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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSjrpEHS 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 Eenefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME Park rangers and guides recovered the body of J. L. Cartwright, an eastern east-ern news writer, who was killed, by 300-foot fall from a shale rock to a glacier about Twin lakes, not far from Bporry Glacier, Mont. Rangers and guides said Cartwright lert Sperry to traverse a portion of the park that has Bo trails, against the advice of official guides. The scene of the mishap was within a few miles of where the Whitehead brothers of Chicago were lust seen last fall. Ruiston, Colo., in the western part cf the state, will be the site of the federal government's $90,000 experimental exper-imental oil shale plant, J. S. Desmond, United Slates engineer, announced. Although the site was tentatively selected se-lected some time ago, the final decision de-cision was left up to Mr. Desmond, who marie an inspection of the proposed pro-posed plant site. A request for official investigation of the deportation of twenty-five Japanese Jap-anese mill workers from Toledo, Ore., by a mob of citizens , was sent to Governor Pierce by H. Okamato, acting act-ing Japanese consul in Portland. The local consulate is not in possession of tMJ details of the Toledo incident, and no action will be taken until the governor's gov-ernor's reply is available, the Portland Port-land consul will forward the data to Ambassador Matsudaira in Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. Virgin valley, an extinct volcano cone, which is situated about 100 miles north of Winnemucea, Nevada, will be declared a state recreation park as soon as road construction makes is advisable. This was the statement of Governor J. G. Schug-ham, Schug-ham, who arrived in Winnemucea after af-ter spending two days investigating the attractions in the valley. Earthquakes during the last three weeks are believed responsible for the breaking of the Silver Dyke Mining Min-ing company's dam at Neihart, sixty-eight sixty-eight miles : outheast of Great Falls, Montana, which resulted in the death of two children, brother and sister, wrecked three homes and damaged property to the extent of $15,000. Blue roses are in bloom at the ranch of Alma Johnston near Roscoe, C'al. The bush with the strange roses produced ordinary ones last year. Superiar Judge John L. Hudner of Los Agneles, recorded in court his final decision that Charles Spencer Chaplin film comedian, is not entitled to the exclusive use oj the particular style of baggy pants, wobbiy cane, derby hat and gigantic moustache, which go to make up his screen makeup. make-up. Ladd and Tilton bank of Portland, Ore., oldest financial institution in the Pacific northwest and second oldest on the Pacific coast, with assets aggregating ag-gregating $25,927,112, was sold to the United States National bank of Portland. Port-land. i GENERAL Charged by "Tex" Mason of Phoenix, Ariz., with having offered him $4000 to kill three persons near Decatur, 111., Virgil Sharp, 44, of Wichita, is being held by police for Investigation. Sharp was arrested in an automobile in which Mason told authorities he and Sharp were to start for Illinoise. i Fourteen groups of architects, sculptures sculp-tures and landscapes artists are at work on plans for the proposed million-dollar memorial to the late President Pres-ident Roosevelt to be erected in Washington. All designs must be in the hands of the Roosevelt Memorial association by October 1, and the approved ap-proved plan will be submitted to congress con-gress before the first of the new year. Selection of a site for the memorial will be delayed until the winning design de-sign has been approved. Eaci. of the fourteen groups in the competition is composed of an architect, a sculptor and a landscape artist, in order to be able to present to the memorial commission com-mission a well-rounded design complete com-plete In every detail. A test attack upon the so-called "moist" treaty with Great Britain, which permits vessels of foreign registry reg-istry to bring liquor under seal into United States ports, failed when Federal Fed-eral Jtidge Mack of New York ruled that the federal courts are without power to compel prosecuting officers to enforce penal laws. Indication of an enormous corn crop, probably the third greatest ever grown, slight improvement in prospects pros-pects for wheat, prediction of the smallest potato production since 1919' and unfavorable fruit forecasts were set forth in the July crop report issued is-sued by the department of agriculture. Rates for earthquake insurance on the Pacific coast will be increased two and one-half times higher than the present rates. Coincident with fie Increase in rates, amount of coinsurance co-insurance covered, will be raised from 10 per cent to 80 per cent. Columbia university will not reject educational credentials from Tcnnes see schools, as advocated by Dr. Henry H. Rushby, dean of the college of pharmacy at Columbia, Adam L Jones, director of admission, has announced. an-nounced. With $250,000. mostly made in Wall street in three years, two 27-year-old college graduates have gone into publishing pub-lishing to satisfy their love for books. They are Bennett A. Cerf, a graduate of the Columbia school of journalism, and Donald S. Klopfer, a graduate ol Williams. Both edited college papers when undergraduates. Norman T. Whitaker, internationally internation-ally known chess player, sentenced by a Los Angeles court to two years for complicity in the transportation of stolen automobiles, was denied discharge dis-charge from custody by Judeg Dickinson Dick-inson of Philadelphia. The Baptist Young People's Union of America voted at Indianapolis to hold its next convention in Los Angeles An-geles July 7 to 11, 1926. The union also adopted a recommendation by the board of managers for the establishment establish-ment of a department of evangelism. A budget for the next fiscal year of $25,000 was another recommendation approved. A new world's coal production record is claimed for O. W. and F. mine No. 2 at West Frankfort, Illinois, known as the New Orient. 8687 tons of coal were hoisted, filling 114 raii-road raii-road cars. The former record of S664 tons was held by the Valier Coal com-pail com-pail at Valier, 111. Women of Chicago won a fresh victory for equality with men in the eyes of law. Judge Philip L. Sullivan in the superior court ruled that women wo-men of Cook county are eligible for jury service and a mandamus was issued is-sued ordering county jury commissioners commis-sioners to place the names of qualified qual-ified women on their lists. Philip K. Knapp, college bred son of a wealthy Syracuse,, N. Y., family, accused of taking a leaf from the book of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, Chicago boy murders, in slaying a Hempstead, L- L, taxidriver for a thrill, is now experiencing the thrill of being hunted from an army airplane. air-plane. A special , train en route to the Atlantic At-lantic seaboard wfth a large number of aliens subject to deportation, rounded up in Seattle, Denver, Kansa3 City and St. Louis, left Chicago carrying car-rying twenty-two others added in Chicago, Chi-cago, including Walter A. Sadler, Canadian, who was indicted, but never tried on a charge of conspiracy to violate prohibition. Sadler, who will be deported at Buffalo, was deported de-ported in 191G. FOREIGN The British government has swung into action over the threatened general gen-eral strike and the navy will stand by for the protection of the lives of people and supplies of food and other necessities. William C. Bridgemen, first lord of the admiralty has announced. an-nounced. Chancellor Luther saved his cabinet cab-inet and Foreign Minister Strese-mann Strese-mann won a preliminary victory over his numerous enemies who have been trying to unhorse him for weeks, when the German cabinet unanimously unanimous-ly approved the German reply on the security pact as prepared by Strese-mann. Strese-mann. Governor General Leonard Wood has ordered the prosecution of officials offi-cials of the Philippine National bank responsible for the payment of $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 to the Baclod Murcia Sugar Central Cen-tral of the Island of Negros without authority. Governor Wood said the Sugar Central had been granted an extension of a loan of about a million mil-lion dollars, but the concern had actually ac-tually obtained $1,000,000 without authority. Manuel Quezon was elected president presi-dent of the senate at Manila, and Manuel Roxas speaker of the house, when the Philippine insular legislature legisla-ture convened in annual session. Settlement of French debts to the United States and to Great Britain, as well as the solution of the country's internal financial difficulties, is seen by leading financiers in the new 4 per cent gold coupon loan, open only to holders of short-term defense bonds, to be floated soon. More than a hundred persons were injured and fifty arrests wore made in four riots at Glascow, the disturbances distur-bances growing out of a demons ration in commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne. Fifty thousand Orangemen Orange-men participated in a parade which near midnight was attacked by opposing oppos-ing factions. Bottles and missiles of all kinds were thrown indiscriminately, indiscriminate-ly, until police dispersed the combatants. combat-ants. The first result of the Franco-Spanish confernce will be that Spain and France will present a joint offer of peaee conditions to Abd-El-Krim, according ac-cording to the Paris Journal. The cabinet counsel at Brussels designated former Premier Theuis, Emil Franqui, banker, and Felician Cattier, financier and statesman, as members o the Belgium commission to Washington for the discussion of plans for funding the Belgium debt. ' The commission will probably leave for Washington, July 29. |