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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSJfREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Event of the Last 8evon Day Reported by Wlr" and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN EPITOME The canning pea crop In Utah Is estimated to be 12,430 acres, which la an Increase of 2170 acres over 1924 when 10,360 acres were planted, according ac-cording to Frank Andrews, agriculture agricul-ture statistician of the United States department of agriculture for Utah. The condition of the crop Is reported to be 94 per cent, which is much better bet-ter than the crop of 1924 was on June lit. Yellowstone National park will officially of-ficially open this year on June 18, with appropriate ceremonies at West Yellowstone, Mont., the west entrance to the park. Several governors from nearby states will participate In the celebration, as will Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women's clubs and old timers. After the celebration the gates will be swung open and the Yellowstone will be on its way to what Is believed will be the greatest aeason In the history of the park. In a copyrighted story published In the Los Angeles Examiner, George W. Hazleton, aged eccentric who died in a little shack just north of the business district, last March, after af-ter years spent collecting tin cans, match boxes and other rubbish, Is revealed as the late possessor of a half-million dollar estate. Former governors of Colorado and her congressional representatives Joined high state officials and a multitude mul-titude of friends in bowing their beads in final tribute to former governor gov-ernor Ellas M. Ammons, the man, who, "without the chance of a school education, set out to learn the great facts of life," to serve his state In ber highest office. ' The world's Jersey butterfat production pro-duction record was declared broken when St. Mawes Lad's Pride, a senior sen-ior 3-year-old owned by H. D. Iliff, of Independence, Oregon, completed a year's test with approximately 1002 pounds. She was milked three times a day. The former record was held by "Ibsen's Jubilee Signal," owned by Hugh W. Bonnell of Ohio, with a record of 914.46 pounds. Figures are being forwarded to the American Jersey Cattle club of New York for certification. Peter Englehart, 72, a farmer of Loveland, Colo., was instantly killed when a high tension electric wire was snapped by the wind and dropped drop-ped on him. A cow came up to sniff of Englehart's body and touched touch-ed the broken wire, the shock knocked knock-ed the animal across the road, GENERAL David Schulte, president of Park &. Tilford of New York, offered to eell to the government at cost the 1,800,000 gallons of rye whisky the concern obtained through its purchase pur-chase of the Overholt distillery in Pittsburg. The offer holds good for sixty days. The whisky has an estimated esti-mated value of about $15,000,000. Speed records of the Iinianopolis, Indiana, motor speedway were bowled bowl-ed over in rapid succession during the qualifying trials by Earl Cooper, Harry Hartz, Pete de Paolo and Leon Le-on Duray. Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., confined in the Illinois state prison for the murder mur-der of Bobbie Franks a year ago, will undergo an operation for appendicitis, appendici-tis, it was announced by Dr. W. R. Fletcher, prison physician. The operation op-eration will be performed by Dr. J. A. McElvey, state surgeon. Leopold has been suffering from appendicitis for several weeks. A tidal wave along twenty-six miles of the American shore line 6truck Lake Ontario, causing heavy damage to one village and summer resorts. No loss of live was reported. The wave rolled In some places more than 150 feet Inshore, carrying wreckage and small boats with It. John W. Worthington, of St. Louis, 75 years of age, stock and bond broker bro-ker of Chicago, who formerly was known as the "wolf of La Salle street" was indicted by the federal grand Jury on charges of having m his possession some of the securities stolen in the $2,400,000 mail truck robbery rob-bery at St. Louis, April 2, 1923. The Detroit Free Press, in a copy-rihgted copy-rihgted story, says that Henry Ford may enter coastwise commerce on a large scale shortly, with a fleet of ships equipped to bring fruits from South America and the South Atlantic Atlan-tic seaboard to the United States and northern markets. Because his name and picture have been used to advertise cigars at five for 15 cents, John Philip Sousa, noted bandmaster, is suing the P. Lorillard company for $100,000. His attorney said the bandmaHter has been made port of by friends. That the administration will find it difficult to bring about the repeal of the publicity provision of therev-enue therev-enue law was evident following the decision of the United States Supreme Su-preme Court holding the clause permitting per-mitting public inspection of amounts paid by taxpayers to authorize newspaper news-paper publication. It took a Rhea county, Tennessee grand Jury, nine of whose thirteen members were farmers, exactly one hour to decide that John T. Scopes, science teacher should be indicted for violation of the Tennessee law against teaching evolution in the public pub-lic schools. Eleven of the twelve jurors who heard her case were united In an effort ef-fort to free Miss Olympia Maccri, 20-year-old mother whose trial for the murder of John Bagnano, of New Haven, Hav-en, Conn., father of her child, ended in the jury's disagreement. Maude Lee Mudd, 16-year old heiress heir-ess to an estate valued at more than $1,000,000, has disappeared from the home of her mother at Miami, Okla. Mrs. Susan Bomberry and officers have been unable to find any trace of her. Land reclamation which has been confined mainly to the west, will be broadened by the bureau of reclamation reclama-tion of the department of interior, to include the neglected and thinly populated pop-ulated areas of the South Atlantic states. A relapse has occurred in the condition con-dition of Ernest DeWitt Burton, president pres-ident of the University of Chicago, who has been ill for some time of an intestinal trouble. Relatives were called to the bedside of the stricken educator. After a consultation, physicians phy-sicians announced Dr. Burton's condition con-dition as critical following a second operation within a month. Dr. Charles R. Erdman, Princeton, NT. J., was elected moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States at Columbus, Colum-bus, Ohio, pledged to restore harmony in the church by "peaceful methods." Because they broke the college government association edict against smoking, thirty-two Wellesley, Mass., college girls are on parole and will not be allowed outside the campus limits until the end of the college years, it became known here. FOREIGN Queen Mary of England quietly celebrated her fifty-eighth birthday anniversary. She received countless congratulations, including messages from the Prince of Wales, who now is in South Africa, and Prince George who is on his way to Join the British Brit-ish squadron in Chinese waters. An international conference to discuss dis-cuss the prevention or limitation of the use of chemicals and disease germs in war was recommended by the military committee of the league of nations conference on the limitations limita-tions of traffic in arms and munitions. muni-tions. The proposal was inspired largely by Germany's announcement of willingness to sign a convention forbidding the use of poison gas in war. Dispatches from the Nichi NichI correspondent at Katsoshima, Japan, report the explosion of Mount Suwas-eshima Suwas-eshima an active volcano on Oshlma island. The eruption sent huge rocks tumbling down the mountains, crushing a number of dwellings at the base. The inhabitants Tied to Naskashima island. The next council of the league of nations will be convoked at Geneva on June 8. The league has informed inform-ed Austria that the league council has approved its recent petition for the appointment of expert economists to inquire into economic conditions in Austria. Relief parties from warships sent to the Tajima district, northwest of Osaka, Japan, immediately following the earthquake there recently, in a report to the navy department estimate esti-mate that the dead will probably number num-ber 300 and the injured 1000. The warships were dispatched to coast ports of Tajima with food, sanitary supplies and doctors for Toyo-Oka and Kinosaki, whicu suffered most severely and where they report relief re-lief work in progressing rapidly. A willow tree from Mt. Vernon was planted in the garden of the Chateau of Chavaniac, where Lafayette was born and grew to manhood and which Americans have brought and converted convert-ed into a children's sanitarium as a "vette memorial. The planting oi the tree was plannel to be simultaneous simultan-eous with the planting at Mount Vernon Ver-non of a cherry tree from the grounds -.f Lafayette's home. Cheldon White-house, White-house, counsel of the American embassy em-bassy in Paris, planted the tree. A huge bonfire at Rome of 100,000,-000 100,000,-000 lire In bank notes recently marked mark-ed in the inauguration of the new ' governmental policy of reduemg the circulation of paper money. DelcgaU'3 from the independent la-i la-i bor organization of Tampico, Mexico, Mexi-co, who came to Mexlca City to con-. con-. fer with President Calles regarding i their confllce with the Huasteca Petroleum Pe-troleum company, have left for home, confirming Tampico reports that a general strike will be called in the i oil region if the companies do not accept their demands. |