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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 Reporter by Wire and Pre-' pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN Shipment of livestock from California Califor-nia across Utah by railroad will be prohibited as a further precaution against the spread of foot and mouth disease to Utah state, A. A. Hinckley, state commissioner of agriculture said following a conference with Governor Charles It. Mabey. Governor Govern-or Mabey Is expected to make the ne-cessary ne-cessary amendment to the quarantine proclamation, formerly issued. Edward Dougherty, a contracting smokestack painter, was instanly killed kill-ed at Provo, Utah, when he fell eighty feet from a smokestack of the Springville-Mapleton sugar factory. A quarantine calling for the exclusion exclu-sion or inspection of livestock, meats, hides, fruits, fodder, vegetables, milk, cheese, butter, cattle cars and even farm hands from the state of California Califor-nia was ordered by Governor Joseph M. Dixon of Montana to prevent the spread into this state of the foot and mouth disease. The Rev. Baker P. Lee, Los Angeles Angel-es clergyman who attracted nationwide nation-wide publicity several years ago, when officers of the Episcopalian church assailed him for marrying Alfred Al-fred I. Du Pont, divorced powder magnate, to Miss Jessie Ball of Hollywood, Holly-wood, was arrested at Los Angeles by the United States Marshall's office after his indictment on an oil fraud charge by the federal grand jury. Associate Justice Louis W. Myers of the state supreme court of California Califor-nia was named chief justice of that tribunal by Governor Richardson to succeed Justice Curtis D. Wilbur, who was named recently as secretary of the navy. United States Senator B. Iv. AVheel-er, AVheel-er, prosecutor of the senate Daugher-ty Daugher-ty investigating committee, was indicted in-dicted at Great Falls, Montana by a federal grand jury on a charge of unlawfully un-lawfully receiving money as retainer fees to influence the issuance of oil and gas prospecting permits by the secretary of interior and commissioner commission-er of the general land office. Postal receipts at Boise and Cheyenne Chey-enne for March fell below those of March last year. Last month's receipts re-ceipts at Boise were $20,192, or 5.09 per cent drop, and at Cheyenne they were' $11,102, a drop of 17.8 per cent. Reno, with receipts of $12,000, made a gain of 17.13 per cent. GENERAL Simultaneous raids in New York, Bay Port Long Island and New Britain, Brit-ain, Conn., by United States secret service men under Joseph A. Palma, operative in charge, resulted in the capture of an entire gang of alleged counterfeiters, eleven men and two women, and the seizure of $40,000 in spurious $20 federal reserve notes. A score of business houses, the city jail, postoffice and a motion picture theatre were destroyed by fire, which swept the business district dis-trict of Norpleet, Arkansas, oil boom town. WASHINGTON The ne.w revenue bill was presented to the senate by Chairman Smoot of the finance committee with the statement state-ment that it would be called up next week for consideration. Senator Gooding, Republican, Idaho, asked the senate to Investigate charges charg-es made by the l'onoma Grange of Idaho that he and his friends were favored by the war finance eorpor. ation In Ioans to livestock interests. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, was named as chairman of the special senate committee which will investigate investi-gate the circumstances surrounding the indictment by a Mont-ana grand jury of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of that state. The government nolle pressed one of the indictments against Representative Represent-ative John W. Langely, Republican, Kentucky, who is charged with conspiracy con-spiracy in connection with liquor withdrawal permits. The indictment eliminated is that against him individually. indivi-dually. Another, In which he is named with several others still stands. Chicago politics again came under the searchlight of the Brookhart Investigating In-vestigating committee when a new effort was begun to bring home the nation-wide fight film "conspiracy" of 1921 to the doorstep of former Attorney At-torney General Harry M. Daugherty and his benchmen. A movement within the ranks of senate Republican regulars for a compromise com-promise on the Mellon income tax developed as the revenue bill, carrying carry-ing the rates in this plan was ordered order-ed sent to the s.enate by the finance committee. A bill designed to prevent a monopoly mono-poly of radio communication was passed by the senate. It declares the air to be the "inalienable possession" of the people and prohibits licenses extending more than two years. The inter-state commerce commission-has denied permission to the Northern Pacific railroad to abandon the Rimini or Red Mountain ranch and the Marysville branch in Lewis and Clark county, Mont. Such action the commission held would destroy mining investments in the district. States cannot compel interstate railroads, the supreme court declared, to join in the construction of union stations, and cannot compel them to abolish grade crossings. The end of the Teapot oil inquiry seems in sight. Senator Walsh said he hoped to conclude the investigation investiga-tion this week as examination of tha several witnesses now tinder subpoena would not consume a great deal of time. FOREIGN Ernest Sidney Murrill and Clarence Topping, convicted murderers were hanged simultaneously in the Middlesex Middle-sex county jail ward of London. They were pronounced dead seven minutes after the volt was shot. Hugo Stinnes, more closely identified identi-fied with German industrial life than any other man, died AVednesday at Berlin. Indefatigable in his labors, he struggled against the impending end, and was conscious to the last. Plenty of time will be taken by the reparation commission of Paris to review re-view and digest the reports of the experts ex-perts committee. The commission is not likely to act before the end of next iweek, in view of the necessity of the members consulting their respective res-pective governments. Reports are in circulation at Berlin that D: Otto Diedfeldt German Ambassador Am-bassador to the United States, will return to Germany within the next few weeks, definitely retiring from the diplomtiac service. Official quarters quar-ters declined to discus the subject. Charging that her divorced husband, hus-band, Charles J. Taylor, now of San Francisco, had repudiated his proposal pro-posal to her of a remarriage apparently apparent-ly to have "his usual good time dancing," danc-ing," Mrs. Mary J. Taylor of Chicago asked $-5,000 for breach of promise. She is 60, lie is So. Folice reserves of Boston were rushed to Ford Hall to quell a disturbance distur-bance which hecklers in the audienec began to question Bertrand Kussell, British philosopher and scientist, regarding re-garding remarks he was alleged to have made concernin the American army in the World war. Jewelry valued at S-jO.OOO whs stolen stol-en by burglars at Chicago, who cut their way through a network of burglar burg-lar alarms and two brick walls of a Jewelry establishment district. They overlooked $100,000 worth of unset diamonds. The men worked undetected undetect-ed for hours police estimated. Customs oflicials are investigating reports that a prominent Chicago woman, whose name is not disclosed. Is the owner of a recently imported emerald necklace, valued at S1.."00,-000, S1.."00,-000, on which the records are said to show that SO per cent duty has not been paid. Two of the bandits who murdered Robert Lewis Coleman and George B. DeLong, American citizens, in Albania Al-bania have been killed in a fight with a posse of gendarmes, says a .Stefani agency dispatch from Tirana, Albania of Rome. M. J. Smith of Boston has been appointed ap-pointed league of nations high commissioner com-missioner for Hungary, taking the position which W. I. G. Harding, governor of the Boston Federal bank, was unable to accept owing to ill health. The News of the World says that as a result of a "serious talk" with his father, King George, the Prince of Wales has promised to give up dangerous steopleehasing in the future and confine his riding to less dangerous events. The newspaper adds that the prince lost three front teeth when kicked in the face in his latest accident, in addition to other injuries. Afer ten years in office, Mayor Martin of Montreal met defeat in rhe recent city election, his campaign managers conceding ' the election to Charles Duquette after an unofficial count of the votes cast in 8-S7 of the city's 11.",:? poiling places gave Duquette Du-quette a 3!-13 majority. "The red flag must be set up at the North Pole not later than September," Rossinsky the Russian airman, who contemplates an aerial expedition to the top of the world in June. According Ac-cording to Rossinsky some ten persons, per-sons, including scientists, will participate. parti-cipate. Tlie airplane to be used, he said, would be of the hydroplane type, specially equipped to carry a fuel supply for a forty-eight-hour flight and will be specially constructed. A string bean on the sidewalk in front of the Blutky Commission company's com-pany's plant Omaha caused him to slip and break bis leg. Adolph Schwartz, Sch-wartz, laborer, alleges in a suit for $10,000 against the company and the owner of its building, trial of which began Monday in district court. AVilliam Hale (Big Bill) Thompson, former mayor of Chicago and chief political ally of Governor Small, headed a list of five for district delegates dele-gates to the Republican national convention con-vention from the Ninth district. |