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Show TELEGRAPHIC TALES FOR BUSHEADERS A RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events of the Last Seven Days Reportei' by Wire and Prepared Pre-pared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WE8TERN Yellowstone national park will open op-en for tourist campers two weeks earlier this year than ever before, Superintendent Horace M. Albright announces. Tourists with camping outfits will be admitted to the park June 1, the unofficial opening day, it was announced. Reports from Wallowa county received re-ceived at Le Grande, Oregon, are to the effect that scores of deer hav6 been found dead in the vicinity of Enterprise lately. Examination of the carcass-es revealed that some unknown un-known disease of the throat was the eause of the deaths. A forest ranger rang-er states that the only part affected affect-ed in the dead deer was found to be the glands of the neck, which In every instance were swollen to such an extent that the animals- were unable un-able to partake of food. Claiming a constant loss under the present service, officials of the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line have asked the public pub-lic service commission for permission to reduce the service from Ontario to Brogan, Oregon, to three times a week. A large delegation from the Willow Creek valley protested at a meeting held at Ontarib. Major Frederick L. Martin, commander com-mander of the U. S. army round-the-world aviators, and his flight sergeant, ser-geant, Alva L. Harvey have arrived In Bellingham, Wash., from Port Moller on board the Pacific American Ameri-can Fisheries steamship Catherine D. A cheering throng of 6000 persons including a reception committee headed head-ed by Mayor John A. Kellogg, 150 Boy Scouts and the Bellingham juvenile juve-nile band greeted the airmen as they landed. The jury in the case of Jonas Keeble, Indian pastor, charged with the murder of his wife, at Webster, S. D. returned a verdict of guilty after being out on the case 23 hours and 15 minutes. Injecting large amounts of prison into their veins Dr. T. Karatsu, a Japanese physician and Shizuo Miwa, his woman housekeeper died in a suicide pact at Sacramento, Calil. Their bodies were found at the physicians physi-cians home. GENERAL. A freak of nature is reported from Clark county, 111. A brod mare on the farm of a Mr. Smith gave birth to two perfectly formed foals. One was a beautiful filly, the other a mule. Both are females. Many visitors vis-itors called at the Smith farm to inspect the animals, which are full of life. The Melodist ban upon amusements amuse-ments except those which cannot be used "in the name of the Lord Jesus" was lifted by five to one vote of tlie Methodist Episcopal general conference confer-ence at Springfield, Mass. A minority minor-ity forbidding theatre attendance on Sundays and specifying dancing and immoral theatre performances was tabled by 400 votes to 295. i John D. Gregory, of Milwaukee, Wis., trial judge in the case of Joe Jackson, against tho Chicago cluo of the American league, in which the jury awarded Jackson $16,000 damages, dam-ages, set aside the verdict and dismissed dis-missed the cas-e on the ground that Jackson and Oscar ("Happy'') Felscn a witness, had committed perjury during the trial. WASHINGTON1 Government ownership and operation opera-tion of Muscle Shoals was endorsed by the senate agriculture committee after Henry Ford's bid had been rejected. re-jected. Former Representative Mondell 6f Wyoming and officers of the internal revenue bureau and two Washington banks were among the witnesses th.'a week before the special oil grand jury in the District of Columbia supreme su-preme court. Income tax returns of Albert B. Fall and other central figures fig-ures in the naval oil lease scandal were inquired into, as- were certain bank transactions. Carrying the Borah amendment for full publicity of political contributions contribu-tions during progress of campaigns, the postal salary increase bill was passed this week by the senate. The vote was 73 to 3, those opposing being be-ing Senators Borah, Idaho, and Fesa and Willis, Ohio, all republicans. Notice has been given to the senate sen-ate by Senator Frazier of North Dakota, Da-kota, a republican of the farm bloc, that there would be strong opposition to adjournment of congress June 7, unless farm relief legislation is enacted en-acted in the meantime. Agricultural relief legislation will be the storm center in the deliberations deliber-ations of both houses of congress during the two weeks remaining before be-fore the tentative date of adjournment. adjourn-ment. Another Indian tribe, the Navajo, has struck oil. Drilling has begun on the Navajo reservation in San Juan county, New Mexicn, the interior inter-ior department announced. The new strike is on the Rattlesnake structure where a well just sunk has an estimated esti-mated yield of fifty barrels a day. A bill to create a foreign commerce com-merce service in the department of commerce was introduced by Senator Sena-tor Jones, Republican, Washington. It was referred to the commerce committee. com-mittee. Greater democracy in the Red Cross societies of the Central and South American republics through nationwide membership promises to develop as a direct result of the recent re-cent Pan-American Red Cross conference, con-ference, held in Buenos Aires, at which all except one of the Red Cross societies in North Central and South America wer represented. The Pullman company surcharge authorized by the interstate commerce com-merce commission in 1920 would be abolished under an amendment to the interstate commerce act approved by the senate. It now goes to the house. The measure, sponsored by Senator Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, was put through without discussion or a record vote during consideration of the calendar under a unanimous consent con-sent agreement. FOREIGN The Japan cabinet has approved the text of the protest against the provision of the American immigration immigra-tion bill excluding Japanese from that country. The protest will be sent immediately to Ambassador Ham-hara, Ham-hara, whose return to Japan, when the protest has been dealt with, the cabinet also approved. An earthquake shock at Port Au Prince, Haiti, wrecked a building at Port de Paix, killing three persons and injuring several others. A church steeple was demolished and the gendarmerie gen-darmerie barracks were badly damaged. dam-aged. The shock, of ten seconds durations, du-rations, was distinctly felt at the capitol, from which the high commissioner com-missioner sent airplanes to the affected af-fected city. The Prince of Wales, walking side by side with Princess Mafalda of Italy at the head of the procession of the British and Italian royal ram-ilies ram-ilies through the ancient Guildhall of London to the great luncheon board where the lord mayor was host to the royal visitors', was one of the rare occasions when the British heir to the throne has appeared in public pub-lic with a young woman of age and rank equal to his own. Seven of the best marathon runners run-ners in the country, six of whom will carry America's hopes for victory in the 1924 Olympic distance classic, sailed from New York for France on the Leviathan. The marathon race at Paris is not scheduled until July 13, but the runners are being sent abroad to get the benefit of nearly six weeks of training and to familiarize familiar-ize themselves with the course. Jack Skelther, an alleged gangster, was killed and the other occupant of a heavily curtained touring car was wounded in the leg and captured in a revolver fight with constabulary at Herrin, Illinois. The two men are suspected by the officers of having hav-ing participated in the attempted assassination as-sassination recently of S. Glenn Young, Ku Klux Klan liquor raider. About thirty shots were fired. Judge James B. Park sentenced Wade Johnson and Jarrett Benford, Millingville, Georgia, men to hang on June 27, after conviction on a charge of Criminally assaulting an 82-yeai old woman of Jones county Police at Hanoa City, 111., arrested arrest-ed Norma Anderson, who, with her 2-year old baby in her arms, held up and robbed the A. C. Steenburg bank of this city, securing $1500 in casTi. All of the money was recovered when the Anderson woman was taken Into custody. The soviet delegation in London has petitioned the British government govern-ment for the removal of the remains of Karl Marx, the father of socialism, social-ism, to Moscow. It is the desire of the bolsheviki to reenter the body alongside that of Lenine, Marx's most famous disciple. The American soccer football team defeated the Esthonian team by a score of 1 to 0 in the Olympic contest con-test at Paris. , Free state soldiers s-eized the famous Liberty hall of Dublin and arrested forty-five followers of James Larkin, the labor agitator, who was said to have taken forcible possession of the hall Saturday from the official wing of the Transport Workers- union and collected subscriptions sub-scriptions from members who came to pay their dues. Chancellor Marx of Germany, Foreign For-eign Minister Stresemann and Minister Min-ister of Labor Brauns conferred in Berlin and decided it would not be necessary for the cabinet to resign, according to a news agency dispatch from the German capital. Uunsual honors were accorded Ig nace Paderewski, piano virtuoso, and Madame Paderewski on their arrival at Brus-sels. Prince Leopold was at the station to meet them and the king and queen gave a state dinner in their honor. |