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Show telegraphic tales for busyreaders A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events cf the Last Seven Days Reportei! by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Ono thousand dollars for the care of his parrot was provided in the will of the hue Thomas 1J. Whitney, former for-mer hotel owner of California and Oregon, on file at Portland, Oregon. Heavyweight Irons have a mark to shoot at to beat the record made at Los Angeles by a Hhode Island lied belonging to Mrs. Wilson Lapman. The fowl laid an egg more than three inches long and weighing in excess of s,ix ounces, an aeievemen.t which the owner says has not been equaled in any .American barnyard this season. Timber to the amount of $37,020,000 feet, valued at $27,000, was removed from the national forests o the 1n-termountain 1n-termountain district, including Utah, Idaho, Nevada and sections of Arizona Ari-zona and Wyoming, during 10U3, according ac-cording to a statistical report made public at the district forestry office at Ogden, Utah. This timber was given free to settlers and citizens, and a total of 11,570 persons were benefited. Frank Steunenberg, martyred Idaho governor, will be commemorated commem-orated by a monument to be erected in the triangle immediately in front of the state capitol, according accord-ing to plans announced following a meeting of the Steun'enberg memorial commission. Approximately $35,000 will be expended for the monument of which .?20,O0O is expected to be raised by popular subscription. The State Highway Commission at their last meeting, held in Cheyenne, awarded the contract for the 20 bridges on the new . stretch of highway high-way between Big Tiney and Kem-merer, Kem-merer, Wyoming. The successful bidder was James Turpin of Wheatland, Wheat-land, who had just recently completed a job for the commission up state. Arrangements have been completed complet-ed for destroying approximately 3000 cattle and 6000 hogs in five counties In California under foot and mouth disease quarantine. Although Monterey Mon-terey county was placed under quarantine quar-antine with Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa and Solano counties, G. H. Hecke of the state , department of agriculture reported that "the progress prog-ress of the epidemic appears to have been checked." GENERAL. Fifty-two years after his graduation the Rev. Arthur Jared Benedict of Cochise, Ariz., has been awarded a majority athletic "A" at Amherst college. He is the sole surviving member of the varsity crew of 1872 the year of his graduation. A fast express train on the Santa Fe railroad was held up recently by a Sing Sing prison convict held up for forty minutes while a surgeon performed an operation that probably saved the prisoner's life. Six Darien firemen who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit statutory statu-tory arson were given prison and jail sentences at Bridgeport, Conn., by Judge Allyn Brown. One man was killed and a 17-year old boy seriously wounded when officers of-ficers fired into a mob which stormed the Angelina county jail at Lufkin, Texas, in an effort to get Booker T. Williams, 'negro, held in connection with the murder of Andy Sulzer at a sawmill commissary five miles south of Lufkin Tuesday night. Sir Esme Howard arrived on the Olympic en route to Washington to assume the British ambassadorship vacated two months ago by the retirement re-tirement of -Sir Auckland Geddes. After attending St. Bartholomew's church for more than half a century Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., now is going to St. Thomas church at New York and has applied for two seats there. Both churches are i Protestant Episcopal. The first of the citizens' military training camps to he help in 1024 will open June 1- at Fort Douglas, Utah, the Military Training Camps association associa-tion has announced. Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the United States railway labor board announced at Chicago that he will not be a candidate for reelection. Housewives in Rockport, Ind., are paying 10 cents for Idaho potatoes according to a news item in a Kockport paper received in Boise by T. E. YVarnke, postoffice clerk. A $25,000 peace plan competition for the "best educational plan to provide pro-vide world peace and international justice" was announced at Chicago by Augustus O. Thomas, president of the World Federation of Educational associations which will make the award. |