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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BMADERSj A RESUM2 OF THE WEEK'S DOING8 IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES .Important Events of the Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of tha Busy Reader WESTERN E. R. Ewart, former treasurer of th South Dakota rural credits board, was pronounced guilty of contempt f the state supreme court at Pierre, B. D., nd was sentenced to three months in the Beadle county jail and to pay a fine of $500. W. C. (Dilly) Lewis, clerK of Bweetwaler county, died In the Wyoming Wy-oming General hospital at Rock Springs, Wyo. after several years of suffering and three montxs ot confinement. con-finement. Lewis was one of the pioneer pio-neer peace officers of this section, being be-ing identified with the policing ot this city and county for the last thirty thir-ty five years. He was re-elected county clerk at the last election. Ten buildings, comprising most of the business section of Main street, were destroyed by a fire at Shoshonl, Wyoming. The flames were fanned by a high wind, and low water pressure pres-sure bumpered the work of firemen. The loss is estimated at more than 1100,0090. Included in the buildings destroyed was the Shoshoni State bank and the Savoy hotel. Michel Harry De Young, publisher ef the San Francisco Chronicle, died following an operation for intestinal intestin-al trouble. He was 75 years of age. Said to have attempted to extort 2500 from Mrs. M. Andrews, 45 years of age, owner of a restaurant; rti Bait Lake, Richard Edward Nord-trom, Nord-trom, 28 years old, civil engineer ana former University of Wisconsin athlete, ath-lete, was arrested by federal postof-fice postof-fice Inspectors at Los Angeles and lodged in the county jail to await action ac-tion on a blackmail charge. Hrb Wilson, bandit, murderer and "lifer" from San Quentin prison, told federal court at Los Angeles the underworld story of the organization cf the gang that is alleged to have planned the $400,000 mail truck hold-ip hold-ip here in March, 1921. George Vickman, 3, formerly of Rhinelander, Wis., a prison guard, is In a hospital at Carson City, Colorado Colora-do suffering from wounds that may prove fatal, received in an attempted prison break at the Colorado penitentiary peniten-tiary here. Little hope is held out for bis recovery. j GENERAL Dr. FrancU Peabody said that James M. Rolph, son of the mayor of San Francisco, whom he has been attending at the City hospital at Boston, Mass. for four months was progressing favorably after his recuperation recu-peration from two recent relapses. He added that at no time had he been In doubt as to the diagnosis of the Illness as a severe one of typhoid fever, fe-ver, and expressed the opinion that there was little doubt as to Rolph's ultimate recovery, Senator Butler of Massachusetts was sued for $10,000 damages by Theodore G. Thomas, a resident of the United States soldiers home, who claims the senator made a complaint to the postoffice department that Thomas had sent the senator an anonymous and threatening letter. Six employes were injured and several sev-eral other bruised and cut when an explosion in the engraving department depart-ment of the Chicago Evening American Am-erican shook the Hearst building. Many windows were shattered and employees were ordered out of the building when flames broke out, although al-though the fire was short-lived and did small damage. Dr. I. O. White, :Cor twenty-eight years state geologist of West Virginia Vir-ginia and one of the oldest living graduates of West Virginia unWer-Bity, unWer-Bity, and Mrs. Julia Wildman have been married. The marriage license gave Dr. White's age as 76 and that of the bride as 28. President Coolidge coined a new-literary new-literary motto in regard to public documents: "Don't start writing it until the time is so short you can't make it long." He enunciated this principle when official visitors asked ask-ed him how his inauguial address was coming on, and to what length the manuscript would extend. He told the anxious ones that he hadn't written much of anything yet. The quest is over at Cave City, Mother Earth, after clinging grimly, In life and in death, to Floyd Collins for more than seventeen days, fina'ly surrendered and without warning, opened a tiny hole between a rescue shaft and the natural tomb of the cave explorer. Peering down this tiny fissure into Sand Cave, the brave workers, who had waged an equal combat with the natural forces of the earth, saw that what they had fout'ht so hard for had been lost. Collins was dead. Frederick W. Upham, 61, of Chicago, Chi-cago, forrnely treasurer of the Republican Re-publican national committee is dead, at Palm Beach, Florida from cerebral hemorrhage. The house passed and senttd to the senate a bill by Representative French, Republican, Idaho, whereby the federal government would relinquish relin-quish to Kootenai county, IJaho, its right to a parcel of land upon which the Fort Sherman military reservation reserva-tion was once situated. Fort Sherman was abandoned as a military reservation reserva-tion in 1886. Josiah Kirby, deposed president of the $37,000,000 Cleveland, Ohio, Discount Dis-count company, entered pleas of not guilty to three new indictments returned re-turned against him last week by the special county grand jury and furnished fur-nished $5000 bond in each case. No trial date was set. After an hoar's wrangle, the house passed a bill to reward the world fliers substantially along the lines recommended by the war department. An appropriation of $100,000 for fighting the foot and mouth disease would be authorized in a resolution adopted by the senate. Police of the District of Columbia have began a drive against liquor law violators, with the purpose of making the capital bone dry for the inauguration next month. The De Soto hotel, a handsome red brick structure, six stories high, and one of the oldest and finest tourist hotels in the south, was badly damaged dam-aged by fire at Savannah, Ga. Nearly Near-ly half of the building was gutted by fire and the rest of it water-soaked. The loss is at least $250,000. A cash payment of $50 each to the 1768 Crow Indians of Montana was authorized by Secretary of the Interior Inter-ior Work to help them through the winter. The money is paid from the Crow tribal fund accumulated through the sale of reservation lands granted to the state of Montana for public schools. A resolution of the house commit tee on commerce and labor advocat ing rejection of the child labor amendment amend-ment to the federal constitution was adopted by the Vermont house of representatives. The' state senate has yet to act upon the amendment. The vote on the resolution was 229 to 3. The Canibell Towne company of Oshkosh, Wis., has submitted the highest bids to the department of the interior on a stand of $37,000,000 feet of timber, comprising the Creek unit of (he Klamath Indian reservation in Oregon. FOREIGN The higher court at Rangoon, Burma, Bur-ma, has dismissed the appeal of the three Buddhist priests and one layman, lay-man, who last November were sentenced sen-tenced to prison terms for assaulting and seriously injuring Professor and Mrs. Paul Gleason, American missionaries mis-sionaries attached to Judson college here. Gustav Bauer, former imperial chancellor, has been expelled from the Socialist party of Germany. His expulsion was due to his alleged connection con-nection with the Barmat financial scandal. King George of England is suffering from a feverish cold, it was announ- I ced, and will be unable to fulfill hi I i pubic engagement for a few days. Reports from America that Big ' Bill Haywood, the former I. W. W. leader, had returned to the United States are untrue. He is employed as a traveling speaker by the International Inter-national Society for the Kelfef of Workmen in Prisons Abroad and has just completed a tour of southern Russia in which he made sixty-five speeches. A terrific explosion of fire damp, which occurred in the Stein mine near Dortmund, Germany, caused one of the greatest disasters in the history of German mining. The number of dead has gradually mounted until now it is feared the total deaths will ; reach the neighborhood of 230. Forty thousand London school children chil-dren are influenza victims, In some cases less than half the average attendance at-tendance being in the classrooms, The entire British Isles are in tha grip of an epidemic that is spreading with alarming rapidity, although the disease itself is compartively mild. Laxity in the matter of marriage has long been charged against members mem-bers of the Winnebago Indian tribe, who live on their reservation at Winnebago. Win-nebago. Recently federal, state arid county authorities, working together, togeth-er, rounded up more tht.n a score oi these loosely bound Indian couples and caused perfectly good legal ceremonies to be performed. England will have the presidency of the March meeting of the league of nations council and Foreign Secretary Sec-retary Chamberlain is expected to occupy the chair at the session which, it is believed, will throw light on the future of the peace protocol. At a request of Miss Grace Alioti of Washington, the initial meeting of the league of nations reorganized commission for the protection of women wo-men and promotion of child welfare, which was to have been held next week, at Geneva, has been postponed to May 20. |