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Show NEWS HISTORY OF THE ?B Wil A Complete History of What Has Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN Patriarchs and tong leaders of San Francisco's Chinatown, after l'7 months of intermittent warfare, have ratified a new treaty to maintain peace. But, contrary to precedent, the resting place of this agreement will be not In the secluded retreat of some powerful tong, but in the archives arch-ives of the police department. Not less than 700 acres of Glacier Xational park timber was burned when the fire spread north and east from the southwest corner of the park. The forcible ejection from Colorado by state rangers of William Z. Foster, leader of the big steel strike two years ago and nationally known labor organizer, organ-izer, was "for the best interests of the state" and " no law was consulted," Adjutant General Hamroek 'announces. 'announc-es. Foster, who was characterized as a "dangerous radical" by the. adjutant general, was taken from a hotel shortly after his arrival from Salt Lake, placed in an automobile and escorted by the rangers to a town on the Kansas state line, Hamroek announced. an-nounced. His mind upset by joy over sudden news that he had fallen heir to $30,-O00, $30,-O00, Henry Itussell of Pueblo, Colo., committed suicide. Earl B. Patterson, teller in the Lumbermen's Lum-bermen's Trust bank, Portland, was arrested, charged with embezzlement of $34,600, has made a confession, according ac-cording to police officers The statement state-ment from the police said Patterson had admitted shortages extending ov. er a period of 18 months and had said J. C. Oster, an automobile dealer, received re-ceived the proceeds of them. , The team of horses which William Juliffe, a Berthoud, Colo., farmer, was driving to a load of hay, was stung to death when a swarm of bees descended descend-ed on them. Juliffe was also attacked by the bees and he is in a serious condition. con-dition. A possible wreck on the O. W. R. Jc N. near Baker, Ore,, was averted by Patrolmen Hempe and Huggins, when ' a. woman whose name was not learned, telephoned the police that a horse was fast in the railway bridge over the Powder river in South Baker. Knowing Know-ing that passenger train No. 19 was about due the officers jumped on a motorcyele and sped down the track to flag the train, which wa3 stopped a short distance from the obstruction. GENERAL The American women are the smartest smart-est dressed women in the world. They are simply marvelous, whether at home or abroad." Such is the verdict of the Maharajah of Itaipipla, said to be the richest man in India, who sailed for his home after visitin, in Xew York. Candidates favoring wine and beer and progressivism within the Republican Repub-lican party went down to defeat in the statewide primary election in Ohio, according ac-cording to returns. Fruitgrowers of Western New York, who have the largest early apple crop in fifteen years, are becoming alarmed alarm-ed over the rail strike situation, fear-iuk fear-iuk lack of rolling stock will seriously serious-ly affect transportation. The peach belt of the state is also enjoying a bumper crop. A slight frost was reported at several sev-eral points in the Adirondacks last week. "With nearly thirty feet ot her bow a mass of torn and twisted steel, the Admiral I.iner H. F. Alexander, which crashed into Cake rock off the coast of Western Washington, was towed into Elliott Hay. Surface and elevated railway employees em-ployees at Chicago voted, D022 to fiOSfi. to accept a 10-tmt an hour slash in waires and return to work, thus end-, end-, ing a strike which paralyzed the city's j transportation system for six days. A touch of novelty will 'Tie given the drah business of the annual convention con-vention of Maine undertakers at Augusta, Au-gusta, when, on the opening day. live models will display funeral gowns. Chicago women are now having their little toes removed in order to wear smaller shoes. ' I WASHINGTON Prohibition Director Carl Jackson of Wyoming reports to Commissioner Haynes that from August 1, 1921, to last June 30, there were 640 arrests in Wyoming for violation of the Volstead Vol-stead act and fines Imposed aggregating aggregat-ing $019,17."i. During June alone there were 121 arrests and eleven complete stills, 252 gallons of moonshine and 2300 gallons of mash seized, with fines collected amounting to $4350. Typewriting in an airplane flying among the clouds, with radio machinery machin-ery duplicating the letters at a ground station miles away and reeling the message off in print, is a development announced by the navy department as giving to naval aircraft "a means of communication in advance of radio telegraph and telephone systems now in current use." Successes already attained by experts working in conjunction con-junction with the navy, the department depart-ment asserted, assure the practicability practicabil-ity of the new scheme. That such a development will be of incalculable value to all forms of aviation, commercial com-mercial and military, follows inevitably inevit-ably on the heels of the work now being done by the navy, it is predicted. predict-ed. The much heralded series of decisions deci-sions of the supreme court of Mexico, Mex-ico, relied on by some Mexican officials offi-cials to meet American objections to confiscatory publications of the Mexican Mexi-can constitution, now appear to be based in the main on a process of reasoning rea-soning with which state department officials already have indicated their disapproval. Bumper crops in general this year, resulting from highly favorable growing grow-ing conditions during July, was indicated indi-cated by the government's August crop report. A 3,000,000,000 bushel corn crop, J!or the fourth time in the history his-tory of farming in the United States, was forecast. A record crop of hay estimated at 93,100,000 tons is being harvested, surpassing the record made in 1919 by 1300,000 tons. The second largest crop of white potatoes ever grown was reported in prospect, the total production being forecast at 440,000,000 bushels, or 2,000,000 bushels bush-els less than the record crop of 1917. New policies of hospitalization for disabled veterans of the world war are to be taken up at once with President Harding. Director Forbes of the veterans vet-erans 'bureau announced after an iD spection of nearly al of the veterans' hospitals in the country. Use of United States marines to oust the Mutual Oil Company from the Teapot naval reserve in Wyoming was declared at the White House to have been "lawful and efficient.'' A final vote on the tariff before September 1 is hoped for by Republican Republi-can and Democratic leaders under the operation of an unanimous consent agreement entered into by tie senate. FOREIGN Mrs. Doris Beck of London, England, Eng-land, was granted a divorce on testifying tes-tifying that her husband cut off her young daughter's hair. Military rule has been extended to the provinces of Ancona, Parma and Leghorn, Italy, where in the last few days there has been sanguinary fighting fight-ing between the extreme Nationalists and the Communists. Pope Pius has expressed deep distress at the increasing increas-ing hatred between opposing factions, which moves the people "farther away from the teachings of the Divine Master." Mas-ter." Foreign Minister Unchida notified Charles Beecher Warren, the American Ameri-can ambassador, that the treaties drawn at the Washington arms conference confer-ence had been officially ratified and sanctioned by the prince regent, said Japan was ready to deposit the ratifications rati-fications at Washington on being advised ad-vised by President Harding that the other signatory governments were prepared to do likewise. A great part ot the cocaine smuggling smug-gling from Germany into France is believed to come in aeroplanes which cross the frontier at night. Suaton, China, has been devastated devastat-ed by a violent typhoon. The death roll is estimated at over four thousand. thou-sand. The strike which has tied up Philippine Phil-ippine shipping for some time continues, contin-ues, with both sides standing pat. The officers and crews who walked out on the local vessels still are determined that their wage demands shall be met. A general stampede to the Cold Bay, Alaska, oil fields since the announcement an-nouncement that large interests have planned to drill there forecasts the springing up ot a mushroom city. Coast merchants are preparing to take in stocks by way of Kodiak island. Discovery of an uplift formation along the Kagle river north of Anchorage has revived interest in the oil possibilities possi-bilities ot this field. |