaho beginning begin-ning about August 1, by the federal department of agriculture. The state of Idaho sold 230.27 acres of state land in Canyon county Thursday, Thurs-day, it was announced Friday by I. II. Nash, state land commissioner. The proceeds of the sale were $4,-800.12 $4,-800.12 Part of the land is located in the alkali bottoms 12 miles south and west of Caldwell and the remaining portion is along the Snake river. Mr. Nash said the bidding -was fair. Some of the land sold for $36 an acre. The appointment of B. J. Baird of Soda Springs, Idaho as a deputy commissioner com-missioner of reclamation was announced an-nounced Saturday by W. G. Swendsen 6tate commissioner of reclamation. Mr. Baird will also aot as a water master on the Bear river. As deputy commissioner he will have charge of - the distribution of the stored waters Jn Bear Lake. GENERAL Stormfield the home of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) in the closing clos-ing years of his life a picturesque villa on a ridge at Redding, Conn., was burned Wednesday. It was unoccupied un-occupied for many years after Mr. Clemens' death and was bought last December by Mrs. Margaret E. Given s of New York. Twelve hundred persons charged with violating Detpoit's traffic laws, constituting the largest docket in court history, faced judges at Detroit Wednesday. Eight hundred of the accused are charged with speeding. The provincial police, scouring Ontario On-tario for the six bandits who fought a pistol battle with a dozen bank messengers In Toronto's financial district and escaped with ?130,0O0 after af-ter wounding three employes, received receiv-ed word that the ashes of a touring car, believed to be that in which the robbers fled, were found on the Garrison Gar-rison road between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ont. Nobody in Texas stept under blankets blan-kets Wednesday night. The night seemed as hot as the day before and Thursday seemed about to repeat such soaring temperatures of as 110 at Wichita Falls, 108 at Temple end Marshall, 107 at Paris and Omaha, Texas; 100 at Gainesville, IO.j at Texarkana, 104 at Fort Worth and Waco, and 101 at Austin and Dallas. Most of these figures were records for the year. -An explosion in the plant of the United S'ates Fireworks Manufacturing Manufac-turing company at Cardington, Just ou'sido the western limits of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Is reported to have killed at least one- person and injured a number of others. Department of justice officials at Washington said Thursday that libel gaits wuuld be filed soon in the New York federal courts by District Attorney At-torney Hayward, to confiscate the H'ptor seized recently from foreign liners. Instructions have gone forward for-ward from Assistant Attorney General Wllliobrandt to Mr. Ilayward, with advice to limit the present proceed- I )n''H at least to confiscation of the liquor. German marks dropped to .0003 cent;!, a new low record fur all time. 1" th" New York foreign exchange mrl:et Thursday. Thin Is at the r:.(e of nearly .'',13,000 marks to the A'n'Tlran dollar. pen 'III a rex of the federal government govern-ment "chargeable against, ordinary receipt" during the fnseal year ending end-ing June ,",(), l!)2.'i, totaled ?.'!,0:)7,. 47X.0'J02O, m wording to an official report re-port published Wednesday by the treat) ury. PERSONAL John 'Schultz, who because of his unusual height, 0 feet G incites, was selected by President Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln to stand beside him when he reviewed the northern troops at the close of the Civil war is dead at his home at I'ottsville, I'a. President Harding made history, Thursday, when he stepped from the U. S. Naval transport Henderson, upon Canadian soil at Vancouver. The arrival of the chief executive of the United States was made the occasion of a military display excelling anything any-thing previous on his trip. President Presi-dent Harding is the first president to visit another country during term of office. Arthur Brooke,' a ticket agent of New Y'ork known as "the man with the rose," has disappeared with more than S100,O00 belonging to steamship companies. He had offices in two hotels, advertised largely aboard and advised his customers when they arrived ar-rived in New Y'ork to look for two things : "the Statue of Liberty and the man with the rose on the pier." Senator Johnson, of California who lias been touring Europe nas returned after making an extensive study of conditions there. Gen. John J. Pershing left Washington Wash-ington Sunday on an inspection trip of summer training camps. The inspection in-spection will consume five weeks, covering a distance of approximately 10,000 miles. General Pershing is making this inspection trip in order to gain an intimate personal knowledge knowl-edge of the progress being made and problems arising in the training camps for the development of an ef. ficient peacetime nucleus of the citizen army provided by the national defense act of 1920. Edward Keating of the Boys' club, New York, won the national 10-mile chmpionship swimming race in the Delaware river at Philadelphia Saturday. Satur-day. Thomas Blake of the Los Angeles An-geles Atheletic club, winner of the race last year, finished second and John Petri of the Philadelphia Turne-gemeinde, Turne-gemeinde, was third. Unofficial figures fig-ures for Keating"s time were 2 hours, 7 minutes and 35 seconds. Percy G. Williams, who started life in Baltimore as a "stage struck kid" with a S6 a week job as theatrical utility man, died at his estate, Pine Acres, New York Saturday, interna, tionally known as a vaudeville theatre owner and producer. Judge William Henry Gabbert, former chief justice of the Colorado supreme court and widely known in legal circles in the Rocky Mountain district died at Denver, after a short illness. He was 74 years old. FOREIGN Negotiations between ministry of finance and the Reiehsbank and other of the big banks for the issue of an international loan on a gold basis have been concluded and the loan will be issued shortly. It will be a loan of from 20,000,000 to 2u,000,000 gold marks, bearing interest at 5 per cent and maturing in twelve years, repayable repay-able at the rate quoted in New York. Fire which threatened to destroy the business section of the town, Wyn-work, Wyn-work, Sask., was extinguished early Thursday after seven business buildings build-ings had been destroyed. In an effort ef-fort to stop the flames, two stores were pulled down by a tractor. Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, pre-mier, in a statement given out In London, declared Saturday afternoon that the report that he contemplated resigning to take a colonial appointment appoint-ment was a "malicious falsehood." The body of Francisco Pancho Villa, Robinhood of Mexico Indisputably the most Interesting character of contemporary contem-porary Mexican history, a strange combination of 'horse" sense and fiery pulse, was viewed by thousands of persons Saturday at Rarral. A parliamentary mission, headed by either Manuel Quezon, head of the new Coliectivista party, or Sergio Os-mena, Os-mena, former speaker of the house of representatives, has gone to Wash. Ington to lay before President Harding Hard-ing on his return the Filipino version of the political controversy which culminated several days ago in tho resignation of all the leading officials of the Filipino government. A shipment of twenty-seven billion marks has been seized by the French occupation forces while In transit north of Eltville, near Mayenoo, and a German railway oflfcial and two assistants wore arrested In connection connec-tion with the shipment. There were no cases of murder, attempted at-tempted murder, manslaughter, or incendiarism in Ulster, Ireland, during dur-ing the past three months Lord Chief Justice Moore, said in opening the Belfast crime commission. In tho same period last yoar there were of these crimes respectfully 80, GO, 2 and 140. A bomb was found In a carload of coul from the Ruhr, which was being unloaded by laborers at. Lyons, Francn Saturday. A police Investigation showed it to ho a model used In Germany. They said It would hnvo exploded if lilt sharply by a shovel or other Implement. De Vulera Iiiih dispatched nn nppcal for election funds lo tho American Association for Recognition of tho Irlith RopubHc, according lo nn F,x. chanKo Telegraph dispatch from Dub. lln. |