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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOB BUSYREADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'3 DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last 8even Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN When Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross Is to be inaugurated governor of Wyoming; Wyom-ing; January 5, the ceremony will be 8 simple and biisf as the occasion will permit. Mrs. Ross will be in mourning for her husband who died less than eight weeks ago. There will be nothing in the way of merriment. merri-ment. Alleged refusal of the Southern Pacific company' to grant conferences with engineers' national brotherhoods over increased wage demands have resulted in the polling of a secret Itrike vote over the entire system It is announced. Spits asking judgments aggregating aggregat-ing 16,687 against Rudolph Valentino, Valen-tino, motion picture actor, were filed In superior court at Los Angeles by assignees of Robertson & Webb, film booking agents, who allege the money Is due them for obtaining employment employ-ment for Valentino with Famous Players-Lasky corporation in November, Novem-ber, 1921. Peter Allen, 19, and Ernest F. Zabel, 33, were killed at Butte, Mont, when the cage on which they were being lifted, with twenty-two other men, from the 2900-foot level of the Mountain Consolidated mine of the Anaconda- Copper company, was hoisted into the sheave wheel at the top of the gallows frame. Orders issued last June for the de atruction of alleged boil weevil in- fested cotton crops in the Postvalle area near Tucson, Arizona were declared de-clared "unauthorized, illegal and void," in a report filed in United States court at Phoenix by H. L. Partridge, special master in chancery. chan-cery. Elko county, Nevada desert, embracing em-bracing thousands of acres in the eastern part of the country, is the mecca of the sheepmen of Utah and Idaho, besides a large number of lecal sheep owners. Sheriff Harris Is now checking up the -sheep and reports that thousands are being driven or shipped to the desert for the winter months. The recent storms Insure plenty of moisture for the sheep. ' Hearst hall, University of California Califor-nia women gymnasium and center of women's activities, planned as a memorial me-morial to the late Phoebe Apperson, Hearst is to be a $1,000,000 structure. This was revealed by President W. W. Campbell of the University at a meeting of the board of regents at Stephens union on the campus. : GENERAL The Boulder dam bill, which is to be taken up again next week by the house committee on irrigation, will not pass congress during the short session if Representative E. O. Leatherwood can prevent it. The Utah congressman, who exposed the inquities of this; bill during the hearings hear-ings last session, showed wherein that bill might operate to impair the rights of Utah and other states of the upper Colorado river basin, returned to Washington determined to carry on from the point where he left off when this legislation was sidetracked last June. Hamilton Holt, former editor of the New York Independent and well known league of nations advocate, was unanimously nominated for United Unit-ed States senator by the Democratic state convention at New Haven, Conn. The nomination was by acclamation. The election of Mrs. Miriam A.. Ferguson, Democrat, as governor of Texas at the November 4 election will not be contested. This announcement announce-ment was made after a two-day conference con-ference of state Republican leaders-. Farmers in Manitoba, Canada, just across the line from North Dakota, are threshing in the snow, according to reports received at Grand Forks, N. D. The grain is being hauled in sleds. From present indications the water shortage that visited Salt . Lake last summer will not occur this coming year as the snow fall in the mountains moun-tains near town is extremely heavy for this time of the year. Mrs. Fannie Christian of Rozel, Kan., has been elected to two offices justice of the peace and township town-ship constable although she had not been a candidate for any office, the official canvass of the November 4 election disclosed. R. T. Daniel, millionaire property owner of Tulsa and Dallas, Texas has sigr.ed an agreement giving 1m wife $1,000,000 worth of property in Tulsa. Mrs. Daniel recently sued her hm.band for separate maintenance mainten-ance and division of property. Verdicts of guilty were returned at Chicago by a federal jury against William J. Fahy, former postal inspector, in-spector, and James Murray, politician, politi-cian, on five charges of robbing the mails with a gun, five charges of mail robbery and one charge or conspiracy to rob the mails, each in connection with the $2,000,000 Rondout, 111.,' mail train holdup on June 12. The federal grand jury in New York returned an indictment against the New York Tribune company, publishers of the Herald-Tribune, alleging al-leging the unlawful printing and publishing pub-lishing of parts of the income tax returns. The indictment was obtained ob-tained by United States Attorney Hayward at the request of Attorney General Stone. No individuals' were mentioned in the indictment. ' With his fangs piercing his own body, "Kelly," the big rattlesnake hat won fame last spring through broadcasting his rattle from the Pennsylvania State college radio station sta-tion was found dead in his cage by Professor George B. Green, his owner, own-er, and head of the college nature jtudy department. Sometime during the next year the new navy dirigible Los Angeles will make separate flights to Panamaand England, Rear Admiral William A. MJoffatt, chief of the bureau of aeronautics of the navy department declared. An oldtime inaugural parade still is among the possibilities for next March. President Cooldige . wants his inauguration to follow the modest lines of the Harding inauguration ceremonies' of 1922, but he will not 1 if there is an elaborate parade in keeping with the dignity of the office. of-fice. When it comes to the question of reviving the inaugural bill,' however, how-ever, President and Mrs. Coolidge are standing pat on their veto and do not expect to attend any social function on the evening of March 4. Captain A. J. Wilson of Fair Haven, Mass., master of the schooner Perry Setzer, was instantly killed when his vessel was rammed and virtually cut in two by an unidentified steamer in a fog thirty miles south of Cape Hat-teras, Hat-teras, according to information brought to New York by the United Fruit liner Calamares from Cuba. A bird bath, constructed of stone from France, is to be left in Piney Branch valley, Washington by Ambassador Am-bassador and Mme. Jusserand, as a permanent expression of gratitude to the songsters that gave them relief during the war from their burden of anxiety and anguish. Howard M. Gore of West Virginia was appointed secretary of agriculture, agricul-ture, to succeed the late Henry C. Wallace. Mr. Gore, who has been acting secretary since the death of Mr. Wallace, can serve only until next March 4, when he becomes governor gov-ernor of his home state. FOREIGN It is announced thai the Prince of Wales will leave England about March 25 for South Africa. The prince will visit en route Gambia, Sierra Leone, the gold coast Nigeria and St. Helena. In its reply to the recent British note, the soviet government, it is un-dertsood, un-dertsood, probably will reiterate its demand that the uathenticity of the famous Zinovieff letter shall be passed pass-ed upon by an arbitration commission. commis-sion. The French government has decided to ask parliament to ratify the Geneva Gen-eva protocol for security and disarmament, dis-armament, despite the fact that France is acceding to the British proposal to postpone discussion of the protocol by the council of the league of nations. The British government is going to withhold further action in Egypt to reconsider the British demands, only "art of which the Zagloul ministry agreed to, and to communicate officially of-ficially with London regarding them. Seven hundred and fifty idle coal miners from the Fernie district of British Columbia forced out of employment em-ployment when the mines shut down due to lack of business, are to be given work on British Columbia highway high-way projects immediately, Minister of Public Works W. H. Sutherland lias announced. Tuan Chi-Jui of Japan, "chief of executive power," a title which he selected to designate his position as 'lead of the new central Chinese Government has named his cabinet. The most outstanding feature of the ew government family is the absence ab-sence of Chihli influence and the predomination of the Anfu, sometimes some-times called the pro-Japanese party of China. The little town of Battlefork whose residents are threatened with a possible pos-sible levy of 75 per cent of their total assessments to satisfy town debts, ha3 appealed to the Saskatchewan Saskatch-ewan govei nmer.t to save it from financial fi-nancial ruin. Nine fishermen were killed at Dunkirk, Dun-kirk, France when a mine brought jp by the nets exploded iboard a 'joat which was fishing in Dunkirk vaters. |