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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYJEADERS 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 The Wyoming slate law which requires re-quires the labeling of all woolen goods eold in that state as to the amount of shoddy used in their manufacture will be tried for its constitutionality soon, according to F. It. Marshall, secretary of the National Woolgrow-ers' Woolgrow-ers' association. The National Clothing Cloth-ing Manufacturers' association will bring suit in the Wyoming courts to decide whether the law can be enforced en-forced or not. Charles Pung, member of the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Olympic swimming team, who was detained on the steamer Mat-Bonla Mat-Bonla at San Francisco because he failed to possess papers denoting his citizenship has been released by the Immigration authorities. A cable message mes-sage from immigration officials at Honolulu verified Pung's citizenship. O. L. Branson & Co., bankers of Mitchell, S. D. was closed recently by order of the state department of banking. Deposits totaled $190,000. D. H. McKee of Des Moines,, Iowa is president. The body of the young man found In Rogue river near Med ford, Oregon, has been positively identified by Paul D'Autremont of Eugene, as his 20 year old son, Hugh indicted with his brothers, Ray and Roy for the Siskiyou tunnel hold up and murders last October. All hope for Major Frederick L. Martin, commander of the army round-the-world air expedition, and Staff Sergeant Alva E. Harvey, his mechanic, was virtually abandoned by searchers Wednesday as searching search-ing parties reported failure, according accord-ing to wireless messages from the north intercepted by the Bremerton navy yards radio station. The El Paso, Tex., National Bank, one of the southwest's largest institutions insti-tutions has closed its doors. The bank it is understood, was in a weakened weak-ened condition due to "frozen" paper. pa-per. The bank was saved from closing three months ago, when $1,-000,000 $1,-000,000 in gold was transferred to the institution from the vaults of the federal reserve bank of El Paso. GENERAL Miss Marie MeNair, 39 years of age, socially prominent and a descendant of Alexander MeNair, first governor of Missouri shot and killed herself at her home at St. Louis. Relatives said Bhe had been ill and nervous. American producers shipped 234,-000,000 234,-000,000 pounds of copper in April, as compared with 271,000,000 in March and the same total that was reported for February. Stocks on hand May 1 were 221,000,000 pounds, against 239,-000,000 239,-000,000 pounds on April 1, 311,000,-000 311,000,-000 pounds on January 1 and 253,000,-000 253,000,-000 pounds on October 1, 1923. Jean Francis Quinn, 28 years of age, of San Bernardino, Cal., and his 23-year 23-year old bride of two days who was Reta Armentrout of Terre Haute, Ind. were arrested at Detroit, Michigan in connection with the theft of several thousand dollars In government bonds from an Omaha, Neb. bank. Robbers revealed a new technique in bank robbing when they used a stolen horse to drag a four ton safe from the State Savings bank at Har-rision, Har-rision, Michigan. The safe is said to have contained between $G000 and $7000 in cash and about $20,000 in Liberty bonds. Mrs. Gladys Norman, 26 years old, has confessed to complicity in a plot to swindle Ben E. Fereday, Iowa, a farmer, out of $15,000, according to department of justice agents of Min-eapolis. Min-eapolis. Kate Klaxton, who starred fifty years ago as Louse the. blind girl, in "The Two Orphans," is dead at her home at New York. Miss Josephine Cone, her sister, discovered the body in the bathroom when she went to Mis Claxton's apartment The Republican national convention conven-tion will not nominate a presidential candidate on Friday, June 13, in the opinion of Fred W. Upham, treasurer treasur-er of the national committee, but the convention is likely to ajourn Thursday, Thurs-day, June 12. A hoax, conceived in the mind ot a Des Moines, Iowa, newspaper reporter re-porter to test the theory that "any bright criminal could Drove himself insane and thus escape punishment for his crimes," proved successful when John Duncan, the reporter playing the part of the insane man, actually was adjudged insane by the sanity commission which ruled him a "dangerous lunatic" and remanded him to the state hospital at Clar-I Clar-I inda. WASHINGTON- Representaive Hammer, Democrav, North Carolina, objected to being called a "garrulous old grandmother" by Representative Blanton, Democrat, Demo-crat, Texas, at a meeting of the house District of Columbia committee, and it took a good deal of effort by other committee members to keep them apart. Evils which they believe would attend at-tend the legalization of 2.75 per cent beer, as proposed in a number of pending bills, were described in fulsome testimony by dry leaders at hearings before the house judiciary committee. The Salt Lake City land office has been directed to open to preferential soldier entry 101,300 acres of land in Garfield and Uintah counties, near Escalante and Ouray. Out of tho total, 17,500 acres have been surveyed survey-ed on application of the state, and the state will have first right to acquire ac-quire this area under its school grant. Most of the land is mountainous and broken. The steadily increasing pressure ot work at the capitol incident to the approach of a congressional adjournment adjourn-ment has brought its reaction at the White House in the virtual abandonment aban-donment by President Coolidge of the early-morning walks he has been accustomed ac-customed to take regularly since he entered the White House. Establishment of diplomatic relations rela-tions between the republics of Panama Pana-ma and Columbia was announced by the state department. Official relations rela-tions between the two republics had not existed since Panama acquired its independence in 1903. Senate Republican organization leaders have moved to save as far as possible the principle features of the committee revenue bill in the light of word from President Coolidge Cool-idge that he disliked some of the proposed amendments as well as others already substituted in the measure. The provision in the immigration bill for Japanese exclusion was agreed upon by senate and house conferees con-ferees to be effective July 1 next, when other provisions of the bill become be-come operative, and was met immediately immed-iately with indications at the White House that the arrangement was unsatisfactory un-satisfactory to President Coolidge. A move to force at this session the issue of American participation in the world court was made from the Democratic side of the senate. President Coolidge, on recommendation recom-mendation of Secretary Work, has set aside the "Craters of the Moon" a lava wonderland near Arco, Idaho, as a national monument. The rea covers thirty-nine square miles and was given its name because of the similarity of its surface with that or the moon as seen through a telescope. FOREIGN The arrival in Rome of Archbishop Zepliak, head of the Catholic church in Russia, recently released from imprisonment im-prisonment by the soviet authorities was marked by a remarkable ceremony. cere-mony. For the first time in history, it is believed, the rapal secretary of state went to the railway station to great a prelate of this ranking. The commission formed by the federal fed-eral central executive committee to commemorate the memory of Lenin has forbidden the use of the late premier's portrait on cigar or cigar-et cigar-et labels, candy boxes, jewelry or in other advertising form. Fortunnato Maycotte, rebel gener al, and thirty-five men were taken prisoner recently by volunteers at Pinetepa, Nacional, a small port In Oaxaca, Mexico, but Maycotte gained gain-ed his freedom, according to official advices, by paying the municipal authorities au-thorities 100,000 pesos. The accused officials will be arrested. The engagement of Princess Maria Alexander of Baden, daughter of former Chancellor Max, to Prince Phillip of Hesse, son of Prince Frederick Fred-erick Carl of Hesse and Princess Margaret of Prussia, the youngest sister of former Emperor Wilhelm has been announced. The Ulster cabinet has recided to maintain its position and refuse to appoint a representative on the commission com-mission to delimit the frontier between be-tween the north and south, as provided pro-vided for in the Anglo-Irish treaty. Appointment of the commissioner was requested by the British government. govern-ment. Germany's famous former "headsman" "heads-man" and executioner, Lorenz Sch-weitz, Sch-weitz, who held a record for beheading behead-ing with r.n ax in true medieval style 123 criminals on the block, committed commit-ted suicide in his home at Breslau. lie was 74 years of age and waa formerly a butcher. Three hundred more Hebrideana have left their native primative islands is-lands to settle in the provinces of western Canada. Like the several shiploads which left the islands during dur-ing the last three years, the newest contingent will settle near Red Deer, Alberta. Two girls of peasant origin, Mile. Boulle and Mile. Ourvantzove, have qualified for high honors at the red army military academy at Moscow. One was a factory hand and the other worked in a store. |