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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven , Days Reported by Wire and Pre. pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN ' An official checkup of the number f miners and workers' in the Sublet mine No. 5 when the explosion entombed en-tombed all at 11:45 o'clock the morning morn-ing of September 1G, at Kemmerer, .Wyo., show that but forty-seven men Were in the mine at the time of the klast, according to officials of the Kemmerer Coal company, owners of the property. The number of entombed en-tombed men was set at eighty-one in earlier estimates by the company. Twelve men were taken out alive. Nearly 14,000 acres of land in Elko and White Pine counties, Nevada, will be thrown open to preferential oldier entry on September 20, but filings may be made prior to that date. The land is being released from stock driveway withdrawal. After Af-ter December 27 any land not previously pre-viously taken up by service men will be subject to general entry. Nearly $G0,000 worth of construction construc-tion is called for in building permits Issued in the first half of September, records in the office of the city engineer en-gineer of Nampa, Ida., disclose. It is considered probable that the total for this month will agreggate nearly ten times this amount as it is expected expec-ted that within a week or two a permit per-mit will be iss'ued for the new Pacific Pa-cific Fruit Express car shops at a cost approximating $450,000. Nine Utah companies controlling thirty sugar factories in Utah, chiefly, chief-ly, and in Idaho, Washington and Wyoming, will have paid farmers $13,500,000 for sugar beets by October Oc-tober 15, the date of final payment for beets harvested last fall, according accord-ing to a report of Frank Andrews, statistician of the United States department de-partment of agriculture. Bright Angel trail, the winding burro wpathway lying between the burrow pathway lying between the the Colorado river, will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction in Flagstaff, Arizona, October 25, the Coconino county board of supervisee super-visee decided. Charles Novotny, driver of a Santa Barbara national forest truck, is indignant. in-dignant. His truck was struck amid-Bhip amid-Bhip by a touring car and his cargo scattered over a San Fernado street crossing. "You might hurt somebody driving like that," Novotny expostulated expostu-lated immediately after the accident while he gathered up half a dozen 100-pound packages of s-odatol. Soda-tal Soda-tal is TNT minus the smell, but lacking none of its detonating qualities. quali-ties. Mrs. Rose Swatch, 29, and her Bister, Mrs. Anna Belle Battis, 32, were shot to death in the former's apartment at Denver, Colo., while 9-year 9-year old Alice Swatch looked on. Mrs. Swatch was shot through the head and Mrs. Battis through the abdomen. Alfred Featherstone, at one time reputed to be worth $25,000,000, a former Chicago manufacturer and horseman, died at Santa Barbara, Calif. He had lost his fortune and for the past two years had been manager of a ranch in Montecito. Seven persons were burned to death when fire destroyed the Loui? Spilchal farm home, sixteen miles southwest of Dickson, Sou'h Dakota. The victims were six daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Spilchal and Bergen Roller, 69-year-old father of Mrs. Spilchal. The girls ranged in age from 3 tol4 years. GENERAL A patrolman defending the Italian aviator Antonio Locatelli, from an attack from a frenzied mob of his countrymen, who awaited his appearance ap-pearance outside the Manhattan opera op-era house at New York, was stabbed three times with a stilletto. Anthony Cioffe, 43, who s-ays he is a member of the I. W. W., is under arrest. The patrolman is in a serious condition. John T. Pershing ended his forty two years of active service in the army at Washington with a last signal sig-nal honor paid him in the iss-jance of an executive announcement by President Presi-dent Coo'.idge expressing the nation's indebtedness for the service which won him leadership of the American forces in the world war. Down streets banked with humanity, human-ity, past plazas packed with cheering thousands', more than 25,000 members of the American Legion marched at St. Paul, Minn., as at outstanding event of their national convention. Joseph Kopusea, a demented laborer, la-borer, attempted to burn himself to death at Chicago. He went to Montrose Mont-rose cemetery, where a funeral was being held, raked some sticks and leaves together, poured gasoline over his clothes and stood on the funeral pyre as he struck a match. Herbert A. Thompsrn of Williamson, William-son, Mich., was elected grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Fel-lows at the sovereign grand lodge session, at Jacksonville, Fia. Portland, Port-land, Ore., was chosen for the 1925 convention city. Richmond, Va., will be the meeting place for the 1925 convention of the National League of Women Voters from April 15 to 20. Its executive committee accepted formal invitations to meet there. Jimmy Murphy, Los Angeles, was fatally hurt at the postponed New York state fair and motor races. His car left the track on the 138th lap. Murphy was buried in the wreckage and died soon after being rushed to a hospital. America's tax burden was $775,-000,000 $775,-000,000 heavier in 1923 than in 1922, and in ten years taxation has grown more than $5,500,000,000 the national industrial conference board announced in a report made public in New York. Total taxes raised in 1923 were placed at $7,71G,000,000, as against $0,961,000,000 in 1922. America's polo team, before a crowd of 40,000 persons, defeated England's international polo team at Meadow Brook, N. Y., by a score of 16 to 5. This was the largest score since the series was inaugurated in 1888. The American team ran away with the Britons. A board of inquiry investigating the derailment of the Sunset Limited, fast Southern Pacific passengei train, near Bon, Ariz., on the night of September 8, found that the de railment was caused by unknown persons per-sons "with malicious intent," Division Divi-sion Superintendent William Wilson of th Southern Pacific said. Four of six immigrants who jumped jump-ed from a pier on Ellis Island, New York, struck out for the Jersey shore and made good their escape. John Ferra, an Italian, one of the two who were captured by guards near the Jersey Central railroad yards, risked his life and forfeited his liberty to save Nicholas Nerniciel, a Russian, from drowning. First honors in the Grand Circuit races' at the state fair at Syracuse, N. Y., went to Thomas Murphy, who took first place in five times and received purses totaling $18375, it was announced. Nearly $70,000 in purses were distributed. Woman was victor in another long battle for equality with man. The Journeyman Barbers' International union ended a dispute at Indianapolis, rnd., that has come up at every convention con-vention for the past fifteen years by voting to admit women barbers to membership. FOREIGN The Ulster cabinet at a meeting at London decided to adhere to its former for-mer decision not to appoint a representative repre-sentative on the Irish boundary commission, com-mission, provided for in the Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish treaty. This decision was communicated com-municated to Prime Minister Mac-Donald Mac-Donald of Great Britian. ,A charge of murder was lodged against Leonard Reid, -held responsible responsi-ble for the deaths of six men who were killed when his automobile ran down a group of World War Veterans Veter-ans at Callahan's crossing near St. Johns, N. F. When arrested Reid was held for manslaughter and the charge changed to murder in court. Bail was set at $200,000 for Reid, who is a member of one of Newfoundland's New-foundland's first families. It is learned that the assassination of Todor Alexandroff, head of the Macedonian revolutionary organization, organiza-tion, occurred on August 31, and that in the reprisals following the crime there have been eight other political politi-cal assassinations. Chang Tso-Lin, the Manchurian war lord, has issued a proclamation declaring his intention to make war against Ts-ao Kun, president of China. Great Britian's conditional offer to place her fleet at the disposal of the league of nations in order to outlaw war and to put down aggressor states, continues to create a sensation. sensa-tion. The opinion was heard in many quarters that the British suggestion would immediately " strengthen the 'eague as a mechanism to keep the peace, although representatives of some so-called neutral states with sea coasts withheld judgment. j Arrangements for placing a series of police posts on the boundaries be- tween Saskatchewan and North Da- I kota and Montana have been com- I pleted it was announced at Winnipeg, ; y C. A. Mahoney, commissioner of Saskatchewan police. The posts will leal with border bandits who might j eek to raid Saskatchewan towns j during the harvest season. The German government, it in semi-official!v announced will soor make effective several important commercial and fiscal measures ir order to enable the German people tc lischarge the burdens imposed upon them by the London agreement. The Ecuadorian government forces defeated the rebels near Ibarra, after af-ter three hours of fighting, accord-ig accord-ig to telegrams from Quito. It is of ficially stated that citizens of Colom bia were included in the rebel ranks |