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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOB BOpEBS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Day Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN While Justice of Peace Robert Hunt of Issaquah, Wash., was not performing his duties on the bench he was making moonshine with his son on their ranch, according to a complaint filed by Deputy Sheriffs John Harahan and Robert Gibson. The deputies declared in the complaint com-plaint they found the judge and his son making the illicit liquor and that Mrs. Hunt poured the contents of one Jug of moonshine over Harahan during the raid. Hunt and his son posted $750 bond each. A grand Jury investigation of the various confessions of Harold "Sonny" "Son-ny" Willis, 14-year-old son of Margaret Margar-et Willis, convicted murderess, was announced by District Attorney Asa Keyes of Los Angeles. Two week.3 ago the lad announced that he fired the shot that killed the man for whose murder his mother was convicted con-victed and sentenced to life imprisonment. imprison-ment. The Delhi colony, a state sponsored sponsor-ed land settlement project near Merced, Mer-ced, California, has been a financial failure, a legislative committee reported. re-ported. The colony was settled under un-der an easy payment plan by residents resi-dents of Eastern and Middle Western West-ern states. Conferees of the Nevada state sen ato and assembly at Carson City have agreed, it was said, on a four-cent gasoline tax, to be divided equally between the state highway funds and the county roads approved by the state highway board. This places the entire control of the money raised by the tax in the hands of the state highway board. W. L. Comyn & Co. of Seattle, Wash., announced the sale to a To-kio To-kio syndicate of more than 4,000,000 feet of American lumber and logs for repair of devastation wrought in that city and vicinity by an earthquake I September 1, 1923. Professor Henry Housely, interna-i interna-i tionally known as a composer of mu-! mu-! sic and director, died at Denver after j a short illness. He was a composer of many works used by symphony orchestras or-chestras and of chufth music. For a number of years he was organist and choir master at St. John's cathedral cathe-dral here. ' The decapitated body of a young man, identified as that of Vinton Pierce of Tucson, Ariz., was found on the railroad tracks at Garnet, near Banning, Cal., according to information informa-tion given to authorities of this town. Pierce, who was en route from Tucson Tuc-son to Los Angeles at the time he met death, apparently committed suicide, sui-cide, the coroner was told, his head being found on the inside of the tracks and his body on the outside. GENERAL Technical Sergeant Henry H. Og-den, Og-den, who flew around the world, is going to learn to pilot an airplane. Tho man, who was the flight mechanician mech-anician aboard the ill-fated plane Boston of the army world flight fleet, has gone to Selfridge field, Michigan, to accept his commission as a second sec-ond lieutenant in the army air service. serv-ice. The commission as a second lieutentorious service in connection with the world flight. Lieutenant Og-den Og-den will have the novel experience of being taught to fly after participating partici-pating in the longest flight in history. his-tory. A resolution calling upon the federal fed-eral trade commission to investigate alleged interference and obstructions in the development of cooperative marketing associations, was adopted by the senate. The resolution, offered by Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Labor. Minnesota, asked for the inquiry in view of the frequent charges that the I farming industry has been discrimin ated against by corporations operat-! operat-! ing in violation of the antitrust laws. j An additional tax of $10. SCI. 131.50 ! has been assessed by the treasury j against Senator Couzens, Republican. I Michigan, on the sale of his Ford j Motor stock in 1919. I Thirty-three men were believed to I nave been killed in an explosion j which wrecked Mine 41 of the Beth- lehem Mines corporation at Barracks-I Barracks-I villa, three miles west of Fairmont. ' West Va. I Authority and funds for the senate elections committee to begin investi-! investi-! eations this summer of the contests j invoicing the seats of Senators Urook-j Urook-j hart. Iowa; Schall, Minnesota, and I Bratton, New Mexico, were voted by i the senate. Chairman Spencer expects to have the work of recounting ballots bal-lots put under way during the recess and to hold hearings after congress . ssBembles. Leon H. Chrlstensen of Utah was nominated by President Coolidge as registrar of the land office at Vernal. Utah. The senate elections committee has authorized both sides of the Brook-hart-Steck senatorial contest in Iowa to appoint supervisors to collect the ballots and bring them to Washington Washing-ton for a recount. The controversy between President Coolidge and the senate over the attorney at-torney generalship ended abruptly with the nomination of John G. Sargent Sar-gent of Vermont for the post, and his prompt confirmation by the senate. sen-ate. Charles C. Faiman, proprietor of a school of bacteriology at Chicago, admitted, according to assistant state's attorneys, that he had given typhoid germs to William D. Shepherd, Shep-herd, foster-father of William Nelson McClintock, the "millionaire orphan," whose death from typhoid fever is now a subject for investigation before the courts. A report by the district office at Minneapolis of the United States veterans' vet-erans' bureau declaring that Arthur Frazier, mystery man of the world war, Is dead was sent to the veterans' veter-ans' bureau headquarters at Washington. Wash-ington. Representative Addison T. Smith called on the secretary of the interior inter-ior and urged the retention of the Boise land office, which has been slated for abandonment. He particularly parti-cularly backed up the resolutions of the Boise chamber of commerce. While Secretary Work did not commit com-mit himself, Mr. Smith believes the Boise office will be continued. Rev. William- Mack Lee, 87, negro minister and bodyguard and cook for General Robert E. Lee during the Civil war, is going to give up preaching. preach-ing. Proudly displaying thirty-five badges, symbolic of honorary attendance attend-ance at confederate reunions, Lee went to Richmond, Virginia, to see about his pension and "to brush up my mind a bit with those who loved Marse. Robert." He announced his decision de-cision to retire from the pulpit. "Rush" Thompson, 74 years of age, the oldest active union painter in New York, has worked in the finest mansions and hotels for sixty-two years, but he lacked the courage to enter a fashionable hotel to be the principal guest at a dinner of the Paint, Oil and Varnish club, an organization organ-ization of manufacturers that sought to honor him. W. C. Stokes, millionaire New York stock owner, and Robert F. Lee, negro, ne-gro, were acquitted at Chicago in a conspiracy to defame Mrs. Helen Stokes. The jury returned a verdict for the 73-year-old defendant after deliberating one hour and five minutes. min-utes. Two ballots, showing eleven to one for acquittal, were taken before be-fore agreement was reached on the third, Only one ballot was necessary to free the negro. President Coolidge still has under consideration several names for ambassador am-bassador to Germany. Jacob G. Schur-man, Schur-man, now minister to China, is believed be-lieved to be the outstanding candidate, candi-date, but no final decision has been reached. A survey of the foreign service is being made to determine what other changes should be made in personnel. Some shifts are expected expect-ed shortly. FOREIGN Orders to all military commanders throughout Mexico to suppress disorders, dis-orders, using force if necessary, have been issued by the war department, under instructions from President Calles. The measure was taken owing to the attitude of the railway men in several districts, protesting pro-testing against the president's recent decree classifying them as federal employees. All records for Germany were topped top-ped at Lessau when Frau Becker, wife of a manual laborer, bore her twenty-seventh child, a healthy boy. Eleven of the children are living, among them several pairs of twins. On the same night of the arrival of the latest addition to the family, Becker's married sister, Anna, gave bi-th to twin girls. Frau Becker is 47 years old and her husband 48. Dr. Cosme de la Torriente, Cuban ambassador to the United States, sent a cablegram to the state department depart-ment here at Havana, Cuba, announcing announc-ing his resignation from the Washington Washing-ton post. Subsecretary of State Guil-lermo Guil-lermo Patterson said. Viscount Goro Miura, 79, a former minister of war and a members of the house of peers, died at Atami, Japan, following a long illness. He was known as a statesman who was called upon to form many cabinets. Preliminary work on the tomb near the great pyramid at Giza, recently unearthed by the Boston-Harvard expedition ex-pedition and believed to date back to the reign of Pharaoh Sencferu, or about 3000 B. C, is being completed, according to an official eommunlca lion issued by ministry of public works. James McLaughlin of Manchester, Xew Hampshire, was killed instantly when he tossed a lighted cigaret Into a keg of powder beside a box of d;. namite on which he was seated. The dynamite also exploded. Terrific seas breaking around the Rock of Gibraltar have undermined a fishing village along Catalan bay, east of Gibraltar, Spain, and villagers have taken refuge in the admiralty tunnpl. Extreme property damage has been done, roads Inundated and several huts have been razed. |