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Show w NEWS OF ft WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM EC0RD OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Given In a Few Line. INTERMOUNTAIIM. The first convictions secured against bootleggers in the national park were secured by United .States Attorney. A. D. Walton when five men caught traf-licing traf-licing in intoxicants were fined from $100 to .$150 each.. m Receipts at the Wyoming land offloes for the post year show thut an Increase In-crease of 000 per cent in six yejus is the record. The total receipts amoiin . ted to $2,875,000. m m m It Is reported that the Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum syndicate is contemplating contem-plating entering the producing Industry Indus-try in the state of Wyoming, and a letter fight is expected between th (vorld's two greatest oil corporations, the Standard Oil and til Dutch Shell. Secretary Fall has arrived at Yoee-rnlte, Yoee-rnlte, Cal., on his business inspection trip of the national parks. He has urranged a conference with Governor Boyle, of Nevada, at Minden, to discuss dis-cuss the Colorado river water power reclamation project. Governor Stephens, Steph-ens, of California has been asked to attend the conference. The Union Pacifls railroad company has adopted the system of running freight trains out of the yard at Cliey-snne, Cliey-snne, Wyo., at full speed in order to keep hoboes off the cars. An average &f 25 per train have been riding every incoming and outgoing train. The area of the Wasatch national forest has been increased in size by approximately twenty-six sections of land In the northeast portion of Summit county Utah, according to official notice of a presidential proclamation pro-clamation received by I. C. Thoresen, surveyor general of the Salt Lake land office. This action was indicated indi-cated last month when the twenty-six sections were reclassified as prinoi. pally valuable Ifor timber purposes rather than agriculture. The Warm River extension of the Rocky Mountain highway in Wyoming, Wyom-ing, which will be ceremoniously dedicated de-dicated on Sundays, is said to open up to travel the' last of the really wild lands of the United States. Explanation of the Smithsonian institution in-stitution at Washington has beeu asked : by Peter Gordon of Kemmerer, Wyo.,: of a curious stone which was thrown -out of a sewer trench. The stone is : terra cottn in color and shaped like an egg. It Is six inches long, four and a half inches wide and three Inches thick, and weighs about three pounds. The thing which puzzles Mr. Gordan is that the stone is completely avered with a net of a darker color with perfect meshes about the six-', of those of a tennis not. w The eastern Siberan repubt' Kith headquarters at Chita fi as hoexi overthrown over-thrown by the anti-Bolshevtld forces, according to unconfined reports from foreign sources received ft! Vladivostok These reports declared the military stores of the Chita govcrriinenl had . been fired and that, the government had fled to Manchuria. DOMESTIC. , With $30,000,000 in stocks, bonds, tos and other securities some good ; uml some bad in their possession, federal fed-eral agents at Chicago Thursday renewed re-newed their search for the end of 1he golden rainbow which John W. Worth-Ington, Worth-Ington, Charles W. French and Iheir associates spread across the country in what agents believe to be one of the greatest ."swindle trusts" on record. 8. P. Halle, president of the Retail Merchants' Association of the United States and head of the establishment of Halle lirothers of Cleveland, Ohio, which ranks with Altman of New York 'n grade, says the turn has come; "the nation has seen the worst of the depression ; there is a definite and positive pos-itive luiproTement under way." Biff Bill Haywood, erstwhile I. W. W. chierialn, k a capitalist with a fortune for-tune said to approach S5O0.00O. All he "'is "t do to get the money Is to return re-turn from his self-imposed Russian exile and serve 20 years In Leavenworth Leaven-worth prison. H The cost of living decreased seven-tenths seven-tenths of 1 per , cent during July, according ac-cording to figures made public -at New York, Monday, by the national Industrial conference ''rice are slill 02 per cent higher (ban the July, 101-1. level anil only 20. S per com lower than the peak reached in July, 1H20. Rimer 10. Johnslon .V, f, r fin eon years editor and puhLsne. of the Iowa City Citizen before il ai n:o:e.!j with the Iowa Cl'v 1'rs, died at Iowa City, la., Sunday. ! Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, will deliver the keynote for a campaign to increase the membership of the Federation to five million in an address ad-dress to be delivered at Baltimore on Labor Day. Open court for all divorce actions is the remedy proposed for the curbing curb-ing of the increasing number of divorces divor-ces in several counties of New York-state. York-state. Flood waters from Cave creek, which last Saturday threatened to in.' undate northwestern Phoenix, apparently ap-parently have subsided without reaching reach-ing the city, but have covered much valuable farm land in the Salt river valley irregular project. No estimates of the damage done was possible. People who were warned to leave northwestern Phoenix Saturday have returned to their homes. WASHINGTON. A senate bill extending the time for payment of grazing fees for the use of national forests from September 1. until December 1 next, was passed Wednesday by the house. Senator Smoot has secured the appointment ap-pointment of Orenzo W. Anderson of Prighton City, Utah as prohibition agent for the eastern states, with headquarters in Washington. The treaty with Germany, which was. signed Thursday in Berlin, was made: public Thursday night by the state, department. It puts into force the economic, reparations, military and vn-. rious other provisions of the unrati-. tied treaty of Versailles, but provdes specifically that the United States; shall not be bound by the covenant of the league of nations or by other enumerated parts of the Versailles settlement, Decision to withhold issuance of medical beer regulations pending congressional con-gressional action on proposed an-tlbeer an-tlbeer legislation was reached Thurs-, day by Secretary Mellon in conference, with Internal Revenue Commissioner Btelr. Representative E. J. King, of Illinois stated during the week that the Republicans Re-publicans in the house would revolt if the war finance corporation were allowed al-lowed to authorize the loan of $1,000,-000,000 $1,000,-000,000 on export products of the farm. One hundred and fifty members, both Republicans and Democrat, are ready to rise up and .join hands to overthrow, the bosses unless they mend their ways, said Representative King. W 9 Samuel T. Ansell, former acting judge advocate general of tlie army; was charged with being the master, mind behind GTOver C. Bergdoll's escape,. es-cape,. during the Week. The special) house investigating comnritttee reported report-ed that he should "he disbarred from practicing in the courts of the nation above -whose safety and Integrity he has placed gold." Under an executive order signed Saturday by President Harding the veterans' bureau has taken over the, naval tubercular hospital at Fort Lyons, Las Animas, Colo. It will be used as a tubercular institution for war veterans and has a capacity of 7S0 beds. Assignment of patients to Fort, Lyons can begin at once. FOREIGN. General 1ft Tei Fn Pie Fu, com . nuiiMling a large force of Chinese revolutionary rev-olutionary troops, is launching his entire en-tire army against the southern Chinese force at Yo Chow, according to word reaching Shanghai. Wu Pie Fit, who is striving to set up a new Chinese government uniting all factions, prc; ilk-Is that he will wn a victory within two weeks. . The number of Japanese in the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands during the fiscal year KH'l was estimated at 114,870 out oi a total estimated population of 2(5,SS1, it was announced Thursday when the annual resume of vital statistics was made public by the territorial board of health. Six hundred employees of the International In-ternational Nickel company's mines and smelter at Coppercllff, Ontario, were notified Thursday that the plant will close down Saturday for an Indef Inite period. Heavy reserve stocks and general depression make further operation unprofitable. A state of war has been decreed In the departments of Jinotega, EsTeli, Metagalpa, Neuvn Segovia and Chin-andega. Chin-andega. In the remainder of the republic re-public a state of siege lias been proclaimed. pro-claimed. Active recruiting is proceeding. proceed-ing. The treatv of peace between Germany Ger-many and the United States was signed at Berlin at 7 o'clock Thursday evening. The largest cable In the world, carrying 40S pairs of wires, making it possible to conduct CW conversa. tions simultaneously, lias been hud on ! the bed of the Detroit river between Detroit and Windsor. '1 he .-aide weighs oO.STO pounds, is 1'! In longtli and 10'i im-h.-s ,M. J I'rcxii.T l'.nan.l of France and Mr. ! r.loyd lo'oige, prime minister of Kng- j h,r.1 invo .lecMed at a private meeting i up, e a :ot:ipi-omise pariilion of Uppei i Silesia, |