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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSHEAOERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Dayi Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Although Mrs. C. R. Stone, 92 year old resident of Tupunga, a suburb, sub-urb, has lived within a gunshot of Hollywood's movie studios since the first crude pie throwing comedy days, she saw her first motion picture pic-ture at Hollywood last weex. A light earthquake, the first In many months, was felt by residents of a triangular portion of California bounded roughly by lines between San Francisco, Stockton and Mon-erey, Mon-erey, but apparently no damage was done at any point. Four grocers' associations, three In California and one in New York upwards of 50 grocery companies and 41 individuals scattered throughout the state have been named defendants defend-ants here in a suit launched by the federal government charging agree-discounts agree-discounts and policies and to stifle discounts and policies an dto stifle competition, especially that of "chain Btores," in violation of the anti-trust laws. A temporary injunction restraining enforcement of the Oregon compur-sory compur-sory school attendance bill has been issued by the United States district court. An immediate appeal to the supreme court is planned. Nevada's loss from fire during 1923 amounted to $3,324,520 according to a report of the National board of Fire Underwrite, most of which was preventable, pre-ventable, it says. Police of Denver are looking for n "well-dressed, gray-haired man," suspected sus-pected of plotting an attempt to kidnap kid-nap the two young children of Mrs. Holon Klwood Stokes, recently sued for divorce by her millionaire husband, W. E. D. Stokes. Albert Wicks is back at the McNeil Mc-Neil island federal prison after having hav-ing gone with a guard to Leeds, Utah, to the deathbed oi his father, James Madison Wicks. The son will finish his sentence next August and at that time he will return to Leeds to claim the $50,000 estate of his father. "Rain-maker" Charles Hatfield' contracted con-tracted to produce two inches of rainfall rain-fall for the Coalinga, Cal. district for $8,000 but he did not figure on being a victim of the rain he produced. Hatfield Hat-field spent Wednesday night in the limbs of a tree in the mountains near here, where he had set up his rain-wooing rain-wooing towers, following a cloudburst which washed out his tents and made the roads impassable. GENERAL ; Charles Allen Munn, editor and publisher of the Scientific American died at his home at New York after a brief illness. John A.. Whitehurst, president of the state board of agriculture of Oklahoma was acquitted by the senate sen-ate court of impeachment on all charges, alleging general incompetency, incompet-ency, neglect of duty and moral turpitude, turp-itude, filed by the house board of managers. Captain James G. Ballinger, retired, retir-ed, of the United States coast guard, who commanded the revenue cutter Bear on relief work in Alaska and who was known in marine circles on both American coasts, died at New-York New-York jf heart trouble. He was 57 years old. Twenty-five men working in the vehicular tunnel being built under the Hudson river at New York fled for their lives when a compressed air explosion blew a hole in the tunnel roof and let in the river. Total February sales of new automobiles auto-mobiles find motorcycles for the entire en-tire country aggregated $13G,7SO,000, a decrease of 40.3 per cent compared with the previous month and an increase in-crease of 16.2 per cent compared with a year ago the seventh federal reserve re-serve bank has announced. One fireman was killed and a property loss estimated at between one million and two milliorr dollars was caused when fire of undetermined undeterm-ined origin destroyed the Lynn English Eng-lish high school at Lynn, Mass. Fireman Fire-man Arthur Preble died from injuries injur-ies to his head from falling slate. Half a dozen other firemen were injured. in-jured. AYatched by a gaping crowd of 1000 upper east side residents, James Bol-and, Bol-and, a crazed man barricaded behind the locked doors of his stationery store at New York, exchanged more than 100 shots with seven policemen before he was mortally wounded. Adolfo de la Iluerta, leader of the lost revolutionary cause in Mexico, frias landed at Key West, Fla. and lias gone Into the interior of the United 'states, Mexican Consul General Gen-eral Enrique D. Ruiz has been advised ad-vised by Mexico City. WASHINGTON Dr. Elwood Meade of Wyoming, foremost American authority on irrigation ir-rigation was appointed by Secretary Work to be director of the reclamation reclama-tion bureau, at a salary of $11,000, succeeding former Governor D. W. Davis cf Idaho, who becomes head of a newly created division of finance in the reclamation bureau at $7,500. Thus does Dr. Mead come :nto an office to which he aspired and for which he was strongly urged twenty years ago, at the time F. H. Newell was appointed first director of the reclamation service. Charges were hurled in the senate sen-ate committee investigating alleged land frauds in the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas that "influence" was used by R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman from Texas, to halt trials of land companies in which he was interested. The interior department has set aside for homestead entry 28,000 acres in Maricopa and Pinal counties, coun-ties, Arizona; 24,000 acres in San Bernardino county, California;-21,500 acres in Idaho county, Idaho; G000 acres in Esmeralda county, Nevada; and 3000 acres in Carbon county, Wyoming. A telegram sent to Attorney General Gen-eral Daugherty by R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman from Texas, to have him delay action against land companies in the Rio Grande valley was read into the record rec-ord of the senate investigating committee com-mittee by James R. Page of Kansas City, "unofficial prosecutor." As the oil .committee got back to the trail of an alleged conspiracy at the Republican national convention in 1920 for the exploitation of the public domain, Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of the Teapot Dome, appeared in the District of Columbia supreme court and entered a plea of not guilty to an indictment charging contempt of the United States senate. He furnished bond in the sum of $5000. Congress will enact a tax reduction measure before it adjourns or recesses reces-ses for the national political convention conven-tion Chairman Smoot of thci senate finance committee declared in the senate. A plan to let the government pay the campaign expenses of candidates for public office was brought forward here by William Jennings Bryan. The general land office announced the transfer of John P. Walker, assistant assis-tant supervisor of surveys for the Alaska district, to the Idaho-Washington district, with headquarters at Boise, Idaho. George H. Parks of Anchorage, Alaska, will succeed Mr. Walker in the northland. FOREIGN There are 3439 American citizens living in Brazil, according to official offi-cial statistics just published at Rio de Janerio. The American colony is one of the smallest, despite the fact that Brazil does more business with the United States than with any other country. Of the Americans1, 1066 live in Rio de Janeiro and 120" in San Paulo. The council of state has finally passed the finance bill of India, the provisions of which were virtually all rejected by the Swarajist majority majori-ty in the legislative assembly. The viceroy "certified", the bill, which is equovalent to overruling the assembly. as-sembly. A heavy storm, accompanied by a tidal wave, swept over the coast of Mar del Plata. Several bathing establishments es-tablishments were severely damaged and thirty-two fishing vessels were carried away but there was no loss of life says report from Buenos Aires. About $920,000,000 was paid to shipping companies of England by the admirality, war office and ministry min-istry of shipping from August, 1914, to March, 1921, in respect of total losses and insurance of vessels,, owing to war risk. These figures were given out recently by the board of trade. A bank employee and a bandit were killed and another bank employee was slightly wounded when eight masked men opened fire on a motor car and stole funds which were being transferred trans-ferred to the central office of the Bank of Hochelaga at Montreal Canada. Can-ada. A threatened strike of Canadian railroad workers in maintenance of way, bridge and building department, has been averted through a wage agreement, the Railway association of Canada has announced. A violent explosion occurred in the crater of the volcano of Stromboli, on the coast of Sicily, on March 2S, it was announced in a communique from the royal meterological bureau at Rome. Windows in the vicinity were shattered shatter-ed by the shock and fifteen persons were 'injured. Spring floods are taking heavy toll of life and property in Europe. At least twenty persons are known to have been drowned when the Vistula overflowed its banks, inundating forty villages in the vicinity of Warsaw. The Prince of Wales is responsible for large west end window displays of handkerchiefs with highly colored decorative borders. Recently the royal heir appeared with such a handkerchief hand-kerchief prominently displayed in hia breast pocket. |