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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSYREADERS i 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 EPITOME Zack Wilcox, 78, who lays claim to fame by reason of his twenty-two toot beard which won him second place in the whiskerino competition at Sacramento several years, ago was seriously injured at Carson City, Nevada, Ne-vada, when he was struck by an automobile auto-mobile while riding his bicycle down the main thoroughfare of that city. One leg was broken in two places and his shoulder was sprained. Because Be-cause of his advanced age it is feared that his injuries may be fatal. John PI. Randolph, found guilty of the murder of his mother, was sentenced sen-tenced to die by lethal gas, by the district court at Reno, Nevada. Time for execution was set for the week of November 22 to 2S. Notice of appeal was filed. Randolph is the third man awaiting execution by lethal gas in Nevada, two others having appealed to the supreme court. California's diamond jubilee, celebrating cele-brating the seventy-fifth anniversary of statehood, began with a costume ball at the civic auditorium at San Francisco and continued with ceremonies cere-monies and sporting events. Programs Pro-grams continued for a week. Governor A. T. Hannett of New Mexico has advised Governor Clarence Clar-ence C. Morley of Colorado that he had affixed his signature to the public pub-lic statement drawn by governors of the upper Colorado River basin states at Denver defining the stand of Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico Mex-ico with regard to development of the river. The horticultural experiment work of Luther Burbank, aged plant wizard wiz-ard of Santa Rosa, Calif., will be taken tak-en over by the Stanford university which will raise an endowment fund to secure perpetuation of Burbank's services for humanity. On receipt of a letter from R. E. Shepherd, president of the American Falls Reservoir district, detailing progress pro-gress being made in raising funds for the American Falls dam, reclamation Commissioner Mead at Washington, expressed the conviction that the "big dam" would be built, and that the reservoir ultimately will impound 1,-700,000 1,-700,000 acre feet of water. "If the big dam is built, as the result of the raising rais-ing of an additional $900,000 among the land owners to be benefited, it J will be more largely due to the efforts of Mr. Shepherd than to anyone else," said the commissioner. Gus J. Simmons, divisional prohibition prohibi-tion chief, and thirty of his agents were discharged at Pittsburg, Pa., by District Director Fred C. Baird. The director said the divisional chief and his men had ignored orders to report re-port for duty over the week-end and Labor day. Airplanes of the Ford Motor company com-pany will carry United States mail between Detroit and Chicago, beginning begin-ning within the next two weeks, it was announced following a conference confer-ence between Postmaster General Harry S. New, Henry Ford and William Wil-liam J. Mayo of the Ford company. Because of an alleged insult to the uniform of the United States army, Francisco Annello of Brooklyn was shot and killed by Joseph Rizutte, an ex-soldier, also of Brooklyn. Rizzute told the police that Anello had said Rizutte looked like a clown when in uniform. The shooting occurred in front of Rizutte's home. "Honest bootleggers," who wanted to be square with the government contributed between $500,000 and $1, 000,000 of the total tax paid in the richest tax district of the United States, lower Manhattan, it was revealed re-vealed in a study of income tax returns re-turns at New York. Officials said most bootleggers filed the returns under un-der the head "Returns on Investments." Invest-ments." President Coolidge has sent $5 to an elevator boy who cleaned up the executive offices in Lynn without being be-ing asked to do so. The boy, Arthur Nelson, 18, saw that the offices needed need-ed cleaning during a visit of the president pres-ident on July 4. Sweeping is not part of his job, but he did it anyway. Mr. Coolidge has just sent him a letter of appreciation, inclosing a five-dollar bil. When public schools reopen in Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, hundreds of anthracite miners' min-ers' children will be absent. Since the suspension affectine 148.000 men A guarantee fund of $25,000 has been pedged to the Pendleton, Oregon, Ore-gon, Roundup association by the business busi-ness and professional men of the city for its use in the event of bad weather weath-er that might reduce attendance at the show, September 16 to 19. Stricken as he was returning from the scene of a wreck of two Colorado & Southern railroad trains near May-ne, May-ne, Colorado, John H. Adams, division divi-sion superintendent of the system, with headquarters at Trinidad, Colorado Colo-rado Paralysis caused death. GENERAL Officers of the Actors' Theatre, the reincorporated Equity Players, of New York, announced at Chicago tentative ten-tative plans for establishing a circuit of actor-controlled theatres which would exchange production units on a plan similar to that operative on vaudeville circuits. Successful in its fourth season in New York and making mak-ing Its debut in Chicago recently with Shaw's "Candida," the organization now looks forward to the possibility of engagements in Cleveland, Cincinnati Cincin-nati and other cities. A resolution demanding congressional congress-ional investigation of the Shenandoah catastrophe as well as other recent maladventures of the navy will be introduced' in-troduced' the moment congress convenes con-venes in December, Senator King of Utah, Democrat, announced. Industrial consolidation as a step to eliminate waste in production, assure steady emploment, reduce costs and curb overdevelopment, was advocated by Secretary of Labor Davis in his went into effect, youngsters have been taking jobs to help support their families during the idleness of elder breadwinners. A marked slump in school enrollments was a certainty, according to a school survey made in Wilkes-Barre, which was believed to reflect conditions throughout the coal fields. Removal of national headquarters of Veterans of Foreign Wars from Kansas City to Washington, D. C, was recommended by Adjutant General Gener-al Henry W. Lawson of Boston, in his annual report presented to the national na-tional encampment at Tulsa, Okla. FOREIGN Finance Minister Calliaux's 1926 budget prepared for presentation to the coming session of parliament, in which he promises "an irreproachable balance," is held responsible by the financial writers in the Sunday papers pa-pers for the unsatisfactory tone of the stock market recently. The writers blame particularly the finance fi-nance minister's estimate of a deficit defi-cit of more than three billion francs and his proposal of increased taxation taxa-tion on capital. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson attended the opening session of the assembly of the league of nations at Geneva, and was presented with a bouquet and an address on behalf of the citizens of Geneva by the association for Geneva's Ge-neva's interests, which paid homage "to your never to be forgotten husband, hus-band, the founder of the league of nations." Former Premier Rene Viviani died LaDor day address, broadcast trom the Moose headquarters station at Mooseheart, 111. Fourteen of the crew of the Shenandoah, Shenan-doah, giant dirigible, are dead, and two others were seriously injured when the pride of the United States navy cracked near Caldwell, O., during dur-ing a severe storm on its western cruise from its Lakehurst, N. J., air port. Among the dead is Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsowne, captain cap-tain of the ship. John P. Inman of Springfield, 111., past department commander of Illinois Illin-ois was chosen commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. to succeed Louis F. Ar-ensburg Ar-ensburg of Pittsburg, Pa. A two-thirds vote of the delegates to the annual national encampment of the G. A. R. elected Mr. Inan over Bernard Kel-ley Kel-ley of Kansas. Flood waters of the Rio Grande river, which burst through the levee on the outskirts of El Paso drove 500 families from their homes and caused damage now estimated at $400000 . Refugees hurriedly carried their household furnishings and other i valuables into Washington park, es-I es-I tablished as a refugee's camp by city ; officials. ; Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter ' of the late Wiliam Jennings Bryan, : plans to obtain a seat In congress "as I the lady from Florida." at Rome. Death occurred in the Mal-maison Mal-maison Sanitarium, where M. Viviani had been confined for two years suffering suf-fering from a general breakdown. The end came peacefully. The former premier pre-mier collapsed while pleading a case in court June 8, 1923, and was said at that time to be worn out with work and grief over the death of his wife. All Tripoli is now ablaze in a revolt re-volt against Italy. Premier Mussolini Mussol-ini has sent 300 additional airplanes and 20,000 additional troops to Tripoli Tri-poli and the official Stefeni agency finally admitted that there is a widespread wide-spread uprising. Dr. Josef Wirth, former chancellor chancel-lor of Germany, has bolted the Cen- j trist party, and his defection may cause the collapse of the Luther ministry. min-istry. He is opposed to the new customs, cus-toms, tariff and taxation laws. Seventy years discrepancy in age proved no bar to Euseblo Andrae ana Serafina Quevedo, who were married at Cordoba. Argentina. Andrae, a landowner, is S3 years old and his bride, the daughter of a cab driver, is 13. A large crowd staged a noisy demonstration outside the registrar's office while the ceremony was performed. per-formed. One hundred and fifty persons were killed in an explosion at the Taihaku coal mine near Pingpang Korea, dispatches dis-patches to the Nippo Jiti Shlmpoo received re-ceived at Tokio, Japan, aaid. I |