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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS " A RE8UME OF THE WEEK'S DOINQ3 IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dys Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Dr. Curtis Welch, only physician of Nome, Alaska, and a hero of the diphtheria diph-theria epidemic there last winter has arrived In Seattle, Wash., on his way to his old home In New Haven, Conn., for a vacation. Ills place In Nome la being taken by a Seattle doctor. Dr. Welch is credited with saving the lives of many residents of Nome during dur-ing tho exciting time when relays of dog teams were rushing serum over the frozen waste between the end of the Alaskan railroad and Nome. Hunters with Arizona licenses alone may train their rifles on the dere of Kaibab national forest, Governor Gov-ernor Hunt of Arizona ruled in effect, ef-fect, when he issued an executive order or-der declaring that the state holds title to all of its wild game. Thousands Thous-ands of deer roam through the forest, located north of the Grand canyon, and many are said to be facing starvation star-vation because of lack of forage. Wayne Willett and the team of horses hor-ses which ho was holding beneath a tree on a farm two miles east of Wall-' owa, Ore., were Instantly killed during dur-ing a severe thunder storm. The Lost Canyon mine, about which much romance has been woven for mony years, has been found, in the opinion of Humboldt county, Nevada, mining men. Prospectors and engineers engin-eers have been hunting for years for the reported fabulously rich ledge but all failed in their search. It remained re-mained for a sheepherder to break a piece of rock off a ledge in the vicinity vi-cinity of Golconda, seventeen miles east of Winnemucca, Nevada, and discover dis-cover rich ore, which is believed to have been the source of Ed Layton's-prosperity Layton's-prosperity years ago. The first district court of appeals of Los Angeles has granted the appeal ap-peal of Norman Selby, former prize fighter, known as Kid McCoy, for a new trial on the count of manslaughter, manslaught-er, for which he is serving a term in San Quentin prison. The conviction was recorded in connection with the killing of Mrs. Theresa Mors here in August, 1924. Six prisoners, including one convicted convic-ted slayer and three accused in bank robberies, escaped from the King county jail at Seattle, Wash., using two pistols and a knife fastened on a pole. They fled in a jail physician's automobile. Japan's consumption of gasoline has increased at a rapid rate during the last two years when reconstruction reconstruc-tion needs have opened the way for the introduction of automotive trans- portntion on an important scale with a resulting demand for the necessary motor fuel, according to reports of shipments from Los Angeles harbor. GENERAL The shipping board again overruled over-ruled President Palmer of the fleet corporation in the matter of ship sales. By a three to three vote it failed fail-ed to affirm the recommendation of Mr. Palmer that four ships operated by the Munson Steamship company as the Pan-American line be sold to that company for $3,080,000. Commissioner Commis-sioner Benson did not attend the meeting. An airplane company has announced announ-ced it would carry passengers in groups of three to the international air races at New York from Chicago next month, at a rate of 50 cents a pound. The total weight of the passengers pas-sengers must be between 400 and 600 pounds. Where one individual charters char-ters a ship with only one passenger's seat, the rate would be $4 a pound. From a sickbed in Philadalphia, where he is critically ill from an affection af-fection of the heart. Major General Harry L. Rogers, retired, former quartermaster quar-termaster general of the army, filed at the war department charges apainst his successor, Major General William H. Hart, that promises to create cre-ate a sensation unprecedented in American army history. Sam Sloan, state treasurer, who is handless and armless, has started a tas-k that would daunt most men singning his name 1300 times by holding a pen in his teeth. Tho signatures sig-natures are being placed on $00,000 worth of state bonds issued for the purpose of erecting buildings at the University of Arkansas. Whether prenology is to be classed class-ed as a recognized science or art, or as ordinary "fortune telling," prohibited prohib-ited by a city ordinance, probably will be decided by Judge John W. Wade in First division circuit court at Little Lit-tle Rock. Ark. Rosa Mark, a Syrian woman phrenologist, filed a petition for a temporary order to enjoin the city officials from enforcing the ordinance or-dinance after officers had instructed her to stop the practice. She alleges that phrenology is a recognized science scien-ce and should not be classed as for- ' tune telling. j At least six federal prohibition agents are under treatment at Cleveland, Cleve-land, Ohio, for partial loss of sight or violent illness from sampling bootleg boot-leg liquor as required by the government govern-ment to get evidence, before making a raid. W. E. MacAdams and F. J. Kennedy, Detroit, suffering partial blindness, are under treatment in that city. The others are being treated here. Postmaster General New has approved ap-proved petitions for air mail service on routes between Chicago and Detroit, De-troit, Cleveland and Detroit, Cheyenne Chey-enne and Denver and Chicago and New Orleans via St. Louis, Memphis and Jackson or Vicksburg, Miss. Three men were electrocuted and a fourth probably fatally burned when they dragged a construction elevator el-evator guy wire across a high tension ten-sion cable at Detroit, Mich. President Coolidge is willing to listen lis-ten to argument for executive clemency clem-ency for former Governor McCray of Indiana, now serving a sentence in the Atlanta penitcitiary, but will act favorably on the application made by friends of McCray only in the event a strong case is made in his behalf. After flying for fifteen minutes the Curtis racer which will be the navy entry in the Pulitzer trophy race, Lieutenant Alford J. Williams expressed ex-pressed confidence the plane would beat the present world sped record of 278 miles per hour made by a French aviator, Bonnett, last December. Decem-ber. A $100,000,000 project for harnessing harness-ing the great tides of the Bay of Fundy so as to generate from 500,-000 500,-000 to 700,000 horsepower, and supply sup-ply electricity to the eastern section of this country and Canada has apparently ap-parently been indorsed by the voters of Maine. Robert M. La Follette, Jr., followed follow-ed in the footsteps of his late father when he won the Republican nomination nomina-tion for the United States senator-ship senator-ship from Wisconsin. His victory came in a decisive manner against three other Republican candidates and he will now go into the final election elec-tion September 29. FOREIGN The Japanese government announced announ-ced that in the beginning of shipments ship-ments of gold reserves to the United States September 20 the specie that will be shipped will belong to the government gov-ernment and not the Bank of Japan. The purpose is to improve the exchange ex-change situation abroad, minimizing loss in the payment of foreign debts. It was announced that shipment of government specie reserves will continue con-tinue until "authorities attain the aim in view." Shapurji Saklatvala, communist member of parliament, barred from the United States as a member of the British delegation to the inter-parliamentary conference in Washington, blames Secretary of State Kellogg for his troubles. A drive for a $5,0000,000 loan to repatriate 15,000 Armenians and inaugurate in-augurate an irrigation project to enable en-able them to grow cotton as the initial step toward recreating the Armenian national home was launched at Geneva Ge-neva at a banquet by Dr. Fridjtof Nansen, the Norwegian explorer and delegate to the assembly of the league of nations. A tin hat belonging to one of Verdun's Ver-dun's veterans, seven wooden legs and one American decoration were left at the American embassy at Paris Par-is by a delegation of French soldiers to be forwarded to United States Senator Sen-ator Borah. A new method of detecting syphilis is announced by Dr. Mueller, head of the Vienna sereological institute who told the Austrain Medical society that entirely supercede the Wasserman test. What may have been an attempt to assinate President Calles ocucrred in the national stadium in Mexico City. As the president was entering the stadium an unindentified man learvd, or fell, from a parpet close by the president. There was a smothered explosion, and when the man was reached he was found to have both hands blown off and his chest torn open. He had carried a bomb concealed beneath his coat. Mrs. Robert W. Chambers, wife of the famous American novelist, was the heroine of a dramatic rescue at Bray, England, while out in a motorized motor-ized canoe with Oscar M. Sheridan, who is collaborating with her on a new play. The canoe got caught in rought water and Sheridan lost his balance and fell overboard. Mrs. Chambers stopped the motor and held Sheridan above water until assistance arrived. After having been in the water more than twenty-eight hours, clinging cling-ing to their overturned twenty-foot skiff, Tom Madden and George Gof-fin Gof-fin of St. Catherines were rescued by a livesaving crew eight miles west of Fort Dalhouse, Canada. Both men were exhausted and are in a serious condition. A new baby, born on September 13, was christened after Commander John Rodgers at Honolulu. The infant in-fant is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bos-tinmanti Bos-tinmanti Rofino. |