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Show Ij- , iiiiiF ihe m m A Complete History of What Ha Been Happening Throughout the World WESTERN The interstate commerce commia lon has held that existing, carloai rates on apples from Idaho and Utal points, by way of Salt Lake City, t( Bislbee, Douglas and Nogales, Ariz, are unreasonably high, and directet that the rates be reduced to $1.40 per hundred pounds. Never in the history of the inter mountain west. have there been mors motorists touring than this summer Since the latter part of June the) hare swarmed Into this district bj the hundreds daily. All previous estimated es-timated and actual records have been shattered by at least a 25 per ceni . Increase. News has been received by the forestry for-estry officials that examination foi lorest rangers will be held at the head, quarters of the various forestry supervisee super-visee October 24. The servica is antdous to have as many . qualified men as possible enter the examinations. examina-tions. An examination for scalers will be held October 25 and 26, but the places of examination have not yet been announced. It took a mule driver, five city firemen, fire-men, a veterinarian, a hardware man, a blacksmith and about 1000 spect-tors spect-tors two hours and five minutes to release a diminutive mule which caught Its foot in a street drain pipe at Kansas City. Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works, announced an-nounced receipt of an order from the Union Pacific Railroad for 15 locomotives locomo-tives to cost $900,000. Construction of these engines will begin at once. After severely knifing Deputy Warden War-den Arthur Muchow, four prisoners escaped es-caped from the South Dakota penitentiary peni-tentiary at Sioux Falls, taking Warden War-den George W. Jamison with them. The prisoners fled in a motor car parked ly a tourist just outside the prison walls. GENERAL Repeuibllcan leaders are alarmed over reports that the president will not seek another term. Northwestern flour markets remain very unsettled. Three big steel corporations, employing em-ploying nearly 300,000 workers, have announced a 20 per cent wage Increase for all day laborers In their manufacturing manu-facturing plants. Incroased wages averaging 47 per cent and affecting between 30,000 and 40,000 nonunion miners in Westmoreland Westmore-land and Fayette counties, West Virginia, Vir-ginia, were decided upon at a meeting meet-ing of operators, it was officially announced. an-nounced. The state governments ot the United Unit-ed States have a total debt of $1,071,-GOli, $1,071,-GOli, 981.28, or $10.18 for every man, woman and child in the country, according ac-cording lo a nation-wide sn'rveye ot state finance just completed liy the Bank of America, New York. Readjustment of wages bringing a close approach to normalcy as applied to mining has resulted in a return of the pendulum toward greater mining activity than lias been experienced in the history of Alaska siuce the boom days. Mrs. Warren G. Harding, whose recent re-cent gift of .fl00 toward a fund to buy oats and hay for Clover, the 51-year old horse, brought her an offer of honorary hon-orary membership in the Nyaek .Society .So-ciety for tho prevention of Cruelty to Animals, she accepted the honor. English women athletes won the first international woman's track meet at Paris over competitors from the United Slates, France. Switzerland and C.echo-Slovakia. The American .-' team was second, Franco third, Czecho ' Slovakia fourth and Switzerland fifth. The 1922 area of sug:ar cane, not including sorghum cane, in the eight principal states producing' sugar cane is estimated by tho United States de-! partmcnt of agricultui j to be 521.200 acres, or about 90 per cent of the harvested cane acreage of 921. This is a preliminary estimate and includes the acreage intended to be harvested for seed and syrup, as well as for sugar. |