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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSHBDERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Laxt Seven Days Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared fo- the Benefit of the Rusy Reader. WESTERN EPITOME The financial affairs of the Panama-pacific Panama-pacific International exposition, held In San Francisco in 1915, have finally closed when the three surviving trustees trus-tees were discharged bv Superior Judge Ward. All the assets of the exposition company have been liquidated liqui-dated and distributed among the stockholders except $10,000 in bonds, $6,500 in cash and some objects of art. Colliding head-on 1500 feet above San Diego bay, whilo their Voight airplanes were traveling faster than 100 miles an hour, Captain Harry II. Shepherd and Lieutenant John D. Christian, attached to marine corps aviation squadron No. 1 at North Island, Is-land, were killed. The two airplanes their locked wings and fusilages parting part-ing after dropping 3 000 feet, plunged Into the bay about tour miles south of Coronado Tent city. The war department has ordered Dr. David C. Silverberg, Seattle physician, phy-sician, to attend court martial as a suspected world war draft evader. Silverberg Sil-verberg has been under arrest since November 24, at Fort Lawton. The exact wording of the charges will be determined by the judge advocate of the ninth corps area headquarters at San Francisco. A delegation of mothers, representing represent-ing the California Parent-Teachers association, as-sociation, has filed a protest against the widespread circulation of salacious salaci-ous magazines with United States Attorney At-torney George Hatfield. "Indecent publications" were criticised as being "ruinous to the morals of the present day youth," and the mothers urged that they be denied the use of the United States mails. With all the daring and aplomb of seasoned bandits, two women walked Into the First State bank at Renner, S. D., held up the cashier, picked up $500 in silver and disappeared in a decrept touring car. The Southern Pacific railroad has refused to accent an increase in -rates authorized by the interstate com: merce commission of California. The increase authorized applies to butter, eggs and cheese shipments between California and Oregon points. The present rail rate was, made to meet water competition. The commission has ruled the railroads should not make long haul rates to meet water competition with a charge less than the tariff for an intermediate short haul Los Angeles welcomed the greatest piece of coast defense armament that had ever moved into the west, the big 14-inch railway gun, enroute to Fort MacArthur,-San Pedro, to the harbor there. The special train with the monster mon-ster rifle pulled into the Southern Pacific Pa-cific freight yards at Los Angeles and was greeted by a throng of sightseers. i GENERAL The die proof of the new Woodrow Wilson 17-cent stamp was completed by the bureau of engraving and printing print-ing and Postmaster General New announced an-nounced that work will be rushed to have the first issue placed on sale December 28, the birth date of the war president. Jake Schafer broke all world's records rec-ords for a championship billiard match with a run of 432 points at Orchestra hall, Chicago, in the final block of his match with Edouard Hor-emans Hor-emans for the 18.2 balkline title, but nevertheless, lost his championship to the Belgian. Schaefer's dazzling display came in the thirty-first inning in-ning of the match, after he had floundered miserably all evening. When he started his spectacular effort ef-fort to retain his title he was 366 points behind the challenger.' When ; he finished he was nine points from running out. j Former United States Senator Carroll Car-roll Smalley Page died at his home at Hyde Park, Vermont, at the age of 82 years from a stroke of paralysis suffered November 24. He was governor gov-ernor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892, and served in the senate at Washington Washing-ton from 1908 to 1923. Mark Ham, aged Chinese tongman, at Cleveland, Ohio, hanged himself in the county jail a few hours before a white man's jury was to say whether wheth-er he was to die in the electric chair for the murder of Yee Chock in a tong war. The prisoner used a rope made from a blanket. On the same day that Governor Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas issued her proclamation offering a $500 ra ward for liquor conviction of any person per-son worth $5000, George Brady, her negro butler at the executive mansion was arrested by Travis county authorities author-ities on a charge of possessing liquor for sale. A car in which Brady and another negro were found was searched, search-ed, and officers reported finding seventeen sev-enteen half-pints of liquor. The negro ne-gro said he had been under sentence to hang, but his sentence was commuted com-muted by former Governor F. P. Hobby Hob-by and that he was afterward fur-loughed fur-loughed by Governor Pat M. Neff and given a conditional pardon by Governor Gov-ernor Ferguson. ( R. A. Chase, a farmer near Quincy, 111., is a patient at the Pasteur Institute In-stitute at St. Louis, having been bit by a. rabid mule. About three weeks ago a dog went mad and it is suspected that the mule was bitten while in the pasture. When Mr. Chase went to look after the needs of the mule, it sprang up on him and bit his right hand. Battered by land and bombed from the sky, Navy struck its colors to Army in a farewell eastern gridiron classic which climaxed a season of upsets by running strickly true to form, 10 to 3. FOREIGN Growing surprise is expressed in both official and unofficial Chilean circles at Arica, Chile, that Washington Washing-ton has not reacted in any way to Augustin Edwards' speech accusing General Pershing, as chairman of the Tacna-Arica plebiscitary commission, of partiality toward the Peruvians. The London colonial office officially offi-cially announced that the percentage of standard rubber production which may be exported from Ceylon and Malaya for the quarter beginning Feb-ruray Feb-ruray 1 will be raised from 85 to 100 The name of Henry C. Wallace of Iowa, secretary of agriculture at the time of his death last year, has been honored by the United States geographic geo-graphic board in naming a 10,600-foot peak in Park county, Montana, in the Balmark range, as Mount Wallace. The decision was made on the recommendation recom-mendation of the forest board recently. re-cently. Property damage upwards of $1,-000, $1,-000, was caused and two persons seriously ser-iously injured by a disastrous fire which swept one block of Council Bluff's, Iowa, business district. Secretary Davis of the war department depart-ment has the unique distinction of having before him for approval a report re-port signed by himself on his own activities ac-tivities as assistant secretary of war. The document is his annual report as assistant secretary to the secretary and was signed by Mr. Davis before Mr. Weeks' resignation, although the former secretary did not act upon any of its recommendations, leaving that to his successor. Andrew Fletcher, 62, president of the American Locomotive company and prominent in the iron and steel industries, died at his residence on Park avenue, New York. Establishment of a permanent international in-ternational court of justice through the agency of a third Hague conference confer-ence to be called by President Cool idge was suggested by Representative Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts, who announced that he would embody the proposal in a resolution to be Introduced In-troduced in the house. Representatives of the United Mine Workers acepted "as a basis of settlement" settle-ment" the plan submitted to them by Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania ending the present suspension of hard coal mining. They agreed to meet the operators' representatives in joint conference at any time to negotiate an agreement covering the proposals submitted by Mr. Pinchot and announced an-nounced that promptly after such an agreement on the part of the operators opera-tors they would arrange to resume per cent. It was reported at Geneva that the subcommittee appointed by the league of nations to investigate Greek and Bulgarian conflict has found that Greece was at fault by invading Bulgarian Bul-garian territory without submitting the matter to the league. The committee com-mittee also recommends that Greece be fined $225,000. Winston Churchill, chancellor of the exchequor, replying to questioners in the house of commons, said that if Great Britain's debt to the United States had been funded on the same terms as Italy's the amount which the British government would pay during the present year would be approximately ap-proximately $11,000,000 instead of $1CO,000,000. Not Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, but Professor Reis, a German teacher was the inventor of the modern telephone, according to claims advanced in the Die Umshau on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the telephone. Documents have been produced to show that Reis advertised instruments instru-ments "to reproduce the voice at distant dis-tant stations." He called the instrument instru-ment the telephone. A Central News dispatch from Peking Pe-king states that a group of communist commun-ist students rioted throughout the central cen-tral portion of the city, fired the house of the chief of police and wrecked the homes of the ministers of finance and education. The rioters were dispersed before further damage dam-age was done. Closer cooperation among 90 per cent of the newspapers of the British Brit-ish Isles is insured by an arrangement arrange-ment just announced whereby the press association of the United Kingdom King-dom and the proprietors of Reuters' Limited become joint owners of the Reuters' agency. Three American destroyers in Shanghai harbor have been ordered to stand in readiness by Admiral Williams Wil-liams owing to reports of disturbances disturban-ces in various Yangtzet ports, likely to menace the lives and interests of |