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Show NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM i RECORD OF THE IMPORTANT j EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. I I Happening That Are Making Hiatory Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Lines. ( INTERMOU.MTAIN. Not content wfth running down Miss I.uclle Dunne, at Denver, Colo., one time, an unknown motorist swung his car about and struck her again before speeding away. The eyeslgfit of three men was ue-Itroyed ue-Itroyed by an explosion In the mine of Mio Union Pacific Coal company at Megruth, near Hock Springs, Wyo. a tew days ago. I A freak egg was laid by a Rhode Isiului hen at the home of Mrs. W. II. (iood, of Oregon City, Ore. The egg Is three Inches in length and about six Inches In circumference and on the shell are whitish circles and spots, r- i Conservation of the water after It Is Obtained and placed under control is bne of the big problems of reclamation reclama-tion and It should be one of the immediate immed-iate problems, according to Guy Flen-ner, Flen-ner, managing director of the Idaho WASHING I ON. A r--iyliilion declaring for relinquish, merit of foreign postotTice privilege in China v.a.s adopted Thursday by the nine powers silting as a committee orr I'aelfic and far Eastern questions. Two men serving life sentences in federal peiieteiititit'iea on murder charg-j charg-j es were released Thanksgiving day uD pinions Issued by President Harding Values of ihe merchandise exported during October fell to fractional part.' of the to tii Is for the same month last year while decided drops in value ol Imports were noted by the commerce department in its monthly summary Immigration from China Is to be reduced, re-duced, according Co a late report. This government Intends to adopt a more stringent policy of restricting Chinese immigration it vo3 stated officially. Senator Borah wrote Secretary Fall, and also will take up with the senate irrigation committee, the necessity for securing an extension of time In which settlers on government reclamation projects may make payments. m A petition more than a mile In length and containing around 200,000 individual signatures of presidents of women's organizations with a total membership of more than two millions, was presented to Secretary of State Hughes recently approving the objects of the conference on disarmament. f Bringing with It some of the sharpest sharp-est Issues of world diplomacy, the Shantung controversy took its place at tire arms conference. The result was an offer by the United States and Great Britain, accepted by Japan and China, to assume the role of friendly advisers Reclamation association, a delegate to the convention of the Western States Reclamation association. Concerted action of western states In a fight to the bitter end is necessary In the campaign for federal appropriations appropria-tions for the reclamation of arid lands, according to Governor Joseph M. Dix-an Dix-an of Montana. Senators from the western west-ern states must form a block and stand behind this program to the last to the axcluslon of everything else. A statewide campaign with a view to raising $125,000 for the establish-Dient establish-Dient of a farm home for orphan children chil-dren has been inaurgurated by the Woman's Wo-man's Christian Temperance union of Oregon. Of the amount desired the community chest of Portland lias pledged pledg-ed $00,000, provided a. similar amount Is raised In other sections of the state. What Will It. King of Oregon, formerly form-erly counsel for the United States reclamation re-clamation service and experienced in development conventions since 1004, characterizes as "one of the most successful, suc-cessful, complete and far-reaching meetings of any that I have ever attended," at-tended," came to a close recently in Salt Lake. In a big way, the sessions of the organization, which was formed two years ago, established it as a permanent per-manent body to work for development in t lie west. r: F w p o a i I in a new attempt to solve the problem and end the long and bitter dispute. a Government tax receipts luring the fiscal year 1921 decreased nearly a billion dollars as campared with last year, while the cost of collection in. creased 32 cents for each $100, according accord-ing to the annual report of the bureau of Internal revenue. Operation of the army transport service ser-vice in the Pacific may be turned over to the shiping board for experimental purposes. Chairman Lasl;er of the board has requested Secretary Week? to permnnt his agency to take over the army transport service in connec with a weekly sailing service it expects soon to begin between the west coast, the Philippine Islands find, the east. FOREIGN. A soviet delegation is On the way to Buenos Aires to negotiate for the reopening re-opening of trade relations between Argentina Ar-gentina and Russia. Th.e chamber of deputies at Madrid, passed a bill appropriating 13,000,000 pesetas for naval construction. This will provide for an increase In the Spanish navy. The Russian ruble Is still depreciating. depreciat-ing. It now requires 200,000 of them to purchase a dollar. In one day trie dollar has jumped from 150,000 to 200,-000 200,-000 rubles. A jury to try Arthur C Burch, as-cused as-cused of the murder of J. Helton Kennedy, Ken-nedy, lias been completed. It is composed com-posed of ten women and two men. Accumulation of various Christ'J!U: savings funds, amounting to $150,000,-000, $150,000,-000, will be distributed among five' mil. lion individuals by approximately 4000 banks throughout tlie country. The tendency to crowd the cities and deplete the farms of their population Is a problem as important as war or peace and a principal cause of unemployment unem-ployment and unrest, in the opinion of Miss Evangeline Booth, commando-the commando-the Salvation Armv in vt i . -uiierlca. Bolshevism is spreading through the large towns of Portugal, the IxJido" Times declares and there have been many outrages, especially in tlie province prov-ince of Alemtejo. . , The luckiest woman (j) France is Muriel Dunsmuir Molyneaux, who became be-came the bride of Captain Molyn. the famous dressmaker. The trousseau trous-seau was entirely designed by the bridegroom nad was most elaborate. Khaki is to be the color r x form of the French " '" -ture. Th ' r""u tit tte fu- """ uer(aft 'e is doomed xtie rtlSiOQ Vas arrived at by military SX'pe.rts and favorably passed upon at a meeting of the cabinet. jvester Rosenthal and Samuel Moskowit., owners and contractors of the American theater in Brooklyn, which collapsed burying nearly fifty workmen, were ordered held without bail when they were arraigned on ."barges of manslaughter. A bronze tablet has been erected at Brookline, Mass, to the memory of Albert E. Scott, a former newsboy known as "Scotty" who was killed behind be-hind his machine gun in France. He is believed to have been the youngest American soldier killed In the World War. The American Eegion participated particip-ated In the unveiling ceremony. Five thousand compositors In the New York hook and job printing trades will continue to work at their present wages 550 a week for day workers, 553 for night workers and $oo for those on midnight shifts under a decision de-cision handed down by Dr. John Love-Joy Love-Joy Elliott. On November IS, one week after the "unknown soldier" services in Washington, Wash-ington, which is thought to have added tlie lust faial burden to a mind already overburdened with melancholy recollections recollec-tions of the horrors of war, Lietuten-. Lietuten-. ant Colonel Charles W. Whittiesey, medal of honor man and commander of the famous "Lost Battalion" of -I'm, vrnnnn woods, disappeared from Henri Landru has been found guilty and condemmed to death by the guillotine, guil-lotine, in Paris, France. Landru was tried for the murder of ten women and one boy and was charged with having disposed of their bodies by burning in his kitchen stove. 9 China requested and received a ninety-day extension of its S5.5O0.0O0 loan from the Pacific Development corporation, corpora-tion, which was to have matured soon. Reports that the British cabinet was considering the proposed moratorium for Germany have been confirmed in official circles. The point being discussed dis-cussed is under what conditions a j moratorium could be declared. ' m Berlin was suddenly thrown into darkness and was without telephones or street cars recently owing to a ' strike of the city electrical workers be. cause of a refusal of their demand for . a substantial raise in wages. Investigation to determine the advisability advis-ability of recommending to the District of Columbia supreme court a modifier.-tion modifier.-tion of the big fie packers' consent decree to enable them to resume operation opera-tion of unrelated industries was begun, be-gun, before a joint committee formed by Attorney General Daugherty. In a recent theatrical piece produceu' OTTB ' 111 HlfEU i II I i ' 1 1 r m.-'H'IH'C |