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Show telegraphictju.es for busreaders A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader. WESTERN EPITOME j Arizona has stamped indelibly upon up-on the record of the United States senate subcommittee on irrigation nd reclamation the state's claims to tho power potentialities of the Colorado Colo-rado river. Arizona contends that any use of this resourco must produce pro-duce revenue for tho state. The Montana supreme court denied an application by Richard Ringling, circus man, for a rehearing of a dam-ago dam-ago suit In which he was held liable for a judgment of approximately $22,000. Tho Judgment was awarded by the lower court to Dlerlng and Cunningham, a cattle firm with which Ringling was a partner In tho Taylor Fork Cattle company. They alleged Klngllng's handling of the Interests left them without resources. The cutter Algonquin of tho United Btatea coast guard reported at Seattle Seat-tle the greatest volcanic activity in the Alaska peninsula and in the Aleu-thlun Aleu-thlun Islands since Mount Katmal, on the peninsula, 300 miles east from the Aleuthlans, erupted in 1912. A flood of b-er of high alcoholic content Is sweeping the country, General Gen-eral Lincoln C. Andrew?, assistant secretary of the Treasury told the house ways and means committee in asking taxes on m-arbeer and denatured dena-tured alcohol to aid in prohibition enforcement. en-forcement. Arnold J. Ilellmlch, collector of Internal In-ternal revenue In St. Louis, Mrs. Geo. Remus, wife of the millionaire bootlegger boot-legger of Cincinnati and a number of prominent Republican politicians in St. Louis have been indicted In connection con-nection with violations of the Volstead Vol-stead law In Indianapolis, according to announcement at St. Louis, Mo. The board of directors, Standard Oil company of Indiana, declared a cash dividend of 62y2 cents on each share of its capital stock. The dividend divi-dend will be paid December 15 to stockholders of record November 1G. Marking the close of his first year as an Inmate of the federal pentiten-tary pentiten-tary at Atlanta, Ca., Warren T. Mc-Cray, Mc-Cray, former governor of Indiana has written an editorial in Good Words, the prison paper he had edited since his arrival, in which he declared he believes he has done his duty since entering the Institution. The former Iloosier governor also touches optimistically opti-mistically on the outcome of the prison pri-son management upheaval some months ago, which resulted in the conviction of former Warden Sartain and the acquittal of former Deputy Warden Fletcher on charges of bribery. brib-ery. A federal warrant charging violation viola-tion of the prohibition law was issued against Frank McErlane, alleged "field general" of the $9,000,000 liquor syndicate which Is under investigation investiga-tion of government authorities at Chicago. Dr. Richard Derby, husband of Eth-1 Eth-1 Roosevelt has returned to Seward, Alaska, after a five weeks' big game hunt with camera and rifle in the Ekilak lake country on Kenal pen-laula. pen-laula. Four fine trophies were secured, secur-ed, two brown bear and two sheep. Two thousand feet of motion picture film wore taken of the big Alaskan moose. With a new charge of embezzlement embezzle-ment of $1000 hanging over his head Frew W. Schultz, former vice president presi-dent of the failed First State bank of Bioux Falls, South Dakota is out of Jail on $20,0000 bond. He previously was under $15,000 bond on a charge of making false entries. Thousands of head of the finest live-tock live-tock in the country were on exhibition exhi-bition at the eleven-acre pavilion of the Pacific International livestock exposition, ex-position, when the gates were thrown open for the 1925 annual show at Portland, Port-land, Oregon. GENERAL Mrs. Marie Maxfield, 19, and Mrs. Violet Hammond, 17, confessed robbers rob-bers who made a speciality of robbing rob-bing taxicab chauffeurs, were held to tho grand jury in bonds of $200,000 each by municipal Judge Llye of Chicago. Chi-cago. Vernon Maxfield, husband of Marie", has been arrested in Denver and is charged with participating in one of the robberies. The Democrats scored an overwhelming over-whelming victory over the Republicans Republi-cans in the city election of New York elocting a mayor, all five borough presidents, a president of the board of aldermen, comptroller, all four district dis-trict attorneys and a long list of minor min-or officers. Senator James J. Walker Walk-er defeated Frank D. Waterman for mayor by more than 37S.00 votes. The bureau of public roads of the agricultural department, estimated that the close of this season's road construction work would bring the nation's na-tion's total of hard surfaced highways high-ways to nearly half a million miles. The estimate was based on reports from state and counties throughout the country. Tax revision and governmental economy topped the list of administration administra-tion policies whish received consideration consider-ation from President Coolidge in his study aboard the yacht Mayflower as he blocked out the annual message he will deliver a month hence, when the sixty-ninth congress assembles. When Policeman Michael J. Dowd of Washington learned that an alleged bandit he had shot was in a critical condition in emergency hospital he offered to give his blood to save the man's life. The alleged bandit, Walter Wal-ter White, was shot twice in the abdomen ab-domen by the policeman after a revolver re-volver White hatL, pointed at the officer offi-cer had missed fire, according to police. po-lice. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has established es-tablished what is declared to be a new world record for a regular weekday issue of a metropolitan newspaper, by printing 76 pages. With an unprecedented unpre-cedented demand for space by local advertisers the edition includes more than 4S0 columns of advertising. John Pail Jones, naval commander and Edwin Booth, actor, have been nominated for this year's additions to America's hall of fame at New York University. They were the only two selected from a list of 27 noted Americans Amer-icans whose names appeared on the ballot. Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, But-ler, who has been serving a-s head of the Philadelphia police department under leave of absence, must return to duty with the marine corps January Jan-uary 1. , Circumnavigation of the globe in a 34-foot sail boat has been accomplished accomplish-ed by Harry Pidgeon, 54-year-old photographer, pho-tographer, known to many as the "library "li-brary navigator." He made port at San Pedro, Calif., after traveling 38,-000 38,-000 miles in his home-made cockel-shell cockel-shell craft, the Islander, since he set sail from San Pedro, November 19, 1921. Concern is caused in Washington by a course followed by Governor Sorlie of North Dakota, which creates a situation without precedent, namely a session of congress next month with North Dakota voluntarily having only one-half its normal representation in the senate. There is concern not only over the unusualness of the situation but also over the motive animating Governor Sorlie and the political bearings bear-ings of his curious course. FOREIGN Seven persons are reported to have been drowned and seventeen, including includ-ing women and nine children, are missing as a result of the bursting of a dam and the destruction of the village of Dolgarrog, Wales. A government flier has had an unwonted un-wonted thrill. Attacked suddenly up in the air by an insane passenger, he fought with one hand and with the other guided the plane safely to earth, near Prague. Priemier Painleve of France and American Ambassador Herrick had a conference on the question of French debts to America, but details were withheld. It was indicated, however, that the French cabinet sono will take up the problem which was left unsettled un-settled by the former finance minister, minis-ter, . Caillaux, at Washington. Protests to the league of nations mandate commission from Syria relative rel-ative to the French administration of the Syrian mandate were referred to France for explanations. These are expected to come before a special session ses-sion of the commission in February. A popular referendum on how much the former kaiser is to get in final settlement of his property claims against Prussia is advocated by the Morgenpost of Berlin. The paper estimates es-timates that the former ruler has a chance to get a billion marks if the present negotiations are continued While most Germans lost money through the inflation period, the Morgenpost Mor-genpost points out that the kaiser would become the "only full valorized valoriz-ed German." Muffled military bands played the red funeral march all day while thousands thou-sands of Muscovites marched four abreast past the body of Michael Frunz, dead war commissar of Russia, Rus-sia, lying in state on a crimson bier in the assembly room of Trade Union hall, once a ballroom of a club patronized pa-tronized by czarist nobles. It is estimated es-timated that during the day 150,000 passed the catafalque. Twenty thousand persons, including members of the cabinet, leading generals gen-erals and the entire board of aldermen, alder-men, with the mayor, saw Jack Demp-sey Demp-sey show his stuff with the trainnig mitts at Mexico City. Dempsey almost al-most murdered his sparring partners in an exhibition which turned into two real fights. Dempsey dropped his sparring partners for the count after a few seconds of sparring. Dr. Friedtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer and humanitarian has been elected rector of St. Andrews university univer-sity at St. Andrews, Scotland. He received re-ceived 216 votes, while John Galsworthy, Gals-worthy, the novelist, polled 160. Miss Patti Field of Denver, Colorado, Colora-do, is the second woman to be appointed ap-pointed to a responsible position in the United States foreign service. She becomes vice counsel at Amsterdam, Holland. She was the only woman appointed out of a class of 179 applicants appli-cants who stood examinations a few months ago. |