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Show BRIEF REVIEW OF II WEEjra EVEHTS RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEMIZED ITEM-IZED FORM Home and Foreign News Gathered From All Quarters of the World, and Prepared for Busy Men INTERMOUNTAIN. Several people were injured, some seriously when the northbound train on the Denver & Rio Grande leaving Santa Fe, X. M., at 10 o'clock Monday went into the ditch at Espanola, thirty miles north. Soft track as a result of the terrific ruins is supposed to have been the cause. A regular mining rush was started in Mackay, Idaho, and the central Ida-o Ida-o country Monday when reports reached reach-ed here of a discovery of what was thought to be uranium, or pitcheblende. Government hunters operating near Idaho Falls, Idaho, during the month of May killed 154 predatory animals. Including three gray wolves, 143 coy-tes coy-tes and six bobca1. L. S. Twitchell, Blackfoot made the record kill, and destroyed wolves tkrat have been preying prey-ing on the sheep and livestock herds of that section. Two hundred students of the University Uni-versity of Utah are included on the graduating list of 'this year. One hundred hun-dred sixty-three of these will receive 'iplomas as a result of the work completed com-pleted at the school last week. Th? other thirty pine are students who obtained ob-tained sufficient credit for graduation since the graduation exercises last spring. Dr. James E. Talmage will deliver de-liver the address to" the graduates on the subject of "Cap and Gown," and President John A. Widstoe will award the diplomas and confer the degrees. Steve Butler, resident of Idaho Falls, tvas found in the cistern on Ins dry farm twelve miles west of Idaho Falls Sunday afternoon by his two brothers, who had instituted a search for him. several d&ys. The Olufs warehouse at Fresno, Cal.. was dximaged badly by fire Thursday, with a loss on structure and contents estimated at $500,000 by the manager. Twenty carloads of raisins and dried fruit, with furniture and pianos and ' other goods stored in the building, were . destroyed, Firemen and the building manager expressed belief that the fire was of incendiary origin. The largest funeral pyre to the memory mem-ory of John Barleycorn since nationwide nation-wide prohibition went into effect, according ac-cording to csstoms officers, was fired at Baline Near Bellinghm, Wash, when whisky estimated at "bootleg prices" to be worth $150,000 was burned by a deputy United States marshal by order of the federal court in Seattle. DOMESTIC. Reductions in the price of news print paper from $110 a ton to ?95 were announced Monday by the International Internat-ional Paper company and the Canadian Cana-dian Export Paper company. The lower low-er 'quotation applies to deliveries in toe third quarter of this year. After six years the honor system at Pennsylvania State college was ordered order-ed suspended by unaniomous vote of the faculty Monday. More violations have been dealt with by the student honor court isirfice the war period than in the preceding four years, it was reported. All Texas & Pacific railway through traffic is 'being detoured via the Kansas Kan-sas City, Mexico & Orient road between be-tween Sweetwater and Alphine Texas and from El Paiso by way of the Southern South-ern Pacific lines, owing to washed-out tracks and high waters in the Pecos valley. More than 1200 feet of Track is cut at a point four miles east of Toyan. Dr. W. J. Mayo of (Rochester Minn., told the Boston Surgical soceity Monday Mon-day that animal experimentation had become a foundation stone of progress and had resulted in "gifts of inestimable inestim-able value to Jinmaaity.'" He warned the surgeons, however, . that if they wished to canthmue this work they must protect the dog from the "wanton experimenter.'" ex-perimenter.'" President Harding has signified his willingness to address a mass-meeting to be held soon in Brooklyn for newly admitted citizens of the United States, It was announced Thursday by Federal Fed-eral Judge Garvin. State Water Commissioner Xorviel of Phoenix, Ariz Thursday accepted for filing the application of the Southern South-ern California Kdison company to develop de-velop hydro electric energy from the Colorado river. Promoters of the project pro-ject say it involves an ultimate ex. penditure of about !?S(0,OiiO.O0. or twice as much ss Ihe sum spent nil the ' Panama canal. i Governor Davis, of Idaho is confident that the McNary reclamation approp-raition approp-raition bill, carrying a total of S2.",-0X1,000, S2.",-0X1,000, will be passed by congress. Since his return from a trip to Washington Wash-ington with other western governors interested in the a sua go of the measure. meas-ure. Governor Davis takes a very optimistic opti-mistic view of the outlook. ; Recent closing of the copper mines of Butte, Montana, has resulted in bringing to the surface horses and mules, some of which have not been above ground for fifteen years. The lunlight dazed them for several days. Demanding tiat the $600,000,000 wage increase granted railroad employees em-ployees by the railroad labor board last July be wined out, more than i.iti railroads appeared before the board at Chicago, Monday with renevceu petitions peti-tions for wage reductions. Several roads demanded reductions of a flat 20 per cent cut for all employees, while others declared every basis for last year's increase had disapeared. J. V. Higgins, representing sixty-six western west-ern road, declared that the railroads were not satisfied wkh the reductions and demanded Unit the increases of last year be willed out. A flood which followed recent heavy rains is forcing residents of Traer, Kan. to move, according to a dispatch from McCook, Neb., which says considerable damage to crops hs-s resulted. Thousands Thous-ands of acre are inundated in the vicinity vicin-ity of Trear and Cedar Bluffs, Kan., and the water is reported to be sixteen to eighteen feet high, the dispatch adds. Both towns are situated near Beaver creek. When John II. White of Kansas City Kansas, an overseas vetern, reached home from work Thursday he found a notice from the war department depart-ment advising hi wife that his body had arrived at New York from France and would be forwarded to her immediately. imme-diately. WASHINGTON. Contentions of the Western Telegraph Tele-graph company that it cannot be held liable for damage caused through er-ors er-ors in trasmitting messages while its lines were under government control were upheld Monday by he supreme court. A decision of So rh Carolina courts, awarding dainties to S. B. Poston, a cotton dealer, oil this ground were reversed. Authorization for the expenditure of a second ,$50,000 out of the national disaster relief funds for medical relief was wired to Red Cross chapter at Pueblo Monday night by natioiial headquarters. head-quarters. The action foifoweil receipt of telegraphic reports from Pueblo chapter offlcials'that "the srituation was growing more desperate hourly. It was explained that 9100,000 already authorized was purely for emergency purposes until the full needs are known, and is in addition to the funds, supplies and relief workers ordered sent to Pueblo from the southwestern division. Hospital supplies and twenty-four nurses Monday also were ordered or-dered there. The east, through self-interest should be 'Symapathetic toward federal appropriations ap-propriations for reclamation of the arid lands of the west, F. W. Robinson of Denver, freight traffic manager, declared de-clared Monday before the senate irrigation irri-gation committee at the conclusion of hearings in the McNary bill to extend irrigation development. "The east should essentially be interested in the reclamation of the arid lands of the west," Mr. Robinson said, "because the population of those lands through irrigation ir-rigation will mean a new and great market for the manufactured product? of the eastern states." Chairman Mc Nary announced the hearing closed and that the bil probably would be reported favorably to the senate within the week. The supreme court Monday ordered the United Shoe Machinery case, the orignal suit between Wyoming and Colorado Col-orado and a number of others restored restor-ed to the docket for reargument before be-fore a full court. FOREIGN. Omsk has been captured by nnti-BolshevJU nnti-BolshevJU forces, according to semi of ficial reports. Other dispatches tell of a revolutionary movement at Ekarrin-burg, Ekarrin-burg, while advices from Japanese sources report that an insurrection whUdi broke out recently in Moscow was suppressed with- difficulty. The situation, however, is decribed as still serious. The immediate sending of additional British forces to Ireland to maintain order 1ms been decided on, it was announced an-nounced in the house of commons Monday Mon-day by Austen Chamberlain, government govern-ment leader. Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, replying to an inquiry, isaid that since January, 1920, 127 soldiers had been killed and 2S6 wounded in Ireland. The supreme court, meeting Tuesday Tues-day for its regular decision day before be-fore the summer recess, adjourned until un-til Wednesday out of respect to the late Chief Justice Edward Dmglas Whitte. The chair of the late Chief justice was shrouded in black, as was the doorway through which he used to enter the chamber. Rear Admiral Sims of the United States was granted an honorary degree de-gree of doctor of laws Tuesday by the University of Cambridge, England. At the same time the Prince of Wales was accorded the same honor. The crew of the Gloucester schooner Esperanto was brought to port at Halifax Hali-fax N. S. by the Elsie, which had ta!-en ta!-en them off the wreck of their craf! at Sable island. The Esperanto winner of the international fishing vessel races here last fall, foundered after striking a submerged wreck they rtid. Four members of the police force were shot dead and three others wounded in an ambii-di at ''l"more. county Kerry, near Dublin Thursdaj it was announced at headquaters here Friday. The killed were I'nie Inspector In-spector MneCauirhey. a sergeant and two constables. The three men v. funded fund-ed were constables. A Korean tramway conductor named Lihanno became suddenly insane last I Thursday and killed his wife and seven I Japanese, including women ar.d child- j ren, with a sword. He vround.-d nine other seriously. |