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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSJJEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wlre'and Pre-v Pre-v pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Old Fosey's band and affiliated Indians in the neighborhood of Blanding, Utah who occupied the limelight for a week or so in early Bummer will soon become allotted wards of the government and have their own lands for grazing and agricultural agri-cultural use. The department of agriculture ag-riculture has set aside thirteen sections. sec-tions. Officials of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America gathered for wage negotiations with operators at New York, Thursday appropriated $ 1 0,000 to relieve the distress of members in the mine explosion at Kemmerer Wyo. Raising of a relief fund of at least $75,000 to immediately relieve the suffering of those left destitute by the Farmington-Willard, Utah flood, got under way, Thursday, when Governor Gov-ernor Mahey appointed a special committee headed by W. W. Armstrong Arm-strong to effect the organization. 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 Salt 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 the flood. The Lagoon resort near Farmington suffered suf-fered greatly from the floods and it was here that the largest loss of life occured. Two hundred miners in No. 1 mine of the Kemmerer Coal company were entombed Tuesday following an explosion. ex-plosion. The explosion occurred in the lower levels. A cave-in at entry No. 15 cut off all communication with the men who were working around the twenty-eighth entry. Nothing definite concerning the condition of the entembed men has come from the depths of the mine, but experts in miners' rescue work declared they saw little hope of rescuing the men GENERAL Seizure of a complete plant for the manufacture of counterfeit 51 00 federal fed-eral reserve notes in Floral Park Long Island, was announced Wednesday by Joseph A. Palma, chief of secret service ser-vice agents in New York. E. E. McDonald, railroad laborer, kidnaped by the five unmasked men at Arimillo, Texas, returned to his home Thursday bearing fifty or sixty lashes on his body, telephoned the police po-lice for assistance and was hurried to a hospital where his condition is said to be serious. With S4 persons already under arrest ar-rest at Savannah, Ga., under the conspiracy section of the prohibition enforcement act, department of justice jus-tice officials said Thursday they believed be-lieved they finally had rounded up one tit, if not the largest bootleg forces in the United States. Discovery Thursday that valuable securities were missing from the vaults of the American Bank & Trust company of Dayton, Ohio, have brought estimates of. Cashier Fred W. Ilecht's alleged defalcation up to 21,000. A sweeping investigation Into responsibility re-sponsibility for the riot late Wednesday Wednes-day night in which two men were shot, one perhaps fatally, a dozen klansmen injure' and about 40 members mem-bers of a mob of 1,000 which engaged in a free-for-all battle with 100 llansmen suffered blackened eves PERSONAL The appointment of C, Bascom Slemp, former congressman from Virginia, Vir-ginia, as secretary to President Coolidge, Wednesday brought an end to the political armistice which has existed since President Harding's death. Dispatches from Berlin Wednesday say it is reliahly reported that the name of former Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno is being mentioned as sucessor to Dr. Otto Wiedfedlt, German ambassador am-bassador to the United States, who will resume his direction of the Krupp works. Following a week-end of rioting in various parts of Germany in which 20 to 30 persons were killed, Gus-tave Gus-tave 'Stresemann 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 he 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, lias announced that he will donate the rewards offered for the death of the former bandit leader towards the establishment of a charitable institution for the families fami-lies of Villa's numerous victims. Henry Ford, Thomas A. Edison, Harvej 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 $07,649,060.30 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 several 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 Watkins of the United States shipping board. FOREIGN TidaJ waves, combined with a severe storm, have submerged 25,000 houses along the Yalu river and on the west coast of Korea. No estimate esti-mate of the loss of life has yet been received, but it is said the damage to crops and the lumber industry will be heavy. The Belgian authorities, it was announced an-nounced Thursday have imposed a fine of three billion marks on the ity of Duisburg as a penalty for the bomb explosion on a train near that city late in June. Ten Belgian soldiers sol-diers were killed and two score others injured. Communists stormed the city hall at Datteln, 19 miles northeast of Essen disarmed the police and took IKissi-ssion of the town. Militia which was summoned from a neighboring town also was disarmed. Many casualties cas-ualties occurred on both sides. Yu Er-IIeng, former head of the Students' Self-government association of the Hangchow Normal school, and two cooks, Chien Ah El and I'i IIo-Song IIo-Song were sentenced to death Monday Mon-day by the Hangchow 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 Chapelle 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 dlm-onstration. and cuts and bruises, was promised by Steubenville and Jefferson county, Ohio, authorities. Director Scobey 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 tho reverse side will be the dates of his birth, Inauguration Inaug-uration and death. They will be sold to the public at $1.52 each. Tulsa awoke Tuesday under martial law, surprised and angry. Indignation Indigna-tion was expressed at Governor .1. ('. Widtons proclaims Ion placing the city under military rule as the result of tlie whipping of Nathan llanlman by a masked hand. Troops rushed bore from Oklahoma Oily and Okmulgee Okmul-gee palioled tho b' reels from the !i in Un-y had pitched. Ti'.ri men and a woman were blown to pieeey. when a. ninnll powder houiie of Mm (toMedule Coal company al ib 'Id-;', lib;, W. Va., Tliunidiij, Twenty-three persons were killed and seven were probably fatally injured in-jured Monday when a motor coach filled with excursionists plunged down a 250-foot ravine In the Pyrenees Pyre-nees mountains near 'St. .Sauvcur, France. German police Friday fired on a crowd of several thousand who were staging a demonstration against tho scarcity of food and the high cost of living at Crefleld, killing ono and wounding ten. Dispatches from Tsltillmr province of Ilolnnklang, Manchuria, announce that. 750 bandits were slaughtered by soldiers In the barracks there by command com-mand of the provincial tuchiin, or military governor. Tho victims wero among 1200 outlaws who surrendered recently and were being trained for the army of Chang Tho-LIn, All the ahois In licrlln, with the i'veoillon of the provision stores are closed an a proto t agalni'.l. the refusal of the aulhoi-llleii to allow prl.xfl to i he rhed on a i:old hauls. |